Ontario Community Newspapers

Barrie Examiner, 26 Feb 1959, p. 1

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was posted for itme on bun gluyrebnrge it was Davids pearance in the 11 Rush Of By HE CANADIAN PRESS Last May some times ofth the ringtime darkness heitied over Thousand Islandsi cuuni try rd Ontarios st Lawrence Rivet valley five silent men madq their way to No Court llause Square in the garrison towoot Brockville It was Satur lniihe gloom of an accounting firmg upstairs office they un limbeiodjhelr tools and cut mansize hole in the floor Some one brought steel ladder from the cut and it was lowered tbro the hole Then the five descmded on by one to the gro floor premises at the Trust and Savings Comp Fogwtho next five hours prob ellfnto Sunday morning the men worked while Brockville aloptlhey hammered through twovfwt brick wall and hared on se or sheet steel The care ahlelded cutting flames of acetylene torches made then worlsofI the second barrier Thimernuders were inside the vault hire millions of dollars in atocflbdnds cash and jewellery Ihad be placed for safekeeping Antarr or cause Listen he loot packed the five filedyu tairswashcd up in basinr ey loft mans wrist watch with cracked crystal vltlalf ey also disdained to take the denial hundreds of dollars gear they brought with job was done expertly rapi and methodically and the tiv eft But one of them made omega mistake Ha dropped his bank book sienna to the Lions Club of Barefoot Community House on Tuesday Feb 24 Principal Jim MacLean of Oakley Park School gave timely talk on the fewer Squadron and its aims for fSafety Afloat Going backvto last Civic Holi day cakeod he stated that it is regrettably unsurprising to habit that 79 Canadians were kille in accidents over that per Iiiowever it was really it whilein or around boats The motor car taditional No Rib as decidedly second place only 22 victims and for thatweekend traffic on the highs ways was the lesser hazard development might have beeii éxpectcd considering the soaring sale of private boats in meant years and hindsight makes it clearibat advance prepare ions would have been Wise liuL few men only decade ago had the foresight to begin Ip but as the Canadian aqua on IS ON RECREATION Tgchnological advances workweek and the he Less than hours later police inaddontreal suburb forced his car to the curb and arrested him The man was identified as none Martin 23 and he eventually pleaded guilty to complicity in the Brockvilic job Before he was sentenced Dec to 12 years imprisonment Mar tin said five persons took part in the robbery but added he was not in position to he coopera tive about names it was be lieved early in the Bmckvllle in vestigation that one of the man was WON Martin carried keys to an apartment and locker ln Montlt reais Central Station The latter yielded kit bag and suitcase containing fortune in loot from Brodrville More was foundln he apartment The Brockville robbery was not the first giantsize securities theft in Ontario andQuebec lnlanu ary 1957 between $4000000 and $8000000 was taken from 132 safety deposit boxes in aMouta real bank INTERNATIONAL CRIME But it was the bcltvllleiase which took the stockandboad thefts out of the realm of local operations and bored evidence of an international ganizatlnn lear house through which hot curities were spirited away an converted to cash in oth countrles The Brockville tarprise wss worth atIIeast $350000 but Wilmot Young the townspolice chief puts it close $10000000 The latest strike was last New Years Day at Catharines where intrudersusing Brockvillc the Premier premises of $835 accidents raised sorious doubts as to the vaildityot the popular belief that ulk of mishaps involving small oats is caused by juvenile Derator collisions firei The eurg ctually shows such accidents and that the most these to be minor factors in importan cause is operator neg ligence allure to use common sense afloe Duly niu percent of the op craters involved wcra under 20 was mo an 35 years Fail years Thaioverage age involved are to ope coin pafe sensible hutory causes to most mishaps arc overloading overpowering horseplay lack of core and safe ty iequl an rignorance or felgneti menace of the rules of the road and lack of know ledg of th watersbeing used Parker Cr Shoafier lead to the mand after being lo as iuvenild dclinqu Mondnyl night siree He