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attic Executer 18 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario MONDAY DECEMBER nu Jan Barrie Joycees Urge Large Turnout Of Voters Election With the municipal elections in Barrie coming next week members of the Junior Chamber of Commerce are again putting forth an ailout effort to get the voters voters to the polls The apathy which has prevailed among our citizens as to who they believe should govern our municipal affairs is somewhat alarming Barrie however has not been alone in this apathy evidenced by the taxpayers Other cities and towns in Ont ario are having similar experience The lack of interest shown by the taxpay ers is certainly not encouraging to those who seek seats on the council or to be come member of the Board of Educat ion our largest spending body Many taxpayers groan when their tax bill comes in and then ex rear concern as to how their civic all are being managed Usually however those who ubllcly complain are those who show ttle or no interest in the civic elec tlons which will determine who will largely govern municipal affairs for the ensuing 12 months The Jaycees are to be commended for their effort to geboutthevota To make their drive success however they need the cooperation of every re sident whose name appears on the civic voters list Leadership Required The opinion of the Canadian Federat ion of Mayors and Municipalities that it is for the Government of Canada to de cide whether thelpelil of nuclear war is sufficient for an allout national pro gram for protection against fallout and if such an allout program is necessary only the federal government is in po sition to takethe strong initiative re quired to lead in developing and carry ing it out is receiving support across theDominion The Charlettown Guardian in Prince Edward island makes this comment on the proposal The problem cannot be left to the initiative of rlvate homeowners For the great majority of Canadians com munity shelters would be essential large part of the population are tenants of flats or apartments many live in insti tutions and there are grave practical dif ficulties in the ways assuring survival on an individual or family basis No all out program for national survival is pos sible unless construction is taken by the Federal Government as public res on sibility with provincial and municip go vernments and private enterprise coop erating The brief presented by the Federat ion notes that in the last war the United Kingdom bar to resort to this policy as protection against conventions bombing attacks and it would seem inescapable that similar policy will have to be re sorted to in Canada if as an assurance against the perils of possible eventual ity fallout shelters are deemed to be requirement for national survival Down Memory Lane BARRIE THE DAYS OF 1390 Going back with the oldtimers to days of 1890 in Barrie conditions were quite different to the present The town was most beautifully located at the head of Kempenfelt Bay on Lake Simcoe and at that time not connected with Allen dale which was thriving centre of the Northern Railway located on the south side of the bay and partly west Concrete or cement had not stepped outj except in small way and roads were all of gravel surface or sand Sidewalks were of twoinch plank and mostly of fivefoot length laid across two lines of scantling Much later con crete came into general use but at first was used for foundations and cousinch lion only or for well curbing Heavy boots wereworn and oxfords were 1qu shoes for party times With most buildings of wood construc tion the local fire brigade was active and thrilling sight with fine teams of horses in full gallop TIME FOR CALMNESS Minneapolis Tribune The American people can strengthen the3 presidents hand as he faces this tlrne of crisis by remaining calm refus ingto panic and giving him the unified support he so desperately needs Such reaction will in itself improve the chances that our present course will lead to peace rather than war CONTROL SCHOOL oosrs Peterborough Examiner The Ontario Municipal Board has conceded that elected school trustees have the right to establish standards for schools being built or altered in their areas This is in effect victory for the provinces school boards over the OMB which recently held up construc tion of several schools in Toronto be cause of their high cost The 0MB believes that it should be possible to build schools in Toronto for less than $16 per square foot The Metropolitan Toronto School Board claimed that it has the right to set standards above the The Barrie Examiner Authorized recand cllss mall Post Office Department Ottawa Ind for payment of peltll In cub Dlily Sundlyl Ind Statutory Holiday exelpted KENNETH WALLI Publisher nmAN SLAIGBA General Manpr McPHERSON Manling Editor crumbles WADGE Bullnell Manner nanny mason Adurtlllu MIDI 10er Roman annotation Mmlrur Subscription rate daily by carrier llc weekly more year Single copy 1c By mall in