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Barrie Examiner, 9 Oct 1968, p. 4

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Published Canadisn Nowplow Limited 15 Hayfield sum same 0mm Weill Publisher McPherson Managing Editor William anng MarEgg WAY 001039 BIPAGBI England Preparing For Currency In England makin ready to branch into decimal currency 1971 has announc ed the symbol for the new decimahzed penny will be Announcing styles for expressing the new money the decimal currency board and the doublecrossed for the pound sterling will remain but the present for the shilling and the Dtor pence will go All amounts under one new pound will he expressed in pennies and there will be 100 to thepound That should make it much easier for United States tourists to master the Eng lish system It has frequently brought loud walls from them in the past notes the Cornwall StandardFreeholder With England joining the swing to decimalized currency the lot of the tour ists from Canada or the United States travelling in Europe and the flow is increasing rapidly will be much easier and should remove suspicion that they are being cheated or shortechanged when making purchases Also marked for elimination along with the for pence wiilbe the florin two shilling piecesvnow worth about 26 cents and the halicrowns or two shil lings Sixpence worth about 32 cents They are coins that have long brought confusion to tourists and visitors from Decimals North Korealea Their assing will draw no regrets from this do of the ocean The board also hopes gmneas 21 little lingo worth about $270 will no longer be acceptable on cheques Britains move to decimal currency has long been awaited She joins Aus tralia New Zealand and others in the move to make decimal currency general among the trading nations In the United States Congress is mov ing another inch toward possible adop tion of the metric system The house has voted for study to determine whe ther the switchis feasible and the Sen ate is expected to concur the Milwaukee Journal reports Changing countrys traditional mea surements is profoundly difficult Even after proof of desirability there are the problemsot retooling industry and of indoctrinating the population to the new way It took Australia many years to switch to decimal currency Sometimes the difficulties seem insur mountable Malta for example is con siderlng modern measurement system The conversions will be nightmare One tonnaslx sieghan0270 acres 0112 hectares One kwartafour km taol125 gallons511 litres The misery will get worse when Malta changes its rata or rotolo its vizna and ten not to mention xiher and barmii INTRODUCING THEth MODEL unionism Prospector nun lL OnOc 1909 he Ihree leet sold intiana Another prospectorniio Ihouhi have been lucky was nandy McIntyre ills changed it when he fled mm Scotland to avoid wing all mony lo his wile niclntyra stumbled across the gold that Mine Cw annexed to Nova Satin for BB oodAime 1m Loni Durham Mad as Governor at Canada BIBLE THOUGHT And Stephen full oi inllbnnd power did felt wooden and miracles among the people Acts 68 llos is the story of plain man who did powerful lingo God is no respedor of persons these signs shall follow them that believe STARTS wot ocr mi illMlTEll ENGAGEMENT RESERVED PERFORMANCES EvaryTicket Holder Guaranteed Seat In modern splendor Ihemostmagnifiourt pieluiemr Violencelngillhospedi DOWNMEMORYLANE Ares194va 70 YEARS AGO lN SIMCOE COUNTY Barrie Northern Advance 0ct 1890 Town Council introduced bylaw to raise $100000 to pay for waterworks Motion to buy new tables for buck sters at Saturday market defeated Also thrown out was bylaw which would have reduced size of council to mayor and one alderman for each 1000 population This would have meant cut from 15 to eight Extensive repairs being made to council chamber on second floor old fire hall Collegiate board consisted of IrusteesrRev McLeod Rev Dr Harper Very liev Dean Egan Samuel Wesley Pepier QC Fraser Co advertised autumn bar gains in dress goods such asf 40 inch plain and twilled cloths new colors in choice designs 2535c yard Orillia high school destroyed by fire Thomas Jack near Churchill had pear tree in full bloom Excellent program for last band concert of season at Queens Park Aged man died in county jail at Barrie and according to law his body not being claimed was donated25 hours later to Toronto medical college Henry Rich of Stroud had barrel of Fill basketapples first of its kind from his orchard Many were 14I6 inches in circumference and several weighed one pound Prizes for Orzo worlds fair paid out by Secretary Archie Campbell amounted to $340 Total receipts were $430 and working expenses $95 Midland voters turned down $5000 by law toextend public school Totten ham Village with 161 mills claimed to have lowest tax rate in county Barrie defeaied prohibitionby scant 49votes Collingwood will get new curling rink Barrie now has 10 lawfirms Very brilliant and fashionable wed ding took place ai Trinity Church when Miss Wilhelmina Cotter daughter of Cmwn Attorney Cotter Barrie was married to Mr Stewart Macdonald prominent barrister of Dunnville Rev Canon Reiner officiated Music was ar ranged by MrJ Morgan organist and choir leader In newspaper list of vguestsand descriptionof dresses occu pied two columns of space L1 Cecil IT HAPPENED Informant in course MWMEDwSAVHMLIiAX Smith consulting engineer returned to Barrie after making survey for Canadian Pacifics proposed TorontoSudbury main line Number of bears noticed around Grentel in Vespra Ed Scott came on one by surprise and got so close it threw sand in his face before he took off Hotel at Stroud owned by William Webb destroyed by fire Villagers fought fire like trojans and saved storeacross street Proprietor of Robinson House Big Bay Point bought lake steamer Conqueror which has been berthed for season at Barries Muloaster St wharf James Landerkin Bond Head owned sow that gave birth to 19 pigs inonelitter order EDITORS VIEWS WHEAT lWONT save ECONOMY Otiawa Journal Western heat is not going to