Barrie Historical Newspaper Archive

Barrie Examiner, 20 Oct 1949, p. 12

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CAbbott to lnhodnce Budget Ice Tau 1M was steady aetivity lastweeks Commons polished the adobe in reply Mach from the throne in record time and began de itself almost exclusively to legislation address which merely the woman eral for read the speech was adopt formal vote The de tewas one of the shortest and in recent sessions and cc thg House for about 10 of gt sitting days 2311 9581 the opposition part usually have taken advantage of debate to move motions of non ce in the government This however only the lSmsn party moved an amendment marked mainly by new demands on the government rather than by criticism of government policies The government was given more money to spendanother $70521 1m to be exact The Commons voted the govern ment that sum to meet bills until llhe budget and the estimates of expenditures for the 194950 fiscal year are passed At the last ses sion members voted the govern ment some $5000000 to cover ex penditures arising out of New foundlands entry into confederao tion The vote carried the govern ment through the general election period but the fund was exhausted and more money needed The estimated total of this years Budget Still Waiting The new vote will carry the gov the addresstantamount to crnment along until the budget and to of nonconfidence The CCF members to express regret the government had failed to legislation to remove the test from oldage pensions Igdamendment was defeated 13$ Tbroughout the debate was le WAY 73CUT Your yECLEANING TIME 1N HALF masdw YEHREKH gllOME GLEAIIIG SYSTEM come in todsy and see the new lurch Home Cleaning Systems pith features that make all other cleaners obsolete Yes weltave the new Barons on display right minute and we are waiting to show you whats happened to houssclssnlng Wait tillyousec ghowthsy dust sweep clean con Enrol moths spray paint and on floors Easier raster Theyre timesaving shaving modern miracles and not they mm in or and or More for you HIST1 mru as estimates of expenditures for the scal year are passed They were presented at the last session but were not passed before parliament was dissolved for the election Fin ance Minister Abbott told the Com mons last week that he hoped to reintroduce the budget not later than the middle of October One of the main items in the sup plementaries presented to the Com mons last week announced govern ment plans to advance $4500000 to the Canadian Broadcasting Corpor ation to help meet the initial cost of television development in Can ads The publiclyowned corporm lion now will be able to go ahead with plans to erect the first icic visionstations in Montreal and To ronto The money is due to be re paid from revenues Dollar Saving Move Last week also brought to light Canadas latest move to conserve her dwindling supply of United States dollars The trade depart mont announced that imports of some US steel products will be restricted The steel and iron items restrict expenditures now is $2343m281l Ccrster gear which has been installed on one of the companys DCtl passenger planes With the device the wheels swivel automatically like the casters on an office chair to enable the planes to land or take of without regard to wind direction This will enable the plane to mlln taln scheduled operatlons using onestrip landlngfields now being completed at Val dr and RouynNorauda In service connecting Montreal and Northwestern Quebec In which Canso amphibian planes are now being used The photo above which illustrates the device shows the port wheel castcred at 15degree angle with the starboard wheel in conventional fixed position This Is the first commercial plane in the world on which the device has been installed Joumsl of the proceedings at MARCHBURN FARM MEDONTE Slmcoe County Canada West 1833 to 1857 by GEORGE WILSON ed are all items being produced inisaw in plentiful supply in Canada Such things as enamel sheeting in shortl supply are being allowed to come in freely Others are being put on quota basis In the long run it may mean considerable saving on Canadian dollars since manufacturers will be buying steel and iron right in Can ada instead of across the line ma Oil From Sunflower Helps Feed Britain LONDON Oct 12 CP The lowly sunower is helping beat Britains fat shortage and may eventually fortify the candy sup ply Farmers in almost dozen coun ties nowe are growing sunowers as crop pilot factory for processing the seeds has just been opened in Monmouthshire and goes into production this year Breakfast foddnmargarlne salad oils cooking fats and other neces sary fats will be produced from the Sunflower seeds director of the rm which es tablished the factory said it was hoped eventually to makesweets Aconfection similar to roasted a1 monds can be made from sunower kernels The firm will also investigate the possibility of producing sunflower honey FLYIN CIRCUS MONTREAL CP TransCan ada airliners sometimes take the appearance of an airborne Noahs ark Agents of TransCanadaAir lines report they have carried dogs goats both sinmese and alley skunks cougars bedver lobsters geese and ducks chickens and poultsand even vulture EmbezZlers havebeen found to have the highest intelligence of an class of criminals Emmi Gunsm You wont need now to pullyouzout if