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Barrie Examiner, 11 Jul 1961, p. 2

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mommsmoms What Do You Of Cultural Facilities Here CECIL MEMULKIN Fir De partmeni Our cultural facil ities are inadequate for city of this size Better facilities would mean great expendi ture and the tax rate is high enough as it is However we should have facilities for con certs and conventions it would be awkward to put good play on at the collegiate auditorium but outside of the collegiates there is nowhere else to hold any cultural activity of site FLORENCE JONES house wife Actually there is not much in thele of culture in Barrie The Barrie Collegiate Band has certainly put Barrie on the map and these marvel lous musicians should be given every encouragement Apart fmm that Barrie is quite lim ited in its cultural indlitics lnnisfii Park is good spot for cultural evenings in fact hear they intend to present series of plays there soon RUSSELL DAVEY llYWCA Dlerctor There arent any North Collegiate is about all that might pass as cultural facility and it leaves much to be desired There are many groups who need somewhere to present their work to the pub lic However the cost of rent ing the collegiates sometimes prohibits regular engagements in spite of the inadequate tacit ities we have some excellent groups working here and they deserve great praise Rap Highways Dept On Land Value System TORONTO CHThe depart ment oflhighways was criticized bythrce witnesses Monday be fore Ontarios select committee on land expropriation All said department appraisers should changetheir system oi arriving lithe value of property Solomon Friendly of Tomato mechanical engineer said the department offered him $7200 for piece of land in Norval on Highway He refused and the department dropped the price to 600 The Ontario Municipal Board awarded him 750 He said the property required for bridge project was worth 08500 Because he has 32000 mort gage on the property he said have wound up with zero on piece of property that didnt want to sell in the first place Mr Friendly said he will chal lenge the boards award in the Court of Appeal Highways Cass chairman of the committee said an appraiser often offers too much and when corrected by his boss has to offer lower price Mrs Albert Jackson of Tor onto said the department offered her $31000 for her home when she wasy asking $38500 the amount it had cost her to ulid The property was require for widening Highway 40 Fred Speers the builder who had constructed the Jackson home called the departments action another example of the high pressure system used to get people to sign Mr Cass sold the department would accept an cheques re turned to it if persons in volved wanted to take their case before the OMB Donald Kirsch Toronto busi nessman complained that his hsifvacre property expropristed for Highway 401 was being ta ken at price that neglected the cost of landscaping WOULD cosr 310000 He said if he wanted to have the some trees and shrubs on his new property the cost would be about $14000 He suggested that the department establish value for landscaping based on the pricercbargod by nursery men TODAYS STOCK PRICES Compiled by Flynn 93 Dunlap St Barrie musmrar Ashefol 23 an orna Aluminium Alberta cu Atlas steal lb of Montreal Bank of Na Hell ri Brazilian as on nc Power cdnak ofCom can Breweries can as to pm Gt Lakes imp all Canada Cumnnr Wnd Can Chemical can on ConJlianSin Con Consumers Gas Dis Bell Labit Norud Guimar golllnlor ersAddtlon Lamqua liivan Falegnhrtdge Geco Mines Normetal opemuln Dom Found Dom stores ll Ebenring 0st Pow Hordes Farms llama Pit Home on Hudspnliay Min imp Tobacco ins Acce inter Nickel lntarprov Pipe Jockey can Map Powell Riv llllusey Perl h5$tgigei i1 Nor Ont NG Moore corp canw Pacino rm run Ff Gus NI an has ttaihmnns flnyal anus st st Corn Salads Shirt Sin sons Ei i°i El III stelnherg TorDeln or so TrIurCInPi 21 Trans at an no Truder Pill 54 Texaco es Union cu mt Walker new is is 17 silo as 10 moms Quemont sher Gordon stun stock United Oil Vultures wiirory 615 ml MOST active STOCK can Breweries out sengnms Dominica Lnnrur sliver lildiorc nd to bl 3m to iflfiifltm wiu ult 16c Nan asecexvvn Ill again sunspill ox dividend Aug is gt DOWJDNZI NEW YORK AVERAGE Industrial up LGZ Rllll down 13 Utllltlil down 01 TORONTO £1005 IXCNANGB INDIX Indus up 75 Golds down Mot down 31 Oils down 16 srocx MARKET Trading Light Industrials Tonouro or girl stock market recovered from ini tial uneasiness and was slightly ahead during light morning trad today Financial institutions were the biggest contributors to the indus trial boards general upswing with most gains in the fractional range Among food stocks Hardee Harms Loblaw and Mloeb were all up la the steels Dbl minion Foundries and Steel and PageHersey 0n theexcbange index indus trial rose 28 to 59106Iwbile golds slipped 07 to 3300 base metals 27Ato 1085 and western oils 35 to 0401 Volume was 501000 rshsres compared with132000 at the same time Monday Losses in the basa metals market were not severe but were widespread Gold trading was light with Holiingerreaching new high and thcnvbacldng off to gain dollar Western oll trading was light with few changes Volume waslow Monday with prices off The industrial index fell 322 to 59070 alter zigzagging all day while the final volume rested atl450000 shares 7000 fewer than Friday