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AR mnmm 23mm Serving THE TOWN or Mann AND COUNTY or SIMCOB Since I864 9th YearNo 42 TorontoKingston ABOUT 150 DELEGATES of the Womens Missionary Society Western Division of the Toronto and Kingston Synodical Society of the Pres byterian Church gathered in Barrie this week at St Andrews Presby terian Church for their annual meeting There were 300 women in at tendance at the sessions on Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday This Authooiud and Class mil the Ion 04130 Department Dunn synodical WM Toronto and Kingston Presbyterian WMS Synodical Society Conference Closes 300 Attend Daily Sessions Around 150 delegates from various centres in the Province of Ontario along with about 150 other interested visitors crowded St Andrews Presbyterian Church here this week for sessions of the Synodieal Society Toronto and Kingston Wo mens Missionary Society Western Division annual meet ing This was the first time the convention has been held in Barrie and large amount of interest wasevident on the three days of the 1954 gathering Tuesday Wednesday Thursday All sessions were open to the pub lic Meals were served by the lad ies of St Andrews at noon on Wednesday and Thursday and complimentary dinner was served to executive members on Tuesday evening The theme of the annual meet ing was The Royal command Officers elected and installed at the closing session yesterday after noon by Rev James Milroy MA BD Moderator of the Synod were Mrs Marks Toronto honorary president Mrs Curr TorontOppresident Mrs Har old Tate Millbrook lst vicepres ident Mrs MacDonald Tor onto 2nd vicepresident Mrs Schroeder Toronto 3rd vice president Mrs Baker Toronto recording secretary Miss Lundia MacBeth Toronto corres ponding secretary Mrs Pcrcy Ran son Toronto treasurer Mrs Barr Pcnetanguishenc evening de partment secretary Mrs Hastings Gait young womens sec retary Mrs Forbes Tilley Sud bury assistant young womens sec retaryMrs John Bell Toronto girls secretary Mrs Mainprize Acton childrens secretary Mrs GJones Elmvalc home helpers secretary Mrs gtC Vcale Wood ville literature secretary Mrs MacDonald Kingston welcome and welfare secretary Mrs Tomlinson Toronto supply secre tary Mrs Kerr New Lisk eard life membership Secretary Mrs Bayes Pickering Glad Tidings secretary Mrs Mc Gibbon Toronto press secretary Mrs Gollan Kingston stud ent secretary Miss Beatrice Bark ley Toronto historian Mrs Percy Ranson Toronto railways and Mrs Gordon Coutts Conn Mrs Rawson Barrie Mrs Sew all Toronto and Miss Sharp Toronto members without port folio Tuesday Sessions On the first afternoon of the annual meeting an address was given by Miss Frieda Matthews executive secretary National Mis sions in the absence of Miss Ruby Walker Presbyterian regional sec retary Miss Matthews was also main speaker at the Wednesday and Thursday sessions IntroduCed by the acting presi dent Mrs Curr Toronto and Kingston Synodical Society Womens Missionary Society she chose as her text Micah 68 What does the Lord require of us but to do justly to lovemercy and to walk humbly with Thy God Her theme Living for Jesus echoed the solo Living for Jesus by Mrs Newtonpwhosre accom panist was Miss Sutherland Miss Matthews stressed that as missionary women the members of the Womens Missionary Society and must have as purpose the ad vancement of the kingdom of God at home and abroad We must have calm and abiding faith and willingness to serve God always gives usstrength for the task He wants us to do The call to worship at 230 pm on Tuesday was by Mrs Curr Devotions were conducted by Mrs Toombs and Mrs Mc Eachern president of Barrie Pres byterial welcomed the delegates Minutes of the annual meeting of 1953 the appointment of commit tees and an executive report by Mrs Baker were also on the agenda literature re port was givcn by Mrs Veale followed by announcements praise from Sci 553 and prayer led by Mrs Somers The evening meeting opened with Mrs Curr presiding and Miss Jes sie Hunter president of St And rews Evening Auxiliary and Miss Ovens conducted the devotions warm welcome to St Andrews Was éxtended by the minister Rev James Ferguson and His Worship Mayor Heber Smith of Barrie welcomed the Synodical Society to Barrie in few well chosen words The choir then rendered beau tiful anthem The Canadian Girls in Training received the offering The president introduced the speaker Dr JAlan Munro asso ciate secretary of the General Board of Missions His address was