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can Liv Wumngmsflmmxvusmhmnvsmwwwnaunrynum aw 71 Serving The County of Simcoe Since 1863 87th YeahNo Essa Pu AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER pits View Museu MASTODON SKELETON at the Royal Ontario Museum Toronto is viewed by Don na Elliot of Grumblengh School She was one of 100 Essa Township school children gt Authorized as Second Clan Mmi By the Post Office Department Ottawa School trustees Reiponsiliililies Need Best EffortsConquergood Good Schools Teachers Required The powers and responsibilities of school trustee will challenge the best efforts of any of us declared Charles Conquergood speaking at the dinner meeting of Simcoe Coun tylrustees and Ratepayers Association in Barrie Community Hopse Thursday CIn the matter of finanbe in so far as conditions permit thetrustee must see that sufficient money is spent to pro vide good schools including goodteachers Then he must see Tax Mtiney Spent Locally One economic fact is signiiignt in Ontario that every dollar col lected from the local taxpayer for education is spent in the local community and is implemented by athe grants from th province Mr Conquergood has been 18 years on the TorontOLBoard of Ed ucation He has been member of the Royal Commission which will present report on education to the Ontario Government at the end of this year In business life Mr Conquergood is president of Cane da Printing Ink Limited and an authdrity on Color Thgconvention in Barrieugas largest field yet by the Trustees thatevery dollar is spent to the best advantage The whole programof education depends on financial support and Ratepayers Association Pre siding was Mrs Robert King Barrie RR Thanks were ex tended to Mr tConquergood by George Johnston MLA for Sim coe Centre Trustee Important Mr Conquergood pointed out that trustee is very important indi vidual in our program of education He is cloaked with measure of authority and given position of responsibility in body corporate which is charged with the develop community which will make our next generation However despite he nupwtanceof the taskhe re man Wonders who also visited TOronto schools packing plant Malton airport and other points ac companied by George Wood supervising principal and several teachers Contract Awarded For New RVH Unit At special combined meet ing of the board of trustees of Royal Victoria Hospital and the Building Fund Committee and District Memorial Hospital Board held on Thursday Nov 23 it was decided to award the contract foli the new hospital unit the new boiler room and laundry building to the rm of Rich ard and Aaliyah of Toronto for the amount of $541800 This contract does not in clude the Nurses residence detailed report of the hos pital project will be published on Thursday Nov 30 SM Barrie Ludlow agoo Deer and Lemons Oul of Season 13y WILLlAMK WALLS Dcr Taunts Hunters The nim rods piwho make the annual trek to the inerth country reported hunting not so good this year Somehad luck others hardly saw ahdeer But here in Barrie yes tail merging enactid hunter ooked out hiswlndowpandsaw fine brick in his back yard Many peopldgot good vlookwat the big deer before hedisappeared over the golf course and into the Vespra bush Apparently he was chpsedinto the bay byldogs down the South shore and finallywcaine out by the sewage disposal plant neariAllandale station He was frightened again andtodk to the 395 swimming 35 35 T01 onto Street He movd uptown thh crossed the main street Queens Park up Stinnidale Road cleared the new highWay several fendes anda largepile of building matfrial in tremendous leaps and away riffom curious Urbanites and rustriated hunters like Roy Chris iel gt st fAvallable Jones Wherever you gpyuyou nd someone from Barrie mostly in the limelight Centre Simcoe teachersth then canven tion at theRyersohfIiistitute re to pas 1t he First Column pa tTurn to page four please Service in this district hardest hit the weekends high winds was the Ontario HydroElectric Power Commissions lines accord ing toreports CreWs Worked until the early hours of Sunday repairing lines brought down by wind orlfalling branches ill the Georgian Bay jarea Longest hoursax was in the MidhurstDal stohlllsdaleShanty Bay area Somecrews were still on duty at pm Sunday but it Was beliey ed most of the breaks were re paired by thn break lasting several The Bell Telephone Co at Barrierreported some miner in teruptions but the telephone line situation was not considered bad overthe weekend Hydro services in Barrie were interrupted by numerous small breaks and one of several hours when tree came down on Peel Street transform er on Dalton Street was damaged by fire It was believed short circuit on the transformer was caused bythe wlnd fManyjytrees werereported down in the district Traffic on High Wetienisnmtalsis Many Breaks inHvdro Seriicei Waves Wreck But at Barrie way 11 