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Miracle At Tr Adjacent to the sheep market in Jerusalem was a mineral bath known as the Pool of Bethesda, which had become so famous for its reputed curative power that afflicted persons .congregated there from far and near. The pool was surrounded night and day by the blind, the deaf, the lame and halt, the maimed and the de- formed, the withered, the sick and invalid of all ages. Five porches had been built near the water to help shade and shelter these unfor- tunates. It was not a pleasant sight, there at the pool, nor a pleas- ant sound: the moans and wailings of the afflicted, gro- Sesquely entwined with the pleating of the doomed sheep & the corrals of the nearby narket. It was of no use to bathe fn this Hebrew "fountain of youth" at just any time, for according to the legend an angel came down and "troubled the water,"' caus- ing it occasionaly to bubble up --as spring-fed mineral pools typically do -- and then whoever was first to get into the water "was made whole of whatsoever disease he had." This sporadic motion of the water was thus anxiously, des- perately awaited, and when- ever it occurred there was a frantic, if unbrotherly, rush grees Inquiry To P Of County Home Brutality LINDSAY, Ont. (CP) --A board of inquiry will be estab- lished to investigate charges of brutality against residents of Victoria County Home for the Azed here The decision was made at the ae TMesrale MM. .~ VOL" LIULK UIST) Death In Flames HAMILTON (CP)--One man oubled Water to be the first into it. Some of the afflicted per- sons were aided in their ef- fort by friends, but others had to make the attempt on their own. One Sabbath day Jesus visi- ted the area. He took notice of an elderly man lying on a dirty mattress. Through: sin this man had brought a mal- ady upon himself, and had been an invalid for 38 years. B-B Probe \Over After 4 UGin OTTAWA (CP) -- The royal commission on bilingualism and biculturalism completed two years of public forums and hear- ings Thursday after receiving the last of 410 briefs from groups and individuals. Commission co-chairman Da- vidson Dunton said he had no idea when the inquiry, set up July 22, 1963, would report to the government but it would be as soon as_ possible. The 10 commissioners have scheduled two "neetings in Jan- uary to begin the laborious proc- ess of analysing a mass of opin- ions and research data and reaching: conclusions. The last sitting day of the four-day Ottawa hearing was de- voted largely to submissions by university and cultural groups. The University of Montreal called for an updated constitu- tion, amendable in Canada rather than Britain, that would guarantee Frehch language rights across the country. The university brief also rec- ommended a permanent com-|fraydulent bankruptcies. mission on bilingualism and bi-| wis health suffered and, ac- culturalism be set up to continue) cording to his resignation state-| the royal commission's work.| ment, his political troubles were The new agency could finance', main cause. research and exchanges of stu- dents and professors and make GIVEN POSTAL JOB - Twa Va are & fos a wy By MICHAEL GILLAN OTTAWA. (CP)--For mast of his 24% years in Prime Minister Pearson's cabinet, Rene Trem- blay was an unhappy man. When he entered federal poli- tics in 1963 his star shone less brightly than thase over Guy Favreau and Matrice Lamon- tagne, but he was touted as one of the bright, young men from Quebec. This reputation was re- flected in his appointment to a cabinet post--minister without portfolio--as soon as the govern- ment took office. He performed unspec- tacularly, but without any seri- ious trouble, in his first port- folio and after taking over im- migration from Mr. Favreau early in 1964. Then the storm broke. His name gained national at- tention overnight when one of) his aides was named in allega- tions in the Lucien Rivard af- fair. Only weeks later came dis- closures that he and Mr, La- montagne bought furniture with no down payment from a Mont- real firm that was investigated by a Quebec commission on Tremblay Mostly ae aaa li rhannyu In PF 6 SS 2 Shortly after that the postal strike tied un the mails and caused another major crisis for the government. pressed for his resignation. On Thursday met, but Mr. Tremblay's state- ment indicated he is leaving the ministry in a happier frame of mind, letter last spring, which sent him to hospital, quitting the cabinet in case it was interpreted as an admis- sion of guilt, longer apply," he