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Barrie Examiner, 23 Aug 1961, p. 1

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OUR mirpHonrs For Examiner Want Ads Talo piioiia PA lMI The dogma oumbcrtocsllfortchosmBl Loco WEATHER Mainly eloody witi shower tonwrow Moonlight 14me night 55 my Thursday 70 or Editorial Dept in PA 56517 our YearNo ios wiviioservédaflispecial agent Allies Move ianlicTreops Defend Border positions facing tho Allied BERLIN The Allied oom mandants in West Berlin today moved up troops and tanks to ensure the security and into rily of the Berlin border lowingvnewWCommunist lEslllC tions The commandaots issued statement denouncing the new restrictions as another stepin the unfolding of the brutal and callous policy of the East Ger rman regime Unlled States commander MaiGen Albert Watson mean while sent several tanks and armored vehicles to the border The British moved up corn pany of troops The French soid their sector was being pa trolled Within minutes the Commu nism brought up reinforcements on their side of the wall of barbed wire and concrete they have erected to strangle free movement in the city West German border police said they saw armored person nel carriers prickcd with Com munist Peoples Policewho are troops REDUCE CBDSSINGS The military moves came after an East German decree reducing the 12 remaining bor dcr crossings to seven The decree restricted Hd matssaod Wcsternroccupatlon ficlals to only one crosspoint and required passes for all West Germans seeking entry to East Berlin The decree was accompanied by on East German warning for all persons to stay 100 metres 313 feet away from the border on both sides in the interests of their own safety An allied spokesman said Iha Western tmops will patrol the loometre zone The Allied statement said the Western commandanls take most serious view of the effrontery oi the East Ger man authorities in warning the citizens of West Berlin to keep distance of 100 metres from armed as infantrymove up to the sector borders Use Liquor Police LOIglt111izs Election QUEBECJCP Willie Cote deputy director the now dis banded Quebec liquor police used the force as Union No tionale campaign instrumuit in provincial elections court was told here Tuesday Earlier Del Ray Laforest on the liquor squad for about eight yearslwas sent to trial charged with conspiracy which allegedly resulted in defrauding the Quebec government of some slow llewas the third person tobe so charged in theliquor police case which allegedly involvu fraud amounting lo $500000 against the governmeot Provincial police constable Leo Therrien former member of the liquor squad testified Tuesday that Cote supervised force of liquor police officers who organized each parish of Matane County during the 1952 election won by the Union Na tionalé SAYS HAD PARISH He said he spent month and half in the county dur ing the campaign Va each had Parish he sai when Crown Prosecutor Jean Bievenu asked him who he was organizing for Therrien replied For the Union Nationalle The Union Nationale was de feated last year after 16 years power by the present Liberal new arsrisriiiiiii 55755135 51 aEmilioifs Angola rebel fighters ioor Crudlmentl of before joinin testified oi doing con uction the liquorforce and opened the present investigation Tharrien said Cote tried to force him to organize again in the 1955 elections in Levis County and even phoned me attwo oclock in the morning to transfer me to the central organization in Quebec Therrien said he was paid his the campaign GET EXPENSES He added that in addition to salary officers working in elec regular salarywhfle working on tions were given expense ac counts of $0 day Mr Martin Laberge of Que he testified that Cote had sent two gonLmeantoJepgirwhis bathroom in 57 in return money and free medical ser vices He said he paid Cote by cash chequeand service and producedreceipts for WESshow ing he had paidfor the mater ialshimself No former members both of whom were qualified tradesmen the force also work on government saiftlie work clas special investigations Jean Marie Cloutier former plumber said heworked on the homes of liquor police tofficialiL antifwas occasionally forced to ho alliBuilding Will Be Sold For Tall Price NEW YORK APlTha 102 storey Empire State building the worlds tallest will be sold for $65000000 eilcctive Dec 27 the owner said Tuesday The announcement was made by Robert Crown as president of the Empire State Building Corporation in letter to its 900 tenants control of the corporations stock in 1954 said the purchaser will be Empire State Building Associates an investment group headed by Lawrence Wish New York lawyer prisons noes on GO TO counr DROXFORDnEngland ReutersiTbe town coun cil niesday passed unani mous resolution asking lo cal woman to have her eigti dogs debarked or lace proceedings under noise abatement act gt The councils demand that the woman seven miniature noodlasan terrier be do barked came alter several rsldents in the area complalned of the noise the animalsmade gpescrlbin the COillCllS action as diabolical one the owner said she would take the issue to court rather than submit her pets to an operation which would romch thelr vocal cords Lower Prices To Compete