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lun AND Mas nnLrn SMITH ofrstroud follow the rodeos and have recently com peted most successfully at Dundas with Editors Meet For Convention At MurrquBay More than 500 editors from across Canada are meeting at Mur ray Bay Qucbcc this week for the 27th annual convontion of the Vanadian Weekly Newspapers As sociation Registrations begin Tuesday night Au 28 and welcome dinner and rectors meeting will follow The full convention pro gram however does not begin un til the following day 1naddiliontoiorumrconcerm ing industry problems encounter ed by the editors special speakers will discuss pol matters relat cd to Canadas hometown new papers panel discussion will also be held with representatives of the Association of Canadian Advertisers Audit Bureau of Cir culation and Association of Can adian Advertising Agencies highlight of the convention will be presentation of special awards to newspapers which have on CWNA hotter newspaper petitions dilring the year The First Caltimings GHOSTS iN THE PAGES Have you ever met ghosts in the pages of book did just that this weekenda nostalgic yet disturbing experience The book was Triumphs of Scotland Yard by Leonard Grib ble It is just possible that there are some of the younger gener on to whom Scotland Yard eans nothing so for their bene let us explain that is the name of the headquartersot the Metro politan Police London England While it does house all the headquarters staff of this 22000 man force for the majority of the public Scotland Yard is synod omous with sleuthingand the Solving of violent English crirné And thatsisvonlycnatural iordhe majority of books written on the place emphasizethis facct And when the title caught my eye the first thing noticed was the book was not one of the usual autobiographiesI suspect that many of them have been ghost writtenby former chief of the crime squad there This has be me monotonous cent yearsand many ef has failednilsastrousiyt Slater esting reading out of what has been fairly noimal routine police life As ltbumbedltbrough the pages saw that number of the hardy wnnuals were up for reView Charles Peace Brown and Ken and Amishon for obit in re their horses Silver Belt and Mohack There Mr Smith won the Maison Crown and An chor Trophy for bronco riding ram aoa CGE EXpansillll How Well underway big expansion program at the Barrie Works of the Canadian General Electric Company is now under way with the building of an additional 125000 square feet tothc present plant being done in stag The area to be completed ll be warehouse being built southeast of the at building When thissarcrissftnlshcdrall of the material presently in back storage sheds will be moved into the warehouse and the sheds will be demolished in make way for additions to the south and west of the plant lleavy earthmovjng eq ment is already moving tons of earth on three sides of the building Fill from the excavations is being used to fill in the land to the south where road will be built from Bradford Street right through to Innisfil Street to pro vide another access to the plant The road will be hard surfaced New Parking Lot Plans also call for nowpark ing lot on Innisfil Street where property has been purchased by the company it will be hardsnr faced and well lighted Until such time as buildings are completed however the area on the west side of Innisfil Street will be kept clear of snow and maintained for employee parking Houses have been torn down or moved along lnnisfil Street to give necessary room to commence building to the west Completed in Year it is expected that the new ad dition will be completed in one year The contractor is Arthur Lennox Contractors of Toron Canadian Cnmstock is doing the mechanicalwork and the contract electrical installations has been awarded to Standard Elec tric Cook Construction of Barrie is the subcontractor doing the excavation work As soonltas excavations are com pleted foo lugs will go in and then walls It is expected that stee will bereeeived in January for hemajoradditionttrt north and west of the present plant Converting to all One boiler has already béen converted to oil and as soon as present coal stocks are depleted the plant will change over to oil firing and commence conversion of the plants second boiler The top wll then be taken off the coal enarea and the walls will be eight as the To laminae space for the second oilfirad be not come into the CGE siding good part of the time even trucks will not be able to get in and special arrangements are be ing made to get around these obstacles ToWnship Stages Benefit For ll ed The Reeve of Vespra Township Roy Hickling has appointed committee to arrange benefit film show for Doreen McGinnis at ltlidhurst Township Hall next Saturday evening The entire proceeds of the function are to be given to the young girlywho is still in hospital from injuries suc ta who kuo ddwn by car onSatufday Aug 13yearold Doreen McGinnis was coming home from working at nearby snackbar late on that Saturday evening and when only 100 