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Barrie Examiner, 7 May 1960, p. 4

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Eh Emir Examer Published by Canadian llswmberl is Bayfleid ems am Ontario PM FOUR SATURDAY HAY 1900 Dont Fight Back Tears They Are Good Medicine ears are very human trait Of all creatures only man weeps in momEnts of griwefor laughter Mien has long deplored his tears and fought them back Shakespeare called them eyeoffending brine Tennyson exclaimed Tears idle tears know not what they mean But modern scientists unlike the poets have only praise for them in happy mo ments tears wash the eyes and keep them bright In wretched moments tears ap parently protect the nasal passages from infection Certain animals other than man cry out when in pain the National Geogra phic Society says Chicks peep pitifully for example Dogs whimper But none sheds tears at the same time and scien tists long wondered why man alone does Recently the British anthropologist Ashley Montagu offered theory Like other animals human infants need to signal their hunger or other discomfort he said But until they can talk they have no way of doing it except by wailing the technique which animal babies quickly replace with the characteristic vocal ex pres of the species sunning by drawing in air tends to dry out the mucous membranes of the nose so that they no longer secrete mu cus which contains lysozyme bacteria kiliing enzyme sometime in the history of theraee Dr montagu theorizes baby wasborn with the ability to shed tears as he cried The tears leaked into his nose and moist ened the mucous membranes thus help ing mm to resist the constant danger of inrecuon This trait which enhanced his chances of survival gradually became common to all mankind Tears are not just salty water but complex solution containing iysozyme globulins albumins and other chemicals The proportions of these chemicals vary with the emotional te and health of the person Tears shgeqd pain sormw or anger differ in composition from those summer prompted by peeling an onion or by smog Striking changes in the composition of tears occur in certain diseases Thus doctors have suggested that tear analysis might become as much part of routine medical examination as the blood test tear can be collected with no pain by simply inserting small filter paper under the eyelid Some psychiatrists believe that adult males would be better off if they wept now and then for the walling of tours can be relaxing In Iran both men and women save the tears they weep for their loved ones The tears are caught scaled up in tiny glass vases and kept as souvenirs Accidents On The Farm About one in every four farm families in Canada isinvolved in farm accident and one in every fifty is fatal This was indicated in crosscountry farm accident survey taken for years periodwhich has just been completed Results are announced by Whyte chairman of the Agriculture Committee of The CanadianChamber of Commerce and McArthur President of the can adian Council on 4H Clubs In the period studied according to the survey Over 59 per cent or all farm amidents involved under20 age groups July is the most dangerous month of the year and accounted for is per cent of accidents Augustwas second May third One out of every four accidents in volved farm machinery News of Former Years MAY 1940 AtiAngus firedestroyed the United Church Parsonage leaving only the front half shell of the building still standing Flames were noticed about 10 am issuing from the older part of the resuience The alarm was quickly given and the foreman and employee of the Foratry Plant With their pump and hose Joined the bucket brig ade of the neighbors which was hampered through lack of water The Camp Borden brigade also arrived soon afterward and did heroic work Many willing workers carried the contenu out including most of the furniture which was placed at distance and the smaller items packed in available cartons The fire which started from Burning gram was exhnguisbed by noon The building loss was covered by insurance Most of the furniture had been donated by the time WomensAsoclations on the Angus charge For tunately small comfortable little home owned Mr and Mrs Campbell was made avail The Agnicultural Committee of York Coune Council was notified by the Provincial Dept of Gameaud Fisheries that they will stock Lake Simcoe with 5000000whitefisll Al the same time York County authorities were asked to co operate in an effort to curb he use of nets in Lake Simone Reeve said that almost yearly delivery of fish was ex pected Once delivered it wont take long in put them in the lake and we are hoping to make it real iishermans paradise in the near fu ture he added MAY 1935 William Grassland druggist told of half cen tury in business here Born in Barrie be started in mmenger boy for the late John Woods druggist when huleleven years old He graduated from Pharmacy in 1096 and started with John Woods in the budding he still occupys He bought Tillie 33aer