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Barrie Examiner, 16 Dec 1961, p. 5

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CIINIIDNIIIN PREMIERE 0F El CID Charlton Heston one of Holt Iywoods foremost actors plays the mole lead in El Cid which will have its Con Liberals Elect Two In Quebec Byelections adlon premiere in Toronto theatre during Christmas week Starring opposite Hcs toll is Sophia Loren Montreal Man Taces Charge Result Oi Holdup Murders TORONTO CP Roger Louis Allard 23 of Montreal up for preliminary hcnrlng on charge of capital murder heard 10 witnesses Friday describe the deaths of three persons in holdup Oct 30 Margaret Baird is taller at the Toronto Dominion Banks city hall branch testified she saw man who looked funny and was dressed weird was Police Use Gas To Quell Negroes BATON ROUGE La AP The Congress of Racial Equal ity was under federal and state court orders today to stop deme onstrattons against roclol dis crimination after police used tear gas to quell 1500 Negroes The order applies only to demonstrations in Baton Rouge Three C0RE leaders were among 73 Negroes jailed Thurs day and Friday in series of protests that culminated Friday String Power Line Using Helicopter TORONTO CPIOntario Hy dro is planning to string 50 mile transmission line between the remote northern communi ties of Manitouwadge and Hornepayneand do most of the work from the air Helicopters will be used in all phases of construction and for shipment of personnel and equipment The first major air construc tion project is already under way and individual clearing contractors are cutting defeat wrde strip through the heavily timbered country Hydro decided on using the unique linelaying method be cause of the rugged terrain and lack of roads in the area The copiers will carry wood poles set them in the ground and string conductors Hornepayne is div onnl goint on the Canadian National allway transcontinental line about 222 air miles north of Sault Ste Marie The power supply now in use there is gen erated by diesel electric genera tors Ontario Hydro has bought one of the largest commercially made helicopters available to help with the job The craft can carry pilot crew or passen gers of 12 or material pay load of 3600 pounds The project is scheduled for completion by mid1962 TRY US FOR REPAIRS Automatic Transmissions Repaired Free Estimates luNsAus GARAGE CROWN am no 66901 seared when looked at him looked away looked back and he hart shot Mr Reid Muttart Mr Muttart and two other customers died oi wounds from soft nosed bullets fired from sawed off 303 calibre rifle Miss Baird identified Allard as the man whose appearance frightened her The hearing continues afternoon Police needed tear gas at least five times to stop disturbances in the downtown business area Those jailed included David Dennis C0RE field repre sentatlve for Louisiana jailed with 22 other Negroes Thursday for blocking public thorough fare while picketing downtown stores Ronnie Moore C0RE leader at allNegro Southern University who was arrested during Fridays demonstrations and charged with 18 others with disturbing the peace and Rev Cox CORE field secretary from lligll Point NC arrested Friday night on two charges of conspiring to riot and inciting to riot TAKE THREE STEPS Officials Friday took three steps to head oft further dem onstrations Judge Gordon West issued QUEBEC lCPtQuebec coir inet changes an in the works following the two byeleclions easily won by the Liberals Thursday and the guiding prim oiple behind them is likely to be bitter pill to some tradi lionminded politicians Premier Jenn usage who has taken positive steps to in troduce several new administra tive ideal in the Quebec govern ment since he took office 17 months ago is apparently more determined than ever to follow through with his original idea of giving cabinet posts to the most capable among his supporters The two candidates elected in JacquesCartIer and Cbambly llifrs Claire Ki IundCasgraing and Pierre biplane will be among the particularly capable persons in the Liberal member ship of the legislative assembly and informed political observers say they are earmarked for the cabinet already though not im mediately The premier sticks to his idea that cabinet posts must be held by persons who are best suited to administer government do Portmcnla WORKS FOII WHOLE minister runs depart ment for the whole province not for the region or district he rep resents in the legislature said one informed source Goa Fears Attack Move Imminent PANJIM Goa tReutersThis Portuguese enclave on the coast of India today was braced for war In the loco of continuing reports that an attack from In die is imminent Governor General Manuel Vassalo Silva said that he has ordered his forces estimated to number between 8000 and 12 000 to retaliate only in the case of acts of war not merely of provocation He said intelligence report indicated that an attack by In dia along the lilomile frontier of the enclave with India contin ued to