Barrie Historical Newspaper Archive

Barrie Examiner, 22 Feb 1960, p. 2

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WOIELEY HELMET USED IN SOUTH AFRICA llr calls BillillEll Service Corps Museum Grows By MILAN KORCOK Examiner Staff Reporter The tall khaki clod guide leads the group among the showcases pointing out antique guns turn of the century Hussor uniforms manuscripts of World War ll diaries and hundreds of smaller items which have come into the Service Corps Museum at Camp Borden within the last two years The guide is W0 William Holtsauer custodian curator and one man stall of the museum Around himstand relics pertain ing to the Corps andwhlch he has collected in his two years work as museum master onetime mechanicin the Army Mr Holtsauer was al Ways interested in old articles wagons World War trucks and rifles When twoyenrs ago he was handed over the museumaad told to make something of it he felt he was being put upon dead horse lhoy tried this museum with several others and it never worked says lloltzauer and thought they vcre just trying to get rid at me sun st Tow Plotted Costly motorist who was being towed cast on Barrles Steal Stract Sunday had $150 damage to his car when it swung into car parked at the side of the narrow road John Sands 50 2173 Dundas Street West Toronto said his car caughttbe lelt front tender of parkedcar owned by Jos epbEWlTliams liaSteel Street Ranked snow had narrowed the normally wide road to iust 15 feet HIT ANOTHER Williams7car was in turn shunted back into another parklt ed autoownedby Robert Mallion 12 Newton Street Damage to the two parked cars totalled $160 No charges wereJaid medium May Merge HAMILTON CPI The Na tional Council of the Young Mens Christian Association voted Sate urday toconsult with the Young Womens Christian Association of Canada to possible amalgamation Delegates from more than 100 YMCAS and YMCA YWCA acrossCanada voted to consider the merger report known as Dun lop Dewar commission report The document followed year of study under the direction of Gordon Dunlap oi Cobourg and the late William Dewar of Tor onto Sunday lilies Templin of Hamilton wasureelected presi dent New officers include llugh Waddali Peterborough vice president for the Eastern Ontario arcs Pool Laureate Honors Prinoo LONDO lowing ver John Mas leldpn lrth oia third child to thcpueen appeared in The Times 0n the Birthlol Son to Our overeisn Ladyule Queen unionism fol lags Boron intotearthly fort power and place Unseen your uoan Wings manymlllioned prayingshieids your cat promise blessings gather The love the hope he dogma net laureate But this was not the can Either the Army had great in sight into the kind of man Holt auer was or they were just ex trcmcly lucky lot in his two years he has made the museum regular visiting point for pass ers through Holtzauer estimates that 8500 has been the total amount he has spent on the works which now till large reconverted bar rack block lie got showcases from list ens courtesy of the manage ment where some people would have paid Moo for the restore tlon of turn of the century kit chen wagon Hnitzauer went to the Mennonite country around Elmira and bought an entire set of authentic wagon wheels for Donations of uniforms from aged soldiers who served in the Hualars and Cavalry have add ed good deal of color to the room Among die treasures on dis play is rifle found by the WW troops in or sands of Egypt in 1958 The gun probably of Spanish origin of 250 years ago has stock inlnid with gold silver and pearls MANNEQUINS Mannequins dressed in Hussar uniforms silvor helmets or Wor ley helmets worn by the Cana diantroops In South Africa are placed throughout the museum Records ot the war diaries are kept in is packing cases in the back of the room Photostatic copies of records of the Service Corpsfrornthe Boer War through the Korean War are kept under glass cases Statues nf soldiers carved in minute detail and costing $100 each arrayed in the uniforms oi the Royal Waggoners of 1794 are siso on display Mr Alloltzauer has alaomada room of trophies taken from the Germans PROPAGANDA room bearing huge swas tika flag contains agWorld War Spandau machine gun rilles halmets bayonets even propa ganda leaflets dropped to the Canadian Forces and special is sues of Life magazine pnnted bythc