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- PAGE 4 SATURDAY, AUGUST 6, 1966.

Cautious Approach \ There can be little doubt of ‘the

‘advantage to be gained from amal- - gamation of the two large hospitals in

this city, but hospital authorities are approaching such a:union with much

’ of the same caution shown by Prince Edward Island in considering Confed-~ |

Editor:

Aang are Thet-means tt + taken him nearly halt

a year. to get back to the break-even . int. It is that. period of time when

“ethere is Wo money coming:in which

/ sets people back. If the ‘worker: has a. food backlog of* savings or. if his union has a large strike fund so-the strikers can still ‘receive enough to live on, then the workers can go

‘after the things to which they be- .

lieve themselves entitled.

Gunners Roll Again

Announcement of the planned re- union of artillerymen.- of two, world

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wars will start a’ wave of memories,

among all old’ sland’ soldiers and ‘when they meet /here next Saturday there will be much to discuss, ruch,

| to recall.; so a treastired -memory | may be shared with someone. | Before the days of mechaniza-

tion there was a great thrill to watch —

thé ‘big’ guns; to see them rushing into. action as teams of strong horses galloped ahead to haul them. Then | came the thunderour roar as they } |

opened -fire. Perhaps a lot of—the -'.

glamor slipped when word came seep- ing back to Canada of a terrible gun known as ‘Big Bertha’. It was~said “this fantastic weapon ‘could throw a shell and bombard Paris from 75

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eration in the last century. Perhaps thé-main reason for such careful cohsideration is contained in

the news report. of the plan-wherein—- “it was_stated_eyentual-establishment

of all facilities on one site would in- “vOlve overcoming old religious’ pre- judices. That is too.true and illus- trates, to our cost, how prejudicial. to our best interests such ancient pre~

>judices_can be. And yet in wartime |

the soldier. badly wounded in battle.

es_not ask-if-the healing-hand-be-. Tong to a Catholic: or Protestant doctor; his ned for help transcends - religious beliefs.

However, it’ would appear that for the present the plan would call -far-a-simple unification of services to gid costly. duplication of space and-

ipment; integration of the forces

, healing ean come later. However, we wonder¢ becatise we do not know,

~ haw ‘the proposal would fit into the

“present P.E.I. Hospital Commission - sétup cr the possible future Medicare program ‘of. Canada. A-clarification--}- ~of this aspect might aid the public in coming - to_personal-decisions-as—t— the advisability of the scheme. _ coming to personal decisions-as to : Therecan-be-no question: in-any- ome’s mind regarding the absurdity. of our economy in a small eity trying to support the great expense of bring-. “ing the most modern hospital equip- ‘ment to two establishments. That is a# financial drain which has undoubt-

~ edly provided the spark needed to

_ Start-study of an amalgamation-pro-

gram. The great array of equipment demanded by today’s medical stand- ards can best be supplied in one unit to one site. And by doing this we could possibly have'such things twice

_ aB good at about three- quarters the

tost. We do not know the reaction of doctors to the plan, but it is reason-

~ able to anticipate opposition from’

some q'tarters just as there will be some from the public. Some of it from. both will be based on honest. belief in the plan’s failure, some of if on nothing more than opposition to change itseif. But even so,’ differing

- Viewpoints will help oficials. reach a

decision because they will undoubted- ly point the way to areas where there might be future clashes of opinion: Expected obstacles’can be planned ‘for in advance, and opposition has a habit of revealing such possibilities. It is impossible at-this early an- nouncement stage to’say with cer- tainty what the public reaction to‘the. Alan will be; but it.,is reasonably safe to assume it. will be neither unanimous nor one-sided. ;

Strike Arithmetie=—

Quebec’s non-medical ‘hospital workers have’ voted “overwhelming- Wy to return to work. They have Been on strike since the middle of ‘last month and: undoubtedly many of them with families were Poo wnine to feel.the financial pinch. : The terms of -the forced -settle- ment-are not detailed, ‘but though the strikers had most of their de- hands met it is likely it will bé™a Ipng time before they catch up_with, e loss of pay for. three weeks. In - e end, or-rather in the long run, a striker | who wins his point-€omes out head: hut hefween’ the time the: Strike startS and the time when his° ‘

