Barrie Historical Newspaper Archive

Barrie Examiner, 23 May 1961, p. 3

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Peterborough WEATHER TORONTO CP Official forecasts issued at am Synopsi Cool weather can tinues in most of Ontario and no real warming trend is as yet evident Lake Erie Lake Huron Nia gara western Lake Ontario re gions Windsor London Tor onto Hamilton Sunny with few cloudy intervals today and Wednesday little change in temperature Nnrtherly winds 1015 Eastern Lake Ontario region Sunny but with afternoon cloud iness and few scattered show ers today Sunny Wednesday littlec in temperature Northerly winds near 15 Haliburton Cloudy with few sunny intervals and few showers today Sunny Wednesday clouding over in the afternoon Northerly winds near 15 Georgian Bay Algoma re gions sunny today Sunny Wednesday but clouding over with few showers likely in the er Northerly winds 1045 White er Timagami Coch rane regions Sunny today Mostly cloudy Wednesday with scattered how ers and turn ing cooler Winds light today geeoming northeast 15 Wednes Forecast temperatures Low tonight high Wednesday Windsor 70 st Thomas 70 London 768 Kitchener 68 Wingham 68 Hamilton 70 St Catharines 65 Toronto 68 65 65 V65 65 65 Trenton Killaloe Muskoka North Bay SS Marie Sudhury Enrlton Kapuskn WhiteRiver exceed the million mark trees were transplantedin Bass 000 treulwere transplanted to llarly moved to more desirable THOUGHTS 0F youth are long long thoughts The mind this lone youngster watch ing Roman candles is prob ably somewhere in outer space Nobody ls Hurt By Firecrackers In This District No one was reported injured by fire rackers in Barrie Stay ner vale or Alliston during the weekend Heavy traffic and sircccss ful firecracker display in Elm vale were police chief Horace Elwells comment on weekend activities there No accidents were reported Alliston detnchmentof OPP reported no accidents during the weekend Stayner OPP investigated six minor accidents No one was injured Detachment headquarters Barrie experienced two unusual incidents 120 MPH CHASE Sunday Const Roy mus in cruiser chased 455 car at speeds up to 120 miles per hour on Highway 11 before driver Bruce Adam Howey 20 RR Oro Station stalledhis vehicle in ditch Const Monbourquette said today that Roberts had seen the cruiser and was attempting to elude it in so doing Roberts allegedly travelled for dis those in the northbound lane while he was southbound Koberts has been charged with cariess driving and speeding No injury or property damage was reported from the chase Parks Stalled Set For Guests Provincial parks in the Lake Simcoe district are now staffed and facilities in readiness for the anticipated large influx of visitors for the current season Last summer approximately 800000 visitors were acconuno dated in these parks and if the trend much in evidence during the past few seasons Cdnfillr ues visitorsio 1561 couldeasily in several parks where camp sites have been developed in open field areas lacking shade the departments parks staff have been improving the parks oppearance and facilities by transplanting trees During the past winter and spring as part of the winter works program in the district more than 1700 Lake Park in this way At Sibbald Point Park near Jacksons Pointl moresthanfla improve campsites and provide hedging along main roads Four hundred trees were sim iocations at Earl Rowe Park near Alliston are still investi Roberts is being held in the county jail PLENTY OF NERVE An attempt to cash cheque in OPP headquarters failed on Monday And police learned after the man may have been driving stolen car no as yet unidentified man ap proached Const Lefroy Hedrich on the deskend inquired if he would cash cheque Refusal resulted in gas purchase at Willow Creek restaurant and ser vice station Highway 27 Pump attendant John Hayes sent his brother David 15 and Bobby Potter 12 with the driv er in his 1953 car to Midland where he claimed he could get $450 to pay for the purchase Hayes noted the licence num ber OPP have since identified the vehicle still free as being one stolen from Midland Mean while neor Midland the boys jumped out of the car and hitch ed ride home with Blake Lamont truck passing through Suspect Juveniles In City Vandalism Barrie city Police investigat ed two similar acts of vandal ism over the weekend Both are believed to be the work of juv eniles Sunday at 92 pm Bill Hart of Harts Motors reported all the seats of new $8000 bus were slashed Four hours laterit was re ported to police that someone had slashed chair in the laun dromat at Barrie Plaza Police tin UNWANTED HITCHBIKER car was seen Friday drag glng an open bag of sand down Dunlap Street The bag had be come attached to the cars bumper while the driverertrb cated himself from street paiklng spot It is believed the public works department may have been using it to cover posihole it is hoped no one will break an ankle as result FIREWORKS displays are turning into neighborhood out ing with