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By FRANCES LEWINE WASHINGTON (AP)—The new

American flag, chosen with an eye’ to the addition of a . 50th state, has 49 stars arranged in seven rows of seven, with the even rows indented.

_President Eisenhower unfurled the new design Saturday at a White House ceremony’ proclaim- ing Alaska the 49th state.

By law, the 13 red and white stripes depicting the 13 original states remain unchanged, but a new star must be added for eaca new state.. s

The 49 stars will be arranged in this pattern:

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an a x eX OFFICIAL ON JULY 4

of eight white stars each on a blue field, makes way for the new Version which comes into official Use next July 4. The president “approved the mew flag design on the advice of a. four-man committee including the secretaries of state. defence, treasury and the chairman of the fine arts commission. CHOSEN SECRETLY Eisenhower flew here by heli- copter from his Pennsylvania} farm to make the new flag offi- Cial, signing the executive order with six pens. A new flag, made by the army quartermaster corps and standing tightly furled jin a standard, was then stretched its full length by the president for thé fitst public display.

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REGULAR MONTHLY meet | ing Souris Branch Canadian Leg-' fon will be held Morlday January 5 in the Legion Home, Souris.

WEEK OF Prayer Service. tonight at Montague Church Gena Christ. Speaker Rev. Campbell. =—

PERSONALS.

Miss Margagret Hume, student Dalhousie, recently Spent the es at her home ‘in Monta-

“mr. and Mts. David. Stewart. Halifax, N.S., spent the holidays Montague and ‘Oyster Bed Bridge, while in Montague they Were the guests of the formers parents Mr. and Mrs. E.H. Ste- Wart.

Dr. and Mrs. Harold Stewart @nd son, Paul, returned to Win- Mpeg by plane after spending

holidays in Montague ~ with Mr. and Mrs. Chester MacLure and Mr. and Mrs. Garl Stewart.

Mr. and Mrs

Chester Mac- re, Montague, spent New Year's Day in Charlottetown,

they were the guests of son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Carl MacLure. 2” were. accompanied by Miss

ie Beaton.

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= Miss~ Charlotte Gordon, ith’ nurse,

public Montague... re- from Halifax

The old flag, with its six rows.

There had secrecy by the White House on the new flag—the 26th version of the Stars and Stripes—to keep flag manufacturers from gettiig advance word.

The flag Eisenhower approved leaves the way open\for a 50th star—in the event Hawaii wins statehood.

One way that could ‘be done

would be to it the first of the seven stars. Then, by alternating fourth line would come fi to the left of the, field, with fér addition

+|Tows would remain in the pattern

put on view today.

CGIT Conducts Annual Service At Murray River

MURRAY RIVER — The an- nual C.G.LT. vesper service was held in Murray River United Church on Decémber 28th and was conducted by Mrs. Royal White assisted by members - of CG1T:

Mrs. White also read the scri- pture lesson and the ‘story “The Shepherd Who Didn't Go”. Scripture passages were also read by Betty Clarey and Ruby Jq@anston

Those taking part in the can- dlelighting ceremony were judy Acorn, Rita Mae‘ Ferguson and Shirley White. Marlyn Keenan

“Once m Royal David's City’’ The C.G. LT. choir sang as an anthem

Congregational hymns were “O Come All Ye Faithful’, “Gentle Mary Laid Her Child.” “As with Gladness Men of Old” and “‘Sileat Night Holy Night’. The music’ was under the direc- tion of the church ome. Mrs.

| mas”’ was delivered by Rev. LS.

| Woolfrey, who also brought the | service to a close with the benediction.

United Baptist Church Holds

Annual Concert

* MONTAGUE The annual Christmas concert was held at the United Baptist Church, Mon- tague, and was attended’ by mem- bers of the congregation, Sab- , bath School and a. large number of friends.

