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martin Examiner Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited 16 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario rnrDAY DECEMBER 1961 rau Safety On Barrie Streets geynote Of Yule Shopping Slow that the Christmas shopping sea son is with us the main business thor oughfares in Barrie will become more ddngerous unless pedestrians and mo torists give greater attention to safe walking and driving ft lsthe fay wplkers who will cause most of the trouble and bring worry in the increas fzfg number of motorists in this citys business section There are definite rules set out by the Highway Traffic Act when it comes to pedestrians They must obey traffic lights and should walk within design ated lines But every day we see people taking what they feel are shortcuts when they want to cross street They not only endanger their own lives but that of motorists who must devote their attention to other motorists and traffic signals Motorists however should realize that pedestrians crossing an intersection with green light have the right over yehlcles making turn They should get it and motorists should not block these crosswalks as they often do At Innisfll Police Members of Innisfil Townships six man police force have asked for 40 hour week The request is not an reasonable on the basis of work these men do and also in comparison with the working day of police forces in com munitles of similar size Twenty of 24 communities of under 110000 population have 40hour agree ments with their police forces In In lnlsfll the six policemen are responsible for protection for population of 9000 lln the fall and winter and of 75000 in the spring and summer True few parttlme men are employed for beach the same time pedestrians should avoid as much as they can the crossing of any street at pointsother than an intersec tlon Toronto police are already worried of what the holiday traffic will mean and the Traffic Safety Council has adopted somewhat gory approach to its Christ mas safe7drlving program It is col ored Yuletide safety poster showing the body of pedestrian covered with blanket in the foreground while pollce officers pick up parcels and question witness Behind them is wrecked motor car The poster described by two women members of the council as gruesome is supported by Torontos Deputy Police Chief John Murray who says people have to be hit between the eyes on traffic safety matters We hope that lust plain common sense with no gruesome reminders will prevail among Barrie people as they drive or walk on the roads and side walks with the Christmas rush getting underway Demands patrol but theybulk of the protection work during the busy days of July and August falls on the regular constables Police in Innlsfll as in other com munities are always on 24hour call Frequently they are routed out of bed to check on an accident or crime This is as it should be yet the fact that these men must be ready to serve at mo ments notice deserves some consider ation Innisfil is quite capable financially of acceding to this modest demand even if it means an increase in theforce to give the people the same protection as they get now Down Memory Lane 300114111 UNITED CENTENARY Craig of the Centenary program com rflavmade reference to the OUR ALLCANADIAN TEAM QUEENS PARK Wont Dominate ils Frost Did ey DON OllEARN TOROMO new govern mentand new personalities The same old faces perhaps hut different men acting in dif ferent ways iiiiih Premier Roburts at the helm some ol his supporters will turn out to be quile different mcn than in the past When Mr Frost led the house he LED There was hardly man on the PC side who really wasnt scared still of him And this of course showed There was blanket over the its influence on themthough probably more on the Liberals than on the CCF CCF leader Donald never hesi tated to swing freely at Mr Frost and pobnbly held back very little because of the ex premiere presence Most of the Liberals howov seemed to be affected by nity when they were talking about the then leader of the gov crnment and didnt exactly say what they feltor not all of it Now that there is new pre arty NDP lender MacDonald Euler in addition to his new will probably have an added bit of energy in his swings And the Liberals used to faclt ing Mr Roberts first as pri vate member and then as de parlmental minister should losg any tendency to be overawed BIBLE THOUGHT The Lord preserve thy poi ng out and thy coming inPuilm 1215 As we go out of our homes and come into them and allthe day long Gods presence assures us of safety security nd peace Take him as your daily guide counsellor and friend Blackesi Year On Fleet Street LONDON Reuters The General