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vcr attic ex Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited 16 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario Walls Publisher Brian Sleight General Manager WEDNESDAY DEC 161 Pus Canada Contributed Much To Advancement In World Canada is relatively young as na tion but many citizens will be surpris ed to learn of its accomplishments We are indebted to Cyril Henderson of Brantford who did some research and found that many things have been dis covered or invented by Canadians which have played tremendous part in world development For instance where would the world be without the telephone This was conceived by Alexander Graham Bell at Brantford Ontario and the first word ever spoken over wire between that Canadian city and Paris although it was later developed and financed in Bostbn Masachusetts Even in those days Canada had to get large amounts of capital for investment from south of theiborder Insulin which is now in common use throughout the medical world was dis disccvered by two Canadians the late Sir Frederick Banting from Alliston Simcoe County and Dr Best in Toronto Brantford also gets credit for being thecommunity where the first railway sleeping car was built But in this case Hamilton also shares in the early de velopment Thats where George Pull man got the idea of making them in the Ilnlted States and since then they have been commonly known as the Pullman car Standard time which was adopted by nearly all countries of the world was also originated by Canadian Sandford Fleming rundown of other things now in common use in most parts of the world and which first came into being in Canada should give us all something to brag about The manufacture of paper from wood pulp was discovered by two Can adlans in saint John New Brunswick and Nopanee Ontario about the some time little more than century ago Two world famous wheats Marquis and Reward were also developed in Canada The first vessel to cross the Atlantic Ocean under steam power was the Royal William She was Canadian made and Canadian financed and brought about the worlds first trans Atlantic service from Halifax in 1840 Prior to 1844 all steam engines had been the onecylinder type Benjamin lebets Canadian designed and built in Canada the compound steam engine and after 1049 none of the former type was built The first commercial oil well in North America was dug in 1857 by James Williams of Oil Springs On tario Frederick Newton Gisborne of Halifax developed method of insulat ing wire that would be impervious to salt water and so brought about the undersea cable The first electric heat er was invented in Ottawa by Thomas Ahearn Canadian and the worlds first demonstration of electric cooking took place in Ottawa in 1892 The first practical electric railway in the world was demonstrated in Toronto in 1883 and the steam foghom was invented in 1854 by Canadian Robert Foulis Among other things which were iii vented or developed in Canada over the course of time was the worlds first superdynamo Helium gas came into being at the University of Toronto dur ing Word War One while wellknown baby food was also developed at the University of Toronto Although he was then living in the United States Mor ris Robinson Canadian thought up the idea of life insurance back in 1848 when he established in New York the business of modern life insurance on the North American continent When it comes to sports ice hockey originated in Canada Fivepin bowling originated with Tommy Ryan Can adian in 1912 Basketball was origin ated by Dr James Naismith Can adian in 1891 and metal spring skates were patented by John Forbes of Nova Scotia back in 1865 Dawn Memory Lane CARNIVAL 25 YEARS AGO The Barrie Examiner of July 1038 on front page had boost for local club by Kiwanis Karolval Kalls and below Kontinued lieoperation This was set for two evenings at the Post Office Square Valuable prizes were to be given to winners in the events The club had always given particular attention to the needs of handicapped children in hospitalization providing appliances boots and supports braces and crutches In addition over 80 boys under 16 spent the previous winter ev enings being taught by YMCA secretary Lloyd Merrill useful hobbies at the KI club room At the square were wheel of fortune by Copaco with Ken Morri son in charge and Dr Bill Lewis had another with fruits and groceries Hugh Plowman had booth with prizes drawn by ticket In 1985 Santa through the Kiwanis Club left presents to over 600 underprivileged Barrie children Other Editors Views SUPERHIGHWAY SERVICE Daily Commercial News When Highway 400 was first opened to the public it was understood that plans had called for the provision of six service stations three on each side of the 50mile highway from Toronto north to Barrie So for only the Shell station at the King sideroed on the east side and the BA station at Cooks town have materialized The other lo cations at which stations wereto have been built are still mere cloverleafs Yet in the years since 400 came into operation it is pretty safe bet to make that literally thousands of motorists have been forced to halt to wait to lose all kinds of valuable hours along this highway because only the two ser vice stations did exist and any other help would have to come from oper atOrs who were off this particular high way altogether And anyone who has had the experience of having to get out for help along many stretches of this road is well aware of the inconven ience and even danger this can be Until this week