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Barrie Examiner, 1 Sep 1961, p. 1

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LOCAL WEATHER Partly cloudy with few nutter ed showers or thundershowerl Eihg Titania its out rr Soliciting 90 See page two OUR VTELEPHONES Po Examiner Want Ads Tale phone PA 03010 The tclopbou number to call for the Business or Editorial Dept is PA 6637 97th YonTrio HE PLANS T0 PAINT TOWN BED thtle Rembrandt in real iferGaryLCoteLcaiLivlelda mean brush when he gets Spending Spree Beats Sales Tax TORONTO GP Retail prices in Ontario took three parcent lump to the amount of new sales tax that is expected to pour $15000000i year into provincial govern ment coffers Ontarlo stores having experis enced one of the biggest buying sprees in their history before the tax went into effect at mid night Thursd ht now have twfinishtrnining clerksrloack count for the tax The sales tax was long time coming Only two other prov incesAlberta and Manitoba have resisted the trend to such taxes 41321le dont like any tax Premier Fm conference Thursday but the logic of the situation demands that we do it With few exceptions every thing that costs the consumer more then 17¢an FOODS UNTAXED Trying to figure out the tax eTeinpt items is hairsphtting occupation sugarcoateddi viding line separates food not inked from candy taxed Plain or salted peanuts for ex faltering and weakened dairy 13jlurt InVStreet Car Crash TORONTO fCP Thirteen persons vyere taken to hospital with cuts and bruises early today after street car packed with rushhour passengers jumped the track and collided With another in downtmim Toronto it Boy Dies From Injuries TORONTO OP Larry hospital of injuries suffered when he was struck by car near his home early today Brandtflo Excludeglldenauer BONN AP West Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt said to cities throughout the pro IN NUTSIIIELL rMarketing Plan To Help Industry TORONTO GP Agnmunire Minister Goodfellow says coordinated milk marketing plan isall that can save Ontarios down to business He does iustJhatnn page three nnpie are exempt as food but candy or sugarcoated peanuts are taxable as confections Childrensclothes are exempt with specificsizes mentioned in gulations But one the tax re store has already pointed out that single pair of stretchy socks ranges from child size to an adults size it The biggest headaches are likely to come in supermarkets wtiicncarrravast range of taxable goods besides food Cash registcr companies were work ing overtime to convert many of the machines so they could total separately the two typesr of items iEremiaLEmsLblamedJllflalL on the mudern demands for education and Malth The edu cation or ments budget alone had leaped to $250000000 this year from $8000000 in 1943 iDistrichfficesnLtthreasnzy departments taxation branch have been opened in nearly handlequ erie sand inspect doubtful returns Retailers capitalized on the coming sales tax to boost sales industry fromIfuriher difficulty Drump of Toronto died in day that becauseof the ténseworld situation his Socialist party will form national government representing all parties if it wins the Sept 17 general electionsjn West Germany But he added Chancellor KonradadenaueuriiLbe cl Charge Man In Bomb Murder MONTMAGNY CF Joseph Philias Oscar Letourneau 63 was arraigned today on charge of murder in the death of CharlesEugene Baillargeon nearby st Pierre farmer killed by bomb coroners jury Thursday night held Letourneau criminally resplinsiblo for BaillIa Charge Man With suucoa or inertia Herrewynen 22 of the Simcoe rgeons death Careless Driving area charged with careless driving in fatal highway accident Aug was remanded Thursday to Sept for trial He was charged after William Russell 20 of North Bay was killed when struck by south of Brantfor Hit WithBaseball rIns he walked along highway 15 miles Boy Dies sunauny CF 17yearold catcher with the scar Taxi softball team died Thursd ay night after being hit by foul tip Dead on arrival at hospital was Donald Routhier The fatality came atOConnor Park The second batter of the night nttunpiedzw hunts hallandtdie ballrwentrloa botandhit the young catcherin the chest Field Marshal Sure No One Will Start War LONDON APlField Mar shal Viscount Montgomery to day dirmisseiLtthossibililny another global conflict Asked by reporters if the Ber lin situation alarmed him the British wartime commander re plied Not in the least because do not think the East has any intention of attacking the West and do not think the West has any intention of attacking the East should also like to see the armed forces of all countries got back into