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Cathédrale â€" St.â€"Antoins et _ Notreâ€" Dameâ€"deâ€"Lourdes Le premier appéelé a faire du minâ€" isteére sacredotal i Timmins fut lbhaâ€" bé A. Pelletier. Ce dévougé missionâ€" naire batit en 1911 une modeste chapelle. Avec Farrivée des Soeurs de la~ Providence, le 12 aout 1912. Timmins comnnut son premier hopital. Cette méme année 1912, le 10 ocâ€" tobre, l‘abbé C. E. Thériault devint le premier curé. Il agrandit la chaâ€" pélle et, en 1914, il construisit le souâ€" bassement de la premiére église qui servit au culte jusquw‘en 1922%. Alors s‘éleva sur ces bases un temple magâ€" nifique qui fut terminé pour la féte de Pagques de 1923. Puis vint la caâ€" tastrophe du 29 janvier 1936, ou tout fut réduit en cendre. : A cette oceasion, Son Excellence Mgr. Rhéaume detacha de St.â€"Antoine la mcoitié de son territoire environ pour fonder la paroisse de Notreâ€" Dameâ€"deâ€"Lourdes. , Sur les ruines de léslise incendiée. s‘éleva pour souvâ€" rir au culte au cours de 1937 Méglise actuelle en beau granit. Elle recut le titre de Cathédrale quand, en 1939, Monseigneur Rhéâ€" aume fixa Timmins son siége episâ€" copal. Cest alors que M. Thériault Ccevint curé de Notreâ€"Dameâ€"duâ€"Lourâ€" des et fut remplacé a Stâ€"Antoine par Esdras Whissel qui mourut le 22 janvier 1945. Labbé Lzsurent Mcorvrin lui succéda, En septembre 1948, labbé Rosaire Mathieu â€" venait _ remplacer _ Tabbeé Morin. Messicurs les abbés Pléeyer, Brunetie et Leblane sonnt vicaires a la cathédrale alors que les abbés Clément Perron, Saul Dion et Marcel Paré remplissent cette fonction lÂ¥glise Notreâ€"Dameâ€"deâ€"Lourdes. Les Soeurs de VAssomption se déâ€" vouent inlassablement dans le ecoles des couwx paroisses. Elle arrivaiont 2@ Timmins en 1918. D. W. Carriere of T.H. V.S., and R. C. Ellis of South Porcupine High School, will discuss courses available at thcir schuols during a meeting to be held tomcrrow night at Whitney School at 8.00. Mr. Carriere will also speak on vocational â€" guidance work. FEighth grade pupils will be present. Reâ€" freshments will be served. Everyone is welcome. George Jonescu, 16, of 115 Waterâ€" loo Road. Timmins, is one of 13 Ontario boys samorig a group of 350 from all parts of Canada who will visit Great Britain this summer as guests of W. Garfield Weston. the Y M announced here today. A Booming Boy George is a Grade Ten student at the Tinmins High and Vocational School He is President of the Junior Hiâ€"Y club at the School. takes an active part in the Students Govâ€" ernment. and specializes in Basketâ€" ball. Nominations from the Porcuâ€" pine Community YM.C.A. for a boy to take this trip were made with the consideration and help of the Princiâ€" pals, and some staff members, of the Timmins High and Vocational School Three boys were interviewed by a committee consisting of Mr. P. T. Moisley, President of the Board of Directors of the Porcupine Commuâ€" nity YM.C.A.., Mr. W. Etanley, Chairâ€" mar of the Pmm-arn Committee of the Board, and Gower H. Markle, L‘histoire des eglises les plus grandes de Timmins et le Porcupine Scheol Leaders Will Explain New Courses NOTRE DAME DE LOURDES: The larâ€" gest church in Timmins and the Portuâ€" pine. It now serves 1,400 families. And this week, a sermon by its pastor, Rev. C. E. Theriault, explaining the origin and the present laws of Lent, will be found George Joneseu Honours Timmins MountJjoy Taxes Zoom 400 Per Cent ; Improvements Taxes in Mountjoy have been doubâ€" led and tripled during the last five years. In one case, for instance, the hbouse tax has increased from $30 in 1945. The same house is now taxed $130. "The â€" resson," explains J. W. Spooner, "is very simple to answer. Since 1945 $30,000 a year have been spent on roads, taking children to school, and public health service, which includes immunization, baby clinics, and thet sort of thing." "The roads."" he continued, "have taken the main part of expenditures. And we believe in spending money to transport children to school, for they would be all tuckered out and unable to concentrate properly, if transportaâ€" tion was not furnished. t snon â€"as ihe said. General Secretary. The information from these interviews weas sent to Toronto where the final selections were made. Mrs. Jean Proulx, of Timmins, received a medal for being the youngest grandmother sweeping on the ice at the Haileybury bonspeil last week. Mrs. Proulx is a member 06 the district ladies team . Over 200 ladies took part in the bonspiel. * "And nory," said Mrs., Ledicot, president of, the Haileybury Women‘s Curling Club, "I present this medal to the youngest grandâ€" mother sweeping on the iceâ€" Mrs. Jean Prouix, of Timmins." Everybody laughed. Mutually Advantageous The