Winnipeg Free Press

Tuesday, October 11, 1960

Issue date: Tuesday, October 11, 1960
Pages available: 42
Previous edition: Monday, October 10, 1960

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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 11, 1960, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press tuesday october 11. 1980 Page 7 let me show 3wi How easy it is to safeguard your a tables in to Dsa Feu believe it or not there Are still lots of people who Ding to the idea that the safest place in the world to store valuables is in a hideaway at Home. But for every one of these people there Are hundreds More who have Learned the better Way and Are now using Toronto Dominion safety Deposit boxes. To safety Deposit boxes offer you Maxi mum Protection for such valuables As property deeds mortgage Docu ments insurance policies stocks and Bonds jewel Lery and All of those Small important things that would be impossible to replace should they be lost destroyed or stolen. Safety Deposit boxes Are located inside the Maxi mum Security fire proof vaults you see in every Toronto Dominion Branch. Your valuables Are doubly secure be cause you Are the Only person who can open the Box. Renting a safety Deposit Box is easy and economical. For less than two cents per Day you can enjoy the satisfaction and peace of mind that comes with the knowledge that your value lies Are Safe and secure. Safety Deposit boxes Are typical of the Many convenient services available at your neighbourhood Tor on to Domini on Branch. Be sure to visit the one nearest you soon. You la really enjoy our kind of interested service. See for yourself people make the difference at the Toronto Dominion Bank 22 branches to serve you in greater Winnipeg Leopold Ville Happy Rumor Mill and wrong shape for a riot by Gavin Young Leopold Ville pedal of is Leopold Ville is a City wit out a heart gleaming modern straggling thinly along the ban of the mile wide Congo River has an air of incompleteness Small conglomeration of shops an hotels in the Centre with no re focal Point. Tall White skyscraper punctuate the Skyline like Jagge haphazard Teeth and the Broad Dull Carriage Way boulevards seem to Divide rather than link them. With the Best will in the Wor it would be very hard to organic a satisfactory demonstration Leopold Ville. It is the wrong shape this is one reason Why through out the almost indescribable pol tical confusion of the last three months daily life in the consoles capital has gone on surprising calmly. Another is that the orbit Ary congolese is not a very Polit Cal animal he is certainly not in Leopold Ville at least Given to Vio Lence. Aimless shouting in the bleakness of a vast and Echoles Boulevard makes him feel self conscious. Timid and confused he is no sure that any politician be he or anti Lumumba is Worth a two mile tramp to the prime minister House the Only place where protest could be in any Way effect live but where the Rifle Butts o the police fall hardest and fastest have been no european deaths in Leopold Ville since Independence no confirmed cases o rape no looting. A european car walk with safety virtually any where in the City. When the fore pub Lique panicked mutinied Ani began its vicious random bullying the Whites the civilian Conge Lese population declined to join in. The plate Glass showroom win Dows remained mashed Thi self service counters loaded with luxury goods were ignored. In marked contrast to the spirit less dispiriting modern City there s a spark of bustling life in the teeming african town on its Edge cheerful town at night there is dancing singing in a dozen Gau Dily Decora Ted bars in narrow streets fringed by Coconut Palms. You can drink your Beer at a Small Iron Able at Bob s depot bar and see nothing but smiles on the faces of he packed and mildly sweating audience and the guitar twanging musicians. Plump congolese hostesses in Dolored togas and head scarves Good Nat redly invite visitors White or Black to dance a High Ife shuffle to the muscle twitch no rhythm of the Independence a Cha now in its third month at the top of the congolese it Parade. There is poverty but use and bitter Sweet smell of Uman life. There is color and movement of i sort too. In the toned atmosphere of the deluxe Lemming hotel in the modern City he m smiling with its smaller Nighbor the Stanley has become is operational Headquarters of be 50-Odd foreign journalists in to Goldville. From Here they set out each morning to do the round to it. Lumumba s official residence he parliament building the press office. The. Rest of the Day is spent in chasing rumours that or. Lumumba has been arrested that congolese troops wearing threaten no expressions Are approaching he City in armoured cars. Ide can they be on do you sup that or. Lumumba is addressing the Senate a radio audience an emergency meeting of african representatives. Each news report has to be checked and counter checked and checked gain. Congolese politicians Issue nerve ingling communiques with comp Ile abandon at All hours of the