Barrie Historical Newspaper Archive

Barrie Examiner, 2 Feb 1962, p. 3

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The Georgian Bay area which Includes the County of Simone is one of the areas hardest hit by mild rabies epidemic This information came from Dr Haslett veterinn on with the health of animals division of the Canada department of agriculr ture which includes RUSHWHACIIEIIHCOOKE Iii licirou Mayor Les Cooke gave frightening display of strength yesterday when he belted one of the birch logs Barrie police chief Ed Tschirhart ordered turned down to exact toler ances for the upcoming Vln tcr Carnival logsawing can test Here Ed measures the log with his hands while Mayor Cooke granted Im an old bushwhacket but that was 10 years ago The con testants will be the reeves and mayors tn the county and the challenge this year was is sued by Mr Cooke Fire Destroys Barn Grain Cattle Pigs bale Rabbits Die large barn equipment grain and tccd stocks and 100 rabbits were icstroped in raging fire in Iubzcro weather Minister Here early this morning on the farm of Thomas Blair in Tay Town ship one mile south and east of the community oquyebridge Midland firemen called to the scene were able to rescue 24 head of cattle and Ill pigs but Dr tlaslett was commenting on report from Ottawa which stated that serious outbreak of rabies exists in Ontario with the hardest hit area including Nipissing and Renfrew counties and the Georgian Bay area Bnlce lluron and Simcoe counties and the District of Muskokar The official was able to sup ply figures for the past three Verifies Box Collecting 15 Pure Hoax Thousands of school children in Eastern Canada including some in Barrie hoaxgd into collecting empty cigaret boxes in the belief that the cigaret manufacturer will give wheelchairs to hospitals or supply seeingeye dogs to blind persons today by the advertising firm of Vickers and Benson Ltd Montreal that the belief is un founded and is the result of cruel hoax perpetrated on school ohlldrea who innocently believe they will he aiding oth crs less fortunate than them selves by collecting empty cig arct boxes The hoax has been traced to small comer stores where re falters allegedly started the rocket through whispering campaign From Montreal the hoax spread to Cornwall Ottalt wa Brockville and Barrie Cigaret firms and their ad vertising agents have been at tempting to stamp out the ru have been The Examiner was notified months for Simooe These show ed so cases of confirmed rabies in the county during November December and January The Ottawa report lists over 500 cases in the province dur ing the past nine months with additional cases In Manitoba Quebec and the Northwest Ter ritories bringing the total to nearly 700 confirmed cases Most of the reported incidents concerned wildlife particularly foxes and skunks Of the 39 re ported here since November 25 cases involved skunks and ex es There were 11 cases of bovine rabies reported during the per iod and one each involving cat dog and goat Dr Haslett said lnnisfil Town DONALD NANSEN Name Nansen New Hill Gen Manager With the resignation of Har old Adams former VicePresid ent and General Manager of Rabies Prevalént In Area Innisfil Township Hard Hit ship was hardest bit during De cember and January with number of cases reported in volving mbid foxes Dr Haslett while emphasiz ing that there was no need for undue alarm advised people to take all sensible precautions during the current scare Ile suggested that domestic pets should not be allowed to run loose unless supervised and asked that all cases of ani mals either wild nr domestic be reported to his office in Bar rie so that investigation can be made thing like this usually has to run its course he said but if we use common sense we are able to keep it fairly well in check and under control Dog Gone Iti Help Needed member of the Barrie Ken nel Club Paul Robin of Oro Station has protested sug gestion by Alderman Charles Newton that the city withdraw its advertising support in the kennel clubs dog show cata logue Mr Robins says he teamed that Alderman Newton would also like the city to pull its ed vertising from the collegiate year books and the Georgian Bay Development committee map In letter Mr Newton and city council Mr Robins con tends that city advertising in the dog show catalogue is re turned fiftecn fold to the Ar ena commission in the form of rental for the May Dog Show The letter contends This donation represents about one third of one per cent of the clubs annual budget which is raised primarily outside of Barrie through show entry fees and spent mainly in Barrie through the course of the sea son Dr Wilson of Barrie middle row seventh from left is member of the 1962 board of directors of the Ont ario Municipal Electric Assoc Chief Annoyedt No Enthuiliasm Barrie Police Chief Ed Tschir hart is up in the air about the lack of Winter Carnival enthus iasm on the part of the citys downtown businessmen You can walk down the main street he says and not see single