Barrie Historical Newspaper Archive

Barrie Examiner, 2 Feb 1959, p. 1

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WANT EDS FormMd mi PLMIIIIII Will in MB 1me 95th YearNo 27 hr harm mmwwMewsowm BARRIE ONTARIOCANADA MoNpAY FEBRUARY 1959 ll WASLOVE AT FIRST SIGHT Boy Meets Pup There was love in the eyes of both of them asth met for tha first time in Barrie poiicestation on Saturday morn The small furry Collie pup settled down snugly in the amic of his new master and looked up at him with adoring eyes The boy in tumappeared to be bursting with joy as be thanked the officer on duty and hurricdtbrough the door way shielding the pups head and body in anticipation of the trigid weather outside Fortune had changed qliickl for the little dog He was found at oclock Saturday morning shivering and howling in below zero temperatures by wom an in the Mulcaster St area She took the bewildered little animal to the police station and turned him over to theofficers on night duty Then Fate took hand woman called at the police sta tion Saturday morning to pick up the key for the farmers market just around the corner Wanted British Its Kismet She sawthe little dog and heard how it was found When Norman Sweeney 12 Barrie boy arrived at the market to sell birdhouses be an made he was told of the little stray dog It didnt take long for him to make uphrs mind he hurried to the police station and asked if he wold see the pup Jinn is alwayueuthrallcd with boy and vice versa it was love at first sight and Norm hunted away with the pup to his stand at the market When an Examiner photog rapher asked Norm to pose with his newfound pet war ried frown crossed the boys face He didntsay so but he appeared frightened that if the pups face got in newspaper picture the little animal might be claimed Finally he agreed to pose but you could tell his heart wasnt in it lie dismissed the photographer with nod and went back to his job of selling birdhouses You could just sense that he hoped the pictlne would not turn out Criminal Held By Swiss ior Cahbies Killing ZURICH Switzerland Reuters Briton Donaldliumewhofigured in one of Britains most bizarre murder cases and now is wanted in connection with British bank robbery was charged Sunday with the murder of aSwiss cab driver Swiss polic also charged Hume 39 with attemptedmur der and armed robbery The cab driver was killed and cashier wounded Fridayfollowing an un successful attempt to rob azur ich bank The cabrdriver was killed in white pupils togethe chase after the robbery Police arrested Hume after he had been overpowered by pastry cook Scotland Yard has been looking Negrbes In RICHOND Va name thrust aside the rier today and for the in her history put cgro and in public school Grudginglybut vp acefully at tbe outset the stat madethe transition from segr tion to in tegration in fracti ofher pub lic schools in Ar ton County and thecity of 1k No violence no dy incidents occurred as four Negro pupils flied quietly into atford Junior High School in lington across the Potomac Riv from Wash uer downfthe egro children began showing up to enrollfor the first time in aenior high schools were no disorders Police with riot as for Hume in connection with London bank robbery last No vember in which the manager was badly wounded In 1950 Hume was aoqiritted of the murder ofcar er Stanp ley Setty but was sentenced to 12 yearsfor beingtan accessory after the fact During the in Hume admitted aiding in the pose of Settys body Releasedyti year ago today iroin prison Hillne confessed in se ries of articles last summer in Lonitlzn Sunday new he ac ally did kill Setty di3 membercd his hnny it into the English Ch nnel rom aplane dents began turning out to reg ister The quartet of Negro children at Arlington three boys and girl marched onto the school grounds from seldom used roadway and through the doors shortly before am They were aloneihey didnt look alarmed or worried Nobody tried to stop them there was an absence of pickeling and demonstrations About 100 police equipped with white lme portable loud speakers and radios canteens and the customary night sticks and=gims hadzbeguncoowiglng on Stratford long before the school opening hour They saw to it that oniy pupils and achoolemployeeaaenteredithe grounds Even parents were kept DRIVER MAKES ODD PICKUP ASHLAND Ky APiOdd gought moctiiriséiV