a or night. They Are All contradictory and most cancel each her out. News Agency Corres in Zients do their Best to keep up them but by now their hearts re no longer on it. Seen Lumumba s communique on his meeting with Kas Mvubu this morn you know that he s sued another one announcing a you Don t say Kas Mvubu s just said he an t seen Lumumba for two of War of rumours whenever or. Lumumba s for Unes appear to be on the Wane s Young congolese supporters buttonhole journalists in the bar and order them to inform their editors immediately that Luzum a is about to arrest the entire position. An exiled politician from in Ivory coast with Lumumba is Foliations disseminates Home Lade news to the unwary. He rigorously checkmates the Short hanging tactics of the waiters in bar at which he is an Imamov ble fixture. So nobody minds Uch. The fantasy of political life to Lis City of three governments Here politicians and officers seem be convinced that one broadcast and one press conference without of supporting Effort is enough to Ake a coup d eat has baffled the Ost experienced of political observers. One Western ambassador re marked half seriously that he suspected that president Kas Mvubu whose political inertia is remark Able even by congolese standards have stuck his pins into a Wax Model of or. Lumumba is simply awaiting the inevitable result. Some representatives of Independent african states have taken to frequenting the hotels to themselves abreast of the develop ment of negotiations Between or. Lumumba and or. Kas Mvubu in which they themselves have been assisting. You have Only to turn your Back on one of them and he issues a communique denying half of which he has just told you said one bemused african. We Are dealing with shadows nol officers of the in Force drop in too. Blond sleek swedes Wear ing suede shoes with their tropical uniforms British officers. Attached to the ghanaian army speaking with the clipped accent of Walt Oil on thames immense bearded sikhs All turban and tangled hair. In a Corner of the bar a moustached and bespectacled Indian re lates How finding himself by the scene of an attempt to assassinate colonel Mobutu the congolese chief of staff he was temporarily detained by the Congo Lese police. But i was stripped naked you see. Well not totally of course they left me my Vest and underpants i m thankful to say. Most unman Nerly Ocolor Blind a liberian tells How one of his Ellow countrymen had been accused though swiftly exonerated of being a belgian paratrooper by suspicious and apparently color Lind congolese. Confusion it seems is Good for International relations. A sign of the times is the pre ence of congolese in the grand Wyels and restaurants of the modern City. Before Independence i was unimaginable. Now Many con Jolene officials Are living quietly n the neat Villas vacated by the departed belgians. They Are to be met at diploma in cocktail parties and the private houses of foreigners. For the most Art they Are Friendly though a her shy. They talk eagerly of heir Jippes of going to Europe my the . To study and learn English. They Are aware of their academic backwardness and they re hot ashamed to . In general they avoid political topics one gets the impression that them education and economic lability in the Congo Are More important. Only with the support is of or. Lumumba do bitter to tical recriminations tend to in rude like wasps at a picnic to reak up a Friendly conversation. But there have been no political assassinations. There is apparent no desire among the Policianos carry measures against Oppon ils Loo far. In the main the Strug e for Power has been a paper a a War in which the press con frences and radio broadcasts have Een the Foremost weapons. Things May change. From the provinces ome terrifying stories of Mas acre and rape. But for the moment there is nothing of the pm unique financing Nairobi Kenya i african politician has called n taxpayers in the United tales Britain and other West in countries to pay a Little More in taxes for investment in african countries like Kenya. The proposal was made monday y Malinde Mulino Deputy Ader of the Kenya african democratic Union party. Mineral search London Reuters soviet experts who recently visited Uba have recommended the de Cuba of off Shore 1 prospecting Coal mining and metallurgical facilities Moscow Adio reported tuesday. The Broad ast said the visit was an out ome of the cuban soviet econ agreement signed last Une. Prevent piracy Victoria song Ces Indian band has begun a 24 hour patrol of three near Here Washington Pajl the general Assembly of the inter National criminal police organization Interpol Mimi Lay voted membership for three additional the Feder Don t nag your husband about putting on the storm windows. Call Dorwin and have them install top Quality aluminium windows with prices starting As Low As installed. Dorwin industries limited up 2-045j asthma Newt help fori Alcinus drainage Hen women children now avoid much severe Rhee Zinc . 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