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Hailey ESTABLISHED 1904 urian-Cobalt Post -- Vol. 56 -- No. 38 : Haileybury, Ontario, Thursday, November 24, 1960 5c COPY ae Jury Finds Girl's Death Accidental Monique Talbot of Cobalt .died accidentally. That was- -the verdict reached Friday by -a coroner's jury. The inquest - was held at Haileybury with Dr. W.-C. Arnold and Crown - Attorney George Black presid- ing. we E Monique died in Haileybury _ hospital September 20. She was -rushed the day before after swallowing more than 50 pills sold as a cold cure by a Mont- real company. : The four-year-old girl had climbed on top of a cardboard box to reach the family's stock of medicines on a shelf. Her mother, Mrs. Palma_ Talbot, said that the family had just moved into their Earl Street home when the accident hap- pened. The little girl was upstairs at the time when she was dis- covered to have eaten the pills. It was believed that she had been consuming the pills for an 'hour or more before being discovered. Dr. H. A. Dunning of Cobalt said that he believed the child was doomed when it was first found she had taken the pills. The pills contained three dan- gerous drugs, any one of which might be fatal taken in large quantities. Dr. Dunning said that the child had vomited a number of times which normally might have got rid of the poison if it had occurred shortly after taking the pills. An autopsy re- vealed little trace of poison in the stomach, but large quan- tities in-the large and small bowels. He added that there are a humber of patent medicines than can be poisonous. One laxative contains strychnine, he said, and a _ two-year-old child died as the result of tak- 12 of the pills. The jury recommended that similar types of medicine should carry 'Poison' labels. Crown Attorney George Black said that the legal aspects of the case are being investigat- ed. (Editor's Note:) Warnings to parents concern- ing the dangers of medicines left where children can reach them are issued periodically by a variety of organizations. Hailybury Wins Lang Clark Trophy The Lang Clark Trophy, played twice each season between the Co- balt - Haileybury and the New Lis- keard Clubs, was. won by _ the Cobalt - Haileybury Club on Fri- day night, November 17. This tro- phy is competed for by ten rinks from each club with total points counting. Cobalt - Haileybury won by four points . the score be- ing 75 to 71. New Liskeard will have an opportunity to get the trophy back in the Spring when it will be played for again. The' first draw of the ladies' section has been completed. No winner was declared as the games were only for practice and to get everybody together to start the season off. Three games each were played and several rinks won all three games. The second draw gets underway at seven to-night. This is also a short competition, with only three games each. There will be no organized curling in the afternoon until after Christ- mas. The annual mixed bonspiel, the opening 'spiel for the immediate district is being held at the week- end in New Liskeard. It is hoped that the Cobalt - Haileybury Club will send a large entry. Many Candidates In Haileybury Vote Despite a nomination meeting completely lacking in speeches, reports to the public, or anything except some genteel 'horse trading, Haileybury is all set for one of the biggest elections in its history. Mayor Arthur H. Cooke is battl- ing Graham Hennessy 'for the Mayoralty. Mr. Cooke has been mayor eight years, and also serv- ed a couple of years as a council- Jor. Mr. Hennessy's municipal ser- vice has not been quite so long. He was elected to the 1958 coun- cil, then voted out of office for failing to attend meetings. All the present six councillors and four newcomers are seeking re-election. The councillors hoping to get the nod from the electorate 7 are Dr. W. C. Arnold, Ben Bud- geon, Charles Camsell, James Timmins, James Whelan, and Neil Fleming. The newcomers are Co- 1 alt's former Mayor Ken Buffam, a erve Lavigne, Richard Fleming aA, laus Sroka. For the board of education, six persons are running for the three seats open for election. They are Lorne Wiseman, Hubert Doran, Mrs. Judith Robinson, David Mc- Laughlin, E. E. Campbell and Bud Brooks. For the Separate School Board, Six are seeking election. They are G. Rouse, G. Davies, C. Perreault, L. Desjardins, F. Sauve and J. McMahon. ! {Se eS as Electors in Haileybury will have to_mark five ballots when they go to the polls. One for mayor; anoth- er for council; one for either sep- arate school board or board of ed- ucation; and two hallots on the li- quor question. An Apology Councillor Joe Watson of Bucke Township has issued an apology to Harry Groom, who is the township's former as- sessor, and is now running for reeve. Mr. Watson stated at the Bucke Township nomina- tion meeting that during the re-assessment, the assessor discovered a building on Mr. - Groom's land which had never before been assessed. Mr. Watson states that he was in error. "I apologize to