clusters of families meeting at vacant lots to Bus Car Crash Nobody Hurt About 15 persons aboard Gray Coach hm southbound on Hayfield Street were jolted but none injured this morolng when the big vehicle was in collision with car at Sophie Street Damage totalled $625 Barrio ciw police said the im pact of the crash spun the car driven by William John Withnll 63 of Tiny Township complete ly around Withali has been charged with careless driving and falling to stop at stop sign bus was being driven south police said by Harold Wllllams 50 of Willowdsle Wit halls car was eastbon onv Sophia Street when the accident occurred at Ms am Nurse lntioronlo Was Barrie Native TORONTO GP Mrs Lot tie Mae Fisher Ward former night supervisor of the private patients pavilion at Toronto general Hospital died Satur ay Born and educated in Barrie Mrs Ward graduated from Tor ontos Hospital for Sick Chil dren in 1926 She nursed in Cleveland and Detroit and joined Toronto General in 1926 Nine Students Graduate Awards Given llt St IosephsHigh School Nine students graduated from St Josephs High School Fri day The graduation cerem onies started with the Beoedie tion in St Marys Church The exercises were held in the audi torium of St Josephs Students who graduated were Kennett Cuculick Ger ard Goodwin Tanis McVeigh Monica Murdoch Susan Brecht Suzanne Watt and Dor othea Weber all of Earrle Maurine McFarland of oriliia aid Ann Vasiiiauskas of Thom Monsignor Clair presented his award for highest standing in religion toSusan OBrecht The general proficiency award was given to Tunis McVeigh by its donor Dr Laurie Pope Escapes Traffic Halted woes lieWalks VATICAN CITYfAP An automobilealmost struck Pope John last week and the Vatican has ordered all traffic halted in the Vatican gardens while the Pontle takes his daily walk The incident that prompted the ruling occurred when small itallaoautomohile of the Vatican radio station skirted corner almost struck the Popes parked car from which he was alighting and kept going ONLY Cu is TOURIST Reamerres to WESTERN cANApA For Complete Information aboutthls emiuslva cn service PHONE EM 646i 011 26 CANADIAN NATIQNAI help their youngsters have fun Expressions show most at the children are little lenry of the whole deal $250 chrits on warm Examinrr CITY AND COUNTY NEWS JESDAY MAY 21 ill fatality IsiFirst Barries first fatal traffic ac cident of the year was reported to city police Saturday altyearold Victoria Harbour grandfather pamenger torn light truck was thrown from the vehicle during arearend collision and hit his head on the pavement DIES IN HOSPITAL Police said Thcophlle Fortier died in Royal Victoria Hospital at 315 pm 2v hours after the Iccidcnt Const Douglas Jones whoin yestlgated for city police said the collision occurred on Bay field Street at the too clover leai The other vehiclc involved ac cording to police was driven by Miss Violet Bowen 54 of 53 Park Street Barrie The truck in which Fortier was passenger was proceeding south on Bayilcld police said and was being followed by the car driven by Miss Bowen Const Jonessaid the truck ap parently was about to make left turn to enter the north bound entrance of Highway 400 when the accident happened The impact swung the truck Financing For RVH Guaranteed Completion 0i Additions Sure Royal Victoria Hospital basic financing has been completed Board member Warren Wil gar said today financing ar rangements have been guaraolt teed by bond issue He said this assures completion of planned additions and improve ments totho present hospital plant Construction has been rushed on new resideoccfloors and other facilities Mr Wllgar stated that on ganizntloos still have the priv ilegeot providing furnishings and maintenance of rooms in the organizations name Lwinning number was Owner Somebody in the Barrie dis gilct has $250 and doesnt know This person holds the winning ticket in the iceout contest sponsored by Barrie Athletic As soélatlon The winning ticket bears the numerals 0933 tho time the ice was officially reported out of Kempeniclt Bay At the regular meeting of the association this week it was noted that 613 tickeLs were sold and that the ticket bearing the definitely sold Association officials have de aided to keep the $250 prize available until it is claimed The winner will be able to pick up his money by contacting organi zation officials at least until the next contestgets underway this fall Several near misses are known Persons bought tickets either side of the winning ducat including 9909 0935 and 0936 Total proceeds of the contest figusive of the prize money is League award to the student standing second in the gradu ating class was given to Mon ioa Murdock by Mrs Jerry CouQilin Gerard Goodwin stood first in science and re ceived his award from Father Blackwell on behalf of the Holy Name Society Reverend Roy McFarland ad dressed the graduating class and warned themagainst the pressures of advertising and the mass media Michael Collins of Angus rs cerved the