Barrie Historical Newspaper Archive

Barrie Examiner, 23 Aug 1961, p. 12

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cwos rArmored careth of convoy of Am ican tr which arrived in Berlin Sun WATCH AMERICAN llRithlil rison there pass throngson day to bolstcrrtherAllled Gars Kurtucrstcndarnm APilirtJ photo Americans Losing Tourist Dollars To Border Rivals NIAGARA FALLS YtAP Gearggkggsls The worlds honeymoon capita is losing the tourist dollar to its Canadian counterpart across the Niagara River business sources say Despite an influx of visitors that is expected to reach 4000 000 this year many of this areas more than 60 motels ad vertise vacancies in big neon letters Restaurants and store business reported down from last year when there were fewer tourists But across the Niagara River in Niagara Falls Ont the brisk tourist trade is to per cent WAhlghernveralithanthelsolr figure and in some cases at to 40 per cent higer according to the Canadian citys Chamber of Commerce We have to find accommo dations for tourists on some nights said Donald Murie oi the Canadian city chamber Sometimes there arent enough file and niétel rooms to go around BLAME THRUWAY When state joint legislative committee held hearings two weeks ago in nearby Buffalo to find out why the money wasnt being spent on the American side of the falls itgot varlv ety of answers Most of them blamed the recently completed Niagara section of the state Thruway which makes Niagaras Falls an easy 15minute ride from downtown Buffalo not the Ns gara Frontier Businessmens As sociation told the committee Ihat the super highway was whisking tourists around the areas big motel strip along routes 18 and 62 Kocsis who described the astripvasethenbiggest motel con centration outside of Miami Beach said gross revenue in the motels through June had dropped 44 per cent from the first six months of 1960 One local merchant testified that the Thruway routes tourlt ists right to the Rainbow Bridge and over to Canada without wingls stop in an interview Monday how ever Arthur Kelts oi the Nia gara Falls Chamber of Com ber of Commerce said tourist trade is generally off as much as 15 to 20 per cent in the city itself where most tourists spend some time The silation vill worsen be fore it gets bettereltsndded There has been little modem ization of business in the city until this year gt He said new 270foot obser vation tower at Prospect Park is storm thrrightdireetionr and has attracted huge volume of visitors But be said the visit ors apparently dont stay to spem their money The Canadians view their suc cess as due to steppedup ad vertising campaign and what poncs Guano LEANING rowan PlSA HeulcrsA young Italian carrying small saw walked up to the lean day night Police who have been guarding the tower since an anonymous letter writer writer threatened earlier this month to blow it up moved in quickly to inter cept him police constable asked the youth what he was doing want to straighten it he replied The youth was sent to hospital for observation Iudge Appeals For BlindLady PONTIAC Mich CPlOak landflountyjs live circuit judges Tuesday appealed to county tif ficials to reconsider their deci sion not to allow blind woman stand from theold courthouse to new one recently opened Circuit Judge Stanton Dondero said Adas just got to be there Ada is Ada Dubson cheerful blind woman who has supportedherself for the last 15 years by operating conces sion in the old courthouse Last week building commit tee decided there wasnt any room for Ada or her stand in the new building County officials have agreed Marie calls the citys tradition ally good treatment of tourists to try and find something for Ada to do ing tower of Pisa here ltfon to move her condyxand cigaretc POetDescribes Poland As Christ Of Nations By ALAN mvny 395 Writs WARSAW it ll terrible history of our country people dying all the The words set down exactly as spoken look pallld in print To get the full impact you must visit Poland and soak yourself in the spirit of distinctive country now behind the iron rt satellite that has snatched precious ration of personal freedom from the Communist limbo You will meet doughty un quenchatlflelpeople gallant and gay in grey cities ug hard to tolerateLLbfiirmadrziln Moscow halrshlrt persuaded for the time being that they must be reasonable and settle for something short of utopia People dying all the time thousandyears of Polish history reduced to sentence Out at dozens of conversations with students intellectuals flclals and chance acqualnt ances that is the phrase that ill the theta ing memory or twoweek visit sense or DESTINY For history shapes Poland creating the profound sense of national destiny that has held the western Slnvs together through attempts by bigger na tions to etfoce them from the map in the 1956 October revol ution this special Pollshness proved itself bigger than com munism ns Russias Nikita Khmshchev tacitly recognized More than anything the fact that Poles will be Poles ex plolns the disparities in eastern Europe where top man Vlady slaw Gomulka alone of all the satellite chiefs has measure of independence from Moscow Everyone wants to do his little bit for Polan saw observer said That is the most impressive thing about this country it explains why the Polish road to socialism is more sinuous than the relatively straightforward path of acqui escence followed by Czedicslo vnkia Great talkers and jok ers the oles tell the story of two dogs meeting at the from tier The timid Czech puppy goes to Poland to learn how to barkrthe Polish dog looks for bone in comparatively welllt off Czechoslovakia CANT FORGET PAST Repeatedly reporter was told that nothing in contempor ary Poland makes sense with out lefereoco to the past This is inruth one of the most tragic most persecuted most partitioned countries It is condemned by geography and history and perhaps by temper ameut With few natural defences it istrapped between two big powers it is like railway junction on an exposed plain with fast trains whizzing by in all directions usually over the dead bodies of Poles The Christ of nationsthot was how national poet Adam FROM MORE YOUR Your laying flock represents substantial investment Fi gure it out foryourselff value of land cost of buildings taxes cost of chicks cost of feed topointoflay and laying steedsto say nothing offlabour In return for these out of pocket expensesygivexpech mightly good yield cold cosh savings Thats when SHURrGAIN deliversfeggscctly what you want more profit dollars investment from your poultry