with the announce ment that some stations would be built along the route it had appeared that the great new crossprovince route Highway 401 wouldbe condemned to similar fate that motorists using this route would be forced to content them selves tolong inconvenient hauls off The Barrie Examiner Authorized second rim mu Post Office Duplflmunf Ottlwl and to payment or postage in cash only Sundays and auditory Holiday excepted In his KENNETH wantsrunner DILIAN sLAfGHl Bonerl Manager IilcPDEflSON blunting Editor CHARLES wanna Business Manager beans Wilson Advertising liiannger some names Circulation Manager Subscription rate daily by canin 35o weekly Sloan year Single copy By mo in Ontario $700 year 3400 six monuu $250 three months 5100 month Outside Ontario saw your gums can add $2000 yu Offices 425 Univenli Ava TorontO Mo Catlinrt Street Montreal use Member or the Canadian may Nuvlvelnr Pub Iisllfli Association Thu Canadian Press and the Audit Bureau circulation Conndis Press is exclusivey ed as usafor repubnlaumt or on new dis iiichcd in can apcr Cicdllfid to 01 Th AISQC ltBi Pt 01 cuter and also mu ncvfl Published th om eltfleorlll strut Vancoui the highway toservice stations thus losing much of the time Highway 400 and Highway 401 were designed to save It is good to see that this will not be the case that there will be adequate service stations and restaurants along the way that motorists will not be forced to abide the privations of mod ern travelling ease because someone who invested in motel or service sta tion close to but not on these highways might lose out on the market We do not inconvenience others to protect the man who makes an unwise investment on the stock market or in real estate for example Why should it be done for the businessmen who invested in loca tions which would be missed by traffic if adequate seriiices did exist along the new highways BASIC RESEARCH Saturday Night Russias launching of Sputnik put the whole military research organization of the United States into tizzy The call was for more money more intensive ef fort and more basic research Just how basic that research is we had not realized until we read of signal sent by the Naval Medical School Pensacola Florida to the Chief of Naval Operations in Washington Request authority for civilian Miss Jerrie Cobb to fly in Naval aircraft for purpose of baseline studies designed to determine fundamental differences be tween male and female astronauts HIS iMPRESSIONS 0F CANADIANS Brantford Expositor witty but aIWays kindly manner Sam Pollock of the British Broadcasting Corporation hassummarized some of his impressions of Canadians following lengthy firsttime holiday in this country While he find that Americans and Canadians differ only as the English and Scots differ which is practically not at he acknowledges seeming psrev dox it lies inthis he has never he says met people more conscious of their ethnjc origins ormore set on keeping their memory alive than the Anglo on Canadians ACUTE PORTUGESE ENCLAVITIS QUEEN PARK Free Fluoride Pills Again Suggested By DON DHEARN TORONTO Free fluoride pills This proposal has been put forward again Aid Gerald St James of Port rthur has said that now in view of the local vote having been defeated perhaps free pills should be provided for school children up to 12 The suggestion probably would get sympathetic hearing here if representative municipalities made it Health Minister Dymond says that study of free pillswas stopped year and half ago when the enabling legislation for local fluoridation was passed He didnt see much difficulty however in starting it again and biinging the question before cabinet Dr Dymond says he has been impressed with the program in Saskatchewan where free pills are provided in rural areas There is an excellent chance the overnmenthere would go along at least on 5050 basis with any local councils that wanted to supply the pills The cost is comparatively minor POLICE COMMISSION One of the surprises of the fail session was third reading of the Police Act amendments The amendments which au thorize the new provincial police commission went through this stage without protest Actually though the bill was strongly on second reading it was generally agreed that it represented good move The main opposition fear was that it might be used as tool to stall off thorough investiga tion into crime Most of the protesting was aimed at forestalling this COMMISSIONER TRUSTED There is rather unusual faith herethat this inquiry actually will be good When there is an inquiry due which could hurt the govern ment it is customary to look for the loopholesand to view pro ceedings with tongueincheek Teamsier Indicted 0n Bribe Charge NEW YORK APlA Team sters Union official was indicted Tuesday by federal grand jury on charge he accepted $92000 from two officials of Vending Machine Corporations of Westbury NY The officials and the three corporations in which they had an interest also were named in the sixcount indictment The indictment named Milton Holt 52 of New York secre tarytreasurer of Local 805 of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters It said he accented the $92 000 in three payments between 1957 and 1959 from Harold Roth 12 president of the three corpor ations and Herbert Sternberg ii former executive in each in violation of the 115 Labor Act It did not give reason for the allegedpayments gtTle defendants will plead to tiie indictment gnyJan TOUR MEXICO Mexico had 222403 tourist visitors in the first quarier of 1881 an increasobf taper cent over the some period of 