Local News: There is a plan to extend hydro to local villages. Ray Johnston, MLA for Pontiac said the electric distribution system will be extended to the townships of Bristol, Clarendon, Thorne and Leslie. He was quoting from the official announcement made by the company.

The extension of service to a large number of farmers will also include service to the villages of Charteris, Hodgins, Ladysmith and Otter Lake.

Hunting should be banned in Quebec province for a period of from two to five years, the Association of Hunting and Fishing Clubs of the St. Maurice district decided at a meeting in Three Rivers on Saturday. Delegates endorsed a resolution approving the ban and noted that game animals are disappearing from the province.

The ancient Hebrew scrolls found by accident in a cave in Trans-Jordan possibly date, in the opinion of experts, from the second century before Christ. This would seem to be the most outstanding discovery of biblical manuscripts ever made. The whole of the book of Isaiah; a commentary on Habakkuk; a selection of the Psalms; several sections of the Apocrypha as well as some other documents of the greatest historical interest, all of these were found stored in sealed jars in a cave in the hills near Jericho.