southof Barrie was held up late Saturday while treeswere removed Water on Kempeiifelt Bay was the roughest it had been for many years as thexhigh Wind came al most directly down the bay to wards Barrie Atleastoneboat was smashed by the action of the waves It Was reported cutter owned by the Sea Cadets was badly broken up when it was crbshed by tosSiug barge Prompt actionr of Harry Lowe and Prov Const Bill Mohan both of Barrie preventedwhat might have been serious fire at the store of Mr and Mrs Harold Os borne Dalstonwlate saturday fallen Ivy Orange Hall on Tuesday Nov 28 Beattys jorchestra Dancing 793d7tov131 WAdmissionJSOc Lunch counter lucky draw Old Tyme and Modern Dance every Wednesday Friday and Sat urday night at Club79 Admission 50cr It was reported that Mr Lowe passing in this car ridticed smoke issuingyfrom the verandah roused the sleeping codpleand few moments later Const Mohan happenedby lira cruiser The mentore up boards and the re wasptit out with an extinguisher from the cruiser 5ft was believed the highwtrid Seduced short cultin wiring bazaar will be held on Friday afternoon Dec from230 to in Antlen Mills Sale of bakingand other goods cir Special featuremlfarcel Post sale tEssa Girl Wins lCounty Weed Essay Contest The fifteen winners in the Sim coe Coniin Weed Essay contest for public school pupils were congratu lated and presented with their cash prizes at bounty council session Thursday The topplace winner Janet Mc sCague of Essa township read her cssay to the council Prizes were presented by Dunn weed inspector for South Simcoe lifter being congratulated by Warden Benson and the tchildrcn were introduced by Raikes vccd inspector for North lSiiiicoe Mr ftaikcs pointed out that edit cational worth of the contest is lshown by the number of children lwho took part lle said 60 essays lwere judged but pupils who wrote lessays on weeds totalled many more than that At numerous jschools thc entry in the contest was selectcd after whole classes wrote the essay Olher winners were Audrey Blogg Barrie Sandra Beard Mc dontc Muriel Bell Iecuniseth hriarrir Examinrr TARIO CANADA MONDAY NOVEMBER MRS MARJORIE HAMILTON MM Phyllis loiy Vcspia Noiinc lluff Sunnidalc Vera udlow lossoronl tio alla llruuin rillia Maurice Ti uax lvlos Kenneth llounsomc West lwillinibury lloh ludliopc Oio layinJoncs lay Mary llal ancin Bradford Judy flaclici lllni vale and Myrna Gordon lunisfil Expansion of Home for Aged Ii Debated by County Council and laundry room at Simcoe County Home For The Aged at Discussion by county council on repairs to heating plant Beeton blew up into fullscale debate on possible en largement of the home or building 01 new one The debate lasted for several hours taking place on both Thurs day and Friday It ended with motion to have the home for the aged committee look int the ori ginally contemplated rcpairs and also report on necessary expansion and its cost The report is to be presented at the January session The discussion followed talk Wednesday by Hon Good fellow minister of health and we fare who told council the province would bear half the cost of addi tions or new homes Council was also addressed by provincial inspector of homes for the aged who Spoke on Thursday He emphasized that aged people are more numerous as years go by and enlargement of nearly all homes in the province is becoming increasingly necessary Although most councillors agreed enlargement is necessary some felt it might be wise to construct an other home niore central in the county so residents of the home would not be too far from their niial Nol intended Up tax 0n Urban Areas Relieve Farmers Purpose of the Department oflMpnicipal Affairs new as sessment manualisrnot to relievefarmers of palliation and put the load on urban dwellers Chamberlain department asses sor told county council Friday Answering question he said share of the assessment than in the purpose is to distribute the ment of those young penal5 in the taxation burden as equitably as possible an industrial commercial and residential establishments and onfarms However he said homes onsmall properties will bear the past Farm land would gen erally have lower assessmem while that on farm buildings Councillor plot of land being assessed higher than house on farm Mr Chamberlain had said thisvwould be one resolt of the use of the new manual Mr Beck said man with small house and plot in the country would likely have Turn to page two please UtopiaBall Team are holding benet dance for Jackie Ellis in 909113 86tfb Bazaar Blue tIfaven LOBA 1129 True Blue Hall Barrie November 29 Sale of fancy work aprons homebaking and candy noon tea tea cup reading at pm Euchre at night 815 pm Prlzes After Masonic Temple 17 Owen St Sponsored by BarrieBoxing Club under management or Orv Dash 9192b Church basement an Will Take Over would be he saltL Anthony Beck ditftlffhdb small of the Schdol of Social Work Uni versity of Toronto