-he severely injures man
A ‘QUACK’, who extracted a man’s tooth and caused five injuries to the man’s mouth, was yesterday fined $250 by Magistrate Harold Bollers.

The ‘quack’, Badri Persaud of 10 Garnett Street, Campbelville, pleaded guilty to the charge of illegal practising of dentistry.

The man whose tooth Persaud had extracted was subsequently examined by Dr Tallim, who had found the man to be suffering from five injuries, including haemorrhage, with two other teeth broken, one to the root.

Persaud was arrested and charged as a result of a police trap.

He was an ‘impostor’, not even a technician, who had acquired some measure of proficiency,” said Asst. Superintendent, Carl Austin, who prosecuted.

Mr Austin asked the Magistrate to take a serious view of the case.

Asked what he had to say, Persaud told Mr Bollers: “Ah working in the backdam, Sir. I nevah do this type of work before, but people come and progue me.”

The Magistrate then observed that it seemed very clear that the defendant was a man who carried on his illegal practice widely, as the police had found at his home a quantity of implements, including a syringe.

Mr Austin pointed out that the defendant could not plead sudden temptation, as the decoy used by the Police had been to him two days before the extraction.

On that day, he had injected the man’s gums, but had sent him away, because he said that the man was under the influence of alcohol.

Imposing his fine, the Magistrate told Persaud that it was only because he had pleaded guilty and had thrown himself at the mercy of the Court, and that there was nothing known against him, that he was not imposing a heavier penalty.
(Guiana Graphic: February 3, 1956)

BG Three-Day Carnival Fete
(Part proceeds go to the Mayor’s Playground Fund, under the patronage of His Worship, Mayor Luckhoo)

BGGC Jan. 28, 30 and Feb. 4

• Steel Band Road March

• Masquerade Bands

• Calypso Championship

• Band Costume

• Individual Costumes

• Carnival Queen Contest

Enjoy this unforgettable spectacle:
Quo Vadis; Invaders; Robin Hood & His Merry Men; Harlem; Chicago; Blue Gardenia; Kentuckians; Texacans; Cobra; Coffee; Destructor; Intruder; Thunder; Contender; Defeater; Kubaka; Panther; King John and His Court; the Zulu Warriors; White Indians; King Richard and his Crusaders; Rollicking Revelers; Fishermen of Portugal; Leopard People; the Carnation Quintuplets; the Lighthouse Twins; Sir Walter Raleigh and dozens more.

All the contests are open to BG residents.

Bars; Games; El Casino; Refreshments; Dancing; Exciting new features each night.
(Guiana Graphic: January 15, 1956)

Proprietor of hotel fined for weak rum
‘BALLEE’, the proprietor of Ballerina Hotel, on Lombard Street, was yesterday fined $50 by Magistrate RG Sharples for selling rum to be taken off the premises.

‘Ballee’, who pleaded guilty, was also fined $25 for having weak rum in his bar.

The charges followed a raid by Excise Officials on October 18 last year.

Mr Lionel Luckhoo, QC, who appeared for ‘Ballee’, explained that the defendant was not in charge of the bar. He had a barman. He therefore could not really account for the weakness of the rum.

On the other charge, Mr Luckhoo explained that ‘Ballee’s grandson was left in the bar, and that it was he who had sold the rum to be taken off the premises.

‘Ballee’ admitted one previous conviction, for having weak rum. That was in 1953, when he was fined $15.
(Guiana Graphic: January 17, 1956)

FOR SALE: One victim of the East Coast road.
Attacked and damaged by the East Coast road on the night of Wednesday, January 4.

For sale: One Plymouth Saloon car, P6246; first-class engine; 4 new tyres, and battery recently overhauled.

Reason for selling: Chassis broken forward section. No reasonable offer refused. Apply: Managing Director, Guiana Graphic, La Penitence, EB Demerara.
(Guiana Graphic: January 15, 1956)

Beef control ends in September
GOVERNMENT will decontrol beef sometime in September next after 14 years.