you have Goodyear Studded SurefGripi on thepest but in boomin 30 years council has up the rSt nine Medonte Township Farm 1836 1836 JANUARY Fine winters weather Employed getting in Saw Logs and attend ing to the Mill thrashing ctc Softish weather Fine mild weather Employed as above 10 Weather softish Employed thrashing and getting in logs Saw Mill going but water scant 1731 Fine winters weather Employed as above Snow feet loop by month end FEBRUARY Most intense frost all this week Bitter cold weather Therm sometimes at 30 deg below zero Seldom loss than 20 deg below The Saw Mill frozen up cannot get her to go Some snow falling 12 Fansy calved BullCalf Fine mild weather little snow now and then Got the Saw Mill to go but very little water 18 Severe frosty weather Saw Mill frozen up Snow feet deep 21 Mild inclining to soft Two days of thaw this week Mill sawing little but not much water 28 frost sct inhagain very severe One day of thaw this week MARCH number of Indians carrying bark from my land which they pulled last summer Mill sawing little Cold frostyf weather One day thaw this week heavy fall of Shaw which continued 30 hours and was followed by severe frost and bitter cold weather Snow nearly ft deep 13 Cold with snow One of the oxen bought from Capt Anderson very ill with hollow boon Still cold wintry weather 20 Weather little milder The Ox died this day Mill sawing little APR 12 Fine warm weather through the day with frost at night The snow thawing with the heat of the sun The Water for the mill increasing every day fine warm day ft of water in the flumc Moderate thaw Snow going away slowly Robins sing little 10 heavy fall of snow Cold frosty weather Milder towards the end of the week few butterflies 17 Fine warm sunshine Snow disappeaiing but slowly 20 Weather extremely changctable heavy fall of snow Severe frost Rain and thaw occasionally Robins come Butterflies making their appearance 24 Snow off great part of the garden Good deal of rain Employed putting up fences 26 Snow disappearing fast The stream overflows more than we had seen it Thunder Storm 29 Lina calves MAY fine warm day Vegetation rapidlygadvancing Birds singing Snow all off the clearing but plenty still in lthe bush The Mill pond except reundthe edges still covered with thick massy ice The flats still overflowed Fine weather Some ice still on the Mill Pond Sowed one acre of pease Fine Weather 11 Thunder Storm Rain Planted two bushels of EarlyPotatoes 13 Sowed two acres of Cats Cold frosty weather 15 Fine weather ice nearly all off tbeMill Pond 16 Planted some Indian Corn between the Early Potatoes and wheat Fine weather the stream Fine weather Frosty nights Sowed Onions Cabbage Seeds Sowed Hopeton Cats The Ox Bright died WW he was talking abou He braved book in the air lob be said noboyor glslwoulddaretotahe into the home for fear Dad would take them out to the woodshed and paddle them for reading it He jokingly offered to let mem bers read itBut please after the adjournment do not rush me LABOI STATESMAN There was much reason for mem bers of parliament to ponder labor problems last week in the United States strike by steel workers was threatening repercussions in Sounds if it lasts for any length of ime about mule away from the iarliament tidings in the Ottawa Soliseum delegates represent Specially Written For The Barrie Bannister By KEN THEME OTTAWA Oct 11 CF Tin welfare of Canadas 13WM cili zens is always in some form another very much on the mind Canadian Congress of Labor of the men on Parliament Hill unions were busy in annual con The am ranged over alventlon and to the capital came wide gene problems in Ottawa one of the United Kingdoms great 1351 week but labor women3 and cat Labor statesmen the Rt Hon crimeqadm comic books stole Ernest Bevin foreign secretary of most of the limelight Britain Fittingiy one of the Commons great block 01 man with younger members raised the qucsl lion of comics And Fulton 33yearold lawyer who holds the British Columbia riding of Kam NEW DEVICE 0N CPA PLANESTanadian Pacific pilots flying out loops for the Progressive Conserv of Montreal are now being trained in the use of crosswind landing olives found quick support from members young and old alike Mr Fulton who is national lead er of the Young Progressive Con scrvativc Association and whose friends invariably call him Dav ic introdch private bill that would amend the criminal code to make crime comics llegal The bill is not aimed at the kind of comic strip found in newspapers It is aimed at the lurid hairrais ing bloodgandthunder comics bought in book form for dime Clergymen veterans lawyers farmers and businessmen joined in the debate Party lines were for gotten as members joined in dis cussing the problem that some des cribcd as leading Canadas youth to violence crime and murder nusnrwsn CIRCULATION Cavers lawyer from St Catharines Ont who sits on tho overowing Liberal benches as shambling gait and an infectious chuckle Ernest Bevin told Canadi ans that cheaper United Kingdom textiles would shortly be invading the Canadian market And he bluntly warned Communv ists that Russias assumption that the Wests economy must inevitably collapso will eventually fbe her own undoing The Labor minister paid brief visit and made brief speech to the CCL convention Delegates give him warm receptionall except minority