The Bermuda Recorder

              page two the bermuda recorder wednesday december 7 1 the bermuda recorder fate of lumumba uncertain as congo ruler rejects move for probe duties of board of trade to be transferred ■ - u *" pro bono publico published by the union printery court street hamilton ber mud i every wednesday and saturday continued from page 1 the control of theatres and issuing of holiday trading licences now a responsibility ot the board of trade w.ll become a function of the trade development board in future if approval is given by the legislature to a bill transfer ring these and other duties of the board of trade to other boards or departments wtfijg savagely bystanders heard screams coming from the room but were unable to see what went on inside flagrant a b place managing editoi it demarded that full de tails of his set/ure and the steps taken by the uno com mani to ensure his safety should be put before the uno general assembly immediate ly government notice no 215 - 1960 subscription rates lumumba has now been flown to thysville 95 miles from the capital he was re ported to be in a bad condi tion and to have been beaten nearly senseless vacancy 68 yearly 38 half yearly 25 quarterly special rates for contract ads a vacancy will exist at the joloniam the 19th december for a secretan the statement described lu mumba's arrest as a flagram arbitrary act against the law ul congolese government and personally against its head which by far surpasses any thing that has happened •! • till now in the congo all communications intended lor publication should be addressed to the manager the recorder cour street city lumumba can expect little sympathy in his new prison thysville is in the heart of the bakongo tribal lands presi dent kasavubu his bitter enemy is a member of tho the bill was submitted to the house on monday by the governor accompanying it was a memorandum in which the attorney general the hon jr c hooton explains that in order to effect the transfer of these duties a number of sec tions of the board of trade aet have been repealed aud reproduced in the respective acts which relate to the other boards to which the duties or functions are to be transfer red government messenger hamilton bermuda wednesday december 7 1960 commencing salary 55 per month uniform provid applications should reach the colonial secretary 12th december u n finances tribe an act of open violence has been committed against the prime minister of the govern ment of the congo at the time when there are forces in the congo which have been sent there by the security council decision for the purpose of as sisting this very government at its own request new york cable a state ment issued by the russiau uno delegation in new york said it regarded mr hamma skjold uno secretary-gener al ami the uno command in the congo to be directly re sponsible for the safety of patrice lumumba ml december 1960 by w n ewer bermuda sleeps mr llammarskjold s warn ing to the budget committee of the united nations assem bly that the organization will face the new year with a virtually empty treasury has to be taken very seriously in less it exists and is neither just nor healthy it is purely grotesque that in the year itfo the united states should be paying just one-third of the total budget of the united nations the public works will un der the new bill be responsible lor the various regulations made by the board of trade with respect to the petroleum regulations 1926 the eleva tor and lifts regulations 1939 the explosives regula tions 1960 and the liquefied petroleum gases regulations 1960 letters to the editor clerk gets free trip to mexico awake to you deed there has been in the past dating from the immediate post-war period a tendency to assume that whether for the united nations or for auy other international purpose the l'nited states can always be relied on to foot the bill — or so much of it as others do not foot at the beginning of 1%0 there was a cash balance ot some 16,000,000 dollars at the beginning of 1961 there will be a deficit of something be tween ten and fifteen millions it can for the nroment be met by borrowing from special funds but that is only a temporary expedient december lst 1960 the editor the bermuda recorder dear sir the fire precautions regu lations 1932 have been amended so as to make th building authority the super visory body political right at your earliest con venience will you kindly pub lish iu your valuable columrs the copy made from a letter received from the scindia steam navigation co ltd of bombay india powell & company have an nounced the winners in their tetley tea contest the first prize of which is a round trip to mexico on guest airways super constellation this was won by miss virginia d costa ambard & co reil street a new section of the board of trade acts provides for the inspection of board of trade by an independent surveyor to be appointed by the gove nor-in-council the immediate cash-crisis comes from the expense of the congo situation that opera tion was decided on by the security council in june under the charter all member states are pledged to accept the carry out council deci sions that plainly involves responsibility for the financial cost of carrying out such de and indeed the american contribution has been a fan tastic one apart entirely from military aid to its allies the united states since 1951 has spent over 12,000 million dollars in economic aid to countries in need of it this takes no account of its contri butions to unwra and simi lar post-war un relief organi sations during the same period the soviet union has offered only about 3,000 million dollars worth of aid and its actual outlay has been only 900 million dollars a mere three fortieths of the ameri can outlay over the past year economic non-military aid from the united states has been over 2.000 million dollars ; and others of the western powers including the united kingdom have also made big contributions soviet offers dining the year have amounted to 1,000 million dollars and the sum actually disbursed has been only about 200 million dollars thanking you for the same i am yours faithfully l n dick tucker demand ihe vote second prize was won by miss margaret ross of villi montelare smith's parish and she and the other 4 winners will receive case lots of groceries the scindia steam navigation co ltd scindia house douglas road ballard estate dill & thomas be free by 5ixty thre electrical wiring the contest ran for thre months and closed on novem ber 30th the draw was mad in the studios of zbm radio bv the mavor of hamilton the worshipful p l r selley all correct entries were placed in sealed envelopes winners wid be notified concerning their prizes by mail bombay i india n tucker esq m.b.e st o.m and appliances cisions repaired