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...opening Crimson aggregation saw an offense combination of wings Jim Ward and Bob Almy and center Jim Fletcher, with AI Key and Bill Allen backing them up from the defense positions. Nova Scotian and former Junior Olympic star Bill Yetman started as goalie, and left nothing to be desired as he and the Crimson defense shut out the inexperienced prep-schoolers...
Loaded with goalie talent, the team boasts John Lavalle, former tender of the nets for St. Paul's School, and two Freshmen, Copeland Draper and Bill Yetman. The latter is a Nova Scotian and former Junior Olympic star...
Antigonish* is a tidy little Nova Scotian town (pop. 2,200) with a picturesque name and a unique university: St. Francis Xavier. To St. F.X., as Bluenoses call it, educators come from all over the world. Last week Jesuit Father Ralph O'Neill, of Philadelphia, arrived. Like the others, he had come to study the Antigonish Movement, to see how adult and cooperative education had bettered the lot of Maritime fishermen and farmers. He wanted to do similar work among the Filipinos...
...know the broad-minded Roman Catholic priest who is the director of the college's extension department: the Rev. Dr. Moses Matthias Coady. His ringing voice, ruddy features and muscular 250 pounds are familiar all over the Maritimes. He was born on a farm in a Nova Scotian village, tiny Margaree Forks, which had poverty aplenty. He studied in Antigonish, in Rome, and in Washington, taught school, preached, but never forgot his birthplace...
...Nova Scotian seamen this was serious business. The Quero Bank is the mainstay of their fresh fish industry. It is close enough to shore (just over 200 miles) for them to chug out, ice down a load of cod, haddock and halibut, and get back in five to six days. If foreign trawlers continued to shove them off Quero, Canadians would have to go twice as far, to the Grand Bank off Newfoundland, for less profitable salt...