wflw lt lt Vu Ellie Earth 16 antiwar Published by Canadian NeWspapers Company Limited 16 Baytield Street Barrie Ontario Robb PublisherGeneral Manager Walls Editor Emeritus Henshaw Managing Editor 4The Barrie Examiner Wednesday May W76 Innisfil must be shaken by Bill Newmans speech They must be shaking their heads in Innisfil Township Bill Newman minister of agriculture told caucus of Progressive Con faithful that Barrie was going about it the right way as far as annexation is con servative Party cerned The city is providing an exam ple of community trying to preserve agricultural land And the Simcoe Georgian Area Task Force upon which the an nexation pro osal is based in dicates sh in development to poorer land After the meeting Mr Newman said he could not comment on In nisfils claim that most of the 13500 acres involved is Class farm land Really If cabinet minister decides to say Barrie is doing something armland in good preserving familiar tisan readers this case he should be little more cautious or knowledgeable He told The Examiner he would have to discuss the situation with his aides because he is not with the whole an nexation study Really We would sug Newman that he look into matters before he goes before public meeting and says something is happening annexation and good farmland is being preserved the questionable part Mr Newman made nice par peech to the PC represen tatives but this newspaper tries to present the whole story to its gest to Mr That is wh Examiner reporter Peter DeP minister about his statement And Newman got caught esta questioned the Bernhardts web of magic being spun again in Paris Bv PAUL MMENDIE PARIS Reuter She on ce bought boa constrictor to rest her feet on after dinner Her illegitimate son fo ht seven duels to defend er Eigd name The Pope and the of Italy sent her flowers after one trium hant tour Victor Hugo nelt on stage in tribute to her acting Alexander Dumas said she ind the head of virgin on broomlike body Thirty thousand peo le trailed behind the co fin at her funeral in Paris more than 50 years ago and on her tomb was inscribed just one word Bernhardt Now this web of magic is being again The world Sara Bernhardt has been recreated here for an exhibition evoking her ex traordinarylacting career The ex ibition in the Bpace Cardin theatre and museum traces career that stretched from the Second Empire to the Roaring Twen ties It exudes an atmosphere dunabashedlux Geor Clairins famous portrai of her languishing in flowing white evening dress framed in lush decor of leopardskin rugs and Jungle eenery ART INAUSPICIOUS Interspersed with the sepia prints are otted lants colored purp Besi ths theatre posters are love let ters scrawled with sweepin ylarge uill The ex bits te the tale of star who started inauspiciously at the venerable Comedic Fran caise in 1862 One critic wrote She stands well and glunciates proprly That is Within year she was fired after screaming You cow at middleaged actress who had knocked over Ber nhardtsyoun ersister The lithe londe beauty then conquered Paris at the Odeon Theatre and returned in triumph to the Comedie Francaise in 187 In 1880 she made her first trip to the United States for weity tour On her return 31000 people hailed her on the docksrde at Le Havre Her next trip took her to Russia Austria Italy Belgium Holland and Spain later she spread her wings to take in South America and Australia ENERGY LIMITLESS From 1882 till her death in 1923 she created new play in Paris every year between tours Her energ was limitless and even an she led her right leg amputated at the age of 71 she continued toactprop du onachair The nig died the crowd cramming the street outside her house was hushed as the doctor leaned out of the window to give the news Madame Sarah Bernhardt isdead Paris theatres lowered their curtains At the funeral the pallbearers had to push aside two young actresses reciting lines before her open gave Exhibition organizer Philippe Gand who spent three months researchin for the proect scoffed at critics who at cked her voice for bein singsong and me amatic and accused her of flapping her hands like awindmi was frightened might laugh when first heard recordings of her voice But no was impressed She believed in keeping the body still on stage Everything was in the voice and thelook The theatre was her life and even in her dying coma she recited lines from Racines Phedre Marcel Proust paid final tribute She was able to in troduce into lines of Racine the vast images of grief nobility and passion which were her own masterpieces Edmontons Theatre has noncommercial fare JANET BLISS MONTON CP Mark Schoenber first fulltime resident tic director for the citys second professional theatre has no modest plans for the edglinggroup want heatre $33de as tthliaimbest spea ing in the country he said in an in terview Theatre has provided refreshing change on the citys dramatic scene Producin non commercia theatre the group has attracted regular substantial audience Ellis Barri Examiner 16 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario Telephone7260537 Registration Number 0404 Second Class Mail Return tage guaranteed Da Sunda sand Statutory Ho idays excepted Subscription rates daily by carrier 85 cents weekly $1420 Single copies 15 cents ail Barrie $4420 yearly Simcoe County $3400 yearly Balance of Canada $3600 year ly National Advertising Offices 66 Queen St West Toronto flit1710 640 Cathcart St Mon treal Member of the Canadian Press and Audit Bureau of Cir eulations The Canadian Press is ex clusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches in this paper credited to it or The Associated Press or Router and also the local news published therein The Barrie Examiner claims goryright in all original adver ng and editorial material created its employees and mgroducedinthisnews