SPat ow as truck had been followingcfig car Then he got out andlearned why His car was towing the driverless truck Patton said he apparently hooked bumpers with the tnick before pulhn away iromaparking place illothers Allow Buses to Move TORONTO CP The buses will run unhapeded on Overbook Place today Mothers of the quiet residential street in suburban North York said un daynight they have abandoned plans to blockade scheduled new TorontolTransit Conunission bus service They causedla minor furore Friday when they lined chairs across the street and sat in them refusing to let cars pass saying the buses would endanger their children But after meeting with town ship council representatives Sat urday the mothers decided tolgive up their blockade plans Besides probus faction has announced it will oppose the mothers Happy Day No Shadow OWEN SOUND CHToday was happy groundhog day for apple of Owen Sound anddis There was no shadow when groundhog shoved his head above the ground for alook around to day Instead he got snowflakes in the eye and gloomy out is from theheavy overcast According to legen at means that winter is almost over as It was 25 below zero oin here Sunday night Cpusinsand bismother calmly paraded past cluster of white childrenjon the steps ofMaiiry High School to become the first of his race to shatter thescolor line in the city Again there was no disturb on later when Betty Jean Read an other of 17 Negroes assigned to previously all white schools turned up unescortedat Granby High ENROLLING PUPILS The six Norfolks oqls closed since September on er Virginias now deedmassivereaistance pro gram were holding no classes to dayonly enrolling pupils audios At Norview High School two pairs of Negro girls turned up just bet white students watched urlou and qnietly Eutlihat ltime police wercon handand cleared apnlh for the Moon DOIIK SENDS lEITER stamina Sea Copyl0 Pagel Claims Children Bounded Up Like Rabbits to Govt School HALIFAX CHWeak radio signal stirred faint hope today that some of the as persons aboard the missing Danish ship lions licdtoft might yet be found amid the icebergdotted seas off Greenland Hans Christianscn director of Denmarks Greenland depart ment said in Copenhagen there was little doubt the signals picked up by moot ship and two Greenland shore stations came from survivors of the lions lledtoft which collidedwitb an iceberg last Friday However BCAF Search and Rescue headquarters here said the irregular dotdash messages were on frequency no xscd by aircraft sending hm lng signals Headquarters said it was convinced the signals did not come from lifeboat of the lions Iledtoft US Coast Guard headquarters in New York also said its cutte Campbell which has been en gagedin fruitless search for survivors since Saturglaylrhg not heard any signals on uen cles normally used by lifeboats The Campbell was en route to where something perhaps an Blast Wrecks Hamilton Home Five Have Narrow Escape HAMILTON CWA Hamilton family of five escaped with only shaking up Sunday night when an cxploslonblew cellar wall out of their home and cracked the foundation No estimate of Common Mart Hurts Britain LONDON Britain ls looking to the Commonwealth as counterweight to otfsct Eu ropes sixcountrycommon mar kat posrlblg bleak outlook for lab industrialists lake mea gainst the common mar In fearof an approaching trade war The common market in opera tion only month already is hurting Britain British bigname manufacturers in the auto and engineering industries have lost sales outlets careftu built up in Europe since the war One influential group led by Raymond Gordon of Fairey Avia tion announced Sunday it is form ing an organization called the Commonwealth Union of Trade Its aim is to build up Common wealth trade as an insurance against possible loss of European markets CaStro Launches The blast was blamed in damaged gas main coupling out side the home United Suburban Gas Company official Dut ton today said the coupling was cracked by deep frost We have had terrible win ter became of the deep frost he said Mr and Mrs John Spring of Walter Avenue South said the blast sounded like an earth qufleie aid tb thered ey ey ga up their three children Betty Karen and John from their beds and fled tothe street as the house be an to burn The pact knocked over fur niture but it really frightened as can Mr diw Wefeel