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Barrie Examiner, 14 Mar 1970, p. 4

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Ellie Sherrie Examiner Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited 16 Bsyeld Strut Barrie Ontario Walls Publisher Kerry Lunbls General Manager MoPhlmn Managing Editor Scope Mans Once guaranteed annual wage becomes fact mane benefits become less 1m rtant and emphasis is placed else ere Already there Is evidence that unions will be asking more and more benefits that are nonmble and among them will be an increase in leisure time The fourday week is not too far away and the fourweek vacation ta here already Consequently the shift of em basis may well be away from actual bor to more soulsatisfying use of leisure time indeed there may well be federal dc partment of leisure one day Just as there Ll now department of labor Presently psychiatrists tell us here dom is the greatest afiction of afuent and secure societies it is the principal cause of suicide violence unnatural vi ces drunkenness addition to narcotics even revolution Man can endure almost anything better than he can sustain boredom the fatigue of having nothing interesting to do Similarily leisure that is mere idleness must become worse In the long run than even the most ex hausting labor Clearly thcn leisure in all its forms is the new challenge The time may well comeand in the not too distant future when federal money will have to be spent to provide more and more recrea MIUIIDAY MAINE 1m PAGE new Use Oi Leisure Challenges Imagination tional and cultural pursuits for Canadi ans Much of them will have to be pro vided free of char or at nominal sum People will ve to be 1110 tivated to enjoy and up reciate the arts and other finer things life preferably away from the television screen Einstein once said that imagination is more im rtant than knowlcd but imagination to be encourag and stimulated ggherwise man becomes mere vegeta While money can provide the Iphysical comforts of life it can never Ia sty the spirit production line worker may be exceptionally well paid but chances are he will never be happy at his job unless he has prime interest In life other than that which Is means to make money He needs something to whet his imagination and his inner interests At present most of us operate at an astonishin low efficiency of five or cent manage six er cent ut not many he years ahea then pres ent challenge for mans intellect to grow and ace the progress of the soci ety aroun him If machines travel at 1000 mph they are of little value it man can only think at 500 mph Leisure time could be the first step toward that brave new world It all de pends on how we use it Its gift no money can buy LETTERS TO THE EDITOR POLLUTION Dear Editor Can use your column to pass my opinion on pollutionf We look at the local smoke stack on Barrio Tanning and other chimneys 0min out tht we call poison am but let us III do back to corn farm or who uses Alruino on the corn Does anyone know that DOWN MEMORY LANE l5 YEARS AGO IN TOWN Barrie Examiner March 14 1955 Town Council took first steps toward ac quiring city status At Collegiate Board municipalities given one month to decide on remaining part of district school area system Plans studied for new coil to in northeast end to cost about $15 000 Hockey fans excit ed as Canada regained world champion ship in Germany Penticton Vs winning honorbnch trotenunciated waiBrund and Cuffle were parents of tri let bears at William Stewarts Brook ale Park Barrie Collegiate Drama Club delighted audience with production of Life With Father Lead roles played by Jim Hansen Patricia Hamilton June Graham Bettylstafford Carol Payne Madge Churc Jim Muir ohn Pow cll Howard Lacey was director Mrs Hand of Parkside Drive won grand prize at anada Packers cooking school in Roxy Theatre sponsored by Lions Club Members sax hone section Barrie Collegiates prizew nnlng band at Kiwanis Music Festival in Tor onto were Dale Hodges Nancy Cameron Bill Norris Nancy Craig Bruce Danger field Wendy Clemmcns Bill Norris was first in solo class At Maple Leaf Gardens pandomonium reigned as Bar ries James Parker held heavyweight boxing championship of Canada for five minutes After 12 bruisin rounds Par ker was declared winner announcer Tommy McClure after defender Earl Walls of Toronto appeared bloodied and bruised in final three rounds on verge of being knocked out But judges came out an declared bout was draw and Walls retained title Public School Board offered old Victoria Central School play ound to Town Council for use as park ng lot Judge Gordon ll Foster presented report Simcoc Coun ty Juvenile and Family Court Mal colm Morrison launched annual Eas ter Seal campaign by Kiwanis Club Barrio Teen Town held hard times dance at