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RAIN GREETS IKE IN ROME

corted through the ancient streets of Rome in a special motorcade. The motorcade is

seum enroute to Quirinal Pal- ace President Giovanni Gron- chi’s residence.

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RELIGION. AND LIFE

BY VERY REV. GEORGE C. PIDGEON, D.D., LL.D.

First Moderator of the

GOD’S BEST GIFT TO MAN WAS SENDING OF HIS SON

' Why do we speak of “Advent?”

Because we want to emphasize the truth that God actually enter-

ed human life in the person of

His Son. The resources of Divin- ity are brought into the human conflict.

Poor, weak human beings are

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preparations must be to give Him a larger place in personal and public observances.

\THE PATTERN

There is one of Jesus’ sayings which sets the pattern for a truly /Christian Christmas: “The Son lof Man came not to be served | but to serve.”

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no longer left to themselves inj»? give rather than to get, to their war with sin and death: He|felp instead of being helped, to who conquered both puts Him-|think ahead of every meeting self at our head and leads us to 2>out how it can further Christ's

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We are approaching another season of thanksgiving and praise for the birth of Jesus Christ. God’s best gift to man-was the sending of His Son. His victory is our victory, but the best part of it is the presence of our Risen Lord.

How can we make the old, old story which will be told again in a thousand different forms. as fresh- and new as though it had never been told before”

THE MEANING First, enter into the meaning

mas service. :

In reality, those hymns express the most tremendous truth that ever entered the minds of men. That God should send His , Son, through whom He created the

ends and mold circumstances to Christ's will, are necessary fea- |tures of the part each of us has ito play. | An organization of young wo- men in one of our churches was preparing to meet the special needs of some people in the dis- trict when their leader disap- ared. When she reappeared, she told them that she had been

their mothers.” Pe.

She had suffered that bereave- ment. a short time before. Her own loss and the grace she had

jer than others could reach.

DESOLATION There are many of our read- jers whose own trials qualify

visiting “‘th® girls who had lost|

/40,000 MINK of what you sing in every Christ- found in Christ to meet it en-| abled her to serve on levels deep- |

against.no shipments a year ago.

MINK SALE

Fromm Bros, mink collection will go on- sale at Hamburg, wis- consin, on December 7. The fol- lowing is a breakdown of the of- fering: T/100-homo-sapphires;—6007 homo-platinums; 1,800 home-pas- tels; 900 gun metals; 2,500 sap- phires 1,000 miver blues; 750 palomino-buffs; 4,850 pastels and

standards.

In addition to Fromm’s collec- tion, mink from other shippers will also be auctioned at. the}- same sale. The above, of course, is only part of Fromm’s season’s pelting, but it goes to show the tremendous strides they have made in mink-farming since they ceased breeding silver fox and its mutations on a large scale.

At the height of their fox pro-| duction, they were marketing up- wards of 50,000 pelts each seas- on. Decline in fox hit them very hard, but they didn’t go entirely very hard, but they didn't go entirely -out of fox farming and are now building up their herd again in the belief that silver fox farming (and its mutations) will be profitable in the not-too- distant future,

Some 40,000 majestic dark and EMBA mutation mink will be of- fered by Soudack Fur Auetion Sales Ltd., on December 7th., in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The of- fering is to be sold for the

worlds, into our nature to solve|them to understand’ the desola- eur problems as a man among ‘ion brought by disease and death | men has meaning and implita-|‘° those around them, and when! tions far beyond the rangle of our|they themselves have found in|

puny minds.

Yet we ean _ comprehend enough to appreciate the enrich- ment Christmas brings to every human relationship. The Father- hood of God and the brotherhood

of man lift all life to a new level. |

Prepare for Christmas by stressing the spiritual rather than the social in our arrangements.

Christmas is a time of reun- fons when old loves. and enter-

Christ “peace amid surrounding)

| Storm,” they are able to bring to |them a comfort that inexperienc- led youth cannot impart.