their own coun triesMontgomery said We have been occtmying other munuieanLtLym think its time for us to be able to come back Driver Paints Car Kills Baby OHAWA A4 with an unconscious driver at the wheel went out of control Thurs day and killed iomonthsold boy in his carriage As Mrs Irwin McLaughlin watched horrified from west end store the car lumped the curb and crushed the carriage holding her son Shaun against wall Police said Norman Brown fainted at the wheel of the car His wife Edna made futile at tempts togain ntroiottho lfl car as he shimpede against the anager Roger liessard said Mrs McLaughlin saw the car approaching but wasnt able to reach the carriage in time Mr and Mrs Brown were taken to hospitall Doctors said Thursday night it was an unusual case and could not explain why Mr Brown fainted They felt certain he did not suffer heart attack JlopeSDflifldlirefighleraDinL Barrio Ontario Canada Friday Sophth 1961 WITNESSES DOUBTBOMB mvoivrni Elgne Dives Into Field Burns 78 Aboard Die CHICAGO AptA TWA tour istcloss airliner with several family groups aboard crushed and burned in muddy corn field today minutes after taking off for Los Angeles All 78 per sons aboard were killed The big fourengined Constel lation exploded and caught fire as it plowed into the rainsoaked ground 10 miles west of Chi cagos Midway airport it was the third worst UlS commercial plane accident in Washington the FBI said it hadJWMJMutigation of the possibility that bomb may have caused the crash But sev eral witnesses said they doubted that bomb had been involved Most of the 73 passengers were embarking on Labor Day holiday visits Seven were memlt ber of one Los Angeles family The plane left Boston at 745 pm Thursday it was en route to Los Angelcs and had made stops at New York Pittsburgh and Chicago it left Chicago at cm and crashed about 10 minutes laterl STARTS TURN Former Jerry Brozv whose house south of liinidale is only 150 yards from the wreckage said he heard the big plane roar overhead then oppnrcntiy start turn The big plane was heading al most due north when it struck think he was trying to land Broz said it might have been done successfully with all the space here But something was wrong Police Scourflush For Bank Bandits HAVELOCK CP Police searched the bush country 25 miles north of here today seek ing to trap four bandits who robbed Havelock bank of more than $185000 in cash and occur es Sixtyeprnvin andcommun ty pciiicgmen in nearly 20 cruis era were being used to block every as b1 escaperouta from dense damp hush at Coe Lake Shotguns were issued to the officers and residents at famis least three of the handitswere from the holdupplagued Mont reel area Two of them were The robbers abandoned two stolen luxury cars wrecked or badly damaged in their flight Thur fly ii pro nclal potce car was Waging them woos oops The men entered the Toronto side door at 915 am All wore woollen hoods ovor their faces and cottages in the sparsely andthrce carriEd pistols while populatid area were warned to lock their doors and report all strangers Police said they believe at AsFlames Bare Through Forests ST JOES Nfld CF Hopes of Newfoundland fire fighters that the province for est fires would be out in 10 days had almost disappeared today as the situation rapidly deteriorated Most critical spot was at Glenwood is miles west of withbeatthetaxcampaignSAGander where flmes were racing towards stand of 1000000 cords of prime spruce trees Officials were unahle to say whethertl1e1noretlran300 civ fan and military firefighters would be able to hold the fires No communities were threat ened In store was another if of warm sunny weather the third coluecutive day lince rain caused hopes that the end to the summerlong fires was in sight Theres noroom for op timism said Deputy Ree sources MinisteFStuart Peters TWehnventrminuta to lose The woods are tinder dry am Traffic on the TransCanada Highway west of here was stopped by RCMP Thursday after the flames moved to the fourth had an automatic ucalibre rifle of the type used as an RCAF survival gun They picked the best time to raid the bank It was pay day for CPR employees and other large firms in this area 15 mileseastmfAPeterborough Herdingmlihmrfiewge Mil liken and six employees intota corner of the bank they forced teller William Lindup to open the safe and jammed duffel bagwith $385000 in cash and morethan $100000 in securities Speeding north they were spotted by ro vin cial police constable lack McKendry as police converged on Havelock from halfdozen communities OPENS FIRE McKendry opened fire with his pistol and the bandits re turned the shots blasting out their own