tour is part of a program by the Canadianâ€"born jndustrialist to cultivate closer relationships between the two countries. It began last year with a trin to Canada for 50 British boys. A similar group will come to Canada again this summer. Well, it was certainly nice to get it, said Mrs. Proulx, fondling the medal, after returning to to)ovyn this week. Mrs. Proulx was a member of the "Colts," of South Porcupine, who came fourth and were comâ€" prised of the following: Mrs. Grace Murray (skip); Mrs. Mary White, (vice skip); Mrs. ‘"Winnie" Brown, (second); and Mrs. Jean Prouix, (lead). The Canadian boys will sail from Quebec City, July 12, zsboard the ©Fraconia" They will spend nearly a month touring Great Britain before arriving back in Montreal August 17. When Mr. Weston retired from the British House of Commons to return to his business interests, he announcâ€" ed his plan to foster closer ties beâ€" tween Great Britain and Canada. The plan would enable teenâ€"age British boys to visit Canada each year, as soon as travel conditions permitted, Nice Going, Grandma‘ Published in Timmins,. Ont., Carads EVERY THURSPAY French article below, and verified by Rev. R. Mathieu, pastor of‘St. Anthony‘s Cathedral. on page four. But the Church of Notre Dame de Lourdes is derived from St. Anâ€" thony‘s Cathedral, as explained in the A dJdesk in the YMCA had been on its last legs throught 1949 and nearly new year. It had tough legs. ‘It had to. It gets pushed around and sat upon. Many youths‘ meetings are held zround and about and upon it. And last week the old girl‘s legs gave out, she fell apart and collapsed. Hence it is that Gower Markle, YMCA secretary, now has no desk. Mcanwhile he has secured a makeâ€" shift table. The following moticlhs were passed by the Town Council this week: (The first name is the proposer, the second, the seconder). Del Villano â€" Bartleman That the Town did sell to Amy Francoeur,.. the lands. described in Parcell 1488 in the Register for Whitâ€" ney and Tisdale, for the sum of $476.88. That the tbown did sell to Amy Francoeur, the land described in the Register for Whitney and Tisdale for the sum of $410.70. Bartlieman â€" Barkwell That the Clerk be instructed ta adâ€" vertise inviting applications for the position of Town Manager for the Town of Timmins. Bartleman â€" Del Villano That the representatives of Calvert, Playfair, Tisdale, Whitney, Blackriver and Mcduntjoy (townships), and Cochâ€" rane, Iroquois Falls, Mathecson and Timmins (towns) meet at the Timâ€" mins town hall tomorrow at 2.00 p.m., with the Northern Ontario Agriculâ€" ture Development Ccinmissioner, and others, and that this meeting investiâ€" gate with regard. to the unemployâ€" ment siiuation, and the shortage of manpower on Cochrane district farms. 1. The problems of opening up new farm lands in the district. 2. What Government assistance is already being given. 3. How much more assistance would be required to settle Southern Onâ€" tario unemployed on Northern Onâ€" taris farms . And that a committce be formed at this meeting to draw up a brief to be nresented by Mr. Grummett, M.P. to the Ontario legislature for immediâ€" ate discussion. A Great Idea "Those who came to Canada last yecer made many friends for Great Britain," said R. A. Robertson, preâ€" sident of George Westen Limited. "As a recult, Mr. Weston decided to brozien the program to include trips to Great Britain for Canadian boys. They are being selected from all 10 provinces by a special committee of the YMCA. which is working with other boys‘ work groups." Aversge age of the boys scelected is 16. In the selection, emphasis was laid on such characteristics as broad interests, cooperation and enthusiasm for group activities . Travelling with the boys as leaders will be two YMCA. boys work secretaries. Arrangements in Canada are being mzade by the National Counâ€" cil of the Y.M.C.A. and the Weston Organization. The group, while in Great Britain, wili be under the supâ€" ervision of "the National Assocxatxon of Boys‘ Clubs and the Weston Orâ€" vanizztion there. YMCA Death of a Desk Dcl Villano â€" Bartleman Council Notes THURSDAY, MARCH 2nd, 1950 Kiwanis Achieve Much; Thanks Sent by Many An outstanding feature at the open forum at the weekly luncheon of the Timmins Kiwanis Club at the Empâ€" ire Hotel on Monday was the reading by Past® President F. A. Woodbury of the achievement report for1949. Alâ€" though time would not allow reading the lengthy report in full, the excerpts given so impressed the members that, on motion of E.H. King, seconded by H. G. Laidlaw, it was unanimously decided to make this report reading a special feathre of each year, as early in the year as possible. Past Presâ€" ident King commented on the good effect it