was arrested ho words on week later Peter Stepaooff 40hloses Jacknin 40 and Henri Samson 45 were arrested in Montreal and returned to St Catharines where they were charged wi the robbery Some officals Brockvillos Chicf Young is onebelieve the robberies were engineered by professionals in the hire of anony mous masterrninds The chief went so far as to say the Brock ville theft was the idea of men holding positions of trust Earlier this month Ontario At orney General Kelao Roberts said sllclr international organ ization could be siphoning off the loot He picked two provincial po lice inspectors to try totrock down the receivers and they are still on the go Developments abroad scemed to support Mr Roberts theory VARIOUS ARRESTS Last Nbv 23 the FBI picked up Ben Ezhaya 45 for mer union organizer at New landon Conn and charged him with transitorting stolen property across mines Special FBI agentEWJ Mchba said Ezhaya use bonds stolen in Montreal robbery as collateral for loans atNcwLondon banks Felt13 Wt Robin 59 who calledhiriis if business counsellor was arrested by the FBI as he stepped off plane at Chicago He as booked for re ceivmg $98 worth oi Brock ville bonds The FBI said Rabin got 35000 in cash for the pledged securities in Par and Switzer land IFour business me had one timebanir man erv arrested in Toronto De no charges of possessing stolen bonds Police recovered $40000 certiiicates of various origi ISwltzerland MianuvMonhea New York and various stolen Cmadiankecufifies Meanwhile sine ank is de manding bondsforthe at ones it ac cepted in return or loan of $73000 Bobbie beli the stolen bonds wallprn valuable person ho left them there but the bank uses to co operate until it warIned Ontarioinsurance com panies Wednesday that they will be prosecuted if they attempt to make secret deals with criminals to buy bank stolen bonds which they insured Mr Roberts said such overtures hawbenn made firs mos 1a ADVERTISEMENT Due to typographical error ilk the advdisement for Firestone Stores appearing in yatardaysissue of The Ex amincr the price of the Fire stone cu ft super deluxe refrigerator was incorrectly given u$995 The price of the Firestone with class sealed unit tradeofn The price of the electric kettle in the some advertise meat which was indistinct on certain copia is $880 Teachers May Sit On School Boards maouro cmsauna teach en be allowed to sit on school boardsl There was disagreement in the legislatures education committee chnesday as members ap proved bill letting teachers sit on school boards other than those employing them Kerr PCToronto Do vercourt said this would be dangerous because teachers might be inclined to rafseteach ing salaries He was supported by lanes PCLambton East Suspect Ilirson In Trenton Fire TRENTDN Ollii CPIPolice house re Wednesday night which destroyed the furniture of dozens of army personnel sta tioned with the lat Dragoo nt Camp Petaivawa lire broke out in the For Cart age Company and spread quickly through the building and its con tents forcing firemen to concen irateon saving house only few feet away ances Varying from deep freezers and stoves to baby carriages and beds were lost Damage was esti rnatd at $115000 Police Chief Jack Taylor said we highly suspect arson and are investigating Fire Marshal Al Williams was called in from near by Bolleville One fireman Lieut Elmer Stacey suffered burns around the face and was treated at hospital but not detained SKILLIoNs gt of HOBBIES From Which ToChoose GlillNETS HOBBIES ms MARY sr rs m2 Enquire About Classes For albumpericmp soeroop legumes and ass High quality standards in the selection and clean ing or Caop Seed helps guarantee top yield cu ft refrigerator is $5995 say they suspect arson in were items of furniture and appli daythatslxorscmoftbeu unions Rome in the district labor oude want llr Thonias rcbuuted The Itomember Low 61 International Brotherhood of Sulphlte and Paper Mill CLO letlidrevr from the federation and council spokesman said the decision meant the union wouldsupport Premier Smallwoods efforts form loggers union independ ent of the ationnl Wood workers or on CLO working week Meanwhile Premier Enuliwood condoned working to set new union formed which he says by spring will have 15 to 000 members There was speculation that the premier planned personal visits to film picket lines today McKinnon Leaves Tariff Board