Come in ondwell talk about your ilockin terms of egg production and profit dollars roe QUALITY aunvsravtc iilttsoALr FLOUR AND seen HILLSDALE AzjbiNNlS BRADFORD EALF Ulilllii IiEEgS inAWILsou coonsrowiv erARsacsTcuMMIus BARBIE Mickizwicz described his roar iyred land Thest common ground be tween Poland and lsraeieach involved in the power struggle of great neighbors TEUIONS WERE FIRST Polands first oppressors were the Teutonic Knights started as crusaders and wound up hungry for conquest land carved up by three invad ers Germany Austria and Run sis in varying forms the pro cess was repeated three times For the best part of zoo years up to the First World War the Polish people lived underrfor eigh domination They became so used to being part at com splracy to being agin the government that today some members of the present Polish regime think of fellow ministers as they as something out side themselves The Poles seem destined for suffering Their Second World War lossesmore than 8000000 civiilanldeadand nearly 509000 military dcad and missing on battlefront around thaiworlda far exceeded hm other country French text Histolre Uni verselle lllustree lists Polish casualties at 19 per cent of the population compared with 10 per cent for Yugoslavia 97 for Greece 76 for Germany and 40 for Russia whose estimate has lately been revised upward TRAGIC DEFEATS Hundreds of thousands lost their lives in the Warsaw ghetto and in the illvlated Warsaw on rising of 1944 For 63 days on derground fighters tried to lift the Germnn occupation while Russian troops stood idly by across the Vistula River Poles thus have little reason to love either the Germans or the Russians In earlier times they tended to regard them selves as the last westward barrier against the barbarian hordes from the east Recent history forces them to look to Russians counterweight to Gennany There is some idggtyrrof though hetweéri Russia and Poland on the German problem bpth feat the possibility of re vtvmgCerman militarism and both want to see Germany re main dlvidcd Chancellor Aden auer is distrusted defence Mln ister Franz Josef Strauss is morbidly feared Thisvmay explain why the mass of Poles ontiGunmunist in spirit tend to accept Russ siao domination with philosoph ical resignation The cripple sharply despises his crutch but has no choice Russia is the main guarantee that Poland will re taln her prrsent borders on the OderNelson line despite Ger man claims to the territory FORCED ALLIANCE conversation with Poles may take this form how do youfeei about the The mung Flint parfifidn rm saw They are our allies But do you li them We need them This new reasonableness this acceptance of hard facts helps to offset the traditional impulsesotAliherolquePo every so often to somemad idealistic venture against im possible odds Hemism has been called the Polish disease It was con sldered szlachta noble to sulfcr in the countrys cause North fashion archangiu survivor of the Warsaw up ing who remembers crawl city sewers with his wounded poor This is no time for heroics chimed in the wife of Polish blologist People have more desires they wont to live bet ter and have more amusements They are looking for an easier life Must Win Game No Second Chance TORONTO CPV The old game of trying to discover the heart at the educational process has become deadly serious in the 1960s Ontario Education Minister John Hobart told banquet of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Tuesday night The West must win this game for it may not have the chance to play again under freesociety conditions he said if in the 196175 we cannot demonstrate that free soeiety can be more productive more creative more responsive to the needrofiotherhlnnan beings than regunented society then there is every possibility that free societies will disappear said Mr Roberts CAPTURE TWO MONTREAL fCPl Police said Tuesday night they hgve captured two men they beli ve responsible for series name than 35 drug store robberies committed during the last six months logoe the tendency to explode ngthroiigri cxcrcrficnl on mother nihiswbncvk hopes for stormnew BIILB Ottawa taxi driver Rene Boyer displays sowatt light bulb containing $1 bill He received it from woman as payment of her fare The bulb lights up when plugged into asocket CP Photo British Tory MP3 Support Commonwealth Trade Plan By MCINTYRE HOOD London England Correspondent LONDON Commonwealth minded Conservative members of parliament who refused to support the governments decis ion to negotiate for entry into the Common Market are plan nlng for moves to strengthen Commonwealth trade These plans are likely to be launch ed at the conference of Com monwealth Finance and Trade Ministers which isto be held in London in September These Tory MPs are now actively engaged in lobbying in fluential sources close to the Commonwealth governments or ging that the finance and trade ministers come to london to put forward positive counter proposals to the Common Mar ket link for Britain Ammunition for new Com monwealthopproach has been assembledlln the dings of research group whichwas est ablished by Peter Walker it for WorcesterHeroneJ the leading opponents to Britain joining the Common Market and favors much closer Com monwealth trade links This group has been investi gating the potentialities of Brit ains Commonwealth Markets it has produced great mass of valuable inlormation which sug gests that there are immense opportunities of expansion in trade between Britain and the Commonwealth countries Tho case is to he presented vlgorv oust in pamphlet Pr gressive Commonwealth Policy which will be issued just be fore the Finance Ministera Con ference SOME ENCOURAGEMENT This group of Tory lit Ps is encouraged in the campnlgu by the declaration of Prime Min ister Menzies of Australia that he intendsetoibringr to rtaondonii the biggest and strongest del egation to represent Australia overseas oegotlptlons open The Finance Ministers meet ing is regarded by the as anidenl platform for tak new initiative It might Well be the last opportunity to make LmaioL biatngcrumgw ernment to reconsider its posi tion before it becomes heavily involved in negotiations in the fall Save with Safety Women and Teens new all Hat for dress or canaftrTear price for height of the season savings This is limited time sitar Your Assurance of we VALUE BEAT THE TAXWHliE SAVING illustrated are only two of the seven comfort lovingstyles offered at low so hurry down at Sh St and which up batch of 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