Beef, which has been heavily subsidised by the government, will then be placed on the market in adequate supplies.

Yesterday, the Association pointed out that livestock and meat control has, under post-war conditions, sought to continue a wartime policy of price control, aimed at ensuring meat supplies and to protect the consumer from rising prices of meat.

The causes of the diminishing supply of meat may be briefly stated as follows:

Reduced production of cattle; diminishing pasture; effect of the milk control on calf mortality; incentives by Government to increase rice production; and lack of any agricultural policy for increasing beef production.
(Guiana Graphic: January 13, 1956)

Good manners
– lubricant of society
DECLARING that good manners was the lubricant of society, Mr J R Muss, Hon. Secretary Treasurer of the Society for the Promotion of Refinement among Children told Radio Demerara listeners yesterday afternoon that it enabled various sections to live and work together harmoniously.

The pleasant-voiced retired government archivist was delivering the Society’s annual New Year message.

Stating that the Society was non-political, and was not a charitable organisation, Mr Muss said it yet benefited the whole community.

He expressed disappointment, however, over the fact that after this country had been British for more than a century, more knowledge of the rules of western civilization had not been acquired by many people.
(Guiana Graphic: January 16, 1956)

Battle of the sexes…
The husband’s commandments
THOU must have no man but me

Thou shalt not have a photo of any man but thy husband

Thou shalt not keep it in secret, for I am a jealous husband

Thou shalt not speak thy husband’s name with levity

Honour thy husband and obey him

Thou shalt not find fault when thy husband chews and smokes

Thou shalt not permit thy husband to wear a buttonless shirt

but shall keep his clothes in good repair

Thou shalt not continually gad about neglecting

Thy husband and family

Thou shalt not strive to live in the style of thy neighbour

Unless thy husband is able to support it

Commandments of a wife
Remember, I am thy wife

Whom thou must cherish as thy life

Thou shalt not stay out late at night

When Lodges, clubs, or friends invite

Thou shalt not smoke indoors or out

Or chew tobacco round about

My mother thou shalt strive to please

And have her live with us in ease

Remember tis thy duty clear

To dress me well throughout the year

Thou shalt not be a drinking man

And should have a prohibition plan

Thou shalt not flirt, but must

Allow thy wife such freedom anyhow

Thou shalt get up when baby cries

And try the child to tranquilise

Eton Drepaul(Maryville Leguan)

(Guiana Graphic: January 18, 1956)

BG best of the Guianas
THAT British Guiana is the best of the three Guianas for tourists was the view expressed by Mr William Begg, station master of Pan American (World) Airways at Cayenne, French Guiana.

Accompanied by his wife, he arrived in the colony yesterday to spend a two-week vacation.

Originally, they had intended going on a world tour, but instead changed their minds in preference to British Guiana, as the country was so nice.

Mr and Mrs Begg have traveled throughout the world.

Mr Begg knows the three Guianas very well.
(Guiana Graphic: January 20, 1956)

Victim of train accident dies
PAUL WILSON of Airy Hall, Mahaicony, who was the victim of a rail mishap recently, died at the Public Hospital yesterday afternoon.

Wilson was admitted into the institution in the latter part of November, after being involved in an accident with an East Coast train.
(Guiana Graphic: January 22, 1956)

Man’s leg crushed by train
YACUB KHAN, 38, of Non Pareil Estate, was admitted to the Public Hospital around 7:45pm with both of his legs crushed.

It is reported that Khan was involved in a train accident early in the evening.

He was conveyed to the Hospital by the Police ambulance.
(Guiana Graphic: January 24, 1956)

Swam for their lives
THE SKIPPER of a sloop and three men swam for their lives when their boat sprang a leak on Friday night.

The sloop, ‘Mike’, under the captaincy of George Collier, was travelling to the city with a cargo of stones.

It sprang a leak off Fellowship foreshore and sank.

The men all swam to safety.
(Guiana Graphic: January 22, 1956)
Clifford Stanley can be reached on any of the above at cswcb@yahoo.com or 592-657-2043.