sign that the major event of the season is just week away Chief Tsehirhart has started dress it up and talkit up campaign to spread the cami val spirit will be wearing plaid shirt and carnival touque from now on and so will some mem bers of my department City manager Walter Gigg will also be dressed in carnival gear and others at city hall are DR WILSON OEMII lation OMEA Is corporate body made up of 355 munici polities with municipallyown cd electric utilities The group works in conjunéfldn with Ont DIRECTOR aria Hydro promoting develop ment of electrical utilities as well as standardizing manage ment and operations proced urcs of member municipal ities Expect 10000 Carnival Guests Up to 10000 persons will invade the city for the Barrie um according to carniva1 chairman Winter Carnival Feb Charles Wadge The CNR is running at Sat urday excusion from Toronto and are also adding steam says engine special for Sunday Mr Wadge Hundreds of other people of course will be coming by car or bus incidentally adds Mr Wadge hope it stays cold because that should help ticket sales for the Florida draw This is the expensepaid trip for two to the new Bllmnr Eeachhotel at St Petersburg worth $600 Many FromBarrie Will Attend 57th llnnual Hardware Exhibit expected to follow suit mor and save the children from needless embarrassment and disappointment Presumably the rumor was started by retailers us gim mick to increase sales Cigaret firms have been quick to point were unable to control the fire which gutted the building Fire Chief Arnold Tippin of Midland said that his office was notified of the blaze short ly before ram and equipment was on the scene by 701 Some 7000 hardware dealers will come from across Canada to Toronto next week to order the merchandise and services with which to meet new cus tomer demands and discount store competition in 1962 Among them will he 32 from Cooper Miss Wanda Collison MrsAudrey Roeder Allison Paul Ford Larry Lau zon Fraser Mne Laren Jim Savage Nell Jock Ron Armstrong Rodgers Rodgers Hill of Canada Ltd Bar rie Ontario Doyle Pres ident of Hill of Canada Ltd announced yesterday the appointment of Donald Nansen as General Manager of Hill of Canada Ltd According to reliable source Mayor Les Cooke will go about his official duties dressed in carnival touque plaid shirt breeks and rubber boots To Develop Congregation An unusual amount of zeal drive enthusiasm and organiz ing ability characterize Rev Malcolm Summers who ar rived in Barrie this week to take charge of new field of the Presbyterian Church in East Barrie and Angus For the past three years Sunday School has been conducted in Johnson Street School and new lar Sunday church services have been held there during the past eight months Mr Summers task is to develop the new con gregation as the area grows and institute programs for all ages He is well qualified to do this having just completed similar assignment in Clark son Ontario Graduating from Knox College in 1957 his first charge was the ordained mission field at Clark son In September 1957 he started from nothing Thirty people showed up in response to circular for the first ser Vice held public school In less than three months the attendance more than doubled to 74 Nine months later this congregation moved to larger quarters in the high school and the eager Mr Summers started second congregation in an other residential area In Jan uary 1060 just over two years later the congregation became selfsupporting and by Febru ary 1061 the sad for church building had been turned con struction completed and the church dedicated At this point most men would have settled bad to enjoy the truitsof their efforts However Mr Summers has accepted the challenge of the same situation in Barrie and Angus Along with this he will be serving as chair man of the Board of Arrnagh and honorary president PYPS of the synod of Torontmltingsmn Mr Summers credits his wife Dorothyann as being full time partner in his work She is graduate of Waterloo Col lege and the Presbyterian DeaA coness Training School and was deaconess at St Andrews Kit chener for four years They will live with their two boys Mark 312 and Kerk nine months at 110 Steel Street in Barrie Seven Face Frameup llccusation SYRACUSE NY AP Seven persons including mem bers of the police and sheriffs department were Thursday of tte rn pting to frame state police investiga tor and former assistant dis triet attorney in vice investi gation Indictments opened in county court charge that the seven conspired to accuse through false affidavits state police in vestigator Samuel Plants Jr of having sexual relations with prostitute and of conspiring to accuse former assistant district attorney Irwin Birnbaum ofv concealing the alleged crimes grand jury that heard the When our men got there the fire was completely out of control he said and we had to concentrate our efforts on saving the house and adjacent sheds and other buildings Temperatures in the area at the time ranged dawn to 20 be low zero No one