followed by benediction Wednesday Sessions At the Wednesday morning ses sion Mrs Newstead gave the devotion followed by reports from organization secretaries Miss Frie da Matthews led the discussion on the progress and problems report ed and Presbyterial presidents also reported progress and prob lems in the 12 presbyterials Mrs Harold Tate led the after noon devotions followed by the memorial hymn How Bright These Glorious Spirits Shines Greetings from the Council were brought by Miss Frieda Matthews and greetings from the Synod of Toronto and Kingston were brought by the moderator Rev James Milo roy Mrs Carl Marshall rendered beautiful solo Mrs Percy Ranson presented the treasurers statement showing total of $87361 given in 1953 and presentedthe allocation for 1954 $90500 Mrs Rawson of Barrie moved the adoption of all reports seconded by Mrs Schroeder of Toronto St Andrews Mission Band pre sented project An African Vill age madeby the members under Turn to page sevenp1ease axmdaissaxiAmAcm sku BARRIE ONTARIO CANADA FRIDAY APRIL 1954 is the first time the meeting has been held in Barrie since the synodical was formed eight years ago Delegates came in by train bus and car and many of them were billeted in the homes of church members throughout the town All sessions were open to the public Harry Hap lowe Concert by Opera Group Closes Deputy Governor Of Kinsmen Club Harry Hap Lowe has just been elected Deputy Governor of Zone District of the Kinsmen Club following the spring meeting of the Kinsmen Club The District takes in all ofTor onto East York and surrounding area from Ajax in the east to Bar rie in the north and Orangeville in the west This comprises total of 11 clubs with two possible new groups District has four zones in each of which deputy governor is elec led Mr Lowe who was elected ovcr Don Taylor of Toronto suco ceeds Eric McQuaig of the North Toronto Club As deputy governor Mr Lowe will install all executive members into office in their respective clubs at the beginning of their term of office On Tuesday evening April the Barrie Kinsmen marked their fifth mnivcrsary of Charter Nightwith an interclub meeting at l3X Depot Many district clubs were repre sented and the speaker was Fred ope who spoke on Salesmanship Also present at the meeting was the commanding officer and personnel l3X Following the business session entertainment was provided the form of songs by Bob Parker recompaneied by Jim Veitch both of Barrie Cy Leonard from Toronto rovided an excellent ventriloquist lCt film on the highlights of he Big Four football games in 1953 was shown by Len Bud through the ourtesy of the OKeefe Company NOTED nooks IN EDUCATION war ADDRESS MEETING What is Modern Education wlll be the title of an address by Dr Charles Phillips one of Canadas leading educational au thorities in Hiillcrest School audi torium on Wednesday evening Aprillf on PHILLIPS His visit will be sponsored by the Hillcreslt Hbmeand School As Brilliont ConcertSeries Here Program Voriecl Entertaining Four members of the Royal Conservatory Opera Company pre sented concert of considerable charm and skill here Tuesday evening in the third and final con cert of the 1954 Canadian Artists Series Sponsored by the Barrie Collegiate Band The singersPatricia Snell so prano Joan Hall mezzosoprano Jon Vickers tenor and Donald Garrard baritonesang solos arias and ducts and quartet from such favorite operas as Verdis La Tra viata and Rigolettq Puccinis Madame Butterfly Rossinis Barber of Seville Bizets Car men and Mozarts Don Giovan Patricia Snell was the evenings outstanding performer Her love ly voice and perfect diction as well as her great personal charm made her one of the chief factors in the concerts overall distinc tion Closing fine season in the Canadian Artists Series the opera group was greatly enjoyed by the audience and ended the year on high level of musicianship It also gave the series great deal of variety being direct contrast to the last concert by the Barbini Orchestra and the preceding joint cello and vocal recital The mezzo soprano also poss essed very nice voice although it was not flexible enough to some of the arias she chose The male voices were strong and serv ed in the ducts to enrich the womens performances as well as remaining outstanding in the solo work All of the arias were sung in the original languageEnglish French or4 Italianand diction was facile and clear Both Miss Shell and Miss hall the latter winner of last years Singing Stars of To