Barrie Historical Newspaper Archive

Barrie Examiner, 16 Jun 1964, p. 1

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Continuing to eipnnd with Barrie and Simeon Orth With Yur No14 LARGE CLOUD of black smoke rises irom thstpan ese city at Niigata today alter it was struck by Japans strongest earthquake since 1923 The ShownChssl bridge lies collapsed in the Shluano River ioregiound alter it iQuake rfwrmmmwmwfiawv collapsed in quake which hit northern Japan shortly aiter noon killing at least is per sons The smoke is irom oil storage tanks that were rup lured and caught fire AP Wirephoto via radio irom kills 21 In apdn Injures TOKYO APlA giant earth quake sot oii tires and shattered buildings today in the important industrial commercial city oi Niigata in northern Japan Property damage was estim atrd in the millions boss oi llie in the city was not iully deter mined but for the entire stricken area it was given as 21 dead and 109 injured The quskestroogest in Ja pan since the catastroplic quake oi 192a wiped out Tokyo and Yokohamahit vast ares oi the main Japanese island oi lionsbu at 101 pni timnr am EDT today Sending massive ground wave through 10 northern pre lectures states with total population oi 15000000 it but behind trail oi dead and sat iering naming industrial in stallations broken homes high ways and railways and ugly iis aures in use onceplacid coun trislde Word from Niigata remained fragmentary tonight But an emergency telecast irom the the stricken city showed blas ing oli tanks destroyed bridge and an eightestorey railway bos pital tilting on its shattered foundation Explosions could be heard in the background as the pictures flashed on screens in Tokyo 108 Shortage oi water made it im possible to tight flames irom burning oil tanks There was tear that oil spreading over the waterfront and lowland areas might ignite Besides Nilgsta the hardest hit cities were Murakami ltiizu hara Mitsuite aod Toynsalra Damage was not as heavy as in Niigaia which was without gas water electricity or nor mal talegraph and telephone communications in tbé ilorthefii area the total of houses destroyed was listed at 311 with 825 others damaged lite slightly damaged andsev aral hundred flooded at first iloor lavel Five bridges were washed away the railways were out in as places and highways darn aged at 7A places reiining centre for nearly all at Japans domestic petro leum Niigata is on the sea of Japan 160 miles northwest of Tokyo and is chic port for trade with the Soviet Union REGISTERS HIGH The quake registered iorce oi on Japans maximum scale in the northern cities of Niigata Sendai and Sakata But by track at nature it did lit tle damage in Sendai and Sa kata Low Social Class Has Link Willi Poor Grades Proi Says CHAMMTETOWN CF the Protestant child seems bet ter oriented toward science and rationality and is more likely to finish scle with better marks than the Roman Cedioiic rduld says University at Alberta prolessor Dr Henry Rates of the uni versitys sociology department said low social class also is direct links with poor grades and schooldropouta how social en vironment gave more re stricted outlook and perception that showed up in school work The lowerclass Roman Catho lic strident starts school with two strikes against himre llgion and social class Dr Zoni ner said in an interview aiter presenting paper to the Ca nadian Political Science Asso ciaiioos annual meeting here Dr chtner Mtyearoid asso ciate socioio proiessor said in the intcrvrew he re arda re ligion as the most de sive lac tar in panadianllie it was more acute here than in the Uni States memento has been lndonesiaWithdram Guerrillas TDKYO Reuters Indonesia has sent an order to her guerrillas to withdraw irom Malaysian Borneo Gents Harsono torelgn ministry spokesman said taught to rely much more exten sively upon his own skills and capacities to solve his prob lama Dr Zenhier said Protest antism assrnned an orderly uni verse created according to lawful and predetermined plan and valued observation and the use of secular rationaliw Six Passengers Killed its Bus NEW ORLEANS APtlwo barges smashed gap in the worlds longest bridge beiore down today and irarlways bus plunged over the edge into Lake Pontchartrain killing six passengers Skindivers recovered some oi the bodies irom the bus sub merged in about 15 ieet oi the brackish water coast guard helicopter rescued one man and plucked another body irom the lake The heavy barges one loaded with gravel and the other with big dredge knockcd down about we ieet oi the causeway low bridge resembling highway on stilts Texas Republicans Back Goldwater WASHINGTON AHlbxol Republicans gave to Barry Goldwater is cheering welcome to Dallas and planned to hand him today the 56 con ventloo delegates that will put him over the top to estimated first ballot strength at the pan tys national convention in July But even as tho Arlnona sen ators total headed past theses votes