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omen hm Progrcs Bullet lt correct Saint group of ltttt of hit Bjirtic llito ctton Willi llcw Years spatch quadrons In front on on log down 13 boy ily Car is stated omotivc and lie is with RCAF fight instructtn at Borden and ida he went ptain youngest sot wicla 30H pltilll Actint 1h alon istcd early in Id went over Lorne Suits try 1114 ed for tittl rs where he lieutenant ir Camp llordvn an instrutu aininu centre during Captain Years promo Vltl Canadian aptain Nelson 13 and ously tc had plain which rr path in writing to Wesley Ruse ccw lullllh illu 11 l1olti lattrs tolnt tvltltItiTlii ml was de George Shepherd ntlmn for thei llc follo Grant lliiltl In llll oilitc lillcr Simcoe County Counrit 1945 bring is ll NHLti an all ti tui it lite luvnu it ktlt1tfill Individ train air ad at will our ttl In rl vtll vcr in 115 ll hp his 2111 bi Fril ttt gis mic Zrttlll cacti adv tltcl lcn uett lilh Kidd lllSlll liiuwa llllll MIDLAND iiiazlei ant tt liam ttord NtllAlASAGA Dem tltulH ttpl 19 with llithttl MCQUI lrrti lnozl as Herve and William OllllllA Wallace atu Dr ttttltl nnmty Reeve Mr with SOVIWV =st nominth road overseer in that ii lrict and xgtsinnd mm William ittttlttli ltecvc Mr Arnold moved up and Councillo Orton was ivcn an acclamation as Deputv tome in the elections last week Orton defeated Arnol tor the llecvcs chair and Boyd Miller as elected Deputv ileevc llc will serve on the Couuty Coliti ril for the first time At Midland former Reeve itohn was elected Mayor and Chat Vent will fill hi place or the County Council this year Wil tTurn to page five please tritium KIWANIS CLUB FOR THE YEAR At last weeks Kiwanis meeting reports of the years activities were given by number of committee chairmen which proved most in teresting President LesChitticli who presided for the last meeting of his term thande the Commit tee chairmen directors and mem bers for the fine support given him during the year The club during 1044 tried to make its main con OllO twat ludhniu Johnl Vtmtlltid cd ll shortly be it rted to ittltllltlllltt llINlLlANG Fiction ill Liantieticttt PORT MchCtill Range lat tct SUNNHM llarktrr IR llavid Viddis lECllhlSElll Hunter icntgt ilatvcyl NY mhh Steve llcsroclics OltONllO Dalton NC Ciamen lOlTENliAill ll VllSlltA Andrew Cumniin Earl Richardson VICTORIA IIARIIOII Bruce tctt WEST GWllllhlBURY Edgar Evans Www BRIG MACKLIN AWARDED CBE other plan to ltVttlt here artang nwtnbcts oi our ch tili iust consnleia Snowstorm onnaaa run Hartford liornc its at lll gttl lot it Ltatn are to die is happen rnt gr too pi burd cur tllllll that lll Vilh roads lilo ttl for mile al round and the tons of snow still drilttiir llarrio and this ltil11l of Sinicob oun fighting one of the vsorst winu 00 per cent of all roads in the history About FROZEN DEC 28 Kcmpentcldt Bay from ovtr December 138 1014 five days itounty are completely blocked to later than the previous war motor traftic and have been for The hay was clcnr ice for three some la There are it miles of Tounty roads and County Engineer Jones Tuesday night reported there were 211 miles blocked to traffic The five out snowplows went to Work Iucsday night after the winds had died down but it was posst etor this limited amount of equipment to tackle only low miles Provincial roads too with the ccptiun of the road from Baie to Camp Borden have been practic or four days but was hlankcttctt by the Ytttrs Day The dates on which the bay froze over in the past 10 winters were as follows 10116 Dec it 1937 Dec Jun 19311 Dec 1911 Jan 1941 Dec 30 1942 Doc 17 1043 Dec 23 1944 Dec 23 Survey Shows Papers Best for Advertising fall of snow New ally impassable all week iwelveMOYe Space to Be Used Gray Coach busscs arrived in lltir rie several hours late Montin night and not one vehicle attempt Ll lCuVC tinti 10 NOW YC Fl noun bus headed south for Toron ol honors to officers of the na dian Army His Majesty King George Vi has pointed Brigadier Wilfred Harold tephenson Mack lin Commander of the Order of the British Empire tCBEt His wife tribution to the war effort but some thought had been given to the postwar years With the high enthusiasm attained Barrie Club hould make worthwhile contri bution to the unsettled years that lie ahead said the president Membership of 74 The membership caminittec with an active and successful year Six teen new members were added There was one death Dr Lewis and the membership now der the Christie did splendid job the on Nettlcton as chairman hadl stands at 74 The Attendance Committee un chairmanship of Roy average attendance at all meet ings being about 90 per cent Geo McConkey for the Au iliary War Service Committee re ported that fine supportwas given the two Victory Loan drives $50000 was donated to Barrie Ac tive Service Club and Canteen and $50000 to the Red