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Bureau's Adoption Role Is Outlined By Director

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Miss Elizabeth Torrey, direct- m- Protestant Family Service Bureau. h as revealed that the Charlottetown organ- ization has 20 "adorable" babies who are in need of good homes.

The Family Service Bureau recently placed an ad in this newspaper inviting adoption ap- plications.

“A baby needs a mother and father. Do you need a baby to complete your home?" it read.

in extplaning the bureau's fun- ction as an adoption agency. Miss Torrey said recently that its main task is not to investig- ate the prospective parents. but to prepare them for the adop- ti

on. “Often people don‘t realize what is involved." she said. “In- -tellectually, they want a child, but they have not realty faced uptowhatitis going to mean them to have‘ a child in, the

Fora couple with no children there are two factors involved

adoption.

The first of these is simply having to care for a baby. This may mean major changes. such as giving up a second pay che-

due.

The second factor—and this applies as well to couples have had children of their ow is accepting the adoption itself.

Miss Torrey said that e most important characteristic of an adopting couple is “the ability to love a child that's not their own" to "give it all the love that a child needs."

“There are some people who can't do this." she added.

EXPECTS GOOD HEALTH Preparation for adoption be-

gins with the submission of ap-

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requirement too, for the bure expects good health it adopting parente.

n meetings between th a prospective parents and the bureau staff begin. The bureau doesitsbest to match the -parents with a child and find out ittheyas-eabletotake cars of

‘In the ‘‘investigation'' of the aliaed

parents. “the intangible is more n th. tI‘ngmlC"s

York Pupils Give Concert

The annual Christmas concert of Yorfsdtool was presented to a lane audience of parents and

friends in York Ball on Saturday 9“

dominated one section of the ball

The master-of-ceremonies was Richard Vessey. who at the close of its program extended

congratulation to the pupils '

for what he termed an "out-

standing performsncs." Mr. Ves-

aey singled out line singing in- Mrs

and patience in coaching the pupils to such a bin standard.

Following the close of the 1

stage presentations. Sash Claus ma

In Hg last «I b winter heed cancellation and it was ‘ Iathrday.

_ to many of these children are

re KC Athletics

MIKE AND THlTWO BEAS

nah. 3, during a Christmas vi- sit to the Toronto home of his son-in-law and daughter. Dr. and Mrs. Walter J. Hannah.

couples do not realize the cost

of supporting a child.

there's not enough money to care for it," she said. ‘DEPENDS ON PARENTS

The length of time the adop- tion proceedings take a large extent on the parents,

We must be practical. We‘ _ . can't put a child in a family if seeing a child going into a home

depends to ll’

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Western And Central Districts

The Guardian, Charlottetown, Thurs. Dec. 26. 1963. 3

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The Pearsons were to return to Ottawa at noon today. (CP Wirephoto)

lexperience, according to the di- l rector. “There is real satisfaction in

where he's treated as one of the family and feels he belongs," she said.

‘‘And.'‘ she added. “I certain- think the greater number '

adoptions do turn out happily."

Miss Torrey said

When they get to be about a year old “they have a strong re- dationship with the mother-pen son and it is damaging for them to change." she said. .

The babies are seldom adopt- ed when younger than t h r e e months. This is because th e bureau needs to find out what type of children they are. Then.

illegitimate. and the bureau feels the mother should be given suf- ficient time to decide whether to mace the baby up for adop- tion. The couple rarely know: much about the child's background. “Most parents merely want to ow the characteristics a child

Of Vicki's

“Christmas Is Program

ALBERTON -- Charles Dick- ens‘ “Christmas Carol" was featured in a Christmas program presented in Alberton recently under sponsorship of e Re- tarded Children’s association.

The play was under direction of John H. Barrett.

The cast was as follows: Ede- nezer Scrooge, Ronald McKin- non; Bob Cratchit, Gary Black; Fred, Leberte Pridham: Mar- ley. John 0’Malley; The Ghosts. Irving Broderick; Scrooge as a boy, Bobby Barrett; Scrooge as a young man, Keith Campbell; Scrooge's fiance. Alice Faye Barrett; Robinson Crusoe. Mil- ton Barrett; Ali Baba, Robert Broderick; e Boy, arles McKinnon; Tiny Tim, Keith Mc-

Carol" Feature

chit‘: children. Patsy McKin- non. Debbie Ramsay. and Garth McKinnon.

Other selections on the pro- gram were vocal solos by Mrs. Ruth Sommers. Miss S a n d r a Brennan, Miss Alice Faye Bar- rett, Miss Linda Barbour and Garth McKinnon.

A piano solo by Miss Barbara Matthews; vocal duets by Miss Marion McEwen and Beck Jor- dan. Miss Patsy McKinnon and Owen Oliver. ‘

A group of songs by the school choristers were rendered under direction of Mrs. Sommers.

