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her during the past year. Other officers elected were, J.E. Corrigan, istt vice fent; Mrs. G. Mclsaac, 2nd fice president; Mrs. J. McTague,
! Mrs. A. Lawlor,
Councillors elected were Mrs. . Maddigan Mrs, Joan Peters, ss. Maria Dahi and Miss Ber- ie Gillis. Reports presented at the meet- which took the form of @ meeting, showed a very year, the, highlight of was the graduation dance ed in May. -
Financial donations were voted me the Catholic Social Welfare projector slides nurs- Faetsial
LOCAL BRIEFS
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~~ SOCIAL EVENING The first social evening for the bers and wives of the Char- Yacht Club was held at Toom last night with ap- ply 70 people in attend- An evening of entertain- ‘Was spent in cards, darts other games, after which a cious lunch was served by ladies. Several guests from miainiand were also present r the evening social event.
the M.V. Brion, which operates Montreal, Maritimes and
j SALUTE FIRED A saluting gun party from - the
. Harvey Hutt, manager of Al
home for elderly the Rainbow Club representative of all ies, group raises funds the lodge ladies with
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by companies, especially in the O’-
On motion the board approved a request for action in the con-
~” RAINBOW CLUB TEA
comforts and treats during the year. Mrs. Guthrie Ballingall is the president of the club. Shown lilsie wiksine tithe Gos ta.
: West Prince Dial System - Reported Not Feasible
|on the Brooks River for use of
rank Weeks was appointed chairman of the red cross swim- ming class committee for the cur- rent year.
ed president Atkinson
Royal Life Saving bronze medal- jons to two Alberton boys, Jim- mie Millman and Alan Nicholson and an intermediate certificate to Grant Noonon, also of Alber- ton. A medallion has also been won by Wanda Collings, who was
struction of a wharf at Conway
ls Liberace
By GEORGE BISHOP
LONDON (Reuters) — A Brit- ish newspaper man being sued by television pianist Liberace for libel said Wednesday in court that the American entertainer “‘prosti- tutes” religion and mother love.
William Connor, who writes for the 4,750,000-circulation London daily Mirror under the pen-name Cassandra, went into the witness box on the third day of Liberace’s suit against Connor and the tab- loid newspaper.
not present for the presentation.
Religion Prostituted
( it don Palladium by a 40-year-old man in company with his mother, whom he may well love, I regard this as profane and wrong.” Liberace contended on Tuesday that the homosexual tag was hung on him in Connor's 1956 column when it called him ‘‘fruit-fla- vored” and added: “He is the summit of sex—the pinnacle of masculine, feminine and neuter. Everything that he, she and it can ever want.” PERSONALITY SICKENING
Liberace, during the first two days, testified that an article Connor wrote three years ago while he was making a tour of Britain implied that he was: a homosexual. The Mirror denied the charge.
Both Connor and his lawyer, Gerald Gardiner, argued Wednes- day that they were entitled to criticize Liberace as cheap and sickening as a matter of fair public comment.
EXPLOITED LOVE
Connor said Liberace’s stage technique exploited “‘firstly, what he gets out of it; secondly, re- ligion; and thirdly, love, affection and friendship, which I think he is prostituting.”
“When Mr. Liberace constantly refers to God and does these per- formances, out of which he gets money, I am revolted.”
Wednesday, Connor said ‘‘fruit- flavored”’ was his phrase for con- veying Liberace’s personality— “over-sweetened, over - flavored and just sickening.”
When he said Liberace was “the pinnacle of masculine, fem- inine and neuter,”’ he meant that Liberance had used his sex ap- peal to secure an enormous aud- ience throughout the country.
Connor said his reaction to Liberace’s act was ‘‘a feeling of astonishment to begin with and then nausea” caused by the pianist’s “flamboyant a p pear- ance” and the (‘cloying, sicken- ing nature” of his act.
Gardiner asked him: “Did you at any time have any intention of imputing homosexuality to Lib- erace?”’
“None at all,’ Connor replied.
Earlier in the day a parade of
Turning to Liberace’s “mother love,” Connor declared: “‘When I see this on the stage of the Lon-
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(Continued from page 1) handled 55,000 fewer pouads than in May last year, and 100,000 fewer than in May 1957.