should have on the morale of all members. as it gave striking procf of the many activities carried on. After referring briefly to the valuâ€" able publicity received during the year snd the kind coâ€"operation=~of both the local newspapers and the radio, the immediate past president gave a concise review of the good work of the several committses during 1949. Praise for Programme Committee The programme and music Comâ€" mittee eczm in for words of praise, while the value of such committees as tose in charge of the Kiwanis Boy.! Scout, the Kiwanis Air Cadets, voctâ€". ional guidance, juvenile court, the Kiwanis Saftey Campaign, agricultâ€" ure and conservation, public and busiâ€" nss affairs, ectc., were given due crebit for notable work accomplished. In adcition to excellent music at all meetâ€" ings and a run of specially attractive programmes, the music and program committee had sponsored the successâ€" full Kiwanis Minstrel Show lIast year, had carried two notable social evenâ€" ings,. and provided a sliver trophy for the Porcupine Music Festival. Notable Work for Children The whole report was an impressive reminder that the Kiwanis Club here is fully justifying its existence. This ‘is particularly true in regard to the work for underprivileged children, and especially for crippled children. During the year, milk had been supâ€" plied to an average of 65 children in needy families, at a monthly cost of approximctely $190.00 per month. ie s } In addition to the sponsoring of the Ecster Seal campaign and the clinics for crippled children, the committee had sent thirtyâ€"one children to Torâ€" onto for treatment, as well as seeing to the treatment of some locally. All of these children had benefitted, while seme .had been restored to normal hbealth and usefulnegss. Kiwanis Minstrel Show Other reports of committees were submitted by Treasurer Nick Basciano, Maior Majury. Rod Osborne, F. A. Woodbury <(Support of Churches), and Dr. I. T. Brill. Speaking of the Minâ€" strel Show to be held this year on March 30th and 31st, Dr. Brill promâ€" ised it would be even better than last year. Any member who doubted this was invited to drop in at rehearâ€" salson Monday nights when they were l s sure to be convinced. Eeach member 'CA§E 14 Who A Halfbreea? Ssunshine, 18, a fullâ€"blooded Indian, went through school in té)e Indian Reservation. She was granted perrfiission to come to Timâ€" mins as a domestic. (She did so. She got to know a boy; started â€"going out and staying out late at night. It was decided that she would have to return to the Reservation. Beâ€" fore she could be collared she left her emâ€" ployer, lived with a friend, a partâ€"Indian, met another boy and became pregnant and went to Toronto. She was put in a home for unmarried mothers. One day she packed a bag and left the home, abandoning the baby (of which the Timmins Society is now in charge, having come from this district). No cne wants a halfâ€"breed. The Department of Indian Affairs may take it over. Otherwise the halfâ€"breed baby must be brought up by the Society for 15 years. There is no trace of Sunshine. CASE 15 The Flush of Youth Tiunree Romeos and three snugglepuppies went out to a dance in one car with one fortyâ€"ounce crock of whiskey. They had a great time. They became pleasurably tight. Anything goes and anything went. It was a warm summer evening. On the way home George parked the car. In and around and not very far away the pristine flush of intoxiâ€" cated youth gave way to madness and joy and Susan, 15, appealed to The Society four months later; Emma, 17, six; and Myrtle, 19, seven months later. Myrtle said: "What did God give it to me for?" The boys were found. Art and Charlie denied responsibility. Montâ€" gomery, a man, undertook to pay for the upâ€" keep of one baby. The other two have been adopted. (These cases are attested by the Children‘s Aid Society, now campaigning for eight thousand dollars: post office box number three, Timmins). was given trventy tickets for the Kiwanis Minstrel Show to sell at the earliest possible date. Bibles for New Canadians Fred DeCruyengere brought to attâ€" ention a plan that met with enthusâ€" iastic support and interest. He had a letter from a friend in the Fort |Rainbow Roor March 11. Francis Kiwanis Club telling of the | w P Pn cce part that club was playing. in the | CALLING ALL FARMERS ceremony in regard to the granting of | Meeting tomorrow night; town citizenship to New Canzsdians. The hall: 160 acres to be offered to exâ€" Fort Francis Kiwanis not only to0Kk perienced men, potential district farâ€" (Continucd on Page Six) mers? THE NEEDIEST E. Urquhart Tells Rotary Of Retail Grocery Business Elvin Urquhart, a member of the Rotary club, spoke on Meat and Grocery