Pease is deere

Gitimate benefits, catch up with, his _fnmediate losses. the going cathe she: very rough:

i The econoniic s of it are relatively

fimple. if a man earning $60 a week

strikes for a %10-raise.and the strike

lasts a et he has been out of

Work to the extent of a $240 loss. ” i ‘

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| miles away. | thought—much more so than today’s

realization a guided missile could. come--here--from thousands- of -miles~-|

away. We shrug our “shoulders. at that thought; we were frightened by the -old one. ; : And so the artillerymen, who also knew what it was to be a footslogger . _in Flanders mud, can sit down to- gether now and let their memories wander in the corridors. of time created for those years when sav‘. _ agery. was loosed on: Europe and the bravely went over to end it.

Grin And Bear It

British_; ple\.may neither’ like - ~'nor- want the:-government’s price- ‘wage freeze policy, but all indications are that’they will have to accept it regardless of their personal cpinions. Oppisition_to i it. has come from both labor and | management and even some members of Mr. Wilson’s . parliamentary_ party showed an un-: ~usual degree-of-opposition- by-abstain:~ ‘ing from voting on an amendment which= was really a-want of confi- dence motion. *

But the.plan wile f put into oper- - ation, not. with the fantastic powers just granted the government, but on a voluntary basis. This far manage- ment and the unions are willing to -go along—but management says if in _Spite of the freeze wages: continue to rise while prices stand still they will. lower the boom.

It would’ sem to us at this dis- tance that Mr. Wilsen, in terms his English confreres can understand, is on a rather sticky wicket.

Head For Altar

. It is only reasonable to assume the tharriage rate in the United States will take another sudden jump in the near future. Like other sim- ilar rises in the recent past, it will be . the result of the defence department boosting its draft calls for September and October. er The situation in Viet Nam has ‘forced the cov atry to revise upward its estimates of manpower needs. An

answer, especially when the need arises at a time when there is a noticeable :drop in voluntary enlist- ments. Apparentl;,.even though ser- vice life undeniably has a peculiar | fascination’ for many youths, large | numbers of young men. find little | that is enticing in the rice fields of -the far eastern battleground. The | girls of Viet Nam must be a far cry from , Mademoiselle from Armen:

tieres: _ EDITORIAL: NOTES»

A guitar. being’ strummed by a ‘person who knows only three cords ‘ sounds ,better than a-dishpan being” | beaten witha epoonn but not much | better. *

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As Bernard Hollowood in.Punch | pays: “The old colonial powers now _ understand from bitter experience that Western-style democracy cannot | be.imposed in new countries. Emerg- | ing nations can aford neither political

~ ; CTV-CRC- dlemocracy. with its tender POR DECK 21 aise cieapessoinuncenmnaieilins for minorities, nor economie democ- — prominent advertisement ~ “in | racy. But. many Americans seem un- *| ara paper wee Support

7a | for an alternate service aware of this basic fact, and are in- | prompted ° the following : reply . clined to ‘condenin any system that. |: which I believe will be of general

fails to follow the example. set. by interest to, your readprs

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munist’. ‘a ‘practice that. 1s woefully

Misguided. It divides the world erude-.

ly into ‘godies” and ‘baddies’, and it

makes: enemies of many. people who’ | are struggling to-exist independently | of the two great, power blocs”

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WASHINGTON — Wi ith out liberates as much energy as the’ | an occasional hurricane, the 'simultaneous explosion of. per- 7 world's weather’ might be even haps 400 hydrogen bombs. The | worse. storm may develop more energy The Setopaie:t ‘in a minute than- all the electric playa vital part in maintaining power stations in the United | _|-the heat balance ~between the ~States can produce in’a decade. tropics and polar regions, the’ - This great power is created National, Geographic says.” = through evaporation of warm

The tropics and sdbtropics re- water from tropical seas.” The ceive more heat from the sun beat energy is stored as water than they lose by radiation; oth- vapor that forms into a ring of-) er regions lose more heat than . towering, tumultuous cumulon- ‘they receive. Heat must be car- imbus clouds surrounding the

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increase in the draft is -the obvious °

ried poleward_to prevent grad- ual cooling “Of .the poles\ and scorching of the equatoria 4.gions:~Hurrieanes~help- ‘keep-the balance. —

- “If - hurricane control were_ ‘successful end none were allow= ed to go through- their full life cyclé”’ says Gordon E. Dunn; director of the. National Hurri- cane Center at Miami, ‘nature | would ‘undoubtedly find some ‘other. method of ‘maintaining ~ the -heat balance, and’ who. can ‘say that this new method might

than the hurricane?"