propaganda mills of Nazi Germany In any spare time he has lfoltzauer roads the history and the records of the Service Corps Here he finds the details he needs to round out his museum which is now becoming job for staff of men His attitude from two years ago when he thought he was be ing pushed out has greatly changed This is the highlight ofimy careerlhe hcams as sits down at his work be ch and starts work on the re oration of World War galsmask CARVED STATUETTES DEPICZI CHANGES IN cones sans Concert Season Ends With PleasingSoprano By TIM LLEWELLYN Examiner atoll Reporter There is hilarious Wblsh comedian now athhe height of his popularity in Britain who has line smging Voice Port of his act is to sing straight various operatic an ias Having completed some sucb song he immediately launches back into hisfool cry and manages to keep the audience with him in both moods They are appreciative as he sings hysterical when he re aumes his comic routine But he never mixes the two lieonoe sang Ncssun Dor man and before the audience had time to slartclapping as he finished on his last beautiful ly controlled nnle he fell straight overon his back Mary Mchlurray vho peered at the last Harrie Community Concert of the season Saturday night does not at any time fall flnton her back neither does she have comic routine but the American mezzosopraho does denionstrate similarly exr tenaive and surprising versa tility The packed Barrie North Collegiate auditorium heard her sing program that var 39 led from Mahler to Moorc The sopranos acting ability Each to Gershwin hot to mention folksongs from the Mississippi basin Ireland and Scotland IRISH ACCENT She sang dramatically in German evocativer in French and hauntingly in Bro zilian Her lsish accent and enunciation though they sounded as if they had cor tain debt toan Irish Walt Disney movie were as good as youll get from someone an lino GENERAL NACE PLUGGED Sm caused by plugged oil furnace brought Barrie fire de partment reels to the 400 Grill on Dunlap Street this morning Smelling smoke from the base mentMrs lrene Watson an employee at the Grill ran downstairs and saw that the oil furnaoe was plugged The firemen stayed until the furnace was working properly and the danger of fire passed Slight damage was reported AM calla MEEqu lh venueof the Barrie Art Chi meetingi on Wednesday Feb 24 has becnchanged Orl ginallyrscheduled to be held at BarriePublicr Library hall the meeting will now be held at St An shPresbytcrian lisll ill Paul azier VOrillla Wassoloi lat at St Andrews Presbyterian Churn ing Sunday Mr Lazler baritone sang Bucks dramatic ea Nat Ye oauuaunuywud the boys and girls junior choir of the church recently presented Jesu Joy of Mans Desiring directed and accompanied by Raymond Daniels fiEST POWDER SNOW Young skiers who traversed the hills of the Barrie Golf and Country Club over the weekend reported the best powder snow conditions this year 1960 Bradford St my my zoos not privileged to have been born in Erin lalc Miss McMurray who was accompanied by Toronto pi anist James Crag began her program with the familiar Thou That Tallest Good Tidings to Zinn from Handels Mossiah Here she demonstrated an ab most boyish treble quality in her voice and at othcrtimcs in thc aria one would have been excused thinking she was contralto One of Bachs more gentle and simply melodic pieces follomd Bist Du Bei Mir and it was here her excellent Germandiction was most appro printm After this reasonably Teu tonic and serious start she ended her first group with an aria from Mozarts Cosi Fan Tutte cheeky humorous song which hinted to the audience Urey could expect wide range of material dur ing the evening THE GAMUT As if to refute this idea Miss McMurrays next sclrc tion was dramatic rendition of four part Mahler poem Songs of Wayfarer in which the singer runs the gamut from bitterness to hope sorrow to resignation and control of voice were im prusiva in this difficult piece Then came complete change of course again with lyrical colorful aria by the romantic French composer SaintSacns from Sarnson and Delilalh where Delilahalter nately threatens and pleads with the pentup hero who does not wish to make pub lic theseoret of his strength To end up the first half of the concert she sang one ofCargt mens more scorniul and inaolent