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The Haileyburian Thursday, November 16, 1961 Page 2 THE HAILEYBURIAN and COBALT POST Published by Temiskaming Printing Co. Ltd. New Liskeard, Ont. Member Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association. Issued every Thursday, from The Haileyburian Office, Broad- way Street, Haileybury, Ontario. Authorized as Second Class Mail Post Office, Department, Ottawa. In Canada -- $2.50 per year in advance. In United States -- $3.50 per year in advance. a Msgr. Bakker, now 70 and with 16 grandchildren, is spending the years most men reserve for retire- ment as a missionary fighting le- prosy in the steaming French Ca- meroons. He was interviewed while pass- ing through Montreal on a cam- paign to raise funds for hospitals, schools and churches in the equa- torial republic. He has raised nearly $500,000 in DA FIFARFF | See by THE PAPERS HOUSTON, Tex. (AP) -- Two ships carrying oil and chemicals SPIES sae collided and burst into flames|his seven years as a priest. recently in the Houston ship|- "Deeds, not words," is the motto channel in Galveston Bay. of Msgr. Bakker, who finds words A U.S. Coast Guard spokesman of little help to the 30,000 lepers in said two men were killed and 16 WHCEN eve ve BE os per a ae others injured. Eight men_ still Msgr. Bakker was director of a were missine at mid-morning combined bank - insurance compa- ae 25 © at °° 2 ss . - At least three women and a child | 2Y ™ Nijmegan, Holland, when the wate andand Second World War started. He says inate hosp tal cases were from | C°™Stant fear for the children dur- the Union Reliance, a' 492-foot mcr Se a raids destroyed his freighter of Nationalist Chinese re- ear ace ' a heart attack i gistry bound for New Orleans. She died of a heart attack in The other ship is the 9,003-ton | 1944. te Norwegian tanker M. S. Berean,| Slowly, his life began to change. bound for Houston. When the Allies liberated Nij- megan, Bakker turned his home AMOS, Que (CP) -- A fire of unknown origin recently des- troyed the Roman Catholic Nor- mal School for Boys in Amos, 300 miles northwest of Mon- treai. Provincial police reported the thres-storey building was a to- tal loss some three hours after the fire broke out. Some 130 Students were enrolled at the institution, No one was believed to be in over to the Red Cross and helped nurse the sick and the wounded. "Later in the quiet and seclusion of a retreat I prayed for guidance | on what to do with my life, and the | grace of God came to me," he says. "'I had to serve wherever hu- manity needed help most, and where more than among the suf- fering bodies and souls of Africa?" This was in 1949, when he was 59 and three of his six sons had joined the Jesuit order. Msgr. Bak- the school when the blaze start- |ker was ordained before any of ed, them after four years' training in MONTREAL (CP) -- Gerara| ome: Bakker was 63 years old and the SUDBURY (CP) -- Two Sud- father of eight children when he abandoned wealth and social stand- ing in his native Holland to become a Roman Catholic priest. bury men were sentenced to reformatory recently after at- tempting to sell scrap copper to the same place where it was | EN WWW, 6565 6 6 6--60 6 'E'TE DW WU FEU Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Haileybury Hockey Arena SQ WW "i i *b5 A meeting to arrange the 1962 Arena Schedule will be held in the Council Chambers on Sunday, Novem- ber 19th at 7:30 p.m. : All groups or organizations wishing to arrange ice time for the current season are asked to send a repre- sentative to this meeting. SMM MAA HH W Z AWN WWW 4. A HOW TO CHOOSE YOUR FAMILY MONUMENT For your free copy of Rock of Ages" new 'Mustrated okiat How To Choose Your 'Family Monument"' visit us today, AUTHORIZED DEALER \ates/ : SANDERSON MONUMENT CO. LTD. ae LOCAL REPRESENTATIVE = he SG TULLCCH : 4 -Haileybury, Ont. ' Phone OSborne 2-5218 al stolen a few days before. Ernest Duguay, alias Robert Chartrand, 35, and Charles Castonguay, 29, both pleaded guilty of possessing 765 pounds of scrap copper, stolen from the Nickel City Asto Supply. Each was sentenced to six months. When they brought the ma- terial to the Nickel City yard and tried to seil it, an employee recognized it and called police. WINDSOR CP) -- It's doubtful that the Communists are trying to conquer