At present, man is a long’ way | ’ from. controlling hurricanes. In the 1966 hurricane season, Weather Bureau and the Navy-} again are cooperating in Pro- ject Stormfury, a long-term 1 ef- | fort. Scientists seek more, "know- ledge of hurricanes by ‘experi- mentally upsetting the delicately | | balanced forces that sustain a mature’ storm:

A hurricane is essentially an | enormous heat eagine; that un- | leashes fantastic energy. In one | day, a medium- sized hurricane |

be even more disastrous |

| Saskatchewan’ S Example

the |

new. It consists of seeding clouds |

storm's calm eye. About 90 percent of the heat

“re-~energy is released as the water

vapor condenses into rain. The— _remaining moisture is retained uniess .it. finds _ something to. +which= it can~freeze-—~such~as~ | Silver iodide. . :

| CRYSTALS RESEMBLE ICE

Silver iodide crystals are sim- .

\ilar in. structure “to. ice--erystals. ~Theoretically, _ seeding the” clouds will encourage the water dronicts to freeze and-fall,. one,

expelling a great deal of latent heat energy and upsetting’ the balance of forces in the storm. In .one seeding experiment, clouds around the eye were dis- 'sipated and wind speeds slight- ‘ly reduced. Other ‘tests have been inconclusive, however. ; Meteorologists say the Storm- fury - experiments -may never lead to mitigatior of hurricanes. Their more. practical value is as tests in a full-scale, !abera- tory of weather theories The- _ knowledge gained couid result in- _ improved- weather ‘forecasting.

In another approach to hurri-—

cane control, scientists have pro posed pouring oil on troubled waters. It would retard evapor- ‘ation from “thé séa*s surface, thus— -femoving a storm's vital source of energy.

The problem is to develop. a chemical. film-no: more than:one molecule thick. This film would have to remain intact on_ seas churned: by “hurricane winds.

_ | Lowering. ~ Cholesterol

"Rhodesia corns Girl Left

By HAROLD MORRISON “Canadian Press Staff Writer

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“T have turned extreme Aett |

‘By Dr. Theodore R. Van Deilen | , because. of what I have seen in |

Those who find it difficult to | Rhodesia, a lower their cholesterol Ievel.via one of| a diet or hormones may wish to College \ consider an opération in which Jan Smithe’regime and then the last third of the small intes--; booted . ut, of the country,

tine is deleted from the digestive | tract.

| According to Doctors H enry |Buchwald and Richard L. Varco | ‘of the University of Minnesota, __ the procedure done on 19. volun- “teers was followed by an aver-

of 2S 50

the cholesteral content blood. “ Approximately. * cent now’have levels below:

Oe | |only for “Rhodesia but for the mg., which is well within the | whole world.”” a

«page rediiction-of 40-per—cent—in | teacher” in "an interview:

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says ‘Libby Joyce, ine Rhodesia University lecturers Jailed by the

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“] am not affiliated with any political party and I was not | what you might call very left-; | when I went to Rhodesia to lec- | |ture two years ago;** aid the 24-year-old Scots-born English’

“But all that ‘has changed. I | believe in the extreme left ‘not

| nothing

| gotiated settlement.

-|determined prior to surgery and | §mith gr.ou‘p junlawfully de-

normal limits, | This is an example of how dis- | The operation was done three illusioned intellectuals reatt “months after the volunteers had | when academic freedom. is suf- “‘peen:on a strict low cholesterol, | focated , by .an unyielding re- /low saturated fat. diet. The chol-,; &ime.

lesterol level of the blood was! Nine months “ago

the Tan

jevery._ three months thereafter. | clared Rhodesia’ independent of |All volunteers were -selected be- | British rule, setting off a wave ‘caus of théir high ° cholesterol | of ‘dire predictions that this was reading, evidence of*hardening | the spark that would ignite the lof the arteries, and a family his- ane of African war.

jtory of severe arteriosclerosis. | \None were over 60 years of age. | MADE PREDICTION ©

| .The operation is a logical pro- | There were other: predictions, | icedure. The small intestine re- | including one. by Prime Minis- absorbs the cholesterol that is | ter Wilson, that the mounting of imanufacturd “by the liver. and.|econo.mi-ce- sanctions against: excreted in bile. It also absorbs | | Rhodesia would soon eliminate the supply that comes from the | the Smith group ‘and pave the digesting food. Removing one- way for majority rule under | ithird of the small intestine less- j Britain's guidance.

et ‘ bring an element of” eréeping political recognition.

