Sidan 6
THE SWEDISH PRESS
Torsdagen den 4 dec. 1947
Sverige - Nyheter
Fotbollsmatchen
mellan England och Sverige i London slutade 4—2 till England. Från engelskt håll framhölls att ett starkare svenskt fotbollslag aldrig förr spelats i England.	I
Inom en snar framtid
kommer de polisdistrikt Som gränsar till Stockholm att ut- i rustas med radiobilar som skall stå i direkt kontakt med radiopolisens sändar- och mottagarstation i Polishuset i Stockholm.
Bandelen Spånga — Lövsta,
som ägs av Stockholms stad, har varit under omläggning ett par månader och den slitna rälsen, som legat sedan banan byggdes 1886, har ersatts med ny.
SKF :s verkstadsklubb
i Göteborg har fyllt 45 år. Jubileet firades med ett jubileumsmöte i Konserthuset ocn samkväm med dans i Mässhallarna efteråt. B. Nilsson, klubbens ordförande och grand old man sedan 1924, höll hälsningstalet.
Alfiskarna längs Åhus-
kusten förde under oktobers ålmörker hem fångster som man ej upplevt i mannaminne. Enl :t meddelanden har fångster på 10.000 kg. per dag ej vari, ovanliga, vilket gör mellan 40,000 och 50,000 kr. i inkomster.
Den nya folkskolan
i Kungsbacka är nu i det näimaste klar för inflyttning och vid höstterminens blir det
invigning. Den nya skolan är en vacker byggnad rymmanae 11 klassrum och gymnastiksal, vaktmästarebostad och expeditionslokaler. Förutom klassrummen har skolan naturkunnig-hetssal och slöjdsalar och skolkök.
Ett fornfynd har gjorts
i Bodafors, Småland. Det ar två flintyxor, därav en utan hål, vilket tyder på att man Kan hänföra den till den tidigare stenåldern eller för cirka 5,000 år sedan.
En porträttmedaljong
i brons av Kungl. Svenska Automobilklubbens framlidne ordförande, prins Gustaf Adolf, avtäcktes vid en högtidlighet i klubblokalerna för en tid sedan. [Prins Bertil förrättade avtäckningen.
Den svenske bakteriologen,
docent Sven Gard, har avrest till Egypten för att där studera metoderna vid kolerans bekämpande. Han skall också representera Svenska Röda korset vid underhandlingar om ökad svensk sjukhjälp till t Egypten.
En hel mängd kultur-
personligheter p å Gotland, med landshövding Nyländer och i biskop Ysander i spetsen, har । beslutat slå ett slag för en underhållsfond för Bungemuseet. । Museet skapades för 40 år sedan av Th. Erlandsson, som nu är 80 år. Från början gällde det endast att rädda en gam-; mal bondgård men omständig-
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Kersbackens samhälle
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Det gamla gruvkapelle:
vid Gruvgårdens gruvor i Garpenberg, Dalarna, naller på att flyttas för att bereda plats för pågående utvidgningsarbe-ten vid industriområdet. Flyttningen av det stora kapellet, som väger 50 ton, sker med rui-lar. Den minnessten som restes 1942 över omkomna gruvarbetare i Garpenberg skall flyttas till kyrkogården.
Sveriges fjärde station
för radiotelefoni skall förläggas till Tingstäde, Gotland— de tre övriga stationerna finns i Stavsnäs, Malmö och Göteborg. Särskilt för Gotland blir den nya anläggningen, som beräknas vara klar efter nyår, av stor praktisk betydelse.
Hundraårsjubileum
firades nyligen av Gothems folkskola på Gotland i närvaro av så gott som hela socknens befolkning. Äldste ‘skolpojken’, 95-årige sjökapten N. O. Fredriksson höll ett litet tal och föredrog ett poem med anledning av jubileet. Skolan är unik sa till vida att den under sin tillvaro endast haft tre ordinarie folkskollärare. Den nuvarande läraren, Rudolf Carlson, har [tjänstgjort sedan 1921.
Världens enda kvinnliga i fyrvaktare finns i Sverige, och heter Olivia Samuelsson, är nu 84 ar och har skött sin tyr . som en hel karl i 40 år tillsammans med sina bägge döttrar.
I Nu skall emellertid fyren på Knippelholmen, som ligger i infarten till Göteborg, automaii-I seras och da flyttar fru Samuelsson in och bosätter sig i stan.
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Angela E. Branca,
Candidate for Park Commis-sioner, is a prominent City barläster and solicitor.
“Branc” as he is more famili-ary known to a host of friends throughout the city was born at Mount Sicker, Vancouver Island, and was brought by his parents over 40 years ago to this city.
Branca graduated from the Britannia High Schcol, and took his law degree at U.B.C. Always prominently identified with sport, he was presented with the J. Fyfe Smith Trophy, emblematic of the amateur middleweight boxing champion-ship in B.C. in 1934.
One of the original members of the Hastings Community Association, he served as its first president. He also serveu a two-year term on the Vancouver Board of Park Commis-sioners, and on more than one occasion Mr. Rowe Holland, Ohairman of the present Board, which he has served on for 18 years, has been heard to remark, “I wish I had ‘Branc’ back on the Board”.
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Gordon Hays
of Gordon's Tire Service, 26-32 E. Hastings St., is a candidate for Parks Board.
He is one of the best known and populär young business men in that part of the city. Gordon Hays was one of the charter mentbers of the Vancouver East Lions Club and has done yeomen service of that organization and its philan-thropic work. He is a member of the Junior Board of Trade and ran as an aldermanic can-didate with the Civic Action group two years ago.
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Mrs. Margaret Duker,
Candidate for School Board. Our “1947 Good Citizen” Mrs. Duker was born in Nova Seotia. raised in Boston by foster parents and has resided in Vancouver for 30 years. She is a member of the Marpole Auxil-iary to the Infirmary, Chil-dren’s Hospital, and Retary Anns.
“Aunt Margaret” as she is affectionately known by most was the founder of the Crippled Children’s Hospital, now Chil-
dren*s Hospital, and its president for three years.
A gracious and charming lady with a ready smile and a keen sense of humor, she is known and loved by children and acjults in all parts of the city artd is ready and wulling to take up the duties of a school trustee.
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Mrs. Jane Williams
is a candidate for school trustee and resides at 1775 W. 10th Ave. She has resided in the City of Vancouver for 35 years.
Mrs. Williams is Past President of the Women’s Auxiliary to the Canadian Merchant Service Guild.
She is present President of the Welsh Musical Festival, and has been so for the past four years.
Alfred George Neuert,
is a candidate for the Board of School Trustees. He was bom in Listiwel, Ontario ann came to Vancouver. By profession he is a life underwriter, and has been wfth the Sun Life Insurance Company for the past 18 years.
He is at the . present time Vice President of the Vancouver East Lions Club. This is a group of fifty-five young and middle age business men of Hastings and Grandview, and are known throughout the City as the real go-getter Service Club. They were chartered about four years ago, and dur-ing that short period of time have raised over $200,000 for charitable purposes. They made a gift of $80,000 to the Crip-pled Children’s Hospital, a large sum to the Children’s Solanum on Vancouver Island and also to St. Christopher’s Home in North Vancouver.
The Club is at present build-ing a $60,000 Youth Centre building at the corner of Com-mercial Drive and Adanac St. kl Neuert has along with the of the boys of the elub carried his weight in all these fine en-deavours.
Vote and support them all. good citizens of Vancouver, each and every one of them are worthy of your earnest consid-eration, and your vote.
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