Examiner numerousssasnsu may Sundays and Statute Holidays excepted WALLS Publisher no dunm Manager amass wands uuslnesl Manager mewan BARNETT Minnelli ldflor uonkar BEILIELMvertlaIu Km JOHN downs autumn Munr subscription rate can by urnst sou weekly usso year snarl copy Sc mu can 000 car use six months 00 cur 30¢ mdnth soume Canada saw year as AC rinse in mm mu livers it else he might find himself de ltroot Montreal 11M ell Georgia Street Vlnqpuvu Member the Canadlin min hullpopur Pub aam Association The Canadian rm and the Audit Bureau of cunthum lho Claudiusi mu in exclusive dbl ii ohfot to Press ere liter and also tag controllerturner therein au rights of republication nl mum anspuns man also remm Number can Advenlunl Ina Busllnblzdnfuhww unfit ass PArkwsy um ugsley of Sutton entitled to finisher in Aremale was involved in one cut of every five farm mishaps Mr Whyte said that report contain ing composite picture of the Canadian farm accident situation would become available in printed form in about six weeks time lhesestatistics he said should make possible more effective form accident prevention programs The survey was carried out by the Can adian council on 43 Clubs the Provin cial Departments of Agriculture The Canadian Chamber of Commerce the Canadian Department of Agriculture and fihe Canadian Federation of Agriculture MT Whyte paid special tribute to members of the 4H Clubs for the im portant part they played in reporting ac cldents to people living on fame for the purposes of this survey Provincebytprovince statistics are be ingdymailed to the provinces for their lhebusinessinleoa endlnlm anabougbtum next door stationery of Keenan He can re call seeing the Simcoe Foresters marching of io the Northwest Rebellion He told that the town had noweterworks around when they started to excavate for pipe laying they found traces of the old corduroy road that went through the settlement Stores drew water from spridg where the railway freight shed now stands 0n winter market days the sleighloads of grain shot ched from the market now city hall down the lull and west to Browns Feedstore Back in 1385 Canon Morgan than Rector of Trinity Church ordered and paid forhundreds of bottles of mod icine for the poor then and Croatiands still made up Morgans Tonic on recipe iveaby the Canon in Mr Croulaud in 1878 only Colts atIGala Hockey motion fatherend son affairteudered by the Barrie Kiwaniaas in the American Hotel on April 30 otb Foster Hewitt and Red Horner were guests Chairman Smith introduced George Dudley ofMid land as one of the best president the OHA ever had Mr Dudley in presenting the DEA Junior Trophy slated it the third time he had attended and function in honor of the team and it must be popular in Barrie Manageinrauk Rayner accepted the trophy lnthe absence of Capt Bev Scott Secretary Hewitt of the OllAithen presented individual OHA gold medals to tbefollovving members of the team Bill Scott Harold Steph enson Crawford Leigh Jack Dyte Greg Coulson Alvin Bowen Grover Keshner Fred Haynes Jack Patton Perry McIntosh Alhmt Kirbyllll McLeod Harry Livingston Bill Arnott Bev Scott Captain and Clifford hainey Oflier notable speakers of the sports world wereRedliorner Boys KC who really brought hockey to Barrie and Bell Barrie Secretaryma surer of the club Paragraphically Speaking The Cause of juvenile delinquency Thats easy Its unbridled human na ure In the past ten years the number of Americans who believe in astrology has increased from three million to ten mil lion This isnt surprising as in recent years an increasing mimher of people twill believedn anything provided itlis lllogical enough The Candidate who hires ghost writer towrite lilsspeech in humor ous vein had better edit it before he do votlng most of it to casting asperslons and worse oiflils wife The us Army reports that it is short of musicians particularly obolets and bassoonists But in an emergency couldnt it get by with fife and drum coupe augmented by bugle and GoldMedals presented to Barrie 0mm moor Investment May Prolong Session PATRlcx NICHOLSON An investment of nearly $150 000 by privaie citizens of the province of Quebec threatens to prolong this session of Perils meal by many days in fact it has already added considerably to the length and helium of dis cussious in our House of Com mons This sum has been open or hypoihecaied by 609 wronged spouses who are seeking relic from their plight through Parlia mentnry legislation to dissolve WHEN ll EAR NOT BEAR THE WEEKS NEWS Princess Marries Her Man Commonwealth Talks Star By JOSEPH MncSWEEN Canadian Press Stall Wflfcr You could contrast two stor sadone glad princas married her man just an ordinary man pho women Widely Published and sometimes with scams overtones themarrlage of Princess Margaret to Antony ArmstrongJones was the high light of the week when the marriage took place Friday there was rejoicing in the Commonwealth even the old and cynical spoke of it with soft smile of sweet memory BUT The news was farme hearts and