Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited 16 Hayï¬eld Street Barrie Ontario Walls Publisher Brian Sleight General Manager SATURDAY FEB 1561 Some Practical Pointers For Drivers And School Children The wellmeaning arent who drive his youngsters to an from School each day can be serious safety hazard the Ontario Motor League warns There is heavy concentration of child traffic in school areas in the momin and mid afternoon and parents waiting in cars or letting off childrenadd to the safety problem Dangerous ractices listed the OML ar Loa ng or unloading dren on the opposite side of the street from the school This practice invites the child to open the door on the streetside and run across or dart from around the car Double parking This creates hazard for other children who must cross the street and sets bad example in its dis regard for the law Stopping on the crosswalk This is unfair to the youn sters crossing the street and to the Sc 001 Safety Guards who deserve your fullcooperation Pulling in front of school bus In last minute dash to get their child on the bus some parents pull up and block the bus Such practice endangers not eFort Niagara Of more than more local interest to the famous and popular playground area of Niagara Falls is the announcement that Fort Niagara on the United States side is to become state park under supervision of the Niagara Frontier State Park Commission Site of military post since pioneer days and fl uring prominently in re current flgb on this section of the international boundary Fort Niagara is to be relinquished by the US Depart ment of the Army at the end of June The former army post will then be converted into dpalk to include picnic areas playgroun and boating docks Work on these facilities though plans have already been prepared will not start until 1968 Fort Niagara lands were acquired by New York State after the Revolutionary War and the US Government took them over at the start of the Civil War and used the facility during World Wars One and Two only the life of their youngster but those on the bus The OML recommends the folowing rules for parents driving their children to and from school Drive children onl if absolutely nec essary Going to and mm school on their own can teach youngsters selfreliance Wherever possible pool rides with neighbors to reduce the number of cars going to and from the school area Have designated location to meet your child This should be on the school side of the street away from the cross walk or corner and if possible on different side of the school building from that which the pedestrian children are Using Have your child sit well back in the car seat preferably using seat belt Lock all car doors Children can be taught to do this for themselves Know and have respect for all traffic laws and school regulations Observance of the law contributes to the childs safe ty and training State Park In 1948 Fort Niagara was turned back to the state but was againacquired by the government during the Korean War The area will now come under perman ent jurisdiction of the state as new milit ary facilities are being provided Not included in the transfer to the state will be the land on which Naval Reserve and Coast Guard buildings sit The lighthouse at Fort Niagara also will not revert to the state Ontario and Canada were well in the lead in the work of converting their for mer Niagara battle grounds into play grounds In this activity the Niagara Parks Commission has been exceptionally successful So far the American author ities have lagged far behind But now the new Fort Niagara Park will augment the stretch of park lands along the American side of the Niagara river Canadians will watch with interest the development of the former fort area into peaceful tpark change long overdue in bor er area that has known peace for over century DQWII MeInOry Lane 50 YEARS AGO IN BARRIE Northern Advance 1912 Thirteen fir es reported in town during past year but one on Friday Property loss $14000 24 below zero registered by But terys weather station but some local folk claimed thermometer readings of 30 DArcy Hinds wellknown former rieite sued the Catholic Register for libel The IrishCanadian complained of an anonymous letter in the ublication an aftermath of his ode to Princess Patricia of Connaught and his resignation from the Ancient Order of Hibernians Mayor Alexander Cowan outlined progress program for the year Work not elk would be town councils motto Post Office square improvements will be more elaborateuGarbage removal will be in vestigated Barrie Carriage Works was closed down two days because pipes burst in the freezing weather John Dyment noted local horseman and owner of