said. fore the Dorion inquiry into the |Rivard affair and was given a 'clean bill of health. Chief Justice Frederic Dorion's statement Honorable Mr. suffered statements or certain published comments, it is to be hoped that the persons responsible will now recognize his honesty and integ- rity. minister said he paid regular prices "within the earliest pos-} sible delay following delivery." ast siibesiernaiived For months opposition MPs the demands were He said in his resignation that despite his illness he decided against "These circumstances no Mr. Tremblay testified be- Mr. Tremblay pointed to which said "'if the Tremblay has consequences from On the furniture issue, the Mr. Tremblay, 43, with a bril- | acquire a new dimension. recommendations to the govern- ment, DISBAND COMMISSION There was a tense moment in the hearing when the Voice of) Canada League, a new local] group claiming more than 300) members, submitted a brief call-| ing for the disbanding of the royal commission Deane H. Russell, league pres-| ident, said Canada is "a British-| designed country" and an Eng- lish-speaking country. The qual-! ity of the civil service would be} He had had much time to lament his misdeeds. "Wilt thou be made whole" Jesus asked him. The old man looked up in despair. "Sir," he pleaded, "I have no man, water is troubled, to put. me into the pool, but while I am coming, another steps down before me." Long deprived of the alleged miraculous power of water, the afflicted man now | was blessed with a miracle | of Christmas: forgiving him of | his sins and rebuking his | illness, the Christ said de him, 'Rise, take up thy bed, and walk," Instantly the man felt a | wo surge of strength | and vigor through his body, | such as he had not known since youth. | "Immediately the man was | made whole, and took up his | bed, and walked."' --By John J. Stewart robe Charge , monthly meeting Thursday the board of management the county home which cares for about 90 elderly persons of James Growden, Lindsay laborer, made the jcharges atthe --meeting._He said he has seen four incidents of brutality in the last year while visiting his brother Fred Growden, 64, a resident at the 0 . a retired A motion by Robert Cam- when the | down-graded if bilingualism was introduced | Sharply-increased federal aid) j\to the arts, humanities and so- | cial sciences through the Can-) jada Council was recommended iby the Canadian Conference of \the Arts, the Social Science Re-| search Council and the Humani- ties Research Council, All three groups said closer | cultural links are needed be- the jtween English and French-$$§0 speaking Canadians. The Sir George Williams' As-; sociation of University Teach-| ers recommended pene xSP | ported French-language instruc- tion for French-Canadians out-| side Quebec, improved teaching of Canadian history and more cultural exchanges. The provinces were urged to work together to co-ordinate) their school programs more) closely. | Latest Shut | By Seaway | MONTREAL (CP) -- The st! Lawrence Seaway has had the latest closing of its six-year his tory as unseasonably warm weather delayed the end of its| season until Thursday night. The last vessel through the} for St. Lambert lock near here was | ------_--_---- the laker Rimouski. A total of! 95 ships passed downstream through the lock after the of- ficial Dec. 3 closing. This year's closing is almost a week later than-the previous lrecard late date of Dec, 1, set | | system in 1963. Other past closing dates were Dec. 3 in 1959 and 1960, Dec. 2 in 1961, and Dec, 7 in 1962 and 1964. Mr, Pearson moved him from liant academic record but less res ee : 5 sLeSIQHAaUO!. OTTAWA (CP) -- Following is the text of a statement is- sued by State Secretary La- montagne Thursday night when he announced his resig- nation from the cabinet: I have submitted my resig- nation as a minister to the prime minister. That decision was made in principle before I left for my holidays and was finalized this evening. Here is the text of the letter I wrote to the prime minister, My dear Prime Minister: During more than 20 years and often under difficult con- ditions, I have sought to serve my compatriots and my coun- try, in universities, in the civil service and in Parlia- ment, to the best of my knowledge and according to my conscience. I have valued the opportunity to try to make a contribution to the reorien- tation of our federalism, to the development of bilingual- ism, and to the first stage of economic planning. I have sought to initiate a more