Hillcrest School with Ken Connor and Joanne Reynolds in charge First Allandale Scouts presented Easter fashion show at St Josephs audi torium Mrs John Sturgess provided pi ano back round with Mrs Barbara Wheeler CKBB as commentator Barrte Skating Club plans for Inn at ice showsthrownlnto turmoans arr garct Nteld rofesslonaltand titer was rushed to 0an Victoria ital suffering from pleurlsy Carnival ain man Donald Cameron said show would have to go on as scheduled for March 19 with Mrs Paul Emma as direc tor Committcc members included Boyd Gartshorc Ted Jones Mrs David Garv rick Mrs Charles Knight Leo Landrc ville John Woods Warren Wil or Mrs Bllkey Mrs McVe gh Ralph Snelgrove Frank Krleboff manager Cookstown cafe rushed to AI llston hospital after shooting Incident In which Hamilton man was arrested OPP Barrie Town Council will set up own police force on termination of contract with province Believed to be on ailsouthpaw curling rink In On tario arrics foursome of Fraser Suth erland Jack Corby Dr Alf Grassland and Jack Coleman won first money at Alliston bonspicl Barrie Curling Clubs first mixed bonsPIel won by skip Vern Adams with re Marg Gray George and Pearl Dangerfield 2U rinks ontcreu Suzanne Walls of Barrio Collegiate Band won first prize and the mortal scholarship for fluid at Kiwanis Festival in Toronto novel feature was that her father played the piano accom paniment for her solo at Sherbourno St United Church Judges report stated solo was excellent but pianist too loud OTHER EDITORS VIEWS AGE OF RABBLEROUSING GONE Windsor Star The age of rabblerousing ls gone at least In most of North America But the ancient art is still alive as witness report by Dennis McDermott Canadian director of the UAW to union moot Ing in Toronto Mr Mchrmott blamed inflation solely on Prime Minister Iru deau with secondary blast at US Pre sident Nixon His text bloomed with the immoderato abuse lntcmperatc charges and tired old slogans that might be ex pected of labor loader half century ago but not now If it was fighting speech the UAW director was fighting target that he himself had set up and that no one else could see READYMIXED EDUCATION Hamilton Spectator Home economics students at an east end public school were told by their teacher to bring cookie mix to school so they could learn how to make cookies The teacher specified mix thatrcqulr ed no additions just cutting tho ready mixod dough and shovtng it into an oven At least one of the mothers feeling the lesson teaches absolutely nothing has objected She refuses to buy the mix the most expensive kind for her daugh or Good for herl The lavish facilities in our schools are utterly wasted when lilycatvold grade seven students are subjected to an exercise that wouldnt add to kinder garten childs education It doesnt take professional teachers help to learn how to bake promixed cookies even our undomesticated editor could do It If the board of education cant teach HOfilOf public school students how to make cookies then the course should be dro ed With the savings parents can buy their cookies from commer cial bakery SERIOUS THOUGHT 0N VIOLENCE Kingston WhigStandard North Americans who have given the matter serious thoughtnand these in clude many prominent law enforcement officials rave come to believe that much of the violence and bloodshed on this continent could have been avoided if we had emulated the whim ryetum of unarmed policemen There scomn little reason to believe that we can turn back the pages of time in which event It In up to those ire arrtfmriiy to ensure that firearms are by the police only un der exceptional circumstances DO 10 CARE TO GET Winnipeg Free Press gt Finance or Benson says that tax ratcs could be reduced during the five car period if the new system is bring ng in more revenue than the govern ment feels it should take Would any one care to but thatno matter what the tax revenues may beethe government will reduce laxcs in the Menu periodf crop of my other Idnd cannot now on this ground for st loan five years save com But kindly note the same weeds grow on this ground in stunted wsy Ind Iced just the same We in Canada Ira 1113th story In the Bible about Joseph let each one read it There was nbtuidame of sin hero but in the course one year under the film conditions we the Canadian people could starve and have to In art remember In Cons as farm led with my father when the times were scanty in tern Canada on it fl corn mm CANADA stonr Women Got The Vote In World War One By BOB BOWMAN CInsdlIn Womfm button to gain equality with man during the First World WIr especially on the prairies it was recognized that they had pioneered the frontlcr Now In many men were serving overseas with the Canadian army that women had to take on Important and sometimes heavy jobs