per ogright Regis ration Num 203815 register 61 in city where the older established Citadel Theatre and amateur roups rely on old mastersa corned Our philosophy is ouble barrelled Mr Schoenberg said First of all believe theatre reflects the interest of those who head it We will do play because it is one we be lieve should be done even if it not appealing The eatre now in its sixth season has roduced works by such dp aywrights as Beckett an Pinter as well as number of new Canadian gays most of them by Alber ns CRITICS LUKEWARM The critics have not always received Theatre 3s in novations with race for arample when classic Orestes was produced as modern satire Nobod falls asleep in my theatre Mr Schoenberg said dont believe in in novation for the sake of in novation but do believe in looking at play through 20th centu eyes Ano er essential element to Theatre 3s philosophy is theconceptof opens ce believe the mos exciting theatre is the kind where the ce is built for the kind of we are producin We want to create total eatre ex rience he obective has been th warted the groups in ability until this year to find permanent home but it will move later this ear into permanent building+an old welding school Business manager Nathalie Jones said the building will allow the roup toexpenment with ya ous stage setups workshops and perhaps theatre school SEEKS UALITY My earn is to have resident theatre company Mr Schoenberg sad would also like to introduce truerepertory Although quality fi ures in the director plans igness is another story never want more than 50 seats in the theatre want to keep the crowd small the place enclosed so that the actors can reach out with yeatpower QUEENS PARK Ottawa starts to see the light on health costs By DON OHEARN Queens Park Bureau Thomson News Service TORONTO The federal government is finally seein piece of light on healt costs At the recent federal rovincial conference of ealth ministers Health Minister Marc Lalonde said that Ottawa would contribute towards nursing homes and home car providing the rovinces contained their ital costs longlast Ontario has been pressing the federal licy makers to do this for 0rd only knows how many years The provinces concern has been basic and it would seem so sim le that any overnmenta authority ould grasp it end grasp at The objective has been double one to save money and at the same time develoE the most practical healt caresystem Ithas been Ottawa Policy in paying its share health costs to contribute in the hospital field only to active treatment beds Our officials here have taken the sition that this encourage waste and other inefficienc Inevitably they have said it would contribute to over use and overbuilding of ac tive treatment hospitals The have pointed out that with ttawa paying only to wards active treatment tients who could be well ken care of through much less expensive nursmg con valescent or home care facilities would be occupying active treatment beds Today nursin home beds cost about $20a ay while ac This Canadian historian convinced knights lived not just in legends Written for CP NORMAN CRIBBENS INCHESTER England CP On the wall of long tapestried room in Win chester Castle ban the top of great round tab It is 18 feet across and around its fretworked edge are in scribed the names ofKin Ar thur Sir Lancelot Sir ala had Sir Gawaine Sir Tristram Sir Pelleas Sir Gareth and Sir Geraint Did these gallant knights ever live outside the works of those inspired writers who immortalized them Some historians believe they did and one is Arthur Edwin 73 former resident of Vancouver who now lives at Poole in Dor set He is convmced that manytowered Camelot where King Arthur had his court is in fact the present town of Winchester in the county of Hampshire He points out that Win diester was successively community of Britons Roman town and the capital of the Saxon kingdom of Wessex Furthermore it was ised asaseatof overnment Alfred the reat King nute and William the Con queror According to legend Camelot was built for King Arthur and his court by the wizard Merlin Historians emghasize that Winchester Ca edral dedicated to St Peter St Paul and the liol lrinity is the longest church in Euro 560 feet and it pre ceded estminstcr Abbcy as the lplace of coronation for an ish sovcrcigns Visitors who have toured Winchester Castlc arc dlSSOSCd to believe that Kin Ar ur and his knights di meet in council around thc famous table which bears their names There is no record that King Arthur was ever kin of England but he could well ave been one of the many local or county kin is who reigned durin litt cknown period of English historyebcforc the Norman conquest of 1066 History shows that Win Great Iiul Ijusl hope those crazy nmmrrsls smurlrIr up chester Castle was the bir thplace of the son of King Henry William of Atheling of King Henry III and of Henry Vlls son Arthur QlEhN ESCAPE During the civil war of the 12th century Winchester Castle was defended by Queen Matilda She is said to have escaped from it through King Stephens enemy lines shrouded as corpse and enclosedinacoffin Winchester grew on the natural traffic routca on the chalk downs of southern ng land at point where the River Itchen gave access to the sea at Southampton Water Occupation of the area cov ered the city has been traced ack to the time of the first metal users of Britain around 800 BC Later small farmsteads were established by generations of ancient Britons Next to King Arthur the most illustrious name associated with Winchester is that of Alfred the Great who reigned here from 871 to 899 In 860 the cit had been bur ned by inva in forces from Denmark and is thought to have been in ruins when Al fred came to the throne After defeating the Danes henot onl rebui tthe city he develope its commercial life to the point where it