really fortunate to day gt FLAME 0N LAWN Neighbors told firemen they saw flame burning outside on the lawn of tbeVSpring home few minutes before the blast oc curred Firemen checked all homes in the area for leaks but none was found District ChiefJack Cona liffe said Mr Dutton said gas company workmen were on the scene with in minutes and had repaired the damage within few hours Serv ice is back to normal today We now have special emer gency crews standing by for just such occurrences he said Farm Program HAVANA AmFidel Castro his political revolution won today launches an agranan rdorm pro gram that could prove social revolution for Cubas farmers Castreflew to his home prov ince of Oriente during the week end to implement the program promised the tenant farmers and squatters who helped him over throw Fulgencio Batistas dicta torship Meanwhile the war crimes trials of Batista supporters were expectedto resume at fullpace Capt Pedro Moreioo first to die in Havanas showcase trials fell bites irgliniicl 70015 was in sight at Norfolk as the stu Oncwhile girl was heard to say fliere iii are uieyre aatisfied Others said they get back to school GOVERNOR GRATIEIED Governor Lhids Almond said he was fmost gra over the absence of any disorder Questioned by reporters he hinted that he may be prepared to move about the state on short notice if the occasion demands The governors bodyguard nor mally in plainclothcs today were hiaatate trooper unrorm repo askeiiklfTha would remain in Richmond or go lho plied AMypreseot intentional to re main here The lines are not only in Norfolk and Arlington but are hall Atom 1hope were glad hi out lines and Almond before firing squad late Satur day revolutionary sources said To speed up the trials the gov eminent planned to set up six new tribunals in Havana 10 in Smith agar and others elsewhere FARMS Fol LANDLESS During his stay in Oriente Gas tro plannedito set in motion vast program aimed at distribute ing millions of acres of undeiIel Radio Signals so Hope Same From Dane Ship Live overturned lifeboatwas lighted Sunday The spot is about 100 miles southwest of Cape Fare well the southeast tip of Green land Danish otfldals in Copen hagen said this was almost the exact spot where they calculated lifeboat would have drifted have lighted hope in dark and serious hour The signals were on fre quency of 520 kilocycla The 27mm HAM liedlofts three aluminum llfeboals each ca in of holding 35 persons had and cracked radios made to transmit on 500 kllocycle frequency Christiansen said the change of sequency was technically possi BY INEXPERIENCET transmission would menu if cn inaperl enced person tied to operate the set after nurturing the brief in structio Theahipalsohadamotorboal forll persons and four rubber rafts which carried automan radio beacon equipment There alsowere portable radio trans mitten available on the liens Hedlofta bridge The signals were heard by two Danish radio stations on the Greenlandcoast and the Danish motorship Umanak whim had swung off its GreenlandADennIark run Sunday to iointhe search Thefirat signals were heard about pm Sunday pm EST and then again between 10 and 11 pm Tb pearerr The Umanaks radioman said the signals were scntby anun trained operator and were very weak and irregularly spaced He said it appeared the sender was trying moansnut distress sign als or homing beacon CONFUSED SIGNAL The signals came through as confused jumble of dots and dashes without any apparent at tempt to send coherent mess age The Umanak the time was 60 miles west of Greenlands Cape Farewell and the signals apparently came from position southwest of there Greenland ex parts in Copenhagen said it would have been possible for the lied tofts lifeboatl tohavo drifted that forwat Railman Killed By Diesel Engine TORONTO CmRailway em ployee ichard Fenls 51 was fatally iniurcd today when die sel engine went off turntable tracks hit switchingshack and set it atire Ferris who operated the rail way yard turntable suffered thirddegree burns tolsslpervcent arms bodybefore railway crews rescued him from the burning VICTORIA CR Letters strongly criticizing Canadas treatment of Doukbobors have been sent by Sons of Freedom leader to Queen Elizabeth Prime Minister Diefenbnker and Pro mier Bennett olvBritisb Columbia The letters written by Joseph Podovinlkoff of Hilllm 30 were made