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Barrie Examiner, 19 Jan 1962, p. 3

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gt to PLANNING EXPERT ADDRESSES COUNCIL Community planning expert Pearson middle of the Department of Municipal Affairs relaxes after speaking to Simcoe County council here yesterday on urban develop ment Reeve Lloyd Pridham left of Sunnidale and Sunni dale deputy reeke Wilfred Downer discussed local prolr lcms with Mr Pearson Ex aminer Photo People Interest New Big By Mle MucIllAIL Ive hoard of person being knocked into cocked hat but its the first time Ive heard of somebody being elected into one Thus quippcd Jack McDonald earlier this wack while donning the triangular hat and robes of office after achiev ing an upset victory to become warden of Simcoo County for 1962 it was another stepping stone for Orillias 65yearold reeve slightlybuilt man with soft blue eyes and almost old world grac iousness and the dry slow voice of the late comedian Fred Allen This howevar is just part of the portrait of countys new Big Daddysoldier athlete editor businessman and politician Jack McDonald relaxed in the wardens office the other day and talked as most men do about themselves their beliefs and their hopes LOT OF THINGS Ive done lot of things and hope to do some more before Im through he said licking the ashm from cigaret into tray but whats impontant is trying to do right by yourself and other people You know people are every thing in life love to meet peo ple Thats how you learn things Mr McDonald born in Ches lcy Bruce County learned earlt ly about people and politirs His father was former warden of Bruce Liberal MP for Bruce from 1911 to 1919 and publisher of the weekly Chcsley Enter prisc Jack saw service in both world wars was fine amateur base ball player and later served as president of the Ontario Baseball Association He also took crack at dental college after the First World War but couldnt stick it out and joined dad on the paper got heck of good price for the paper in 1510 so sold it and joined the army again Always interested in politics MI McDonald launched his car eer by serving two years as Defers Action ALLISTONSpeciaI Allis ton Union Public School Board held the inaugural meeting on Wednesday Three members returned for their second year and three new trustees were elected at the recent Alliston election Dr Robert Baxter retired from the board at the end of his twoyear term in 1961 leav ing vacant the position of vice chairman Returned as chair man by acclamation was Victor Scott who has acted in this ca pacityfor several years Ac claimed as vicechairman was Mrs Mabel Wilson now in her second year on the board The third person serving second year is Mrs Hilda Ireland Welcomed to the board were the new members William Ben d911 Edwin Bagnall and Roy Connell The following committee chair men were named Finance Mrs Hilda Ireland manage ment Bagnall property Roy Connell supply Mrs Ma bel Wilson Herbert Murphy secretary of the board for several years will continue to fill the position in 1962 Regular business was conduct ed by the chairman Itwas felt that any further negotia tions pertaining to the newly proposed school in Essa Town ship would be left until warm er weather when soil tests and type of constniction would be considered request from Al liston town council was read stating it would appreciate an estimated fiveycar financial plan from the school board 0011mm Wall asked to start MCDONALD reeve of Cheslcy later becoming mayor for two years IN POLITICAL RING He and his wife Ometta mov ed to Orillia in 1950 when Jack started what he now calls pretty good insurance busines But it was soon back to the political ring had one term as deputy reeve and am in my fourth year as reeve Being county warden though is just about the ultimate for me at my age Still might run for mayor of Orillia before Im through Mr McDonald has some defin ite views about running county affairs and they hinge on keep ing the financial ship on straight course The county doant owe cent and it wont while Im in office In fact theres an in creased assesment of about $8000000 this year due to de crease in capital expenditures of well over $100000 This means we should be able to reduce the tax rate by at least one mill this year The warden had another per tinent observation think the wardenship should be rotated each year between urban and rural members working on this as soon as pos sible Resignation of one staff mem ber was accepted The board had