Kigth of Columbus award for standing first in Grade 11 TheParentTeacher Association award for second highest In grade 11 went to Jan Cavanaugh of Anten Mills Awards were also presented to David Davies of Alliston first in mathematics and sci ence grade 11 Mary Todd of Barrie highest standing in grade 10 Pierre Fortin of An gus boy standing highest in grade nine and Cathy Collins of Angusgirl standing hifliest in grade nine JUST TO CLARIFY The photo of house in Sat urdays Barrie Examiner page qné Barrie Police Crank Abor tion Ring may have ledito some misinterpretation Although the location of DEA Donald is clearly pidpointed by the use of an ar row it should be clar ed that there is no link in thaloase with the home or occupants of no Donald iows DRAMA iran Roy Stewart of Tor onto and Barrie is the new president of the Dominion Drama Festival which was held in Montreal last week Mr Stewart is the former president and managing dio ector ofBanie Tanning Li mited He has farm and residence on Concession In of Innisfil Township Big Bay Point Road worker for the cause of Canadian then tre for many years he is governor of the Stratford Festival Next years Dom inion Drama Festival will be held in Winnipeg Pub Hangman Sent Appeal LONDON AHBritains pub lic hangman received an angu ished appeal for mercy Sunday from the mother of young murderer condemned to die Thursday iThis sort of thing upsets me said the hangmanHenry Allen But there is nothing he can do about it Allen has been achd to execute Victor Terry 20 for the murder of bank guard Ter rys mother wrote personal letter to the hangmnn after vainly trying to win public and official support for her plea that her son he saved from tho gai Ho said the Evil board hoped the practice exercised with the first building will coh tinuo in the newcomers Barrie aycees Win Awards Barrie Jaycces received two national awards at theAll0nt ario convention at Fort William over the weekend The local organization took first place in the Brotherhood Week confcst and received cash award in addition to the first place certificate The Brolt therhood Week campaign in Barrie was under the direction of Joycea Charles Surgenor Barrie also took third place in the notional membership awards st The clubs membership campaign under the direction of past president Douglas Moorhouse resulted in an ooper cent lncrensein local membership here this year Approximately 300 Joyce from all sectionsof the provmco attended the Lakehead meet ing gt Recover Bodies 0f Missing Men SAULT STE MARIE Ont CPiProvinclal police today identified two bodies recovered Sunday from Lake Oba 200 miles north of here as those of Nelson Taylor of Pennsboro WVa and Sam Namon ot Ak ron Ohio Police said the men had gone moosehunting last October and their boat overturned Their hats were found few days later floating on the lake The bodies were discovered by lands and forests personnel KILLED DANCER around so it faced in norther lydirectloo The door on For tiers side was thrown open and the elderly man fell headerirst to the road Police are still investigating No chargcs have been laid lDlamngo to both vehicles war si postmodem found Mr For tler died of head iniui Kiwanis Clubs Meet Over Dinner The wo Kiwanis clubs ruct jointly for lunchPon ot Community House President Kcn Walls of the Barrie Kiwanis Club presided President Bill Hinton of the Kempcnfelt Bay Club was absent due to busi ness The speaker was past presi dent fed Nettictoln of the Barrie club His topic was the preparation of Kiwanis ln ternntional ochlcvement reports Both clubs normally meet on hldodays Kcmpenielt Bay at noon and Barrie at the dinncr hour but due to the holiday the meetings were postponed until today Since the Lions Club has Tucsdny for dinner the Barrie Kiwanlnns met for luncheon widr the Kempenfelt club in stead Stayner Woman Diesvlliter Crash Mrs Allen Bochus til RR Stayner died in Collingwood General and Marina Hospital during the Weekend of injuries received in twocar cram on ooncmsion of Nottawasaga Township May 14 The fatality was the first 1961 motor Vehicle accident death for Staynerdetnchment of the Om tario Provincial Police Const Norman Porter is vestlgating gt Bring your favorite fishing spot closer TAIPEI Formosa ADFive years ago Mu Wangshell was sentenced to death on charges of masterminding the murder of fivemembers of retired Chinese nationalist gener cls family He appealed and was acquitted Mu was arrested againthis time for slaying his estranged mistress Lu Tsur hun 3ia taxi dancer and singer Police said he admitted the slaying PIwa SPEClAgLlZlNG IN camornorocnnrnr AND PORTRAITS me ni Dnolop St PA ester mites flow Min that favorite fishing spot with the nine Shell 18 Speed up in iflfi nabflock as slow as yonlike Waterproof ignition start fast on waited days Full searduft lowlave starts with 6604 reduobion and tight so pound weighs make hhaSiiver Shani in easy to handle WUMMIIIMM our IiIWIEE

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