Council of the Press Britains watchdog body on newspaper ethics said in its annual report today that 1931 has been the blackest year in the history of Fleet Street Londons newspaper centre During the year five major Fleet Street newspapers closed down They were The Empire News The News Chronicle The Star The Sunday Graphic and The Sunday Dispatch Heres ii Deer Who Hunts The Hunter Who Hunted EyHCHARLEs GEREIN WINNIPEG CmManitoba hunters have an extra reason to reflect on the game laws these days as they line up their sights on deerespecially if the animal stares back with an unusually sharp glint in its eye Its the result of the case of the conservation officer whose exasperation with Inightligbt ers led him to an ingenious if procedurally indiscreet method of embarrassing hunt ers who follow the illegal prac tice of atalkingtbeir prey at night it was Sunday night the eve of the Nov deer season open ing in the Sandilands forest reserve in southeastern Manit oba when the conservation 01 ficer put his plan into action He set up borrowed stuffed deer with reflectors for eyes as decoy3it was placed in the brush alongside road near Sartopeo miles southeast of Win nipeg after dark The officer hid nearby EDITOR LEGION AND TAX Dear Sir The executive of this Branch wish to thank you for your in teresting editorial relative to the Sales Tax on Remembrance Daywreaths As we get further away from the two holocausts that saw tre mendous sacrifices made by our fellow men it would be well for us to ask what is the signifi cance of the Poppy As most people know war affects people different ways we aer cognizant of the fact tht many returned maimed and with loss of limbs but by and large there are also tremen dous number of veterans who also require sustenance and whose offers are only begin ning to show up 14 years after the war Our Branch Poppy Commit tee has excellent administra tion at the local level and does an excellent job of alleviating distress to all veterans who do sire it Your continued interest in Branch 147 is very much ap preciated and let when this Ontario sales tax will shortly be repealed Yours very truly Kcake President Soon the brighteyed deer drew the first shotsprema turely of the 1961 hunting season car drew up and caught the flash of the reflecb ors in its headlights With lights trained on the de coy the occupants got out and opened fire Out came the offi cer and arrested them By the time the shooting subsided at 130 arn two other autos and their occupants had been caught unawares hy the decoy The hunters had shown intent to break four regulations by shooting out of season shoot ing on Sunday and using lights for night hunting All guns and cars were con fiscated Mines and Resources Minis ter Whitney expressed sympathy for the conservation officer in his efforts to stop the nefarious practice of nights lighting can well understand his ex neperationand sympathize with his efforts to stamp out nights lighting But much as would like to see nightlighters brought to court it is my opinion that we must exercise proper pro cedures to do so N0 CHARGES No charges wereleid Game director Malaher said the cars have been returned but he is still awaiting the attorney generals decision on the guns Mr Whitney promised that every means at his disposal would be used to stamp out the practice of nightlighting The fact is however that while there were no convictions as result of the decay inci dents there was certain det errent effect in what the con ser ation officer did The em barrassment of the hunters in volved will make others think twice before blasting away in the dark at pair of flashing eyes And if it was any consolation not one of the shots fired at the decoy deer that Sunday night hit its mark TRAIN HITS MAN WINDSOR CP The visit schedule of Governor General and Madame Vanier was de layed Thursday when their train struck 7iyeerold pedestrian near BellaRlver The pedes trian identified as Dolphus Lu chapells 71 of Belle River is suffering from possible frac tured skull and shock moor man or Fear Boys In School Will Get Preference 3y Mm HOOD Special Lend England Correspondent fer The Burl Examiner LONDON One of Britains ancient schools the Blinks Foundation Girls School found ed in 1719 is to become co educational school for the sec and time in its year history But this change is be ing met with fierce opposition from its 50 girl pupils and their parents The proposal now being put through is that 530 boys be merged with the girls in classes The girls believe that the changeover will result in them playing second fiddle to the boys Their parents feel that the girls will be left by the wayside with too much preference being given to the boys The school well founded