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Barrie Examiner, 12 Aug 1959, p. 3

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BARBIE firefighters kcep weli occupied during firefree times more Finlay and Fred Coulter are bore testing the Scott air pack used when working in Marysmoss Testing is important to these men lflrllltltf lives may de pend on the equipment they use rimmtner photos MAN from Mars No but it is Barrie fire fighter Ernie Finlay strapped on tho Scott air pack to test it and try it on for size Between Fire Calls try and nonwhith Examiner Staff Reporter What on who firemen do when theyre not donning fires Tuesday the lan up at the Barrio Fire Departrdent told how they kept themseva occup ied during periods of timo out Actually it is nottimeout at all And the firemen who do such splendid and necessary lob around the city have plenty to do while the red Jig is not flashing Contrary to public opinion members of the permanent staff of City Fire Hall are not the best crap players in townneith er have they become television addicts There are chores to be done start with ans when the am to pm shift arrives for tho days work Two sometimes three men come on and test and check equlpmcnt make sure the trucks are in running order see there is at least half tank of gas tor the truck and vcheckuthe Scfiil airpacks D0 CHOKES These are the daily chores Weekly chores include run around for one of the pump WEATHER Synopsis Warm humid weather with isolated showers will pre vail across southern and central Ontario today Cooler air has pushed across northwestern 0n tario and will move steadily esso wnrd across northern regions tolt day The cool air will reach the lower Great Lakes Thursday and showery weather is forecast for these regions throughout the day Regional forecasts valid until midnight Thursday Lake Erie Lake Huron south ern Georgian Bay Windsor Lo don Sunny with few cloudy tervals today Widely scattered isolated or thunder storms latevthis afternoon and evening Mainly cloudy with few shnwers or thunderstorms Thursday Not as warm Thurs day Winds southwest with gusts to 55 in thunderstormsrthis after noon becoming southerly 15 to night and northerly 15Thursday morning Lake Ontario Niagara fin burton Toronto Hamilton Sunny with few cloudy intervals to day Mainly cloudy with few scattered showers or thunder storms tonightl and Thursday Turningcooler Thursday after noon Winds southwest 15 becom ing northerly 15 by Thursday afternoon gt NorthernGeorg Bay Kit land Lake North Ear Sudbnry Mainly cloudy with afew scat tered showers and thunderstorms beginning thisiafterfioonnhd end gt ingThursday morning Clearing Thursday evening Cooler Thurs day Winds southerly 20 occasio allygusting to 45in thunder storms this tampon becoming northerly 20 early Thursday limminsKapns in Cloudy showers and Thursday Winds southerly 15 to daynortherly 15 tonight and Thursday Low tonight nigh Thursday as Windsor St Thomas Wingharn Toronto Trenton Hamilton Muskoka aneeeaeesda trucksnsuntly Wedntsdnyand is instant of the lnhuiator and res uscitator Testing these last two items more than oncea week wouldbe unnecessarily costly as each time theyare tested naturally some of the oxygen isiost Monday the huokis oiled and greased Roses are lestcd down at the lake once year and ifyou want to seethem doing it we may as well break the bud newsmow Next time they test all the hos lng will probably be June 1560 The days are divided up into three shifts Besides the day one there are the prn to mid night and the midnight to prn HOUR WEEK The staffers up there this does not include the 24 volunte ers work four days rest two work four nights rest two and etc ad infinitum this working out as a5ebour week The morning test of tbe equip ment tnku about two hoursun less the boys decide to clean out their living room or kitchen whichtbey have upstairs and then it is more or less waiting grime But itworks out fuller than you would think Ernie Finlay one of the full timers says they talk or dis cuss things until noonlots of visitors friends of the men mo thers with curious childrendrop in for chats or lookaround and some of the volimteers stop by to look at equipment or dis cuss sorno firefighting point with the better informed per manent staff In the afternoon time is olten spentJooking at tutbooks lea rning new methods lot of lit erature comes through the mail says Ernie no BUICRES There is nowbipping out for quick one either Someone has to be there