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PAGE TWELVE THE RED DEER ADVOCATE, RED DEER, ALBERTA MONDAY, JUNE 5th, 1961 Mushroom Growth Of Brazil's Capital During a tour of South America. Russell Elman of The Canadian Press visited Brazil's new capital. In this story he tells of the mush rooming growth of Brasilia. By RUSSELL ELMAN Canadian Press Staff Writer BRASILIA (CP. No longer a statesman's ideal.

a politi clan's gimmick. all architect's blueprint. Brazil's new capital today is a functioning reality Since January it has been the home of the president. of Congress, and of more than 25.000 civil servants and their fami hes. And each week as the contractors complete new offices and apartments of glass and reinforced concrete.

hundreds of additional residents arrive from the old capital of Rio de Janeiro. From the distance the Bra silia skyline with its clusters of multi stored buildings now gives the impression of a big citv. It no longer IS a collec tion of architectural showpieces. though construction will continue for many years before it reaches its planned final population of 500.000. Nor is the infant capital still an outpost in the wilderness of the hot.

red Goias plains. 700 miles northwest of Rio. There are frequent flights. and sev. eral direct daily buses over new paved highways to both Rio and Sao Paulo.

A new dirt road has been carved 1.500 miles north to Belem at the mouth of the Amazon MINISTERS IN RIO Early each morning buses speed along the city's superhighways carrying white collar workers from their apartments in contained neighborhood "superblocks" to the tall new government offices. Even as of. ficials sit at their desks. car. penters and interior decorators are still at work on the buildings.

In the glass-encased executive offices a long line of visitors wait to call on President Janio Quadros, now living in the futuristic Palace of the Dawn on Brasilia's artificially -created lakeside. By up resi- CD Officer Checks Dike Near Creston CRESTON. B.C. (CP)--Army engineers kept a vigilance over spots along 50 miles of Kootenay River dikes here early today. They reported seepage at sev.

eral places but no signs of a break in the earthen dikes protecting 50.000 acres of farmland from flooding. Civil defence officer W. S. Edmondson. coordinator of emergency flood control work.

said the crest of the swollen Kootenay would be reached about noon Tuesday. The river, fed by rapidly melting snowfields, continued to rise Sunday reaching an afternoon level of 24.31 feet, less than eight inches from the top of low points along the dike. Guy Constable. secretary of the Creston drainage district, said the forecast is that the river will hold its peak level for about 10 days. "We think we'll get by with.

out any serious flooding." said Mr. Constable. dence In Brasilia immediately following his inauguration, he guaranteed its survival. While president and Congress have moved en bloc to Brasilia. few ministries have vet completed the transfer, 3 process expected to take several vears.

'The foreign minister and his staff remain 101 Rio. and only several foreign countries have opened embassies 111 the new capital--among them the United States CANADA HAS SITE Canada has a site in the diplomatic enclave and has obtained space in an apartment block for a temporary chancery until a permanent embassy 1S built. Design for the embassy a prestige building to conform with Brasilia's high architec. tural standards. will likely be submitted to an open architectural competition in Canada Meanwhile.

the Canadian Embassy remains in downtown Rio with no shift anticipated until at least the Brazilian foreign ministry announces its move. 1 work force of 35.000. mostly imported from the impover Ished. drought -stricken northeast, work from dawn to dusk on new bank headquarters. shopping and cultural centres.

hospitals, hotels and residences. Every building plan must be approved by chief architect Os car Niemeyer and conform to the master city drawn up by Lucio Costa plan Inplaned corporates a novel sociological pattern for suburbia by includ ing all class groups in each neighborhood super block instead of dividing suburbs by economic standards. Meanwhile, the government has ordered the evacuation and demolition of Nucleo Bandeirante, better known as the "Free the pioneering campsite during the first four vears of construction. It 1S a rowdy. ramshackle place with wooden houses.

dirt streets. swing -door saloons. little sanitation and high prices. BUILD SATELLITES Plans call for building of satellite towns within the Federal District. but outside the city of Brasilia, to house nongovernment workers.

In these areas. there will be no government control over building designs and already real estate companies in Sao Paulo. Rio and as far as Lisbon, are selling plots in the satellite "Jar. dims." In the old capital and in hustling Sao Paulo, however. the debate continues whether Brasilia ought ever to have been conceived.

Critics argue that a near- Brazil cannot afford the billions of dollars price tag both to build the capital and to run the country by remote control, as it were, dur. ing the construction stage. They dispute whether the capital will help open up the interior and claim that Brasilia serves only as a monument which will write the name of its founder. former president Juscelino Kubitschek, into the annals of his. tory.