Brookdale Stables reported showing much improvement from his illness Dr Ross biséihysician reported Playing at the rand Opera House this week that merry jingling comedy The Girl and The Tramp with special stage scenery Seat plan on sale at Malcomsons office Front page ads in the paper were for Union Bank of Canada Frank Jackson portraits Simmons Furs Bry sons Confectionery and Olympia Candy Works Land sharks for Western Canada property reported operating loc ally George Smith chosen chair man Board of Education Midland de feated Barrie Colts 95 in junior hockey Keeley Brown and Longman were the pick of the home team Gren Caldwell was referee Two Allandale rinks curled for the championship of Ward Six Postmaster Stan Hinds skip with Dr Evans Webb and Steph ens on his rink beat Tyrer skip Riddell Ed Shear and Dr Arnall by two shots Skips for the BarrieOriiiia Cup games selected as Boys Webb Sheriff Harvey and Dr ArnalL Bradford main street crowded as Ben Whytock pushed Lou McConkey three blocks in wheelbarrow paying election bet Local man in police court charged with boozing singing accostin women disorderly conduct Found ty the magistrate fined him three dollars or three weeks in jail Accused took the three weeks Commented the paper at least hell be sober for the next three weeks Other Editors Views PURE WATER HARD TO GET Hamilton Spectator More and more people are becoming aware that there is no such thing as tpure water but just water that is The Barrie Examiner Authorized second clan mu Post Office Department Ottawa Ind for payment of postage In cash Dally Sundays Ind Sulutï¬f Helloyo excepted KENNETH WALLS Pflhulhï¬l BRIAN SLATE General 51m MDPnBsON WILD Editor CHARLES WADGE fullness MAE MEET WILSON Aflflfflllflfl MilIRIS JOHN HalDEE Chmm Manager Subset tion rate films 50 mo ylgr sun caiii my ey rain to dig zoo year Mflu six months on three months 106 month oumda Ontario To your noma Cm Ida mm year clam as Unlvarslt Ave Toronto Cathcnrt Street Manncol mo est deems rest vneon to Member of the Ca ndlln DILLV News 51 Pub her Association 1th Clnldlan Pres 1In the Audit bureau of trculatiohlv Tho Csnudlln Pro II uxclullvol entitled to the manger re flhgettiaï¬ of lghnlwAsdVlrratcaheg Lu hi or on or we rel or onion and also the Inï¬ll on published therein drinkable because ithas been treated and neutralized into safety This was confirmed in recent report that phenol industrial wastes from Lake Ontario entering Oakvilles mains have g1 the water an iodine flavor Treat ment tovehminate the phenol said to come mainly from paper pulping and oil refining industries had in turn imparted chlorine taste to the water Ronald Noonan engineer of the pub lic utilities commission gave the assur ance that the phenol solution had been detected and treated before it had pass ed into the water supply in concentrat ion prolonged enough to be dangerous but it is isolated incidents such as this which point warning for the future With the Toronto Hamilton area being built up with homes and factories and With large population increases predicted over the next 20 years it is imperative that the costly problems of water filtrat ion and purification be given continually close attention THE CONTBBRY CIIMEI AT THE LIBRARY New Book Tells Of Last Survivors Of Old Race Charming Primitive People The Bushman And The Pygmies The Heart Of The Hunter By Lauren Von dcr Post The Heart Of The Hunter is the second book by Mr Van dcr Post dealing with the Afri can Bushman the lnst surviv ors of the oldest race in Africa perhaps in the world The first book The Lost World Of The Kalahari was disappoint lng It lacked cohesion and only began to be interesting when the author finally roach ed the Kalahari Desert about half way through the book and make contact with the Bush men Heart of The Hunter also suffers from certain lack of cohesion It divides olrnost equ ally into two parts which might almost be road as separ ate arts but eac in Its way Is nteresting beautiftu written and the parts are closely related The first half of the book deals with the authors personal contacts with the Bushmeu This is the Van der Post of Venture ToTheInterior writing the man to whom people and the landscape in which they live are inseparath linked so that it is impossible to consider one without the other VIVID DETAIL He recreates in vivid detail the shark and strangely beaut iful desert world of the Kai aharl its animals plaan and Its rare waterholes In this ruthlesst lovely landscape his Bushmen walk as men who be long supernaturally skilful hun ters gentle but wary and in credible durable As they come gradually to trust the stranger and take him Into their confidence he reveals people poor indeed