Ontario $700 year 1400 llx monthl 59 63 10ml month Outside Ontario 3900 year Outside cn 12000 your Offices 425 University Am Toronto clonen Street Montrsul ilae Welt omn strut Vancou Member of the Canadian only Newlplper Pub llrherr Association 11 cnnsdinn Press and on Audit Bureau of Clrculntlons The Canadian Press is exclusively entitled to tho USL for republicatan of 11 news dispatched in ms RIDBT credited to it or The Assoc me are or culary and lilo tlu lacl now published therein also promise remedial action Horses did all the heavy hauling with wagons and made employment for many teamsters and laborers The scraping and gradin wasalso by horsepower Rough lum er was plentiful and low priced but wages too were low with aborers getting one dollar per day for 10 hours of work Men with trade av eraged two dollars dailyi Half holidays were not even mentioned The gasolinepowered engine came later also rubber tires first of hard rub ber on the tall wheel bicycle and then the pneumatic when the automobile was develo ed bringing much em loyment owever did not help black The first bicycle had one very tall wheel with hard tire and tiny one be bind with the seat and handlebars on top of the wheel and it called for an ac robat to handle The tricycle was also on the go at the time but the bio cle with pneumatic tires finally beat em all out Eventually the gas engine pow ered this too GWH Other lEditors Views minimum if this is agreeable to local taxpayers The OMB has not given up the fight however and its chairman Ken nedy has promised he will continue to question school construction costs and try to persuade Ontario school boards that too often unit costs are higher than they need be Mr Kennedy pointed out recently that some schools can be built for less than $13 square foot in the Toronto area the Toronto school board claimed that these schools were of very low standard and consisted simply of walls and classrooms Between $16 and $12 there must be unit cost which could be satisfactory compromise The 0MB may have been overstepping its authority in questlo the boards plans but we suspect he school board will look at its costs little more closely in future TWO MONTHS OF SALES TAX Owen Sound SunTimes Three months after its inception great deal of the hue and cry about the Ontario sales tax has died down Some of the early kinks are being worked out Indeed some of the kinks disappeared rapidly as retailers and buying public like became more familiar with the air There are still some flaws Govcm ment leaders admit as muohbut they Like new shoe that is finally broken in the sales tax doesnt pinch as much as it did initially This doesnt mean that thevpeople of Ontario have fallen in love withthe tax Many would just as soon see it rescind ed But the people have become used to it and to why it was imposed As the late Fioreilo La Guardia fam ous New York mayor once said The sales tax is wholly wrong except for one thing it raises the money we need THE IRON collocation orrawa arponi llskingToo Much Of senate Members By PATRICK NICHOLSON Events of 1961 have provoked perhaps the most vigorous dis cussion in living memorycars tainly in any postwar yearon the subject of the Senate The Senates committee on manpower and employment did magnificent work examining one of Canadas gravest prob lems Through the winter it held 23 meetings and after hearing much expert evidence It pro duced report which ranks among the most thorough em hosting from any parliamentary committee over many years Then the Liberal majority in the Senate attracted some head lines for its mangling of the governments tariff Ibilibend lines which may be clearly paid for by Canadians whose jobs cannot now be saved by the powers sought by the Diefen baker administration but denied it by those Liberal senators Shortly thereafter the Liberal senators voted to call the gov ernment of the Bank of Canada before committee alter the House of Commons in its wis dom had decided that public criticism of the peoples chosen government should come if at all from the duly elected parlia mentary opposition and not from the peoples hired help Our senators won their fourth headline this year by way of criticism of the nonappllcation to their work shown by certain of their number This raised the question whether senators like our judges generals civil ser vants and just plain Joes should not retire from their ac tive labors when attaining an age which normally diminishes their effective performance UNUSUALLY OLD GROUP This fourth headline was prompted by the perhaps unpre cedented array of grey hairs in our Senate Probably never be fore has old age caused such large temporary emptying of glen parliamentary Red Cham write temporary because most of the notable absentees do return from time to time for brief appearances must write probably because the oilicial record of Senators attendance is not made public The scorecy swornproceed ings of the Cabinet are in fact less closely guarded than the secreted total of