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amour Serving was sown or scum or maroon Since 1861 90th YearNo 46 MW and clue Inil the Pass Wic mums Ottawa ARRANGEMENTS COMPLETE OPENS IN ARENA ON FRIDAY All arrangements have now been completed by the mem bers of the Chamber of Commerce for the third annual Mot or Show which will open on Friday night in the Barrie Arena where some 30 automobiles of the latest design will go on show before the public Supervising the show will be committee composed of Bat stone chairman Chittick hon orary chairman John French George Dangerfield and Reg Wel ham secretarymanager of the Chamber of Commerce The show one of the Chambers most successful ventures will open on Friday at pm until 11 pm Saturday afternoon it will open from 230 until and from until 11 in the evening For the ladies there will be Fashion Show staged by Graham and Fleming and this will highlight the latest fashions in womens ap parel Music during the show wil be provided by the Barrie String Ensemble arranged by Burton As in previous years the arena floor will be laid out in lanes with local dealers displaying the products which they handle andjudging by advance reports the show should certainly be the most colorful to date amok Honorary Chairman Prior to the official opening on Friday evening motor cavalcade will travel through the downtown section led by the Barrie Citizens Band and then out to thcarena further variation from previous practice is that this year only the west corridor in the building will be used to house the display of automobile accessories and arrange ments have also been made with two local firms to display boating and sports equipment Commenting on the forthcoming Show Mg Batstone said have every confidence that this will in deed be bigger and better show than has been staged in the past because the Chamber members and the local dealers have the value of the experience they have gained in staging the two previous shows it will certainly be worthwhile attraction not only to those inter ested in the automotive industry but the public in general Further details of the Motor Show and the new carsouLthis year can be found in the special Mqtoi Show Section pages to 16 which is be ing published in todays issue of The Barrie Examiner csoncs DANGEiirrEop Committee Member mansion UNDERSTANDING suuemuour COMMODIIIES ARMY orncu i0 MERCHANIS We should all dd everything in our power to increase this understanding between our two communities because by so doing we would help to strengthen our own communities and further enhance the enviablecxample of respect and con fidence which exists between the civiliansof Barrie and the soldiers of Borden Said Col WattsfordCD when he spoke at the luncheonheld in connection withthe oneday Chamber of Commerce retail merchants conference at Com munity House on Wednesday in his opening remarks Col Walttsford said he would like to congnatulate the Chamber of Com merce on their inspirationand vision in having conference of this type which he felfewas bound to serve very useful punpose The subject of the relationship between Camp Borden and Barrie was very bigand in his talk he said he would only be able to scratch the surface 20 Different Units At Clamp Borden there were 20 different units in the Army and they came under three maingroup ings headquarters and service corpsscihoolsjand field units After giving breakdown of each group Col Wattsford de scribed the camp as 7a growing community around 10000 com prised of soldiers their depend ents and civilian employees There were 700 permanent mar ried quanters occupied by soldiers stationed there and there were27 classrooms but these were not adequate to meet the accommodation needs They had about 800 public school students and there were 95 high school students attending the Banting Memorial High School in Alliston Importance ofCommunity Referring to the mortiihlyrsalary which he said was very consider alble Col Wattsford Said When you think that the entire salary for all peoplein BordJeri is spent in this vicinityland very large ex tent is spent in its entiretyinBara rialyou can realize the import ance of this community that sits on your doorstep Ilhespeaker women to say that the figures he had givenldidv not represent the total number of people employed at Borden each day because there was agreat deal of construction going on all the time and that meant employment bry contractors of large numbers of Wonkmen Sevcral Major Proeicts iCol Wausdord went on to say that they had several major pro jectscdnnmg of in the heardu vture Scene 200 new married quar in tlhe public school ters would bcput up within the comingyear and they were build ing an additionaliZSOman barrack block other works to be finished were training and recreational building alecture hall two ser geants messes two quartenmasters stores and 40vehricle garage The speaker went on to say that they had young pdpulation at the camp Ilhey had many children going to public school and they did not have great teenage problem at the present time but in suc ceedingyears it could grow They already