in fluenced the trade of the en tire south of England King Alfred was buried in the New Minster monastery founded at his own re uest on site north of the ol Minster of St Peter and St Paul King Canute who once commanded the sea to retreat from his shores also benefitted Winchester con siderably and his bones lie under Winchester Cathedral with those of many Saxon kings BIBLE IHOUCHT lic tollctli the number of the stars he cullcth them all by their names Psalms 1474 The God who has name for thc slurs who knows the num ber of hairs on our head and who sccs every sparrow that falls is certainly one who is deserving of our knowing loving and serving The Lord thy God in the midst of thee is mighty Praise God tive treatment runs from $80 to more than $150 And this of course proved to be the case CUTBACK FACTOR For ears it was recognized in On rio that there were many patients in active treat ment hos itals who really didnt to be there But Ottawa still wouldnt budge Finally few years ago the province entirely on its own began payin for nursing home and ot er secondary caft was late For example one of the main reasons why we have the controversial hospital cutback program today is that because of the federal policy too many ac tive treatment beds were built And at the same time we dont have enough con valescent and nursing home faculties LETTERS TO EDITOR BarbershOppers say thanks DearSir We wish to thank you for your reports on our Bar bershop Night at the Con sumers Gas Building and special thank you to Richard Dunstan Due to his excellent coverage and subsequent ar ticles we again hope to have successful chapter in the Barrie area Sincerely BARRIE BARBER SHOP CLARE ROBINSON Executive CANADAS STORY French agents annoyed US By BOB BOWMAN It was May 1973 that the news reached Canada that Britain and France were at war The big question was What will the US do The Americans owed France favor for having helped them in the American Revolu tionary War and it seemed logical that they might attack Canada and the Maritimes Lord Dorchester the governor of Canada who as Sir Guy Carleton had defended Quebec against the Americans in 17751776 ordered Colonel John Graves Simcoe lieutenant governor of Upper Canada to build fort near presentday Toledo Ohio to defend Detroit which was then held by the British It was almost miracle that the United States did not attack Canada then but the French made mistake They sent agents to the US to try to pressure the Americans to get into the war but they only succeeded in an noying them The chief French agent was Citizen Genet who overstep WE WANT YOUR OPINION Letters submitted for publication must be original copies signed by the writer Please include your street ad dress and phone number although they will not be published Letters which can not be authenticated by phone cannot be published For the sake of space public interest and good taste The Examiner reserves the right to edit con dense or reject letter ped the bounds of diplomacy For one thing President Washington had picture of Louis XIV in his home and Genet insisted that it be taken down Genet made deals with shipowners in the New England states to arm their vessels and attack Maritime ships trading with the West Indias This was blatant violation of US neutrality designed to bring about clashes between British and US warships Genet also sent agents to Canada to urge French speaking Canadians to revolt However Frenchspeaking Canadians had learned what happened during the French Revolution and wanted no part of it The France of 1793 was not the France of their ancestors One of the agents was Donald McLane who tried to organize campaign to cap ture Quebec He was caught convincted of treason and hanged drawn and quartered the only execution of this kind that ever took place in Canada What kind of garage for the Scar family ICKLETON Wash AP Twocar and threecar garages arent all that rare in affluent America but what is the 75car family to do few years ago Laurence Whitmore built 5000 squarefoot building to house the best of his automobile collection but he acquires cars at such ace that the structure was led before he finishedit Whitmores wheat ranch filled with cars and his 26 mom house filled with an ti ues are morea symptom of diction tocollecting Every time relative possed away wed end up with another house full of fur niture he said You cant sell something youve been given so we just make room forit Whitmore collects Studeba kers which hes been gathering since the line went out of production in 1961 He and his oldest son Jack have model made every year af ter1947 They also collected an old school bus which is loaned once year to the local high school students for their senior sneak ALSO FlLLS HOUSE Meanwhile as the autos ac cumulated in the yard Ada Ruth Whitmore was filling the house tpreserving the history of prosperous dryland wheatfarming area that was first settled early in the 19005 The collection includes roiltop desks marbletopped dressers clocks and room ï¬lled with stainedglass win dows We had to do something she said We had all those rooms 11 stairs filled with stuff and our kids sleeping in one room Whitmore then built 960 squareth concrete struc ture called the Whoop and Holler museum and again the collecting outpaced the construction You wouldnt believe the stuff people give us Lauren ce said Not long someone left an antique co blers bench in the back of his pickup while it was parked in town Laurence wanted the bell from the Mabton Church sev eral years ago and he had to tear down the whole building to get it said Mrs Whit more The Whitmore rule is look but dont try to bu We have ct of stuff were proud of and enjo letL ting people see it said hit more THE PICK OF PUNCH ill Naniimm Lvu ri wasnt going to be spoken to like thatso turned to her and said