In the early stages, the Wil. ‘son government --would — have. to do. with, the white rebels. But later Wilson agreed to explore. with them how the two countries could.reach a ne. acceptable to the international community

Wilson.also spoke in the early - stages of action to rid Rhodesia of unlawful rule quickly. Now he speaks of the need of more time—the kind. of, thought le~ may also express at the Com. monwealth prime ministers* conference in September.

SEE DESTRUCTION ~

“There has been much publie commentary. in Britain that. Rhodesia is the poison. that finally will destroy the Com monwealth; that the September meeting may be the last. This appears to be as unlikely asall the previous predictions. ‘

There is no easy solution to Rhodesia* Use of force has al- ready ben réjected by Britain.

Meanwhile, the Smith group - continues to run Rhodesia, even + | to the point of. proscribing. its academic. policy. - Miss Joyce and the other lecturefs, includ: ing Canadian Gerry Caplan, had one point in common. They, said Miss Joyce, held meetings seeking “ways of - preserving the college's independence.

“There: Were not -only ing -nine -

“=~ dens—the-space- -for-absorption-and-+

jsome of the cholesterol. passes |

_ tine

through the intestine and is el-

oy iminated in the stool. There is no foods,

“Sieetain of ¢ of _basi¢ minerals, of vitamins except vit- | ‘amin B-12.

Time has brought daniage to |of us .at the meetings. There: | the Rhodesian economy and to} were many more — perhaps (the image of: the Salisbury rul- | about 30."

Following surgery, |

ithe ‘individual receives an injec- |

ition of this substance every oth- | er month J, The idea for the « Stemmed from the observation

that the cholesterol level fell lafter_a_part-of-the small intes- was _removed because of jeancer. The surgeon measures the entire simall intestine and it is cut-at the two-thirds point: | Thegtop ‘part is inserted into the large intestine and the other ead -is closed with sutures

GOOSE FLESH

R. W. writes: What causes so- called goose pimples, and is it unusual for just-one part of the body to be affected? ee

++ REPLY.

"These are caused by a sud- den contraction of minute mus- cles in ge skin leading to a puckering of the hair . follicles. The bumps (cutis anserina) de- velop on exposure to cold, strok- _ing the skin, or during emotion- al upsets. Séme areas are more ‘Sensitive than’ others.

: _TONSILS: IN ADULTS

J. Z. writes: I know that ton- -

sil. and adenoid-removat-is-a-re-—- How-.

‘latively _safe__procedure-.

surgery|

ever, when adults have ‘this op-_ -

Ei Vancouver Sun.

i be. Savkatchewan “Govern- | ‘pent has- gone a considerable | \way— a Jittle to its own aston- | +jshment perhaps— toward prov- |

~ other communities. Despite op-

| Position accusations of callous-::

| Néss in the speed and manner of the transfers and criticism from

| ing the compatibility of effective local authorities. about the stan-

health care and economy as ap- | plied <in the mental health ‘divi- sion of its Provincial | medicare pla. to Under a program innitiated by the’ former Co-operative . Com- | monwealth Federation Govern- ‘ment and accelerated by its Lib- eral successors, the number of patients in the custodial institu- |tion at Weyburn has been re-~ duced from 1,500 to 500: ~ | This was done by transfering | patients from the institution to foster homes. in Weyburn ahd

“PUBLIC

FORUM

FOURTH READER Sir.=SoméwWhere on the Island there must be a family with aneeidce surth Book Reader "bout 1916. Authorized in schools in Orvario and P.E.I.

I was born in Greenwich, up on the north shore of St. Peters ; Bay. I also wefit to. school in | Brudenell over near * Montague. | That is where: the present Min-

ister. of. Education, Hon. Dr.

