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kon *¥ " A CANADA, U.S. BUILDS This air view shows the steel sphere and turbine building for the nuclear power station near- | ical building will contain the ing completion 50 miles south- | boiling water reactor assembly. west of Chicago. The 180,000 | The contract price for the sta- completion in 1950, The spher- "North From Rome' As A Top-Drawer Author Helen MacInnes has an|ious princess, a Sicilian detective] enviable reputation as a novelist with a flair for American slang, who can spin a super tale of sus-|a U.S. waaval attache, secret pense, while always maintaining agents of several nations and a credibility to her stories. |colorful assortment of Italians So indelible and clear cut is her and tourists. style on the minds of millions of DANGER AND DEATH readers, she has a reputation in| Danger and death are never too the literary world almost equal far diztance as the drama sweeps to that of Hitchcock in the cinema northward from Rome to a thrill world. ing climax in Perugia. Not oaly are her characters] Author Maclnnes has few peers highly believable persons, but{whea it comes to working out a her writing is of a fairly high complex plot for such a story as literary standard and so with this "NORTH FROM ROME", but background it is an understate-'she has not failed to keep her ment to say that publication of story moving at a fast pace. a new Maclnnes book is some-| The character portraits thing of an event for those who sharply drawn and real, and the love super mystery stories. r------ | x LITERARY GENIUS | Helen Maclanes' latest literary GROUPS AGITATE offering is titled "NORTH FROM ROME" (Longmans, Green and Co.) and her particular literary genius has never been more evi- dent as she tells the story of William Lammiter, a young American playwright, who goes to Rome to mend his broken en.| i gagemeat to Eleanor Halley. On| arrival in the Eternal City Lam-| . miter discovers Eleanor has be- By DON HOYT come the flance of Count Luigi Canadian Press Staff Writer Pirotta, an aristocrat who is as handsome as he is disquieting, | Lammiter suddenly finds him-| self caught in the strange and a lesser extent in Nova Scotia, hazardous game of international|2r€ agitating for more liberal lia pops FACTOR intrigue thanks to a dramatic|UOF regulations. chance encounter with a fascin- | kilowat station is POWER REAlTORS at $45,000,000. Despite Cold F [cents more, ge | effort to cover the cost of operat- g [for next Wednesday at the Bow-| To Cost More PORT HOPE --' Meals at the Bowmanville and Port Hope high school cafeterias will cost five effective March 1, the Durham County district high school board decided at their meeting atthe Port Hope school. The decision was taken in an ing the cafeterias. At present a full meal costs 35 cents at both schools and milk tosts five ceats at Bowmanville and six cents at Port Hope. The price of milk was raised by the board to seven cents, The board voted to raise the insurance 10 per cent on both the Port Hope By ROBERT RICE Canadian Press Staff Writer MONTREAL (CP) -- A base- ment full of Indian history--care- fully contained ia 100 paper bags--is being sorted this winter by Montreal's earnest band of amateur archaeologists. The brown bags hold ancient relics--arrowheads, pottery frag- ments, pieces of stone knives and implements more than 2,000 vears old. They were excavated last summer from several sites around Montreal, the most prom- ising at St. Andrew's East golf course, about 35 miles east of and Bowmanville schools, to $660,000 and $990,000 respectively. A special meeting was called, manville school to decide on al site for the proposed aew high school. i Sites in the Orono and New- castle areas have been suggest- ed, The meeting will be open to the public. | Hon i wi a Canada plans to have one sta- tion in operation by 1950, a sec- ond in 1965 Ontario Hydro system. Both will feed the | Ride Enjoyed | F. E. SMITH Correspondent PRINCE ALBERT -- The YPU ~~ barely felt the chill of the zero| lair on Thursday eveaing, when they piled onto a tractor-drawn |\""digs,"' eager association mem- |in the Atlantic provinces, partic-|would we like to see a move in | Les. Beacosk generously gave LJ his time and equipment to make | hriller this event possible. Earl Martyn demonstrated the . : new dart-baseball game, while story has a special meaning for |jynch was being prepared. Hot our time. This is a tale of high|ohoeolate, sandwiches and Valen- adventure and romance to take|iine cakes were enjoyed. its place with the best works of { i Helen MacInnes. For those who Sunday was cold with light loved the. chilling .suspens {winds which got much stronger "ABOVE SUSPICION'. or the bY Monday and caused great consummate literary skill dis | drifts to pile up again. The tem: played in "PRAY FOR A BRAVE perature on Monday