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The Vancouver Sun from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada • 10

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The Vancouver Suni
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Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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10 THE VANCOUVER SUN: May 31, 1954 Richmond Okays Army Report to Remain Secret Schools The report followed more than a year of investigation by three senior officers, headed Prog ram i by Howard Kennedy. OTTAWA, May 31. The Commons today defeated by 80 to 41 a Progressive Conservative bid to. have a secret report on the reserve army made public. The Conservative forced a vote on the issue after Associ ate Defense Minister Campney avaid the government could not accept a motion by John Dief en-baker (PC, Prince Albert) that the report be released to Parliament.

The Conservatives were supported by most CCF members. .5 Million Building Plan Gets DREW WARNS SENATE DYING OTTAWA, May 31 (CP) Opposition Leader Drew said today Canadians eventually will demand abolition of the Senate unless the Upper House is reformed to make It more effective. CCF leader Coldwell, In an amendment to Drew's motion proposed that the government consider making an Inquiry "respecting steps to be taken to secure the abolition of the Senate." Finland has the world's literacy rate, about 99 of the population. Overwhelming Approval of Voters RICHMOND. Mav 31.

CK'erwhelmin? endorsement of a $1.5 million dollar school construction program was Scientifically Balanced for Highest Heat Value Ratepayers voted 2125 to 20o for the five-year $1,475,000 endorsement of the referendum Saturday, hope to get an early start on construction to relieve overcrowding. school construction program aimed at relieving serious overcrowding of classrooms. Among projects to be undertaken are: New junior high school for Steveston and two new elementary schools; renovation of Hillary's Illness Termed 'Revenge7 junior high school and one elementary school; new School Board offices and workshop. Steveston Junior High School will be built at No. 2 and Williams Road and will accommodate 500 students.

Cambie Junior High and Mitchell elementary schools will undergo renovation. Sites for the two new elementary schools have not yet been chosen. Garden City and Granville Avenue will be site of new Jrs 1 fftlf Ask the dealer who instalh your burner about an Imperial Oil "Evergreen Contract" for guaranteed supply and reliable delivery. Esso Furnace Oil is a scientifically balanced fuel tested on each refinery 'run by Imperial Oil chemists to meet rigid standards of purity, uniformity, and high heat value. KATMANDU, Nepal, May 31 (Reuters) A crack Gurkha runner is racing along snowy mountain paths of the Himalayas to reach Sir Edmund Hillary, while superstitious na tives talk of the goddesses' vengeance against the ailing conqueror of Everest.

The runner will try to bring out news of Hillary, stricken with pneumonia earlier this month 22,500 feet up in the icy wastes of the Barun valley. Officials in northeast Nepal are ready to aid the 35-year-old New Zealander as soon as he is located. Superstitious Nepalis and Meu Lang Sang Ma, the goddess of disease. The natives pointed out that Sherpa Tenzing, who reached the top of Everest with Hillary last May, also has been ill and is ordered to rest. George Mallory and Andres Irvine, -British climbers who lost their lives in an assault on the mountain in 1924, are said by the natives to have been thrown from Everest's last 1000 feet by the goddesses.

The peak of Maka-lu, which towers above the Barun glacier, where Hillary contracted 'pneumonia, is known as "the armchair of the gods," a particularly sacred region. School Board offices. Half the cost of the five-year program will be contributed by the provincial government. A considerable part of the building program will be under taken during the next year. write or IMPERIAL OIL LIMITED (iSSO) PRODUCTS Many classrooms at present are on double shift and School Sherpas attribute Hillary's ill Board officials, pleased with ness to the revenge of god desses of Everest for the violation of their sanctuary.

NORFOLK, Neb. (AP) Four persons were reported killed and at least two injured Everest is known to the Sherpas as Chomolungma, goddess mother of the snows, and is believed by them to be the CLAYTON, N.M. (BUP) A fire roared through a national guard barracks here yesterday, Injuring nine guardsmen and causing an estimated $500,000 in damages. critically when tornadoes hop ALWAYS LOOK TO IMPERIAL FOR THE BEST ped over a wide area of northeast Nebraska Sunday night. home of Chomolungma's sister, Roman Catholics from all parts of Lower Mainland made pilgrimage to Mission on Sunday to witness "crowning of statue of Virgin Mary by May Queen Geneva Williams of St.

Mary's Indian School, Mission, 'i Roy LeBlanc photo. First organization of dentists Million in Canada was the Dental Asso ciation of Ontario, lounded in 1867. Witness (Procession "iRO.ME, May 31 (BUP) The (rCsM fsi a fin ll T.V.ANTENNA$353( srrtln. tn o.rfefll Miniflttsn. rhann.l ind I antenna, compl.l witli ft, lea-i-in wirf.

410 of uv wlr and 40-ft maat. with fmnna. compkta. IIS. aianaii- rru CHar tail body of St, Pius was borne la a golden carrier through the streets of Rome to lie In the Basilica of St.

Mary Major. Six plumed white horses drew the body past cheering thousands along the two-mile route from St. Peter's Square to the downtown basilica, the largest church in the world dedicated to the Virgin Mary. Eighteen thousand persons walked in the official procession. Thousands of spectators broke from the sidewalks to Join the march.

A police spokesman estimated the overall crowd at 1,000,000. wnerever lruvureacnes, their Antennas for He said it was "the biggest crowd we have ever seen at an Organized event." Francis Cardinal SDellman of New York said "it was an ex tremely moving experience a deeply spiritual one. This is the first saint I have ever your best assurance of known personally In my life. I Was a student under him." procession was the climax of the ceremony of canonization. It was drawn out over two days to the strain on the Pope, who had just recovered from a danger ous illness.

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