dy- namic federal policy in cul- tural affairs in the hope that Canadian unity thereby would SHOW NO. FAVORITISM As a member and as a min- isier, I have fulfilled my re- Pay Cash I buy furniture, pay cash." rice Lamontagne spell his epi- taph as a federal cabinet min- ister, as secretary of state, a year after controversy broke over a furniture purchase he made four years ago. Prime Minister Pearson's cab- inet asa champion of confeder- ation from a province embroiled in constitutional controversy. nomic adviser to Mr. from 1957 to 1962, had a hard time breaking into politics. until 1958 and was defeated in the same riding again in 1962 by a rookie. Creditiste. Montreal seat, Outremont - St. Jean, that also has a Liberal history. HELD MANY OFFICES inet April 22, 1963; as president|viser to the Privy Council when quotes jof the 'Privy ig 11964. THE OSHAWA TIMES, Fridey, December 17, 1965 3 f You Castle Blaze. "Found in Men's Room' NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) -- The telephone operator of the cruise ship Yarmouth Castle testified Thursday that the fire aboard the' ship was first dis- covered in a meri's rest room, and not in mystery Cabin 610, , The statement by Nathaniel © Williams contradicted testi- mony previously given by the captain and chief engineer of the Canadian-qwned vessel. Williams also testified that some passengers panicked and jumped overboard when fire broke out Noy. 13 while the liner was en route to Nassau from Miami. : The coast guard investigators sere TY Tee rs & Uli By GERARD McNEIL in 1961 of $4,056.28 worth of OTTAWA (CP)--"if you ever|furniture' by Mr; Lamontagne |\from a Montreal firm headed |by two brothers, Adolph and the late Max Sefkind. |\TREMBLAY INVOLVED Rene Tremblay, then .immi- gration minister, had bought furniture on credit from a firm in which Max Sefkind held an interest. Mr, Tremblay resigned Thursday night as postmaster- general. Mr. Lamontagne and Mr. Tremblay then admitted they) had made credit purchases) from the Sefkinds but strongly denied accepting gifts from the brothers and said they even- tually paid in full for the furni- ture. | Mr. Lamontagne was born in| ; Mont Joli, Que., and in. 1941/2%¢ in The Bahamas seeking took a'master's degree in so.|testimony from crew members cial science at Laval Univer-|¥h0 scattered: 40. Vier aus: Bemis \sity. After taking an economics alter the disaster. eat cates degree at Harvard, he returned 90 lives, including fone shiva to Laval to teach for 11 years. Canadians, From 1949 on, he was director, The ship was owned by Cana- of the department of economics.|ian. Jules Sokoloff and 'regis- In Ottawa, he became assist-| tered in Panama. ant minister of northern affairs in 1954. He was economic ad-| TORONTO (CP) -- The Star the Canadian "regis- Council and be-|the Conservatives took power in| tered owner" of the Yarmouth ame secretary of state Feb, 3, 1957. Castle as saying an arsonist He resigned, took: a post at was responsible for the burning These seven words from Mau- He resigned Thursday night It overshadowed his place in Mr. Lamontagne, 48, eco- Pearson He couldn't win Quebec East, then solidly Liberal, in The following year he won a He was sworn into the cab-! immigration to the "less oner- luck politically, moves now to} office portfolio.'the government back bench. our" post 'Dear Mr. Prime Minister' OTTAWA (CP) -- Following is the text of a statement by | Postmaster - General Trem- | blay Thursday night announc- ing his resignation from the | cabinet: | My dear Prime Minister, | Since I have been a mem- | ber of your government, the } strains of office which I have | experienced have been no less than those of many of my | colleagues. Suffering from hy- | pertension, however, it was | natural that my state of health should rapidly deterior- ate. You might recall last Easter my period of hospital- | ization for several weeks. I | had considered at that time | | submitting my resignation to you so as to lighten. respon- | sibilities of office which had | become too onerous. I feared, | however, that such a step might be interpreted as an ad- mission of guilt of the many insinuations and_ allegations made against me, These cir- cumstances no longer apply. For one thing, the Honor- able Mr. Justice Frederic Do- rion, in his report on the Ri- vard investigation, made it a point to state (page 136) 'if the Honorable Mr. Tremblay has suffered consequences | | jhave | fected payment for the pur- chases within the earlier pos- sible delay following delivery and that