been asked to appoint suitable person to the library Board and this will he done in the near future member of the teaching staff and vice principal Earl Gilroy present ed plan for medical coverage for staff members and request ed that premiums be deducted by the secretary This plan was approved unanimously short discussion took place on student education and the re sponsibility of public school teachers in helping to prepare youngpeople for the change in elementary education the in troduction of the new vocation al courses and all aspects re lating to the necessary revision with the new vocational school opening in Alliston within the next two years or sooner it was stated there is need for teach ers to be prepared to offer some form of guidance to the students in grades and The next meeting of the board will be held Feb 19 at 730 pm AFRICAN EPIC The first expedition across Equatorial Africa was led by Henry Stanley from Zanzi bar to the mouth of the Congo River in 187477 CAMPBELL LTD Furniture Moving and Storage CommercialWarehousing Agents for North American Van Lines PA 66555 MayZProbable voting Date 0n Liquor May is the probable date for liquor vote in Barrie City council received letter last night from Woodrow of the Liquor Licensing Board of Ontario suggesting May as the date for vote on cocktail lounges and licensed dining lounges The communication from the board enclosed drafted bylaw which would authorize the vote when passed by council Mr Voodrows letter said there was no reason why any one who wanted to could not open wine store In Barrie irri mediatelyr letter was also received from the Barrie Ministerial As sociation protesting any further liquor outlets SINGER ADMITS PUBLIC MISCHIEF rock roll singers publicity bill came to $75 yesterday in magistrates court at Barrie Thomas Shields 19 of Collingwood received the fine when provinciaL police testified his story of being robbed and beaten up was simply scheme to get pub licity Shields told police Jan he had picked up hitch hiker near Orillia who had knocked him unconscious and left him in his car near Allistnn Provincial police in check ing the story could find no footprints in the snow where Shields said he had left his car and there were no marks on Shields body to indicate he had been beaten up The publicity conscious singer pleaded guilty yes terday to charge of public mischief Three Are Tied In Crosby Golf PEBBLE BEACH Calif AP Former ti collegiate champions Phil Rodgers and Joe Campbell tied with 52year old Chuck Congdon for the first round lead in Bing Crosbys $50 000 golf tournament Thursday as all fired scores of fiveunder par 67 The trio held one stroke lead over Jackie Cupit Bill Ca5 per Mason Rudolph and Harry Umbinetti gt In the proamateur division the lead was held by southern California pro Bob McCalllster and Los Angeles Angels out fielder Albie Pearson They had bestball total of 59 as Pear son with 10ltstroke handicap fired 74 while McCallister had The icasualty list included some big names Jerry Barber took 10 on the 16th hole and Wound up at 79 South Africas Gary Playerlast years lead ing money winner also had 79 Cary Middlecoff 73 and Arnold Palmer 76 Veteran Art Doenng of Col umbus Ohio scored holein one on the 110yard 7th hole but wound up with 75 for down the list Vancouvers Stan Leonard played with Dr Bud Taylor in the pro amateur competition and they wound up in three way tie for third FRIDAY JANUARY 16 LOCAL AND GENERAL COMMUNITY CONCERTS 11 annual meeting for eleclt lion of officers of the Barrie Community Concert Association is being held at Community House Tomato Street next Wednuday Jan 24 at 830 pm Election of officers and plum for the 1961 membership campaign will be the main or der of business PLAN GAMES NIGHT Officer Mas at Barrie Ann oury will hold Games Night on Saturday Jan 20 Commit tee of associate members of the Grey and Simooe Foresters Mess consists of John Ough Ken headwclh Hamilton and Bruce Peacock TORONTO SPEAKER Barrie Kiwanis Club willhave Murray Anderson of Toronto as speaker for the regular dlnlt ner meeting at Community House on Monday evening Jan 22 llfr Anderson heads an ac counting husiness is past presi dent of the Kiwanis Club of To ronto Downtown and past lieutenantgovernor of Division of the OntarioQuebecMnri times District His topic is The Challenge of Kiwanis FORMER 13X DEPOT C0 Flight Lieutenant Charles Fea ver former commanding of ficer of the RCAP 13X Depot at Angus and former resident of Barrie renewed acquaintance here this wcdt