morrow contest had very charm ing appearances They made twofold impression on the audi ence the mezzosoprano youthful and sweet and the leading soprano striking in her wellgroomed sim plicity Miss Snells strapless pink gown had draped bodice and was coni pletely simple except for simple Fors Lui and Sempre Libera from La Traviata her only selec tion on the first half of the pro gram She opened the second half with anaria from The Prodigal Son sung in the original French and joined with Donald Garrard for the beautiful Gershwin duet Bess You Is My Woman Now from Porgy and Bess Her voice combined with Tenor Jon Vickers in the duct from Act II of Rigoletto and she and Miss Hall joined voices in the Flower Duet from Madame Butterfly as an encore The variety of vocal combina tions available with thetwo fcl male voices and two male voices made the concert an evening of rare musical entertainment from the start of the program Miss Hall first appeared as soloist in the aria Una rVoee Poco Fa from The Barber of Sevillg and then in duet Seguidille from Car men with Tenor Jon Vickers Her Habanera from the same opera drew an encore solo aria from Don Giovanni and she closed the first half of the pro gram with Baritone Donald Gar rard in duet from the same opera Unlike the two women perfor mers who divided the program by making their main appearances only in one half the male singers alternated thcir appearances Turn to page seven please Uhr titanic Examiner iambu Clue CWN When and Audit lama cl circulation MONDAY WEDNESDAY and FRIDAY 5c single copy 32 PagesThree Sections ther at St ndres Pbyierion hurch Replaced By Confidence Hope Speaker Tells Local Workers The fear that has been paramount in the minds of people about cancer must be broken down We must replace it with confidence hope and intelligent understanding If we do that our battle against cancer is half won said Mrs Russell Fras er of Toronto when she addressed meeting of the Barrie and District Unit of the Canadian Cancer Society in St Jo sephs Auditorium on Wednesday night Main purpose of the meeting woslyear and it was an effort of which to stress the campaign angle to raise they felt proud ciciy as the Blitz will get under funds for the Canadian Cancer 80 Money spent on cancer research in Canada is now comparable on way in Simcoc County on Tuesday3 per mpna basis with what is April 20 Tho Immlh AW hiSlspcnt in countries like Great Brit been designated as CancerMonlh1hm and the United States she in Canada and the United States Barrie Unit welcomed those attend ing the meeting and reminded them that they had to do everything they could to finance the work which was being done to find the cause ofcanccr Once the cause of this disease was known way could be found to treat it There was big field of endeavour ahead of them all Our hospitals in Simcoe County this night have patients suffering and dying of cancer he added Mr McCarroll said that great deal of organizing had been done locally It had been thought at first that the unit they were forming would serve Barrie and the immedi ate area but later realizing that there were people suffering from the disease throughout the entire country they had decided to ex pand their operations over wideri area think we should all put our shoulder to the wheel and go out and try and do the best job we can in the county he added WI County President Mrs Ottaxway president of the Simcoe County Womens In stitutes briefly addressed the meet ing in connection with the forth coming campaign She said that letter had been sent out to each Institute in the county enlisting their support and she felt that in this way they would be able to nave very thorough canvass of the rural districts It would be dif ficult to get greater response anywhere than from the WI because its members would do everything they had the strength to do Even if you have to call spe cial meeting it would be worth while she said We need research and we need funds Communities Organized Mrs Purvis vicepresident of the Richmond Hill and District Unit was the next speaker and in her opening remarks she referred to how April had becdme Cancer Month and of how the communit ies across Canada had been organ ized to collect funds for the Society When you help the Canadian Cancer Society by your campaign the funds raised are used to ren der great humanitarian service to help find the cause and cure of can cer she said Approximately 50 per cent of the monéy raised was used for research work Theother