group of left wingers who sat in sullen silence The ovation given Bevin was one of thc least troubles experienced by Communist partyliners at the convention They were whipped beaten and trampled at every at tempt they made to inuence Con gress policy The Redtinged International Un ion of Mine Mill and Smelter Workers was evicted from the Con gress delegates approved and con tinucd the suspension of five lead ers of the leftist United Electrical Workers leftwingers failed to gain single seat in the CCL execu mcmher for Lincoln solemnly told the house that youngsters them selves are frustrating attempts by responsible parents to stamp out the menace Youngsters he said circulate lurid and obscene crime comics by hushhush handtohand methods As result parentsas wellmean ing as they may boaare unable to keep such viceridden comics from children And that was why he was sup porting thc bill He felt the Com mons had better take some action to clamp down on magazines that did little more than glamorize crime in the minds of impression able young people Another ardent supporter of the bill was Rev Hanscll witty Social Credit member forMacleod Mr Hansell said he had been studying the problem for long time He had built up quite file of crime comic material dur ing the last few years He ad mitted he had quite job keeping his ownyoungsters from reading crime comics Mr Hansell took part in the de bate wellequipped to prove what so King Stick West Toranfal Tdephorie ELgIn 4831 live that out It Masher re elected president oblitan Congres association with the CC as the political arm of labor was approved my also absorbed de feat on foreign policy trade and other matters In fact the right wing fiction rode so roughshod over the Como munista that at one point Masher advised his followers to take It easyJNo use whipping dead dog he said COST OF LIVING To many Canadians trying to eke out balanced budget there was ray of hope last week although some must have found it hard to believe that the distalliving dropped during the month of Aug WThe eagerlyawaited costofIiv in index for the month of August released last week showed halt point drop from the alltime high of 1628 registered the previous month The big news to most average Canadians was probably not the halfpoint drop but that the index DIWASKING 18 mourns CPW Germs cost man money Jean dismveredwhen be was and costs for having dirty hear glasses in his tavern Sanitary in spectors found on the glasses 4501 colonies of bacteria instead of tin 100 tolerated by law WW The largest North American rod ent is the Beaver had at long last halted its steady upward climb had been climb lng steadily since last March when it stood at 1593 The index barometer of living costs is calculated on the basis of 193539 costs equalling 100 Those costs now are estimated to be 61 per cent higher than they were on the average in those prewar years It was mainly foodprice increas es that sent the index climbing during the Spring and early sum mer And in August it was food prices that cauSed the slight drop 101023 With food production at 115 height during August price de clines were registered for beef lamb pork eggs oranges and vegetables But there must be many house wife who wonders bit fearfully what will happen to the index and prices during the long winter months ahead Bees have fourv wings Over 3000000 Canadians have purchased Eicsuaouin GENERAL LtURIC eunvanv IMHID The MostiPopular Investment in Canada Canada Savings Bands because of the safety the moneyback at any timeguarantee and interest at Canada Savings Bonds can be purchased in denominations of $50 $100 $500 or $1000 Phone or write our ofce W00d Gundy Cornpany Limited rvmno mam Preferred by moreusers become they cost less to own to operate to maintain Snows occasionally 18 Mr SteeleslBuIl came home with the cows Employed preparing ground for and planting Indian Corn 22 Dull weather inclining to rain The Season 12 or 14 dayslater than usual Very cold for the season 24 Finished planting Indian Corn 25 26 27 Sowed acres of Barley 29 Still cold cloudy weather Vegetation Advancing slowlyThe Indian Corn planted on 16th is scarcely above the ground yet Early Potatoes above the ground Weather turns warm JUNE Commencedlogging at Hillside for potatoes Fine warm weather Employed logging Hay looking wll nearly knee deep 12Ejine weather Grub very destructive to Onions and Cabbage and last sown Barlay and Corn Employed planting potatoes atRillside17 good deal of rain 19Cloudy fweather Rain every now and then No sunshine for or 10 days Employed planting potatoes Sowed Buck wheats small quantity of Swedish Turnip 21 Black cow at Mix SS Bull 20 Dark cloudy weather 28 Firshed planting the potatoes 00010511001 1N BUILDING spent on harbor improvements that recent agreement regarding Town of Co11ingwood and the come panYwill enable the Collingwood Shipyards Limitedto launchan ex dst ot Collmgw ad is in the nu the yards at the resenttirne the towir ed armaments individualbuildi The sewer projectfwhicli mpleted will fpcludc an up fsewngedISposaL planta newlsewer syste lerebma10r pro started and sinus ar animate sets can is out close to $100000 will Although completeplans are not as yet announced it is understood rightofway rights between the tensionprogram attheWestside

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