yards fromher home she was struck by car which did not stop The girl was left lying in jured by the side of the road and was only discovered when neighbor going out at the time heard her cries lrovincial Police are still searching forthehit and run river and believe that informs will lead them togthe culprit shortly Substantial rewards have also been offered by former em ployeroftbe girl the Township of Vespra and Ralph Snclgrove president of CKBB and CKVRTV for informationrwbich may lead to an arrest Partly Sunny Rain Ex ectedi Heavy rain fell on Thurs day night and the week since has been mostly sunny and very pleasant Today ind icatespartly sunny but with showers later Temperatures we ng Low IS 77 19 20 er and the second compressor cur rently operating from tempor ary location in one of the storage sheds While the new warehouse ad isbeing builtrail cars can at the Yard had known person vally men hadworked with In fact theflrst photograph in the book was of man who once lectured men on the finger print system Chief Superintehdent Cherrill He might almostbe call ed the ather ofvthaBritishsys tern lof record fingerprints and what hedid ot know about the Max Kessol claim distant Incidentally this particular crime set Inspector Minte myself ff the trail for useful and pr who la nmmovriéwé This vWednesday Everybody Interested In the growing and are of trees is invited to attend forestry field day and tour this Wedl ncsdny afternoon starting from Midhmt Nursery at 110 11m The program arranged by the Department of Lands and Porous includes short talk on current forest insect prob lem by Hugh Mchec fore try biology ranger for Lake Simcne district The attending the field day will hlve an opportunity of seean the preparation of seed beds and the towing of seeds the development of young free aeedllngr differ cdt types of thinning in coul fcr stands improvement cut ting and thcpruning select ing and tagging of Christmas trees Tbe tour will take in item drlc Forest and propertch in Drury Forest Department Plan Sell Christmas Trees in District large number of Christmas trees are being offered for sale by the Department of Lands and Forests this fall in the Lake SlmA coe district The trees ailScots pine with the exception of two small quantities of Austrian pine Loun iMCOELCOUNTY TRIoWEEKLY momma CANADA MONDAY over 70 dead speckled trout were collected from the creek 7700nSérvation cl lit Killed which runs through Stewarts Park Barrie by members of the Barrie Conservation Club last week The Club believes that the death of thcfish was due to lotion of the stream and the ish ol audsampics of the water have been sent for analysis The conservationists are urging that the town council sbculd pass and enforce stringent bylaws rc specting pollution of streams They are also calling for general com mitteo representing the Conserva tion Club the press the Barrie Horticultural Society the Bird Watchers Club and any other in terested parties to meet with the council to discussmatters related to the natural resources of the den tree cutting erosion and pollution Sources of Pollution The Fish and Stream Cummik tee of the Barrie Conservation Club suggest as sources of pol lution of streams run off from garbagedump sewage water from the streets pollution from indus trial factoricw and sewage dis posal plant working at the limt of its capacity Onthislattcr point the com aressituatedinvariouslccations at county forests in Slmco buffer In York and Ontario some 18 tree lots will be sold ranging in number from 200 to 3100 and persons Interested in inspecting the trees may arrange to do so by contacting either Zone Forester Scott Angus or Zone For ester Burgar Maple The sale closes on Sept 17 at noon and tenders will be received by the district forester at Maple up to that date This year sales of Christmas trees are being handled at the same time in the Lake Huron and Lake Slmcoe districts anda no ticc combining details forboth districts aisvbeiogrmauad would known buyers on southwestern regi nuns oar noon Dabid Johnson 30 of oronto was taken tohospital with facial injuries and shock afterhis car ran off the road late Saturday night near level messing about two miles north of Midburst No Escapes Reported PROVINCIAL PRISON cAMP HIIIILSDALE CPlioundAtbe clock guards bnrbed wirefeuces on stone walls have been done away with at an experimental prison in this area 60 miles rtb of Toronto group of at trusted prisoners is plantiu win swept land to reclaim it from erosion and turn it back into useful farmland trees on sewage in growing cpmmunity is an expensch business that an ap should be made tothe Pro ncialGovernrnerit for either ubsldy or long term loan at low nterest rates to impllment such project Formerll5blug Grounds Formerly five pure clearspring Clclr Turns Over db record in mg when the car inwhich the travelling ran off Highway 400 at crown Hill and turned over Sat urday evening The driver Wil liain Griffin 34 of Dundas suf fared abrasions Silas Griffin also of Dundas had abrasions and indeterminate injuries