half was used for fellowships and for educational pur poses Research was undoubtedly the most important part of the Societys work and it was aimed at studying the growth of cancer and trying to find out what caused the disease This was comparatively new it having been only started in Canada about six years ago To day however there were about 100 projects being assisted by the funds of the Cancer Society and research laddcd You campaigners must sus McCarroll president of iheimin this Mrs Purvis added Through re search we fight cancer and thus dispel four with knowledge Can cer is evoryoncs business Cancer ranks as thc number two killer today Research education and wel fare services are needed to fight it Welfare Work outline of the welfare work being done by the Society was giv en by Mrs Fraser who has been convcncr of dressings for the Tor onlo branch of the society for number of years Much of the work being done in the cancer field he explained was through the work of medical men but there was lot which could be done by the members of the public for the wellbeing of people afflicted with cancer The cancer victim took dcfeatist at titude and to try and combat this the society operated welfare ser vice Mrs Fraser said that there was an expression Never underestimate the power of woman but she felt that this was even truer about womens organizations have over 200 womens organ izations all making cancer dressing fonour patients and gifts for our patients she added These dress ings are sent to patientsreleased from hospital and being cared for in their homes Last year we dis pensed 500000 dressings in greater Toronto At present we are supply ing 30000 dressings month They go to your home or mine Any pat ient requiring dressings may have them without means test but they must have physicians authoriza tion The speaker went on to explain that through this service patients could be treated in their homes and Turn to page two please Retail Merchants Conference Being Held Next Week An outline of how Camp Borden is making large contribution to wards the prosperity of Barrie mer chants will be given by Col Wattsford CD when he address es Retail Merchants Conference under the auspices of the Chamber of Commerce at Community House on Wednesday April 14 As this is the first time such Cardinal Here vmnww HIS EMINENCE James Car dinal McGuigan Archbishop of Toronto bestowed the sacrament of confirmation on large class of between 150 and 175 children and adults last evening at St Marys Roman Catholic Church The cer emony was followed by solemn benediction and opened with the procession of the cardinal altar boys clergy and assisting chap lains from the Deanery to the church Very Rev James Clair Dean of Barrie welcomed the cardinal to the parish and partici pated in the impressive ceremony lthas been some years since Car dinal McGuigan has been present for the confirmation ceremony in Barrie and his presence last even ing was considered to be high honor for the parish DOOW The Last Column HollyWood Or Bust By SCOIIY TAYLOR Knowing that newspaper people are by tradition cynical came to the conclusion during the past few days that was maybe not cut out for this business after all Why Because have found that from time to time there are stor ies hear of that really bring big lump into my throat The kind of stories mean are those of the hard luck variety and those where people make tremendous sacrifices to gain something al ways feel emotionally moved when read such things As say they bring big lump into my throat One such story came up against this week Maybe you noticed it in some of the papers It was an Associated Press dispatch from London England As mat ter of fact have such big lump in my throat as even think about it that it is difficult to write any workers were being trained for the future The work took time and money Their fellowship training program would require about $500000 this Working Partnership Between iUK And Canada Of Great Benefit To Both Countries British Diplomat Mrs Hugh Whllace will direct the activities of the Womens Can adian Olub during the coming year following the annual meet ing in the Library Hall Wednesday night When she was named to head the 195455 club executive succeed ing Miss Raina Shopofif who has served in the capacity of president row oflargish pearls and her dark hair hung over her shoulders to complete pleasant picture The other singer was wearing white strapless gown with rhinestone trim and jewellery with long