Dewar taught later on. .

If you would please run. a. lit-

tle note in your papér describ- | ing the ‘reader. I have mention- | ' ed. It had prose and poetry, Bri- | tain Myriads, A Deathless Hush |

While approval of © alternate

tained from the yiewing public there appears to be concern

among those who are knowledge |

| able of the TV facilities |ing Prince Edward Is the advent of stepping up the power output of €hannel 8 : ; Amherst by CJCH and -CTV | cover P.E.I. will reduce the re- venue potential of the present TV station to the point that the service will be discontinued and the people of P.E.1. will be stuck | with the new CTV. network. with- | out the alternate CBC network— in other. words, we-will not have

iw serv- nd, that

| dards in the foster homes, the plan has won the approval of a committee set up to study its

aot ‘operation.

The decline in the number in-patients, said by the commit- tee to be sharper than that ach- jeved by any other mental hos- pital in North America or the United Kingdom, have been ach- ieved ‘‘as a result of.a vigorous rehabilitation and boarding oul program, and an attempt to de-

velop sound policies of after-care |

on a scale not previously attain. |

edt

The committee sages ated

| many of the difficulties of the

Weyburn program could have been avoided if an attempt has

| been made first +to win public

acceptance. It also urged the

TV service may be readily _ob- /Government to give enthusiast- ‘ie endorsement to its -own pro-

| gram.

There are lessons -to~be learn- ed here that .reach far beyond Saskatchewan's admirable ex- periment, and would appear to have a vital application to the

o whole field of. medicare.

Keeping people out of hospital by the provision of well-organiz- | ed and efficient out- patient fa- cilities is probably’ the last great

untapped resource upon which | we can call to beat back the

strangling costs of medicare and | its formidable hog heer op hospi- |

| in the Close Tonight, The Fight- received alternate service but pal beds.

| ing ‘'Temoraire’’, selections from { Dickens, Swift,ete. Iam. sure someone will recognize the Reader, ete: Bey +—To>the~first~famity who sends | me a copy (only one) .they could send it. throdigh, your office if you would be so kind; <I will donate $5.00. I am Sir, etc., . | Kennetth A- Battersby, Ph.D., 1911 Virgina Ave., . | McLean, Va., 22101, U.S.A, |. #P.S..1 am a cousin -of the | Bevin Brothers who have a iin |

bing’ and heating establishment |

in town av Charlottetown.

ment on CACH Acquiring the’ TV

rights over Channel 8 to provide |

ap alternate TV network program | to residents of Prince Edward ; Ysland has attracted. consider | ablé interést and undoubtedly | you will recéive many favorabie | 3 replies. .

{ art

e“nesday;as well’

merely changed from one net- | | work to a different network. »,While CTV does provide excel-

* Jo ent p! ograms there are many CBO ‘programs that are equally as good and many of national in- terest are only available on the | CBC netwsl

| Tam certain that many o1 your | respondents would not be so fa- vorable t6 your Channel & net- work if they felt that night in Canada’”’ from CBC’s Saturday. presenta- tion to CTV's Wednesday night | schedule. ; | Another. disturbing-feature—o | your proposal is that PET will he served ‘by remote ‘control

from:Halifax with no facilities |

available for local programs — a vital service now being Pte: vided by CFCY.

Mo change Huckey “Night in | Canada from: Saturday tu Wed ‘as the loss: of | many popular CBC network pro- grams and the discontinuance ‘of our local facilities ts wa Teal possibility, that Islanders’ will deeply regret and a real fact

that they should ponder wef! he-

fore jumping to support wo al- ternate servire, Yours sincerely, \ C.W. MOFFATT | Chatlottetowa .

“hockey: | would change |

DIES AGED 73 ORLANDO, Fla. (AP)—Enola |

Gay Tibbets, 73, for whom the |

B-29 bomber that dropped the first atom bomb on. Hiroshima was named, died July 23, ‘it was learned Thursday. Her son, Brig.-Gen. Paul W. Tibbets _Jr., flew the mission over iro- shima as pilot of ola

'Gay,”’ Aug. 6, 1945.

fore I eat. REPLY _

Decrease in the sugar content of th@blood’ will do this. These bouts can be pvercome by eat- ing more proteins and fats, which have greater staying powers. than sugars.