But in crowded favelas high above ritzy Copacabana Beach and in the new frontier towns of Alto Parana. Brasilia 1S seen as a unifying symbol heralding Brazil's destiny as one of the world's great powers. The poor. the illiterate. the nationalist -minded pioneers do not measure its worth in cruzeiros and politics.

The twin 30 stores towers of the National Congress rise above the cup and saucer combination of the House of Representatives and senate at Brasilia new captital of Brazil Since the inauguration of President Janio Quadros Jan 31, Congress has made its home in Brasilia Still No Clear Answer In Smoker's Dilemma BY JOHN BARBOUR NEW YORK (APH-For CIg aret smokers. there is one tor menting question. Does each pleasurable drag -each butt in the ashtray -burn some particle of time off your life? Seven sears ago the tobacco industry started its own quest for medical answers Since then it has spent more than $4.000.000 to support Independent research- half of it In cancer. a substantial amount in heart disease. The effort has yet to provide a clear and unequivocal answer to the smoker's dilemma.

ADMITS QUESTIONS By its existence, the tobacco industry re search committee acknowledges that questions exist. It has created a scientific advisory board to guide its research. Dr Clarence Cook Little is scientific director for the tobacco group. A researcher. and geneticist.

he was once president of the universities of Michigan and Maine, and the American Association for Cancer Research. Dr. Little says the statistics that blame cigarets for lung cancer, heart disease and a shorter life merely show an association, rather than a cause. and-effect relationship. Statistics can only raise questions that must be answered in the laboratory and clinic.

However. since the tobacco industry res arch committee was set up In 1954. the outcry against cigarets has broadened: The American Heart Associa tion said smoking may contribute to or accelerate, heart disease. Although definite cause the general public. it said.

effect has been proved. the data should be brought before the general public. it said. The chief of the U.S. Public Health Service said: "The weight of the evidence 1S Increasingly pointing in one direction- -that excessive smoking is one of the causative factors in lung cancer.

The British medical officer of health said: "It is my duty to Weather Hot SPECIALS Fruit Drink Kool Aid Allans Refreshing Summer Drink Apple, Orange, Grape, Fruit Punch Assorted Flavors 48 oz. Tins Tins 95c 10 Pkts 49c Pork Chops Bananas Boneless Loin Golden Ripe lb. 55c 2 lbs. 39c WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO LIMIT QUANTITIES CANADA SAFEWAY LIMITED Prices Effective: June 5-6-7 News From Eckville ECKVILLE On May 13th the Eckville boy scouts took over gas sales at Eckville Motors and also held a bake sale in the Co store. In this -raising event, they realized the sum of $125.25 and will use the money to purchase camping equipment as well as other items for their club.

Carl Davenport and his staff are extended a vote of thanks for the use of their shop and their co-operation In this event and the Co-op store for allowing the boys the space in the store for their bake sale Death Toll Over Weekend Reaches 71 By TH ECANADIAN PRESS A rash of drownings and car crashes hit Canada with one of its blackest weekend fatality tolls in years during the week end It least 71 persons died accidentally, 35 in traffic mishaps and 28 on the country's water ways. from 6 p.m. local times Fridas to midnight Sunday Such a high toll is not un common for long. holiday week ends. but is unusual for normal.

two-day weekends The total count last weekend was 48. Canadian Press listed. in addition to traffic and drownings. two fire deaths. one shooting and five deaths by mIS cellaneous causes The count does not include slavings.

known suicides or industrial ac. cidents. The staggering toll came when thousands of persons headed for holiday spots as the country enjoyed summer like weather. Ontario topped the list with 27 deaths. 17 traffic and eight drownings.

Alberta had seven drownings and three traffic deaths. Quebec's 11 fatalities included SIX traffic and four drownings. A breakdown by provinces. with traffic deaths in brackets: Ontario 27 (17): Quebec 11 (6); British Columbia 7 (2): Alberta 10 13); Newfoundland 5 (1): Saskatchewan 5 (3); Nova Scotia 2 (2): New Brunswick 2 (1): Manitoba 2 (0): Prince Edward Island 0. Newfoundland reported one man killed in a rockslide, other killed by a power shovel boom and a boy aged 12 months choked to death on food.

There was an electrocution in Ontario and a further miscellaneous death In Quebec. Police End Car Wash MONTREAL (CP) Starting today. Montreal policemen will no longer wash their patrol cars. The change was made after a study showed It cost the city than $7 for an hour's scrubbing by two constables. It will now cost only $1 as the constables drive into selected car washing establishments where.

the study concluded. the job can be finished in five minutes. Mutiny Is Exaggerated DETROIT (AP) United States Coast Guard officials, immigration authorities Detroit police rushed to a Greek freighter anchored in the Detroit River Saturday night to investigate reports of a possible mutiny. But there wasn't any mutiny. Police said they found only a drunken Canadian ship pilot, a bewildered captain and a grumbling crew.

