Barrie Historical Newspaper Archive

Barrie Examiner, 24 Jun 1964, p. 4

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DWwamvutWWWWPWIW meme Worms or warmer and auger 15 we QUEENS PARK IudYs Next Stop Could Be Toronto the metric Examiner Published by Canadian Newspapers limited so Hayfield Street Berrte Ontario WKWI1IJMlehel metronomerm WEDNESDAY JUN Id 10 Page SateDriving Competitions Are Praiseworthy Efforts Safety associations spend great deal of time and money in telling people about the dan ers of accidents on the hi hways and the home Such cem agns are praiseworthy and necessary on despite the fact that the negative approach is often employed Motorists are told not to speed and not to drive too far without coffee break This advice is excellent but no to hear it or read about it so much hat hey forget or note the dos and the donLs when ey take to the wheel Perhaps the secret to bring about bet ter driving habits is in teaching the young when they are learning to handle car The safedriving contests may be the an swer especially if more and more young sters try their luck It is to Barries credit that one of its own young citizens has won the Ontario Teenage safe driving championship and will go on to compete for the national awar The youth is Andy Malcomson 19 son of Malcomson an insur ance agent The fathers interest in sale ty undoubtedly was reflected in the sons preach to handling of car An had to drive several different es of vehicles Ind demonstrate his dirt in number of erecting tests He came through with flyingx scored well above others titlon if more and more young pco le would take part in competitions of is nature Canada would produce drivers with greater awareness of the limits tions of car and what it can or cannot be expected to do on the highway We need more skill on the road with the number of cars increasing annually Every younstcr cannot be winner of roadeo of this kind but he can take part And in competing and preparing himself for the tests he will have learned rules of the road in most practical way All power then to such organiza tions as the Jaycees that sponsor safe driving roadcos in the hope of raising the standards of teenage driving colors and the compo DOWN MEMORY LANE 50 YEARS AGO IN TOWN Barrie Northern Advance June til 1914 Banish The Bar was theme of Liberals for Ontario election Barrie Citizens Band cancelled concert at Queens Park to play for Conservative rally in Grand Opera House last night County Councl had many applicants for position of engineer caused by un time death of Robert Jupp Sim coe Foresters 35th Re iment arrived boat for two weeks tr ning at Camp agm with Thornton Band playing Cock The North Advance party was in char of Lieutenant Albert Whitby and gt lyrer At Bar rls Business Colle Bert lilarwood of Cookstown won go medal for penman ship proficiency Ma or Alex Cowsn was with regiment at iagara so Reeve Dr Robert Sprott presided at Town Council Council argued with parks Hoggs residence on Bradford St uwomerr cooked and heated be or him we Pulled over the board over maintenance of ost ottice Sh 15 elude mmqu or chll crultedvllote to fly military mtr an while the us says little owers failed to dam en the order of water for walhln crouto on lap on co 8° and wnh Wilemork 513311th Mk mm ch In Wm Md weongrdxermwerm eions against East Congolese ebout The Congo the expert over right to lay water Jaipes through concrete culverts nder heading Wild Women this newspa er suggest ed that Mrs Emmeline Pan burst who went on hungertstrlke in London Eng land over votes for women be allowed to become skeleton rather than force fed Trent Canal will be opento Lake Ontario by Se tember as work is push ed on new loc Beaver Camp Club composed of Carl Marshall Joe Gil christ Jack Calvert Fred Briatow Wal fer Bayliss Emerson Armstron Palmer Wsrdman and Ephraim McFad in pitch ed tents at Mlnets Point Piano and vocal pupils oi Maude Claxton resented annus recital at Collier Street ethodlst Church At intermission Miss Margaret Sinclair extended greetings to the 200 nests and little Misses BessieBoag and sabell McLean resented flowers to Miss Claxton oily Ladles Aid held strawberry festival at farm of George Brown with lvy Band in attendance Crown Hill Wl met at home of Mrs James Quinlan Some cottages at Shanty Bay are already Occupied by Tor onto folk CPR bridge at Baxter which collalpsed four weeks ago is open again ames Scott purchased George 21mg peopleoi Burton Avenue Epworth ague who held picnic at Lovers Creek Rev Lachlan McLean Presbyterian minister at Bradford was nominated by Liberals of South Simcoa to contest pro vincial election William Lyon Mac kenzie King will address Liberal rally in Barrie tonight OTHER EDITORS VIEWS EDUCATION FOR THE RETARDED Ottawa Citizen The Ontario government has at long last come up with plan to glue re tarded children the same opportunities as normal children to receive education and training Under bill now before the Legis fact that the provincial government ed was or line mm mm hm PI laturealocsi association concerned with 1d 11 mgr ocean and citing to the mm of at least 10 remdad chm WW ha Paying bulk the 30 Food by letters standards mum wfl the perks were highly lookad ren may ask municipal council to eat abiish special authority Membership of such an agency woul com rise two ersons appointed by the loss associat on and tour by the council in which the authority is located The principle behind the provincial governments move is sound Retarded children would receive adequate educa tional facilities as matter of right not of charity Ontarios education minister Hon William Davis has indicated that as much as 80 per cent of the cost of op crating special schools for the less for tunate would be borne by his govern ment Municipal councils would be requir ed to assume the remainder of the cost on the basis of estimates submitted by the authority In most cases voluntary organizations now are saddled with the job of rarsing the funds necessary to