needed or the Republican presidential nomination Penn sylvanla Governor William Scranton continued to probe ior soft spots in Goldwaters dela gata array fear Drowned In Sudbury Lakes SUDBURY CPiFour men are feared drowned three in Lake Wahoapitoe 15 miles northeast oi here and one in Lake Penage 20 miles west in what pmvinclal police describe as the worst night or drownings in the history at the Sudbury detachment Missing presumed drowned in Lake Wahnapitae are Charles Morin oi Coniston Alcido Dupuls 37 at Gsrson and Ad rian Dopois 40 at iianmer all communities within 15 miles of here Missing and presumed drowned in Lake Peuage is sinner The Lake Wahnapitae mishap was reported Monday night when Victor Baldlsere of Coats ton who was camping in the area reported to the depart ment of lands and iorests that an upturned boat was floating around an island New RCN Ship Rapped In House OTTAWA CF Associate Deience Minister Cardin eon iirmed Monday reports unseat here and in iialiiax ior months that constructloh oi the new na val supply ship the Provider didnt go according to planor the original financial estimates He informed Douglas Fisher ND Port Arthur in the Sommns iirat total cost oi tho anlndoocaian vhere wday iiirrushchev Arrives In Copenhagen coenunaonn tarr emier hagen today at the start oi threeweek vis to Scandinavia pen and recc ed lriendiybrl lowkeyedreception irom twin urowdroi stew shipso iorhas been $16850 ooo ihe original announced price was $14100000 Mr Cardina also said current sea trials of the 2200Mon Prolt Vider biggest ship in the RUN have determined that some equipment was either deficient inperiormance or in need of some adiustmeot to provide for greater efficiency vvr Because the Provider was still conducting trialstbe total amount to be spent on fthese deficiencies and adlustmeotsl was not yet known butJt is expected that proportion of such costs will be borne by the shipbuiider under the terms at the warranty agreement 32s ONE How was attendance at day at attendao all nohodycame but next the matinee the Falls Into Lake Hans Haggblom Sudhury pen Coniroiled By gist thebiil told reporters he saw all Examinpr Barrie Ontario armor 1pm rum is rm DELEGATION unnlls miootloog petition bearing 17073 signatures in support oi national plebiscite on the marina nsosnn lag question The petition sponsored by the emergency committee to save the lied En sign was apnead out on the that yam any firIWuermnweewmmwgrmm yummy Local Weather Coldtonigbt and Imbb narrow lowtonigbtu High toads Seemilwea monetaryon page two Inn Mm To Per copy Pepsi INUPROAR FlAGTION sour PM Rejects conservative Idea To Hold National Plebiscite MTAWA CPtThe govern ments proposed maple leat lag finally readied the House oi Commons Monday and as prediwed it was buiieted irom both sides by poweriol winds oi oratory it will not be the ilag oi person or party thundeled Prime Minister Pearson his clenched iist pounding empha sis lnto his words it will be the flag oi the people oi Can stepe oi the CentroBlork oi the Parliament Buildings at Ottawa beiore being taken to Prime Minister Pearsons oii ice CF Wirephoto SoféVCYPruSlGnding For Crippled Plane MOOSIA GP ihe RCAF Yukon aircrait bringing Defence Minister Paul Hellyer oi Canada to Cyprus landed solely here Monday night aiter making most of the mount flight irom Marville France on three of its four engines The airport crash trucks and the engines stood by as the turboprop plane with its port inboard engine ieatbered made gentle landing at dusk Heliycr told reporters the only tima he was in the least con cerned during the 1800 miles in whidr one engine was out at commission was during mid thunderstorm along the way The Yukon could have been flown back to Marvilia but wrflr the commonest the passeng ersHellyer and dozen anned services ofilcers and newspaper menthe crew decided to con tinoeto Nicosia They arrived 55 minutes behind schedule the Canadian defence minis has is to spend twodays in Cyprushs part oi his visit to Canadian iorces in Europe and the Middle East iflNT SUMMARY He told an airport press con ierence with smile that en gine iallurewas nature cun tomary arrangement for flights of this type lie praised the crew ior cool hands cool hearts and cool heads ms and there was quesg ti in my mindbut only ior second He was welcomed to Cyprus dammitohm rg co stones GeorgadjlaCyprus interior min ister rtGen Pram Singb Gy Civil Rights so Southern Senators WASHXNGNNV AP v5 Senate léadars droveto oem plete action on amendments to the civil rights bill today but southern opponents had control oi the situation An early morning caucus oi the Dixie iorces was oallédvhy Senator Richard Damn Gato consider how many more amendments to call up tor vote Senator Elbert Humphrey Dermhdlnndffloormansgerjnt good drencothnt voting on amendments would ba corn plenarynoun ani in commander of United Nations forces in Cyprus and small squad at senior Ca nadian oiilcers The