be imminent fin Bombay India the weekly newspaper Blitz which has close links with Indian Defence Minister Krishna Menon said Friday there would be march into Goa within 40 hours India was reported to have 30000 troops ready for action Vassan said Indian naval un its including possibly the air craft Carrier Vikrant have been sighted for two days off the coast of the moosquare mile enclave JETS FLY OVER Eight unidentified jet plane flew over here Friday and Vas sald said he believes the jets dlan Prime Minister Nehru in American Ambassador John Galbraith Friday called on In dian Prime Minister Nehru in an effort to avert threatened war and President Kennedy was reported to have written letter to Nehru expreslng hope that war over Goa would baaverted Eskimos Turning To Doll Making OTTAWA JOEEskimo art ists wellknown for their soap stone sculptures are branching into more homey pursuit dollmaking Since last March Eskimos in northern Quebec have been bringing their homemade dolls to Rod Evans northern affairs department administrator at Port Harrison on Hudson Bay the department said Friday Like Eskimo carvings many of the dolls depict familiar ac tivitiesthe hunter the fisher man the mother with her child Some 90 dolls have been brought out of the Arctic in Que bec They were displayed at the annual festival of nations at Toronto in October and the fol lowing month were exhibited in three toy displays $20The dolls sell at from $15 to Singing Teacher restraining order against C0RE that forbade any ac tivity which might tend breach the peace hearing for Jan to He set Three state judges Barrett Fred Blanche and Fred Leblanc signed similar re straining order that namcd number of the groups leaders in Baton Rouge and New or leans They Dec 26 set hearing for The dean of Southern Uni versity Dr Harrison said Christmas holidays would begin today instead of Dec 19 CROWD DEMONSTRATES The tear gas attacks followed demonstrations in front of the East Baton Rouge courthouse where the 28 arrested Thursday were jailed at the nearby old state Capitol on the edge of the business district and in down town streets filled with Christ mas shoppers Each time me marchers mostly Southern University stu dents regrouped to continue the demonstrations police fired tear gas into the crowd Officers used two police dogs in making the arrests There were noreports of injuries DAY on main PA 61142 TONYS APPLIANCE and TV SERVICE Famous Is Dead TORONTO CF Albert Kennedy teacher of singing at Torontos Royal Conservatory of Music for 26 years died Fri day Born in London England Mr Kennedy was aided under Sir Malcolm Sarg nt and came to Canada in 1932 as organist at St Pauls United Church Port Arthur He formed and conducted the Elgar Choir conducted Cana dian Corporation choirs and or chestras and for the past seven years maintained studio in Hamilton He is survived by his wife daughter and son Bruce of Ottawa VDLCANIC PEAK Among the worlds tallest ac tive volcanoes Mount Cotopoxi in Ecuador towers in 347 feet DANCING ODD FELLOWS HALL COLLIER ST EVERY FRIDAY SATURDAY FRIDAY TOM CROWE SATURDAY CLAIR ANDREWS ADMISSION 75 N0 SLACKS 0R JEANS PERMITTED OIdTyme and Modern Da and his Quintet Britain has urged indie to re frain from the use of force in backing up Its claims to the ter ritory which Portugal says is an integral part of its nation NEW YORK APlOne year ago today commercial aviation shuddered under the impact of Its worst disasterthe loss of 134 lives in the collision of two airliners over Staten Island The sky was choked with fall ing snow and heavy fog when fate singled out an obscure Brooklyn intersection 10 miles from the impact to play ma jor role in the tragedy Several large slabs of con crete still are missing from the sidewalk along Sterling Place You can no longer buy meat in the little Seventh Avenue butcher shop Its been torn down Gone too is the little grocery store that for so many years huddled next to it in the Prospect Slope area One persistent minor is that Speaker Lucien Cliche soon will be called upon to take the reins of the atlorncygcnerals depart ment now held by Cultural Af fairs Minister Georges Lapalme Observers note that Mr Cliche quietspoken nonun sense sixfooter is from the Allltihi East riding next to Ab itibi icst whose legislature member holds down two big cabinet postsagriculture and colonisation This is something of revolu tionary idea in province where every cabinet until now has al ways been mndc up of elements from every region of the prov ince Cabinet jobs were spread out to keep every areahappy The representative cabinet was always political as well as an administrative machine premier could sit back and know that he could feel the electoral pulse of every area of the prov ince by calling his ministers to gather At least that was one of the basic ideas behind it The administrative cabinet is something brand new and fric tions inside the Liberal party from traditionminded quarters are evident Nothing remains but two lit tered vacant lots