Financial in3 stitutions began failing in the morning and refused to Map Imperial Bank of Commerce had theworst loss down dol lar onebright llghtwas the new high of it reached by in dustrial Acceptance Corporation when it rose Ir Inthe utilities CPRpNorthero Ontario Natural Gss Gstineau Power and RC Power all had fractional losses Steal stocks which usuallyfollowthe market religiously were aheadon the whole Gold trading was light but seniors gained steadily The committee ls studying Bill 120 legislation that provides Milenaexpropriation laws for all government departments and agencies Charles Jones Progressive Conservative member for bomb ton East objected to property owner sometimes having to pay costs of arbitration Lloyd Leth erby Conservative member for Sirncoe East said public au thority should be established to act for the property owner so he would not have to pay any of the costs The com mittee appointed early in 1000 ended publlcghear logs Monday It has heard ill brlofs and will report its reev ommandstlons to the next sit ting of the legislature Simone 4Hers Visit Gall District Some 190 4Hclub members from South Simcos visited the Waterloo cattle breeding unit at Waterloo the test sta tion for swine at Waterloo the Ontario Agricultural College the Coop feed plant and the Co op dairy all located in Guelph Several of the 4H Club leaders accompanied the tour though Simone County has had its share of rain and hey is not as for advanced in growth as it is normally at this time of year haying op eratlons are progressing favor ably farmers througho the county are now using hay conditioners and these machines may cut down fieldcuring time by as much as one to two days considerable amount of forage has been stored in silos as grass silage With favorable weather conditions haying oper atiinns should soon be complet Nows the tlme to clean potato storages and equipmen advised Dick Goodln of the Ontario Department of Agricul tures field crop branch Disin fectants include per cent lysol solution and the quarter nary ammonium compounds used by dairies sack of lime sprinkledon the right places will kill od ors Get rid of old sacks dirt dumps refuse water and dis card potatoes Theyre good sources of potato diseases MAUREEN CAMPUSSON stenogrspher The cultural WILLIAM McIVOR Mailman if we are going to encourage level is limited and there are cultural activities such as Sun not enough interested people to days effect any mmiderable change We do have activities such Vided There are no the small art group which dis plays arts and usftr What is mass bands concert adequate facilities must be pro Pm facilities at present if we are to have better facilities money will have to be spent That needed is large ball The seems to be the problem The arena is not suited to cultural facilities are needed and want activities because its reeks of ed but if they are installed hockey Something must be taxes will rise again Who provided CAPSULE NEWS MONTREAL CPCompany and union negoiisting teams were to meet today in re nswed bid to avoid strike of 000 Trans Canada Air Lines flight attendants scheduled for Friday July ii The joint session of rapresen tatlves of TCA and the Cana dian Air Line Flight Attendants Association CLC was arranged by special federal mediator Eemi Duquette who opened the lastminute round of talks last Thursday on the invitation of Federal Labor Minister Starr Protests Election MONTREAL CF Harvey Grotsky who says he was re fused nomination to the Prot estant school board of suburban st Martin because he is Jew lsh said today he plans to con test the election ofboard member William Henderson Mr Grotsky contends he so tually won the election last week Union Man Freed DETROIT APi judge freed union business agent of assault and battery charges Monday declaring Ifpeople want to break strikes they have to take their chances Recorders criminal Court Judge John Ricca freed Dusan Voriiapich 32 of charges that he beat supervisor of ianiv toriei service that was on strike Store Robbed TILISONBUM CP Safe crackers escaped with $2500 in cash and che uqes from safe inside vsut in the health department store here during the weekend They missed 84500 in another sale which they failed to open The thieves drilled their way into the walkin vault andgot one safe open Their drill broke on the other safe Mutual Assistance TOKYO AP Communist China and North Korea today signed assistance treaty pledging full military sup port to each other ii either corm try is attacked Premiers Chou Enlai of Com munist China and Kml llSuug of North Korea signed the pact in Poking the Communist New China news agency reported WEATHER FORECAST Forecasts issued by the Tor onto public weather office at am Synopsis The tle weather pattern over Ontario has become stagnant Warm and increasingly humid weather with thundershowers will occur over most of the province on Wednesday Lake Erie Lake Huron Nin gara Lake Ontario Hsliburton regions Windsor London Ha milton Toronto Partly cloudy and warm with increasing hu midity today and Wednesday Isolated showers or thunder showersboth days Winds light except southwest 20 each after noon Georgian Bay AlgomaSouth ernWhite Riverlimagaml re gions North Bay Sudhury Snuit Ste Marie Va ria ble cloudiness with scattered show ers and ihundsrshowers today and Wednesday little change in temperature Winds light Northern White River Coch rana regions