flower in other ways in California 12year battle come to an end vwheh Caryl Chessman 38 was finally axe cuied still protesting that he was not the lied Light bandit who terrorized women in Los Angelo years ago Chessmans execution let loose flood of proteatrln iheWesteru world mostly from people who dis agree wiih capital punishment in principle colmonwaaus rams Commonwealdi leaders meet log in London shied away from formal diswsslmi of the South African al issue Prime Minister Dlefenbaker proposed an aid planalong the lines of the Colombo plan for South Africa SOVIET SHAKE In major change of the So viet Communist party leader ship Frol Koslov was released from his duties as first deputy premierand elevated to re organized secretarlat of the Communist ys central committee Who is boss in Russia didnt come into Premier Nikita Khrushchev stood be fore some 1300 members of the Supreme Soviet in Moscow and blistered the United Stotes His words were considered an ill omen for the summit confer once in Paris in midMay In an emotionpacked voice Khrushchev said that an Amer ican plane had been destroyed by the Russians because it flew over their territory The Americans said the plane was merely weatherchecking aircraft wlihout warlike aims of any kind Khrushchev boasted that it had been brought down by rocket MAY DAY May Day brought the usual celebrations around the world but Cubas Fidel Castro seized the opportunity to hit the United States An estimated 350000 persons lea in the weeks newsone slel SamaraB asll aircraft mlssllebecame dimer Thins day when the liouse of Repre seniatives in Washington passed and sent to the Senate military funds bill trsimming outlays for the 130ch lots 000000 House committee earlier decided not approve another $294000000 that the military had asked for Bomarc development The Senate will make the final decision whether to re store the money or let the House bill stand as passed IN CANADA June was picked as Saskat chewans provincial ion day The GOP government of Premier Douglas in power since 1944 will campaign on proposal in institute prepaid compulsory all em bracing medical care program This makes three provincial elections for the summer Nova Scotlans will vote June and Quebecers June 22 ship collision in Montreal harbor Thursday night briefly interrupted seaway movements Canadian center the 10 ton Federal Express was ram med by Swedish freighter drifted loose from her moorings and smashed into freighter Before the Federal Exprusvsank le sailors aboard escaped without inlury NATO FOLLOWIUP The NATO foreign ministers endlng their meeting in trou bled Turkeyin final com munlque called on Russia to practise cooperation and co existence They accusedthe Kremlin of attempting to swindle World public opinion on the issues of war and peace 0n disarma ment the ministers said Russia has refused thus far even to discuss specific practical meas ures for ending the arms race GERMAN TROUBLE West Germanys refugee min ister Theodor Oberlaendsr re signed after coming under pres sure from governmentsnd op position forces because of his Nazi pest He has admitted being Nazi but denied some charges that he took part in the 1M1 mas sacres of Jews at Lemberg Poland STILL DIFFICULTY Disturbances ii nod in Turkey meanwhile although they did not get out of hand The United States Embassy there issued an order saying that the ambassador had not interfered in the internal af fairs of the governmentas had been charged in South Kofi massed in central place in 51 wwk Havana listening io angry epeecheg about the US Russia put on big show tea but without the rockets that had been expected STILL TEE BDMARC Defence Minister rk said in Ottawa Tuesday that work on Canadas two Bnmarc mhslle sites will continue for another two months at least The minister said that no fi nal decision on scrapping the charcby the United States government could he expected until the end of June Repeating these remarks in Victoria Tuesday night he udded that there had been no change in Canadas defence plans The future of oonhoveri EATON HONORED Cyrus Eaton Nova Scotla born industrialist who lives in Cleveland was awarded an in ternational Lenin Peace Prize for promoting understanding among peoples wank ONTARID report by Hamilton Judge provincially appointed royal commission investigating the purchase and resale of land from Sarnia lndlaus adjourned Thursdayio allow an appeal to the courts of GOP applicaiion for menu of three nuings by commissioner Mr Justice MCGilllcrav All three con cerned admissibility of evi dence it Another royal commission in quiry under Mr Justice Moiden began hearings in Tur onio on study of fluoridation No fortune near misses came within 24 hours of each other At Toronto Wednede two crowded streetcarsymllided headon during the evening rush hour but of 51 injured only one was badly hurt And 65year old Jack Muir calmly thanked his rescuers atier his left foot was amputated to free him from the wreckage The next day fire at Pelerborough Civic Hospital