operated Teen Town and in years to come providing recrea tional facilities for these children Would become more and more problem Transient Population One other point about Borden was that they had transient pop ulations This meant that they lost soniething in continuity On the other hand it had been found that when Soldier was there for three yearsthenorrna1 tour of duty he usually gave of hisbest to hisunit ln spite of the fiaot you lose combinuity0here are number of fine projects started and brought to fruition which are solely com munity cutouts he added Turn topage five please Suppori Application For Support of his application to operate television station in this area Was given to Ralph Sneigrove ownermanager of radio station CKBB by Barrie TownCouncil at an adjourned meeting on Monday evening Mr Snelgroves application for the endorsation of council Wis introduced by Alderman WLKinzie Council unanimously agree to give fullfsupport to Mr Snel stféve in his application to the federal govemment and agreed that the necessary repreSentu tions be made to Ottawa on his behalf Station Here BAISTONE Show Chairman REG WELHAM SecretaryManager sm JOHN FRENCH Committee Member Spry Chapter Easier Ceremonies Barrie Orillia Some 200 Sovereign Princes of the Valley of Barrie attended the Easter Ceremonies of Spry Chap ter Rosé Croix Scottish Rite in the Masonic Temple Morri son MWS presided On Maundy Thursday at 530 the Chapter was opened and the members retired to the Eastern Star Hall for the Ceremony of thelMystic Banquet This was fol lowed in the lodge room by the Cferemony of Extinguishing the Lights An inspiring address was given by Sovereign Prince Major Thomas Murray of Toronto Sai vation Army officer who is member of Spry Chapter On Sunday the members gath ered for Easter Breakfast at clock followed by the Ceremony of Relighting the Lights In Orillia the Maundy Thurs day banquet was held at the lodge and the Easter Sunday breakfast at Carters The address was given by Sov ereign Prince Alfred Barr Aux iliary Chapter ceremonies at 0r illia were in charge of Illustrious Brothers Patmore Kirkpatrick and Robert Swinton Annual meeting and election and installation of officers of Spry Chapter will be held in Barrieon Thursday April 22 at pm thrliiarririfixominrr UARRIE ONTARlO CANADA WEDNESDAY APRILZl 1954 EARLY OPENING OFFICE HOURS FOR EXAMINER Effective Monday April 19 The Barrie Examiner wllihsve the following office hours for the transaction of business Monday to may office open from 830 can to 530 Saturdays 8E mm to 100 is noted that the office hereafter will be closed 813 urday afternoons after one clock Proviously it bad re mained open withone clerk on duty until 530 However on weekodes Monday to hiday the 1in will open hill hour called in the morning closing1 formerly at 530 in the uteri noon It is expected that thou hours will provide better oer vice for thevpubllc Accept Tender Toronto Company ForEssa Bridges The tender of the Bailey Con lumber an GWNA and Audit Dom Circulation Cundles Soldier Arrives Home from Kdrea struction Co Ltd of Toronto for the construction of the Goodwin Bridge on Lot 10 Concession 10 and the Bear Creek Bridge on Lot 31 Concession was accepted at the April meeting of Essa Town ship Council at Angus The tender rice on the Goodwin Bridge was 71465 and the ten der price on the Bear Creek Bridge was $316485 The Bailey tender was the lowest submitted to coun cil The motion to accept the Bailey tender was moved by Councillors Mervin Denny and Thomas Fraser The contract was awarded provid ed the contractor obtained per formance bond for 100 phr cent of the contract price The township is to pay the premium on thebond this being subject to the approval of the Ontario Department of Highways The clerk Norman Coxworth was instructed at the meeting to advertise for tenders to crush load and deliver 5000 or more cubic yards of gravel on the town ship roads the gravel to be crushed topass through half inch screen At least 65 per cent tone is to be put on the roads ac cording to instructions of the road supervisor to be delivered not later than Oct 15 1954 marked cheque for $200 is to accompany each tender The tenders will be closedMay sat12 oclock noon Ten ers for the two township bridg opened at the April meet ing weie from Albert Pratt Grand Valley Goodwin Bridge $2 744 and Bear Creek Bridge $5403 Gaffnet Construction Stratford Goodwin Bridge $392275 and Bear Crek Bridge $692130 McLean Construction St Marys Goodwin Bridge $177950 and Bear Creek Bridge $368175 Durham Construc tion Port Hope Goodwin Bridge $214450 and Bear Creek Bridge $451850 Finnigan Construction Weston Goodwin Bridge $326541 and BearCreek Bridge $504855 Bailey Construction Toronto Goodwin Bridge $171465 and Bear Crek Bridge $316485 Gib son and Sons WroxeterLGoodwm Bridge $291750 and Bear Creek Bridge $468750 and Albert Reeves and sons Mount Forest Goodwm Bridge $204475 and Bear Creek Bridge $390025 The tenders did notliinclude ce ment and steel CNIB Ca nvasSers Meeting in VOro Reeve Smith Campbell Warden of Simcoe County who is Chairman of the Canadian