1960 But this altitude is quite no ticeabiy absent in the case of the crime commission And this is great tribute to the commissioner Mr Justice Roach Mr Justice Roach of course originally was prominent Lib eral But bcyond this he has rep utaiion for integrity and the ability to get deeply into ques tion which has secured for him respect and trust liir Roberts gets great credit for naming such man to head this touchy probe it can be said of course that personally the new premier docs not have too much to lose But we suspectand naturally hope it is not his bent to play petty politics On this time will tell BIBLE THOUGH Lord to whom shall we go Thou host the words of eternal life John Trials problems and perplex itics sometimes cousu us to de spair We seek help from those about is and ill best they can do is not enough We need to turn in film who is way the truth and the life our oilsufficient Saviour Cross Funeral ls Arranged OTTAWA CPlA quiet fun eral will be held here today for Austin Cross widely read newspaper reporter and column ist who died Christmas Eve at the age of 03 newspaper man for 43 years most of them with The Citizen he specialized in politics and travel Service will be held in the chapel at the Radmore Stewart Funeral Home with burial in St James Cemetery Hull Que IN UNITED STATES President Kennedy Riding New Crest Alter Debacle By HAROLD MORRISON WASHINGTON CPlSkilled in political manoeuvring Presi dent Kennedy has recovered from the Cuban debacle and is riding new crest of popu larity across the UnitedStates Now he is preparing to un dertake new political strug gle at home as he attempts to steer his countrymen toward freer trade and greater interna iionai cooperation Failure to carry the US Congress and the public with him in his demands for power to reduce American tariffs may dent the Kennedy image again and perhaps hurt the Demo crats in crucial congressional elections due next November Failure to sway the public may also enhance the political stature of spreading ultra conservative rightwing which some Americonbbservers an ticipate may develop into potent third force in Ameri can politics LEADERS CONCERNED Both Kennedy and former president Eisenhower are con cerned over this rising element of militancy Both have spoken on against extremists When he stepped out of office last Janu ary Eisenhower warned the US against the threat of disastrous rise of misplaced power by the US military in dustrial complex We must never let the weight of this combination en danger our liberties or demo erotic processes he said Kennedy in November said the us can no longer obtain easy or quick solutions to prob lems confronting the world We must face the fact that the United States is neither omnipotent nor omniscient lhat we cannot always impose our will on the other 94 per cent of mankindthat we cannot right everywrung or reverse each adversityand Ihat there fore there cannot be an Ameri consolation for every world problem That statement came seven months after Kennedy at tempted io impose military solution mum and failcd He had approved American sup port of the Cuban rebel invasion and reaped months of scorch log criticism at home and abroad Kennedy rccovered his popu larity through legislation he put before Congress to strengthen American defences aid the un employed and the lowpaid and provide farmers with higher subsidies Some of his key proposals such as medical insurance for oldage pensioners and federal aid for ieochers salaries were sidelined He was heartened in 1961 by results of local and regional elections Kennedy supporters won over Republican nominees in the mayoraity contest in New York City in agoveraor ship battle inNew Jersey and in fight over Texan coa gressiunal vacancy The big fight is ahead in the November tussle for control of Congress The Democrats hold 64 seats against the Republi cons 86 in the looseat Senate in the 437seot House of Repre sentatives where there are four vacancies the Democrats dom inaie the Republicans 255 to I74 All of the House seats and 34 of the Senate seats are up for reelection BIG LOSS Kennedy leaned heavily on House Speaker Sam Rayburn to help overcome opposition from combination of southern Dem ocrats and northern Republi cans which someumes effect iver blocked liberaltype legis lation Rayburns death may add to Kennedys troubles in Congress offsetting this is wobbly and uncertain Republican 1ead crslllp Former vice president Richard Nixon switched his attention from the national scene to the California gov ernorship Governor Nelson Rockefeller of New ork was beset by domestic problemsa divorcethat may remove him as potential Republican presivv dentin candidate OTTAWA REPORT Canada Has Her Own Little UN By PATRICK NICHOLSON Thrifceli races are repre sented in our Parliament in ad dition to French English Scot tish Welsh and irish Prime Minisicr John Diclcnboker dis closed recently This is an an ample of Canadas determina tion to make all citizens equal regardless of race creed or re ligion he said he was speok log at citizenship prosecution ceremony in Prince Albert This remarkable revelation the Prime Minister modestly throw away with the combo lance with which ielevision comic star underplays his best quip on the Ed Sullivan show Thirteen races in addition Io Canadas two mother breeds That must surely be unique in any legislature in the world And despite that Tower of Babel nature our Parliament can carry on its bulness in peace and trinity with none of the rumour which alas is alien present in the deliberations of the 15 nation council of