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’ landic gun‘boat seize}! British

commander Ayulb Khan

Free Spenders Checked By The Many Regulations

5 By THE CANADIAN PRESS

There are two new year's a1- terna‘tives for Canada's big—time spenders: Throw your own party or go out of the country.

A Canadian Press survey of

. nightclubs from coast to coast indicates the cost of ringing in 1959 — corsage. cover charge, dinner. liquor. taxis and tips—— ranges from $20 to $50 a couple.

In the swank night spots of To-I route a man would have to work hard to get rid of more than $100. Prices at the top hotels range to $25 a couple for dinner. dancing and entertainment.

There is little more offered even in montreal, a city with more nightclubs and restaurants per capita than any North Ameri- can centre. Quebec law forbids selling liquor after 10 pm. New

’WorIoI Dates

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AUGUST

S—lKhrushchev, Mtao Tse-tung In joint communique at Peiping urge quick summit meeting. :— Turlcish, Greek undergrounds call halt to violence-in Cyprus. 6— Australia’s Herb Elliott sets mile record of 3:545 alt Dulblin. 9— U.S. atomic submarine Nautilus makes first underwater voyage across North Pole. Macmillan at Ankara for Cyprus talks with Turkey, following visit to Athens. 13 —— Eisenhower presents six- point plan tor Middle East to UN General Assembly. U.S. House of Representatives cites Boston mil- lionaire Bernard Goldfine, firiend of Sherman Adams, tor oontnmpt of Congress. 14—Dubch airliner with 99 alboamd lost in Amanriic.

18—JU.S. cimzit court at st. lotus reverses district court, or- der: resumption of integration at Little Rock school. lib—Geneva conference agrees on detection section to: international ban on nuclear weapons tests. Gm W unanimously adopts Aralb resolution pledging respect tor territorial integrity. 33—‘AW4N083‘0 clashes at Not- tingham, Ems-land. Dmnish-lborn Greta Anderson wins mass Eng. fish (Emanuel swim in 111 hours (lat. Communist Claim mainland shell: Quemoy Island's. Wei disorder! in London’s Notting Hill district. zs—Lambeth Camila report approves birth control, disagree: on nuclear test he issue. - I

8 —- rm accepts mums m - year plan tor Cyprus. Alum plain-cits approves stato- hood. fl—New York district at? tourney? entice say: three more TV quiz shows under scrutiny lat Dobto Wlflhdmuwn for alleged Arkansas state Wannabyuta‘lpm gov- ernor‘s bill to close schools faced with fioncifolotntegration 29—:Ice-

tawwler inside new manila limit.

r xii—whites, Negroes, again clash in London‘s Notting Hill.

. SEPTEMBER - ‘ ,l-JBritish frigate drive: not Icelandic gumboat inside new

fishing 2 -— Hendrik Ver- woerd succeeds late Johannes Strleom‘u South Atrium primG minister. Warmer soviet pre- mier Bulgamin removed horn Communist party council. 7- Ashley Cooper of Australia, Al- thea Gibson of U.S., win U.S. tennis one. at Forest 10—- Chinese mainland artillery re- sumes shelling of Quemoy ls- laxnds. ll—Eisenhower says U.S. will fight if necessary to prevent Communist conquest of National- ist-held ofifshore islands. .

lib—Arkansas Governor Feubus closes high schools utter U.S. Su— preme Court raieots appeal for delay in racial integra- tion. Iii—Second Geneva atoms- torpeace conference ends with pledge of less secrecy in re- search. 15 — Commuter train plunges into Newark, N..T., bay, killing 21. 19—th warns U.S. to withdraw ships and mimics firom Formosa Strait. 20— 11.5. rejects Klmnshchev letter as and internperate. I »z2——Sherman Adams resigns as chief assistant to Eisenhower fol- lowing storm over gidts by Boston millionaire B e r n a r d Goldilne. '24 a Chinese Nationalist planes claim 24 C hi n e s e Communist planes shot down over Quemoy. 26—Army seizes power in Burma Gen. Ne Win becomes premier. U.S. sloop Columlbia d of ea t s England’s Sceptre in America’s Cup races, four straight. 28»—~ F r e n c h plebiscite overwhelm- ingly approves de Gaulle consti- tution. ZWencih Guinea, which rejected de Gaulle plan, ejected from union. Minneapolis Millers defeat Montreal in baseball’s little world series.

l OCTOBER

L—Bfltish jet airliners on first Atlantic 1: a s s e n g e r cross- idea. both ways. 8 -- President declares martial law in Pakistan. annula constitution;

:, over government. Pope E . its Kim, 82, dies. O—lNew York win world series over lyMlllwaukee Braves. 11 —- U.S. moon missile fail: but reaches alfimde of 79.120 miles. 13—h:— diotment. withdrawn against 91 changes with treason in South Attica

IT—Russian jetliner crash kills I passengers plus crew. 18— 'Iiwenty nations in GA’I'I‘ confer ence at Geneva approve steps to- ward freer trade. Wield Mar- shal 'Ilhanarat takes over Bur- mese government in bloodless coup. 21~4West Germany’s Presi- dent Heuss on ‘state visit to Lon- don..22~British airliner and ltal~ lap Jet collide at Anzio, 31 dead. 23—iD-ulles and Chiang Kai-shek confer in Formosa: Chiaug says

Year's Eve a nd few clubs planned special programs. PLAN OWN PARTIES Men with bankrolls in many cases were buying champagne, hiring servants and engaging en— tertainers for their own parties. Others ’were looking across the border.