Mainly cloudy with showers and tbundershow CAMPBELL LTD Furniture Moving and Storage Commercial Warehousing Agents for North American Van Lines rs 370555 North l3 Moosonee ers today and Wednesday 15 humid and not quite so warm Wednesday Winds light Forecast Temperatures Low tonight high Wednesday Windsor 66 05 st Thomas London Kitchener Wingham Hamilton St Cathari Toronto Peterbornug Trenton Killaloe Muskoka Sudbury Earlion Kapuskasing White River ngssaeeeeaeane SS Mario AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION Have your automutlo tuni mission repaired iy qusug on they fled mechanics also flnullcn Ill wnrk Ind parts here Morons see asylum in PA sssio wants to pay the bill Essa Gives Nod Federal Mediator 10 name or Contract Essa Council last night awarded $14400 contract to Edward Daron Construction of Barrie The contract calls for the construction of rigid frame bridge 24 12 32 on Side roud so at Concession winged box culvert 10 40 on Siderond 25 at Conces sion and an eight toot ex tension without wings to both ends of culvert on lot 15 at Concession The contract is divided into the three mentioned parts Dor an Constructions bid was $0 su for the first part $3007 for thewinced culvert and 31827 for the extension Other bidders were Arnolt Construction of Arthur $101 liarJohn Construction of Rich mond Hill $14000 and Reeves Construction Mount Forest 515 5l2 The municipality will supply the dry cement and reinforc ing steel as is the practice in Essa Joint Committee To Study Sewage City council last night clear ed the way for committee consisting of the city manager the city engineer PUG man ager and PUG angulaer to meet and make detailed study of fourpoint program to ease wa ter and sewage problems prev lously approved The proposal callSior trunk sewer to be con structed between Toronto and Steel streets at cost of $400 000 21m carrying out of tests on waste and sewage locally to detomilns the best ways to bring it to level consistent with economical secondary treatment Proceeding with the en gineering design of secondary sewage treatment plant esti mated io cost 5980000 and Discussing the feasibility of combining the management of thesewaraga and water sys tems ln the city and to discuss the best method of financingthe secondary sewage treatment and trunk sewer construction whether by taxation sewer rot es or combination of both Gravenhurst Boy Crushed By Van ldyear old Gravenhurst youth Ronald Hill David Street was kllledearly yester day afternoon when the van box was driving left the road hit rock in the ditch and overturned Hill driver for Bracebridge Dairy was driving north on the Hill Lake Road five miles east of Highway us when the accident occurred Provincial police who investi gated said Hill was pinned bo neath the vehicle sfterlt over turned my EXAMINER Wm sns Phone Pa 81416 Sines iron the store at John St Store Hours 000 pm MONDAY FRIDAY in Address City PROM HIGHWAY 400 Exit Signs To Barrie Stirs Council Uproar rewmniendatlon from the fire and traffic committee of Barrie City Council calling for meeting with provincial of ficials to ask better illumination ofthe three interchanges on Highway 400 leading to Barrie street exits caused minor eruption among members of council last night The remnunendation lnoor pornied in the committees reg ular report to council aparked Alderman Cooke to say he believed it should also point out the need to identify the present exitsasleadingiothscityof Barrie TRAVEL PAST He added that many motel and tourist operators andmer chants in the area felt that be cause of the lack of such signs manypeople intending to enter the city travelled right on by and didnt return Alderman Hersey said This has been discussed by the committee but didnt want to do anything to detract from the favorable trcrmlznt Harris is al ready recev respect to ap proach signs along the high way Aidcmian Roberts in terrupted am glad the older man added something aiter the words didnt want to do any thing He added that he thought the Drury Lane Petition 0n curbing Stalls Work lls council Debates Barrie City Council last night attempted to comeio grps and act on petition from large number of rate payers on Dmry Lane request ing that new curbing already allocated be constructed on line other than where the work is presently contemplated Various members of council expressed fear that the propos als of the ratepayers would lead to future troubles in res pect to ssibio property dam age dur ng snow removal and street salttng operations Council was informed that about 50 feet of curbing had been completed on the street but that work had been order ed halted on the project last Friday when the petition was received Williams Public Works chairman toldcouncil that there was sidewalk on only one side of prury Land and that at no time had residents expressed wish for one on the other side Speaking on the petition he said that lar go number of property owners had expressed via petition that the present curbing plans he Death Accidental Is Jurys Verdict In Bakerv Inquest WASAGA BEACH Special Jack Barker 54yearold WldDW er who operated group of cabins at OakviewBesch west of here died of injuries sustain ed when hafeli down flight of stops and hit his head on recreation room floor on Rotarians Open Pool Inlllliston amnion The Rotary Club opened the fswcets and let the water flow into the large pool at Riverdale Park here Earl