songs as shecleveriy frees her self from captiviiy The haughty Spanish flavor of this Bizet work was ably rendered even to the ewe tent of raome firfgei snapping and it was one of the high points of the evening LlGflTER SONGS The second half started with some lighter romantic songs Dvorak and Tchai kovsky and in the last Dvorak piece from Songs My Mother Taught Me she really enter 52395 iiil Ford give you wonderful new world or style serum and value See and test drive ord rmlrne It is yours for only slats any DOWN la Month To nu LTD cd into the gypsy vein viLh all it bouncing rhythmic Romany elements Having taken the cbmmun ity concertgoers through most of Europe she then tripped across to Brazil for some haunting impressionistic Vii llLobos material Her second song chant of thc Makumba Tribe with its weird chilling ellect sounded like the sort of thing one might hear while watching travel ogue movie of tribal life in South America in this group especially the last song her voice constantly changed from purposely harsh frightening tone to malndic almost lullaby ma terial withomazing alacrity sour somis Then she wcnt north for change with some of the North American folklore an aria from the Ballad of Baby Doe and My Mans Gone Now to Gershwlns Porgy and 3255 While Negro sing er is mandatory if justice is going to be done to the Ger shwin work Miss McMurray sang it more than pleasantly She was more at home with the Moore work Ballad how ever in which Augustais singing the blues about her tragic part in the life of her polygamous but muchloved husband soda ENCORES For four encores Miss Me Murray sang Irish Scottish and Negro folk songs and number from Carousel to complete an evening in which the audience was shown it takes an artist of top calibre to treat so competently such erosssec tion of vocal music Miss McMurray was born in Webster Ciby Iowa and stud ied music at Tanglewood summerhome of Boston Sym phony Orchestra Aftcr extensive study with Just say the wprdi my Youre the as at BEN ElCi EUBSARS GARE Holds Monthly Nearly 50 members and friends of Barrles German Canadian Club gathered together Saturday at Mrs Dyments home on High Street Barrie for some memories some dancing and what can be 005er described in Byrons war as ravclry by night The Gannon Club which now includes quite number of Cans Wendy Andrews Michael OBtechl lilo Top tlrolors Youthful orators Wendy An drews and Michael OBrecht will represent the Barrio area in the Knights of Columbus District 19 public speaking contest finals in Colgan March after winning the oratorioal contwt at St Josephs High School Sunday afternoon Combeting were eight con testaan Wendy Andrews came out on top with Mich ael DBrecht running close second and Susanna Wattiand Sheilah McKinnon tieing for third The topic which won Miss Andrews her laurels was Whats ahead for the lay apostolate In her impromptu topic she urged sympathy and understanding toward tcen agors Second place Michael Brecht spoke on Catholic Ede ucation and used his im promptu Atoms subject to discuss timely world prob lems The high standard of speeches was launded by head ludfla John Schmidt as he an nounced the winners The other judges were Mrs Sheppard and Father Black well time keeper was Eugene Ennis llhe other speakers on the program were Eileen OBri en Michael Kelly Raymond Moreau Charles Sosa Me Veigh and Mary Ann Stone The prizes were presented by Grand Knight John Woods The musical interlude was presented by Geraldine Caru so Monica Murdoch Danny Gorrlgall and Paul Grassland at the piano Andres Palestrina she made her professional debut in Brussels in1958 and has since been singing in concerts and ent and Europe POPES CEAUFFEUR DIES ROME Reuters Angelo Stoppa 68 chauffeur to three popes died here Sunday night He drove the first car ever used by popea gift halfcentury agoto Pius XI from Turin motor company AL Sun tinie is fun time and only BENEFICIALS Suluuza MONEY SPECIAL gives you cash for vacationcaahfor left over bills plua InternationalCredit Card to get cash wher ever you garat anyof 1160 loan ofiloea Phone today ismonth contracts on loans over $1500 and up to soon Loans over 5500 can be liteinsured at Beneficial canvanlont almondwhich ls nearest you Willi153 Id MMM PArkvlp 1D CHINAnigh MMMHW Jammie1153 in opera all over this