public here Saturday Directing his fiercest attack at Premier Bennett Mr Podovini koff wrote You have made laughing stock of British tradi tion and have lowered Canadian standards to that of Herod Since when were you made an authority over the religious be liefs and the spiritual ideas of people Who gave you the right to break up homes by sending armed RCMP officers to round up like rabbits innocent and de fenceless little children to place them under state custody and state control Children of Sons of Freedom Doukhobors who refuse to send them to school are taken to provincial govcrnment dormitory school at New Denver in the 30 Mr Fodnvinlkoff said be en lnteriori closed copies of the letter to the premier in the letters he sent to the Queen and Mr Diefenbaker To the Queen he wrote if you happened to feel the letter to the premier is strongly worded perhaps you would not be so sur prised after visualizing the se tual state of affairs as they re main here and have remained during the last five ycals Even now as this is being written police cars from district to district are rounding up the little children To the prime minister he wrote It cannot be that the federal government too believes this Sits uation can be cleared up by po lice methods and tear gas it cannot be that the combined intelligence of the top Canadian brains can produce no aaner means of dealing Willi the prob lems of small religious group PRESSJTIME FLASHES llgreement in Lumber Strike vaucouven ca The international Woodworkeraol America CLC said the Southern Interior Lumber Manufacturers Association have reached aghragement on recommendations for settlement of strike that ations since Nov 24 Trimble Signs Contract tied up interior lumberoper aamurnmicmecizaeunm Trlmble of HamiltonTiger Cats today signed fiveyear contract withthe EigFour champions 1t ayear Copper Prices increased Major producersof copper in cent to ancean noun NEW rank or creased the price by one More Parisians was reported he would receive at least 313300 In Morals Case PARIS Reuters About 20 more persons are expected to be charged in morals case linkin the names of several prominent Parisinnswith alleged orgies in volving teenager girls Alrwdy four persons including Andre La quuer 74yearold Se cialist sixspeaker of the National Assembly have been charged al though thechargu have not been Only pnehandsomeSSyearold policeman Pierre Sorlut is being held He is charged with inciting minors to debauchery and violating good morals lie is alleged to have recruited about 10 girls aged 14 to 18 to take part in stripteaseand surprise parties at villas outside Paris Magistrate also has charged two Paris businessmen with the building same offence as Le Troquer oped privately owned morng landless peasants The govern ment says fewer than too sugar producers and cattle barons con trol 50 per cent of the land in the eastern provincemosteof it un developed om government lands also are supposed to be dis tributed The revolutionary leader also is expected to launch largescale program for the building of hdmes schools andmedical centres in the ruggeduSierra meson mountains Castroand his brother Raul have been stressing that agrarianreformis an integral part ofthe revolution gt and that the tanner has been Cubasfnrgotten man Morelon 38 voter tistas army was executed seaecy The only witness other than the firing squadywas Rev Javier Arzuaga who visitedthe condemned man twice in his cell Saturday scrape uproar earls Prison sources reported that an hour before hevwas led out More ion tried to hang himself with his belt Police thwarted the suicide attempt in cell nearby was Mel Jesus SosajBlanoo still awaiting the is angle ter lie cost He sen ven lcked for Luw lb ymagflrat show trial Thetlilrd They are Arturo Guglielml pro prietor of swank beauty parlor and Jean Gessier business dilt rector of la bignstore in the heart of the capital Le Troque Issucd letter to the press last week denying that striptease shows took placeat Le liutardV the official residence ha occupied near Paris while Speaker of the assembly Hunters Kill Well In lllhemarle Twp WIARTON GP yearold 35pound wolf was shot and ed in nearby Albernarle ToWnship Saturday by party of hunt ers who started to track the an imal after it he dbeen seen in Georgian Bay area

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