Retailing, during the regular meeting of the club held in Goldfields hotel this week. Elvin reviewed his early days in Worthington when he warked an average of 15 hours a day in a small general store. Here he had an opâ€" portunity to study human sharacter from the frequenters of tha store. He stressed the importance of the training one received in a general store where everything the family reâ€" quired was sold. In the spring of 1918 he came to Timmins to work for J. R. Gordon stores. Timmins, at that time, "was a town of 5,300 people. He said he had to work hard for small pay at that time. In 1919 Hollinger took over the Gordon stores.. Later Elvin opened the T. Groceteria in Timmins and after two years .went to Sault Ste. Marie as manzsger for the same comâ€" pany. In 1938 Elvin opened hisg own store at 85 Maple Street South. He compared the chain store to the private one, where they were mostly order takers. A butcher had to be a shrewd business man to make a carcass Oof beef pay. He that most. customers chose the centre cuts, to the cheaper, more economical ones. He said that psyâ€" chology played a big part in the sales of a chain store embracing eye appeal and display, etec. Last year, he said, according to ctatistics, saleg through the independent stores amounted to $66 million, while those through the chain stores, totalled $34 million. He was thanked by Bill Long. The next meeting March 6th will be election night for the officers for the coming year. The following slate has been brought in by two nominatâ€" ing committees: President Andy Anâ€" derson. Vice Pres. Elvin Urquhart, Secretary Cliff Gibson, Treas., Handy Henderson: directors: Bill Long, Jim lMcClelland. Bill Taylor. Raph Harkâ€" ness. Bert Sutherand and J‘ack Helper | as Sgt. at A‘ms. There will be a dress rehearsal of "La Bsourrine" on sunday. It is not cpen to the public. The place, Le Circle Moliere‘s entry for the drama festival, will be presented to the public at the Finnish Hall on March 10. "We are putting on the fiiishâ€" ing touches," says Mrs. J. A. Theriau?", director, *â€"finishing bquches on speeches and moveâ€" ments. Gu-ests: Fotarian John Chalmers, Brownsburg: J. Smith, Noranda; G. W. Burnett, CKGB:; Nore. Flynn, Meeting: Hendy Henderson gave a report on the preparations for Ladies‘ Night and the first anniversary of the Club. This will be held in the Rainbow Roor March 11. Public Not Invitedâ€"Yet P > (These cases are attested by the Children‘s Aid Society, now campaigning for eight thousand dollars: post office box number three, Timmins). Published In Timmins, Ont.. Canada EVERY THURSDAY "Real peace does not depend on the atomic b o m b," avers Rev. C. E. Theriault. n o r does it depend upon the good will of diplomate. _ It depends upon that elderly Man. with arms extended, in Rome, who prays and cries for us ali~‘ (A sermon on "Lent," written by Rev. Theriault, will be found on page four). :# 4 ..A# age c\!..v,. 52e ) +CWB "Pinecrest," the new school off the end of Toke Street, is rapidly going up despite snow and high winds and low temperatures. The red bricks of the first floor walls are now tome twenty feet high. Mitted carpenters and â€" bricklayers are hard at work at 8.00 p.m. Since there is no floor as yet, snow must be shovelled irom the entire floor surface, which is quite a job after a heavy fall. Displaced Persons Involved But Not Blamed For Rioting Recent publicity in connection with incidents that occurred in Winnipeg and Timmins placed entire responâ€" sibility for the brawls that ensued upon Displaced Persons . According to police reports this was not true, Arthur MacNamara, Deputy Minister of Labour, stated last week in Ottawsc: The following report has been reâ€" leased from Ottawa: "Posters, advertising a meeting at the Ukranian Labor Temple, and inâ€" viting the public to attend appeared in numerous places in Timmins. Some 75 D.P.‘s attempted to join the meetâ€" ing. However, due to the screcning policy of the Association, which evidently did not want more embarâ€" racing questions asked, these people were not admitted, so they gathered cutsicde the hall, crowding the doorâ€" way. and finally pushing in the door. ! ~"The police investigation showed that the Displaced Persons cooperated fully while the members of the Asâ€" ;sociation of United Ukrainian Canaâ€" ‘dians. who were involved, failed 1to do so zo such an extent that the police investigation was dropped. It iteppr-:arf.‘d plain that the physical ‘violence occurred was primarily preâ€" cipitated by members and followers fof the Association of United Ukraiâ€" !nian Canadians and not by Displaced i Persons.‘ "Evidently this action was expe{ed by members at the meeting, as imme diately 10 or 15 men retzaliated by attacking the D.P.