lifter 33¢Year Federal Career OTTAWA CPLMr Tariff is quitting office Shy quietspoken Hector Mclflnnon 68yearold chairman of the Canddlan Tariff Board is stepping down March 31 ending 89 ear federal career that fol low decade of newspaper re porting He could have stayed on until 70 he said lnon interview Wedlt nesday But he wanted to quit in monuis ago and this he felt was finally the time to go Departing with him will be his two vicecbolrmon on the five roar board Buchanan 47 andF Leduc 63 whose to year terms set by the former Liberal administration were not renewed by the Progressive Con servative administration SPECULAIION STARTS in some circles it was sug gested that Corcoran 42 yearnld Moncton lawyer may replace Mr McKinnon as head of rcshufflcd board lnother quarters there was talk of bring Ing in an Exchequer Court judge to preside on some aspects of board work particularly on ap peals by industries against reve nue department rulings The chairmanship pays $16900 year The other board member is AElliott 57yearold fonner University of Toronto professor who got his loyear board ap pointmeltt from the former Lib eral administration in 1057 Thus four of the five present membersall except Mr Corcir ran who was appointed last July rs appointed administrations But Mr McKin non one of Canadas most brilli antItariff analysts won admira tion from both parties FROM GREY COUNTY Mr McKinnon son of village merchant in Ontarios Grey County graduated from Toronto Normal School and planned teaching career but soon switched to news reporting in Montreal an in Tomato He can centratcd on farm problems That led him into the field of tariffs in the First World War he went overseas with the lloth Battalion and later switched to the Royal Flying Corps in tall he returned and was sent to the Ottawa press gallery There his work caught the eye of federal officials in 1928 he was asked to be come secretary of the tariff ad visory board then come to years as federal tariff commissioner In 1940 he became tariff board chairman The Second World War saw him take over first as head of the Wartime Prices Board then as head of the Prints Stabiilza tlon Board He aided in develop meat of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade in 194748 WERE mom or our samch cars anowvou wav KRAMER MOTORS Limited 145 BRADFORD 5T der Liberal 10mm CmJamey can of the slum rename swarm network He even tookpp painting and highbrow flocked to an exbhitlon ofbls work Some of the paintingswere shipped to the United States where critiis pondered tbcir merits on success went to his head Congo became mum ace First he hit an electrician Then he doused television critic with red point He also attached rock roll sluger and tried to pull the carsgtoff studio manager The result was quick trip back to london Zoo RequestiLightsII Replace Mam8 BURLINGTON Ont CF Forty parents invaded the police station in this town near Hamil ton and demanded an 304 yearold school crossing guard be replaced by traffic lightihey wontheir fight One in Mrs Volcar Peters told the police commis sion the guard John Skidmorc is too old too short and too deal for the job Mr Skidmore has been at thei crossing for the last nine years No child has been injured during his service but he was bruised once when knocked down by car Mr Skidmore said he agrees with the parents that there should sion uys Canedians should spend less time on comic P8895 andtcievislon westerns and moreonpuhlicaffairs sothatin dunnin be homered In speech before the Ontario Good Roads Association Wednes day Mr Duncan sald Canadas system ofgovernmcnt ir being threatened as never before by its filtlunsI lethargy towards infla lnfiatioaary forces were under mining the pilrchasingpowcr of the dollar and Canadai abliiw to compete in world markets He said inflation canbo halted by the weight of publlcoplnlon it was unlikely governments would resist inflation unless their leaders know that the people as wholc are deter mined to keep costs of produc tion within compctitive range and to maintain sound currency rcgardlessof the sacrifices In volved He held Canadians should cul tlvatc an intelligent interest in public alfalfa and inform them selves about national problems Headquarters For FAMOUS Bidupunkt HIFFEMAM names Ali makcsof colour and black and whlt film for 11 Mafia 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