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Barrie Examiner, 11 Dec 1961, p. 8

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By GERRY hieNEIL MONTREAL ICP Mayor Jean Drapeau promised to build and it looks as if hes going to do that Construction is to start next lpring on 2Hmile system costing 350000000 Completion is set for 1965 Main aim of the Metro will be to take pressure off boil ing mass transportation prob lem The problem is focused in on long area roughly 30 blocks sandwiched between the water front and Mount Royal One survey has shown that 80000 people will be working in twoblock radius in this area by next summer Three skyscrapers are near Ing completion and another 51 stnrey complex is in the planv ning stage REMOVE BUSES Besides the major commer cial and business districts this area also holds McGill Univer sity the Forum the train sta tions major hotels and hospiv tnls and many night clubs Parking and driving space is at premium The subway will mean 350 lumbering city buses can be yanked from these congested streets Tlle city will olfcr commuters free rides on the Metro if they park their cars in specially priced city lots at suburban stations UK Foreign Policy Is Hit By Critics And Shortage By ROI CURRIE LONDON CPIBritains de fence policy llampered by shage of soldiers is under attack at home and abroad Defence Minister Humid iat kinson says it can be repaired without resorting again to con scsiptinn NATO allies and the Labor opposition are doubtful and some say he policy should be rebuilt from the bottom The govern ents diagnosis of its military il and prescribed treatment will be outlined in the annual white paper on de fence next February At the heart of the trouble is lack of sufficient army man power in the ranks of the sig hat service corps ordnance electrical and mechanical engin eers As Prime Minister Macmillan told theHnuse of Commons re cently the armys weakness is not in the teeth but in the tail ALLIES ALARMED Reasons for the miscalcula tions that brought about this it state of attairs are many and Britain is not alone responsible But whatever the causes NATO at the United Kingdoms appar ent inability to hold up her end In the background is the pol Icy thesis of 1957 now closely II associated with the name of the exercises of the British Army late US state secretary Dulles which advanced the proposition that any aggression however limited would be met by nu clear retaliation The influence of this scheme of massive retaliation with less emphasis on the field sol titer was apparent in the five ll year plan handed down by the then British defence minister Duncan Sandys Sandys although he aban cloned conscription on the basis it of this philosophy must be credited with seeingtn some degreethe weakness of this policy earlier than many of his NATO colleagues EONCEDED POINT Before the plan was year old he conceded that instead of massive retaliation it would be possible in cases of limited and localized acts of aggression if Motown gown cit7th lonamos ssosr convaNrnNr loo rooms and suites with tub shower radio and TV Home of the Canadian Pump RoomDancing no nova an nitnlmum Ample free overnight Parking Fine Convention Facilitis lnmily Plan Iiixvanmvntur in nu truer TIIIphonl Eflpiu HEMTelex 1245 tMonrAL tslrptw UNivenity odoet OTTAWA IeIWl cinmt 53313 TORONTO to continue recruiting up to about 180000 But by 1960 it became evident this figure could not be reached until 1965 and compromise floor of 165000 and ceiling of 182 000 becamethe objective realized that even the floor was in danger 5000 SHORT end at 1962 when the Inst of the drafted national servicemen would have been leaving the allies are considerably alarmed army strength would be about lemmaJeoorshort of require ments to carry out its barest militarily in the alliance essential commitments called in with helicopter and other support to make the ma noeuvre possible 48 ANNE ST Alt Montreals Mayor Wants Subway But No More Tax place tern handle 175000000 passengers year of dodging by city councils CITY OWNS LAND nomy rest will consist of lines taken over from the CNR ter service on them through city will permit construction of singletunnel system avoiding the cost of centre partitionr The downtown line all un derground will run 38 miles from the Fomm at Atwater Street east to the densely pop ulated Frontenac Street area to spurs will hook south into the financial district Another underground line will run north on Berri Street to Metropolitan Boulevard at mile section of the TransCan ada Highway slicing across Montreal Island to resist with conventional arms or at worst with tactical atomic weapons confined to the battle field Although segments of the l957 policy will no doubt be aban doned with the presentation of the white paper early next year the damage has been done as regards depletion of the armys ranks by the cessation of conscription With the emphasis on nu clear weapons the war office hit upon the figure 165000 for its permanent army Later calc ulations proved the number too small for maintenance of its far flung bases and it was decided By early this year it was With present recruiting trends became apparent that by the The seriousness of the situa on was underlined recently by in Germanythe countrys mo tatar British jor contribution to NATO merican forces had to be Metros 34 stations all within 30 minutes of one another will 1000000 Montrealers within easy reach of the syn The to trains will be at to The low cost of the subway amazes Montrealers almost as much as the fact that it is EOlt log to be built after so years Three factors explain its eco Only 952 miles of the Metro will he underground The railway which now operates commu No major expropriation costs are involved Nearly all the tunnels and stations pass property owned by the it Use of narrow subway cars units attract sufficient recruits with the required qualifications certain degree The navy and air force and certain of the more glamorous of the army branches have zine millans comment gives the rea north from