while doing some work at Camp Borden He is now retired from the Air Force and has civilian job in 0t towo COLLEGIATE BOARD The first regular business meeting for the year of Barrie District Collegiate Board will be held in the cafeteria Central Collegiate Monday at pm County Is Engulfed In Development Boom provincial government spok aman says Simcoc County is being engulfed in boom of or ban development that will re quire careful conununity plann mg Pearson community planning expert with the muni cipal affairs department told county council here yesterday that the area will experience an unprecedented urban growth or er the next 10 years People are pushing north ward said Mr Pearson who called Simcoe County pecu liar in one sense large suburban development and in an other mushrooming summer vacationland With growth comes problems especially in creating new suo divisions and Mr Pearson em phasized the importance of in vatigating the longterm implic ations of land development The province is concerned with the overall picture of any project and facilities for such servicm as water and sewage Survival Instructors Course Comprised Of Top Students CAMP aoannn om feel Im doing something that may someday help to save many lives Im also finding out how totally destructive nuclear war fare can be and how important it is for each and every one of us to learn the basics of na tional survival said Bomba dier Ronald Curry 10 of the 29 Field Regiment RCA in To ronto presently on course at Camp Borden Bombodier Curry and 108 top Ontario graduates of the first sixweek Special Militia Training Program are at Camp Borden training to he leaders and New tlonal Survival instructors The soldiers taking this spec ial Junior NonCommissioned Officers Course were chosen by Department of National Defence officials as the outstanding stu dents of the first Special hfili Trnining Program run through outOntnrio completed just be fore Christmas This was the first of four militin courses an nounced by Prime Minister Diet enbaker designed to train 100000 troops for National Survival duties The officers who were re Federal Minister To Speak Here PC Simcoe North Annual Meet Hon Walter Dinsdale PC DFC MP MA federal minister of northern affairs and national risourca will be the principal speaker at the annual meeting of the Progrmsive Conservative Association for the riding of Simcoe North Gordon Mclurk of Barrie acting president of the riding has announced that the meeting for yieotion of officers and other businms will be held on Monday evening at the Embasy Hall on Blake Street starting at eight oclock Election of officers and busineswilibe on theagenda Heber Smith QC MP for Simcoe North since 1957 will make special trip from the current sittings of Parliament in Ottawa for the meeting NIGHT FIGHTER PILOT Hon Mr Dinsdale was born in Brandon Manitoba and grad uated with BA degree from Mc Master University Hamiltfm in 1937 After two years in rail way work he became social worker in the Salvation Army serving in Toronto and Montreal in November 1941 he joined the RCAF was comissioued as pilot one year later at Uplands Ottawa and went overseas the following month where he ser ved with the famous 410 Mos quito Night Fighter Squadron from August 1945 to February 1945 He vii5 the first night fight er pilot to destroy an enemy piggyback bomber and was awarded the Distinguished Fly ing Cram for his night patrol oplt enations in NorthWest Europe At the conclusion of his war service Mr Dinsdale resumed his education halting his Master of Arts degree at University of Toronto He also did prodoctor al work in sociology at the Un iversity of Chicago ELECTED FOUR TIMES He was first elected in the by eleotion in the federal constitut uency of BrandonSouris in June 1951 with reeleetion in 1953 1957 and 1958 In August 1957 he was nppmnt ed parliamentary as sistant to the Minister ofVet erons Affairs and then parlinn mentary secretary He was Baptist Church Clappertnn at Warslay Services at fl at PONTIACBUICK VAUXHALL OWNERS We have been authorizedto provide you with Gen and Motors Warranty Do not hesitate to call we will be pleased to serve you honorarium morons in Service Centre 65 Collier St PA 8213373 non poisons pro sworn in to his present position in the Diefenbaker Cabinet on Oct II 1960 Mr Dinsdale has many service activities in Manitoba and has been delegate to the United Nat ions and chairman of the polit ical committee of the Atlantic Congress in London England 1959 He remains an active mem ber of the