The Bermuda Recorder

              saturday february 2 1957 the bermuda recorder page warwick academy class hears of population problem british pilot planned parenthood clinics jailed dodged february sale kingsley clinic church and king sts hamilton monday tuesday thursday saturday from 10 a.m to noon raid in egypt 20 off somerset clinic the armoury mangrove bay tuesday february 12th and 26th 2 to 4 pjn mr park breck chairman of the governor's population problems committee ad dressed the current events class at warwick academy on wednesday and following is what he said that is to prepare himself to meet the competition to educate himself to the point where ho can achieve a secure financial position in life niscosia cyprus jan 29 — a british court martial to day sentenced flying officer dennis kenyon to a year in prison and dismissed him from the service for crippling his jet bomber to avoid a bombing mission over egypt • dresses this is your job in school — to learn enough to enable you to get a job when you leave school it is not enough any longer to think that financial security is based on family for tune a family fortune can only be perpetuated if the younger members of the family are willing to risk that fortune against competition st george's health centre the armoury tuesday february 19th 2 to 4 p.m • blouses • skirts slacks you may have road or heard recently various criti cisms of the the committee's work the population commit tee has asked for suggestions to help bermuda in this grave problem and while wc do not seek destructive criticism we are interested in constructive comment the twenty - four - year old pilot was found guilty of will fully retracting the landing gear of his bomb-loaded can berra just before take-off time on a cyprus field during the anglo-french invasion of egypt in november the sentence is subject to review for enquiries and appointments phone 3121 now you can afford to buy that outfit that fits perfection at sale price and be the talk of y admirers ist individuals have no family fortune but they can strike out and build their own fortunes this takes brains and education you protect yourself and help bermuda by patronizing the local insurance company with over 50 years of service for all classes of insurance * other than life consult the bermuda fire & marine insurance co ltd insurance building hamilton west telephone 1275 for example we would ap preciate it if someone could come forward and improve the statistics if anything figures are on the optimistic side and if it were possible to make them more correct than they are ws would welcome the opportun the fashion noo the plane collapsed on the runway kenyon at first said he pushed the wrong button then h e said he disagreed with the action against egypt in court he said it was all a mis take many bermudians are doing that now not only the 9,000 school children but others who are taking special course in specialised subjects the man with specialised education is the one who will be the most successful in the future ho may be able to apply that knowledge in bermuda or he may be forced to apply it abroad walker's aroade hamilton hours 9 — 5 monday tuesday wednesday and thursday 9—12.30 saturday 9—6 ity the laws of mathematics are inflexible two plus two equals four and it would take more than an einstein to dis prove it the laws of economy are equally inflexible and most human actions can be directly traced to economics bermuda electric light don't ever forget for one moment from now to the dny that you leave school that there are 9.000 other bermuda school children who will some day be looking for 0,000 j"-bs each one of you will be com peting for those jobs whoever is best prepared will get the best job prepare now for the future that is what the population committee is trying to impress upon each bermudian — pre pare now for the future re gardless of what the future may bring bigotry prejudice and hatred are based on fear fear of what fear that an indi vidual or a group of individuals threatens the financial stanrirn or the livelihood of an individ ual or of a group of indi viduals company limited these fears are increasinc rather than lessening in today world as competition becomes greater an individual has only one reasonable defence against allowing himself to succumb to fear during the past three years the costs of most of the materials we use in the generation and distribution of electricity have continued to increase large display labour costs are also a very big item and our wage rates as well as unit costs of materials are at least four times i.e 300 higher than they were jcarcfe • gifte by expanding our sales and increasing efficiency the overall charges for electricity in bermuda have increased but very little the average revenue we receive today for each kilowatt hour we sell is only 18 more than it was some eighteen years ago just prior to world war ii baltic liberation hopes fade ajso during the past three years we have invested an additional 700,000 in new generating plant transmission and distribution services to meet the demand and to assure bermuda of an adequate and reliable electricity supply helsinki — hopes stirred up among the enslaved baltic peoples by the hungarian re volt have collapsed once more themselves in x the tragic posi tion of a national minority faeed with increased operating and maintenance costs as well as a very substantial increase in our capital costs we regret there is no alternative but to increase