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Barrie Examiner, 11 May 1953, p. 2

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vimmaul cur WINNERS HOME murmur TRIP lo nu wrsr By CHARLES 1va Examiner News Editor The Joyful emotion of Barrie citizens pentup from the time they heard the news on Wednesday night that the Flych were the new Memorial Cup champions burst out into wonderful display of pride in the local team on Saturday when the vic torious players were given welcome home which one speak cr saidlater had never been matched in the sporting history of the town Full advantage was taken of the twohour holiday which had been declared by Mayor James Hart and thousands people jammed the spproachu to the Allandaie Sia tion and the Bradford StreetPark sidc Driva route to Queens Park where the diitill reception took place Perfect Weaker in contrast to W0 years ago when the Flyers won the Memorial Cup the reception was held in the no in bad weather the his sport ing event of the year on Saturday took place in perfect weather With the temperature soaring into the 70s Judi after midday the crowd stained to move over to Queens Park and by the time the caval cede of can which made up the procession made their way over thousands were milling around iookina for vantage spot from whirlito View the proceedings The small grandstand which had been chosen for the reception was gully bodeclud with Uniod Jacks and was W111 with the yellow white and black bunting colors of the Flyers Tumndons Ovation The players were given ire mendous ovation as they stopped from the train and loud cheering broke kmse as coach Hap Emms aligbtedon the platforms Old tyme and modern dancing every Wednesday Friday and Sat urday at Club 79 Ladies 50c Gentlemen 75c 54tf Rummage sale at Oddfellows Hall Saturday May 16 Doors open am Auspices ladies of St Marys Church 5556 ummage see Owen St Friday May 15 at mm auspices Ladies Auxiliary Canadian Legion 51156 Florenco Nightingale Tea and open house Nurses Residence Wellington St West Tuesday May 12 30pm Auspi es Womens Hos pitalAuxlliary keis 25 515455 On May 15 in Presbyterian Cliurcb Stayner lecture on culture of African Violets by MrCope land of Cooksville from to pm Tea served from to 530 Every body welcome Admission 25c 55 t== eXfe Special curs conveyed the officials and own representatives to Queens Park in procession which was headed by the police cruisers and molorcyclcrrescorl followed by the Barrie Citizens Band Tho Flyers colorful in their white wostorn Stei sons travelled in an open truck receiving the greellngs of the many fans who lined the route as they made their way through townTbe rear of the procession was brought up by the BDCI Band resplendent in their huntingred jackets and whites As soon as the party arrived at Queens Park the Memorial Cup was ccrcrnoniously placed on the table in the Grandstand Among those on the platform were Mayor and Mrs Hart Mr and Mrs Emma Mr and Mrs Charlie Chriale Ilo ward Nurris Archie Marshall Har ry Partridge Wes Aliaopp Sandy Coulis president of the Chamber of Commerce Dr Neil Laurie Archie Campbell Toronto Maple Leaf trainer who accom an ied the Flycrs to the west ory Gregg president of the OHA and Bill Henley business manager of the OHA Alderman Williams chairman of the official reception committee Walls editor of the Barrie Examiner who acted as master ofccrcmonies and errmayor Grant Mayor chic roofer Greatest Crowd Introducing Mayor Hart Mr Walls made reference to the fact that in all of Barrics history there had never been such big crowd gathered together in one place to do honor to team of any kind The town council and people of Barrleand district join me in ex tending congraiuldtions to the Mem orial Cup champions the Flyers hockey team said Mayor Hart in his opening remarks It had only been recently that they had welcomed them back to Barrie as the Junior champ ions an honor which many cities would like to have gained The team then went out west to do battle for the Memorial Cup and they hadsvon it for the second time in three years these games must Haw been vory great and this ex citement had extended to those in Barrie who had listened to the re ports of the games Proud of Team Mnyor Hart went on to tell his listeners that when he took office this year he had had no idea of what he was letting himself in for First of all there had been the centennial then the Flyers bring ing two championships back to the town We were all very proud of every player in the team andof how they had conducted themselv es of their coach Hap Emms their trainer Harry Partridge and all the other officials who had play cd such big part in building up the team We are very proud to welcome the Flyers back to Barrie hc con eluded Great Publicity Mr Coulis mhc ncxl speaker said it gave him great deal of pleasure to be present to wclcomc the com home on balialf of the Chamber of Commerce Win lose or draw the Plyers had always stood out in Ontarios history llleyl13d at all times endeavoured to bring back to the town anything that was Worthwhile inthe world of sport They wercdoing grand job and through them the town was known throughout Caimda and the United States Presentations Made presentation of beautiful bouquet of roses was then madl to Mrs Emnrs by 10yearold Kath ie ilurt daughter of Mayor and Mrs Hart while similar presentation was made to Mrs Hart by Karen Williams daughter of Alderman and Mrs Williams The presentation of leather grips each iniiillcd was then made to thaplayero each of whom was in tmduced to the gathering by Hap who told many amusing anecdote about individual members of thr team as he did so Before introducing them how ever he expressed the pleasure it gave him to do this Most of those present would already know them both from their activities on the ice and as members of the commun