I had paid regular prices for the merchandise. I made it clear that I had en- joyed no benefit nor 'condi- tions not otherwise available to anyone else. Finally, transpired a election has been held. I was again a candidate in the rid- ing of Matapedia-Matane and faced once again gvhat consti- | tutes the supreme tribunal of all candidates for public of- fice. The generous support which I received on Nov. 8 should be a final answer to all further accusations on this subject. In the event, I submit here- | with my resignation as post- master-general. Needless to say I member of Parliament for Matapedia-Matane and fulfil the mandate which the riding so generously renewed on Nov. 8 last. On closing, Mr. Prime Min- ister, may I offer you my very best wishes for success in the difficult tasks which you will again assume as head of our country during a diffi- cult period. since these events | general| shall continue to sit as sponsibilities without showing favoritism, direct or indirect, | to anybody. This is for me an essential principle from which an honest politician ought not to depart. I did not depart from it. I have been criticized for a private iransaction made be- fore I entered Parliament, a transaction not tainted with any dishonesty. The subse- quent controversy, which has been perpetuated for more than a year and which the | general election did not stop, | requires that I decide whether I can better serve my coun- try at this time inside or out- side cabinei. 1 have decided Pearson. |with a death toll of 90.° and the centennial commission. | The commission is headed by| | Why Pay More.. John Fisher, 53. SAVE | There were rumors of discord between Mr. Lamontagne and ON PREMIUM QUALITY FUEL OIL Mr. Fisher, former special as- Phone 668-3341 sistant to Conservative Leader Diefenbaker, over appointments | Serving Oshawa -- Whitby & Ajax Districts to the commission They led to speculation Mr Lamontagne might be shifted to another cabinet post. Demands that he should re- sign from the cabinet altogether came from opposition MPs after Conservative Donald MacInnis questioned in the Commons 16: In this portfolio, he had re-;(0¢ University, of Ottawa and/and sinking of the cruise ship sponsibility for broadcasting became a close adviser to Mr joff The Bahamas last, month Nov. 27, 1964 credit purchases to submit to you my resigna- tion, I shall, of course, con; tinue to represent in Parlia- ment my electors of Outre- mont-Saint-Jean. | consider as a most precious 'testimonial | the vote of confidence they gave me on Nov. 8. It was for me an honor to have been closely associated with your work as leader of | the Liberal party since 1958 and as prime minister of Can- | ada since 1963. or those who love a beautiful home DELUXE RECLINING CHAIR In Glove-Soft BOYS PREFER GREY SMETHWICK, England (CP) Rey. David Hewitt has de-| signed new robes for boy altar) servers in his church because they felt like "sissies" in tra- ditional cassocks and surplices. The new vestments, modelled jon monks' robes, are in two 'tones of grey. from statements or certain published comments, it is to be hoped that the persons re- sponsible will now recognize his honesty and integrity.' GOT NO BENEFIT On the matter concerning the furniture purchase, I had already explained to the House of Commons 'the cir- cumstances surrounding the transaction, that I had ef- INCENSE COVERS SMELL WARRINGTON, England (CP)--A brewery is helping to keep churchgoers warm in this Lancashire town. The heating, in St. Annes church broke down and- would have cost more than £1,000 to repair But the owners of the brewery was burned to death and an- kV Poa ; other seriously injured Thurs-|™@Ck, Victoria County warden, day when their small car col-|t0 exclude reporters from the lided with a tractor - trailer)Meeting. was lost for lack of In all past years the seaway next door offered to pipe waste was forced to close because of |Steam through the church after ice. This year, it closed be-| processing the beer. cause no more ships were avail a truck on Highway 6 near here, 2 seconder. Reporters sat in on the pr oceedings able to go through. CARD PASSED CENTURY ENJOY including main course, soup, or coffee 5c extra, TRY US TODAY! @ LIGHT LUNCHES and: taste temoting * CHINESE FOADS ATTENTION BUSINESSMEN... ! We serve o special businessmen's vegetobles ond desert, for 80¢ and up. Tea We also specialize in delicious Including Take-Qut-Orders. "Leather-Like" Expanded Vinyl S119 ... 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