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Recent dissatisfaction of several 'Cliffe council members with two election rules may lead to an amendment of the constitution's by-law during an open Council meeting at 4 p.m. today in Longfellow Hall...
According to a constitutional by-law, every student below group five in academic standing may run for office only with the Council's consent. Until yesterday, the applicability of the rule had never been retied...
...State law which concerns this problem was written in 1928 and amended in 1947 to read in part: "No rule, regulation, order, ordinance, or by-law of a city or town hereafter made or promulgated relative to or in connection with . . . signs, lights, markings, signal systems or similar devices or parking meters on any was within its control, shall take effect until approved in writing by the Department of Public Works or be effective after said approval is revoked." The 1947 amendment merely placed "parking meters" after "similar devices...
...issue of mixed bathing had the people of Trois-Rivires (pop. 50,000) up in arms. The twelve-year-old city by-law was clear-cut. It forbade bathing with "one or a few persons of the opposite sex," decreed that "persons of the female sex must wear a bathing suit of opaque material . . . including a skirt which reaches close to the knees; they must also wear a suitable brassiere." In practice, most Trifluvians had ignored the by-law and its penalties (forty dollars or two months in jail). On the city council there was talk of doing away with...
...face of all the pious opposition, the Trois-Rivières aldermen decided that maybe the old by-law had better be enforced. That meant that, whatever their bathing costumes, boys & girls, men & wives, would swim alone-or else...