ilY They are great bunch of boys added the coach Owed People Apology In more serious vein Hap went on to say that he felt he owed the Barrie people an apology over an article which had appeared in The Iloronto Globe and Mail Referring to this story he added Believe me was the most shock ed person of anyone to read it This was story in Fridays issue which stated that Emms was con sidering buying out the team and movmg it elsewhere did not get any sleep that night worrying about it he added This town of Barrie is myhome was born at Dalston in Oro Township like this town very much likr it more than that hope will 31 ways be here Hap went on to say that his capacity for coaching had to end sometime and he had thought he might be of some use in the man agement side of the club He ha said before that he was giving up coaching but Howard Norris had said he was thinking of giving up managing the club In final reference to The Globe and Mail story he commented The story in that paper was very out of place The players were then introduced toA1derman Williams and the grips were handed over to them by His Worship Mayor Hari Although the occasion was for the new champions Hap did not forget those who had formerly been in the Barrie ranks and he enum erated number of these includ ing George Cuculick who had sub stituted for Bill Harrington in one game of theJuriior piayoffs and who received presentation beSi wishes lo the also as did TimHook juvenile player choismcntbned werez Bill Hagan Jack White Leo Lalbine Ray Gariespy Bill Sexton Chuck Wood Paul MegerLloyd Pearsall and Paul Emms President Charlie Christie then introduced the executive of the club who also received gifts pre sented by the Mayor Howard Nor ris manager Archie Marshall sec retary Harry Partridge trainer Dr Neil Laurie club physician Also inlt troduced was Wes Allsopp manager of BarTie Arena Voice of The Fans Grant Mayor ihcn rose to express his thanks to the fans who had turned out to give the boys such wonderful welcome borne Referring to the part he and the other spectators who bud travelled the BDCI Cadet Corps which is al Annual BDCI Cadet inspection Thursday Evening at Arena Various Displays on Program The 53rd annual inspection of highlight of the Barricand District Collegiate Institute program will take place at Barrie Arena Thurso day evening May 14 at ll p111 west with thc team had played he said We lot the pcoplc in the west know where we came from We also let them know it was our centen nial year Hap then addFLSStd the gnlher ing llguin saying he wished to thank cveryoncln the town and Simcoe County for the wonderful support the Flych had received during the year To Visit Hospital He then went on 10 announce hat the players would make visit to the patients in the Royal Vici oria Hospital and the people at the Oddfellows Home later in the day The team were glad to think that through the facilities of CKBB the accounts of the hockey gnmcs had gone to the sick purple and those who could not get out It was fine to be fit and well but it was really those people who counted Attend Church Service The coach then went on to say but while out west they had gone church service in Trinity Bop ist Church Loud applause greet id his remark Some people dont yellow in that but think it is recessary Hap added that only two out if their 17 players had lelCd to litend that service They had been lccompanied by the Barrie party if spectators and it so happened hat the minister in the church vas Rev Gurbuit Smith brother if Gerald Smith principal of lug Edward School Allandzlle President of 011A The president of the 0111A Tory lregg then expressed the pleasure 1e had received through being out Nest with the team for part of the clics and through being prcsentliu lurric today to welcome home ills 11d friend Hap Emms and his cam TheFlycrs had conducted hcmselvcs very well had shown licmsclves to be excellent sports ncn in every sense of the term and rod brought more credit to Barrie hon $300000 could have brought Brief speeches were then giVen Mr Henley and Archie Camp ell who stated that apart from icingthe Memorial Cup champions slyers were the present teenage hampions of this whole World The reception than concluded and he official party then paraded hrough the main sireetsio the Wellingtonloiel where civic din 1cr was given to the team Named to Board newer MORRISON oftlie Barrie Kiwanis Club with has been appointed lo mascara of Directors of the Ontario Society forCrippled Children calls sons THE STORE THATDUALITY sun ir Elwin 16 pconngr blue Hyers For the Second time in the past two yourskthe Bottle Flyers have won the anodion 1JuniofHockey Cllqmplonf limp We offer our prqiseuponyour oc IV complirlhmeni and our bestfwlsbes for fviurelsuccess REV GARBUTT SMITH minis ter of Trinity Baptist Church at Winnipeg who had the Barrie Fly 151s at his evening service on Sun dry May then arranged social time for the players in the Sun day School room after He is native of Barrie son of Mr and Mrs George Smith Mary 31 and brother of Gerald Smith principal of King Edward School Czech Immigrant Gives Life Saving Boy from Drowning Albert Nakbdal $2 Czech immigrant who escaped from his Cornmunisbruled country to come to Canada gave his life yesterday to save 12yearold boy Morley Desjardins from drowning in Mid land harbor Nukladal collapsed and drowned in the harbor after saving Des jardins from what was almost cer tain death in the choppy water Nakladal who was strong swimmer was relaxingwat the foot of Centre Street near the harbor when he saw Dcsjardins fall into the water from raft No sooner did the boy start crying out for virelp that Nkladal jumped to his feetland1p1unged into the water He had to swim several hundred feet to reach the youngster Getting firm grip on the boy he brought him back to shore When he reached shallow