cars rear window withinwarhaIfmilerltwastbrflherobbers car plowedinto sixth time this year the fires have closed the only highway across Newfoundland thick blanket of smoke coveredfiander but so far the international Airport has not been closedasitwas1ildays ago because of smoke ditch and McKendrys crashed into the back of it The bandits fled into the bush Shortly after OPP Const Milo Chapman saw another car later reported to have been stolen in Montrealracing past him with two men in it commit wins IPéWer Struggle Er GivikWcu Threatens Brazil see mono or vice President Joao Goulart today reached the fringe of the Era zilian border for dramatié re turn to claim the presidency hat could plunge South icas blggestcountry into civil or Th 42yearold vicepresident bided his timein Montevideo Uruguayonly about an hours flying time from the borderas rival military forces jackeyed cautiously for position still hun dreds of miles apart Brazils three military chiefs headed by War Minister Ma shal Odylio Den anmm ed liifirsday combined operation had been launchedvto subdue the proGoulart 3rd Army in the southern state of Rio Grande doSul the vicepre dents home are were reports of small sc 1e landings at several points but no fighting was reportedI THINKS POSITION 0K Goulart blackballed for the presidency by themllltary chiefs as being proCommunist loldreporter capital his poaitioii is shaping ing and pcundiiigon theporch ing called out What are you IN URUGUAY up good as the weeklong cri sis created by the sudden resig nation of President Janie Quad ros seemed to near show in office He said there were too many obstacles in the way of his reform program Goulart has proclaimed at every step of his slow journey back from Far Eastern tour that took him to Peking em returning to Brazil to assume the presidency The leftist Labor party leader HERES ONE Mnther hearing loud bug where small Johnnle was play Whai ore you doing it with demanded mother ptmg Itutional government founded on Christian principles and said am no ommuiiietfr MazshalDanys the army strongman masterminding the interim government was re ported to have ordered the air force to patrolthe Brazilian Uruguayan border and inter cept the vicepresidents plane sho he try to fly back There was some speculation Goula would trave1overland it was assumed Goulart would go to Rio Grande do Sul across the frontier from Uruguay where state Governor Leonel Brizzola Goularts brotherin law and Gen Jose Machado Lopes UGOmen 3rd Army Deny presiden The newspaper Folha do Sao Paulo said am Army to ca had both dcied occupied Paranaguay sport and rail terminal less than 200 miles sout otSaorPauio and fro DominidnBank branch by at emphasized hefavors consti commander of tho 60 nd sided wrth the IVlCB The thunderous explo sion causcd residents of the area to look first southwest toward Argonne National Labor atories The big Atomic Energy Commission installation is five miles southwest of the crash scene First reports indicating that thc plane had cxploded in the air were emphatically chal lenged by several residents of the area Charles George said he heard the big ships engines roar close by looked from his bedroom window and saw the planes black silhouette skim ming about 50 feet above trees There was tremendous roar from the George said he next thing saw was huge sheet of flames as the plane hit the ground The FBI began methodical searchfor possible evidence of bomb blast Aspokesman said Were not in any position to say anything one way or the other Were looking into the matter to de termine whether there was any federal law violation The dead included Mr and dmhcdarWWFMtR Maloney and their five children from loos Angeles There were five members of aIfaniily namcd Chamberlain osAltos Calif Another family group of five was Mrs Neil Gillian of Euro eka Ca and her four young stars Four 20 year old Concord NH girls were aboard to gether on new adventure in tending to find jobs in Los Angeles area hospital It was the third worst com mercial plane accident within heats states of the 05 main an MISSES HOMES The plane en route to Los inNcW YolkTPlttshurghtmd Chicago crashed into sparsely settled residential district near suburban liinsdale but did not touch any of the five homes in thrnevrdevelopment The amin fourengined plane plowed across path some two blocks long witnesses said and burned furiously after burrowing into the rainsoftened corn field ot some 10 acres Wreckage of the plane smoul dered more than four hours after the crash which occurred shortly after it left Midway Air port at am EDT Policeman Ted Treibea of Hinsdale said the only part of the plane that