Patrolman John Mahinski said the pilot had made an early start in celebrating his Saturday night shore leave and had promised the 25 crew members would arrange for a boat to take them ashore. When the shore boat didn't materialize the crew began to grumble loudly. The Canadian pilot. apparently becoming worried, called the Guard on the ship's radio. Coast Guard said the Coast.

radio message told of a stab. bing and a possible mutiny. They said the pilot identified himself as L. Helios, captain of the Greek freighter Eftychia. His real identity was not announced.

Death Toll Reaches 41 ZANZIBAR (Reuters) An other company of troops was being moved in here today from Nairobi to maintain order fol. lowing riots which erupted dur ing elections last Thursday In this Indian Ocean island. The death toll today mounted to 41 including an African woman and her SIX children killed Sunday. About 300 persons have been injured. Roadblocks around the town of Zanzibar have netted a large as sortment of weapons harpoon guns, clubs studded with shark teeth.

bush knives, native swords and shotguns. Miss Eda Matisen. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wally Matisen of Eckville.

was the winner of the Alberta Brookesecond Bond Travel essay contest. She entered a 500-word essay on "Lite In A Fallout Her prize was $100. The May meeting of the Eckville Home and School Associa tion was held a week early due to the music festival being held on the regular date. Harry Densmore, Mrs. Percy Thomas and Mrs.

Roy Leach were nominated to bring in a new slate of officers for the 1961-62 term and these will be presented and voted on at the June meeting. Percy Thomas (jr. was then introduced and gave a talk on his course at the University of Alberta, He strongly stressed that students should give serious consideration to furthering their education and outlined a few of the bursaries. loans and scholarships available to students entering university. Mrs.

Baker then presented Miss Carol Friesen with the Home and School scholarship. Carol has completed her first year in phar macy at the of A 1 miscellaneous shower WaS held at the home of Mrs. Rudolph Dahl recently In honor of Miss Helen Mcdowan. bride-elect of June. A pleasant evening was spent In playing games.

atter which Misses Dianne Colin and Joyce Bunch carried in a basket laden with gifts. The basket was very tastefully decorated. Mrs. Meta Dahl made the presentation of the gifts to Helen. Mrs.

Scotty Mottus, sister of the bride-to-be and Mrs. Bill Maki, assisted In the opening and display of the many beautiful gilts. Lunch was served by the hostess. Mrs. Dahl and Miss Helen Covlin Mr.

and Mrs. Schofer were weekend visitors to Stettler and Big Valley on May 27. Miss Gayle Murray of the hospital staff was a Calgary visitor last week Mr. and Mrs. Ole Kraft and children were here from Conrich over the Victoria Day weekend.

Curtis Bromling has returned home from the san in Calgary. Actress Is Fined CP Photo) vancer That 10 per cent of them do. That at age 50 among the heavy smokers. perhaps two per cent at the most die of lung cancer lung cancer 1S still a relatively rare disease. That there are questions about the diagnosis 01 much recent research into lung cancer has suggested a connection with previous lung infections, viruses.

the possible effects of air pollution. even the economic status and ethnic origin flung cancer patients. American Cancer Society statistics indicate that men smoking two or more packs of cigarets a day have a total death rate from all causes twice that of non-smokers. Despite health warnings. tobacco sales are g.

More than 500.000.000.000 cig arets are made each year. Add to this 7.000.000.000 cigars and 175.000.000 pounds of other tobacco products. Americans pay $7.000.000.000 a year for tobacco. $6.000.000.000 of it for cigarets. Economically, a great deal is at stake.

But. Dr. Little says: not try to whitewash the tobacco industry the tobacco industry IS intelligent enough to know that if anybody can put his finger on anything in tobacco that is hurting people it's obviously to the best interests of the industry to get rid of that Swans With Purple Wings Are Sought ANNAPOLIS. Md. (AP) If you see any swans with purple wings.

Maryland biologist Ver. non D. Stotts would like to know about them. Stotts dyed the wings of a dozen whistling swans In late March and so far he's had reports of sightings from Ohio, Wisconsin. North Dakota, Manitoba and Saskatchewan.

The waterfowl biologist with the Maryland game and inland fish department IS trying to learn more about the whistlers -their migration routes, resting and feeding areas while migrating. breeding areas, summering areas for non-breeding swans and how closely families of swans stav together during wintering. migrational and breeding periods. Such information might lead eventually to taking the swan off protected lists and placing the species under management. letting hunters take them in limited numbers such as they now can ducks, geese and other wild waterfowl.

present we just don't know enough about the Stotts says. The Maryland biologist got into the study by accident two years ago. Swans were spoiling the traps he had set for ducks. to be banded and released in studies being conducted along the Atlantic flyway. Maryland is the largest wintering ground on the U.S.

east coast for whistling swans, with approximately 36.000 of the estimated total of 62.500 500 in the way stopping off here. USED DYE Stotts decided if the whistlers were going into the traps and taking his duck bait. he would put them to work. He dyed the white wings of several and released them. But he didn't publicize the project beyond this region and got only a few inconclusive reports.

