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THEY'RE ~ and - a - half - year old Karen Oltman of Pitts- borgh, Pa., in New York -to Dice Were Loaded give her Christmas list to Santa, discovered a small army gt Stanas today. The In Roman London By EDDY icine LONDON (AP)---The Romans, who brought Christianity also. seem to have brought along several pairs of erooked dice. " "The evidence is inescapable, I'm afraid," said Director Nor- man Cook of the City of Lon-| don's Guildhall Museum. "Here, | gee for yourself." He held forth several pairs of | dredged from the| ") ruins on which the City @f London stands. The biggest dice had a neat hole in one side. "Definitely a case of plug- ging," said the director. In Roman London, as now, plugging is one of the easiest ways of doctoring a pair of dice: You ream out a section of the! dice, insert a small slug of something heavy, like lead, then replace the section. Thus, the lighter side, when,the dice are rolled, should ceme up more often than the heavier side. "Now, examine this pair," | century. sheep or goats. Hence the ex- pression, "throwing the bones." The Danes took up dice shoot- ing in a big way when they came to England in the ninth EVERYWHERE jolly men in red were at a final briefing for New York's 70th annual Christ- mas campaign of the Volun- teers of America. | --AP Wirephoto OTTAWA. (CP)--The> interim supply. crisis earlier this month and the views of Auditor-Gen- eral Maxwell Henderson about aspects of it may have spelled an. end to a key feature of the Commons' provisional rules, This. feature places a 30-day limit in a parliamentary session jon debate on government re- quests for spending authority. It was agreed to last session and adopted for the current one. Two of the four opposition parties, the Conservatives and the New Democrats, are pre- paring to dig in their heels against any. extension for an- other, session. , The government earlier gave some indication privately to the opposition parties that it would propose an extension but, after the events of this month, the chances of it being accepted by the opposition are dwindling. As the opposition parties see it; the issue involved is Parlia- ment's right to control the pub- lic purse strings. In theory, and sometimes in practice, Parliament has al- ways had the right to pull the executive up sharply: for any un- jacceptable actions simply by refusing to vote the government money to operate. GAVE LIMIT A TRY In an effort to prevent un- reasonable filibusters by oppo- sition groups, the Commons de- cided to try out the 30-day limit. In effect, this was intended to ensure that the government would be certain after the 30 days of getiing a Commons de- cision on its spending' program. If the Commons approved, the government had its money. If the Commons refused approval, the government had to resign and call an election. Apparently unforeseen when the rule was written' was what occurred this month. ; Progres sive Conservatives, fighting proposed unification of the armed forces, consumed 13 days alone in attacking Defence Minister Hellyer's proposal con- fronting the government with an apparent financial crisis. The 30 - day allotment has since been exhausted and the unapproved portion of the spending program put through. Thus any executive or admin- istrative action taken by 'the government until the money runs out--next April 1--cannot be controlled by the Commons through its historic right to re- fusé supply. What worries some opposition groups is that the government could summon Parliament to a new session, use up the allotted spending debate time in consec- utive days, then govern for an- other 12 months without any parliamentary check whatso- ever, simnly by using its wide executive and administrative 'powers, Aggravating this worry were the remarks of the auditor- general, Parliament's financial watch - dog, about government Interim Supply Crisis May End House Rule use of large "contingency" funds to bypass any temporary toad block put up in the Com- mons during the 30 debating days. , Growth of. these funds has coincided with provisional adop- tion of the 80-day rule. The government used these funds to collect enough money to pay the civil service at mid- month and break the Conserva- tive roadblock. ; Mr. Henderson said this "con- tributed to. an erosion of Parlia- : OTTAWA (CP)--A big gov- first two months of ihe ifiscai year dwindled further during October toward the forecast 1966-67 deficit of $230,000,000. Government spending during the month at $589,800,000 was $21,100,000 higher than its rey- enues, a regular finance depart- ment statement revealed, For the seven months of the fiscal year since April, govern- ment re' were $4,645,400,- 000 and ex; tures $4,429,200,- 000, leaving a surplus of $216,. Consecutive monthly deficits have occurred in July, August, down a Deductions off pay for the first seven months 200,000. the year totalled $971,500, compared with $866,000,000 ft the same period last year. ment's traditional role in con- trolling public funds." 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"Elementary," was the reply. "This particular pair of dice was found in a deposit which dates between 100. AD and 200 AD, so that's q.pair we can tie down absolutely to a date," Cook said. "The R , splendid as they were, had no garbageman. All the rubbish was just dumped in the back gardens, and it's from this rubbish that we are finding so much really wonder- ful roman stuff." OBJECT FOUND He said that when the Royal 'Exchange, which houses the Guildhall Museum, was built, thousands of Roman objects were found when the builders) dug down to make the founda-| tions. ' Dice are the oldest gaming plements known to man. The icyclopedia Britannica says that dice, with markings prac- tically equivalent to the dice of| today, have been found in! Egyptian tombs that date back before 2,000 BC. : Most dice were made in those days from the knucklebones. of CUPE Wins Morocco for only *75 down! That's right! $75 jets you away for a 21 day holiday around the sunny Mediterranean. 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Early this year CUPE said it had been asked by the employ- ees involved to organize them. Stanley Little, president of CUPE, said the next step would be to apply for certification, ow a formality. Then CUPE intended to ask the CBC for an interim wage adjustment pend- ing negotiation of # new con- tract to replace the one that last December. li or See FOUR SEASONS TRAVEL OSHAWA--WHITBY BOWMANVILLE-- BROOKLIN 57 King St. E., Oshawe 728-6201, 728-6202, 728-6203 Proven Performance Over Many Years: LYMAN A. GIFFORD.is the man to elect for Mayor of Oshawa. He has an. enviable recotd of proven perfogmance extending over many years. Lyman A. Gifford is a product of this area -- born on a farm on Farewell Ave., just north of his present Sydenham harbor home where he still operates a beef farm. Many of his 63 years have been spent in municipal government activities. He was first elected at the age of twenty-seven years to the East Whitby Township Council. in 1932 -- Deputy Reeve in 1934 -- Reeve in 1936 and in 1938 -became the Ontario Warden in history. During a ten year holiday from pol- itics he served with the Ontario Regiment and other civic groups, returning to civic politics by beirig elected to the Oshawa City Council, as Alderman in 1954, and served to 1957 inclusive. He was 'elected Mayor in 1958 and served in this capacity for three years. He was again elected as Mayor and served in 1963- 47 afid was elected by acclamation for two more years, and now offers his services for another term. With Oshawa moving into' another system of civic government--with the various facets of the city expanding, bringing, at the same time, numerous prob- lems, Oshawa electors. will be voting in their best interests by re-electing Mr. Gifford as Mayor for another term -- 'a man with so many years of experience who can look back with pride and satisfaction at the progress and growth of his native city, and who is a staunch believer that Oshawa is on the march to becoming a much greater and more infiuential community in the province of Ontarid. Therefore, a vote for Lyman Gifford, who is a heavy taxpayer -- whose interests are on a par with every other citizen in keeping taxes at a minimum is a vote for each individual's. advantage. ON MONDAY, DEC. 5th RE-ELECT MAYOR LYMAN GIFFORD the yan fon a mans job" A MAN WHO REPRESENTS ALL PEOr.é IN ALL WALKS OF LIFE Be TR Re et rier Dh tell eee at et Rt ah Se! 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