was 14 de- HEART", there are rich rewards grees below zero and rose to 2 in "NORTH FROM ROME", degrees below by late afternoon. Author MacInnes knows better than anyone else how to write a Monday. super mystery, spiced with plen-| Thirty-four braved the cold on ty of fast pace and believable Sunday afternoon to attend Sun- characterizations, day Schol. A film, "The Race", This book should add tremen- was shown. On Sunday, March 2, reputation. on missions. Liberal Liquor Laws In Maritimes Rather uor stores. Private clubs meeting certain for drinking. ularly in New Brunswick and tothe opposite direction as soon as requirements are licensed to possible. |serve members. Annual permits are needed to buy bottled liquor. But Forbes Thrasher of Hali-} In the last two years Oxford, But the four provincial govern- fax a director of the Innkeepers' Wolfville and Lockeport have vo-| ' Pleases | leigh for an outing. | There was no school here oa Montreal, "We're definitely excited about the St. Andrew's finds because they may prove to be one of the few known examples of pre-ce- ramic culture," says Dr. J. D. McColl, 32, president of the Ar- chaeological Association of Que- bec. ANCIENT ITEMS After a summer of weekend bers have to sort, clean and clas- |sify their discoveries, stored in {numbered bags in Dr. McColl's {suburban Montreal basement. |stores in 42 communities. N.B. STANDS PAT New Brunswick's liquor regula- tions date back to 1927, "Several | minor amendments have been made since," a government of- ficial said, 'and there has been {nothing contentious." A Liberal opposition motion {asking a study of the liquor sit- | uation by a legislative boson last year was defeated. So-called privileged clubs are the major issue. There are about School Meals 'Basement Of Indian History Being Sorted The Quebec association, formed, in 1955 with 25 members, now| has about 75 members who make| pre-history their hobby. Printers, professors, bookkeepers, lawyers | and housewives, their common | trait is curiosity. | Their - biggest delight is an ancient garbage dump. "That's a great find," says Dr. | McColl, a pipe - smoking phar-| macologist, "We'll dig happily in| a garbage pit." | But a garbage dump 1,000 years old isn't an everyday find. Last summer the enthusiasts sifted through sandy soil at the Coll's basement, "Why do we dig?" asks Dr. McColl. He provides his owa an- swer, "I suppose it's curiosity. It satisfies our scavenger instinct and it's an intellectual pursuit, too. It's interesting to find out how early North Americans lived." ORIGIN UNCERTAIN : At first, the weekend Archae- ologists thought the St, Andrew's site was a link. with the Point P la people, d after the first find on Point Peninsula on Lake Huron. | Nomadic family groups made end of a fairway at the golf up this little-known culture which course because the site looked existed about 2,000 years ago, At ing. |intervals the families gathered "We thought, 'if we were In- at certain meeting places to ex- dians, where would we camp?' change information, conduct and it was half luck, half good guessing." CAREFUL WORK First the exploration area was surveyed, mapped and divided into five-foot.squares. Each mem- ber tackled a square, armed with dustpan, paintbrush, mor- tar trowel and curved grapefruit knife, slowly digging into the past. "Digging is perhaps the wrong word," says the association sec- retary, W. B. Rice of Montreal. 'We scrape the earth away in layers, going down three inches at a time." Fragments found in the first layer of the first square, for ex- ample, are placed in a paper bag marked A-1, layer 1. Ultl-| {go back farther in pre-history-- {perhaps 3,500 to 4,000 years ago," trade, arrange marriages and bury their dead. "But we're not so sure now," says Dr. McColl. The Montreal group alternated weekends last summer between their St. Andrew's site and Sheek Island in the St. Lawrence River near Corawall, Ont,, where Dr. J. N. Emerson, an anthropologist of the University of Toronto, is investigating a Point Peninsula site, { "We think St. Andrew's may says Dr. McColl. "We haven't got a big enough sample yet." Glowing with eagerness, he ad-| ded: 'We're going back next| summer and dig the dickens out| mately the bags land in Dr. Mec-|of it." RAGLAN birthday. Mr, and Mrs. Roy Moon were Friday guests of Mr, and Mrs. 500 in the province, sp ed by fraternal, service, veterans and |sports clubs. Taverns and ecock- [tail lounges are illegal. | There seems no indication of any changes in the law despite pressure from some municipal councils and hotel operators. | Spokesmen for church groups and {temperance societies on the other {hand want the act strengthened. The New Brunswick act allows liquor by the bottle through gov- ernment stores. The government nets about $7,000,000 yearly. Per- mits are not needed and there is no limit on