started by spark from weld ers torch forced evacuation of some 150 patients No one was hurt and fast action by fire men confined damage to smoke Toronto millionaire Jack Kent Cooke was recommended Wed nesday torus citizenship in speclal bill passed by the House ohf Representatives in Washing Joseph Sweet released Thurs day condemned serious short comings and deficiencies in the govemrnent of Toronto suburb York Township The judge recommended study of posslbletharges against Reeve Chrisranks for purchasing township land from third party and four present or post membersof the township coun cil for maladmluistratlon of building bylaws ramosss their marriages In debates spread over 11 days before the Easier races and in two days since only 28 divorce cases were passed by the Cum mons Pu 609 have been filed be forePsrliament nearly all of these will probably coma for ward but so far only 360 have completed the investigation be fore ihe Senate divorce commit ice and the normal legislative passage through the Senate CCF PUNISE SEth ihis rate of progress Parlia ment could be kept in session for no less than live whole extra mouibs by the divorce filibuster being staged by the CCP If this average is maintained wiib only two divorce cases being dealt with on each day of debate and with so many additional cases still to he heard it Is obvious that Parliament could he kept sitting here well past the antid pated July 14 deadline and easily until Dec 14 suggest this because Parlia ment obviously would not cement to adjourn with this huge back log of divorce eases unfinished The individuals concerned have paid their fees Parliament and the payments made in good faith are such as to carry an en litlemeni io ailenllon by Parlia ment Thus the COP filibuster will have the effect of punishing the perpetrators as well as every other MP INTERPRETlNG THE NEWS CommenwealthIDescribed lls ConcertOf Convenience By ALAN HARVEY Canadian Press Staff Writer Theyve called it frail vase chain of monnbeams mirror of what the world wouldlikelo be its been styled as the kind of amorphous yet enduring anom aly peculiarly characteristic of British political genius Some have gone so far as to compared it with loveless mar riage just couple of jumps away from the divorce courts And ritis professor de scribes lt as concert of con venience These fancy descriptions have all been applied to the Conunou wealth of Nations formerly the British Empire which holds its 10th meeting of prime ministers starting today This cabinet meeting of the Conunonweallh gathering un der the shadow of threatening However as Parliaments role of work near completion ii is likely that the CCF willdeclde that it has made its point and will then relax it tactics of de lay and permit all outstanding di vorcee to go through with the customary expedition gt Historically the CC has long shouldered the chores bringing public and governmental opinion round to recognition of the im propriety of maldng our Parlla meat into divorce court ii is costly and cumbersome method undoubtedly fai less sound and sure than divorce court but it is used to assist residents of two provinces Que bec and Newfoundland which do not have their own divorce courts have never heard single Parliamentarian oppose the CCF altitude though most disagree with their present isc lies and all agree that Parlia ment should continue to serve this distasteful function until some bclter alternative is pro vided Meanwhile Arnold Peters MP from Kirkland Lake and Frank Howard MP from Skeena conlt ilnue their filibuster by Pnlouged debate of every aspect of each di voroe ease praented before the Commons lo the wings stand those 609 applicants each of whom has paid the parliamen tary fee of 3210 has advertised the imEending divorce action for nih in an English and Freud leggings newspaper and the Canada Gazette hashired detectives to collect evidence of the marriage partners adultery and has engaged lawyers It has been suggested that these costs total around $2500 This is not fair average therehave been cases which are known to have cosi very much more butapart from these specie circumstances recent survey of 15 divorce pleas being heard by Parliament showed that the average was nearer $1150 events in South Africa always exerts special fascination upon students of politics The Commonwealth has no rules novconsiitution and no com mliments It cannot evenbe de scribed as group of likeminded nations In reality it is cluster of contradictions Through the years thlsvery loosehess has been its strength Now some are beginning to won der whether this beiflingiasiliu tion this product of British ern phlclarn run riot inwhlch the one agreement seems to be to shrink from spelling anything oultf should begin to organize lt se The fest may come in the next 10 days The problem of South Africas race policies confronts what is essentially an old boyss club with reminder that all the members do not share the same views

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