in material wellbeing but rich in the less tangible possessions of the mind and spirit For when these pe ople paid him their greatest compliment by introducing him to story world as real and alive to them as the actual world in which they lived he found that these childlike people possessed mythology as rich and complex as any that man has devised to exnlain the universe and his place in it It seemed indeed as if in the mind and spirit of this ancient and dwindling race there lay the seeds of all the worlds great mythologies The second half of the book In an analysis of this mythol ogy in so far as the autbnr was able to learn about it in the short time at his disposal Mr Van der Post draws many parallels between this mythology and those others which underly the worlds great religious In discussing the act ivities of Mantis the chief spirit of the Bushman myth his family in all its ramifications and transformations his intim ate relationship witballthe elements of nature and with all living creatures Mr Van der Post tends perhaps not inten tionally to make other mythol ogies seem limited and ovah simplified by comparison it is as if these small desert hunters denied by their fellow men all the good things of the life of the body have found instead life of the spirit immeasurab ly rich in imagination and cre ativity PREMATURE It may be that Mr Van der Posts conclusions are prema ture based on inadequate know ledge and insufficient study of people whose origins go back beyond the reach of human memory to the very beginning REPORT ROM ILK Bullock Drops Through Ceiling By McINlYRE HOOD Special London England Correspondent for The Barrie Examiner TRURO Cornwall Miss Mildred Hear Baker 65year old splnster lives alongside the cattle market at iruro And she was making Cornish pasties in her sculiery when there was loud crash above her head and bullock dropped through the ceiling This was the story which she told the judge when she appear ed in fruro County Court on an action for damages against the owner of the wayward bullock 0n the day of this incident she told the judge the bullock had jumped over the wall of the cattle market and landed right on the roof of her sculiery The roof was not made to stand such rough usage so the logs of the bullock Went right through it and it stuck fast on the roof Miss Baker shrieked pounded out into the garden like an Olympic sprinter and locked herself in anoutside lavatory heard an awful bang said Miss Baker looked up and saw four legs coming through the roof and almost touching the top of my head was afraid the cow might come down and get me The bullock was suspended on of things Nevertheless his dis cussion of what he has found out so for given in love and understanding and quite without condesceusion makes enthralling reading intellectually stimulat ing and emotionally stimulating It gives one to think The Forest People By CoIIn Inmbull To the young English anthro pologist Colin TurnbulLtba Pygmies of the Congo are fri ends He spent three years in the Ituri Forest area where they live and came to know these very likeabla people in timately For one year he liv ed with group of them as they moved around the forest for hunting honey gathering and trading with the Negro tribes in the clearings The Pygmies are very an cient people who have lived in the forest for many thousands of years Although they average less than four and half feet in height they are powerful and tough and have no fear of tho iforest Mr Turnbull exr plains It is their world and hi return for their affection and trust it supplies them with all their needs other Africans he says cannot live in the forest because they do not know its secrets how to hunt the game how to find the hidden wild fruits nutritious roots mushrooms honey and termit es Termites are an important delicacy Again to quote the author they roam the forest at will in small isolated bands or hunting groups They have no fear because for them there is no danger For them there is little hardship so they have no belief in evil spirits For them it is good world In this way they are happy ex ception to most primitive peopl es who are beset by supersti tions REAL FRIENDS Mr Turnbull regarded the little band of people he lived with as real friends He found them to be happy individu alistic people with good sometimes boisterous sense of humor They had their little vanities jealousies and idiosyn craeies their disputes and their love affairs They spent many evenings in song and dancing her roof for about 20 minutes before it was released by farm ers who came to her aid It was then led through the kitchen and out of her front door If left behind trail of havoc an terrible mess in the