outside theirhomes One of the first steps to five thorn equality was to nlow them to vote In Manitoba poured the nccorsary legislation March 13 1916 and Saskatch wsn followed ono day later AI bertn was next then Brltlsh Columbia and Ontario The strug Io for votes for women had eon going on In British faiggmbln and Ontario since The trend gradually crossed the country The federal govern ment gave women who had close relative in the armed forces the right to vote in 1017 nimmm 13th filly Eatrte Examiner id Hayfield Street Barrio Ontarlo Telephone 72005117 Second oss Moll Maturation Number 0104 Return postage guaranteed Dolly Sundays and Statutory Holidays excepted Subscription rnten daily by carrier soc weakly 023m yearly Slnxlu topics me fly mall hurrlo $2360 yearly Ontario $1500 your other mail 500 your Motor throw off $2100 your National Advertislng offl cus 25 Unlvorsll Avenue Toronto Co cart bt Montreal Member of the Canadian Press and Audit Bureau of circulations The Canadian Press to ex clusively onlltlcd to tho tum for republication of all hows dispatches In this paper cred ited to It or The Associated Press or llcutcrs and nhlo the Inca news published therein The firrrls Examiner claims cmum in all original Id rcrtlslnawamgodlttoul motor ore amp oycol and reproduced In this news WIDN Copyright ncalslrnllnn Nun bar masts rumor al Wm Namtannins Ing IgIln the fact II few moorsi formalgdrc runs Pauli En in God knows what on it such as have ust mentioned This Itertllzel ts pound we had hater be awful what we Ire doing We can cut ours OONSERVAH NIBT TOPIC 0F WOLVES Dear Sir 0n the rplc V31tisculwolgslhg cc lb be dro Raising it bu only cIuIed problem of who II going to pay the bounty If the II In bed why would there he places like Algon uln Park to protect them In ls same Inn there Ire Ini male such as deer and mom which are supposed to be na chmlwfmd mice for theuuplf one arm for those two man Ind the Lelia Bllncoo incident watch ltl not Cox and the franchise was Ioon ex tended to all eligible women Novn Scotin loll Into line in 1018 Now Brunswlck In 1010 Prince Ward Island In 1022 Newfoundland in 1925 Ind Quebec In 1010 Ono of the great prnlrle pl onoors for votes for women was Nollie McClung who trIvollcd omonl communities in horse drnwn wagon from whlch she spoke Later she become ironbar of tho Alberto legisla um The first woman member of the House of Commons was Agnes Macphall who was olactod for the Ontario constitu ency of South East Gray in 1921 as United Farmers member she was the only woman mom her of the House of Commons for 10 years and followed in Mrs McClunps footsteps to some extent beenqu Mrs Molt Clung was born in Gray County Another great campaigner for votes for Women was Judge Emily Murphy of Alberta She insisted that women had the right to be members of the Sn nato as wall as the House of Commons and fought the case Honor William Lyon Mackenzie DUNDEE Scotland 01 William Lyon Mackenzie On tnrlo rebel and Tmontol first mayor was honored by the province It ceremony in his native town Thursday 13 Stewart Ontarios dop uty minister of university of fnlrs presented books refer once motcrlnl and microfilm about Mackenzie to Dundee Unl varsity together with 39750 to finance future addlflons to the collection Ontario also will ravldo In Innnni grant of $300 the insti tution for books covering Cann dlnu history from earliest times to the presont da The prascntnton ceremony took place on the 115th anniver sary of Muckontlos birth Stewart paid tribute the man Who followed omiftrot on to Cunuda at the use of 25 with denunciations of colonlul cor ruotlon oulrl rebellion and cursor In For lament as well no partch ntlon ln Tomato munici pal p0 Itlcs Mackenzie randfnther of tho Into Trlmo nlstor Mackenzie Klan ranked with John Mac donuld and journalistic lancer George Brown also nntvcs of Scotland as malor conlrlbutors to Canadas growth Stewart said vale WOLF BOUNTY Dear Sir Id like to comment on the incldcni concerning the bounty on wolves feel that tho rnlslng of Lbs bounty from $23 to 59 will just eneourlle the little of wolvu Farmers should be able to kill wolf if it is killing his Iivmk bu mt lust for sport Some people grow up b6 ing prejudiced nlIlrut wolves One 02 is Little Red Eldihl Hood and Big bud wolf in this way children are taught to hate them Yes robld wolsz should be killed but not the until that have done nothing to harm man We need thorn to balance nIturo would Al onguln Park have wolvsI in oIr parks If they were harmful Some Web ves Ire ll harmless II dngI feel they should be protected feel diet It II cruel to slaugh ter them for more sport Tlnnk you Kathy Octelnr Elmvnlo Ont In the courts The Supreme Court gave an adverse ruling but then she appealed to the Privy Council which agreed that woman