the North Atlantic Treaty Organiza tion or of the Security Council representing 11 of the United Nations EXAMPLE T0 WORLD Canadas own Little UN right here in the Parliament Building in Ottawa should be given worldwide publicity as proof that dliiereat nations can work together in harmony Most of our legislators de scribe their racial origins in the Parliamentary Guidc There in their autobiographical notes mostbut not allof our Sena tors and MP5 list the race of their parents In our House of Commons for example there are hiPsMho de scribe their parents as being not of 13 as the prime minister said but of 39 different races or different shodings of race For example our present liiPs include those who claim one or both parents of the following races Belgian Chinese Danish Dutch German icclondic ltalA ion Lebanese Norwegian Po lish Swedish and Ukrainian There at once are 12 of Mr Diefenbakers bakers dozen of origins But where is the 131117 There are other parents de scribed as Australianwho are probably of British stock and American who might be origi nally either British or one of the European mentioned above There are 124 parents of French origin divided as to 115 French Canadians sixFrench Audion and three French And there are 152 parents traced back to the British isles described variously as English glish Canadian Canadian English British Scotch Scol tish CanndianScoiiish Scotch Canadian Scottish Canadian English Scottish and Scottish fish Canadian There ore 150 proudly dc scribcd as Canadian and that is all out of total of 530 House of Commons parents SENATORS LESS VARIED The parents of Scnolors are not so farflung in their origins found Yes foiled right through the biographies of 102 Senators as well as 265 MP3 to compile this flippnnt set of sin tisticsl The racial origins of Scnaiors parents include German Dutch icclondic and Ukrainiannil of which we find also in the Com mans There are also 41 French Canadian four French Median and four French They also include this aston ishing miscellany from the Brit lsh islacs English British English and French Scottish Scotch Scotch Canadian Conn dion Scotch irlsh Cona dion and CanadianvEnglish ond irish if you think that sounds like crazy dog socicly you are darn right Theres one of those too Senator James Gladstone does not define his parents but describes himself as member of the Crazy Dog Society Blood Reserve And so there proudly is Mr Dicicnbakcrs 13th racial origin our first Canadian indian Senator representing the first and true Canadian race REPORT FROM UK Heuseholders Use Power From France By liIcINTYRE HOOD Special London England Correspudncnt for The Barrie Examiner LONDON Housewives in the south of England and indus tries through that area are op erating their appliances and factories with electric power generated in France And at different hours ofihc day over in France power from English stations is being used to light up cities and operate machin ery And in both countr fears of shortageyoi eiectncity have vanished This came about with the switching on simultaneously at Lydd in Kent and Echingen near Boulogne on the other side of the chan nel of new electricity linkup between the two countries in England the opening switch was pulled by the min ister of power and in France by the minister of industry This marked the operational start of scheme which has cost some $14500000 shared equally by the two countries But it will mean savings for both countries For instance through this exchange of pow er instead of building more generating plants the Central Electricity Board hopes to have about $500000 year DIFFERENT PEAKS Ths exchange of power he came practice because of the difference in habits of the French and British people France is to the east of BriA lain and the French are earl ier risersin the morning than the English They take longer over lunch thus creating trough in electrical demand The stature of rightwing Rc publican senator Barryv Goid water of Arizona seemed to be increasing of all the potential Republican leaders he is most likely to accept openly the sup port of such associations as the John Birch Society which preaches American isolationism and maintenance of American dominance through blunt use of military force at midday and they do not cause such severe evening peak The result of this is that Bri tain needs more power when France has some to spare and vice versa The amount of power which each country can send to the other is 160000 kilowatis about the capacity of moderatesized power std tion The Central Electricity Generating Board frequently has to build stations which op erote only part time The com ing of voliime of 180000 kilo waits through this crosscban nel link saves the building of station of that capacity cost ing $24 million PREVENTS SHORTAGE One great value of the link however is that it will prevent power shortages in the south eastern counties of England Present generating capacity in Kent is strained to the limit with the demand increasing each winter An official of the Electricity Board says We only just scraped by dur ing the last two winters With out iliis reserve from France the outlook afler Christmas would have been very grim in deed Over the whole of Britain power generating stations can produce 27 million kilowatts Against this the supply of 160 000 kilowatts from France seems quite small amount But as it is concentrated in one southeastern area if is never theless valuable But 600000 more kilowatts could be suplt plied from France if this first link operates satisfactorily as it seems likely to do