fAhours day sev en days week four weeks and so on in case of call and as soon as there is call the balloon goes up and the firemen come down the slippery pole As soon as someone ones and says fire unless they state specifically that it is only their pork chop smoking in the oven or something equally minor the messagagoes out over the police radioto all the firemen and all the volunteers as wellabout 33 in alland they are soon at the scene on an average 18 or 19 ot the volunteers turn out when needednhviously some not be at home more somehow miss thecalland generally res ponse to the call good yin the living sectionlwhleb the firemen hove upstairs there Is ry set butnormally they only use it for few hours at nlght Some of them occasionally play cards but not very often One member is keen fishermanyso keen he brings his fishing tackle to work with hlm where he mendshnd generally sees it is in good working order In their spare time which they have when not actually on duty one or tvVo drlve trucksjperiodl cally others dabble in carpentry work but none seems to have definite bby or second string job to fill nonfirefight ing moments says Ernie The living room is usually cleared and cleaned Saturdays There are times says Fred Colter who is another hunting and fishing enthusiast when it is hard to find enough to do But someonE he says has to do the joband some days they are busy all day The tediumit is quite obvious of sitting and waiting for fire to break out could be boring and seemingly Lunewasting However little of the departments time is not spent constructively and the speed and efficiency with which it works when it is called out on job more than makes up for its periods of seeming inactivity Announce Dales TV Hearing OTTAWA CPThe Board of Broadcast Governors has an nounced dates for hearings on so ptications for second television stations in six cities Cut off dates for filing applications also were announced Opening datesof the hearings are at Montreal March 7at To ram March 14 at Edmonton May and at Halifax June 70 Following the Edmonton hearing the boardwill move immediately to hear applications in Calgary and following the Halifax date to Ottawau The cutoff dates for filing plications with the transport portrncnt are Montreal Nov 30 Toronto Dec 31 EdmontonCab galy Feb 29 HalifaxOttawa March 31 Earlier theboard announced that it will open hearings at Win nipeg Jan 11 and at Vancouver Jen18 onesecond TV applica tioos for those cities Cutoff data for filing of applications in both citiesis Oct30 Tomasoamiss nomineeer map by loveton internallab lnrarprov r1 sensualon moorw Grog Pro Fergus Man or nlolmeo Con Investment Fund vao man wt 54 ro crack uniinn up 11 qoiosup Crawford and Co Ltd an aim IICetllerstreet madman New My Naranda Mine Nometnl New En Nor unt Moore corp got Janka Club Fern Pacilio Patrolman Porn in Que in Go noa one Sher Gord sn Shir 5111 Ltd Ste of Turban Ek franscan Pipe TraderIm Texaco llnit alt Nickel Mucuri Accumulltinr no as North American Willi supervised Growth mama moan nonfatal down 51vW on NEW YORK swocx lxcmanvnvhlualss uotrf lfl 14 non to back up To niacin For Cleaning Basement Barrle citycomctl to re ceive anaeoount for duping up basement Whetherwr until it be paid is moths nutter Mrs Gordonfl Battle of Bradfordrtmet wrote to ask whythe Publicth Depqfl ment had uotunhlorked her blocked sewer lln Shahnd boon unnblo in locale meni bera of the Public Works Dp partrnent and whench fin ally contacted Alderman Leo terVCooka be bad qplained the department no longer dld this work in bad mused for private plumbcrto do the job for her and Bottle declared in her letter read lost night to court oil that the department had clearedrthc sewer two weeks before The plugging was sold to be caused iiy trees but she had no tree on her property However there weretrees on neighboring property includ ing thatrpwned by tbevcltyv She would render an ac count to the city she raid for cleaning the basement Kept HOPlllllg By Industries New industries are creating demandsfor roads and services which Barrios pabllc works do partmeut isunahle to meet And council is not only forced them ploy contractors to perform the jobs but is eveniprcssed for time to cell tenders Modday highlfci cepth suggestion from the public works committeeto take bids for coiistruction othrock streetextensionanda new ser vice road to run by Highway flit TheY comrnltteebas been given power toacoept thelowest bid if lower than the estimate of