senators at tendances at their labors no civil servant has been known to dare to leak the senators at tendance total not the people of Canada should be entitled to know the facts and this column is now ableto summarise some of the significant highlights re ferring to the past session BONE AIL SOME AGE The Senatermet on 92 occas ions No senator is as aids in years but 55 senators or more than half the Senate achieved an attendance totalling less than their years Four Liberal senators died during the serslomAmong the others ll Liberals together re corded only 105 attendances Five senators are over 85 and theyall Liberalsaveraged 33 attendances each Their total of 161 attendances was exceeded by Just two Conservative septua genarlan stalwarts from Sask atchewan Senators Homer and Aseltlne who together made 16a attendances The best attendant was Al hcrtas Scnator Buchanan ltl9tlmes Club on his heels was Mrs Olive Irvine of Mani toba in PEls best showing was Senator MacDonald as Quebecs best was Sen ator Mark Drouin an All these are Conservatives in fact in in tenparty rivalry the Liberals showed the best attendance rec ord only in Ontario Senior Roebucke7 and Sen ator Veoiotlm in every single fiveyear age group the Conservatives outot lended the Liberals The over all record showed the average attendance of the few Conserva tive Senators to be 73 and of the many Liberals tobe only 56 More than 21 absences dur ing session exposes senator to deduction of $60 per day from his parliamentary pay on loss his absence was caused by illness or government business out of town These figures suggest that Canada is asking too much of these older citizens for time must come when the mind makes commitments the body cannot meet QUEENS PARK Euromari Boon To BC McGregor VANCOUVER CPIA senior British trade commissioner said here Sunday the European Com mon Market may prove boon to British Columbia Kenneth McGregor said in an interview lumhcr sales in Eu rope had already climbed be cause of increased buying power Economic adviser to the Brits ish high commissionerin 0t tnwo he said even if Britain joins the European trade group the outlook is for bigger more flourishing market in Europein which Canada could share Iesi Supposin Supposin that all family cats Refused to disturb hungry rats All the grub would soon fail Move the world wan and pale with the wind whistling through Their poor slats AID FOR TOURISTS Motoring tourists visiting the Republic of lreland may drive with the driving licence of their rown country Would Bar Public From committees By non onnadu TORONTOOuch This hurts There has beentalk in the House about extending the work of the public accounts commit tee Premier Roharts expressed an opinion which was not unfavor able But the premier did have one reaction which was alarming This was his obvious prefer ence to have themeeiings of the committee closed He feltthis would keep the committee from being used for political witchhunts NOT IMPORTANT This perhaps is the first major key to his principles that the new premier has given out And It isnt reassuring His reasoning one would say is honest enough From what is known ofhim he is not being guided by fear He would not want this com mitteeor any others closed particularly because of political damage that might be done With him we are sure it is matter of efficiency He feels the committee would get through itswork more read ily if the temptation of public audience were taken away from its members The great political struggle of today is to keep principle first and efficiency second where this side of the iron Curtain has traditionally put them And one would gather that to date at least this is not impor tant to Mr Roberts THE PEOPLE If you followed the premiers thinking through the end result would be to put Parliamentiitz self in camera This would put an end to great deal of political witch hunting And it undoubtedly would increase efficiency But it also of course would leave us with political system which had head but no body What our politicians most overlook in these days of pres sure when it is perpetual ruggle to get the business of crnment done is that our po litical system is THE PEOPLE as whole in action Under it the least bum is as politically important as Taylor or the president of the University of Toronto This political equalityis one of the systems main routs And the system can only be effective it this is recognized and most important if every ongof the people has full in formation on the activities and proceedings of his representa tives and his Parliament and the offshoots of it such as com mittees which are as much part of government as Parllalt ment itself The roots of democracy are relatively simple But its tree is widelygrowing and complex And if you dont know these roots and nourish them you cant keep the tree healthy BIBLE THOUGHT As we have opportunity let us do good untoail men Galatians 610 It is the function of Gods people to work with Him in building better world This can be