in rm through the generosity of brewer Henry Rainer It was started as coeducational lu Eutution but did not retain that status for long Since then it has been exclusively school for girls and boys classes taught separately and kept sep Illle MILE ECONOMICS The governors of the school now consider it viial for its future that it should revert to its original coeducational status and that the new move should prove successful Chairman of the Board of Governors Col Tong said that the board considered this change essential as matter of simple econom ics He said Naturally certain amount of tradition gathered over all these years is bound to be lost hutlunder our present sys tem we need two qualified te achers for one subject where one will do once the classes are mixed The boys parents raised little objection although they had to be reassured there would be no large scale exodus of teachers We took the view that under the new system we would be able to attract more staff of the right calibre GIRLB PROTEST The opposition to this change over was voiced by pfcfectEV eiyn Lees ls who said The boys will overrun the school and through their larg er numbers will be given pre ference They are already fav ored too muchund consider themselves superior to Another prefect Jessie Capp cr is laid The governors do not seem to realize that we girls like privacy We do not mind boys in general but having to mix with them while studying is the last straw PARENTS NUT CONSULTED Raiues Foundation head girl Christine Pattrick 17 said We are convinced that once education is introduced the byoe will take preference over the girls The governors obvious ly consider they have good reason but our parents should have been allowed to state their objections Instead they were simply told by Col Tong their views were not nec cssary The changeover with the closing of the girls scciinn will not be effective until Tees The male viewpoint was ex pressed laconlcally by one of the boy students 14yearold Peter Coote He likes the idea Sensibly he mused We dont really mind coed ucation Girls do brighten up classrooms No ilWar Precedent Exists Quebec iirmy Major ilsseris MONTREAL CWFrom all the fertile minds of military his tory from Alexander the Great and Hannibal to Rommel and Montgomery there is little guidance for Ma Fierre Gsrnenu in his soldiers task Mai Garneau is the Cana dian Array Quebec commands adviser on nuclear war prob lems and his job is to figure what the army can do to save lives and ease suffering in event of nuclear attack on this area Theres no precedent he said For everything else the army can go back through the manuals But this is creation all along the line And if we ever got involved in this opera tionin the real thingit would be gigantic The army has set up net work of 140 posts throughout Quebec to report nuclear deion etiuns and fallout and is mak ing plans for an organization that would conduct reentry and rescue operations lnan ares devastated by nuclear bomb PLANNING SURVIVAL Evacuation in the face of an attack is still the responsibility of civil defence but the army now has the job of planning sur vivnl in the areas attacked We can eliminate panic by knowledge apd proplanning says Maj Garneau This will Eive us selfconfidence and self discipline The fallout reporting posts would have the job of reporting radioactivity from nuclear blasts in the Quebec commends filter centres at Camp Valcnr tler so miles northwest of Que hec City Lland St Jerome so miles north of Montreal Some of these posts are being manned by police others by employees of public utilities and private firms Within oomile radius of Montreal mre specialized ports are being established in meas ure the intensity of light and heat of nuclear blast and to determine its location and fall out yield VITAL CENTRES lrom information channelled into the filter centres advice would be broadcast to the pub lic on possible escape routes and precautions to be taken against radioactivity After the blast would co the attempt to reenter the tacked area and to carry out rescue work In the case of Montreal this would be directed from the target area headquar ters at St Jerome The army estimates it would need 90000 men to reenter devastated Montreal Obviously says Maj Gar neau we would be relying heavily on help from civilian workers In fact were geared to take help from them and we feel people would want to help To THE ELECTORS OF one TOWNSHIP VOTE KENNETH GILCHRIST For COUNCIL Your Support Wlli BeeApprecleied ELECTOR of ESSA TOWNSHIP if You Have Sincere Desire For Progress ive Admihisiration and Believe We Should Have FIRE PROTECTION IMPROVED ROADS and STEADY TAX LINE ELECT PHILIP rcssna TO THE COUNCIL or EssA TOWNSHIP FOR 1962