Salvation Army and is bandmnster ot the Brandon Citadel Corps He also repre sents Canada on the Internat ional Council for Christian lea dership sponsible for picking these men did really first class job says Captain Barry Holman second in command of the course He went on to say These troops are alert during classes hardy and all working together When it comes to in struction we work them to tho limit and they take to it like ducks to water great deal of the cmphzlsis on the Junior NCO Course leans towards leadership and the study of leadership qualifies Regular army officers and NCOs from Camp Petawawa who have many years of experi ence make up the course staff Major Short of Cana dinn Guards Regiment is the course officer commanding On his staff is Artillery Captain Barry Holman who graduat ed from Officer Candidate school here in 1951 He is assisted by lieutenant second lieutenant warrant officer second class five sergeants representingdif ferent corps and five corporals TEACHING TECHNIQUES The students spend many hours studying teaching tech niques Then slowly and gent ly they are moved one by one from their humble sitting posi tions behind desk to the front of the class to begin mutual in struction At first its no awk ward owful feeling standing up there lecturing class said one student You feel so damn selfconscious But we are in troduced to teaching so carefully by our instructors that pretty soon we have gained enough confidence to give short los son After that its keenly com petitivevieing to see who can give the best instruction and rate the highest marks The students also take tradi tional military subjects such as drill and parade square work which revives in them the old sense of discipline and team work Other subjects include military law map reading first aid knots and lashings and cas ualty handling All of these will help prepare them for their part as instructors for the latter two sixweek Special Militia Train ing Courses to be held in or mouries throughout Ontario The average age of these sol diers is 31 Corporal Brian Maclam 18 of the Toronto Scot tish Regiment who is the young est member 01 the course says Its helping me to grow up The oldest candidate is Second World War Canadian Navy vet eran former lieutenant Melville McDermid 46 He represlmts the Brockville Rifles and lives at 25 Salisbury Ave Brockville Ont Onehalf of these soldiers has seived with the Canadian Regu tar Army during wartime or since then Their service would average about six years each Approximately 10 of there mainder have had prevrous army militia training and sev eral are carmembers of the Ca nadian Navy and RCAF Varied backgrounds are rep resented hcrc Corporal Chester Ilalloch 40 of the in Field Sguadron Royal Canadian Enlt grocers Kitchener spent one year as corporal in charge of police detachment in Milan ltaly Another Corporal David Collins 25 of the 48th Highland ers of Canada Toronto states be attained the rank of Rock Sergeant between 195558 with the 27th Parachute unit of the United States Army Corporal Lawrence Dawes 40 of the Stormont Dundas and Glcngarry Highlanders of Corn wall scrved five years with the RAF during the Second World War llis travels include Ice land France and Germany 5555555 55 guard the health of mg into new areas is who will follow to people well as he said Secpage from septic tanks in to well water could be major problem in new developments where conditions werent proper for tanks Mr Pearson said tin Ottawa the other day Mr Bat head of the epide miology division Department of National Health and welfare said contaminated water sup plirs through seepage of septic tanks was major cause in the spread of infectious hepatitis to more than 12000 persons in Can ada last yeart Mr Pearson said better com munity planning would be ach ieved through closer liaison be tween municipal county and pro vincial authorities He suggested Simcoo County council to appoint committee to study and record all plann ing development in the area This committee could gath er all sorts of useful information to be used collectively for the benefit of any area planning subdivision Mr Pearson said The problem in one place could be the same problem in another area later on He said the Municipal Affairs Department was always ready to assist planning boards or fact tinding committees This prom ota better understanding of each others problems and can go long way in getting good job done 555555555 SPECIAL SATURDAY 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