andRob ert Paul of Hamilton suffered eontusious of the left hip and shock NEAR HILLSDALE EXPERIMEN am to 445 pm lunch break in the evenings they read lis ten to the radio or play baseball pthers hat special hobbies to fill 1r vora long greet ejnojec senjoy able healthy and satisfyng They work with their guards two civilian employees present duringsthe day to direct planting operations and two rcfdrmatory workers responsible for feeding and transporting theprisoners Atznigbtthc slee intents un watchcd by thy ployee hasfiiero escapfithou all hegwould have to do is walk away from the ramp The program called reclam tlon of wayward lilies and one of several plans by the term department of reform in rrefcrmatoryr m4 So far not oneJrisoner land is stitlitions to use trusted prisoners Most of the ncb car fully from reformatories by their recordsare serving time for inor offences butfsome are re peaters who are noted for good conduc priao At otbcr Onta points trusted prisoners workon regular farms prepare eamp sites and are train ed to flghtforest fires All oints report no disciplinary pro emsL The project has beenhanging fire orrtried on minor scale fora few years Thedepartment of lands audforests started an in tensive survey of 0ntariosiaudto find where reforestation and oth er wor was needed Smal test groups were sent out last year to see the work 0nthe project here commit tee from the townships of Tiny frthey Fould do Tay andMedontc and service club decided to offer looacre plot of land for alargeseale ex peximenti Within two weeks in action Equipme rowed fro the forests depart Hydro Elec to niant and thee Ontario to in water creeks flowed into the west shore of Kempenfclt Bay These were the spawning ground for rainbow trout speckled trout and other fish They were the fish ing grounds for small boyswho were unable to travel further afield In July this year over 30 dead lsh were collectedcin 150 yards length of Bunkers Creek Six years ago the creek running through Stewart Park was denuded of fish because of pollution The Conser vation Club believethat it will be another six years now before this particularstrcam can be stocked with fish again The Barrie Conservation Club is seeking public support for their campaign to preserve the pat urlal resources of Barrie and dis tr ct Second aflicer Appointed To Aliilstcm Force Police committee of the Alliatprl town council have once again appointed second policeman to assistChief Eric Smith He is Kenneth Eric Kearlscy hired as constable on Aug 21 with dutic to commence immediately Kearsley has had previous ce experience having served with the Metropolitan Police of London England for fourvvyears After coming to Canada be en listed in the Canadian Provost Corpsand has been stationed at campBorden for the past three years obtaining his release just recently He is married and has one child boy age five His wife and son are at present away on vacation butare due to arrive in Alliston about the end of the month ST PATRlCliSdiELL hell thought tochave hccn AUG SJpvmmlyfi1flizr NEWSPAP R7 1956 Completes 20 Years of Service With GE Co pr duct cngiry ee ng at the Barrie Works of the Canadian General Electric Com pany Jack Richardson this month completed 20 years of servrcc with the company One of the key personnel selectA edto form the nucleus of the new Barrie plan 1945 Mr Richard Two Sections410 Pages will kWUUEAN Innu Hum uh 3Allege oI tiOnf signs for air conditioning units for the CBC other assignments included designs of special equip mentjfor British Columbia apple growers to ehabie them to main tain fine temperature control for the storing of the fruit and de signs of switchboards busway and relatedfiequijlgnent for plantsigc ing on war work When the plant swung over sonhas played an important role in the building of the local indus try into the progressive plant It ls today He joined the company onVAug ll i936 starting on the englneer ing test course at Peterborongh after graduating from the power sity of British Columbia ln elec trical engineering After year there he finishe his course at Davenport Works and went on to Ward Street Works towork on air conditioning equipment in 1938 he mpved to Royce Works swberc he workedon de TWO MINOR FIRES be fire brigade had two calls in the weekend The first was from 173 St Vincent Street for chimney fire which gave no trou ble and on Sunday at 615 pm to Castle Drive where bush fire had started but had been exting uishedj before they arrived POPULATIDN FIGURES During tbcflrst national quin quenniai census taken by the enumerators in the electoral dis trict of Dufferingsimcoe in June figures disclosed by Alvin Austin field offiEer show that Totten hams population sedhycsecatacmmmmlsn tomTealfmllfll National Museum is 2930 JACK CHABD on completely to war work b1939 Mr Richardson was appointed priorityoffice Fromnoyée Works back to Ward Street to work on materials and processes ndhis assignments included such interlt portant wartime jobs crab releas Lancas rhommarLan lm controls and panels suavmv grgmwxwppr as howent