Cross Four boxes of books and five boxcs of magazines were sentto the Mer chantMarine boys and four sub scriptions to each of five maga Conttnuifi Support of RCAF Headquarters has stated that continued suppgrl and assist nnc will be glven to the Air Cadet movement in Canada iIeadquart crs said it wished to dissipate re ports that the suspension 01 recruit ing of aircrew had led to withdraw al of RCAF supportfor AirCadets comprehenSllft postwar training program for Air Cadets is under consideration There are 31000 Air Cadets in379 squadrons in Canada 1181 the present time rapidly inure HerI Stevens gunner with RCAFWhl waajtnjured in suffering broken eg and was inhldng imFrance weeks finally lag In Eng nfln hospital It at his Cold atcr home He W115 3114119301 0f hit for several years he Two Wanbaushm Buys tinted Mrs Stanley Blanchard ofWau baushenc has been notifiedtt at her Tom was killed onDec Mrs ms 12ftth gameyillage stwec at or on yson med aau been klld in Italy xWardonGeol Patterson SHunPrlsmter We George and Mrs latterson McNicqll halve received rst letter from their son It tsaprlsoiner in Germany well Alvin and Mrs of Port Muttlcoll receiv from their son William Plael zines The girls in the services at Camp Borden were entertained at club meeting at Midhurst and five boys who were home from overseas were entertained at meeting Members of the commit cd in baling and handli to The busscs that finally reached Barrie Monday night brought in 500 passengers and nearly 201 of these spent the night in the bus terminal on Collier street because they were unable to continue their journey Turn to page five please BUSTCHRISTMAS REQUIRED roan PHONE OPERATORS About 2000 Barrie citizens and Camp Borden soldiers said Merry Christmas by telephone this year and 40 operators were on the long distance telephone switchboard for some time during the day Calls went through as far as BritishCol umbia though not without delay While it Was comparatively easy to get calls through to Toronto without waiting the messages that had to go beyond Toronto were delayed as much as two hours Calls toMontreai were quickly handled Bale MACKLIN the former Margaret Janet Rod gers and their two children reside at Drury Lane Bax with her parents Mr and Mrs it Rod gers Brig Macklin HQ 13th Canadian Infantry Brigade has been steadily advanced in rank since he joined the Permanent Force aswa lieuten ant in the Royal Canadian Corps of Signals in 1915 As an 18yearold youth he served in the ranks in the first Great War with the 19th Bat Reporting for the Boys and Girls 0mmittee MacDon Turn to page six please talion inFrance from April 1911 to April 1919 He was only 17 years Turn to Pagefivcp1easc Christmas Mail Rush aspfigheststnrHistory During othe Christmasrush pof mails at the Barrie post office more than 35000 letters and greeting wentthrough in one day and 33000 in another day The normal dailyaverage is from 4000 to5000 fletters ir Thhighest number in any dill during the Christmas rush of tho previous year was about 30000 let ters and cards There as also large increase in themumber of parcels handled On three successivedays in the week precedingtchristmas there Were 193 1802nd153bags of Pare cels dispatched Each of the bags Contained about 65 pounds of Christmas ts Compared with average pastas stamp sales of from $150126 $200 Clalx 9119 11211181 es shqrtly belt Christmas totalled $7 Other days were Alsatabbve $500 In order to deliverthe tons of Yuletide greetings in Barrie each rgultir letter carrier had one as sistant forgt1iVedoye mtdxtwo assist ants tor tau days Thefre was also extra help sorting Inail Twenty three persons were taken or from six to 12 days each in addition to theregular staff All the mailvxwas gdttcn outevery day as it came in and by December 25 the carriers had only the final remnants of the mail to deliver Itiis believed that the letter car riers delivered about 500 small Christmas parcels There were also 5300 larger parcelsthat Werede livered in time for Christmas by trucks hired especially for the extra rush season The average number of parcelsTn normal days busi ness at the Barrie post office is about 50 Hughes who came fromthe postal department inToronto to butat Ottawa there was such flood of messages that the oper ators were besieged Barrie has more long distance calls than any other town in the Dominion of Canada and thc45 op erators on the long distanceswitch board have handled ahgh as 2400 calls in 24hour per Sincevthc start the war to accommodate t1 telphoiie mes sages from Camp ordain which are handled through the Barrie office additional lines to Toronto have been laid down and there are now total of 31 circuits to theOntario capital Operators are not required on localcalls since thegjalsystetii was tailed but an autbmatic counter has tabulated up to 18000 calls