Youth with its enthusiasm and high ideals has a work of its own to do, but older folk, discip- lined by what the years have giv- len and taken, have work also which satisfies. longings youth cannot even understand.

Every experience of joy or |sorrow .has a,meaning, and, to

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tainments re-enter our feelings | seek and find that meaning pre-

and and doings:

But it is the doctrine of the tn-|

carnation that gives this season its distinctive character. When the Son of God entered our na-

ture He came to stay. And our’

{pares us for the losses and suc- cesses of the future and imparts a wisdom distinctively its own.

Bring all your experiences of j the past to make this Christmas the best ever.

NOTES ON FUR FARMING

One of the recent issues of “Women’s Wear’ Daily’ has a half-page ad headed ‘‘Danish Fur Sales”, starting Tuesday, De- cember 8, fhrough December 12, 1959. It..has’ 65,000 standard ranch mink, 65,000 pastel mink, 25,000 silver blue mink, 10,000 white mink.

The above furs are featured under the designation SAGA, and that term is applied only to what they consider their first quality skins. reason why we bring this to the attention of our read- ers is to show the tremendous de-

velopment that has taken place) | very large producer of mink, yet |they also have to import to keep

in Denmark, one of the smallest free countries in the world.

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plies of fish available, which keeps down feeding cost to a low level, and labor is cheaper than in Canadian or American. ranch- es.

Advertisers have to watch their step, as the Federal Trade Commission is out to clean up re- advertising in the United States. As a matter of fact, the first step in this direction was taken more than a year ago, and as a result, merehants in the U. S. believe that the fur business, in general, has been improved

by the cleanup. ’ While the United States, is a

In the late 1920's, a Dane came} up the demand. During the month

over to this province and spent ajof September, 1958, according to year learning about fox farming, |figurés from the Department of and when he went back, taking|Commerce, 18,000 mink pelts with him a oumber: of foxes, it|.were imported through New York was the start of fut fa\ming in| City channels. In 1959, a total of

_ +. that country. They still continue to | 45,000 came through New York |

raise foxes, but most of their ac-| during September.

tivity is devoted. to mink, and it| The increase-was attributed to|

is interesting to see that they| shipments from Denmark and have developed so many types. | Sweden, which more than doub-

account of Canada Mink Breed- ers, and it includes mutations such as: autumn haze, diadem, tourmaline, jasmine, lutetia, cer- ulean and argenta.

Winnipeg is the chief distribu- |

ting point for the West, and the Soudack auction has become one of the tops in Canada The Dominion Fur Auction Sales, Ltd. also has its headquart- ers in Winnipeg, and they are of- fering¢on December 9, for the Manitoba Fur Breeders Associa- tion, some 100,000 mink—mostly the EMBA brand. There are 35,000 autumn haze, 35,000 ceruleah, 10,000 jarmine, 4,000 Canada majestic darks, 3,- 000 desert gold, and 13,000 other mutations. These two sales pur- posely follow each other, the idea being that because of the quan- tities and variety of mutations | which they feature, they will draw buyers from Montreal to Vancouver, in Canada; and from the many parts of the United States.

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"Rain, Foods Dam Burst On Riviera Brought Death, Hardship To Many

By DAVID ROWNTREE Canadian Press Staff Writer Quick look at the week: Hun-

dreds died when a river dam burst on the French Riviera. President Eisenhower began an li-nation tour. Canada's Gen- eral Burns was appointed gov- ernment adviser on disarma- ment, .

AFTER THE STORM

The rain poured down on the Cote d'Azur for five days. The combination of. weather and high seas left the Riviera bat- tered and bedraggled. +

By Wednesday, the storms had ended. The sun shone briefly and in the town of Fre- jus many of the 13,500 people went to bed congratulating themselvés that the worst was over. fe z

Then a dam holding back the watets of the Reyran river, swollen by the rains, broke.

“It sounded as if several trains were rushing at us,”’ one terrified survivor said.