was not afirs was the tail section Thunderstorms raked the Chi cago metropolitan area during the early part of the night but no rain was falling when the plane left Midway 00min Angeleevfrcanostonrwitirstopsi NotMoro Than1¢por Copyl4 Page Torrential Ra ins Swell River TimminsFamilies Flee Homes Tithle CF young of 47 inches fell before on mother and four childrenwererrainrrlopped shortlyenltcredawn drowned early today when torrential rain rent creek on tho rampage through this town flooding at least 100 homes Four of the dead were trapped in their waterfilled basement apartment as they slept Thc other monthold girl was taken from the apartment to the apparent safety of nearby car The car soon became inundated and the infant died The flood caught Tlmmins by surprise washed out many roads secondary rail lines and highways The entire northwest and of nmmlns was flooded as nearly five inches of rain fell in 18 hours At least to families fled their dwellings Others were able to remain on upper floors and save some belongings from the rising water One frame house was washed away andhydro facilities were disrupted WARD DIES The dead Mrs Paul Girsrd at three of her daughters Mary Ann one month Liza and boy named Donald who was ward of the Childrens Aid So ciety and was living with the Girards roomersaved the Girardls other child 11yearold Suzanne by leading her from the stricken building The childrens father lum bar mill cookwas taken to ho Although the storm started hint that the creek normally placid waterway about five feet wide which cuts through the northwest section of Timmlns would be unable to handle the runoff lfowever the rain began fall ing heavily about pm total MlilllLY WARM TORONTO CF South ern Ontarios Labor Day weekend will be mainly warm and sunny but there may be few thunder storms the weather office reports temperatures well three days There is threat of afternoon and av ever which are likely to persist throughout tboweekJ end They are expected to be most prevalent in the south western countles late today and early Saturday and he come general over southern gntario Sunday and Men ay muf were advanc nor this opiiod tion of the re gianL industrial centre1her¢ 135 nvasaers who pnrtfc Dianne 12 and fouryearold ipital and placed underheavy sedalion Thursday morning there was no FOKWEEKEND Town are in prospect for the next ening thunderstorms bow hardest hit was sixblock area near the creek called the Town Creek by local residents The Girard home is on an avenue which backs on to the crack About fiva nearby homes were evacuated when crest of water rolled down the waterway shortly filer dnl add sent Emir about four feet over its an STREET SHAMBLES Police Chief Gordon Peacock said it was very grim thing to see There were no lorccastl it just started to rain like mad around 11 oclock and didnt stop until eight thliglmornlngfl The water is reéeding now but all of Wilson Avenue in shambles The water poured into thI basement ofthe Girard homo and worked its way well abov the groundfloor level Mrs Glrard and the three children apparently made frantic attempt to escape Their bodieswerofound huddled at rear door to the apartment in dicating the mother tried to guide the children to safety diver penetrated the murky water to recoverthe bodies Roderfque Loforgc roomar in the Girard house said he waa awakened at 1130 am by the fathers screams Laforge ran downsLalrs and snatched Suz anne to safety Girnrd in the meantime had car When men returned to water in the basement for them to attempt further rescue The as alsort ofcatch basin for the flood waters CALL TO MOTHER Girnrd and Laforge yelled to the mother to make her way to the back of the apartment with the children The police chief speculated that Mrs Girard managed to getthahnclLdooropenbuLwaa meLbyawalloHateg Lightning accompanying tho storm struck several homes set ting thcm ablaze The fires were put out fairly quickly There was no immediateesti mate of property damage but officials said it will be heavy ln addition to hydro lines being rupted turn ii the worst storm we have ever had in this town TaidTChlEI Peacock Emer gency firemen and policemen were on duty all night Thelcreekis bout eight mile long and runs into theMatia gami River which flooded in thaspring at 1960 At that Limo most of Mountioy Township was inundated but no lives were lost Thehomeless ere takeh early today toprivate homer and the Salvation Army depot formatssimmer in teen no daycar aflo house located on slope acted gas services were dis Children Die tment takenllittir MaryAnn armw tbehous there wastoo much

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