Mr. Shea agreed with the view advanced in Alberton that the minimum size lobster allowed by the department should be re- duced fractionally in the inter- ests of North Shore fishermen. Both points would like to ‘see the carapace measurement, from the eye socket to the back of the shell, reduced from two and one- half inches to two and three- eighth inches, a reduction of one- eighth of an inch.
Mr. Shea believes that North Shore lobsters do not grow to as a large a size as those on the south side of the Island and that fishermen in this area are re quired to throw away a far greater percentage of their caich than in the rest of the district. NO PERIL SEEN
He adds the belief that lobster hatching in the north is so pro- lific that future catches would not be threatened by lowering the limit, so long as the catching of short lobsters was halted.
berton Fisheries Lid., goes fur- ther and sees lowering the limit as the means of ‘ialting future iegal fishing. He is confident
British show business personalit- ies testified that; Liberace did not exploit sex appeal in his show. for rigid enforcement after such a change as exists witaout it.
Mf there is difficulty im halting idegal fishing| now he thinks one reason is that fishermen became accustomed to laxity in the past and got\im the frame of mind of considering returns from _ short lobsters and out of season fishing as part of their normal income. “TAKEN FOR GRANTED”
In Alberton there was some acknowledgement that off season fishing and canning of short lob- sters had been “taken for grant- ed” in other years.
One fisherman said it was not unusual to \have one-third of in- come ‘from lobster fishing pro- duced by off season.and short lobster catches.
The federal department of f:sh- eries insists that odservance and enforcement of size limits quick:y increases the value of the lob- ster catch so markedly that most fishermen get a larger income in the long run from protecting small, fast-growing lobsters.
Research has shown that a lob- ster increases in volume by 3 to 100 percent each year. Offi- cials point out that not oniy is the tonnage increased by bigger limits but the possibility of catching more market sized. lob- sters is greater, thus increasing the -over-all value of the catch. The differential in price betwcen canners and market iobsters ranges from six cents per lb to 18 cents per-lb. at certain timés of the year. ROUSED AT NIGUT
In face of this argument, Al
berton fishermes reiterate their
presented.
-looked under the cushions of the
‘sters being found but the bro-
John Holroyd, Winsloe; Mrs. Stanley Pursey, Mrs. Henry Mac- Lean and Senior Major E. Chand-
ler, matron of the lodge.
Housing Group Members Named
ST. JOHN’S, Nfid. (CP)—The Newfoundland government has appointed three new members to the St. John’s Housing Authority.
Premier Joseph Smaliwood an- nounced in the legislature Wed- nesday that manufacturer John O’Day, imsurance executive A.B. Butt and kawyer Thomas Wil- liams will replace three mem- bers who resigned.
The premier said the names were submitted by federal Works Minister Howard Green and were approved Tuesday by the New- foundiand cabinet.
“T have no idea what their pol- itics may be and I don't think it matters as long as they are rep- utable men,” Mr. Smallwood) said.
JAMAICA PEAK 4
Blue Mountain on the island of Jamaica rises more than 7,000 feet above sea level.
stand, # is the methods of the fishery protection officers that have stirred their anger.
_ One man says he was roused out of bed late at night. After answering heavy pounding on bis door he was confronted dy three officers who searched his house from cellar to attic. “They even
chesterfield and in my lhinch box”, he said.
Another instance alleged to have taken place involved the wife of a \fisherman who was at the fishing ground when a raid on his home took place. Only partly clad in the early morning she answered a knock a‘ her door expecting her sisier. Three men, it is reported, pushed her aside and ransacked the house from top to bottom.
A spokesman for the fishermen said, ‘“‘We don’t like this kind of treatment. Evidently we are all considered guilty until proven innocent”.
Another Alberton fisherman told of a boat owner being hailed before reaching the wharf with the question, “Have you. any short lobsters aboard’’? PROBLEM RECOGNIZED
When he replied in the nega- tive, the fisheries officer ts re- ported to have said, “‘I can stand a thief but I cannot stand a lair,” and proceeded with the search but without finding any shorts.
Still another story heard in Al- berton is of a store keeper going on his brother’s boat for a holi- day. A raid from the fishery of- ficers resulted in no short lob-
ther of the fisherman was issued a summons for fishing without a license.