done bydisseminati ng and living the will of God in all our daily contacts Over owne in Canadci 51 COIIIPIRVII GASO th as REPORT FROM UK Would Use Copiers To Link Cities By McINTYRE 1001 Special landed England Correspondent for The Barrie Examiner LONDONI proposal to set up network of helicopter landing sites throughout the British isles is now reaching the action stage This is scheme to sci up over 500 such landing sites to link up the our jor towns and cities of the Una lied Kingdom Planning per mission is nowbeing sought from local authorities for these sites The applications for the 500 landing sites for helicopters are all being made by one man He is MCommander William Beaks He had just completed survey which has taken scv enyears to locate suitable landing sites in all parts of the country To HOLD EXHIBITIONS LleutCornmandcr Books is also going ahead with pro ject to make the public parti cularly in London aware of the possibilities of helicopter travel He is trying to arrange inter national helicoptcr exhibitions in be held at Crystal Palace and Alexandra Park on July of next year public inquiry is to be held at Wood Green into his applica tion for permission to hold the exhibition and set up the heli port sitcs AIRCRAFT BUS STOPS Among the other cities in which lentCommander Bucks is seeking permission to estab lish sites are Manchester needs York Liverpool Fly mouth Southampton and Bris tol in his applications he has emphasized that the land should be leased free of charge He also gives an undertaking that the sites will be used only for picking up and landing passen gers Explainimg his scheme he laid dont want hellporu with buildings and pumps all over the place only want the sites to be used as the equivalent of bus stops by the operators of the aircralt This would mean less noise for people residing near the sllcs and at the same time it would providecheaper travel ECONOMICAL OPERATION meatCommander Beaks has done considerable amount of figuring on the economics of helicopter bus service if his scheme is given the support of the local authorities he figures that passengers could be flown at one all ng or about 15 cents mile Viliiout landing charg es to pay and without the neo cssity of staffs to man the lit es the helicopter operators he feels would eventually be able to carry pailsengers at sixpence seven and half cents mile He said have taken those steps in an effort in hiring down the cost of travel Fin my opinion Bri tain is well behind the rest of the world in helicopter travel which is safe and inexpensive Helicopter pilots would be like taxi drivers and would be able to pick up passengers and set them down at the stops nearest their destination at the helicopter bus stops At present there is only one authorized bleliport in Britain on the River Thomas at Batter scn and it La admittedlyopen ating as an experiment to find out if lurthiir heliportr would serve useful purpose Pianist Plans To Settle Where Hes Just Unknown SIENA Italy CF Dale Bartlett Canadian pianist winning acclaim in Europe but virtually unknown in Canada plan eltle permanently in Twilig Montreal later this yea Bartlett 74yearold native of Lethbridge Alta has been in Europe since 1953 He has studied in England and ltaly carrying off some of Europes most coveted music trophies Music critics of British and italian newspapers have ac claimed his rare gifts of in terpretation incisive fi nesse flawless technique Dales career began in his native Lethbridge at age four Under the coaching of three early teachers Jacques Joins Max Pirani and Bel Eoszor minylNagy he captured top honors at the Toronto Royai Conservatory of Music and won first place in Albertas Bach Festival competition BIG OPPORTUNITY Before he had reached 16 Dale won athreeycar scholar ship to the itoyai Academy of London and studied under Vi vian LnngrishAt the academy he won the llicFerren gold medal one or the schools most coveted prizes along withthe Royal Academy student follow ship and that Owen prize for special merit This led tol series of per formonces for the BBC and concert tour that included Lon ham Belfast and other major centres in the United Kingdom Rohan de Siamm noted sin halese violinist attended one of the recitalszriod offered to ac companyBartlett on the re mainder of his tour They per formed togctlaer in many of Londons best known concert halls including Covent Garden and Albert Hull But italy hes been his home since he arrived here in 1959 At the Chlgiaua Musical Acad emy of Siena one of Europes most renowned musical schools be studied under Guido Agost and Alfred Ciortut and per formed briiiiantly with lfull orchestra December Invesiltmertt 176 Wellington Street out Our December Review and Seciurities List contains an ntuactive selectlion of bonds and shares to assist in the iluvests ment of year end iunds The Review can itains information about Canadian Iiaritish Aluminium Company Limitedanii the results for its last 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