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The Oshawa Times, 28 Jan 1959, p. 23

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Winns # "Goods Satisfe This is what the prisoner sees | years ago but over-crowding in | and metal basin in pleture at tn his cell at 8, Vincent De | the prison keeps them In use. | joft only facilities for the pri- : Paul penitetiary in Quebec Similar conditions exist at the | soner's dally ablutions [ cheste | titution Cells were condemned as unfit | Dorchester N.B ins sel for human habitation about 26 | Note the lidded metal bucket | ma (CP 1 hoto) UNIQUE IN WORLD Gold Bullion Listed On Stock Exchange dally, but one which doesn't nec For carefree cooking, choose a VIKING Electric Range ee only at EATON'S § " J | / ich this FORBES RHUDE [tries in the world in wh ) h A Press Business Editor |ls so, |essarlly stand up f nw the Jay: . TORONTO (CP)--Gold bulllon| SMALL AMOUNTS SINCE 1056 The London exchange denis i will be listed for trading on the, Canadian copper refiners has 400-0unce bars, kilo bars a Toronto Stock Exchange starting heen selling gold to individuals In sola, wm "0 pov ind bate af the 1 i XC se relatively small amounts since standard and prices lor Kic Nesta. Feb. 3. Se sachangy 1956, po with recently-increased vary with the premium required adin for the present af|interest, these reac hed $660,000 in |for melting them into 400-ounce -- wil be confined to Cana- December and $1,560,000 in Janu: bars or making kilo bars out of ' sroximate.y ary to date, the larger ones, | gian illo Ey "0 parts' The Bank of Nova Scotia has GOLD RETAIL TRADE » 000 of fine gold, and worth been buying and selling gold since| The exchange's action is be | ur 10 $1,100 ' { October, holding it In vaults and leved largely Sireewd ward They are 1 \anadian | issuing certificates which may be| "retail trade' from people Retin may yr grey we or sold without moving | terested in owning gold in smaller ary of ed A Mines 14d the gold, ok |qunscisies than the 400 - ounce which : A Bank of Nova Scotia spokes-| $14,000 bar, operates a refinery at ank LI a ; {man commented; Montren! Er "We have been selling kilo] Those interested in gold as ange bars, but we are basically in-/hedge against inflation and who Toronto exch will ag hid in transactions more believe the price of gold will ul Nove . by any regular stock consistent with the gold trade in. |timately be increased, auch as in the world {ternationally-transactions in 400. Foreign citizens who would pre- oxgpaney Is 23 asked i trading ounce bars or multiples of it/fer i hold Aoi here Fothny than ch are delivery' In Lon. in other parts le world, might be extended beyond the| Whileh as we y | United States citizens who wish kilo bar--gnid "We have been ing to create|to own gold but who are not per bid "'We' rimentiug. We don't -- may be stimu-|a market and have and of-| mitted to hold & in their own wall hin- [fered on quantities up to one ton country, dated ull ve a 40 0 the kilo (worth about $1,000,000) or mul-| People who simply regard gold mod fit Into|tiples of ome tom, as a glamorous metal and would hs eh Jleanion, make| 'We are offering that has|like to own some, " been assayed or refined by the Exchange iitislale sald hay on y action adds Canadian mint," [pect little price fluctuation or op The wl naw lactity NO FIGURES AVAILABLE portunity for sizable profit, Chief ® ei alr MY fol-| No figures have been an | fluctuation Is expected to result A Jou | growl: a. in|nounced concerning the amount| from dail variations in the ht im Ay oh has de-|of gold in the bank's vaults, One|Canadian dollar's value in terms | in recent months, shipment last fall was worth of the American, " are An outgrowth " tie government's action in oo which made gold a freely $9,000,000, Gold now is valued by interna The London bullion exchange, |tional agreement at $36 an ounce marketable commodity which can be bought, sold, held, imported referred to by the bank spokes-(in United States funds which man, is the world centre for gold means a lower current figure in or exported--one of the few coun- trading and Is made up of bank. Canadian funds because of the ers and refiners who set a price Canadian dollar's premium, Canada's Penitentiaries Are Vastly Overcro W ded petition between two convicts for the homosexual favors of a third, The Canadian government [cause it had no other place to Leghianigm is a frequent prob Bas embarked on a broad pro- (practise for the Christmas €00|jem in women's prisons, | gram of penal reform, What cert, Facllities are not available to! are the situations this Pro- |pypopve FINDERED "| segregate prisoners. gram will try to correct? How |™0 mm ih . { 's penitentiary pris- Fallure of prison construction In recent years Canada's prison do Joos " } work and walt? [to keep up with the growth InloMficials have become deeply ners oi Press reporter (Prisoner population in recent aware of the meed for modern: gk permitted to tour [years has resulted in constant ization, lx of the country's elght disruption of well-planned reform For the most part, they are programas, {doing thelr best to employ the This article la one of five telling what he saw, This situation produced the latest ideas. But they are work: | comment from many penitentiary ing with facilities substantially | |be apparent for three years. | Meantime, teen-aged first of.) fenders still are thrown in with {hardened criminals, | PRISON STABBINGS Stabbings still occur from com: Hlustrated: Custom Deluxe Viking, Model 1530D8W . 