Mr. Groom. The assessor made the mistake because the build- ing had been moved from its former location to a new posi- tion, and there was no record of it on the new location." However, Mr. Watson said that he stood by his other statements that the re-assess- ment had discovered 224 acres of ground never before assess- ed, and the same number of lots. "And the records show that six of these lots are on Harry Groom's property," he added. A new system for handling Christmas mail has been adopted across Canada to speed up de- livery of greeting cards and at the same time kee) first class mail free of the rush. A special box has been installed early at the Haileybury Post Office to take the special load of. cards, and custo-= mers are being' urged to use it. The cards will be sent to North Bay where a special department has been set up for the handling of Christmas mail. All post offices between-Huntsville and Moosonee will feed the cards into North Bay. This will enable regular workers on peramnent staff to handle regular mail with a minimum of delay. Last year 10,000 pieces of Christmas mail passed through the Haileybury office. District TB Association To Sponsor Indian Doctor At a meeting held in the New Liskeard Hotel Tuesday evening, E. J. O'Brien, Executive Director |- of the Ontario Tuberculosis As- sociation addressed the members of the Temiskaming District As- sociation and stressed,the fact that in a changing and ever-shrinking world the tuberculosis problem is of increasing concern locally, pro- vineially, nationally and interna- tionally. Mr. O'Brien showed slides of a trip he had taken to Burma, Hong- kong, Thailand and India, pointing out the tremendous task being un- dertaken by the Anti-tuberculosis clinics in these countries. An ever-expanding population and the fact that -the antibiotics formerly relied upon to kill the germ are now becgming ineffect- ual to the extent that the tu- bercle bacillus is feeding on them has increased the<importance. of new research and treatment meth- ods. 2 An expanded program is plan- ned by the Temiskaming District Association and this includes the co-sponsorship of Dr. P. V. Ben- jamin, Tuberculosis Control Officer for India, to attend the Internation- al Union Against Tuberculosis Con- ference to be held in Toronto in |September of 1961. This is the first*time in the his- tory of the Union that a Conference has been held in Canada, and only the second time it-has been held on the North American continent, the first time being in Washington in 1932. Last year it was held in Istanbul, Turkey. The results of attendance at the mass survey held recently were issued and a 40% attendance show- ed-an increase of 10% over the survey' held in 1956. "Correction" Mr. Camsell and Mr. Budge- on wish to say that the news item regarding sale of property to St. Mary's Academy in Hail- eybury was not quoted in full. Neither gentlemen was oppos- ed to the sale of the property to the Academy, but they did object to it being seld at the assessed value. They have ob- jected for the last year to any properties being sold by the town at the assessed value. Legion Publishes -- 35 Year History OTTAWA -- The Canadian Le- gion has announced the publication of its history. Entitled "Service .. the story of the Canadian Legion", the 320-page book is published to coincide with the organization's 35th anniversary, November 25. Dominion President Mervyn Woods, Saskatoon, said: "Service' tells the story of the Legion's first 35 years. But it also tells the story - of over 114 million Canadian Vet- erans." There is a foreword by Lord Louis Mountbatten. Written by Clifford -Bowering, the book will strike a responsive chord in veterans of both wars. Men who returned in 1918 may (Continued on: Page Three) Chamber of Commerce Favors Cockt The dinner meeting of the Hail- eybury Chamber of Commerce was an outstanding success and the Officers wish ito extend their thanks for tthe support the membership has given during the past year. We are continuing with the "'Dec- orate Your Home Contest'. spon- sored by the Town of Haileybury, The Haileybury Rotary, The Hail- eybury Firemen, and the Chamber of Commerce. This year there is a Commercial judging as well as the residential so we can look for- ward to a brighter looking shop- ping area. The Christmas store hour cards are being printed and should be distributed. this week. An extra copy for easy home reference may At the last general meeting the Haileybury Chamber of Commerce voted to endorse the cocktail vote as being good for the town and decided not to work directly as a group for the wets, but to spon- sor a. Strong 'get out and vote' campaign. The general meeting was attended by Mayor A. Cooke and four members of council. The complete 1960 slate of of- ficers were re-elected to hold of- fice for the year 1961.° They are: President, Wm. Flem- ing; Vice President, T. Tulloch; Secretary-Treasurer, B. Broda; Directors, K. Sroka, K. Macdonald, - M. Lavigne, M. 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