soull ery with rain pouring in through the holes in the roof Miss Baker said the incident had shocked herterribly and she had to have medical attent ion dont og out to the scull ery on Wednesdays now she said always shake little when hear the cows Coupled with Miss Baker in her action for damages was her landlord Hadley Jenkins owner of the bousenlhey both claimed damages against the owner of the bullock Kenneth Hawkey farmer of Ken ncar Truro and the Truro City Coun oil from whose market the ani mal escaped The judge took sympathetic view of Miss Bakers ex cri ences lie awarded her $45 an ages plus further $75 as comp ensation for shock The landlord of the house was awarded $150 for repairs to the roof through which the bullock had dropped into Miss Bakerfsacullery MrHawkey its owner was ordered to pay both claimsplus the costsof the two plaintiffs and also the costs of the Truce City Council As he describes them many of them become personalities to the readers In order to live with the Pygmies Mr Turnbull had to have endurance He had to keep up with their long rapid treks through dense forest to walk noiselessly to Wake part in their hunting expeditions and In all their activities He also needed sympathy and imagine tion as well as his scientific background He apparently had these qualities and so he is able to tell us about their cus toms their nomad camps their ceremonies especially Ihe mob irno in which they sing to the forest and praise it for its kindness The mollmo cere mony impressed him deeply and he describes it at consider able length Perhaps he could Itllave condensed this part lit He also emphasises their co operative way of living and their reasonabldway of settl ing disputes in an informal waySome of the scenes he describes effectively taking the reader into the atmosphere of the great forest with the light filtering lazily through the trees He liked and admired the Pygmies and conveys these feelings to the reader This all adds up to an unusual and ap pealing book ft omwanrposr Sevigny Packs Many Ideas Intro Words By PATRICK NICEOBON tly appreciative of his learned hosts to deliver wary profound speech Unlike the average banquet speaker who says little In mam words Mr Sevigoy packed many ideas into mere 3000 words Among the many points of major concern to Canadians which be reviewed were nuciur warfare the spread of commu nism counterpropaganda and internatlonel trade Hn persua sively reasoned that link may exist in solving these worries If we can open up foreign markets for twoway trade Mr Sevigny pointed out we will not only maintain our own prosper ity by selling our immense sur plus production we will help our new trading partners by buying their materials in rc turn and also reveal to them the attractions of on demo cratic way of life if crï¬uns of foreign countries are able to cnioytha success of our system he suggested we will win them to our cause so that they will join with us in oombaftiing the evil of worldwide communism Few Canadians will argue against the urgency to expand our foreign trade All will wcllt come the novel concept that this could also serve as power Inf and needed free world plop agenda CONSTRUCTION BOOM Praising Canadas domestic development Mr Soviguy vealed that government experts have forecast that some new homes may be built in Canada during the next four years This would indicate boom for the industry which directly and in directly employs more Cane dians than any other Ourhome builders have never before at tained this huge volume But out of those 3000 words political and newspaper critics focussed on just 14 words in the past six months communist governments have taken over British Guiana and Ecuador With great bowl heard across Canada parliamentary time and newsprint were fritlt lered on what was perhaps diplomatic fuuxpas yet was certainly supported by facts and was in no event matter of domestic political concern Liberal and ND MP criticized Mr Sevin for that prcsumcd mote but none referred to his very real nugget suggesting housing boom Newspapers like wise rated it more important to Canadians that Mr Sevigny be chided for his reference to comlt munisrn in two small laun Amerlcan countries WHO KNEW THE TRUTH This raises the pertinent queslt lions How shallow can political critics get How sensational do we want our press Weiiviniormcd observers sug gest that the Opposition in Pres and Parliament was CIlBS log an imaginary witch For ex ample the responsible Reuters news agency that Oieddi Jagan prime minister of British Guiana styles him self lilorxlstLeninist and was ousted as head of the colonial government in 1953 when in British feared he was about to establish Communist bridges