Fishermen in Alberton appear to agree that illegal fishing has become a problem in the past few years. Neither the fishermen nor any other informed citizens show amy serious inclination to deny that fishing in the closed season and the canning of short lobsters have been extensive brazenly with little or no effort made to prevent it.
TACTICE DEPLORED
In spite of such admission,
however, they contend that the presem tactics of the proiection force are not the answer. “Let them lower the size limit an eighth of an inch and our troub les and theirs will be over’’ they claim. Mr. Hutt, as manager of Aiber- ton Fisheries, said that this year’s catch in his area is much lower than last year and scarcity of the fish has caused the closing: of the large factory which hither- to has employed fifty people.
The lobsters mow are being shipped for processing in New Brunswick, he said.
Mr. Shea of Tignish Fisheries believes that illegal fishing of undersized lobsters threatens to ruin the industry,. not only from the standpoint of catch but mar- ; ketwise as well. , UNFIT TO EAT
He said lobsters illegally pack- ed are in some instances unfit for human consumption and if the practice is not stopped it will have the effect of cutting markets.
Mr. Shea believes that fishery officers could be a litile less stringent in their inspection in some case and not involve fish- ermen in court cases when only a few short lobsters of borderline
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NEW YORK (AP) — A fretful throng of 1,175 travellers were stranded Wednesday ona ship with no crew to run it or do the housekeeping. ;
Immobilized by a strike of crew personnel, the Italian liner Giulio Cesare languished at dockside for the second day, loaded with peo- ple but a virtual ghost ship as far as services go. Luckily the air conditioning system was working in the 90-degree weather.
“At least we're not sweating it out,” one passenger said. “Just sitting it out.’ : ' The line dispensed food allow- ances so the travellers could for- age for meals ashore—$i2 a day for first-class passengers, $8 for
Strike Bound Ship
Stalls Travellers
faced an international obstacle in obtaining food—they had no visas to go ashore. :
Immigration guards escorted them to a restaurant for dinner Tuesday night, and Wednesday morning ship line office personnel took them a breakfast of molk, coffee and sandwiches.
The line estimated the strike was costing it $8,400 daily for
RCMP constables give as testi-
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mény in the case details of how the arrest was made.
Another intoxicated § driving ; charge against a Little Sands man has been further adjouraed
to register a motor vehicle. Two speeders were fined. 10
Delegates Arrive
Queen’s Magistrate Hears 18 Motor Vehicle Violations
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Sunday. , Wintinn tt Ge onan ae Approximately 60 members! wii complete the YMCA Ss are expected to attend and Win-| facilities as they were envisiaos——i_ eS ere A he At-| ed when the present building was ; Steeves is from Moncton *lerected. It pwill also enable the , “Y” to provide an enlarged ser-
Among those expected 0 St-!vice to the community through ta ar Sm Toh of Tere tnching a ope aa
swim, the giving of instruction ia house Workers of Canada and|sdvance swimming and life sav- Be ike tee ee splash parties for youth groups
and swimming meets.
Plans call for a pool 60 feet
long and 20 feet wide and it will
operate on a year round basis.
The campaign for funds will be
held in a three-month period be-
ginning December'1, 1959. dollars each. One was from TV TOWERS
Charlottetown and one from Emerald. Five motorists were fined five dollars for failing to stop at stop signs i
Motorists operating vehicles with defective equipment, in this case defecti headlights.
parked on the travelled portion of the highway, allowing more than two adult passengers in the front seat of a car also brought small fines.
Friday at 9.20 |
The attention of car owners in- | tending to meet CMA delegates at Borden is called to the fact that the hour 10:20 a.m. mentioned in ' yesterday’s paper ts daylight sav-' ing time. In order to avoid con- |
fusion & hes been sacked that
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Some said cab fares to and | from restaurants up most of | the food fund. DEPARTURE STALLED
The 27,000 ton liner was | scheduled to sail Tuesday for | Mediterranean ports, but at the | last minute 479 crew members walked out in a. wage dispute.
The stoppage was part of a gen- eral strike called by the Italian Seamen's Union in Rome. If it goes on, it could hit another It- alian liner, the Vulcania, due here today from Halifax.
Aboard the Giulio Cesare, the atmosphere seemed one of thorough boredom. In the lounges people just sat. Few were read-
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