For Contracts TORONTO CEReform in stitutions ster Wardrnpc said Tuesday his department has had to reduce the price of picnic tables mado inmates of Ontario institutions so it could get government order He Laid hi departmenLieo or an and forests de parlfiifif confiact 1mm bios to be used in rovin parks but lost the order he rcauseoHlsJoid ofr$17eachrlhe Brantford firm of Knechlel Brothersrwiilrthe lowest tender $iaaDrcceived the order Mr Wardrope saidhis nepar ment received on order for an additional 4000 tables when it agreed to supply them for the sameprice quoted by Knechtel Brothers Wheatley parks chief forJandandJomtswsaidsth 4000 tables ordered from the private flrmwill be utilized for the balance of this year and 1962 and the 4000 from reform insti tutions for the balance of 1962 11963 year to give private firms the opportunity to tender on park tables formerly all made hyztb reforms institu gqla training centre nstruclor stands behind them to show them thevproper way to aim th one Soc story page iii wiropholo Us5aie111te Crown whose lamin gained nLKcrrybluLltociasphnnds with an old West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer reaches out By ANTHONY wmrb LONDON AP Detectives bellevethatthe thistwhostoltL the $392000 Goya portrait of the Duke ot Wellington bid with it for more than 12 hours in Brit ains on LGallery then walked out with it under top coat or in briefcase The 19thcentury masterpiece centre ofa British American controversy over its ownership earlier this summer was taken from its place in the gallery Monday night The theft was discovered Tuesday morning The headand chest portrait arSAULl STE MARIE On CPIosp Bert Dickie of the ¥anrbmkopoiioedopartment wesexpectodhero todaytotaka over questioning of Hawk Junction man about death 42 years ago Prowncial police were held ing Clifford OBrien 65 for Insp Dickie He was to be questioned in the 1919 death of 54yearold Mich ael Leggeof Pembroke Pem broke poucesaldTochar had beenrlaid OBrien OBrien was detained by OPP at Wawa about 100 miles north others after he went to them voluntarily in connection with the Legge death Legge owner of tobacco store in Pembrokewas found SEPARATE erly refugeafrom Communist East Germany during tour of the Marienfcldo reiugeal fiuann West Berlin ymter GovId of the Iron Duke Britains vlc tor at Waterloo was last seen by the gallerys security guards rationpun guard noticed it was gone at 1000 pm and re ported it but itwas thought it had been moved to another part of the buildingsliicethe fra gile panel on which it was painted was due for repair There was Lo signiforwd entry and no word that sgn cant fin rprints had been found roomrinses investigators evolved this ih enryol the tillers movements InihoneeiionWiih 1919mm cutlo pledeaonlo railwaytraek near Pembroke July 1919 He apparently had been hitby irainandcrushed under its wheels coroners jury rilled hisdeath accidental After OBrien went to police at Wawa letter was sent to Pembrokeaod OBrien was re vleasedrHe was detained again today MADE PROMISE OBrien who lives in ahotel at Hawk Junction near Wow and lives on pension and earn logs from odd houso painting jobs said in an interview with reporter Tuesday that he talked to police about the Legge death1ieeatise of promise made to my father Only PcirtidI Success GAPE CANAVERAL AP The United States orbited satellite launch piatforrn today but it failed to fire second oaywatnntnnpapvasmanm toefoot Atlas Agena rocket thundered yward more Canaveralat 604 am EDT and the entire Agona second stage Whirled into orbit Later it was to have injected o75pound payload called Ran ger toward millionmile round trip journey into space Space Administratlon announced that thespace craft had failed to separate from the Agent rocket stage gt statement and Ranger andrAgana are in nearEarth orbit rather than the highlyvec centric orbit planned for the ill ANLYZE DATA foicialssaid radio data from theT otbilin vehlc beirig whetnefioyTmrroimm had gone into orbit Indications are thatwe have nonstandard behavior of some analyzed to determine why an get did not separate The announcement continued Primaryfmlssiongoi the flig was to test ope tion of space craft In part Earlier Jam Burke project had repoilfied package launching of itors ii For full summary us page two Not More Thhnio per Copy18 Page Advancing Blcizei Closes Air Bcise RAINHELFS inning carers mm armors day The 55yearold leader raida moraleboosting visit the Communistgirdled city AP Virephoto Portrait He hid himself inside the gal lery just before closing time From his hiding place he timed the movements of the five night security guards Then he nipped out when the room was empty grabbed the pointing and scur rled backto his hiding place When the gallery filled with vis as morning he calmly walked out The Famousureasureaaslr by 2016 inches small enought to go into an oversize briefcase or under voluminous topcoot Guards were placed on air fieldsandpotr anud specfi ation that the theft was the work of the gang believed responsible for rash of art thefts in France during the last two years Only 10 days ago eight Cezanne paintings valued at $2000000 were stolen from the museum at WDVEHCT NOT inseam The Cezannes were covered byfinsuranca