slightly our rates for electricity details of the increases are given below and with the exception of customers having prepayment meters are confined entirely to the lowest block or price charged of e.ach rate the few finns who have been admitted into estonia on official good-will visits since the war have been profoundly shocked to hear the russian language usurping the place of the native estonian on the streets of tallinn as the temporarily relaxed grip of moscow lias tightened and the west has made no move to intervene due to the additional cost of equipment servicing and reading of pre payment i.e slot type meters electric service provided through this type of meter will be increased by one penny per kilowatt hour the outbreak of a war of liberation is the grim hope nursed by the average bait ever since the red army marched to the baltic sea and it was this hope above all that was kindled to a bright flame by the galluit bid of the hungarians for free dom at the non-latvians flow in the population of r:ga which was 380,000 in 1939 has nearly doubled according to the latest soviet statistics — a growth due to the influx of non-latvians phoenix a_nex however many of our customers will not he affected by this mcrease particularly those who are small users for example no residential customer who uses less tjian 110 kilowatt hours per month will be affected since very few new build ings have gone up since the war and little repair has been done one old ones the latvian e.ipital has been converted from the paris of the baltic into one of the most miserably congested cities in the entire soviet empire the average increase will of coufrse depend on the rate and the amount of electricity used the average increase will not be more than 5 such is the report of sources here best informed on develop ments across the narrow but fiercely guarded gulf of fin land h^msj^wel wm fj&l * r **» 09^m ____ u wtcf 5 •*»: j asfey i i i h ■' ' the adair ebony finish j maroon or thg-^---^.t iow yet the aduir v\med oak grained finish»i extra electricity for cooking and water heating will still remain more than competitive with other modern fuels despair extinguished the flame of hope as the sovie rulers issued sharp warnings that any attempt by reaction ary elements to follow the example of , the hungarians would be summarily crushed — and to prove it began forcibly to recruit tens of thousands of young people in the baltic countries for labor seryiee in distant parts of the soviet union these revised rates will be effective in respect of all electricity used on and after the date of your monthly meter reading following the 26th of tho standard of living has deteriorated from a once prosperous level to one of a hand - to - mouth existence people live in cellars coal bins and attics and regular apartments are shared soviet style by many families the large rooms in the tum-of cenfury flats often house up to four families not always separated even by cardboard partitions february 1957 details of increases — 1 residential all-tn rate bottom block increased from 2d to 2*4d per kilowatt hour conscription condemned 2 cummercial all-in rate bottom block increased from 2y 2 to 3d per kilowatt hour spokesmen for tlie baltic refugees in stockholm their main center of activity in the west have condemned this soviet youth labor conscrip tion as another manifestation of genocide — the program ruth lessly put into effect by stalin to wipe out national minorities reports from reliable sources make it plain that the esto nian latvians and lithuanians dislike the russians more than ever bottom block increased from 2v_»d to 3d per kilowatt hour / 3 heating only 4 large motors rate bottom block increased from 2%d to 3d per kilowatt hour f"*t onngs you living image pic ture . . , balanced fidelity sound that adds amazing realism . . . clean smart styling come in — see it — today children boycott russian picture sharp i wm i bright steady pie zwh*-abll~dty tures | k-___£v:.-:-;-™_____>«3 model 21t711 classes in the schools and some teachers have been penal ized even banished for failing to collaborate in enforcing russian instruction one wa y the baltic peoples can display their patriotic feelings without fear of pun ishment is speaking their own language in public and on official occasions soviets offi cials are obliged to hire inter preters in carrying out their administrative duties 5 air conditioning 3 phase bottom block ; ncreased from 2 1 /_ ! d to 3d per genocide measures were lifted at least for awhile by stalin's heirs in their vigorous efforts to win popularity at home and to create the im pression of a benevolent regime abroad motors kilowatt hour uh.l optional extra at low cost a-^-->titn!^xdinfrlkxa^k!^zctor^z^k • ' 6 road lighting details of increase will be communicated to customers concerned by circular order yours now 7 hopkinson demand rate : details of increase will be communicated to customers concerned by circular however m tmh population centers baltic countries the native stock had already become out numbered by the masses of soviets moving in since the war larger the from new rate schedules incorporating the above increases will be printed and will be available to quatomers on request burnaby ltd w e spurling general manager burnaby st phone 5816 in their own capital citv of tallinn the estonians for in stance and in ther capital of riga the latvians had found advertise in the bermuda recorder 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