oontin 111 COé onto bus More than loo people spent the night in Cookstown rum Numbersin local far mer took 15 people into his borne and Frank Webb it No Camp Borden cadets Lar ry Wardol Niagara Falls and Joseph Wilson of St Catharines wen asphyxiated in Frank Webbs driveway after they tinned down an Invitation to come inside Webb reported that he want tothccartoasktheminbut they said they would be all right Webb found them out more inl dead Coohtown residents were still shoveliiag their way out this If Private homers garages and community centres provided overnight rcluge for hundredsol motorists shaded by the now storm In the unborn part of Simone County radar night Bradford Town Hall playtd host to overnlghters when cars were stranded in the area lhe iodsuru mil Ikku made mamelves comfortable on the chairs and iloor and for the most part had warm shel cred night ihey started arriving attho town hall shortly ones too arn when the motels and hotels re ported no vacancies Bradford Ho went tothe with local laiddriver at corted back nine trmlina AT carillonown At Cookstown moat cal borne took in loot pusangera stranded on GermanCanadian Glob liero Carnival Party adlens with no German team tions at all meets monthly and this Carnival Party is an annual avdent which is eagerly anticipa lhe strong Germanic atmol phcre displayed in the vari ous carnivals held by the Deutsch has not been diluted by its sojourn in Canadaa country where carnival has sligh different connotation than at of its Gonnan cousin it is often German carnival will continue for threeor four days and while the Barrie clubs ellort did not last that long at least the spirit was willing jod ing by the general enthusiasm The party was of the museum ade variety and more oftenthan Gnuam not the soundof music wasEurA 1119 paper in an article men open1 tether then North Ameri ti ing several choices says Caliadaa special interest Despite the fact one or two would easy to arguelt was voices otGerman origin were during the Queens tour of that 13 quieter and more rutrain country that her condition be ed than normal Sunday morning name known and Mr Dieter its sale betto us than will baker was one or the first to be the same eager faces but sharethe secret next time The Guardians first choice Among those present was the however appears to be the Duke president of the club Rolf Eok oiYork it notes that this is the hart tradition for second sons Private homes took in othe An OPP car which got call to the Belle Ewart are got stuck and the unlucky coonte bier had towalk through the blinard They got their car back Saturdly morning The general store in Cools town was doing booming bush out from the hungry motorists llnke lillltlnwll Titlo Forlrinoo MANCHESTER CPTho poi slbllib ofJhe royal baby ulti mately becoming known as Duke of Ottawa is discussed by The llcrnsrs all now our 1960 Dog Licosm Fm agitation $400 tor nob male dog $150 for eeohzfemale dour $400 for ME spayed female dog provided vote inarya certificate is produced the license is purchased before April let the fees shall be 8300 and $600 respectively KennelLioenseJcea are $1000 and are required by anyone keeping more than two dogs Licenses for each dog must also be obtained unless the Kennel is registeredin the Registrar or The Canadian ken nel Oluo Since Penalties andmnea can now be imposed in accordance with existing bylaws you should on cleavour to dbtain your license as soon as possible at the Municipal Building Waugh City Clerk looo llcrnsrs now our and may beiprooured at the Municipal orifice Mu iotpai Building 84 Collier Street for the following Hairdressing Establishments Hawkers dz Pedlars Junk SalvageYards Dog Kennel Laundries Mobile Refreshment Vehicles Plumbers gt Restaurants Not Booths Becond Hand Stores Trucks Taxi other Vehicles Taxi Drivers Used Car Lots Dealers Theatres Since Penalties and Filnescan now be imposed in accordancewith existing Bylawsyou shoulders deavour to obtain your license as soon as possible at the Municipal Building Straughan City Clerk Automobile Wrecking Yards Billiard Pool Tables Barbeiv Shops Bowling Alleys Butcher snaps Goal to Wood Dealer Cigarette cigar 83 Tobacco Dairies Dogs Dance Halls and Public Halls Dry Cleaners Electricians Gasoline Outlets

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