Accompanist for the evening was Mrs. E.E. Larter. During

was heard in several violin se-

Kinnon; Mrs. Cratchit, Mrs. Ronald McKinnon; Bob

Child Cancer Victim

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BOWLING G R E E N. S.C. (AP)—Little Vicki Wray has lost one eye because of cancer and may lose the other, but her mother says “there are more unfortunate c h i 1 d r e n in the

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The two-year-old child had piles of new toys this Christmas from people across the country. Her favorite gift is a live Dal- mation puppy named "spot."

Mrs. Doris Wray arranged on Christmas Eve for the Salvation Army to receive many of the toys not needed by Vicki and her four brothers and four sis-

so 0

rs. Dolls. coloring books. stuffed animals. toy trucks, toy cars,

games, a hobby horse and an- ll

other live puppy were among gifts found almost every corner of the Robert Wray home. The family of 11

ice for the first game of the season in C'Le-ary and al

game an exhibition en-counter. play was fast and rougih.

George Bernard led me Maroons with a hat thick wlhnlle Pete Green. Louis Gorriii and Don Ellis sinlglettons for the wcinmetrs. ‘Coke’ Grady was the big man for Summetrsi e with four d

e combined teams six coun- tors. The Surrnnnersildle blne and the Summerside Jun.- ior Lelgionalires supplied the players for the match

Lenoy Glow and Dave Mar- tin were the other Summersi

is likely to have. and it th ey have a heal y child." Mil I Torrey said.

RESPONSIBLE T0 BUREAU After the bureau finds that the

there is a six month waiting per- od. while the bureau "helps the baby grow into the home:'. and the parents are responsible to the bureau for the child's wei- fare

When the waiting period is over. the bure an gives its consent and the adoption is leg- in the courts.

Successful p l a c e ment of a baby in a home is a gratifying

and ptaces the baby in the home. .

Looking For New Pasture

KANSAS CITY (AP) — The of Kansas

snipers.

Three penalties were called by recfere Raynalll lVlla'cNelill and Allison Silllikecr in the first pelniaod and two in second.

LEAVE CANADA

The last British troops gar- ln Canada leit the

on imperial nalval bases at Halifax and Esquimalt. B.C.. in 1906 1.‘ W

rt’--~—-: §—f

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League baseball team.

F embroiled in a squabble with the city over renewal of the Athletics con- tract for Municipal Stadium.

Talks broke of! Tuesday and

move out of their offices in the stadium today to make their home in bank premises loaned to them. Finley said: "I have been advised that if we are in the stadium cm Jan

ourselves to maybe an-

mitted

other four-year lease or at least . That’: the

a one- we are getting out.

"My ge al manager. ‘Pat

Friday. will be surveying the

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lections and there was a sale of ge.

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“It just doesn't seem to be true." the little girl's 39-year- old father said as he shook his head and stared at the piles of toys. The $50-a-week textile worker will be unemployed for at least two weeks because the mill has closed down for the Christmas holidays.

In the Wrays’ kitchen. canned goods and fresh fruit were in abundance.

Christmas turkey dinner with all the trimmings was sent by an unidentiﬁed woman in Charlotte. N.C.

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Shingles In Big Blow

GEORGETOWN — No great amount of damage was report- ed as the result of last week's storm which hit Georgetown with a fury not experienced for many years.

A large section of the west side of the roof of St. David's United Church had the asphalt shingles blown off. The large glass sign at Irving Service Sta-

tion on the corner of Water and t

Kent streets was blown down and smashed. Tree branches littered the streets in many areas of the Town.

A number of residents report- ed water pipes and hot water heating systems as freezing and bursting due to absence of elec- tric power from Thursday even- ing to Friday afternoon.

No fires were reported and luckily no persons were taken seriously ill. as road transpor- tation was cut off and removal to hospital would have been im- possible except by helicopter.

It was 10 days ago that Vicki's tory of a probable dark Christ- mas received nation-wide atten-

on. The little girl was scheduled to have her left eye removed because of the cancer. Her right eye was removed last

DISCOVER SITES - NORTHAMPTON. Engla n (CP)—More than 100 Romano- British. iron age and bronze age sites have been discovered by amateur archeologists who‘ formed the Upper Nene Arche- ologisi Society in 1962. They

ERLIN man army. renter, aids an ag-

ed West Berlin woman. (AP Wirephoto

CHRISTMAS DAY MARCH ON EAST B West Berliners, young and trol point for a Christmas Day

old, stream into East Berlin visit with relatives. A uniform- at e Invalidenstrasse con- ed member of the East Ger-

Uneasy Lull In Hot Spots As Christmas Celebrated

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. More than 65,000 West Berlin- cltadels of atheistlc commu. A Christmas tree gleamed on ers with Communist permission j nism, Moscow and Peking. im- the frozen Korean front and poured through the Red wall for provised services as Christmas U soldiers standing guard Christmas reunions with rela-;went by almost u nnoti ce d ed an electric sign pointed tives isolated for 3 months 6 Communist north since the wall went up. saying “Merry Christmas." Thousands of other pilgrims Back came Christmas music crossed the fortified Israel-Jor-| from Red loudspeakers. dan frontier to kneel at the But, At the grim Red wall dividing Bethlehem shrine where Christ ' inter - church relations, Berlin tra gedy marred the was born l-politan Nikodim oi the Orthodox Christmas passes given West Queen

;around them.