was injured in the blaze and Fire Chief Iippin could give no estimate of the damage We dont know what caused the blaze he said but the building was wired for elec trinity JACK PDLLAK Toronto Man To Instruct ilrt Classes Tflarrie Art Club has or ganized classes in painting and is particularly interested in young people taking lessons Classes under the instruction of Toronto artist Jack Pollock will start Thursday Feb at Owens studio 48 Ellen Street and will continue weekly until April 26 Afternoon and even ing classes are planned Pollock wlm wns agallery in Toronto is graduate of the Ontario College of Art and had graduate work atthe Slade School of Art in London Eng His instruction will empha size development of personal style Special techniques such as glazing and prismatics also will be discussed Those interested in the paint ing classes should contact any member of the Barrie Art Club or Louise Coltey at the court house Men Face Meat Charges OTTAWA CPISeven area men charged with selling meat unfit for human consumption appeared briefly in suburban Eastview court Thursday and were remanded to Feb 15 with out plea or election Charged are Harry Crough Ludget Brisson Raymond and Joseph Kipp and Germain Me alleged charges in 1060 refused to indict Plants or Birnbaum hard and his sons JeanPaul and Regent out that they would not condone the use of children invaltds or blind persons to promote their sales The rumors say that if childv ren collect stated number of empty boxes sometimes 3000 sometimes 5000 the manufact urer will donate wheelchair to community hospital In Mont real one group ot children were busily collecting empty cigaret boxes in the belief that the manufacturer would supply seeing eye dog to blind person In Cornwall one gmoup of hospital visitors collected 10 000 empties before discover ing the hoax In Barrie even adults were re ported collecting the boxes One teacher had her class saving towards goal of 5000 boxes QUEBEC CF Albini Pa quette former Union Nationale health minister swore Wednes day he never had anything to do with the resignation of the late Most Rev Joseph Charbon neau Roman Catholic Archbi shiop of Montreal in 1950 would have considered it an abominable outrage it any one had asked me to intervene or dispossess Msgr Charbon neau of his episcopal seat Dr Paquette declared in the legis lative council Quebecs upper house where he has been member since 1953 Published reports have said Dr Paquette and the then labor nunister Antonio Barrette were sent to Rome during the 1940 Holy Year by the late pre mier Milurice Duplessis to put pressure on Pope Pius XII to PUNTA DEL ESTE Uruguay CFAPiThe ouster of pro Communist Cuba from the coun cils of the Organization of American States was viewed to day as somewhat costly Vic tory for the United States be cause it produced the first ma Jor split in the 10year history of the OAS Already the decisions of the ministers were arousing reper cussions in Latin America Six countries abstained on the resolution to expel Cuba be cause they disagreed over whether the OAS foreign minis ters conference here couldle gally take such move Firm action had been urged by the United States The resolution mustered only the minimum of 14 votes neces sary for the expulsion All pre vious ministerial level confer ences have resulted in at least 20 to 21 votes on resolutions The conference split gener ated pressure from conserva OHURLEY ABBIVES ROME Reuters Canadas minister of defence production Raymond OHurley arrived here Thursday from Geneva for talks with the Italian defence minister and the chiefs of the am and air force staffs Nansen has been until yester day New York Branch Manager of Hill and Co Inc Trenton New Jersey He has been with Hill since 1946 and has done an outstanding job in developing llills New York operation into the most successful unit in the industry He had been General Service Manager and Divisional Sales Manager prior to his appoint ment as New York Branch Manager Doyle stated that Harold Adams resignation was regret ted but with the wide experi ence and ability of Mr Nansen Hill of Canada Ltd will continue its planned growth Mr Nansen is married has two children and plans on mov ing to aBrrie in the near future Pacquette Denies Connection With Resignation 0i Archbishop obtain Msgr Cbarbonneaus relt signation The archbishop installed in 1040 resigned in 1950 and died in retirement in Victoria in 1559 Dr Paquette physician said the archbishop was per sonal friend and when he went to Rome asQuebees represen tative he saw Pope Pius twice But the name of Msgr Char bonneau was never mentioned Dr Paquette said his name had been mentioned by at least three Montreal newspa pers in connection with the archbishops raignation which has been subject of contra versy for 12 years book in French entitled LHistoire Bouleversante de Msgr CbarbonneauThe Con fusing Story of Msgr Charbon neau was published recently OHS MovewTo Oust Cubans Is Rrousing Repercussions tives in the Argentine govern