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Oshawa Times (1958-), 24 Nov 1961, p. 17

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THE OSHAWA TIMES, Fridey, November 24, 1961 Magazine Tale Of Red Spy In Ottawa OTTAWA (CP) -- A Swedish! magazine's tale of a beautiful | but ruthless Russian spy who) worked .out of a downtown Ot-| tawa lingerie shop was greeted) Thursday with smiles in official! circles. | The modern-day Mata Hari! tale is reported in the Swedish magazine Aret Runt (Year Round). Police and federal a ernment officials said they had no record of the woman According to Aret Runt, a 37- year-old professional spy named Tanja Markovna Radjonska op- erated an espionage ring here for about two years, using & lingerie store as her "front." The story says she was re- called by Soviet authorities in March of this year after she: 1. Poisoned a German - born electronics engineer who fre fused to hand over secret data, making it look like a suicide 2. Arranged the kidnapping) on a main street of a Czechos-| lovak immigrant working as 4 draftsman in an aircraft fac- tory. The draftsman, who had) threatened to go to the police) rather than co-operate with the) spy, was drugged and subse- quently put aboard a Russian ship. | 3. Became engaged to a "high-| ranking member of the police 8 | Students Tasting Beer For Brewery TORONTO (CP)--A_ brewing, company confirmed Thursday) that it uses students to conduct! taste tests on its products. iso the 5. N. Lambert, publicity di-| rector for O'Keefe Breweries, 3 ; confirmed a report carried by . a university news service that and will be on his giant breweries in this area use stu- dents from Ryerson Institute of ' 2 Technology in its tests. reindeer float in the big Mr, Lambert said the com pany has used Ryerson students d '"rom_ time to time" to form test panels. para e The report said student vol- unteers are given three glasses * . of beer and are asked to state accompanied with which they prefer and why. La- ter, they are invited to a re- : ception bands - clowns - drum majorettes 1500 Attend Party | cheerleaders and elves. For Fred Gardiner TORONTO (CP) -- Fifteen)! hundred admirers of Frederick) G. Gardiner paid tribute Thurs- day night to the retiring chair-|! man of Metropolitan Toronto// council at a $25 - a - plate vee | timonial dinner. Among those who attended} were several members of Metro council who earlier expressed) reluctance at crossing picket lines to attend the dinner, held} at the strikebound Royal York) y eee : Hotel. | . +» Children are invited to visit Mr. Gardiner will step down, as Metro chairman at the end! : the year after eight years in "m3 ar eight years in| with Santa Claus after the parade Proceeds from the dinner,| ; sponsored by the Metropolitan) : Lower Level. Toronto Board of Trade, will be used to establish a $20,000) scholarship in political science at the University of Toronto. | ... every Child visiting Santa will receive Helicopter Service To Malton, Jan. 1 TORONTO (CP) -- The first) regular helicopter passenger} service between Toronto Inter- national Airport at Malton and| downtown Toronto will start) New Year's Day, it was an-| nounced Thursday by the air) transport board A licence was awarded Thurs- flay by the board to a Toronto firm to operate between its heliport on the Toronto water- front and the airport. The firm, Pegasus Airlifts, plans 12 trips each day. The trip will take 10 _ and the fare will be "This is more than compe- titive with ground transporta- tion when it takes maybe an) hour to get to the airport by road," said Robert Gillies, pres-| ident of Pegasus. a giant Candy Cane. Uranium Sales | Report Hopeful | OTTAWA (CP)--Encouraging progress was reported Thurs-| day after the latest round of} Canadian - British renegotia-| tion of a 1957 commitment by) the United Kingdom Atomic| Energy Commission to buy! uranium here. a Canadian sources indicated| that the quantity has been virt- ually settled--the same 12,000) tons specified in the 1957 com-| mitment--but that the questions) of price and delivery dates re-| main open. _ Detailed study on both ques-| tions already has started and} further meetings will be held,| these sources said. | Sir Roger Makins, canteens of the British atomic agency, | left here. late Thursday follow ne two davs of talks. with! Giekeinn vrccideat of msecsas! HOWEVER LARGE YOUR "PIGGY-BANK" | Mining and Refining Limited,} agen Sy YOU'LL FIND CHRISTMAS GIFTS OF YOUR CHOICE % ADIEU STALIN T. JULIEN, France (AP)--} A ripple from Soviet Premier! Khrushchev's denunciation "ofl ™ eas bichaa -- Stalin touched this village in central France. Pranksters painted out the street-name sign =. Boulevarde Joseph Stalin, and in its place lettered) "Adieu." '

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