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THE TRIBUNE, WILLIAMS LAR®, B.C.

Gets Special Pay -
For War Heroism

= —Central Press Canadian

; Rodney Dove, former Royal
Navy lieutenant, will receive
$700 back pay from the navy for
the time he was held prisoner by
the Nazis in World [1 but he says
the feels guilty about accepting it.
The special pay is being given to
him for his part in blowing up
ships at Palermo, Italy. He rode
a midget submarine into Palermo
harbor, attached magnetic explo-
sive charges to the hull of
cruiser and watched it blow up.
Captured, he spent over two
years in a prison camp. He now
lives in Vancouver.

' ANKLE IN CAST,
P.M, PLAYS GOLF

3 —Central Press Canadian

Broken ankle is not interfering
with Prime Minister St. Laurent’s
activities though it does make it

ankle when he slipped on a rock
while fishing in the Ungava dis-
trict 800 miles from Quebec city.
He will have to wear the cast,
shown here, for two weeks, but
will adhere to his schedule of
engagements.

Spee

Cie —
. FANAD :
, OuvENS

When the French Mirabelle

members of No. RCAF

- FIG TREES THRIVE FOR TORONTO OWNER

—Centrat Press Canadian
Two fig trees are thriving in the garden of August Papania of.
Toronto, who is seen here exhibiting his rare fruit. A
vegetable grower, Papania first brought the two seedlings with him
from Italy in 1910. He digs them out and buries them in the ground

a year, and this is. one of heaviest years, possibly because of the

hot summer. Mr. -Papania believes his trees are only ones in
Canada. =

NORWAY AMBASSADOR ARRIVES IN CANADA

2 —Central Press Canadian

“ _ New arrivals in Ottawa are Arne Gunneng, Norway’s ambas-
sador to Canada, and his wife and children, Thale, 15, Hedda, 10,
and Nora, three. The Norwegian representation in Canada was re-
cently raised from the status of legation to embassy. Mr. Gunneng
was formerly a NATO official. :

“CLIFF LUMSDEN RECEIVES OVATION FROM CROWDS

—Central Press Canadian
Only man to finish the 32-mile CNE swim in centre. On hand to add his congratulations was
Lake Ontario’s cold waters, Cliff Lumsden, left, George Young, right, the “Catalina Kid” of 28
was cheered by CNE crowds when he’was intro- years ago when the CNE swim first began at

duced by Master-of-Ceremonies Ed Sullivan, Toronto.

SPENT 22 HOURS
IN STORMY LAKE

EPPA MASE >

TO90 Tare ant cen

Central Press Canadian
tracted firemen to this
Inco St. Pascal, a suburb of
Quebee city, they ething-that brought the
police in a hurry. Firemen reported they saw
tanks. tubes and containers in the basement
which. the® thought, suggested an aleohol-mak-
ing still in operation.

—centra} Press Canadian

“When the tail-end of Hurri-
cane Connie was making 15-foot
waves on the north shores of
Lake Ontario, Gerda Weber, a
German immigrant, was in the
lake water battling for her life.
She had gone for a swim “just
for fun” at Scarboro, Ont., an
22 hours later the lake threw
her, exhausted and nearly un-
conscious, on the shore at
Mimico, about 15 miles distant.

When a small f.
icuous house

HOPES TO BE
: PILOT AT 16

—Central Press Canadian

Thursday, September 22, 1955

festival was celebrated this year,|into two sections with
ir|Aireraftman Claude Violette
Iroquois, N.B., shown “piloting

“RCAF ENTERS FLOAT IN FRENCH FESTIVAL

harvesti
famous

entered a novel float, showing ajthe jet, assisted by two French liriet S a:
miniature jet aircraft. plums and |damsels. The other half of the|"The French discovered Canada
branches, and a map of Northern float showed “Jacques Cartier” | 1534—C;

France. The float was divided'meeting a Canadian

“Indian.” ' belle 19:

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entral Press Canaa.in

ree-day festival marks the

ng of the Mirabele plum,
in the Metz-Moselle d
Jogans on the float rea

anada discovered Mira-
53."

—Centras Press Canadian Photor

in the basement of the St. Pascal house, Que police examine

one of 16 tanks, each capable af holding 250 gallons. At the time

of the police raid. 4.000 gallons of mash were fermenting and on

the way to producing 1.000 gallons of alcohol Value of equipment

was estimated at $2500. The still—located In the home of Pierre
Clement—was the biggest ever found by Quebec police.

Helen Bradley, bigh school
girl of Picton, Ont., intends to ~
become the youngest licensed
woman pilot in Canada. Now 16,
she has made her first solo flight,
will complete 24 hours of solo.
flying before her 17th birthday
and hopes to have her flying
license in October.

CANADIAN M.P.’S VISIT RCAF FRENCH HEADQUARTERS :

~ Bive Ca ian members of parliament learn
how shell hoists operate for turret guns in old
underground fortifications near Metz, France.
The RCAF's air division headquarters was located
in the ancient defences, built by Bismarck after
the Wer of 1870, during the recent NATO air
exercise, Carte Blanche F/L M. A. Everard,
Timmins, Ont., manipulates the shell hoist for

(eft to right) Col. A. J. Brooks, Susse:
J Diefenbaker, Pri

—Central Press Canadian

ivision oyer=
seas, flying in a North Star transport,