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By JOE MacSWEN Canadian Press Staff Writer MONTREAL (CP) Age-old| questions are being answered anew in this Paris of North America. | Is it possible to be gay--and good? naughty and nice, with the accent on the nice? administration, which today marks| its first anniversary of power, with two years to go. "Montreal will never have aj dead face," says Pacifique (Pax) Plante, who upset the fleshpots. "What is gaiety?" said Mayor Jean Drapeau with a sprightly grin, a h DELIGHTED VISITOR hand plan d | printer and srapezu and Plante, man of the city executive commit-| fir tee and third in what some irrever- vention bureau. ent Is there such a thing as being| Trinity." 'Gay and Good Problem! er | : Still Puzzles Montreal Package Deal For Unity \ tion." He is in charge of the key| 'Spice and sauce in entertain- morality squad, | Pierre DesMarais, commercial one or two unpleasant incidents close associate cf} bécame chair-| citizens term 'The Ruling One veteran politician told a re- | porter the task of | Montrealers have a lot of an-|ministration "is nothing less than swers--in both French and Eng-|to change the trends and habits of | lish--but responsibility rests in ani 20 years where the underworld is| unusual way on the city's reform | concerned." | the new ad- It was that long ago, he said,| since toleration was won, on the ¢hurches and other sites. basis that the underworld itself] guaranteed to limit the number of | wines, brothels and gambling dens, and regulate their location. : SPURRED BY WAR [ During the Second World War, mighty factor. With some 300 "'ma-| however, the illicit industry in-| jor conventions' here this year.| creased sharply, causing Mr. Jus-| Montreal A Detroit housewife, here with|tice Francois Caron, who later con| ent's chief convention centres. | i ted a vice inquiry, to ri ark | her h on ac elight: here it's Sunday and look--every- thing's open." "Tres gai," she murmured. life within the law," says the 3 year-old mayor. "In fact, that's the only way to enjoy-life. The old way | wasn't gay at all, but tragic." | exists in all large cities. here is to see that the wages of| {sin are slim," snorted one. REFUSES $5,000 OFFER Performing pomeranians own- | say they won't part with Dollie, ed by Mrs. Dora Pavich of Ham- | a mountie uniform, and Babee, in ilton. Ont., are worth $5,000 to | nurse's costume, even if they are a New York television agent, but | broke. Olga Robertson poses with it's no sale. Mr. Pavich is un- | the dogs. that are being built? Our new bridge across the St. Lawrence] What about our $25,000,000 slum] clearance plan Our new assess-|? ment roll" YEAR IN OFFICE ners' convention, exclaimed with| wryly it was odd that the over| {worked brothel girls didn't organ- "My goodness. We heard Mont- ize a union and seek an eight-hour real was a' closed town now. But day. This was the "tragic gaiety" de Crities cite some nightclubs which nual meeting. The college is an |remain open virtually all night as| organization of "What about our new concert. ijence hall that is all but built? What|ing Gown on the job, and is as cyn-| about our planned expressways j.a| as some of those of the past.| {TO ENFORCE LAW | Plante counters that the problem |the last 10 years aming women | f nightclub municipal licences now | Who aspire to wear the pants in |is before the courts but it is the|the family or are under constant| | intention of the police to enforce |strain | the law. iseribed by Mayor Drapeau, who | contends that Montreal will attract "hr i { more--not fgwer--visitors as a law 'It's certainly possible to love | ahiding community where | eitizens, not the gangsters, get po- | lice protection." a Twice during the year bricks| Administration chiefs sometimes | Jove Deen area mutter sadly that reporters talk py nocturnal prow too much of the seamy side, which| fired off a statement charging an | | attempt at underworld intimidation| "You'd think our only concern|and 'accepting the challenge." "the heaved through win- Drapeau's home lers. The mayor the administration is fall- employed, but he and his wife Central Press Canadian It is just a year since Mayor GENEVA (AP) -- In a few days| ent state of relations between the | the Western powers will offer Rus-| Vast and Russia, sia a package deal for unification | of Germany on Western terms, In| exchange, they will -offer Moscow security guarantees against any new .German military adventures. : A : many is a strategic and political The Wesigrn proposal is de-| holding of enormous importance a ment is all very well, but even Neither side is prepared yet to giv: up any position, interest, or| territory of great value just fori y '4 rf imnraving East-West | relations or easing tensions. | munist - governed East Ger-| can