National Institute for the Blind Building Fund Campaign in Cm Township hascalled meet ing of canvassers and other interest ed persons in the township The meeting will be held in the Oro Town Hall at pm on Thurs day April 22 There will be re presentativesfrom the Institute to outline the work of the ONIB and to explain the purpose of the pro posed service centre All interested persons in the township are urged to attend COUNCILPHIIION CMHClo INCREASE HOUSING PAYMENT FOR GUNNNEWTON sums if request now going before Central Mortgage and Housing Cor poration from Barrie Town Council is approved rents in the houses in Gunn and Newton Streets willbe increased by approximaer $6 month This is the latest move by cdupcil to try and bring the rents on these houses into line with rents paid on other property in town and it was agreed to at an adieurned meeting of councilon Monday night In May 1949vthe Town entered into an agreement with Wartime Housinthd for the construction of 50 housesand in the agreement the down was to furnish either money or services tothe value of $600 per unit Oncompletion of the building of thd heuses the Townagreed to take payrmént in lieu of taxes of $70 on the fourroomed houses and $75 on the 5roomed houses At that time this was not too far out of line withregular takes and the rentals on these homes were fourroomed $3450 fiveroomed $3750 These have remained the same since thehomes were occup ied Now the taxesvon those type of homes have increased on similar houses to $13975 on the smaller house and $143 on the larger This meant that the ToWn is taking loss of roughly $3350 year The Town has now made three ap plications over the past yearand ahalf to have the originalagree ment rtenegotiated to increase the payment in lieu of taxes to some thing closer to the full tax amounts and it has been turned downon two occasions Central Mortgage and Housing however have now asked council to send resolutibn on the matter to them and it was agreed at Monday nights meeting of council that GM HIA be askled to increase the an nual payments in lie of taxes on the China and Newton Street hous es andthat rentals on thehouses be increasediaocord 31y They were the longest 14 months ever spent in my life said Private Richard Rick Wat erson of Cundles when he arrived home on Good Friday after tour of duty in Korea Waiting to greet him as he pull ed lnto Essa CPR Station was his wife Norma and their 22months old daughter Rita Elizabeth child by Mrs Watersons first mar rlage Also there was his wifes mother Mrs Cropley with whom Mrs Waterson has been liv ing on the Raywood Farm pro party since her husband went oilerseas te Waterson who comes from route and his wife native of ntreal were married on Dec 20 He left for Korea with the Transport Company on Feb 26 1953 He left from Seattle by an American transport ship from SchoOIs Have ImproVed as Much as Yokohama and from there went to Pusan He was then moved up near the lines to Service Corps ammunition road head about 30 miles north of Seoul where he spent his time during his complete tour of duty as clerk in the alscounting department Pte Waterson who was only 19 when he joined the army has only one ambition to get out of the army go back to school and study for the ministry always wanted to be min ister but it just never seemed that would have the chance befOre When was just 18 was in the reserve army with the 315i Field Regiment in Toronto Then joined the active service and now that have finished my spell in Korea want togstudytoant¢u haulswithhistrtamistfiinuexsk the ministry of the Baptist Church he explained lransporiaiion in Past 150 Years ProfessorUphOIdsModernMethod comparison between the schools of the present to the schools of the past to the detrim ent of the schools of the present has no more foundation in fact than the person who will claim that the 1954 washing machine is not as good as the scrub board declared one of Ontarios prime supporters of the modern school Dr Charles Phillips in an ad dress to the Hillcrest Home and SchOol Association at an open meeting on Wednesday evening Speaking to the capacity audi ence of association members and other local home and school mem bers who filled the school auditor ium the professor of education and supervisor of graduate students at the Optario College of Education eldquently upheld the theories wber hind todays school system refut ing thefideas of such spokesmen for the schoolof the past as Dr Hilda Neatby whose book So Little for the Mindhe indirectly attacked in his talk Schools have improved as much as transportation declared Dr Phillips referring to the education al systems in Ontario 100 and 50 years ago Ifyou hadthe 1900 school here you wouldnt tolerate it You would thinkthe building and the teacher were terrible and you would be right Any sug gestion thateducation has deteri orated is the bunk pure and sim ple It has noti Nobody ever succeeded in teach ing the strict academic curriculum of thepast except to very few people who were highly select pointed outthe speaker When we youngster to read has gone stead ily down and the ability of