matching gloves dark hair caught back at each snde The sopranos perfect control and lovely voice was first exhibited to theaudience in the arias Ah sociation and his talk will be open to the public Dr Phillips is Professor of Edu catibnjalt the Ontario College of Education Tbronrto where the provinces secondary school teach ers receive their professional train ing scintillating speaker in great demand lhe has lectured as far afield as Alberta and Pnince Edrf ward Ishand within recent years and was one of three persons in vlited to appear on CBC national gefiwork series oneducation last and had short minor wow escrow llomlinson for the past turn years The annual meeting was address ed by Norman Reddlaway secre tary in the office of the United Kingdom High Commissioner in Canada who mixed some less ser ious impressions and comparisons of Canada and the United King dom under his topic Canada and the United Kingdom His address closed panticularly brilliant sea son wbich was reviewed in re port prepared by MASS Flora Me Gregor and read by Miss Jean Goodlfellow at the close of fine ev ening ans Wallace heads an eXecu tive composed of Miss Raina Shop oflf past president Miss Gwen Fife vicepresident Miss Flora McGaegor corresponding secre tary Mrs Herman Tomlinson membership secretary Mrs Archie Floss Treasurer auditLie Andramoon Mrs Flynn Mrs Robert Sarjeant Mrs land of Elimvtale MrsRbss Steph ens and Mrs Charles Wilson com mittee members The report of the nomanating committee Was brouglht in by Miss Rhoda Young rand Miss Mildred reactvutlhe treasurers re 11n brief speech atthe close of the evening Miss Shopoff thanked the memlbersof her fiflufivedwn ing the near gramme special to page fiveiplease thing It was the sad and tragic story of how an aspiring young actress with stars in her eyes made bid for fame If ever came across tearjerker of story this was it The dispatch said Buxom red headed Simone Silva of British films says she posed nude from the waist up for photo with Hollywoods Robert Mitchum last week because she needs publicity What cruel cruelworld this is We members of what must undoubtedly be tottering society should hangvour heads in shame that this poor young girl was driven to such lengths to mark her mark in her chosen profession Miss Silva told reporters Look what that dude calendar pose did COL II WATISFORD CD conference has been sponsored on the local level great interest has been aroused onthe part of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce and several of the executives will be attending to assistwith various panel discussions At the first meeting of the board of directors ofthe local Chamlber this year it wasdecided that greater emphasis would be placed on the problems of retailers strong mer chants committee under the chair manship of George Caldwell was established and this conference is the firstresult of their activities The conference will begin at pm with luncheon During the afternoon group dis cussions will take place concerning soliciting for donations the down toum parking problem and the atlt ltractiveness of Barrie as shopping centre Announcing details of the confer ence PreSident Ralph Snelgnoive has stressed that it is desirable that every retail organization in Barrie be represented at it if respective of whetherimembers of the Chamber of Commerce Or not Interested parties are asked to se cure tickets early from the Chain ber of Commerce office order that the organizerswim know what accommodation will be necessary for Marilyn Monroe They always cast me as bad girl Miss Silva cannot possibly imagine how those directors have mis type you so much Of course the Monroe legend is old stuff now Perhaps if we had seen Marilyn acting before she posed and had listened to these sweet musical tones which con stitute her voice she Would still be posing Personally was Monroe fan until saw and heard The Figure Ah me Im disillusioned old man However to get back to Miss Silva Apparently the incident occurred at picnic held in con nection with the annual film fes Atlval in Cannes France The dis patch goes on to say there were reports that Mitchum taken by surprise was somewhat put out The poor guy Life really get ting tough for some of these actors That Was bad enough but would you believe it it was stated that festival officials had asked Sim one to take her 31inch bust else where This added the dispatch she denied Apparently Miss Silvas picnic costume was grass skirt ith scarf top Turnzto pagetworpleasel