Giuoy will be the dir ector in charge of thepool as listed by lifeguards frnmraoo am to noon and pmto 630 pm daily Completely new flush toilets have heeninstalled as well as dressing house eonstnicted of cement blocks It is expected that thousands of swimmers young and old will take advantage of these swimming facilities The Rob ary pool also offers educational instruction in swimming and it is expected that more than 800 children will attend classes this summon Children have been enrolled from Cookstown Thornton Newton Robinson Beetoa dis trict Rosemnnt Baxter Elm grove and Alliston worth at uafllercraft Ku nds limp division or Hurryl Bringltbls couponto pllel from Cllrlso and POV Children under to must be accompanied by an adult imit one per customer expires Julyu lost Lu COOKE Tourism Hurt committee had been sitting on the problem much too long with no action resulting Alderman Hersey somewhat annoyed rejoined resent that it is the second time some thing like that has been said Mayor Willard Kinzie inter iected at this point that Mr Hersey was out of order and that Mr Roberts had the floor After few more words Alder changed to move the curb to within two feet of the prop erty lino onthe side of the street lacking sidewalk Alderman Wilson told council that the petition was majority one and was support ed by neariy 00 per cent of the owners involved Alderma Morrow cau tioned council not to not too quickly on the motion saying that he feared It might lead to problems later on when snow removal operations and road sailing could conceivably cause some property damage Council agreed to refer the notice aldermanlc represent aiives from Word in which the street is located and ask ed that they meet Wm pmp erty owners to further discuss the problem HAVE DAUtnllTER HOLLYWOOD AP Brit ish actress Jean Simmons and her husband director Richard Brooks are the parents of daughter born Sunday at Cedars of Lebanon Hoslfltal The child weighed four pounds lb ounces inquest Jury heard Monday aft ernoon The sixmad jury returned verdict of accidental death The body of Mr Barker was found June more than week after drinking Party in which he is said to have been iniured At the May 27 party Mr Barker and Col lngwnod man struggled at the top of the staircase over lirevcraeker incident and the widower toppled down the flight of stops to the concrete floor below In summing up Monday Crown Attorney Thompson said The whole sad affair was the result of over indulgence in alcohol carelessness of people participating in the par which resulted in action on the part of Jack Barker and that action resulted in strug gle with Hudson Herbert Hud son of Collingwoodl and they both fell through the doorway Dr Chester McLean palholnlt gist said MruBarker died of at fracturaof the skull Which caused hemorrhage beneath the scalp Dr McLean said if Mr Barker had received med ical attention immediately as sumng there were no oiher injuries it might haverbeen man Roberts resumed his seat and therrport was received by amended motion which included the provision for the request for better identification of the city at the interchanges Strike Delaying Rocket Project MS VEGAS Nev AWThe United States project to put nucleahpowered rocket on the moon is being delayed by plumbers strike sn Atomic En orgy Commission spokesman said Monday Plumbers in southern Nevada walked out June in wage dispute About 100 of them are employed at the Nevada test site 90 miles north of here They turned down management package proposal of 15 cents an hour over two years Employ ees wanted five cents more They currently get basic pay of $44m an hour 16 Air Cadets Go To Trenton Barrie 101 Squadron of the Royal Canadian Air Cadet Lea gun will be represented by 16 cadets and three officers at the air cadet summer camp in Trenton next week The cadets will leave Barrie early Sunday morning They will be accompanied by Flying Officers WestgarthTayior SIT Young and Hugh Rid Squadron Leader Jack Oates will join the group for the sec ond week CiilliilElt nor Patrick Corlett 11of 199 Wel llhgton Street East has been carrier boy for The Harris Ex nliiner for about year and Patrick is in grade seven It Codrington Street School Geog raphy is his best sobfect Pat rick is especially interested in that part of geography which follows the test when he know We passed it As newspaper carrier Pat rick meets many nice people He has about 73 customers He uses the money be earns from his route to ve for an education guess doesnt mind the time the route requir es becsusa there isnt too much else to do except play and as Patrick said get enough time to play reader of mystery an science storieS Patrick find The Mystery of the Desert Giant quite good He has no plans for his grown upyears and feels he is too young to guess right now paooucr TORONTO top Cburning cream and butter print prices were reported unchanged today The egg market wa steady with offerings adequate for light demand Cnuntry deaiers are quoted bythe federal department of agriculture on Canada grade eggs delivered Toronto in fibre cases large 4540 medium 4142 small 20 and grades no market Butter prices Canada first grade Ontario tenderable 03 uontenderabla 01 in light possible to assist recovery trading western ominominsl mlnloacm so Candles ad East and IPA soon Midland Penetsng Elmvale Phonemic 11m No rain came

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