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AL monument mun Serving THE TOWN OF BARBIE AND COUNTY OF SIMCOB Since 864 90th YearNo 57 Barrie 06 08 WW 0000 The First Column FIRST EPISODE By KEN WALLS Englands countryside is beauti ful in the springtime and the gizealtcst city in the world is fas cinating and bewildering at any time That at least is my impres sion of recent visit In fact arrived in London one week ago today The nonstop trip from Montreal took exactly 11 hours and two minutes to Heabhrow airport My visit consisted of one day in the countryside andjtwo days in the city was back at Canadas Dorval airport before six oclock on Thursday afternoon Several people asked me yester day when was leaving for Eur ope and 1eastthrce mentioned they would be waitingto read all about it so let us start with brief explanation TransCanada Airlines owned by the people of Canada calls itself for publicity purposes one of the worlds best airlines But its pnogress and re cord despite the Moose Jaw trag edy is such that it could well in the near future leave out the first two words of the phrase TCA decided some time agoto improve its transAtlantic service which was talking around 18 hours with stops So an order was plac ed with Lockheed of California for eight SuperJConstellations at Turn to pagefive please Uh Authorized to and cm flail IV the Fool 09h MumI Otter MEDICAL MEN UNDERWRITERS JOINT MEETING An outline of the importance of insurance in the life of the aver age citizen was given by Dr Zinkann of Kitchener at lunch Tboutre Guild Scores Secondllil With Sinister Comedy About Moll Homicidal Brewsters Ill Brooklyn By JANE KINDS EXAMINER STAFF WRITER The Barrie Theatre Guild won second round of praise from local audiences Friday and Saturday evenings with its presentation of Arsenicland Old Lace Joseph Kesselrings sinister comedy of insanity in Brooklyn Repeating the success of its initial production Noel Cow ards Hay Fever the young theatrical group which is six months old firmly established itself in public favor When the guild opens its next season in the Fall there should be readymade little theatre following in town The opening night audience in the Barrie District Collegiate Inst ivtute audience was disappointingly small however and slow to warm up to the atmosphere of genteel insanity in the Brewsterhouse hold Not until Bob McLean in the role of thesane nephew Mort imer came on stage did the play really come to life and for this alone the youngactor deserved the main acting honors for the even ing Again and again throughout the three acts he pulled the dramatic action together with his sure movements about the stage his fast pacing of the dialogue and his superior comedy technique Al though he might be accused of occasional scenestealing his main role fin Arsenic and Old Lace was that of scenesaver The only serious criticism that could be made of Friday nights opening was that the play owas inclined to lag little The open in scene was little slow and even as late as the third actSome of the actors were inclined to slow down the action evening however with larger and much more responsive audi ence the playpicked up speed and the performances were generally improved because of the warmer reception on the other side of the footlights Because of the size of the cast which called for L1 male actors the guild had drawn on just about all On Saturday eon meeting in Community House on Friday afternoonof life under writers and medical examiners The meeting was held under the aus pices of the Simcoe Muskoka Life Underwriters Association Dr Zinkann told his listeners feel we have common prob of its male members for the prowl duction and the bit players sev eral of whom had had little or no Turn to page three please nmucroit 110mm to safeguard the future ofiCana thorn Examiner BARRIE ONTARIO CANADA MONDAY MAY l7 I954 as they drew in to the plant siding on Bradv lem or common responsibility and that is to issue insurance in appro priate amounts to the greatest number of people in Canada That is quite job and it is quite responsibility The speaker went on to discuss some of the technical aspects of insurance especially in regard to special class risks and justwhat this meant namely that these were people who could not be ac cepted by insurance companies at standard rates However it was felt in somequarters that if in surance premiums were raised by few dollars it would mean that lot of people who could not avail themselves of insurance at the present time could do so He went on to discuss mutual prob lems which affected both doctors and life underwriters The medical field today played an important part in our daily lives and this had its effect on the insurance business due to the fact that much of the work invscicnce and medicine was directed towards acute infections Back in 1900 for instance about 25 per cent of chil dren died before they reached the age of 24 Today that same per centage were livingup to around 60 years of age Medical science was saving the people who Were 10 20 30 and 40 years of age so that now we were having Shift from young generation to an old generation This in turn meant that