SMOKER’S PATCH

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{were shortsighted

L s— Rhodesian—security—a-g-ents prospect that the passage of |failed. the intellectuals and

time may befog” the past and | stripped the =SONGER: of power, Parliamentary Junket Toranto aye =

_ Some Canadians: just refuse Not-at all They were serving to appreciate the sacrificed ‘the interests of the public, even made by their elected members; though Veterans .Affairs Minis- in the course of public service. ter Roger Teillot could just es Only a few weeks ago ‘when well have done by: himself. what 23° MPs. some accompanied by ‘jit took 23 MPs-— including their wives, flew to Western- wives — todo Europe to view the graves of - another junket has now been Canadian servicemen, the JUD jined up for 25 MPs. They will ket “was criticized as unneces- leave Ottawa on July 28 for a sary. It was suggested that the ty, week visit to the Northwest |$50,000 the trip cost the taxpdy- woppitories and the Yifkon. The ers could have been put to, bet purpose of the trip jsuJo enable them to have a fife, hand ‘look - at the Canadian. north .

‘The MPs found the raves At least this. junket makes and cemeteries in excellent cor- sense. In view. of ,the sweltering dition. The fact that they flew to _heat of the last-few weeks. what - Europe at the height of.ihe tra-~ better piace for MP¥ to spend

Vv on wasn’t to be taken-to c ‘a a insisted that they their time than-in the: cool ‘of. the :

-were on a holiday “outing.” = __= forth.

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‘HE appears now that the crities

‘eration it- is much harder - The ‘Gaui oes new. to ~~ them than on children. Why: 5 | prtain® fingers t sa enon: this? Y ey. and struggles. to remember REPL! ~~... that 12 pennies equal a shilling, Because ‘ local ee ‘8 ‘a half-crown is two shillin’s and - used for _aults and oa - sixpence, and that there are 20 eee baie sibpic MOFr- - shillings in a pound Yet the same_Canadian seiriss B HUNGER “PANGS ob “puts up with an-even more awk- tacks of hunger between meals? ward system _~ of weights and ld sometimes: get such funny measures:- 12. inches, ane foot, : f T thi k= "Nl eollapse be- three feet, one yard;: 5! Vards, eelings ink 7 pollap one rod... If-ounces to the pound

and four quarts to the gallon

As long ago as 1853 the ‘British provinces of Canada adopted decimal currency... The time is overdue to study conversion’ of our weights and measures to the ‘metric system

International business and in- dustry. make it advisable; ~chem-

H. Y.. writes: Is a smoker’s ; ; patch on the inner cheek. cur- istry and electronics, defence able? ? and space .engineering, have

= REPLY Yes: i The . sfhaller the patch, the easier it is to cure TODAY’S HBALTH HINT— Forgetfulness can be a chal- lenge to pay more attention to reality.

Our Yesterdays ~

(From The Guardian Files)

; (August 6, 1941)

Britain has formally warned’ Japan that intervention in’ Thai- | land would raise “the most ser- ious situation’’. in British Japan- ese relations, Foreign Secretary | Anthony Eden told the House of

| Commons:

In a series of announcements | introduced with trumpet fanfare, the -German high command |claimed gigantic victories over the Russians on each of the | three main sectors, of the east- ern- front. TEN«YEARS AGO (August 6, 1956) Prince Edward Island this year has harvested the largest | crop of strawberries in its his- | tory according to figures compil- ‘led by the Fruit and Vegetable Branch of the Federal Depart- ment of Agriculture.

°

Secretary- General Dag Ham- marskjold reported to the. UN Security Council theres’ have been 419 complaihts of truce vio- dation by Israel and Jordan |Since they gave his renewed | ceasefire assurances in April.

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TWENTY - FIVE YEARS AGO {convert to the metric

Since 90 per cent of the world’s population and 76° per cent of the gross world produc- tion is in countries using the metric system, a trading nation ‘such: as- Canada “would “he~~* \from the switch. :

Britain decided last ‘year 0 ystem over a 10-year period and_by- 1975 inches, ounces and gallons | ‘will have disappeared from the lofficial British vocabulary. ‘So, |likely, will pounds and pence, as | ‘they have this year in Aus- 'tralia.) The Computer Society of Canada has asked. Ottawa to set

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