water he set the boy on his feet and then collapsed It was forty minutes lat er before his body was found in eight feet of water Some men who appeared on the Nakladal for some time but were neDavevmd AlllerthoodsEmw Scott and Ed Fish worked over sharp Col Cameron 08E ED Commandant of the Royal Can adlan School of Infgtry Camp Borden will be the inspecting of ficer Almost total enrolment approx imately 800 students will take part in the inspection program The Resident Killed Near Simcoe Manor When Hii Truck Thomas McFadden 80 was killed on Frimy night when he walked into the path of truck in from of Simcoc Manor the home for the aged at Benton Mr Madden was reside it at the Manor Police mid the driver was Leslie McDonald Weston Mr Mc Fadden is survived by sister Mrs Gill Barrie lAmphilhegaire Has One Year to Live The ancient muchcriticized Am phltlwatre in Winnipeg will soon be thing of the A1 victim of emphasized verbs attack during rc tent seasons the building will up likely stand for more than one more season Proposed plans call for new ar tificial icerink to be built next to the new football stadium in Win nipeg but work on this wont get started until next year Citizens in St Boniface are al to building rink and this should be in operation by the start of next Without home the Can adiens had to use the Amphitheatre as home ice but were just about as pleased as the Elyers The land ilpun which the Amphi theatre stands is owned by an in surance company and they plan to make it the sight of their proposed new head office OW WOODEN SHIPS Non magnetic minesweepers built entirely of wood now are im portant uniiS in the United States navy EDUCATIONAL PUZZLE There is growing feeling that the taxpayer whose money is being spent to have children prepared for the realities of life and trained in habits of industry and responsibil ity is not getting that ot ceremonial portion includes general salute inspection of ranks Ellie impressive march past and ad ivance to review urdcr Both the leaders and senior girls will take part Commanding officer for this year is Cadet Major Jack Garner and Second in Command is Capt John Warnica Commanding officer for the girls is Ann Harris The annual platoon competition for the Major Rodgers Trov phy Will be om of he most keenly contested events on the program together with the Morri son Trophy for which the girlsi compete Various other demonstrations stand out on the nights inspection Bren gun displays and ambulance corps applications also physical training displays by both boys and girls dances by the girls and turn bling and pyramid building by both boys and girls are added at tractions and sidelights As always the welldressed and renowned Barrie Collegiate Band will play group of feature num bers during the evening At approximately 715 the Barrie District Collegiate Institute Cadet Corps led by the band and their attractive drum majorates will form in column of route and leave the Municipal Building for parade to the arena should weather con ditions permit The Corps will enter the Arena few minutes before The form ing up for the general salute is on and the public are advised to at interesting partgof the inspection tend early to witness this dramatic display Cockburn has been general Convener of the Cadet Corps with Nesbitt directing the physlt ical training display gt ERNEST BURTON former town clerk now in the real estate and general insurance busineas in partnership with Cliff Brown will has becn named Justice of the Peace by the Province of Ontario GOES INTO DITCH The ciglrlwcckold baby of Mr and Mrs Jolmnnes Grin Poinswick was taken to Royal Victoria Hos pital last night for examination of possible back injury which she sustained when the car being driv en by her father Highway 90 Neither Mr Grin the owner of the rccenijyopened Barrie Model Bakery here or his wife were in jurcd apart from slight sinking up Tlle were driving east on High way 90 when the right front tire blew out pulling the car into the south ditch Congratulations TO THE 1111111111 PEYEIIS We welcome home great coach ond Canadas Greatest Junior Af Hockey Team blew tire on icipal Building unable to reVive him through any fault of the teach rs The new Canadian had been in but through the authorities who Midland less than year and was geem to be galloping madly in all an employee of the Midland Footv inaction ti wear Co His wife and daughter are still in Czechoslovakia High mg Altai um um ranusronmmv cannon hum11 cm we snowman ron ammo morn 2414 Were Proud of Our lionsSponsored Safely lane Will Start Tomorrow Motorists are reminded that to morrow sees the startof the 10 point safety lane which is being sponsored by the Liors Club of Barrie this week in an endeavor to makedrivers more safety conscious The lone which will be staffed by trained mechanics from dififer entgonages in town will be held Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday in the area to the east of the Mun The checking ground will be open from am to pin andfrom pm to 8pm No charge is being made for this examination of cars which Will consist of checking front lights roar lights steering tires exhaust sys torubm11o glam windshield wip ers rear viewmirrors and horn lmolte time for the check will be about five minutes Cars passing the test will be given windshield saraly sticker Motora tats oi cars sailing to pm will be advised to have their oars over hauled where necessary There will also be daily draw for $15 worm of automobile service or ac oeusories mi If PAKISTAN waraawavs fast Pakistan has about 2200 ORIAL cur lnylnnlng iunior hockeys Iourelsiibo MemoriolCup the Flyers have brought boom and nine to Barrie as well as tothemsolves individually dndoso team miles of inland wotertvays navi gable all year round memorialcarcinomas Anglers

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