7 | YEAR-END DEATH ROUNDUP "The Light Went Out' On Many Notables By BORIS MISKEW the Commons almost imme-|O'Casey shook the Ould Sod of Canadian Press Staff Writer |diately after arriving in Britain,|Ireland from his. feet when vio- The world mourned the death|was made a peer in 1917 and in|lent controv pted over in 1964 of Jawaharlal Nehru,|1918 was named to the cabinet/his plays Juno site' the Paycock prime minister of India sincejas minister of information. and The Plough and the Stars. she attained independence from) He returned to the cabinet un-| Behan, a boisterous, anti-Brit- Britain in 1947 and chief spokes-|der Winston Churchill in thejish terrorist and incorrigible man for the non-aligned na-|Second World War as ministerjrebel against authority, was a bene of war production. so be fol at ime end, As ve ve news to an- leaving a relatively small body nounce to the House and the|AMERICAN LEADERS of published and dramatized country," Steel Minister C, Sub-| Among prominent Americans 'ramaniam told India's Lower, who died in 1964 were former House of Parliament, "The|President Herbert Hoover and prime minister is no more. The|"en, Douglas MacArthur. light is out."" Hoover died in New York Oct. works and ending what had promised to be a brilliant rather than merely spectacular career. The little Irishman had long suffered from diabetes and THE QiiiAWA TIMES, Thursday, December 31, 1964 9 after suffering = © rhage in the Crimea while on @ vacation. The entertainment world lost a number of well-known Holly- wood celebrities. They included: Sir Cedric Hardwicke, a Brit- ish-born actor who died in New York Aug. 6; Peter Lorre, 59, who died March 23; Eddie Can- tor, 71, who died Oct. 10; Harpo 'Marx, 75, who died Sept. 28; Alan Ladd, who died Jan. 31, and William Bendix, 58, who died Dec. 14. Other world notables who died during the year included Sir Beverley Baxter, former editor-in-chief of the London Daily Express and.member of the British House of Commons, } Perfection? TORONTO (CP) -- Highways Minister Charles MacNaughton said Tuesday only 318 miles of the 1,453 miles of the Trans- Canada Highway in Ontario re- main to be brought up to Trans- Canada standards, During 1964 reconstruction of 62 miles was completed, with: work well advanced on anothe1 63 miles, Mr. MacNaughton said in a year-end report. Most of the work was in Northern Ontario. During the year the highways department spent almos:. $300,- 000,000. Of this, $141,500,000 was) for new construction, $47,000,-| 000 for maintenance and $112,-/ 20 one month after celebrating|other infirmities that either]. ; Bias con i ager thel his 90th birthday and after hav-larose from excesses or dictated) 42 ® Lwtig Keine " Aon 45,00 for road subsidies to destiny of 460,000,000 Indians--|im& suffered several serious ill-/, more austere life for sur- badd og pon ae By . a municipalities, the world's largest democracy|nesses in recent years. He rose| survival. ae . san Widen lag te, Separument | completed | --was passed on to the smaller}from an engineer and became 4) piominent women who died Msg peor age rt pings 46 miles of new pavement and} shoulders of Prime Minister Lal|Republican president, being aiing the year included Vis-\ 0; sue foo more than 60 highway struc- Bahadur Shastri. elected to the White House in countess Astor, a sharp-tongued rg ater Ae " gon ug: tires in 1964. Nehru died on May 27 in New 'ig Map gM sama 1932 Virginian who became Britain's First Werid Wer, "gas ye th | Mr, MacNaughton said that Delhi after suffering a heart at- MacArthor died 'in.' Washing- first woman member of Parlia-| itog states Army, at Nash- 50 miles of new lanes opened| tack-at his home. He was 74. [ion at - E'\ment, She died May 3, . if' 'lon Highway 401 between Lon. | at #4, death being attributed ; ville, Tenn., Sept. 2; Otte Grote ion and Tilbury left only 20! 'BEAVER' GONE to kidney and liver failure. The world of music lost Pierre! wohi, 70, premier of East Ger-| lee of two . lane highway The Commonwealth lost an-| He was supreme allied com-|Monteux, 80, a French-born Con\ many, in Berlin Sept. 21, and) signe the 401 rout reieaed other of her giants with the/mander in the Southwest Pa-|ductor whose career spanned/Roy Howard, 81, chainman of pi Ontarlo anes' talenee | death June 9 of Lord Beaver-\Cific in the Second World War|more than a half-century withithe executive committee of the!" Grading had | | 'eniand headed the occupation of|the world's great orchestras. He) copinns-H, d newspapers, i irading had been completed| brook, a Canadian-born million-|5 . led f P inst\died in Hancock, Me., July 1 Scripps-Howard newspapers, In| qver the 20-mile stretch and| ite, she Pally a press empire ri ech io aden' wath Cola Porter, 71, the interna-lnew_ + ore Nov. 20. __|most of the granular base had| , i ally - ed composer of| tbeen laid, Mr. MacNaughton Beaverbrook died at his Sur-|2 yd nag Petipa e yecgge! & Wien aa oy a Seats the SCIENCE IN A CAVE said. An early start jee be rey home two weeks after he! icy \Beguine, died Oct. 15 in Santa) NICE,'France (AP)--Clad in) made on paving in 1965, had been acclaimed by fellow) ; \Monica, Calif., a multi-million-|ski pants and jacket and lug-| Newspaper men at a London|IRISH WRITERS DIE laire, confidant of celebrities but| ging a butane gas stove, 26-year-/STRETCHES 510 MILES dinner marking his 85th birth-} Two playwrights were among\a man without any immediate|old midwife Josianne Laures| Highway 401 now stretches day. |those lost by the literary world. |kin. lwent 100 yards into a cave for 510 miles from Lancaster, | Born in Ontario and raised in|They were Sean O'Casey, 84,| Among royalty, King, Paul ofjhoping to stay three months--in|near the Quebec border, to| New Brunswick, Beaverbrook|who died Sept. 19 in the English|Greece, reigning monarch since|the interest of science, she said, | Windsor. eo already was a millionaire when/town of Torquay, and Brendan|1947, died March 6 in Athens|She plans to knit, weave bas- he moved to Britain at the age'Behan, who died March 20 in from complications that set injkets and do needlework but/facturer Max Senni, 35, occu. of 28. Dublin at the age of 41. following a stomach 'ulcer|didn't say what she might prove|pied a nearby cave vowing to Beaverbrook was elected to\ Born in a Dublin slum,|operation. He was 62. 'scientifically. Furniture manu-|stay for four months. RESOLUTION MAKE IT A_ HABIT TO USE LOW-COST TIMES ACTION WANT ADS IN 1965 TO BUY - SELL- RENT -HIRE Host or guest, tonight make that 'one for the road' Chase & Sanborn coffee. Do, and you'll be helping yourself and others to make sure of tomorrow. Make it Chase & Sanborn -- and you may make a discovery. about coffee as well. DIAL 723-3492 For A Courteous Ad-Writer &