city engineers The city will also invite bids for installing sanitary sewers in the area or endear no Pdlié Peak Misses ejake it guy droid mm role and gotyour Salk no cinalhisis tho Idvleeoffilm coo Colmb Health llnlt regarding polio Tboughscveld put of the country have been the up swing in reporting polio cues Montreal beingthe hardest hit with 189 reported to this date this yearSlmcee County has been without use and the peak season for contracting the disease is past The peak is usually bitduo ing the lost two weeks of July and front then declines till the and olScptemhu The immuniutlon vprofinm for the seboollhna meltedup to its per cent otthe school children The adults however have been neglecting the shotsand the Health Unit messed tho importanceth everyone hav ing them for even though the real peak has pastit isuot too lnlefor an outbreakto strike thccounty Dr Scott told The Brnmingr One case we reported last year while three word reported leehulls AltBarrio and Bud Brockwell former rum tiring manager of The Barrie Examiner At the meeting membership chairman Wilf Rf ey annpuuo ed thefacocptnn of 18 new members First meeting of the season is toho Sept 21 at Stephenjaacock Ballroom 0r illiu Second nreetlog is to be October 19 It Barrio sons Country Club Monthlydiniler meetings will rotate between Barricand Odllln astho bulk of COS and A07 members come from these two centres fiv Charges Pending Following Crash Charges are pending on accident Hayfield and commoner RANGES Ont CF Tenms from the cadet traders training camp at Camp hrmrsrohcourch TA candid camera chught these membors of Alliston Town Council unewares at recent meeting Holdingforth at right is Councillor Alan Latimer others fromleft to right are Mnyor Miutford Storey and Councillors Ron Beattie and John Taylor Examiner Photo Second These inéh school FStucléiltss mumrun out or grodp of Hamilton senior high school students who failed their year will have scheme to wm it back In new educational program 260 Grade 11 and 12 students are studying here to salvage an en tire school year Dr Gordon Price director of secondary education in announc ing the program warned the stir dents they faced month of ficuit and concentrated study The prize is the extra year they would otherwise have had to spend in school because they failed the June eaammotxons into the next four weeks you will in effect compress an entire school year Dr Fri toldtho students it will me working at home as hard as you have here mTligrsununei school tried for the first time in Hamiltop Will enable each student to revdew up to two subjects in which he failed The schoolwas started in August to allowstudents to have months summer employment canava catan Students admmed tothe course were carefully screened They rm wonsz from DEATH Amyearold girl disap peared from her home in Barrie mesdny because of man who ie led her rNapda Reid ewtoostreet left at about prn said neighbor and was not found until about prn when she was picked up by Barrie On tor Provincia do mnn who was the cause of the trouble The dentis Narda was due for visi DoverBeqkS Into Trouble An 00ltyearoldr Saskatchewan motorist who oadtednp outoi way on Blake St Barn 575 damagevi own car Tuesday when he ram med another mot ist say rls City Police Andrew Marshall Nlpawin sk looked firsthetoldpoi nothing and proceeded Just then ictbrWlldinnn 204 60nCook St barrio turnedoff hd taxi could not have failed in more than twosubjects and in these their marks were required to be within 10 percent of the pass mark of 50 Marks in other sub jects had to be high We have felt for sometime that we lost some youngsters who would have graduated if they had not failed one or two of their twosenior years Dr Price said The necessity of spending an extra year in school at that age discourages many potential graduates subject Each four hour class day Is dividedin half student review ing two subjects will spend two hours on each subject thefirst hour in classroom instruction and the second under superviscd study Those who failedinon1y one subject will work twohour school day Among the students at the spe cial course French and math ematirs were the cause of most failures English was their best WORLD hrwsim BRIEF WASONTARIO NATIVE VANCOUVER CWDr Alec Agnew 59 head ofthe delt partment of obstetrics and gynae cology at University of British Columbia for 11 years died sudlt denly Tumday vile washer in Clinton Ont FALLS mom wmnow HAMILTON or Three yearold Kathy Doyle