were persons and en titled to become senators Mrs calrlne Wilson of Ottawa was thn first Canadian woman senator in 1926 1t had been long battle since 1880 Some of tho nrgumcntn were that happy home would be broken by pa Itlcnl squabblos between husbands and wives that women did not possess tho intelligence rcoulrod for politics and that women active in poll tIcI would neglect their homos OTHER MARCH 11 EVENTS 1782Slr John Johnson was pincbd In charge of lndlan af fairs In Canada HillCanada Act upper and lower wont Into effect tentsu Eticnnc Tnche and John Macdonaid formed nov ornmont lainRoan Commission was appointed to Investigate liquor 1mTochnical schools were established in Montreal and Quebec crontlng provinces IT HAPPENED IN QUEENS PARK Regional Government Becoming Necessary Me By DON OHEARN As regional government rushes In Ich the province there Ira many old hearts in Ontario There is little question that practically the only people who favor regional or metropolitan lovcrnmenl are those in the large municipalities which be come even larger in the prob cu And even among the res dontI of urme there must be good shore who do not find the thought of size for the sake of aizl either exciting or dex sling Burllngton is community of 75000 people which Idlolns Hamilton nelonsl overn mont survey report recom mended that It be includod in new ILructuro with Hamilton Hamilton is hungry to grasp It The local council doesnt want to be part of any other auvem mcnt Itructuro But if It must be It wants to join the much lcsssparscly settled Bolton and Feel counties to the cost In December it held plebi cells as part of Its election There was no mayorulty contest no the veto was expected to be slight surprising is not cent of the electorate turned out It voted 16000 to 2000 to Join unl tonPeel rather than HImllioa Does this reect maroon less general foclInsf One would any It does Most people in tho smaller municipalities are liv ing in them because they want to Improvement In the quality of life is one of the obloctivos of the government for tho Sov entles To these people neigh borllncss slower pace and other attributes of tho Imallcr community are very important qualities The Incidental Ittrlb utcs of also are anathema to them lncxornbly stint THOUGHT Remember ya not the former things neither consider the things of oldlull Hill Dont look back at your mis takes God forgives forgive yourself and dont repeat the past Every day is now be elnnlnl begin again with God at your side however these CANADA as 21 Pompom mmcuu Zgzwilnllllll IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII militia 5ND To 85 El assws BUTNB LONE VOYAGE VIA THE NORTHERN mWtI2mSidiiittiiffiiMititilii BAV OlTAWA ROUTE FROM MONTREAL WA$ AT GREAT ExDENSE TIJE NATIVEZ HOWEVER CoNlDERED 9TEEL TOOL5 AND WEAPON BLANKETE CLOTHING ETG AS WELL WORTH WHAT TIIBV PAID FOR THEM IN FUR 4572i VIIFE MIXEWIS mesaacme 70 77542 PIPMUM 5545129 GOtDENJEI If VERY 6UPEETITIOU9 IIIwavwwe flllmtiilf Ill 77554114 dUMSAIT 11554411 0177 0L qualities will be Jess and less enloyed In the province for re gional government Is now not only an established fact but necessary one The original need new from the necessity of formal planning and land use controL To be effective planning had to apply to large Ircll Now pollution has grown to he the second blg factor in regional govornment need Both the physical fIcllI ties for watur and land pollution control and the capital spending they represent must be Ipnld over large areas Foresight and action lml twenty years one might have saved the need of slimlnstlng ImIll communities Ind Ili quIiIty cf iiio they represented EIrly In the so tho urgent head for planning yes It was urgent even then became apparent it also was just as evident than Is it Is now that strong planning units covering largo areas were required At that time if the governc mcnt had been willing to ICC with some force It could or at least might have established an effective planning structure oop nrnto from municipal govern ment itself However fear of offendinl municlpel autonomy wu all porvaslvo in thorn timos The required Initiative wasnt there And then It became too Into Now regional government is the only answer or appar ently so And many of those mu nicipalities whose autonomy has been raspcctcd are now dither disappearing completely or being smothered Govt Fighting Drug Addiction TORONTO CF The On tario government In compiling information for fight against drug addiction Premier John Roberts told the loglsllituro Thursday He sold Immediate action needed but the problem must be defined before it can be cured dont think weve got any time to waste he said Wovu got to find out why the youth take drugs and find moans changing 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