Central Station th ville the northern close to the downtown area and east ends ontor subway cars will be shorter and nor rower than Torontos but Mr Saulnier says they will hold it per cent more passengers WHEELS FRO PARIS The cars probably will be built in Montreal but their mblt oer wheels and control equip ment will be ordered from France where the Paris Metro uses the some equipment Mr Saulnier says Montreal will borrow about 65 per cent of the subway cost in Canada and the rest outside mostly in the United States Repayment is expected to take 40 years Mayor Drapeau says the no way will be the best possible at price Montreal can afford It will be the eighth largest in the world substantially longer than Torontos 45mile route There were charges that the army was desperately short of dri rs and that armored units could man little more than half their tanks In stop gap move to avert the unpopular reintroduc tion of conscription the govern ment decided to extend the tour of some of the remaining 50 000 national servicemen by six months beyond their expected release date This brought howl of criti cism and charges of discrimina tion on the grounds that it was being done on selective ba sis with only mcn in certain classifications being forced to stay on NOT BALANCED The loss of faith in the re cruihng plan was emphasized The third line Is based on the existing CNR system running The city also has made plans for future extension that will take Metro deep into the west Lucien Saulnier says the on dcrground lines will cost about $11000000 ts mile to build com pared with 20000000 for Tor lTHZMRRE heart of the city to Cartier boundnry branch of tin line will swing into the northeast of the city bringing its farflung suburbs the rolling stock will cost about 325900000 The subway MONTREHLS Construction Is to start next year on Montreals 8150000 000 214mile subway system Only 925 miles will be under ground Mag shows proposed routes in to first stage ot construction and eventual ex tensions broken Iinest Three lines are involved in the first stago plan One will run south of Sherbrooks Street for BAXTEB Mr and Mrs Roy Perry and Miss Nancy McKnight visited with friends in Creelhorn and Singhampton on Sunday lifrs Florence Denney and Mrs Bob Gray attended trousseau tea at the home of Mr and Mrs Norman McLeod Creemore on Saturday lt was given in honor of their daugh ter Miss Margaret McLeod RegN Best wishes for speedy re covery to Grant Dickson who is patient in Sunnybrook Hospi tal Toronto Mrs William Ryekman and Wayne spent the weekend with her father Wes Ruddick Mr and Mrs Bruce Edgar and family spent Saturday in Oriilia There were nine tables at the Euchre Party on Saturday night Prize winners were La dies high Mrs Fred Murphy Mens high fired Downey La dies low Mrs Monk Mens low Vin Walkom Lone hands Mrs Ruby Pinkerton The LOBA held th talla when Macmillan told the House Whatever the size or the army next year it will not be properly balanced The shortages were not in great fighting part of the arm but in the administrative Why is it first the army csn Snob appeal enters into it to ITD mg enough men Writes Cyril Hay in The See weekly maga difficulty get The very tone of Mr Mac on As in so many other see glltillIEKKKKKKIllItIllKKKKEEKKHKEKKKKKKKKWKKKW LIVE MODERN With eerenhoanoom PM Let us help in all jobs done THE BALL PLANING MILL mas Gift to your 11 appy to advise you on all or any con struction problem no obligation We use only the finest of building materials CO LTD mlhm ors of the national life it is mammainaam tic xs think ness that is IhECrlppling factor the in army recruiting th also themselves for the snobbery of the mess is often enough barrackroams intake from the recniiting office British more specifically ngltsh classconscious There is not only the gulf between thefighting and servicing units there is among the fighting units the gulf between he fashionable and the dreary reflected in the AMER MONDAY DECEMBER il SUBWAY PLAN miles underground booking south into the financial dist rict Another will run under ground along Berri Street to planned station at Cremazie third is based on existing CNR commuter lines running from Central Station to Car tlerville with branch swing ing out to Sault station CF Newsmap tion of officers and Christmas party on Wednesday evening number from here attended the annual fowl supper for offi clais and employees of Essa Township in Utopia on Wednes day evening Congratulations to the suc cessful candidates in the elec tion on Monday Mr and Mrs Willard Mooney and Darlene visited Mr and Mrs Mooney Thornton on Sunday Try An Examiner Want Ad PHONE PA 824 In hurry for money Just phone Beneficial Get the cash you want fast One phone call and one visit to the ottioe daea everything Call up or come in today VOURE THE BOSS AT BENEFICIAL 15 BAYFIELD STREET Phone PArkway 85931 BARRIE to month contracts on low em mo on to mac Your loan can or minim Heart Defects Are Problem With Premature Babies TORONTO CPtMany pre mature babies born with heart defects are doomed because doctors dont know how to op erate on them It hasnt been worked out here or any place else how to do this major surgery on these fragile bits of life says John Law administrator of Tor Thera is agreement that if lurgery could performed in the newborn age group lig nlflcant number of lives could be saved much more than from many other diseases that occupy our attention Already because of our con centration on thinand we are to maintain research on this problem and on 60 other projects the hospital spends more than it reocivsa for tbs purpose This year it htu nc cumulated an estimated deficit of $297000 research alone NATIONAL APPEAL By its annual Christmu at Iust crawlingwe are giving pen the hospital hopes at least gins Hospital for Sick Chil much better care and having to reduce this deficit much better result with our As Canadas leading centre It bke trying to run over premature babies Thats one of the reasons our research is so Important for 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