head in South America Else where he was rewited lo have married Young Communist IAagucr in Chicago and to have home yelling Marxist war cries Headlincd Turn to the bolt report on Ecuadors president Carlos Amscmena described how he had recently visited Moscow and returned calling Krushchov my friend and said that he vowed to support Castros Cuba and issued an invitation to other Communist lands Very recent events in British Guiana also support Mr Sev ignyl opinion But the moral of that episode might be that Ca nadians should not have national news suppressed so that allow tiou can be given to splitting hairs as to whether foreign poli ticians are communists or yell like communists or are the friends of Communists it is greattribute to the achievements of our governmcni that its political opponents can nub find such picayune grounds for an attack upon one of its ministers BIBLE THOUGHT The word of the Lord endur EIII for ever Peter 125 Time obliterates everythins except that which is eternal TO YOUR GOOD HEALTH InspeCt Habits To Gain weight nyrrosnenrormonunug MD Dr Dr Molner have been trying to gain weight Im feet weigh 97 pounds and Im 25 years old Is there any thing can do Jane According to the charts you might well add about 20 pounds The first thing to do is sit down and thinki Are you basically heelth No chronic infection TB anemia hyperthyroidism Any of these can inhibit gaining weight There would be some other signs too of course races slve fatigue fever weakness nervousness etc Second take look at your heredity If you come from lean stock your physical blueprint may call for small bone struc ture and light weight If one or both of your parents are then and you closelyresemblo one or the other you can exlt pect to be thin too In such case gain what you can but dont expect too much Third quite aside from here dity theres the matter ea ting and exercise habits good many stout people are that way because they were born into fairiin that had the habit of eating rich mgrcalorie foods From childhood they took it for granted that that was the Way to eat This reminds me of lame Philadelphia people who years ago ate scrapple for breakflost They met an outlander who had never even heard of sore 1e and the Philadelphians in the most genuine surpass Then what no you eat for breakfast so inspect your habits andif eating lean foods has been habit with you change Ive also noticed that many lean people have quirks about various foods This or that they behave produces gas or colitis constipation cramps pimples or whatnot True some people cant bol erate certain foods but there are more who just think tire cant Fourth what about physical habits Are you one of those people whothrow all your eu ergies into everything you do if so you are using up cabar ies needlessly Do you get ough sleep its important You should exerciseenoughfo tone up your muscles and gve you anappetite and you should learn to take life easier part of the time After is searching appraisal of the foregoing Youre likely ii see some ways to gain weigi nothing that will put on weight except eating more calories than you use up If you want to gain weight copy the ways of hefty people Eat butter margarine cream more pastry desserts gravies thick soups Nibble between meals candy snacks nuts milk shakes cookies Hearty eaters usually plow through dimer fairly rapidly Its the thinnies who talk and dawdle and pick and let the food get cold and take the edge off their appetites before theyve cleaned their plates Try getting more food into your stomach while youre stii hun gry Good luck Dear Doctor have hoars cness but no sore throat How can get rid of this have been affected with this hoarse ness for about month Continuing hoarsencss deserves inspection by your doctor with out delay There are innocent causes of it some thickening of the vocal chords etc but there are also dangerous causes of it including cancer In this latter early treatment is essen tial Delay means giving it glance to spread and be dead NOTE TO MBx Glossitis means irritation or inflamma tion of the tongue It can be result of infections of many kinds allergy jagged teeth nutritional defects TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS Feb 24 1962 Premier Ahmed Maher of Egypt was shot and killed in the Chamber of Deputies 17 years ago todayin 1945 shortly after reading royal decree declaring war on the Axis lawFranz von Papen was sentenced to eight years by German de naziiication court at Nucm berg for his work in Hit lers diplomatic corps 1940 The Spanish gov ernmenb banned Freemas onry EXTERNAL AFFAIRS The department of external affairs in Canada was consti tuted in 1909 and placed under the secretary of state