the world with laughter, but they do have their moments. Wallace Nesbitt, chairman of the Canadian delegation to the United Nations gave this example in a speech here Monday. He once encountered a Russian and a Chinese delegate having a heated debate at the UN. Aware of the ideological dispute between their countries, Mr. Nes- bitt laughingly asked: "'Having an argument?" "'Yes," one of them replied, "but I don't see why you're laughing. We're only arguing over the best way to liquidate you." ATHENS (AP)--Wailing flood victims and grim' rescue squads continued today to siit through the wreckage left by the worst storm in Athenian memory, a deluge that took 39 lives and injured 350. Eight others are missing. Army engineers, firemen and police worked through the night under searchlights looking for the missing in the mud and rub- ble of homes smashed by tor- rential rains, giant hailstones an hurricane-force winds in a four-hour weather rampage Monday. Between 3,000 and 4,500 per- sons were sheltered in govern- ment buildings and schools. Officials said almost 300 houses had been wrecked and 600 others seriously damaged, DRYDEN (CP) -- Two missing hunters found recently in the nnrth- western Ontario bush near here ate raw meat to survive, the father of one of the rescued men said. Myron Myers, father of Elwyn Myers, 26, of Penwater, Mich., said his son and his Indian guide, Thomas Strong, 23, of McIntosh, Ont., shot- and killed a rabbit and a deer. He said in a telephone interview that the men could not light a fire to cook the meat. Matches carried by Mr. Myers had become wet and useless. The elder Myers spoke to his son after he and Strong were rescued following a week in the bush in the Portal Lake area, 50 miles north- west of here. The missing men were found by an Indian search party Monday and flown to safety. They were ad- mitted to Dryden Hospital. The younger Myers, an ex-marine is suffering from exposure. Sharp branches tore Strong's leg as they walked through the dense bush. The elder Myers, who flew into the area after his son was report- ed missing, said his son was on a moose-hunting trip prior to enter- ing dentistry school, The younger Myers told rescuers that they became lost after they were flown into Portal Lake Octo- ber 28. They had no compass and were unable to find their way back to the lake in time for the rendez- vous with a pickup plane two days later. They built a lean-to for shelter and used the skin from the dee they shot as a blanket. . : _ LONDON (AP) -- Princess Margaret's husband, Lord Snowdon, went back to work recently three days after his wife gave birth to his son and heir.* 4 The former Antony Arm- strong Jones has an~ unpaid' Post. at London's Council of In- dustrial Design as an adviser on diplay technique. - 'Meanwhile, the princess and her son were reported to be "progressing very well." Margaret was up and about again today. She also got up for a while Sunday. TORONTO (CP) --Fernand Be- 'langer, 11, of Tee Lake, Que., died in the operating room of the Hospi- tal for Sick Children recently, minutes after arirving by helicop- kaming, Que., via the North Bay Bir" WORE Bases. Su reese cate . He was hit Sunday by an acci- 'dental blast-from his father's shot- HULL, Que (CP) -- It will soon be against the law to make night-time trips to out- 'houses in suburban South Hull with lights that aren't fireproof. Council of the largely rural municipality recently ap- roved a bylaw calling for a ! elosed lantern or flashlight on such jaunts. ' The bylaw also calls on householders to set up do-it- yourself fire departments in their homes -- with ladders, hoses and other firelighting equipment. gun. The father, Gilbert Belanger, and his son were hunting rabbits. Mr. Belanger carried Fernand, eldest of seven children in the fa- mily, to a highway and hitchhiked the five miles to Timiskaming Hos- pital. ; Monday's mercy flight was co-or- dinated by RCAF Search and Res- cue at Trenton. An H-34 Sikorsky helicopter picked up the wounded boy at Timiskaming and ferried him to North Bay Air Force Base, where he was put aboard an Al- batros airplane and brought to Downsview Airport. DWIWOWHWWGG 0 v'5>vF"o06oE 2 QWWWWWdd.Wd_._.d A KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS at K. of C. 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