Homes collapsed like houses of cards. Cars and trucks were swept along by the flood and buried in a river of red mud that follawed: Two coaches of a railway train dropped into the

} water when a bridge crumpled.

It {s not certain how many perished. Two hundred bodies had been recovered 36 hours after the catastrophe. Nearly as Many persons were missing.

NEW JOB FOR BURNS

Having spent four years su- pervising the uneasy truce be tween Israel and her Arab neighbors, Lt.-Gen. E. L. M. Burns of Canada now has a chance to play a peace-making role on a larger scale.

Prime Minister D'efenbaker announced Friday that Burns has been appointed the govern- ment’s adviser on disarma- ment, The general has resigned | as commander of the United Nations Emergency Force in the Middle East.

JOURNEY FOR PEACE

It has often been said that before he retires from office, President Eisenhower hopes to make some lasting contribution to world peace.

In search of that objectve, the president left -Washington

to three coniinents on a ‘*‘mis- sion of peace and goodwill.”

He spent the weekend in Rome.

SEAWAY CLOSED The first St. Lawrence Sea- way season ended at dusk Thursday. In all, 13 vessels completed the 112-mile seaway trip on the last day of the sea- son. Two deep-sea ships will have to winter at inland ports. One sprung a leak, the othet ran aground. MANITOBA’S SCHOOL REVIE A Manitoba royal comms- sion on education \advocated more emphasis on academic subjects. in the province’s schools, and a rigid restriction of ‘‘frill’’ courses.

The commission also recom- mended public aid for church | and private schools, improved religious training in the public schools and better facilities for gifted and retarded pupils.

THE OLD MAN SPEAKS

For the first time since he resigned as prime minister in April, 1955, Sir Winston Church- ill broke his self-imposed si- lence in the House of Commons | Monday.

Hugh Gaitskell,

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Labor Oppo- sition leader, and R. A. Butler,

Teader of the House, extended

greetings to Churchill on his | 85th birthday and gave him the

parliamentarians’ good wishes. |

‘‘May I say that I most grate- fully and eagerly accept both | forms of compliments,” Old Man said.

REPORT ON PRICES

Sales promotion schemes that | Ke

take the place of price cuts

“are detrimental to the con- sumer,”’ the royal commssion |

on price spreads reported in | Ottawa Monday. The commission suggested |

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STAND FAST IN HUNGARY . There were rumors when Premier Khrushchev set out for Budapest and the first meeting of the Hungat’an Commuzis: party since the unsuccessful revolt of 1956 that the Russian troops who put down the upris- ing might bé withdrawn. . Janos Kadar, the party chief, showed that these were. idle hopes. The Soviet soldiers— “the mightiest force for human progress and world ‘peace’— are still needed, he said Mon- day.

BIRTH CONTROL DEBATE Dr. Brock Chisholm of Sooke. }B-C.~> the former director-gen- eral of the World Wealth Or- ganzation with a liking for con; troversial debate, was in con- “flict with Roman Catholic au- thorities this week. .

He said in an interview that unless birth control is accepted as one means of limitng popu- lation growth, future genera. tions In needy countries may become so powerful in numbers that they won't sit idle fighting the pangs of hunger while more privileged nations discard sur- plus food.

The issue has become a po- litical one in the United States. President Esenhower said Wednesday that the govern ment won't send birth contro} information to other countries while he’s in office.

ATOMIC, DEPTH CHARGES

Canadian navy and air force units whose job is to provide a defence against submarines will be suppled with U.S. atomic depth charges, Defence Minister Pearkes said Thurs- day.