minister re viewed aSornan guard oi honor iromthe Royal and Regiment Canadian military band played on the tarmac USvSenaie Opens Hearings into Baby Black Market WASHINGTON APlA US Senate subcommittee opened hearings today on the solo at infants ior adoptionand beard testimony that children are sold ior as big as $7500 on the baby black market Senator Thomas Dodd Dom Conn diairman of the subcommittee to investigate in venile delinquency began the hearings with statement that the clandestine trade in babies both interstate and irom for eign countries has created le gal religious and health proir lems and he added it is quite apparent there lore thatrsomethingvhus tobo done tocurtaii theserdangerous practices and to stop these use scrupulous individuals whose only concern is the monetary proiit realized irom dealingin human misery We seek as well to protect and encourage theologitinir weliare agency Under study is legislation that would provide imprisonment oi up to five years or $10000 fine or both for anyone who profited from theplacement oi child for adoption ii the child were transported in interstate or to ei gn commerce The sanction would not apply to le gitimate weliara agencies ads by the decision oi their representatives in Parliament ii the government had cal culaied means whereby divi sion could be secured in this nation they could not have gone about it in more clinc tive manner said Opposition Leader Dicienbaker as most oi his Conservative tollowers pounded approval on their desks Above them the galleries were jammed with spectators many oi whom stood throughout in the clammy humidity to its ten to the leaders launch the flag debate Some had waited ior hours to get in hundreds were truoed away Among things they heard dun lng the first day was the split tlog oi the resolution into two parts by Speaker Alan Mac naughton so the questionoi new flag will be dealt with sep arately from the authorisation to fly the Union Jackss aynk hol oi Canadas membership in the Commonwealth more PLEBXSCITE IDEA They also listened to Prime Minister Pearson select the idea of plebiscite or lad eralprnvinclai conierence on the flag and Mr Dieienbaker propose anameodment to the resolution that ii accepted would require plebiscite to be held The flag debate continues to 511 0n the question oi confidence in the government Mr Pear son said ii the government resolutionisvdeieated then on matter oi such major impor tance the government has ob vinost last the contideoce of Parliament From Mr Dleienbaker come this commentr You cannot iorce flag on the people oi Canada and secure irom them that mystic something which some ridicule as nationalism tbe patriotism oi men and women who love their noun we ihe ilag said Mr Pearson would unite Canadians and bol star the senseoi national unity say to him said Mr Dieienbaker he has caused to this nation cleavages ilssum and separations that more than generation at people to coml will remember For 75 minutes the prime minister presented tbs govern meota case ior the proposed lagthree red maple leaves on white background with verti cal bioa bari at such side striking and beautii said the prime minister TIME FOR NEW The time has come he said ior new and distinctive its that cannot be mistaken ior the flag oi any other country The iormal links with Britain had changed over the years as Canada evolved irom colony to iully independent nation The ties now were based on iriendship and kinship and win these drsnges com nab ml change in symboll Ha traced the history oi the Red Ensign up to 1945 when it was suthorhed by the cabinet to be down where distinctive Canadian flag was required In my View the time some ior iurtber and change he declared With almost every pronounce moot dash around the prime minister were being pounded in applause by Liberal hackbonebr era He paid tribute to the fled Ensign and there was rousing applause lie quoted Mr Diet enbakers remark in the 1M conscription debate when he said plEblscitc might destroy the unity oi Canada and there was more applause This is the right bronchi ill the history of Canada to deeidl on national iiag he said snd he was drowned in clatter oi desk to Today we need con ildence in ourselves as Cans diaos And there was more nohy support PM MOVIE SLOWLY Petspiration shone on Mn Pearsons forehead as he worked through his 75mm resentation studded with quotes statistics and history He moved over his ground slowly trying to rake up all 01 posing arguments as he went Yes he know many people were opposed tothe new flag They werepatriotlc loyal Came dians and their ens must be respected question such as the flag amused deep and strong emotions That was why national symbols were so importantbecause they cons tributed to national growth nourishing loyalty and Imity There was responsibility on the part 01 MP1 to handle the matter in manner vmthyoi its historio importance

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