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THURSDAY. JULY 22, 1948 {| Cheerless x ET aa i Tic THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE _ PAGE NINETEEN 'Party' Grills Candidates or Civil By ALAN HARVEY Canadian Press Staff Writer Cobham, Surrey-- (CP)--Twenty- one young men went to a friendly Service be of university calibre to qualify for the examination. The new system, expected largely to replace written examinations, nasn't escaped criticism. Lord Cher- was running a temperature and was ordered to bed by the physician. His condition became worse and he died Monday. C.K. CAMERON ELECTRIC FOUNDED IN 1013 BY A. C. CAMERON ® Electrical Construction ® Wiring and Repairs ® Range Runs ® Water Heaters Brantford Roofing and Builders' Supplies McLAUGHLIN COAL & SUPPLIES LIMITED Phone 1246 HARDWOOD FLOORING Floors Laid, Sanded and Finished Phone 3744W1 M. LEGGETTE FINE WATCH REPAIRING Our Specialty JOE PALOOKA Berfke's Alley By Ham Fisher J "DUKE A ALLEY." Y THERESA ALLEY WE BETTER GIT OVER AN minute of it. were nonsensical. Their host, a tall, elderly man One man, he said, was given a with a military bearing, welcomed | piece of .paper with a lot of dots 7. them affably. heerful fire glowed | on it and told to join them into a i i in the a the | predetermined figure. Another was READY MIXED CONCRETE Petabiished 1856 BIEKED HIS visitors felt ill at ease. asked to forecast how a clock which || Crushed and washed sand ana 12 SIMCOE ST. SOUTH ESSOR. SUCCESSOR 7-- Why? Because it wasn't the usual | lost two minutes an hour and was ravel for pavements, driveways, GOOSEGREASE, Weekornd party, and the .men [set at 9:40 at night would look at oundations or any concreté work. : MOMENT, 13 FORWARD,"/ weren't ordinary week-end guests. | 5:30 next afternoon if seen upside Price lenges denen aS firensin The Surrey manor, Stoke d'Aber-|down in a looking glass. a yard delivered in Oshawa. non, is headquarters of Britain's Lord Cherwell said one distin- OH washed, crushed gravel $2.20 ton Civil Selection Board, appointed to | guished psychiatrist had "exposed" |} 17." washed, crushed gravel $2.10 ton ® choose future ambassadors and | himself to the tests incognito, The Washed sand $1.80 ton 3 senior civil servants. For most can- | panel's verdict: "Definitely sub- These Prices Sspend on quantities didates, the 48-hour "personal" ex- | normal." y amination provides a test of merve For further information call and brain more exacting than any CURRAN & BRIGGS LTD. class-room quiz. Toronto Broker SIMCOE ST. SOUTH Before the ordeal is over, the host . . Ge PHONES: Oshawa A138 - | C and "Lord of the Manor," Col. John ering 97-r- 4 Ryland Pinsent, becomes an ogre Paralysis Victim to his "guests." He heads he ex- amining staff -- and he pulls no July 22--(CP)--J. Doug- ip punches, : is an. i, Toronto stock ae SAND GRAVEL 8 On arrival, each candidate Is|y. "gieq at his Kawartha Lakes oe LOAM «FILL photographed full face and in pro- summer home Monday from Lan- file. A number is fastened to him. i : s D R BRO From then on he works against the urys paralysis, an autopsy disclos- « Ehe WN clock, facing personality, judgment: €C. : : wa and EE re ig Vid gman: Dr. W. L. Robinson, provincial Phone 3744-w-5 are given to answer 35 questions in | Pathologist, who performed the one case). The strain starts to get | autopsy said the paralysis is caused i® him down. by a rare virus infection that must One key test is the "Island |not be mistaken for poliomyelitis. Story." A paper gives details of an| Apparently in good health, Mr. imaginery island in the Indian Bellinger left Toronto for his sum- ] Ocean. The candidate has to answer | mer home to spend the week-end $8 f " . \ dustries Intricate questions about the island | with his family.. He became ill Git. fe Sali \ d ; ! p. 3. rR J "out to --how he would act in a certain | Sunday and a doctor was called. He ' Fg J } \ N 3 \ S ; strike emergency, what steps he re] ol! ooh : "7, Z ) roe manor house in Surrey for a week- | well complained in the House of end "party" -- and dreaded every | pords that some questions posed 4 ar FELT BROS. 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