is recover ing in hospital from 254m fall through the window of her par ents apartment Kathy suffered head injuries when she landed on gran boulevard COFFle STAFF STRIKES HAMILTON GP Fiityem ployees of Coffieid Washer Com pany went on strike Tuesday charging the firm was attempt ing to eradicate group welfare and pension benefiu The walk out followed contract barga ing session nLtwccn the com Danyand member ofthe United $560 prize money to hospital because they need it more than do year later her toyear old fiance died in the samehos pital TuesdayGillian died dvlctlm of cancer susrnNn socmr spasms WASHINGTON AP The White HouseTuesday cancelled its formal social season for lssssobeoause resident Eis enhowers heavy ternational sghedule thisfall arid inter Customarilytheseason in cluded six state dinners five gala receptions PIONEER GAILMAKER MIAMI Fla APJGherles Stutz 76 designer of pioneer spurtsrcar thathelped put the roar in the roaring 20 day of cancer He built and wid dyv raced the famed SuitzBear catmore for£business tb ex citement he sai ElectricalRadio and Machine Workers of America 1nd PLAN $10000 GIFT TORQNTO CPA contribu tion 310000 to the New Bruns wick Fishennens Disaster Fund was approvedin principle Tues day hy the Metropolitan Toronto urecutive committee Broviucial legislation is neede before the contribution can for plastic surgery Libeeday part of his bl crossroads the right driver was taken to oipiral Borden Ont took three top places in competition for the Kirkpatrick 01p at the Dominion 31f Canada Rifle Association mat The Camp Borden GoldTeam copped the awardvby shooting total 1175 points of avpomlhlo 1200 in Connaught Bankers and Maedougali Matches at these big ranges near Ottawa Ontario won the hompetition 12mm provincial tenus fired concurrently with The Bankers shooting 1136 of possible 1200 floss St intersection Tuesday when Shearon Barrie driver swerved to the wroog side of the road and int another car say Barrie Clw Police Walter Skelding Duckwortb St was going north in hlstruck on Bayfleld St say Police when he swerved to the left and was in collision with John Colernl Anten Mills Coles car received 715 darn ago Skeldings had $45 Othelal Will Open New Road Rev anner George Johnston and Simone County Warden James Patton have aclt cepted the invitation to attend the opening of the new strth of paved road linking Cree more with Highway 90 The 10mile snetdt of pave ment was completed two weeks ago bntsnfflclcnt time for it taxi and private careol lidedon Bayfleld and Sophia it intersection Barrie Tues EY Howard Byron Kcast 34 Wellington St who wasbeaded down the hill told police he could not stop andrammed Endre Paroles 18 Tiffin St whose vision was ohstructedvhy another car Keasts taxi received $70 damage and there was no dam age to Ifersiu car No charges Install calchhasins 0n Clappeiton St Recent installation of catch hasinson Clapperton street have alleviated the troubles of Barria businessman Dick Steele Mr Steele complained to council of miniature lake 4050 yards long caused by water backing up in stems at hlsresidaneeon Clap perton Street Some 11 years ago me from St Johns mid to lap perton street recalled Mrv Stelt ele regret to say ever face the water has backed up Public Works chairman man Lester Cooae said tbecorne plaint had recently become Eravated and the catcbbasins be installed WatchThe Bmrt to harden was required so the opening was postponed till Frida The festivities whic will begin at 85 prn will elude speeches followed by free street dance HAS Ill DESCENDANTS fivNTSVlLLE OP Elijah Snuth who has 121 living des cendants celebrated his 92nd birthday Sunday in this Muskoka Lakes resort town Born in 136 the year of Confcderationhe had lschlldreullgrandehi1dreo great grandchildren and one great great grandchild TREATED THEN CHARGED HAMILTON CF James Douglas Fox 22 of Hauuton went hospital here Saturday nightutn have an injured hand treated Ha received treatment but then was arrested bypolice They charged him with attempt ingto rob tleate of the Sn perior Propane Gas Company near Barrie earlierin the day HEADSWDRLD GROUP composer llReuterstMra vanBeekholf van Selnfs of the Netherlands was elected world presidentof the Associated Cduntrywomen of the World here Tuesday The organization with 5500000 members in 23 colmtrics was founded in 1930 to promote international goodwill friendship andlgnderstanding throughout the wor hum

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