will be the speaker at tonights Kiwanis Club dinner meeting at Barrie Commun ity House Professor spent ve years as Director of Activities at Stuyvesant Neighbor Dancmg every Saturday night hooanouse New York one years as youth director for Greater New York Civilian Defence one year director branch Union Settlement of Hartford years area supervisor overseas fer the Amerian Red Cross two years instructor pf group works and Skills for Boston University and two years as directoriof demV onstration centre Brookline Mass relatives 27 l950 gratifying to see such interest Commenting that commui ment it deserves he said There were 41 nominations for deadline for qualification by nom inccs was as follows MayoivAlil Mrs Marjorie Ham ilton llcputy Reeve Griffin RtttRQ llar electI by acclamation Deputy ReecAld If lad lison Frank Johnson Public Utilities Commissionll Robertson elected by acclama tion Ward lAld McBride Ald if Tuck Heber Smith Thomas McCairoll Ward 2Ald Williams Ward lJamcs Boorman Ward lNorman Dougherty ll Cirdwood Smith Kain Harry Young Ward 5llarry Norton Roy Smith elected by acclamation ation would duplicate staff and other ex and M1s Eleanor Stetvall pensus or new units built on the property Turn to page two please Santas Parade Hour in Passing The Santa Claus parade will start at the fair grounds at 230 pm Thursday and it is calcu lated it will reach the Five Points at 315 after lravclling along Essa Road Bradford and Streets It will proceed along Dunlop to Mulcaster and back along Collier to Oddfellows Temple where Santa will greet the children The Old Lady in the Shoe Mo ther Goose the Big Bad Wolf Cinderella andRudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer are only few of the storybook favorites who will be in the parade GrOup Captain Coleman C0 of the RCAF at Camp Borden has notified the Chamber of Com merce that the RCAFstation band will be here to take part in San tas parade The RCAF is also sending its sound truck in case of cold weather when playing of instruments is difficult The bugle band of the Royal Canadian School of Infantry which played in the Remembrance Day parade will also take part KiwaniSSSpeaker tion and again at Cochrane we PROFESSOR ALAN KLEth Klein has two and onehalf They held that either the home at BCClOl should be enlarged land Railway pay Another Nomiiiation Meeting Ward iErncst Alexander and Williams elected by acclam Public School Board tthree two ycar seats openlTrustees Dobson Harris and Peter Others maintained this Sinclair Mrs Edyth Redmond MONDAY AND munsoAv 5c Copy $300 1an member Clus Went Canada CwHA and Audit luruu of Circulation My EdwinWilson JHamilton Griffin Seek Deputy Reeve School Board iwo Wards Contested New Nomination Set as two Wards lack Candidatesi About 250 people jammed town council chambers for the civic nominations Friday evening It was the largest number or citizens to attend nomination meeting here for several years Stewart who chaired the meeting said it was ilty has duty to participate fully in elections Mr Stewart said he hoped the interestt would be the same at the polls community gets the govern Ald Mrs llainilton said shei tthc various offices The election would make no fancy promises lpicturc at plll Saturday the in her but for the office of mayor She said shiitonsidcrcd the office 12 Pages21 Sections Retires ffice rv if sacred trust and was prepared tlurii to page four plcasct Mayors Office Baiiies first for mayor is prepared to make the offlcc fulltimc job if she is elected Mrs Mercer llamilton grantiinotlicr for four weeks as of Tuesday at the age of 30 has her family all grown up and is pre parctl to launch on new career He election platform is cour tesy coopcration and progress Mrs Hamilton is not new to poll ties as she has been member of the Barrie town council for the past three years This year she served as chairman of the recep tion Committee and vicechairman of the property committee on the council During her term of off ice her varied activities have iii cludcd chairmanship of the wel Sincc there is only one candidate lfare committee and she has been in each of wards two and thrccdinember of the hospital committee another Dec 11 Otherwise the there will be elections for mayor school board and for two one year seats in each of wards one and four Following the nominations the nominees spoke to the gathering and school board nominees were permitted three minutes those for PUC move and deputy reeve ve minutes and the mayoralty can didates 15 minutes No questions were asked from the floor Elizabciioi specified periods Aldcgmanic Game and Fish Abound picture is that deputy reeve three seats on the alderman The contender for the mayoralty is native of Tecswater in Bruce County She was born Marjorie MacDonald The family evidently had other members with political leanings as an uncle the late David MacDonald was for many years rceve and then warden