This year he got a more lastung dye. deep purple in color. and applied it to the tips and bottoms of the wings of a dozen birds. He requested reports from state. provincial and federal technicians.

Stotts believes these reports may come in all year. He said the wings will take on a lighter coloring when the swans molt. but enough should remain to distinguish them. BRIGHTON. England (Reut.

ers)-Sarah Churchill. actress daughter of Sir Winston Churchill. was fined £2 ($5.60) here today for being drunk and disor. derly outside a bar Sunday night She pleaded guilty and told the magistrates: have nothing to say except that I regret it. be the statistical studies that show the association between smoking.

lung cancer and a shorter life. The society now 15 circulating booklets In high schools suggesting that teen avers ask themselves if they should smoke or not Dr. Little answers I think that if any health officer and others feel that this evidence 1S strong enough to conduct an educational campaign. thes not only have the right to do so. but the duty.

"I would. for the sake of the individual involved. as well as the health officers themselves. and for the good of science, like them to tell the whole story In other words, point out the facts: there IS an apparent statistical association that looks as though certain smokers have a distinctly increased risk of disease. "That 90 per cent of the worst statistical population vou can pick, those at age 80 who have been heavy smokers for 40 to 50 years.

do not die of lung warn all cigaret smokers that there IS now conclusive evidence that they are running a greater risk of contracting cancer than smokers. The risk mounts with the number of cigarets smoked. Giving up smoking reduces the LEADS CHALLENGE Perhaps the leading challenge has come from the American Cancer Society which supported Mavors Hopeful Of More Financial Aid HALIFAX 24th an nual conference of the Canadian Federation of Mayors and Municipalities ended here Saturday with Canada's municipal lead ers hopeful of more financial assistance from the federal government. The four dav meeting. attended by more than 700.

was marked by a central theme: the municipalities want the federal government to contribute more money to municipal projects. Retiring president Mayor S. L. Buckwold of Saskatoon, who de scribed the meeting as "an outstanding success." said dele. gates were confident of a fair hearing from the federal government on the federation's re.

quest for more help in redevelopment and slum clearance. Mounting education costs and lack of money for redevelopment of blighted areas were two of the major problems. Others ranged from self analysis of city hall stafts to traffic troubles to building codes. The federal government also was asked to overhaul its winter works program and increase its contribution to the cost. The resolution asked that the works program be extended to cover the entire year on a "make work" basis, with the federal government contributing 50 per cent of the total costs involved for this work between June 1 and Oct.

15. The four day conference closed with the election of Mayor P. B. Scurrah of Victoria as president to succeed Mayor Buckwold, named honorary president. Vice-presidents elected included Mayors H.

Nicholson. Estevan. C. N. Kushner, West Kildonan, and J.

M. McAfee, Red Deer. Next year's conference will be in Winnipeg. EATON'S Stotts has received reports of sightings at Meadows. 15 miles northwest of Winnipeg, and Swift Current in southwestern Saskatchewan.

Stotts bands the swans as well as coloring their wings. but the only time he could receive a report on banded bird would be if the swan was recovered. It 15 against the law to shoot them. Two other biologists have initiated similar projects in Ohio and Michigan. says Stotts.

Karl Bednarik of the Crane Creek and Wildlife Experiment Station near Oak Harbor, Ohio, has applied green dye to the upper breast and lower neck of some whistlers. Frank R. Martin of the Shiawasser national wildlife refuge at Saginaw, is trying a similar experiment with the upper breast and lower neck region dyed red. Press Group Shares Jump LONDON (Reuters) The market value of shares in a British newspaper group rose by £2.800.000 ($7.840.000) today amid fresh rumors of a take over bid. The shares of Associated Newspapers Limited rose swiftly on the London Stock Exchange as the rumors spread.

Similar speculation about a possible takeover hid in March by Roy Thomson. Canadian millionaire head of Thomson Newspapers. pushed the shares sharply upward. But J. M.

Coltart. managing director of the Thomson Newspaper Group in the United King. dom. denied today that there were any plans for a takeover bid. "It is only a he said.

"We have not been in any negotiations with associated newspa pers. Thomson has been In Israel for the last 10 days, he said. Associated newspapers publish the Daily Mail. London Evening News. Sunday Dispatch and have interests In British commercial television.

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