be bad for the tourist trade," said Charles (Chuck) Smith, head of the Montreal tourist and con- "More than 2,500,000 tourists came to Montreal last year and 1955 is a better year." West To Offer Soviet Bean | Molotov have made clear that Rus- !sia does not inend to yaa ai | position to the West at this time. jof the West. Much as they say! THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE, Wednesday, October 26, 1955 43 Buiganu and] Gl PETERBOROUGH, Ont. (CP)-- Mrs. Hector © div wsivgu. - a of Jack's: legendar alk when a dahlia at the side of her home keni @ owii and up. Despite steady clipping the plant grew eight feet tall. 4 JUST AS VITAL West Germany is just as-vital to the political and military strength they want Germany unified, the United States, Britain, and France are not interested in a merger a! the cost of Soviet gains in rich and pooulous West Germany. This creates a stalemate condi- tion on the German issue in ad. vance of the opening of the Big Four foreign ministers' conferenc: here, despite the appearance oi goodwil'! gmmevated uv "summit" mectings here in July The sialemaie is expected tw ¢. tinue long ~*er the ministers' con: ference ends, signed to remove Russia's fear of He listed, in thi y dis on Si-cde uniting East and West Germany. A Mont- real's attractions: 1, Bilingualism. To many Amer- icans, it's a foreign country almost at home, the only one of its kind in North America. 2. Historical interest. Magnificent But it is not designed primarily to| give Russia anything of value in| return for agreeing to German uni- | fication. | The West hasn't the slightest) idea of agreeing to a setup which | would facilitate moves by a United | Germany to sever the ties so la- boriously forged between the Bonn government and the West and cli- maxed by West Germany's mem- bership in NATO, | Least of all do tie Western pow-| ers have any intentic. ef meeting what is idered Russ. "+ basic goal--dissolving NATO itse. RUSSIAN "NO" PREDICTED : Consequently, the Western deal seems sure to get the currently! 'Forceful' Wives ~Ulcer Targets [wii yerion of the Russian avet CHICAGO (AP)--Does your wife days When the word became fa-| wear the pants in your family? | mous as a term of harsh rejection | Does she insist on keeping up with! The prospective bargaining over | the Joneses? Or combine marriage | German unification illustrates 2! d a career? | Well, take it from an expert: She| is in danger of sharing-a hazard| reserved mainly for men--ulcers.| Dr. John E. Cox of Memphis, a| trustee of the American College of Gastroenterology, issued the warn- ing durihg the college's an- J. Gaiety. Charm. Fine foods and Ninety per cent of Montreal's tourists were motorists making traffic--a prime problem here--a was one of the contin-| V2 b A good itinerary is as servation, charge ! Operated physicians special-| izing in diseases of the stomach | and intestines. | Cox said stomach ulcers' have| increased more than 30 per cent in| AN NS KAT M EN Uy Moy, as a, To ala > Anp Tine? Np, 7 oy WRiNARY IRA) fC LA00 Rr DISCS in efforts to keep their = Get $.. ror the Travel Season ! as good food is to fine dining! 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Plante, law partner of Drapeau and chief actor in the drama that] uncovered the vice apparatus, was | Frost Closes Book | On James Dempse Fig Rgds cof 1 greatly regret to learn of the once was fired for "Insubordina- TORONTO (CP)--Premier Frost| | yesterday closed the book of his sudden death of James Shannon | : differences with James Shannon Dempsey who has represented noncement of the special session Dempsey, legislature member for|South Renfrew since 1945. {of Sept. 8. I deeply regret that | Renfrew South who died Monday| PLANNED EXPLANATION his death which has intervened has night at 68. Concerning the controversy made this impossible, Mr. Dempsey was found dead|which commenced last spring, I| "Quite aside from the contro-| in his hotel room, apparently vic-|think I should say that Mr. Demp-| yersy, Mr. Dempsey had been aj tim of a heart seizure. sey had stated to me that he pro-| member for his riding for 10 years.| Last spring Mr. 'Frost had ex-/posed to make in the house a full| There is no doubt that he was a pelled him from the Conservative| and complete explanation of the| man of great heart and broad sym- party in Ontario because of un-|whole situation which he felt would| pathies and he never overlooked d-for party ign con- letely exonerate him. the problems of his constituents tributions. "He proposed to do this at the no matter who they might be. I + Today Mr. Frost said in a state-| first regular sittings of the bouse/extcnd to his relatives deep sym- ment: and he so stated this at the com-ipathy on his passing. 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