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YOUNGEST CHANNEL 5 Seventeén - year-old Marilyn Bell crawls ashore near Dover, England, after she became the | youngest to swim the English channel. At right, visible only + dh -» from the shoulders down, is her coach, Gus Ryder. The Toronto school girl, who conquered Lake Ontario in September, 1954, swam the 21 miles between Cap- Griz Nez, France, and Dover in WIMMER 14 hours and 36 minutes on July 31. When Miss Bell returned to Toronto she received one of the biggest welcomes in the city's history. (CP from AP) : ister Pearson stands before the microphones on his arrival at Moscow airport to begin a four of the Soviet Union and the Far East in October. Listening at left is Soviet Foreign Minister | Canada's External Affairs Min- PEARSON IN MOSCO Molotov. Mr. Pearson listed im- proved trade relations and a bet- ter understanding between Rus- sia and the Western world among the objectives of his trip. He travelled 30,000 miles on a 45-day tour which took him to 16 coun- tries. (CP from AP) VANCOUVER POLICE PROBE Police Chief Walter Mulligan strides into a courtroom where a royal commission is probing Vancouver's 750 - man police Munro. The commission heard accounts of pay-offs, secret meet- ings and plans of known racke- teers to "split the take" with police officials. The sessions were force. Ray Munro (right), whose | punctuated with the suicide of stories in tabloid Flash touched off the in- vestigation, looks on. Sitting alongside him is his father, David bert. * WORLD SCOUT JAMBOREE Flags of some of the 68 na- tions represented at the World Scout Jamboree at Niagara-on- the-Lake, Ont., in August from standards as Governor- the Toronto weekly | Police Superintendent Harry Whelan and the attempted suicide of Detective Sergeant Len Cuth- (CP Photo) bi 2? 5 ow General Vincent Massey reviews | RESCUE 21 FROM SEA Raging seas beat the 2848- ton Liberian freighter Kismet II against the base of a 1,000-foot cliff near Cape St. Lawrence at Nova Scotia's northeastern tip. other scout officials, More than boy scouts attending the gather- | 11,000 scouts attended the jam- ing. The governor-general, chief scout for Canada, can be seen | with | at centre, bare-headed, boree, held on the North Ameri- can continent for the first time, (CP Photo) DISASTROUS LANDSLIDE of dollars. The twin-spired Rom- | let river were ripped out. At left , an Catholic Cathedral of St. Jean | is a house which was carried off This aerial photo shows the debris after a section of the town of Nicolet, Que., slithered into the Nicolet river during a land- slide in November. Three per- | sons died in the slide which caus- ed damage estimated in millions | Baptiste | to be condemned after its founda- | tions were weakened, half of the (right foreground) vod | oining palace of the bishop | | was torn away and the approach- | town's March, | es to a bridge crossing the Nico- its foundation practically intact. The disaster struck as Ni 0 residents were recovering from a fire which wiped out the | commercial. heart in (CP Photo) ) Two Royal Canadian Navy pilots, who took turns guiding their helicopter down beside the rocks, rescued the ship's 21 men after | their 29-hour ordeal. The Kismet IT was bound from Philadelphia to Summerside, P.E.I., when she ran aground during a November gale. This photo was taken from an RCAF Neptune bomber. (CP from National Defence) id RIOT IN FORUM Montreal Forum ushers ress train a fan who is about te at- tack President Clarence Camp- bell of the National Hockey | League during the March 17 riot in the?' Forum. Montreal Cana- | diegs fans were angered when | Lampbelt ordered suspension of | fontreal Star Maurice (Rocket) | Richard for a stick-swinging in- DIES IN CRASH Robert H. Saunders, a fire- man's son who became mayor of Toronto and a super-sales- man for the St. Lawrence sea- way, died Jan. 14 after a plane crash near London, Ont. Mr, Saunders, at 51, was chai of the Ontari Hydro-Electric Power. Comm nm, Canada's third largest business. He suffer- ed fatal injuries when an ice- coated Hydro plane crashed. He was a criminal lawyer until he entered civic pol in 1935. He was mayor of Toronto for four terms and in 1948 was ap- pointed to head Hydro. He was also president of the Canadian | National Exhibition. (CP Pbeto) cident in a previous game. Dur- ing and after the March 17 game between Montreal and De- troit, the crowd went on a seven- hour rampage. Nearby