299-95 A moderate price Indeed for @ range with so many fine features! In gleaming white por celaln enamel, It's streamlined oppearance. Is one you'd be proud to have In your kitchen and note, too, the time. and labour-saving offers EATON Price, each. 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BATON'S Budget Plan Terme may be arranged with NO DOWN PAYMENT NATON'S LOWER LEVEL, DEPT, 254 PHONE RA 5.7073 orrow: Overcrowding, Tom PEACOCK officials that, at least In a prac- unchanged since the present By DON 11 Writer tical sense, Canadians are not/penal system's inception more Susan Press ait ries are/feLHINE full value (lor their tax than 100 years ago, Canada's penitentia dollar out of the federal prison| They are hampered by a short: vastly overcrowded, Some prison-| yu om, age of psychologists, classifica: ers live under condllons on Without taking into account hu- tion personnel and teachers, demned a quarter century ago manitarian considerations, they| They are hamstrung even more Thete facts of penal, 'behind #aId, It 1s an economic fact that by the fact al existing penlten: readily apparent in visits en. YOU get more for your peniten:| aries are walled--bullt primar. the walls of the SO0RtY a Pel Itiary dollar It a prisoner comes(iy to keep the worst possible Setinries to see how prisoners , formed. Eventually, near) types in custody, with reform as h {every prisoner returns to so o ; dn the "ight sxtsling federal In ciety, ois Pig! i afterthought Atifutiond, a space intended The rate of recidivism~or re . peater--prisoners entering Cana arin, wn un o pity nies 5 te 1 Jail Breaker iL ast Mare was RN problems Sod now are laying he, cent, up marginally from, » n OPK a and reorganiz: 44.87 per cent the previous vear Pleads Guilty ailon of the "a system. Major This contrasted with 63.5 per cent hanges are possibly three years for federal prisons In the United be [States In 1067 and 82.7 for that 0 T C ts awyy. year in Britain. The over-all re. \JI1 wo oun A WAITING LIST eldivism rate In Canada--for both | The space problem is so acute federal penitentiaries and pro-| HAMILTON (CP)--=A penitent! hat there was a walting list at/vinclal jails---ds about 80 per cent (ary escapee captured after he hee Meant 125 convici were|FXPECT BIGGER BUDGET LOL ML (CRUE Mlered by Viney Jails awaiting room| The penitentiary system's bud: {uyiity to possession of offensive in federal penitentiaries, which got for 1068.30 totals $12,000,000 weapons and burglary tools house criminals sentenced to terms of two years or mores The Penitentiaries Act says each prisoner Is entitled to an individual cell, For lack of space some were living In cell-block corridors at one penitentiary. At another, some were in a prison classroom converted to a dormit ory The pressure for accommoda tion Is so great that cells con. demned 28 years ago as unfit for human habitation still are in use, Cell blocks bullt In the early 19308 for temporary purposes con tinue to house prisoners. In the vintage cells at two penitentiaries the tollets are metal buckets with lids A western-style prisoner band in the British Columbia peniten tary at New Westminster plaved @allhouse Rock In the choir loft ef ba Roman Catholle chapel be: For the next fiscal year begin ning April 1, It likely will he at least 15,000,000 | Tt is estimated to eost almost $2,000 a year to keep each pris oner In a penitentiary. This buys society protection during his Im prisonment, but the only possible return for this Investment is the prisoner's. reform so he won't continue to be a drain on these tax-supported institutions At an October conference in Of tawa, federal and provincial go ernments reached agreement Ir principle on a course that Justice Minister Fulton says "should lead to great reforms in Canada's pen Itentiary system." A Justice department commit tee recently was appointed to work out the details but probably won't be able to present its plans n less than a vear. The commu nique issued by the conference sald concrete results might pot Jack Wavianslan, 20 Who es caped from Collins Bay prisos in {a car parked in front of a bank three weeks ago. Tn the car police found two pistols and 100 rounds of ammunition. He will be wentenced next Tuesday Similar charges against Isobel] Hitoviteh, 28, of Stoney Creek and oronto were dropped. 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