individual purchases. are dously to her already enviable Mrs. Love will have another film|CALM IN P.E.L Relative calm reigns in Prince Edward Island, which had pro- hibition from 1901 to 1948, and in Newfoundland, the only one of the four provinces where liquor may be bought by the glass. A government - appointed tem- perance commission administers the six P.E.I. liquor stores that do an annual $3,000,000 business. Purchases are restricted to four quarts of liquor, 16 quarts of wine or four cases of beer month, There are no bars or opposed to any liberalizing of our and wine served in hotel dining taverns. |present laws to provide increased rooms; and (3) government lig- HALIFAX (CP)--Some groups facilities "The law appears to be work- ing smoothly," an observer said. "But there is some lai Jack Bridger and family, New- GLORIA MILLER castle. Correspondent Miss Jean Bell of Port Perry RAGLAN -- Mrs, Johnson of .,q Reg Amell of Myrtle were Raglan visited Wednesday with g,qay guests of Mr. and Mrs. Mrs. White of Peterborough. [Elwood Manns and boys. Mrs. Russell Wray of Shirley, | spent the oh with Tey Mr, and Mrs. Roy Brawn were ERE ASREEEE] EEE BLACK & DECKER SAW COMES THROUGH IN PERFECT CONDITION Seven days and seven nights . . . thousands of tough cuts through heavy 2" lumber . . » Je afterwards, every part of the saw was in perfect condition! Check the features: RUGGED POWER! . . . 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Boudreau were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs, Jack Bright and Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Evans, cele- family were Monday evening Prating Donnie's birthday. guests of Mr. and Mrs. Bruce] Mr. and Mrs. Richard Manns Bright of Oshawa, |and family of Port Perry were, KINGSWAY SHOPPING CENTRE KINGSTON ROAD EAST OF TOWHNLINE PHONE RA 5-8851 Mr. and Mrs, Arthur French Saturday evening guests of Mr. and family, of Oshawa, were/and Mrs. Stan Manns and boys. Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs.| Mr. and Mrs. W. Greenley and Stan Manns and boys. {family were Sunday guests of Mr. Mr, and Mrs, Melville McGee and Mrs. A. Small of Guelph. | and family were weekend guests| Jackie Bright entertained sev-| of Mrs. McGee's parents, Mr, and eral little friends Friday after-| Mrs. George Waddell of Bethany. noon on the occasion of his third Glad to hear that Mrs. McGee's birthday. B. F. GOODRICH STORES 453 SIMCOE STREET SOUTH PHONE RA 5-4543 [ |father, Mr. Waddell, has returned| The Raglan School pupils held home from Peterborough Hospi- their annual Junior Red Cross al, |Valentine party at the school on Mr. and Mrs. Merlin Slute of Friday. The business part of the Bowmanville, were Sunday guests|Red Cross meeting was followed of Mr. and Mrs. A. Slute. |by the program of games and, Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Conroy music. Mrs. Auld provided candy, of Columbus, were Sunday guests/for all. The school pupils and| of Mr, and Mrs. Lloyd Evans and|teacher, Mrs. Auld, presented JACKSON AND RAIKE HARDWARE - 948 SIMCOE STREET NORTH " PHONE RA 5-0514 family, in honor of Donnie's third | Mrs. Ivy Ormiston with a plant.| against the government licensing clubs and certain organizations to sell beer and hard liquor, because many people think the privilege is being abused." In Newfoundland, Premier ating Italian girl, Rosana Di Feo. |Ments are not anxious to reopen Guild of Nova Scotia, said tour-|ted their liquor stores out of busi-| Smallwood backed down in face He also discovers that Count/the ever-contentious liquor ques- Luigi Pirotta is deeply enmeshed tion. in this intrigue. | "The less we say about it the Author McInnes is never one to better," said Premier Alex Math- let her narrative bog down so she eson of Prince Edward Island in he said, "but they are reluctant'approved taverns, but rejected | widens the scope of this thrilling an interview. "It's an issue that story, set In a colorful Roman should be let lie." background, by the introduction. Dr. Ross Eaton of Port ists are unhappy with having to|ness. Five other towns approved buy a whole bottle of liquor at acontinued operation of stores. time under present laws. '"'They|Four towns have voted against like a drink after a day's drive," |beer 'taverns since 1948. Sydney about buying a bottle." beer and wine in hotels. A municipal option law allows, Nova Scotia has 49 taverns, of opposition from the Newfound- land temperance league when he tried to open a liquor outlet in a government housing project. Beer and wine purchases are unrestricted. Three bottles of lig- {uor a week may be bought on Wil- Nova Scotia communities to de- about one-third of them in Hali-| government permits. Women are of a world-wide narcotic ring. The |liams, N.S., general secretary of cide by plebiscite whether they|fax. 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