etc nevertheless the soviet union and its associates have refused to make any contribu tion to the costs of maintain ing the united nai ions emer gency force nor is there as sign that they will be willing to contribute anvthing towards the 100,000,000 dollars re quired for economic aid in this they are not alone in spite of protestations of sym pathy so far only the u.s the i'.k and canada have made any substantial contri butions hon secretary and custodia the guild of the holy compassion glebe road committte for u a pembroke east hamilton bermuda p.o box 319 phone 2-2193 dear sir we have to thank yon for your kind letter of 16th november with which you have sent us three photographs of the funeral of late saker luckman seaman ex oar m v jaladhanna together with the cards that accom panied the funeral wreaths whieh were placed on his coffin and also a cutting from the newspaper reporting the death of the seaman please accept our appreciation and grateful thanks for the sympathy and kindness shown by you and al so convey them to the veil archdeacon stow for his hav ing performed the funeral ser vice and also the members of the guild and the missions to seamen third prize was won by mi*-s lessiline phillips of ely's har bour somerset fourth prize — james thome cavendish heights devonshire fifth priie — mrs george carter rothesay mount hill pem broke sixth prize — mrs inez callender main road somerset back on the market from south america but this hum a voluntary fund the really serious fea ture of the situation is that member states — the soviet bloc in particular — should be refusing to pay for actions which the security council has decided to take " that unless remedied could make it vir tual in.poea.me for the i eil to take any action at all which could involve the ex p.nditure of any but minimal amounts of money which could be taken without diffi culty from the ordinary an nual budget but — this is the point — this is something which cannot go on indefinitely we have just been warned that the ameri can balance of payments — swift would like to make known the fact that the contributions iu connection with the hospital sunday fund appeal for 1960 amounted to 345 religious bodies concerned \. some 1,000,000,000 dollars on the favourable side on ordi nary trading — has been turn ed by expenditure ou military aid to its allies and economic aid to the developing coun tries into an unfavourable balance of some 4 000,000,000 this amount has been dis tributed as follows as desired by you the pho tographs together with the cards are bein sent to the widow of the deceased sea man to whom we shall als communicate your kind mes king edward vii memorial hospital 270 the cottag hospital 45 the mental hospital 30 15 of this specially earmarked for the children's ward dollars so in a way the financul crisis in the united nations il part of a larger picture ex penditures which should be distributed as equitably as for school lunches as well as for sandwiches for the man nor unfortunately is this the first instance of this sort of thing the soviet union is already nearly 14,000,000 dol lars in debt to the u.n be cause it has not paid its share or the cost of the suez op edition — the united nations em rjrrncy force in the mid • ■' east — four vears aj;o ._ • i . . ... . " we would like to express our appreciation to the bank of n t butterfield and son for the handling of response so handy for fast meals sage you'll want more yours faithfully of the house possible between the nations are now inequitably distribu ted that is politically un healthy and in the long run economically unstable sgd g d ved deputy manager for the scindia steam navi the date of the 1961 hosp:l al sunday appeal will be an nounced in due course gation co ltd & w9m is»ii_n?9i m • a vours laithfulh there has to be some rather wide rethinking and iii the case o the united no i niis that rethinking as the secretary-general has warn ed us all is urgent it would i ■ trafie if the work of th organisation were to be ham strung bv the unwillingness of economically strong member states to carry a proper share o its cost lst december 1960 " is clear that this sort of t ; incial sabotage must either cripple the organisation or i*"i.ose | t ( . tally unfair bur den on m tube states which c*'rry out their obligations anthony bermuda the editor the bermuda recorder robert s df.hler bishop-vicar apostolic george w lewis president ministerial association 1950-1960 dear sir for the information of the various congregations and even without these special operations repairing speeial exo-nditiir-s v,-r ind above tl ordiiuirv budget the dis tribiition of the financial bur den between the members can hardly be regarded as equit able potntfui cramps of mommy periods stoppei ior amazingly relieved i i 9 out of 4 cooof in oodon own foth^^^^h quick for light lunches u'm m u'm m good ! ! try swift's corned beef assembly gets bill for ex-convicts try them once and you will the soviet union though it claims an economic potential similar to that of the united s'-'tes pays un annual contn hu-ion less than half the american it is almost exac lv double that of the cnit ■ i 1 rdom thonsrh he popula tion of the u.s.sr is f our tunes that of the u.k a women and flrto who offer from tboae functloa auy-caueed cramps back mm and headache of mmmm effect on the uteru without tha uae of pain deadening dntotl always want them with cabbage fares from u.k the affecthreneae of lydia plnkham'i needa no proof to tha million of woman and kla whom it haa benefited t how about you do you know what it may do for youl take lydia plnkham'e through tha month saa tt yoa don't get tha earae relief from the peine and weaanaaa of uioee daye see if you don*t teel better before and twteff your period i so economical 5o quick menstruation — wbo fan upset and irritable od oar tain particular days — nay often be aufferlnf quite iinnen sirtiyl the house of assembly was requested on monday by the governor to provide the sum of 1,365 1 9 to defray the cost nf transporting bermudi an prisoners in the united kingdom to bermuda for re al the expiry of their nces and the cost of their escorts fare as well so reasonable such lt th oonclu-daa from tests by doctors la which lydia k plnkham vegetable compound gaea txmplet or ttrtktng reil from eueh dtetrooe in 3 oal of 4 or th cmm taatadt purvis limited agents this lack of balance and there are no instances is -,- , doiit-f largri ni faheritam - from the verv different cir cumstances of 1945 none the if you're troubled with hot a-mhee and other functional dkrtreea of omm of ufe rwuoed lyota plnkhama wonderful for u tool lydia pinkhmm't mm e qaiattme effect on tha itferme new nona eeeehert whtcho/tewoaues tm medical cod-row how lydia pli__fham*i thoroughly modern in am phone 1-1251