if we were going to have people living toolder age groups we were going to have people who were more impaired than before Back in 1900 the main causes of death were pneumonia influenza tuberculosis diarrhoea and enteri tis in children Today the main causes were heart disease cancer and high blood pressure These were all degenerate conditions which took life The picture had changed greatly during the years and those in the insurance business had great re sponsibility in their work There were many thingsto be considered in the service they gave to the public and it was throughthe serV vice that had been given in the past thatso much had been done dian citizens ANIMALS AND TEMPERATURE Some animals are able 1t01wlth homom cm IT was BIG EVENT for the Barrie Works of the Canadian General Electric Co Ltd on Saturday when over 300 members of the Peterborough Works Quarter Century Club travelled hereby specialltrain for the afternoon and evening the parade of QCC members to the local plant led by their Works Pipe Band The local GGE Band was on hand to greet the six Coaches of visitors ford Street The Peterborough Works Baud made colorful sight leading the long parade of men and women with 25 years or mere service with CGE In the afternoon the band entertained Barrie Citizens at Queens Park Quarter Century Clubbersgetting off one of their six special ceaches at the local CGE siding The train arrived at 230 pm and departed at nine oclock after full program arranged by the local plant and the Barrie Chamber of Commerce Barrie Works Manager Jack Mitchinson right who was host for the occasion with two of the distinguished visitors from Peterborough James Price left who with six months left to go until he will be with the company 50 years has the longest service record of any Tactive worker with the Peterborough Works and his son Ossie Price who joined thePeterborough Quarter Century Club this year to make the only father and son com bination in the Chapter Mr Price Sr is in the carpenter shop at the Peterborough plant and is honorarypresident of the Quar ter Century Club His son is supervisor of control drafting The only husband and wife combination in the Peterborough Works Quarter Century Club Mr and Mrs Bert Heather Both were CGE employees be Barrie Works Host Concern aboutthe challenge that foreigncOmpetition is offering on Saturday evening With European manufacturers selling equ utilitycustomers at pricesso far below established Canadian prices that in many cases they are belOw our manufacturing costs he saw the problem as competition Minadifferent way of 1ifeno ta matter of low versus highcostglabor ff that1 see in may CMJIA and Audit lam 65min Quarter Centur Club MONDAY WEDNESDAY and FRIDAY 5c single copy 12 Pages Two Sections ¢Av fore they were married and are still active workers Mr Heather has been with the company 31 years and his wife has been an employee 29 years Nineteen women are among the members of the Peterborough Quarter Century Club Three hundredand 18 of the 411 active and retired club mem bers visited Barrne on the annual outing Mrs Rita McLean at left in the photograph just joined the club this year glazer in the porcelain department at Peterborough she isalso CGE wife but her husbandhas only been with the company for eight years Three of the charter membersof the Peterborough Works Quarter Century Club Robert Stuart Cotton 75 left Robert Cat trell 82 centre and Shannon 82 right Mr Cotton who has been an aetive sports enthusiast in Peterborough for many years and served as city alderman for 21 years was one of the oldest men in the service of the Canadian General Electric when he re tired nine years ago after46 years of ser vice He started with the canadian Edison Company in Montreal in 1900 which was changed to the General Electric in 1995 and has been in Schenectday NY and Erie and Philadelphia Pa with the company He was electrical superintendent at Peterborough Mr Cottrell also retired in 1946 after 51 years of service He was stores foreman Mr Shannon was paymaster at Peterborough Works before his retirement in 1938 after 46 years with the company He Joined the Edia son Company in 1892 and Wasone of the earliest employeesatPeterborough He re in the heavy apparatus business was expressed by the president of the Canadian General Electric GoLtd MTur11er in his address to the dinner gathering of the Pet erborough Works Quarter Century Club at the Barrie Armoury ipment to our members when the plant which now cin ploys between four and five thousand work ers had payroll of 300 Pmblem European Competition iscuSsedBy CGE Presidentllt Gathering Of Patelborough 000 concerned somecf the product lines at the Petenbonough Works He rus ed the case history of the small ap pliance plant at Barrie as founda tion for his lem Huge Gathering The presidents Welcoming ad dress to the group of long senvice their annual outing was theghigh light or what was pinbalny the largest banquet ever held in tow Approxhnotely 450 guests were presenturiorthe about 3350 guests from Peterjborough who in Barrie early in the cman entswon the probn OGE employees visiting Barrie on dinner vmchiding Turntables Sevemfnlééijélz