Rev. .A.G.J. Steeves presided as chairman and the organist throughout the evening was Miss Clemmie MacLean. The pro- gram included, welcome, Louise Sorrie; ‘“‘Infant Holy’, junior choir exercise Louise * Sorrie, Garth Steeves, Ralph Sorrie; ex- ercise, Mrs. Jennie MacKenzie Sharon, Sandra and Garth Steev- es, and Linda’ and Ralph Sorrie;

Matheson, Mrs. Spencer Llewel- lyn, Edna Jenkins, Clifford Jen-

Alfred Sorrie, Sharon Steeves, Sandra Steeves; pantomine, Kay Sorrie, Christine Vanlderstine. Charon Steeves, with Alfred Sor- rie as soloist; “Shadows of the Manger’, deacon-. William Mac- Lean, Bruce Macintyre, Alfred Sorrie, Mrs.’ June Vanlderstine. Mrs. ‘Arthrer -- il Clifford Jenkins, with Mrs. Llewellyn as narrator, and Mrs. A.G.J. Steev- es and Garth Steeves as soloists. Assistants in the —— of the nrogram were Mrs. nie MacKenzie, _Properities: Annie Shaw, “ighis: and ‘an Clemmie MacLean, organist. With the arrival of Santa Claus |

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A Christmas reverie, Mrs. Angus |

kins, Ralph Sorrie, Linda Sorrie |

Special Service Marks Season At Murray. H.

~ MURRAY HARBOUR— DeSpite the cold niht, a goodly number gathered. at the Murray Harbour United Church forthe annual Christmas service’ December 22nd. The service was under the direction of the Minister, Rev. L.S: Woolfrey. the C.G.1.T. par- ticipated in the service.

Those taking part were as fol- lows: Misses Bonnie Jean Mac- Pherson, and Elaine ‘Herring, who read the old testament and new testament scriptures respec- tively; Miss Adeline Polland who led in the responsive read- ing. The offering was received

by Misses Sharon White, Edit Vaniderstine, -Carolyn Collier and Carman Collier. ‘‘Luther’s

Cradle” hymn was beautifully |" rendered by group A of the C. G.LT.

The regular church choir was in attendance -and rendered as) an anthem “Rolling Downward Through The Midnight’’. Con- gregational hymns were “O Come All Ye Faithful’, “Joy: to the Work” and “Silent Night”. The music was under the direc-

Carl Richards.

minister, Mr. Woolfrey, who chose’ as his topic “‘A Saviour is

Concert Held At Murray River

“MURRAY RIVER — A large congregation was in attendance at the Murray River United Church for the annual Christ- _mas concert presented by the iGaurch Sunday School. Parents and“ members‘ of the congrega- tion were greatly impressed by the delightful numbers, present- ed by the various classes which were as follows: The program included: Welcome, Dianne and Darlene Campbell; Drill primary girls; Recitation, Boyd Munn; Drill, primary boys; Re citation, Jackie Graham: Drill junior boys; Recitation; James Richards; Drill junior girls; Drill intermediate boys; Exer- cise, Campbell family; Drill, intermediate class; Recitation Sterling Saunders; Pageant, senior girls; Remarks: by Mr.

Posen “nai Murray Harbour Church School Holds Concert

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lightful Christmas concert con- ducted by the pupils and tea- chers of the Murray Harbour United Church Sunday School, consisted of a varied program.

oe worship was led by |

Rev. S. Woolfrey and Sunday | School teachers. } Program is as follows: wel-

come, Trudy Machon; presen-

| tation of white gifts hy the pup-

ils; white gift story “# I Hadn't Come”, Bernice Billard, ‘‘Jin- gle Bells’, sung by kindergarten class; exercise’ by primary Glass: hymn,’ “O Come All Ye Faithful’ ; **Luther’s.--' Cradhe Hymn”, Darlene Herring and | Mary Gosbee; Recitation, Trudy Machon; Christmas carol; exer- cise by Junior boys; Carol. by the Sunday. School: monologue David MacLean: Christmas carol by Sunday . School and

congregation ; recilation, Vera Somers; ‘‘Here Comes Santa Chaus”’.

gifts were presented and treats were given to all the children. Carols singing was enjoyed by old jand young. and the benediction was pronounced by Rev. J. Steeves.