Parishioners of the Pillar of Fire Church worship elsewhere thc site of their tiny church also has become vacant lot The worn brownstone tene ment at 28 Seventh Ave is do sorted Many of its window panes have been smashed At 10th am Dee lot United Air Lines Dca jet and fourengined TransWorld Air lines Constellation completed collision course All 44 passengers and crew members of the Constellation were killed So were the oc cupants of the jet and six per sons on the ground in the Pros pect Slope area The Constellation smashed Adult Education Goes Right Into The Living VANCOUVER CP Throughout British Columbia hundreds of people bring adult education into their living rooms the result of plan by the University of British C0lt tumble to fulfil its role or provincial university The courses are conducted by lay leaders trained by the uni versity and range from politi cal science to religion from modern art to economics Each group is held together by common interest in the subject material and an intense desire to satisfy craving for further education Today the program operated by UBCs extension department is established in 42 80 centres with more than 15000 partici pants Most groups meet in private home usually the living room and from this it gets its nameLiving Room Learning The number could be doub led If we had the personnel and facilities to meet the requests sent to us said Dr John Frie sen UBC extension department director AMERICAN IDEA It was started three years ago under $40000 grant from the Ford Foundation and has proven to be one answer in UBCs drive to serve the entire province The program was developed in the United States but no where has the successvbeen so great as in BC No other university has been able to take the program into so many rural areas as UEC has done said Dr Friesen The foundation has been ex tremely pleased with the results and this year granted us another $150000 to continue the wor The basic content of noncon troversiai subjects is prepared by 115 experts UBC faculty members prepared material for CAMPBELL LTD Furniture Moving and Storage Commercial Warehousing Agents for North American Van Liam PA 66555 and his ComboAirs REFRESHMENT BOOTH Room At Home such ticklish subjects as for eign affairs and politics The content of the course is one of two key factors leading to the success of the program said Dr Friesen Tile other is selection and training of discus sion leaders They are usually recruited from previous partic ipants and people interested in adult education FEES ARE LOW Most groups meet one night week for 10 weeks and usually have 10 to 20 participants The site usually is the home of the discussion leader and the cost $10 each or $15 for married couples The leaders receive small token payment to cover travelling expenses or the light lunches served during the eve ning The fees pay about half the cost of staging the program and the extension department pays another $25000 annually from its reserve foundation fund The overall program is di rected by Knute Buttedahl UBCsupervisor of liberal edlt ueation He maintains liaison with leaders through corre spondence and periodic trips to each centre Statistics reveal more than 75 per cent of the participants are 45 or younger about 40 per cent are high school graduates 30 per cent have university de grees and the occupational backgrounds sweep the entire scope of the community Haircuts 75 Saturday 5100 Barber CLIFFS BARBER SHOP as Essa scan Acrnu from Manual Hdwo Die In Blaze ROCHESTER NY IAPI Four persons including three children died in fire swept an eight family apart ment house early today in down town Rochester At least six other persons were injured Police said one of the victims was Mrs Gladys Montgomery mother of fire The other victims were two boys aged eight to lo and child whose sex and age could not immediately be determined Firemen found all four in secondvstorcy room All were Negroes The building on Adams Street was destroyed police said Fins men searched the ruins of the 255016 frame dwelling for other possible victims At least 20 persons not the building Some jumped from secondstorcy window The injured included Mrs Montgomerys three year old daughter Diane who was thrown by her mother from secondvstorcy window woman failed to catch the child and she landed on sidewalk She was taken to hospital The fire may have been caused by careless smoking firemen said No estimate of damage was ovailable Today Is Anniversary Of Worst Air Crash into field near some homes on Staten Island The jet managed to fly 10 miles and barely missed parochial school with 1700 chil dren attending class before it fell few blocks short of Wide open Prospect Park and possi ble salvation Raymond Nordstrom 57 said he still finds slivers of alu minum and other debris from the wreckage embedded in the ground in the back yard of his home at 30 Seventh Avenue It was Nordstrom awakened from his sleep by the crash not 50 feet from his front clear who brought blanket tocover the one shortlived