WEEK’S ATLANTIC NEWS: Coal mining, a way of life at Springhill, N.S., will return to ‘the disaster-torn community. The Nova Scotia government Thursday approved a proposal

open a new mine in-Springhill. The town has been without a legal mine since Dominion Steel and Coal Corporation shut down its No. 2 colliery follow- ing a 1958 mine disaster that claimed 75 lives. -

The . firm, pring coa Mines Limited, proposes con- struction of a colliery with pro- duction potential of 500 tons daily. :

Meanwhile the provincial gov- ernment also announced that il- legal, or bootleg, mines in the Springhill area will be, closed by force if their owners don’t comply with a mines depart- ment order to shut them down.

An air force pilot -had a narrow brush with death Thurs- day when his F-86 sabre jet crashed about a mile west of the Chatham RCAF base.

FO Robert G. Webber of Tim- mins, Ont., escaped with minor injuries when his plane crashed shortly after takeoff. He man- aged to scramble from _ the wreckage before it burst into flames. F

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By STEWART MacLEOD FREJUS, France (CP) — The aircraft banked slowly this devastated town so that passeng- ew> cevld giimrre the ecene of

France’s worst flood disaster. trom the air, in fortunate, de-

A Nova Scotian gave needed |*#¢hment, you could see

blood this week for an unidenti- ot Serene soe and the fiel United States man suffer- ia meee are ing from internal bleeding in | ¥™! re ae tidy re- Portland, Ore. The bo . the cvaee Savane. Halifax hospital orderly pa’ aa raging was Laurie Hensbee donated a pint en ’ poner. eons

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Crosbys Quit» In Night Club

The metal of automobiles from the water. Overturned houses looked like toys in the mire. With field glasses you would see wooden beds and cribs — out to sea.

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MONTREAL (CP)—The three

youngest Crosby boys left town

Friday, smiling, poised and with

a vow they're still the best of|}seen the scenes on the ground,

friends with brother Gary. they probably wouldn't have liked The ee ae of crooner | it.

Bing Crosby pul out after sud-

denly cancelling a night club en- SCENES SICKENING

gagement and reports of a dress- olan scenes in Frejus were sick-

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eee against Gary, 6 the Only police, rescue workers and

group's leader. reporters were allowed within the Gary left several hours before splattered town, but it was still

the other three—twins Philip and| °Vercrowded. And after the first

Denis, 25, and Lindsay, 21—and| 24 on the outsiders became

was unavailable for comment. |&8 horror-stricken: as the heart- But the younger brothers and broken natives. Every face

the group’ssmanager Pete Petito| Seemed es and numb.

disrfissed the fist-fight reports Men who had lost their families

‘mi in the thunderous wall of water

nothing more than “the wi harmless bantering that goes on|W@ndered through the smashed

among brothers.”

Peter Van De North co-owner lof the plush El Morocco Cafe |where the brothers played three days of a 10-day booking, had a different story. | He told The Canadian Press

But from. the aircraft, none saw a human

or that. And if they could have

like madmen, others laughed themselves into unconsciousness. Some might not be‘restored to sanity. ‘ Husbands and wives could be seen stumbling over their flat-

und. They were too high up|

streets in hysterics. Some raved|'

/some of his employees had heard {Gary sob that the younger broth- ‘ers had ganged up on him in a

tened properties, covered with mud, looking for their children. They cried as they poked sticks

by an independent group to |

through the debris,

Children lay in the mire and bawled when steé!-helmeted sol- diers found the body of a play- mate. They’ couldn't hide the bodies from everyone.

In the older part of town—on

| fracas and he was quitting the act,

He also said Gary appeared to jbe “‘on—the edge of a nerv breakdown.”" :

‘I thought he was cracking up. ..He has been under tremendous

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| Pressure with the act. And it | Showed on stage. Several times jhe made distasteful remarks to | customers when they made noise. jAt one point the boys had to ask} him to tone it down.” 1

| The younger brothers and Pe- |

cellation and Gary’s early depar-| i ‘ture to a throat ailment they said | |the 26-year-old developed.

VOICE FAILS

“His voice just broke down,” | ‘said. Lindsay. \ | ‘He went earlier because we {all felt it would be best if he got |Special medical treatment as fast |

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