business places were looted and damaged and police arrested more than 100 before the incident was quell- ed. The game was called off and awarded to Detroit. (CP Photo) INSPIRATION IN ARCTIC St. | Aretic tour this summer. Other L-S Rodger Mathurin, Johns, Que, a steward serving aboard HMCS Labrador, p proudly with a collection of his | valotinas, al dong during the PREMIER Premier Leslie Frost led his Progressive Conservatives to vie- tory in the Ontario election June 9. His party won 83 of the 98 seats in the provincial house. Mr, Frost was first elected in 1931 in the Victoria riding. Chosen leader in 1949, he scored his first victory as premier in the 1951 provincial election. (CP Photo) AUTO WORKERS STRIKE United Automobile Workers pickets display placards outside the Oshawa plant of General Mot- ors whose five Ontario factories were closed by a strike in Sep- tember. The strike for higher wages and other benefits was still on as the year-end approach- ed and the 17,000 workers had lost more than 850,000 man-days THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE, Friday, December 30, 1008 7 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ctures 1995 " of work. Another hg strike of auto workers ended January, 1955, when 8,000 employees went back to work in the Ford plant at Windsor, Ont., after 113 days of idleness. (CP Photo) SASKATCHEWAN FLOOD The entire Qu'Appelle valley of Saskatchewan was declared a disaster area after a 36-hour storm brought floods in May. Hardest-hit section was Wolse-~ ley, 70 miles east of Regina, where 33 families had to be evacuated, This aerial view show- GEORGE MEDAL Edward C. Chipman, a Mont- real milkman, wears the George Medal awarded him for his bravery in saving three children from their burning home on the Caughnawaga Indian reserve near Montreal. (CP Photo) i io nM seamen's displays on the ship included leather work, model ships and model cannon. a of the 61 seats, ing a flooded home in Wol- seley was i7pical of many parts of the province where entire communities were isolated. The provincial civil defence organiza- tion was called in to help cope with the flood problem. (CP Photo) HISTORIC MERGER Claude Jodoln (left), president of the Trades and Labor Con. gress of Canada, shakes hands with A. R. Mosher, president of the Canadian Congress of Labor, during Ottawa talks last March leading to a merger of Canada's two big labor organizations. The new Canadian Labor Congress, bringing together the 600,000 = member TLE and the member CCL, is to be ed in April, 1986, The will unite about five of Canada's organized work Not included are the 100,000 members of the Canadian and Catholic Confederation of Labor -- nearly all in Quebec -- and the interna- tional railway brotherhoods num- bering 40,000. (CP Photo) $23,000,000 CAUSEWAY OPENS The Canso causeway, linking Cape Breton island' with Nova Scotia mainland, is opened as 100 pipers playing "The Road to the Isles" lead crowds toward the island. Some 44,000, biggest crowd to assemble at a single $5 Gy SURPRISE ELECTION Premier Ernest C. Manning led his Social Credit party to its sixth consecutive victory a general election in Alberta, June 29. The election was called sud- denly after Liberal leader J. Harper Prowse told the legisla- ture he thought most members of the government had dis- qualified themselves from sit- ting in the house by doing busi- ness with the province-operated treasury branches. Mr. Manning answered the charges by saying members were permitted to use the branches by a clause in the Treasury Branches Act of 1938, but he called the election. The Social Credit party won 37 (SOW. Phaled + point in Nova Scotia's history, attended the August ceremony and choked the mile-long cause- way across the Strait of Canso. The causeway, replacing ferries, was long the dream of Angus L. Macdonad, Nova Scotia premier and wartime navy minister. 3 Macdonald died a few . before the causeway was finish» ed, The causeway, which carries rail lines and a highway was built in two years at a cost $$ $23,000,000. (CP from FOOTBALL CHAMPIONS Halfback Ray Willsey and fullback Normie (China Clipper) Kwong of Edmonton Eskimos grip the Grey Cup after Edmonton defeated Montreal Al- oupties 3-19 te win the Canadian (left) football chiamplonship. The Nov. 26 game was played in Vancouw- er for the first time and nearly 40,000 fans crowded Empire Stad- ium to see Canada's annual sports spectacle. It was Edmonton's and sucgessive L* 4 hot