but the Goya was 10 The Goya portrait one of tbree the Spaniard did of Wei hngton was bought at auction two months ago for $392000 by the American oilman collector CharlesLWrightsman Tiieeseller was the Duke of Leeds and word that one of Britains Na tional treasures was on the way to the United States raised howi in British artncircies and Parliament Wrightsmao offered to sell it to the National Gal lery and the Wolison Founda tion and the British government finally the money finances US Tour OntireditGards QIoQrbit has told ofl ancing lmryfm the United Statesincluding week in Hawaii on stolen credit cardsand his the FBI says Frank Herbert Longer was heldhere on affederal warrant charging officials indsor July n=i undFblllioltl night rthenfghtrwas still mile from ST JOHNS CWForest lira coordination headquarters hers reported today that 10 homes garage with truck in it and store were destroyed in fire that invaded the northeast coast town of Carmanvilie hiesday Women and children of tho tonw of nearly 1000 were evacu ated about two weeks ago Flames charged in Tuesday night under limbs an hour wlnd In evacuated Doggin Cove near Carmanvllle switch in rthe wind was reported to have saved the homes after flames approached to within 150 yards Fire wardens at Carmaovlllo said the community was at the mercy of tho winds Firefighters were preparing to way out on the RCMP cutter oo Meanwhile officials said rain during the night and damp overcast weather today had helped calm the Gander fire The huge International airport was in operation toemergency nightsoang planes carrying fire fighting uipment Airline werc urged not to use the air pnrt but early today were free to land at their own risk The fire which had advanced half mlie in hours during 10Mootiwlde firebreak hastily carvediout ofrthc woods by fire fighters Tuesday Today thelirefighters are con fldent theycanikeep the flames behind the firebreak Tuesday night westbound CNR passenger and express train was held up for eight hours at Gambo 25 miles southeast of Gander because of smoke and the throat of fire Although the main TransCan ada Highway was still blocked Newfoundlandhighway patrol escorted convoy of 15 cars marrowmiles of the fire threatened road The fire driven by east winds spread through spruce and fir from Dendmans Pond five miles east of Gander Tuasdayiand rapidly bora down on the air port The airport einsedtor about sixhours after smoke reduced visibility tozor EB ONE Stableman ith an aged bandexplained it in th oer Just as put rnyhand ina horses mouth to see how many teeth it had the darn critter hit my hand to see how many fingers had Depuhr Resources Minister Stuart Peters and chief forester Ed Ralph said there was only remote possibility the fire would reach Gander About 200 men fought the fire during its peak and call went out for isorvolunteers from tho wn to Nplacovthem this mom Stratiord Man Dies In TwoCar Crash KLEINBURG CF Walter Heinrich 50 of Stratford was ldlled and another man taken to hospital Tuesday following twovcar crash at the intersection of Highways 49 and 27 near this village few miles north of Tor P0111 aldfieforiclis station owssqnmnestbounumnlgnwL 49 was in collision with car driven by Wilbert Neshitt 25 of Cooksville who was southbound on Highway 21 Hospltal officials said Neabltt suffered undetermined injuries falls 12 Sioreys Businessman Dies Aer YORK fAPA 37year old Canadian businessmanxfcll 12 storeys to hisdeath from hotel terrace Tuesday night apparently while trying to dem onstrate his courage to his part ner Lawrenco Candler of Tor onto international dealer in real estate plunged to the side walk few feet away from the entrance to the fashionable Holt tal Elysee on 54th Street be tween Park and Madison Ave noes Candlers partner Monty Sim mons of Toronto told police Candler bad losthls grip while playqu dangling from the wall of the terrace off his nthfloor lflDm Widow widower Will Ioinlorces SAN LEAN navy widower With 10 ch drcirandawldow with clght her own who met month ag have set wedding date of Sept The couple are Francis ouis Beards eLa navy chief warrant officer and Mrs Helen North 31 of San Leand Mrs North so all in chil dren hink its onderf They range in age from her Teresa to his Michael 17 IN NUTSHELL Injunction Prevents Unloading HAMILTON or mm freighters Northern Venture and Wheat King arrived here today but cargoes oflron ore cannot beunloaded because of an injunction issued Tuesday forbidding gt them to flwaifiln Ontario wa tors until noon Friday Promises New Troubles For West VTOKYO from APEeuteis Soviet Deputy Premier Mikoyan has piomised new troubles forttlve West in corona rswlrrimari from Erle Pa fallod with Lake Erie from hero so th The school teacher an th writer at pm EDT Tues mogul orrawl 01me cramg forcedhértogult ata Search rich uirghjay was was By Lake 26 earoldlongdistance ay tuber fourth attempt to orthEnstPa 28 miles swunmlog instructor entered ey butI ad covered only to clues to doteimino whether ao7yearoldtormer defeiiciC department packeuiied hobodyof Kenneth lurmerwas found to MHBEJDEWMUOM autopsy showed it iiin1 erotica hood octetsearly Tun 1he died ofmstrangulationa£ter police

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