New system of election for Pontiac: Election practices in cities are not the same as for rural municipalities as will be discovered next week in Pontiac’s new city.

The people who wish to place their names for nomination must not only have ten nominators but must deposit fifty dollars with the president of the election.

The ten nominators must be from the ward in which the candidate is going to run, except in the case of the mayor who may be nominated by any ten electors from across the entire “city.”

As for the deposits, they can be returned to the nominees only if they get at least one third the number of votes that the winner gets, or if they win the election.

Thus far in that particular election, the only people who have informed THE EQUITY that they definitely intend to run for office are James Stewart who will seek the seat for the Quyon Ward, that is Ward 2, and also Marcel Lavigne and Bill Burke who will seek the Mayor’s seat. By next week all nominations will be in the hands of the president of the election, Mary Ann Glazer, at the town hall in Luskville.

Police News: Some progress has been made in apprehending the thieves responsible for break-ins around Shawville but as yet the Police at Campbell’s Bay are reluctant to divulge the names of the culprits, though they tell us most of the stolen loot from the Texaco station has been found and that one of the thieves is a minor.

But there is an interesting story about one of those routine roadblocks the Police so often set up along the highway. They organized themselves for a Sunday morning of routine checks on the 148 between Campbell’s Bay and Bryson at about five thirty and the first three cars to come along, fifteen minutes later, were a 67 Plymouth, a 67 Dodge and a 66 Dodge, the two latter with Ontario licenses.

Upon inquiry the drivers of these three cars were discovered to have no drivers licenses, no registration papers, and no keys to the ignitions of the cars — all highly suspicious.

Constables Poirier, Melancon and Pilon of the QPF brought the occupants and drivers of all three vehicles to Campbell’s Bay for furthering questioning and it was found that all three cars were stolen. Paul Cameron of Bryson was the owner of the Plymouth which had been picked up along their way to Pembroke by the group of young people because one of their other stolen cars was running out of gas.

All the drivers and passengers were from Ottawa and some were minors. They were turned over to police from Ottawa after interrogation in Campbell’s Bay.