the youngter to read is going up be cause of the skill of the elemen tary teacher in teaching the child Turnto page five please Prior to his posting to Korea he was on the staff at the RCASC School at Camp Borden and trans ferred over to the 56th Transport Company only about 10 days be fore leaving for Korea After the ceasefire in Korea in July most of their work was handling the backload of ammuni tion coming back from the front and assigning it to the various units and establishing special re serve dumps throughout the coun try Korea he described as being very far behind from the point of view of amenities as the western world knows them From pic turesque int of view however it wasaxv yoretty country His final comment on arriving dreamed Good Friday could be such wonderful day RUMBLE Hosrrraurr Lance Rumble recently address ed the Pony ClubpfToronto and Mrs Rumble was also presenlt One ifthem invited members to visit Lawrum Farms and see the prize Hackney ponies at Durham However Mr and Mrs Rumble have been enjoying friendly ar gument about which one did the inviting The club accepted the invitation and Mrs Rumble wrote offering to serve lunch and asked how many to expect Back came the reply One Hundred and ninetyeight Durham Chronicle MONDAY WEDNESDAY and FRIDAY single capy 24 Pages3 Section Barrie Phelpsion Pastors Leave On Marian Pilgrimage Very Rev James Clair Dean of Barrie and parish priat of St Marys Roman Catholic Church and Rev Morrison parish priest of St Patricks Church Phelpston sailed this morning from New York on the liner Queen Elizabeth for Marian Year pil grlmage of some of the principal shrines in France italy Switzer land and Portugal They will be away for more than month rc turning on the italtan liner Sat urnia from Lisbon and arriving back in New York on May 29 They travelled by air from Tor onto to New York last night Some of the principal stops on their tour will bein Rome and at Lourdes and Fatima two of Eur opes most famous shrines Their boat will dock at Cherbourg and they will continue to Paris and into Switzerland From there they travel through Italy stopping in Venice Florence and Rome and then travel back to France to visit at Nice and Lourdes before con tinuing on to Lisbon and Fatima in Portugal The year 1954 has been declared Marian Year by His Holiness Pope Pius XII to mark the Cen tennary of the dogma of the 1m maculote Conception Dean Clair was last in Europe 17 years an when he travelled with His Eminence James Cardinal Mc Guigan then Archbishop McGui gan to Rome just shortly before he came to St Marys as parish priest Merchants Discuss Local Problems at Recent Conference Many problems confronting local merchants and the general public were raised and discussed at the recent Chamber of Commerce rc tail merchants conference held in the Community House here The question of car parking was probably the biggest issue under debate and an outline of what had happened in other entres was given by Ken Grant manager of the Ontario Chamber of Commerce and by Trev Hamill Ontario man ager of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce one suggéstion which emerged and wpigg found astrong measure Mo suppo ttiasthat there could be fillingin around Hempenfelt Bay to give additional land space for parking purposes During the conference Fire Chief Hxlrwin reported that cleanup campaign was planned for the period from May to 22 and the public were ing asked to make sure that base cuts and backyards were cleared of all ma terial which could be apotential fire hazard Discussion also centred around the possibility of having weekly information booklet published so that tourists would know what was going on in thisarea fl© Near the North Pole Canada and Greenland are separated by only few miles Merchants conference air Community House LOCAL MERCHANTS attending one of the Workshop sessiOns held during the recent Chamber Of Commerce retail merchants conference are seen hereduning discussion started this present century it was apparent to everybody that the people were going to go to school Only in 1870 didwe achieve uni versal education In 1900 there were considerable number going to high school and now virtually everyone is going to high school Accordingly the country had to have type of educationthat Would do something for everybody and try to do more things ie mass education improved Atmosphere He compared the hostile attitude of the 19th century youngster to school to the changedchildfif the present century who likes school as proof of the improved litmus phere of the school Pcople learn betterx When the atmOSphere is cheerful hevfelt and they get better education when interestjand affection is shown to the child by the teacher Althoughit is hard to prove that the child is learning more under the present system favorable Comparison couldgbe madeby tak lng one subject Reading into co sideration Th period it tak at Community House Many lecal prublems were discussed as well eral interest as topics of wide gen Commiinlty House recently Next to Mr GouttsgisHarry Armstrong Alderman Hersey Jack MacLarengandiClarence Cor