OLD COOKING The ‘primitive method of. broil-

,}ing meat was by burying it in

hot ashes

By FRANK CAREY WASHINGTON (AP)—Russia’s cosmic rocket has a good chance of becoming one of a swarm of

pip - squeak planets that resulted

éither from- the explosion of a

Asteroids’ are not to be con- fused with meteors, of which the solar system has billions ranging in size from that of a few grains

; of sand to a few that weigh tons.

Most of the asteroids have orb-

‘| its whose distance lies some 260

million miles from the sun. .

Their place in the solar system lies roughly between that of Mars, 148 million miles from the sun, and that of Jupiter some 483 milion miles from the sun.

But there are a few other as- teroids which have eccentric orb- its. They shun the orbital area

. of their more true-to-form -breth-

Curling Draw For Montague

Curling today at Montague: 7 P. M.

East Ice: R. Beck, Dr. G. In- man, F. McDonald; H. Moore, vs. A.A. Fraser, D. Acorn, K. MacKenzie, S. Westaway.

West ice: H. Moar, A. Robert- son, S. Llewellyn, G. Murphy vs- D. McGowan, Fred Vuozzo, A. Pilson, and G. Murphy.

9 P. M. ;

East Ice: W. MacLean, B. Koke, J. Dunn, G. Brookins vs. Dr.--MclIntyre, G. McCannell, G. Kennedy, and G. Worth. :

West Ice: C. Stewart, E. Shaw, C. Johnston, D. Williams vs._J.S. DesRoches, A. Nelson, B. Bal- derson and L. Hennigar.

Malcolm J. Gillis Is Laid To Rest

MONTAGUE — The funeral of the late Malcolm J. Gillis, Mon- tague, Who passed away .at the Kings County Hospital on Janu- ary Ist. was held from St. An- ed s Presbyterian Church Sat-

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Rev. DA. Campbell officiated, al. ; Watterworth pre- sided at the organ. The hymn “Rock of Ages’’ was sung, and a vocal solo “Will There be any Stars’’ was beautifully rendered by Malcolm Munroe.

SOME NEAR EARTH

Thus, their pathways take them closer to the sun and, in Sedote erection’ For all practica urposes,: however, ‘there is little or no. chance of ‘an‘

‘!asteroid ever striking the earth.

Oe of these odd-balis called

Hefities, eame a : miles from the ‘in its first and only sighting in . Astron-

omers say it may or may- not ever be seen again; they got too few observations on it to get a good idea of its orbit.

Dr. Homer Newell of the Na- tional Aeronautics and Space Ad- ministration says he'd guess that if the Russian pocket gets past the moon, it would go into orbit that would lie somewhere be- tween that of Venus, 6 million miles from the sun, and that of Mars. : q NOT ENOUGH ENERGY >

“He told a reporter he figures that the earth - launched rocket wouldn't have energy enough left to get it into the more distant neighborhood of-the large major- ity of asteroids.

Newell figures that by the time the rocket achieves double ~

Rev. L. S. Woolfrey Accepts

Russian Rocket May Join Swarm Of Small Planets

distance of the earth to the

moon, if it does, its velocity with respect. to the earth will be vir- tually zero.

However, it would then’ be within the gravitational pull of the sun and would be travelling, relative to the sun, at a clip of 18% miles a second. That's the

Speed at which the earth

orbits around the

FORMATION” UNKROWN 7 *While the knows by now how the pote Russian. aster-

oid was: formed, scientists are much less certain how its pros- pective buddies in. space were formed.

One concept ‘Is that the aster- oids resulted from the explosion of-a great’ planet’ millions of years ago.

The, other is the asteroids once | W" were clouds of gas which accum- ulated following formation of the sun. These clouds of gaseous matter ultimately became globs of matter which, in turn, devel- oped into the nine major planets of the solar system.

But some of the globs - didn’t become full - -scale planets. In- stead, they became the junior- sized asteroids. ’

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New Charge In. Ontario

MONTAGUE Rev. i 8. Woolfrey, B.A., of the Murray Harbor - - Murray River -- Little Sands pastoral charge of the United Church of Canada. will leave’ some time next month for Avonmoré; Ontario, where he has. accepted a charge.

