The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

May 24, 1973 TERRACE BAY NEWS PAGE I3 Library =- cont di caine and to D. Elliot for his help. Mrs. Bill Kirkpatrick, librarian, and Mrs. D'Arcy McGuire, board member will attend the meeting in Thunder Bay, with Mrs. Alex Power working during Mrs. Kirkpatrick's absence. WOMEN'S INSTITUTE MEETING Members of the Schreiber Women's Institute answered the May roll call by naming the Prime Minister in office in the year she was born. The motto for the meeting was "The past can -not be changed - but the future is in our hands". A donation was made to the Canadian Cancer Fund. Mrs. C. Todesco, who presided for the meet- ing, Mrs. Wesley Clemens and Mrs. Joe Campbell will represent Schreiber at the North District W.I. being held May I7th in Murillo. Mrs. Clemens and Mrs. Campbell gave reports on meeting with the town council regarding the proposed medical centre and members agreed this is necessary to secure a doctor for the town. ; Mrs. B. Baxter reported sending cards and flowers to a sick member. Mrs. J.D. Bryson thanked members for cards and gifts sent to mark her 87th birthday. Plans were finalized for the annual monster penny auction being held May 25th, at 7 p.m. when there will also be a door prize, and tickets available from any member. It was decided to hold a short discussion on current events at each meeting with all members taking part. The executive will meet soon to plan pro- grams for the coming year. Minutes and financial report were adopted as read by Mrs. Clemens and Mrs. John Morris. Mrs. Todesco read a number of humourous exerpts from letters purportedly sent to Welfare Departments. Mr. Camille Todesco, the guest speaker, was introduced by the president and gave an interesting address on the work of the Child- ren's Aid Society, in which he is a worker stationed in Nipigon. The Society, he said, was started in I89I by J.J. Kelso of the Toronto Globe and has increased to 53 agencies in Optario now. Among the aspects of the work of the Child Care Worker are Family Courts, Family Allowances, Foster Parents, Adoption and Counselling Services. The local head office is in Thunder Bay, with branch offices in Nipigon, Geraldton and Armstrong - the boundaries extending from Kenora to White River, an enormous span of miles to cover. : Following Mr. Todesco's speech lunch was , served by Mrs. Clemens, Mrs. Todesco and Mrs. Morris. WHAT CAUGHT MY EYE ~- By Ray Shank Quebec may have one of its first (if not its first)saint in the near future. The Vatican's sacred congregation for the causes of saints took one of the first steps last week towards raising I9th century Quebec bish- op Louis Moreay, once bishop of St. Hyacinthe to the sainthood. The Vatican congregation declared the bishop a Christian of "heroic virtues", which means that he has passed the preliminary investigation on the path to beautification, which brings the title of "blessed" and usually leads later to declara- tion of sainthood. M. Bishop Moreay was born in I824 and died in I90I. : If your public library keeps sending you notes about late books, or even fines you a few penalties, be glad you're not borrowing ° books in Phoenix, Ariz. Five persons were sent to jail and I33 others have been arrest- ed in the last six months in Phoenix, for not returning overdue books or paying their fines. Phoenix Mayor John Driggs is seeking to re- vise a I962 law that makes theft of books a criminal offence, punishable by six months' imprisonment. The Windsor Star didn't publish last Tuesday when contract negotiations between the International Typographical Union and management temporarily broke off. Negotiators returned to the bargaining table late Tuesday and we had a paper the next day. Not that this is of any news value to you, but it's just to mention that it certainly makes it a long day for some of us staff people. Under- stand the last time contract talks came up at The Star, the union fellows walked out for about two weeks and the staff guys didn't do anything but write obituaries of prominent, aging, renowned Canadians, so there wouldn't be a big fuss, if one of them kicked off near deadline. Now for some news from the animal world Jimmie Tiger, 60, a Miccoosukee Indian from the Everglades in Florida, knew his 800- pound pet alligator had come home when it started croaking like a thousand bullfrogs out ~side his hut, recently. continued page I4.....