of iBruce County She was educated in Teeswater and Toronto and in 1922 married the late Mercer Hamilton of Tot tenham in Simcoe County The Hamilton family have been resid ents of that part of the county for 128 years and were pioneer set tlers on their Adjala Township Visits Historic James The following interesting and informative account of trip to the James Bay area was writ ten by Grant Mayor ex mayor of Barrie at the request of The Barrie Examiner By GRANT MAYOR The Barrie Examinerhas asked me to give an account of our recent trip to MoosoneeNorthern Ontario located at the mouth of the Moose River Bay whiehwmpties into James tario Northland made point of meeting the tourists and hunters The latter we their way to hunt geese at Hannah Bay camp learned were on Different World On arriving at Moosonee one gets the impression that he is al most in different world for no thing along the way had prepared him for crowded station platform GRIFFIN woman candidate Lady Candidate Ready Make Sudbury and Bill of Barrie FullTime Job farni The Little Rock Farm for which they hold the crown deed Following her marriage she livcu in lottenham for time and then in Tintmins In 1930 the Hamilton family came to Barrie Mr Hamilton dicdin 1947 and it was not until after his death that Mrs Hamilton entered into poli ties The Hamilton home is at 64 High Street Mrs Hamilton is the inolhcr of three children Mrs Stanley Leyland Jean of Barrie Jack of month ago she became proud grandmother Her granddaughter namesake fMarji Leyland was four weeks old on Tuesday Nov ember 21 The candidate has long been act ive in Barrie service club work nomination meeting has and the board of works committee and is past president and honory been called for 12 OctOCk n00n She has represented the town on ary life memberof the Ladies on Monday Dec Elections for many occasions as the only lady the two wards if necessary will be held on the regular polling day Auxiliary to the Barrie Lions Club During the war she represented the Navy League of Canada from which grew the organizing of the Navy Indagile branch in Barrie andvthe Sea Cadet Corps She is now on the Navy League executive She has also served on the execu five of the Canadian National In stitute for the Blind Her church affiliations are with Trinity Anglican Church in April 1949 she was the first woman to ever appear before the board of governors of the CBC when she went to Ottawa with the Barrie delegation beforethe form ing of the Barrie Broadcasting Corporation BayArea But that seasonlbf thenieaLbeing holiday time for the Indian trap persmany or them were on hand to see the train gaze at the visitors arrive only twice week in and to These trains come We were surprised to be greeted at the station by Mr and Mrs Archie Mischell hosts of the Moos onee Log Lodge who drove us back to the lodge in snowmobile Api Turn to page four pleage Possibly yoiravillfiwonder why this trip was chosen Well ever since was boy had the desire our own Province Of Ontario par ticularly James Bay southern arm of Hudson Bay and actually part of the Arctic Ocean looked 1ike and what it had to offer thought there was no better time to take this trip than right after busy tourist season when we were badly in need of rest and completechange of scenery We appointments arise So we took the evening train at Washagoand the following afternoon after changing trains at Porquois June boarded the Polar Beartrainofthe Ontario Northland for Moosonee pm monster but it is train of char equipped with an uptodate lunch counter managedby very amiable chap known as Jimmy He chal lenges anyone to rival his stand wiches doughnuts and coffee He is real character and knows the north country like book and sure ly does his part to made the North Speaking of railways an author ity told me that this railivay not only pays its own way but actually shows real profit This maybe because there are no highways and very few roads from Cochrane north While on this train Col John stun of North iBltynwho isthe sew ernrnent tourist agent for the On TheTPolar Bear is no streamlined acter carefree and friendly It is to see what the northern part of believe in taking holiday on the spur oftthe momentrather than longplanned one because often dis friving there atiiapprbkimatel ONE OF THE PRILED possessions of GrantK Mayor is the threefoot replica of an Eskimo Kayak he purchased in the James Bay area Made by Eskimos it is an exact model the fullsize kayak The craft is intricatelydrl bed add co with scalskln rubbed withgscal 011 The Es undoing seal skin clothing madecxacgtlxllke theactual garments oar and harpoon are tipped with walrus ivory Mr shown holding the harpoon shaftof whlehk mtg tipped arrow When the harpoonlsl tb shaft floats cleanA hide thongis an the float shown1so that the walrus cainno gesc head has struck home Mr Mayor said the kayak is languish alignments th farnllyyibnh has dto