Mr. Woolfrey c to this charge from § Musquodobit, N. S., in October, 1955. During his years here a church hall was erected at -Murray Harbor, a men’s association formed,, a basement constructed under the Murray River new oil furnace‘*installed in

the Little Sands Church which |

‘was . redecorated.‘ Mr. Woolfrey is a past-president of the ‘finisterial Association.

_Both Mr. and Mrs. Woolfrey and their son Fred, will be greatly missed for the work accomplished in this congrega- tion. Mrs. Woolfrey did a great

deal of work with the “True Blue” C.G.A.T. Reynolds, Hubert Nelson, Calvin

Hilchey, Leo Collings and Stew- art Nelson. Flower bearers were Wilham

Steele, James Stewart. Charlies Llewellyn, Forrest Clow, and Douglas McKenna. Interment

| took place in the Montague Ceme-

tery. BRITISH FORCES Women on the active strength of the British navy, army and air ‘forces in 1958 totalled about

The pall-bearers were Marshall:

14,000.

tion- of the church organist, Mrs.

The address was given by the |

} MURRAY HARBOUR — A de-_

Christmas party.’

Star Grocery, Mike Larter’s Pharmacy, McPhee &-Co., Peréy

pany.

THANK YOU

The Souris Council of the Knights of Colum- bus wish to thank the following firms who gen-— erously donated candy and fruit for the children’s

Mullafly’s

‘aurant, Waldron Dmgwel, Matthew & McLean Ltd., Clarke Fruit Company,

Cheverie, Souris Co-op, ‘Restaurant,’ J. P.

Poole, Hazelton’s Res-

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Keefe Drug Com-

Church, and a

Malt cee te

_ REV. Lb S. WOOLFREY

Montague Rink Weekly Schedule

MONDAY, JAN. 5—

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ce Guardian, Charlottetown, Mon., Zan. 5, 1959.

Assault Case Is Adjourned , In County. Magistrates Court

MONTAGUE — Prior to the opening of the Kings County Magistrate's Court on Saturday morning Ian M. MacLeod, crewn—_prosecutor for Kings, on behalf of the court officials of the county and the members of the R.C.M.P. of Montague and™:Souris “Detachments con- gratulated “Gilbert A. Gaudet, Q.C.,.0n his recent appointment: | as. Queen’s’Counsel and — stated that it .was the first such ap-

extended his congratulations. The case of a Murray Har- bour resident charged with as- saulting his wife was adjourned tii January 14th. The accused was released on his own recog-

| Were each fined $20 and costs. for having liquor in a place|

nizance following the hearing of Cree witnesses for the |

after the court took the | accused’s absence as a ‘plea of | not guilty.

Following - the summing up. of | the case by the defence council, Lester P. O'Donnell, and the crown prosecutor, the case was | for judgement on January 14th. |

A resident of Georgetown was fined $10.00 when he) pleaded aulty to a charge of | assault.

A cabled: resident charg- | ed with “driving while intoxi- | cated pleaded guilty to the les- | ser charge of impaired driving was fined $75 and costs.

A Murray River resident pleaded not guilty to a charge | of driving while intoxiéated and had his case adjourned to mt uary 14th.

A résident of Little Harbour | was was . fined $20 sand cost costs” for |

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Week Of Prayer ‘Services Start Tonight In Kings MONTAGUE— Week-of payer services commence tonight in — many Kings County centres and will open in Montague ai the Church of Christ, where membors -

(of the four local - protestant ‘churches will gather for the open-

being intoxicated in a public place.

Two residents of Cardigan were each fined $10 and costs | for creating a disturbance in Montague, by molesting other prosecuted by John White, town | policeman .of town of Mon- Three residents of Montague, | and a resident of Union Road,

"Presbyterian Chugch will: be the guest preachc”. Opening service at Murray Harbour will be held in the. Unit ed Church with Rev. M. Cari

other than their residence. VINCENNES, Ind, .(AP)—Four’

A resident of Heatherdale | persons wére killed and five in- who failed to appear on a high- | jured critically early, Thursday way traffic charge had a sum- when an explosion and fire de- mons issued for his appearance | 'stroyed a modest frame héme in before we court. - 'the north part of the city:

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