in Barrie last October andihas now returned to Toronto expressed him self as more thanvsatisfied with the manner in rob the pasta staff and the pubhc cooperated during the Christmas rush Mr Hughes Was here torolievc Postmaster Thdmsonwho is now back on the job after two months ab loess single day Prior to the wee it was possible to make direct telephone call frommBarrie toalmost any corner of the Werld where there was telephone his includedgthg farm er on thelend of the line in the interior of European and Asiatic countries HOwever transatlant alls were forbidden on the outbreak of war ekcepting formilitary purpifses or to those obtaining a5 priority per mit During the months before the UnitedStates went to wait with Japan it was possible to telephone to AustraliafroniBarrie and seva era Aussie airmen made regular calls from Borden The tell to Australia was$15 for three minutes and one Australian airman tele phoned from Barrie to his homer regularly every month However these calls have been stopped since the war began in thePacific Smith manager of the Barrie branch of the Bell Telephone Company says that continuedim brovments have been made in tlephone service andgequtpmcnt since thestart ilow physicatlnbsstble to reach al most any corner of the worldwith be human voio ofits future advertising in newsp newspaper advertising budget v1945many times greater than prevrous years has been decided upon by thell lleinz Company the Pennsylvania Newspaper Pub lishers Association says The PNPA said in statement this week that Heinz ll pres ident of the company reported the company will discontinue sponsor ship oi the radio program infor mation Please and place the bull pcrs Heinz told the association the de cision was made as the result of comprehensive surveys to determ ine the best advertising media for food products CPL fromFRET MISSING IN ITALY vCpl William Pomfrct brother of MrsWA Malcomson Barrie has been reported missing iIiaCtion in Italy He was with the Princess Louise Dragoon Guards Pomfret worde for the CanadianNational Express in Bar rie for about three years before he enlisted for active service in May 1943 He trained at Brantiord and Camp Borden before going overseas in December 1943 and he went to ltaly last March His wife and young son who live in Toronto got word December 1944 that he was officially repoitc missing in action His parents Mr and Mrs William Pomfret iorinelrly livedn Barrie but now reside in Belleviile centric Evan Dance at Brcntwood FridayfJan atftht Wilioughbys orchestra 1p VBingo LTB Orange Hall Eliza beth St Barrie Monday Jan 1D 77 nightrane gionllall Owen 30 sharp 15 games 35c 1th North Simcoe Crop Improvement Office BarricLTuesday Ja pm 1p Bingo Monday tiightlaii Or mge Ham mandala 830 SlujnptweeiiHoward Bantingatid Isaac Ladies Auxiliary of of RT war Iwork 1p St JohiiAmbu1ance Hme Nurs ing classes ope ing Jantiary for registratloni rinity Parish Hall pm lb Enrol Monday for the Januarylo June 1945 See etarialStenographic Braden course atBar ie Business College For information phone 3612 or call at the office 1b held on January eleventhI oclock pm in the arsonagep ed vi Wm Cle en Treas Conference Girls Town Hall Co stown Fri gSpe decision Vespra Township Horticultural Society annual eeting will esing full attend nce unquest Council Names Committee For Artificial Icepp MAILING LIST CHANGED The and Alli mitt liitotd lira WEDNEH noun tl Lttll llm some session oi ltt it will his the Itfltt Hitttll ti debentur operate the Artnu as tin tntuii ll an lnlllta llart as cIl propole tl CRASHES KILLING VI Stinlat and other tin opinion that the cunt nimcd Ild act until the Hitrrii put used by the Town MUM immm ttoni the attic itrtctiltural Arm lnll pvmiwh Itctt for tltcunderstood HLMt 111 dollar and tlliltl the Hum Wells l1UlUIlltl plant installttl lltllllttiv lot llatttt Illl Kud MUM bl Iritlittltci Ht Mr number of rcrript it pos sible and her Town nut moist Winn Mayor or 11 tIt tln ont tell inot that ltttl tit lown ilall for tntt most of rltittlttl tip for fit in the the councillors mp ed disap mointn nd he fur proval and some of them added Vllllt tu tillll the can 1lllllllilltll the tcpayers would he lltt ttltltltl occur 1l llicllzdron against any plan to sell viili on llui St nitht Town Hall for conversion into iortii lt lownshipnnl onehalf an industrial plant lnnlv trom the airport The pilot yum to page id 11 llot and the olmrver thnr toH loronto were both in lstantly killed cranium PTEDALEXIiIASONE lentsonm 9r want NOT GUILTY llll mi the 11 been 101ml In ilirl The jury brought in unanimous tof In Irma lie is stint verdict of not multy last lhui in Mimmf Lilia MNm lpyclay afternoon in the case in William Dawson of Orillia charged with their oi about Lm llLl I000 from the Knowles Bailey ComI lfnm Iltewlh tmen oi aoonalqu Unwed Judge RCbe