ment one of the six which held out for goaltead approach Argentinas military chiefd were reported furious at the soft Line taken by President Arturo Frondizis government FOR THE Its New and Delicious HORACE PRATT Pratt Named UII Chairman At the annual meeting of the Barrie United Appeal Pratt was elected chairman of the 1962 board of trustees Little was elected secretary and Fraser is to be treas urer Mr Pratt succeeds retiring chairman Budt Thomas Mr Thomas was reelected for ttlreeyear term on the board of trustees together with Fraser Greenhalgh Hamilton and Leighton SCIENTIFIC CLERIC William Conybeare the noted English geologist who died in 1857 was also clergyman and dean of Llandaff Wales PRESCRIPTIONS We always give prompt courted service Ask our doctor about our pbamsiury next than he writes prescription or Yflu Proscrl tion pi up an delivergd run of charge CUSDENS PEABMACY 14 Dunlop PA 85955 Collier 5L PA 664 week GERMAN CHOCOLATE CAKE CHEESE PARKER HOUSE ROLLS wrrn TANGY CHEESE FLAVOUR culrrounrs RUM AND PINEAPPLE it 55¢ each itAKIVIIwIsuPr MILKLBAR To order in advance Phone PA 66501 Took Blame So Jailed MONTREAL CPiA 27year old convict who Wednesday told the court he had tied in taking the blame for an armed rob bery he did not commit was sentenced Thursday to three year penitentiary term for per Jury Paul McEllin now serving three years in St Vincent de Paul for robbery had testified in Quebec Court of Apeals that he not former Westmount pn liceman Stanley Eastoa had committed two armed robber ies in westend pharmacy 0n the basis of McElItns tes timony the Appeals Court or dered new trial for Easton who had been sentenced to 10 years on the two charges The new trial is pending RAISE FARES WASHINGTON APAll the 11 115 domestic trunk airlines raised their passenger fares three per cent Thursday Most of the 13 localservice airlines they will attend the 57th an Barrie Together with some 10000 supplier representatives nuul Canadian Hardware Show The Hardware Show Febru ary toll will occupy 250000 square feet or floor space this year filling the Coliseum and industry Building at the CNE Exhibition Grounds with 785 ex hibit booths The number of exhibitors 450 is the largest ever participating and Show Manager William Mallatratt it Robinson Lufltin Rule Henry Hoskia Thomson Soules Wil liams Wilcox acDonald Lockman Brown Mr and Mrs Hauck AVOIDS RELIGION OTTAWA CP Postmaster Generai William Hamilton says is government policy to avoid religious subjects on postage also increased fares expecm that sales on the show floor will exceed the $1250000 figure of last year Attending from Barrie will be Emberson Alan Mac Donald Alvin Thompson Arn Emily Jerry OReilly John old Miller Ziegler Miss BARRIE HEATING FUELS Phone PA 66531 FIRST PRIZE ELEANOR FULCRER MODELLING COURSE valued at $20000 plus merchandise SLIP 1Contestant to appear grooming and poise Lenos Lingerie PAIR HOSE donated by mangfline Shop THIRDHAT from Zellers Ltd $1500 5mm donated by SnlLv Shops Value saoo SECOND PRIZE $2500 plus merchandise THIRD PRIZE $1500 plus merchandise Open to all Simcoe County Residents RULES in winter sportswear ZContestnnt to he nineteen 19 or older 3rlelefltall may he married or single 4Contestnnt will be judged on sportsnblllty personality WINTER CARNIVAL ourru courrsr BE THE LUCKY WINNER 0F PRIZES FIRSTHAITI sIrt and Facial donated by Joan Garrick Value 5600 SPRING oars donated by Sun mans LUGGAGE donated by Store for nten Boys BASKET or FLOWERS donated by Bezzant Nurseries sEooNno WEBKS COURSE donated by Singer Sewing Machine Value $2000 Stephens Value $1850 nnmsnIAKEns Value $1500 or PANrIE sEr donated by Value sane Value 5250 Value 5Contestant must be willing to appear on all threedays of Carnival according to times scheduled by committee 64Contestant agrees that judges decision is final 7Applteotlon must be in on or by February 1062 8To appear at the Roxy Theatre 830 pm Feb 1962 JUDGES Eleanor Fulehsr Model Grant Ma Flora Cotton um WINTER CARNIVAL QUEEN Name SEND TO nunrnihuhniuun Carrilan Queen contest ENTRY FORM Box 15 Barrie Ont dlIHHHmlHH stamps to promote religious tolerance and mutual respect This Was his reply in the Con mons to Paul Martin fLEssex East who had asked why rep resentations for special Christ mas postage stamp were turned down HART INTERNATIONAL MOTOR TRUCKS USED TRUCK BUYS 1956 FARGO VJ Ion wheel base Isss FARGO VT 15 nuke less FARGO Va tractor and trailer lust INTERNATIONAL 11 dump RJDD INTERNATIONAL dump 11134 INTERNATIONAL dump K8610 INTERNATIONAL Tractor on Air RIro INTERNATIONAL long wheel base RIao INTERNATIONAL loos whee hue 155i Ausm Panel 16000 mile only L410 mIERNATIONAL long when base INTERNATIONAL with Frtnk Plow Ind WLns tnlI nydnnuc controls 1959 CHEVROLET PickUp loss INTERNATIONAL PickUp lost rAriGo PinkU9 in 1952 INTERNATIONAL cylinder PickInn caoosr aaoon usnn TRUCK VALUE TODAY DUNLOP crovuurir At Highway 400 Wheel Alignment bodyRepairs DAY PHONE PA 80026 PAVE3180

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