In Toronto a Buffalo hotel ad- vertised: “Run away with your wife.” The cost for 24 hours of attention I'- not including trans- portation, liquor or tips—is $42 a couple. . In Montreal, th e Bellevue Casino club offered entertainment until dawn despite the blue law. Buses will take patrons trom the club to the town hall in Burling- ton, Vt., 80 miles away, making return trips into the afternoon of Jan. 1. The price: $42 a couple,

ture; is expelled firm; Soviet Writens’Union.

244W jet bomber- on train- lug/flight to Nebraska crashes at Detroit killing six crew. 27—coail mineLexplosion kills 22 at Bishop, Va. raft—Cardinals elect Angelo Cardinal Roncalli, 76, Venice, as Pope John XXMI. London Par» liaunent opening by Queen tele- vised for first time.

NOVEMBER

4—IU.S. off-year elections in- crease Democratic majorities in

drinks and tips extra.

Bookings are reported medium to heavy across the country. Pri- vate parties appeared as popular as ever, particularly in Ottawa and Montreal.

ATTRACTIVE PLAN

In Alberta a night on the town appeared more attractive under the new liquor la‘w permitting sale of drinks until 2 a.m.

For the man with little money to spare and no invitation to a p a r t y, unlicensed community halls and dance halls across the country offer music and sand- wiches for as low as $6 a couple. Many celebrants probany will smuggle in their liquor.

And there is always the mid- night movie, offering I night out with hand - squeezing for $2 a couple.

Congress. Diefenhaiker given ova- tion for address to Common- wealth and Empire Industries Association at London’s Albert Hall. 9 — Portuguese airliner crashes in Atlantic, 42 lost. 10—— Khrushchev calls for withdrawal

of all military forces from West

Berlin. Donald Campbell sets water speed record of 248 mph. at Coniston, England. Eisen- hower outlines long - berm eco— nomic assistance plan to Col- omibo conference at Seattle. 1&—

French cabinet F9300“ arms“, .14 The Guardian, Charlottetown. Wed. Dec. 31, 1958!

plan area.

Army Chief Ll. - Gen. Izbra— 1 him Arbboud takes control of; Sudan government. Pope John:

XXIII names 23 new cardinals! 18#U.S. freighter Carl D. Brad— ley with 35 crew sinks in Lake: Michigan; two survivors picked,‘ up. Zl—aNiational Council of Churches of Christ conference at Cleveland flavors U.S. recognition of Red China. Diefenbaker 7 ad— dresses In di a in Parliament at New Delhi. 23 —~ Communists swamped in first round of votes tor French nssemibly. 25—Deimo— crats win all seats in Alaska’s first election as 49th state of U.S. Ito—Second round of French elec- tions sees Jacques Soustelle’s Union for the New Republic largest party in chamber. DECEMBER

l—«Chicago school fire kills 87 children, three nuns. 2 —— Arson suspected as fire destroys 17,000 acres of brush, 29 homes, at Mal- ibu Beach, Calif. 5—Don Jordan wins would welterweight boxing title from Virgil Atkins at Los Angeles. 6—:U.S. Air Force moon shoot with Juno liI fails, but reaches 67,000m11e altitude." Earl Alexander enters hospital in Eng- land aifter second heart attack. 12—iFour British balloonlsts leave Canary Islands in attempt to drift across Atlantic.

Iii—Mao Tse-Itung relinquishes chairmanship of Chinese People's Republic but remains Commun- ist party chief. Departme lent store dire kills 100 at Bogota, Colom- lbia. lS—Fi‘fth Uls. earth satellite launched into orbit broadcasts pre - recorded EisenhoWer, mes-

sage. NIAITO ministers end Paris conference.

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lMOST REVER'EN'D

MALCOLM A. MucEACHERN _ ’

BISHOP or cunniormowu

, WILL RECEIVE AT

THEBISHOP‘SJRESIDENCE

ON THURSDAY, JANUARY 1, 1959

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can be done unless

the-year event.

it

no return to China mainland by, force. Russian poet Boris Faster—i

nah wins Nobel Prize for literal V_

As another New Year aapproaches bringing I with it the traditional tragic} accident toll, let us all work together, one with the other, to make this New Year in Prince Edward Island one without. accident fatalities and injuries. There is no better way to start the

New Year...there is no way in which it

citizen, co-operates in this important end-of-

l/ \' PROVINCE OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND

I

"A NEW YEAR'S MESSAGE

‘ TO PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND.

every person, every

To one and all, I extend sinccre New Years Greetings . . .Mar 1959 be one of Happiness and Prosperity...and a year marked by fewer highway

accidents than ever before in our history.

J. GEORGE

Minister of lliuhwru's

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10:00 p.m. to 1.30 a.m. Music Melodairs Tickets $5.00 Available at

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LET’S MAKE THIS NEW - YEAR ACCIDENT FREE!

Let Us Do All In Our Power To Ensure Traffic Mishops Do Not Occur!

REMEMBER THE LIFE YOU SAVE MIGHT BE YOUR OWN!

FALL’S,’Auto Body Repciirs I

201 WEYMOUTH ST.

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THE HONOURABLE

ALEXANDER W. MATHESON

or.

PREMIER OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND I

’ WILL RECEIVE AT HIS RESIDENCE.

, 13 CRESTWOOD DRIVE

ON THURSDAY, JANUARY I, I959

FROM 3 PM. TO 5 HM.

J. George MacKay

MacKAY