be as much as usual the savior of the Canadm tan economy this year Trade Minister Drurysays that inthev elevencrop years starting with 195758 total piairie wheat income was more than $8billion In thatperiodcanada trombnuntiful harvests made unprecelt dented sales to Communist China Russia and Eastern Europe whose crops had suffered misfortune All Canada benefited from the increasedvnhtional Income Now Eastern Canadian MP5 who groan with boredoiniin IIouse wheatdebates must brace themselves fordiseussion of pheat problems The situationis aux1 ous First oversupply Therewere nearly 700000000 bushels in store in Canaia when the cropyear ended onIuly31 an additional 600000000 bushels from ities are jammed international Icompeti tion for wheatbusinessis in Drurys words fiercely competitive prairie farmers continue to produce im mense crops Sales have been made moredifficult by events suchasijhe Seaway strike and theJpresentl grainl 45 handlers strike Winsirmonutlnmme l°CENTURYCANADATOEONT auouovneatwmmmwm unnunoiuninnsawu mmmwrvm iLVEBJiloNZLCEMMIGJm span and one fifth is demanding that the police he to theDaily Telegraph thousandsuin thetMelropolitan and id As Strikes Threaten 31 horas MEMle Mndon englnndlxoburnr for Barrie Examiner course it mayscome to nothing but at this juncture it looks as if the monthotDeiober in Britainwillend in anxiety even violence An engineering strike is threa tened the gnava crisis faced in Great Britoin which it is claimed could bring the nations economic life on standstilllts due to begin on the blot Six days later monster onfi Vietnam pro anordiy dernonnrahoo is set for londoo Seventy to hundred thousand peocie are expected to take sligenii kept away so there wiiibeno arrests or provocations Ila brushes aside repelislet Mold boy coclotailamalcinl as But visible or iniislbie tho police will bethere According area nftondon have beenpui onstandby andr polius reini fincements from aside thei 16 Baytield street Barrie Qatario as second class mail bytbe Post Office Dee partnlent Ottawa and for pnymentmi postage in cash Returnyvpostage guarante Daily Sundays and Statutory Holidays excepted Subscription rates daily by carrier 50c weekly szsoo yearly Single copies me By mail Barrie $2600 yearly Ontari $1200 yea motor 515 yr Out tu year Ont Canada 11 sh poms LS and venuehlor nart 5L Mflnlu recommended areamay be asked for cal wieted confrontation seems in avitabio Ina worsening dimate of viol ence industrially Politicallvand eve academicallyrthe stoical and mud put upon anon pol icearo perforce having to shed some of their characteristics They may be losing their good humor and patience getting tougher Ilbe gardes mobiles an mobile poiieereserves trainl adjn the bandlink of unruly crowds are in etieot establish ed They have been common place on the continent or cen tury or more they are para military in tundaon and they have been Mahmud here so far It is strengthening of authoritarianism that could have ugly political chain reaclt ions Without cause was the title of recent leader in The 1imes It noted that another unlt ivemity year had opened Prev dictany enough with demon strations by students it contin ued Out come the police trun oheons out come the prm and INTERPRETING THE NEWS H5 Facingi Continuing Trouble Inglis Back Yard wasnincmn uniovens souhhot aha Rio Grande River foret conh ding tensions for the in its Latin American Congress has not helped by cutting foreign aid to thaowest level since the pro grnm beganlmore than 20 ye ago The Alliance grass had been runn out of fiteainz yway its sex and the new Amer president will have his hands atoll cran its it up again Peru the fourthlargest coun try iiiLatin America with 13 Momovnrwle hasended iive another democracies Ilhe suceem of thatbo be measured by the about threequarters of Latin Americans ow live under re gimes co rolled or directly um bythe Lary Chile Mexico Uniguay and Vene¢uela arenexceptioosJ tlleUllibtdSMlen Thi sperbaps themosi unusualmotionpioture act hhat youwilleveraeo television cameras and snap go the popular reactions on one side or anotn There is now much mm of the some happening across the channel and the Times noted the readiness to provoke and to enlarge in violence in Mexico and lliuguayv and elsewhere The end rcsultt was to alienate the general public and to strengthen the right wing the genuinely bnrtal treatment of mm by he Mileage police is apprvvcdby 10 per cent of Americans Prime Minister Harold Wilson has spoken of violeneaaod the ing to the rim He has inn ted the Labor party inmates once We oppose the taiion of violence Equally we oppose the importation of auth oritarianism to meet that viol ence Some public figures not in our movement provoke the one and then invoke the other to deal with it And later he remarked on how the Tory on position was condemned by the virus of Poweliism which had taken hold atoll levels Perus new More apparently are antiAmerican intent on clamping down on 051 petro leum invostment and turning to Emeior trade ad military in Less culanddricdis the tur bulence that began in Mexico City in late July and that reacheds peak last week when gogce said at least 39 persons liceandiijoope that have do acterized events in Eilmpo and tibe us this year Mexican authorities have on couraged the view that odslde influences the Conimuoista av inference had large mle in the troubles211m causes seem to berodre ooml plex titan that There is tempt to lleve that the Mexican authori nu ovenreaeied tovdemnosir much the same way Mayor Richard DaleyeChicago police and forslrnilar reasons DAVID 08ELZNIGKShoemu MAlluAilElMllCiiftB Iaiva mwtwmmvnm SllRitfllJiitWtD HUMOR EVENINGS AT ii EM ALL SEATS$200 MATINEE sar mm PM BOX OFFICE OPEN DAILY 14 PM ALI BEATS 9150 LFSLIEHOWARD OilViAdeHAViLLAND MATINIIS nm svmmos mg money On our Ii FAMOUS PLAYERS TH EATRE Donf sins 11 You see file one THEIR Eyes Oat Difibillwfiw Ioimtrumwwmmamea NoHFTE illHmwnm eemeeuanuamoassuwamnom IM nuns uuumohssuoscamuniwnuwmwuazmsue mu 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