The Russian Orthodox Church celebrates Christmas Jan. 7, ac- cording to the Julian calendar. in a rare sign of

hoist OW

Elizabeth noted a lull_Church attended midnight mass Berliners to visit relatives in in the cold war in hergannuai with Russian Roman Catholics the Eastern sector of the city. Christmas message to the Brit- in Moscow. Two young East Berliners ish Commonwealth and added: The relatively few practising Vaulted the W811 to escape to “Let remember the many Russian Catholics, mostly older -the West One made it. the undernourished people, young persons. attended services at other was shot—managing to and old. scattered throughout the Church of St. Louis of the get over the wall only to dieithe world.t l ch. the only Roman Calh- h°l”'5 lalel'~ l Dr. Arthur Michael Rams.e_v.l°ll(' Cllllrcll ll‘ llle S“"l9l °3P' l.‘C°“3"“°“3l3'v Com‘ the Archbishop of Canterbury “al- m.“m5t' l°“d5l’°ake" blared and Britain‘s ranking Angiica-nl Bl"? C’°5b_y'5 '9 C ° rd ll‘ 3 °f.prelate, injected the hope that Wlllle Chrlslml“ '0 wesl B_<‘-1"lPope Pant‘: pilgrimage to the, lme,r5 95 they °F°55ed at fl” Holy Land will stimulate Chris- asslgned “"311 l’_""ll"~ _ tian unity and discussion of. 111 _l-l1€ l>l00dyJllI1_El€l End “C9 “those matters concerning bap-l Paddles °f Solllll Vlel Nam» the tism and mixed in a rri a go I‘ . . . Communist guerrilias called awhere the.-91, injury and mm. ‘her? ill lllPlT family Premier Christmas Day cease- fire in , Walter R. Shaw and Mrs. Shaw their fight against the \Getnan(1i- POPE DISTRIBUTES TOYS spout Christmas in the suite at. B _

Premier's Family Gather At Hotel

were discovered on both sides of the Nene Valley from North- ampton to Thrapston.

major accident I: the Eastern Prince County area during the Christmas holiday was invest- igated by the Borden detachment of the RCMP. ‘

At approximately midnight Christmas Eve a late model car driven by Thane Bell of Borden and a tractor operated by Geor- ge Curtis of Mt. Tryon were in collision at Albany.

The vehicles. travelling in op- posite di-rectians, were extensio- ely damaged. No injuries were sustained by the occupants.

The Summerside RCIVIP de- tachment and town police in- vestigatod a number of minor

dents

The town fire Department re- sponded to two fire calls.

At approximately 9.30 Tuesday night a truck rushed out to 131 Summer street where a fire in a small shack was extinguished. Christmas afternoon ﬁremen responded in a call from Oliver's Service Station. Water Street East. when an oil burner flooded

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But ii the parents want a spe-l Y P day next door to their former "I didn't want the operation cifjc type of baby it may bet I e four-room house, with only two on her left eye done ‘ucfuu: several years before one comesls e beds. . Christmas." Ml'8- Wray Sal along who mg ' ' . A Vicki Wray fund had grown She addet: that doctors decided

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FINISHES MODEL BOSTON, England (CP) —

Johnnie Johnson recently fin- PRAYERS FOR PEACE

ished a three-foot matchstick model of the parish church in’ this Lincoinshire town. The job. took

seven months and he used I

37,000 matchsticks and 48 tubes of glue.

/l fter- Christmas

CLEARANCES

FRIDAY. SATURDAY, MONDAY, TUESDAY MANY. MANY ITEMS REDUCED TO CLEAR!

WATCH FOR AF|".ER CHRISTMAS CLEARANCE TICKETS THROUGHT THE

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‘Prince of Peace came to a (1195 to uh

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And 3° the day ll°ll°l'l“5 the Rome, distributed toys and can- th"l‘l' daugllten N‘"‘‘''-‘’- 3“‘l “"“‘ e u ortunam and re, in-law, Hugh Simpson. and world that has found little peace minded Roman catholic 0,-_ their six children, as well as the since the dawn of history. -«om-istmas 1.. th, premier's sister, Mrs. J ea in needy and the Horton, and Mr. Simpson‘s mother, Mrs. Fern Simpson.

Premier Shaw was about town yesterday, first since re- covering from a motor vehicle accident that occurred several weeks ago.

Barriers dividing mankind. poor." from the Berlin wall to the 1105- Like most Americans, Presi- tiie frontiers of the Holy Land. dent Johnson spent Christmas opened for Christmas uniting in with his famiiy, at their ranch Yuletide joy and prayers for ‘outside Johnson City, Tex. peace. l Western Christians in the two

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