‘s. The Timmins police arrived approximately three minutes after the fracas commenced anc herded the D.P.‘s down the street. Halil zn hour after the short battle., the street was cleared. One arrest was made and the individual concernâ€" ed was scbsequently fined $10 on a miror charge of disorderly conduct. In Timmins. the report places the onus for the disturbance on memâ€" bers of the Asscociation of United Ukrainian Canadians, not on Disâ€" placed Persons. Sixtyâ€"four veterans‘ hospitals and samatoria are supplied with 8,000 free movie showings yearly by the Canaâ€" dian Red Cross Society. Peace: Rev. Theriault "PINECREST" GOING UP This water is used for cocking, washing and drinking. The water is carried from the river in buckets. In summertime the river stinks. In wintertime, today, the water is drawn from holes cut in the ice. There are several holes. Each has a besaten path leading to it. The water is pale yellow. HMHand Me That Axe Do the holes freeze every night? "Yes." said Lloyd Rice, 12, of Park street. How does he open the hole in the morning"? "With an axe," he explained. How long does the bucketful of water last his family"? "One day," he said, "but it is a very big bucket. The Rice family lives very close to the river, a mere stone‘s throw. right down near the bridge. When. Lloyd fetches the water does he walk straight to the river to draw it? He does not. He walks South, about half a mile, and around the bend. and there at a point well cround the bend he draws the water. Why? Because the sewage of innumerable homes pollute the river within that half mile: and because the flows from South to North at that section. Many outhouses border the riverâ€" bank. In many cases piles of unâ€" adulterated excrement rise above ground level. In the spring a grceat desal, and during rainstorms. much is washed into the river. In winterâ€" time. today, at six feet distant, the stench is nauseating. Jodoin and Jodion Leonard Jodoin, Ronald street, also fetches water in a bucket for his family. Does he mind getting it? "No," he said,. "I don‘t mind." Does he mind drinking it? ~No," he said,. "It‘s good and cold." Does he mind getting it? "No," he said. "I don‘t mind." Does he mind drinking it? ~No," he said,. "It‘s good and cold." Mrs Albert Jodoinâ€" (anâ€" aunt of Leongrd‘s), Ronald street, does not use any water from the river at all, at least not directly. She draws her water from a well. Does it pump well? "Oui. il marche bien." Does it not freeze? "Non," she said. One Well: $800 Many residents have wells Why do they not all have wells and thus avoid contaminated water? . Because they are expensive, depending on the location and the type of soil beneath the property. One resident dug one hundred and twelve (112) feel, at a cost of eight hundred dollars ($800) â€"in vain, for, when water was finally struck, it proved too mucky, full of clay, to be drawn up. This resident baid an additional twelve hundred dollars ($1,200) to partake of water pumped up from the river by an engine. Single Copyâ€"Five Cents Some "borrow" water from neighâ€" bours who have wells, until it gets too low, whereupon the well owner will say:~*"*Sorry, that is all I can spare. you must go back to the river for water for aywhile again." Is the Mountijoy section of the river contaminated only by excrement from Mountjoy houses" No, it is further contaminated, just South of the bridge by the discharge of the sewage from the townâ€"of Timmins. This is the source of the stench of the river. Of{ Intestinal Origin The water of the â€"Mattagemi River according to The Porcupine Health Unit, is class "D" water: "Bacteria of intestinal origin present in numbers usuglly considered unsafe for drinkâ€" ing unless boiled or chlorinated," as defined by the Department of Health of Ontario. The â€" Health Unit â€" recommends chlorination â€" of _ every bucket{ul drawn from the river: "We have told them and told them," Dr. G. B. Lane said. According to Mountjoy resiâ€" dents, they do not bother much. The Health Unit has also recently tessed water fromâ€" wells, and sandâ€" points (a metal "spearhead percolaâ€" tor" which is driven into the earth and affixed to a pipe .which funcâ€" tions as a well). Out of 62 tested, three disgorged class "D" water. No ezses of, disease contraction have yet Leen traced to this section of the river, avers J. Meehan, Healta Unit official, though some have been traced to the section below the Timâ€" mins‘ sewage outlet. "But,." he adds, "all the water of the river is potenâ€" tially dangerous." vice Blood transfusion therapy shortens the period of hospitalization and thereby increases hospital capacity. sccording to the Canadian Red Cross free national Blood Transfusion serâ€" FREE BLOOD