Home tilt lhcnfm of Orangevillc who came to Barriel ii men tinougn 111lltLtllm preside over me Case at the DC ccmbcr sessions then discharged thc accused The same case had been heardi before Judge Harvic in Barriej last June but was not settled bel ruse the jury could not agree on ch The ason attended school 111 William Dawson was the manager of the Orillia branch of th Knowles Bailey wholesale tobacce company The 512000 total allegedl by the Crown to have been stoleni was made up of shortages in stock and cash unacoounted for between January 1943 and December 31 1943 According to the evidence three mployees had access to the build ing at all times and alllsix cm ployees had access to the cash rlrawer The bookkeeper =Doreen lVicKerroll also charged with the theft of $12000 gave evidence that tTurn to page fiveplease Mr and Mrs Gilbert Webb who have owned and operated the American Hotel on Collier St for many you transferred the busi ness at the first of the year to Mr and Mrs Soyko who previously operated restaurant in Toronto ll AMERICAN llOTEL sou PIlALE MASON Allandalc and was employed by Copaco before he enlisted for ac tivc service in May 1043 llcvwcnt overseas in August 1944 and went GIRL BORN JAN lto France few days later bro ther LPte 11 Albert Mason ISI fianelDiumuind another SSgtigharles Mason isl wick Hc Isthree 41icfirst 19457 arrival at Boy7 at lctoria Hospital as ababy girl born at three otlock in the afternoon Menday Jaguar371 The little girl is the daughter telegram that her son was in pris oner of war camp MrsFred Mason had card direct fromhim The tinessage written November 11 was of MrlandMrs Albert Chees ll brief but stated he was in good man 107 Essa Road and is their health third child tTIe For putyeeve gtInEssaTownshIp hebzillotiilg having ended in vthedeciding vote wiltfhave to Jennett forxdeputyyceve in Essa be cast by the returning officei lTownship on Monday the final Norman Coxvtgorth Clerk of the counting of lt11eballots showing Toivnship The outcome will not There tiir lg race be on ttlliltillltftltti ict ltn loliy trt tin luhlit littlitits ont trmtnctwt the matter of HI til den youth of 17 itccp Bittltc from to Inclus support again op 11i1tttitil it Barrie illt IllilIL flu at January 11 lt tit date iii the 10 Lnnil meeting Mayo ltltt cl it To It Chlllltill SW01 Into office at id in the Co Iul Chamber at 11 last Morning Town ierk St th sword in the 15 ttciais fir 1046 among them nine Iimmy Houd 17 Shot Accidentally West of Wyevale tWycvalc Correspondence gloom was c2 over the con munity when it discovered Friday evening that ny lion di accidEnlaliy out hunting some di of the village He and Lloyd webb har gone out Friday afternoon and had separatv ed arranging to meet later Lloyd nsjird the shot but thought nothing of it until an hour later when he wondc why li wasnt com inglie ent in ac ch of him and found him dead Jimmy had skis errand had evi dently been using the gun to help him up hillihe charge from the shot gun had gone through his hand and penetrated his brain Lloyd walked to Ehnvale about two miles to get Dr Corcoran lte funeral service was hialdxv Sunda afternoon at the Unite Chu Rev Morrison min ister was in charge large crowd borewitncss oi the esteem in which Jimmy was held and the sympathy all feel for the bereaved familysz Six uncles of Jimmy were pall lbearers Bill Clarence Marmaduke lTed Frank and Lorne Caston lMaior George Iitoly Awarded Military rosss Major Donald Harry George whose wife nee Dorothy Curtis and youngson live at 190 Bradford St Barrie has been awarded Military Cr rior his dcvollo duty in Italy The Citation has ot Major George who is only 24 yet been announced years of agcfwent in16Rome With lth advance forceslast June 511 was wounded at that time serving with Signal Cor he is still with this unit In in His father EGeorge iloen Soskqvwas amayo Signal Corps lln Kthe Firs War gt iwhtlcva student atthellmversity neckandaieck core with 339 each beknownuntil the ballot boxes are of Saskatchewan 3D Racers Banting grove with majority of 118 in clally known The returning 0f that lead of ficer will then give his decision Owingto the condition or the roads other poll his big st vote being it is not expectedthat this will 86 at vookstownrw re he was 30 take place before Thursday after ahea of his opponen noon The total number of Votes cted Serving as township considering the roadsrbeing so bad ounclllor fer seven year Turn to page fiv Please Result of voting in we F01 DeitutYReeve gt =2 140 38 26 15 25 13 1657011l30753254 hm big lead at Elm allreturned and thecountis offil joinedthe Active Army lie with to Kingston and then to uglier idea for training It was PBorden that he met andm DololllyCllltl or Br George went oversea In 1941 mid to Italy of these candid as had just polled 678 was notjconsideredvbad1943