survivor of the crash He was llyearcld Stephen Biatz of Wilmette 111 who died the next day can still see the poor child lying there propped up against snow bank and all burned and cut Nordstrom recalled MEMORIES vrvm Many of the residents still flinch when they pass over section of missing concrete was there that 27yearo man and his uncle were atan ing when the plane crashed and killed them both They were selling Christmas trees William Lahyre was crushed to death when his butcher abop collapsed on top of him The grocery store operator dashed from his building seconds be fore it disintegrated The parishioners of Pillar of Fire Church offer regular pray ers for the late myeorold Wal lace Lewis He was tending the church furnace when the birth of the jet wreckage tore the brick edifice to bits FREE Christmas light ret string of Santa light with purchase of TOYS to the value of 1995 or over Cash Layaway or Budget at firestone STORES 88 DUNlOP ST PA 50585 rinous PLAYERS THEATRE 1116 CURSE or me STARTS MON maroon rnvms wannwonr 700 and mac CAT 840 ewEnewoLF an COLOR llllrlmu Film Production UhivelsIIlniemltlonrl llelure cornnrunn Adult Entertainment Lnat Times Today WIIITE CHRISTMAS AT 150 550 1005 TEACHERS PET AT 350 755 CAMP BOIIDlIN lSpcciai Staff Sergeant Thomas Skirrow two Trump Coy RCASC has been promoted to the rank of Warrant Officer Class two The effecthc date of the promotion is Jan l962 Tom is an arr dent Sportsman excelling in swimming iugwlnr and ham mcr throwing His hobbies are thoscoi the cuidoorsman hunt lng fishing and boating He has served with the Army since 1940 and spent several years nverscas during World War II For the lost 11 years he has been stationed at Camp Borden Staff Sergeant and Mrs Skirrow live at Colweii ENGINEERS SOCIAL Royal Canadian Engineers held their annual Christmas party in the Buell Building on Dec More than 300 military and civ ilian employees of RCE and their guests attended this affair The evening was spent in dan cing delightful Christmas but fct featuring Iurkcy was serv ed at later hour Sergeant ltIalor Duggao Quebec loop was in charge of the committee that arranged this social even HIE IN BAHRIE ELELIION Three Camp Borden Civil Scr vnnLi ran for office in Barries Municipal Election Gerald Rob erts King and Mrs Dorian Parker The only successful can didate was Mr Roberts who was reelected as alderman in Ward No of the city Mr Ro bcrts ls employed as Depart mental Accountant at the CFMS Training Centre Elwood Kirkpatrick of field has commenced work at the RCASC School He Is em ployed on the Cleaning Maint enance staff RCAF CHRISTMAS CARI The most original and inter esting Christmas card used by the various units in Camp Bor den Is the card used by RCAF Station commanded by Group Captain 11 Hilton The front piece is the reproduction of painting showing Camp Borden Afr Station as it vulan tho summer of 1917 Curtis JN4 Jenny wheels across the sky in gentle bank while under neath are the familiar smal roundroofed hangars edging the grass landing field It will be ing nostalgic memories to any men who flew out of Borden during these early years Sergeant Prescott of the RC5 of and Sergeant Perkin of the RCASC School are attending Fire Prevention School on the West Coast They are expecteme to Camp Borden before Christmas nelfsc scuoor arse The Christmas display on Orr top of Headquarters Building RCASC School is the most color ful in Camp Borden It con sists of large cutout of Santa Claus surrounded by smaller cutouts of cartoon and TV characters This display la RESERVE NOW For At NEW YEARS EVE CLUB PAVALON DRILL In Barrie Tickets and Information Available At JACKSONS GRILL 51 Dunlop ac an arm TURDAY DECEMBER 10 mi Children Adult Promotions Christmas Parties Add To Community ill Yuletide flanked by two brightly lighted fir trees and it is floodlit at night The work of construct ing the figures was done by Supper Clapton Sgtltiajor Don Smith directed the instal iation Mrs Anah Hunter of the CPOs office and Lahfnrchc of the ItCASC School are on the sick list PLAY CHESS ANYONE Do you play chess Are you interested in learning how to play The Camp Bordch Chess Club is seeking new memocrs President of the club Capt St Amour said the membership had dropped from 25 to six mostly because of postings of personnel to oth er areas However he was confident there were enough chcss players and others who want to ploy to build strong slob once more in Camp Ber on This is your last chance to win some extra money for Christmas The last bingo of the year will be held in 5113 RCASC lines Dec 15 The timo is oclock in the evening The jackpot is $200 DRINKING CHALLENGE BLYTH England CPIMiner Evan Jones bellevu Londoners cant drink the strong beer they serve in Northumberland Hes offering £20 to any Londoner who can own 12 pints of Northumbri brew known as LIAIIDIICS announce cone ml or nmnoml chrw wan FROM PM Special Student filter by appointment only PA H66 18 Maple Avenue IMPERIAL 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