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The Barrie Examiner Tuesday December 1976 LINING UP The lineup for hot dogs and hot chocolate at Sunndidale Community Centre Sunday seemed to get longer and longer as the annual Santa Claus parade drew to close The people who participated in the parade were invited to the centre for refreshments following the parade Ex aminer Photo Try teaching computer to read NEW HAVEN Conn AP Scientists at Yale University are trying to teach computer to read so that ultimately they may be able to produce comput ers that can read whatever people can The research is based on work done by Roger Schank computer science professor who has been pioneer in producing computers that are able to deal with everyday language instead of special programming language Im basically working on the study of human thinking said Schank who heads the project He hopes that by producing computer that can read he Wlll be able to obtain better un derstanding of the human read ingproeess Robert Wilcnsky re searcher working on the proj ect the first things given to the computers were simple stories composed by the re searchers Then they led the computers accident reports taken from newspapers The computers re able to any swer questions about the re ports make inferences based on report data and retell the report in their own words Wilensky said WLIIStlEPROBLEMS Schank said that buying computer that can read would solve some large problems of computer application pro gram that could read natural language would be able to ac cept instructions typed by any one It would be like having friend who had read €€lll22 it might have ac ali the books In the would know where to 5172 If two people aorta baseball crinputer could tell your plumbing érr com Mn Verna MuIIin MR LARRY FORTIN Regional Manager LEPAGE ON TARIO LIMITED pleased to announce the appointment oI VERNA MULLING as Sales Representative MRS MULLIN will be working from the Barrie Regional Office MRS MULLIN Previously Managed the Barrie and Orillia OIIILQS at Walter Thor nton Agencies is member at both the King Edward and Westminster Presbyterian Chairs and looks forward to being of service to her many Irimids and business acquairr towns on Barrio 5hr may ho contacted at the Hiro or at hot rusidonce in Burnout18 785 it It toot int It Htlt lit my II AI 355 Iqth Shoot Barb 737 00 Yes it can happen Its unusual Canadian in NFL EDMONTON CPi Brian Fryer relaxed in big blue Chesterfield chair in front of his mothers 23inch color television set watching the anadian Football League game with idle curiosity Edmonton Eskimos were winning in Olympic Stadium against Montreal Aloucttcs They dont have much of running game do they he said You have to give the quarterback and the receivers 21 lot of credit for being where they are under those condi tions Fryer wanted to be an Ese kimo bclorc George Allen went out of his way to draft him for Washington Redskins Na tional Football League club that keeps rookie every second leap year matter of about $16000 wor th of signing bonus and $30000 year in salary resulted in the University of Alberta receiver deciding to go with his head and not his heart Fryer wont play another game this season as result of damaged knee ligaments He was home for tour lays but has returned to Washington where he shows up for therapy on the knce and to attend meetings lie is also back at practice working on next year WRIIIIRSTRIOLS lhat Allen kcpt Fryer is con sidcrcd something of miracle At any time you could hit pedestrian be involvcd in Now the crunch an accident where others are seriously injured or killcd Thats why you carry liability insurancclo prr tcct yourscltmd your interests in case ofa law suit resulting from an accident that involves people their property by Washington sports writers who have given Fryer almost as much ink as he received in Canada Hes something of noveltya Canadian in the NFL People recognizg me in the street sometimes But they dont say theres Brian Fryer They say theres the Cana dian Fryer says his NFL adven ture has been good ego trip But he doesnt seem to have been changed by the NFL and he doesnt take anything for granted The most positive he will get about his chances next year is At least wont be rookie Despite playing in four games Fryer realizes he still is something of an unknown quan tity He said the adjustment wasnt easy lt was different for me wasnt prepared At least next year lll be ready You probably dont have enough liability covcragc You see over the Things are changing Thats why were advising you regardless of which insurance The extra cost About 73¢ wcck to increase your ct vcrzigc from $30000 to Sl000000 Not much money But whole lot of peace of mind WC lllf mcan L0 SGUC But we do want you to know the facts all your independent insurance agent for full details STEVENSON McCLUSKEY JOHN NIXON SARJEANTS INSURANCE AGENCY SLESSOR PERIARD INS AGENCY TATTERSALLS INS AGECY INSURALL INSURANCE AGENCIES LIMITED last year Canadian courts have started to award larger and larger scttlcmcnts to accident victims All the way up to $1100000 in onc ctsc alonc company you deal with to upgrade your liability covciigclo $300000 Iivcn to million dollars Boosts homemade toys BRIEFS ST JOHNS Nfld CP If you find the standard line of commercial toys too fragile or too expensive Gary Jeffrey suggests you try to make some Mr Jeffrey professor of child psychology at Memorial University held workshop recently to teach parents how to make wooden toys While the professor concedes such creations might not be as attractive as toys advertised on television once the child no tices them he uses them lot Homemade toys are unques tionably more durable far less expensive and more easily re paired and generally lack parts that can be swallowed by youngsters There are some good com mercial toys Prof Jeffrey said but theres lot of junk on the market that breaks eas ily looks pretty but is almost Royal Insurance I33A DUNLOP 264 NAPIER 27 COLLIER I9 COLLIER 254 GROVE 34 HIGH STREET BARRIE useless Wooden toys provide children with more opportunity to pre tend They lack the detailed realism of some products and offer more scope for child to use imagination The job of producing wooden toy is not difficult most of those who attended the professors workshop had never done woodworking before yet all went home with at least one toy they had made and some produced couple The toys did not lack variety either There were space ships cars boats and planes and that old reliable the spin top Most cost about 35 cents the most expensive was about $150 in materials Prof Jeffrey considered the toymaking workshop roar ing success and it the demand is high enough Canada 7263333 7267366 7260231 7285934 7282931 7266085 Edd DEFEAT FOOTBALL DETROIT AP Culture in downtown Detroit is outplaying sports in suburbiaat least professional football The Fisher Theatre sold 54600 season tickets for its cultural season and still is counting Detroit Lions who fled to suburban Pontiac had final seasonticket count of 48862 down from last season DISPLAY TIIAI JAR NEW YORK AP rare 15thcentury Thai stoneware jar is part of an exhibition of Southeast Asian ceramics on display at the Asia House Gallery here The jar decorated with motifs of both Indian and Chinese origin was brought to the United States from Wat Srikomkan temple in northern Thailand where it has been housed for some time