off set the lack of financial assistance from Queens Park There are already indications that gt some municipal leaders are unhap yover the prospect of council having meet the demands for funds put forward by nonelected body But their arguments The Barrie Examiner Authoriud nNNm ween Publisher vrcmrs thlnN neoeras Ifanlgll mercenary ssaaaria norm MmA HILL Accountant menses poms emulation Mauser lubscrlptters rate daily by carrier eoa weekly months 120 yearly Alma copy to By mail In outertk Wt year eon sanctum mourns or month outside nrtuso letd Clfl Vancouver so creamer as median parry Newlvlper ma unm rAuoetetia canam er and to Audit purses as locale CW may ll mi of II ubltcetion 01 Ill Ever ere lied to It or flu is and also thelocal mine nonrnumbet en could be removed it it were felt they mm mm on creased by many acres waterand se dustryon both sides of the border and along the shores ofthe lower Great Lsk sh es has become theblggest user oiwater use and rattee of Ian Toronto eeo dur oiuebr lb reigner Plldd errlast cannot be taken too seriously municip sl council would have four representativ es on an educational authority for retard ed children and any of these officials were not sewing the public interest Nor should municipal councils overlook the maintaining the new schools FALLING LAKE LEVELS GRIM Hamilton ectator For several cars allng water levels in the Great as have been causing anxiety Now US Secretary of State Dean Rusk may discuss with the Ottawa government the possibility of diverting water from the Hudson Bay watershed to replenish the lakes This proposal throws into harsh relief the way in which we plunder what ap Ears to be abundant supplies of one of es necessities living as we do in land in which there are thousands of lakes general attitudes to water conser vation are apt to be casual unless there are restrictions on the use of lawn sprinkv lers or pressure is low in summer Lake levels are of vital importance to shippin fall oi an inch or two in ports memorimv Life No Bed or Roses 1864 Few Comforts Much Work invented beds still had roped bottoms replacing springs and Life in the average family in this area about the time of The Barrie Examiners birth was in transitional stage it was still essentially rural with remem brances of pioneer days still strong The new inventions such as the gas light telephone and elcctriclt were still couple of decs es ahead look at the average home in the town of Barrie at that time could reveal the fact that as yet there was no indoor plumbing blast homes had their own wells some with pumps which filled atone links shallow six inches and about four feelinng troug Candles and all lights still lightod the home The average wood Onhot summer days many used the back kitchen little more than screenedrn porch where the heat could be gulckiy dissipated MOP AND BROOM The map and broom took the place of the vacuum cleaner and the soft wide wooden boards on the floors were scrubbed almost until they were white in the ltlidrnnl rind oiled lightly in the other rooms Rag carpets were used in the better homes for general usaand the real cs et usually decorated the par or which was used only for special occasions Boilers copper pots boll ed the clottruss which were lifted the board with home made strong toe and hung or draw was coarse and much of it home prepared including bread dried Moat clothes were still made by band with the result that nearly every one had one good suit of clothes which was hand or edde to others in the ferrriiy or they outng them or made them over in were mostly made of wool in cottons com tos in about insurer womens aummr dresses sod mens shirts As class distinctions were still very great the wailiodo would beeble to have wider variety of clothing and the est fashions but thedink ly rural areas than was little in the way of fashion because of cost Sad irons were used iron clothes and somemsngles not of the wathiirk of bodey more than one feather rick in the average home piled upon each other formed tire mattress Sheets were of coarse cotton with Nmfellflnflfly pl home spun woo nu or some hamlv lovingly emmldmd In filexlons freckles or hands lendtrfcete designs and highly prilr HOUSE STYLES Houses were of clapboard some early styles oi the vertical wide and namw batten still to be seen In this area Brick was used in better homes storm windows still had to be invested so front on the windows was usual occurrence inwinier and heavy drapes of cotton or velvet hard life an at so She scrubbed floors and clothel she bore her babies without anaesthetic losing many in dilldblrth and dying herself of childbirth faver due to lack amen was ears nven mm mm and parents also She often did have until race that he was able to introduce pasteurization in France She used wide range of home remediea eome fearful rim HHMM manyml in their ingredients and many certain or alceho or the base to treat her sick nu trev sold her often times flavor water liberally laced with alco hol or strong laxative to cure everything ranging from influs semis no VQI AM mun childbirth some not too clean in their methods Operations onl when necessary were done wi the use of large dosee of whisky brandy SOAP AND WATER Her house was not as clean ee those oi today not because lie didnt try but because gen eral cleaning was spring clean ing once year her tools for cleaning were more or less ori mitiva and peoples attitudes soap and water type oi drying and rearranging cemeteries in was an old wom woman line living in large doses of whisky patients in the horns ling medicine m3 I° meat were gay effeirs iorw dto even without incident iliere are 29 towardscleanliness were oi the Deodorants werent known cosmetics not used unless by painted ladies and beauty was enhanced by the genteel use of cucumber Juice to whiten com ght colognes were imported from Europe and hair was long brushed frequently but not wash ed ioo often due to the intricacy She had large family by our standards today but many died at birth or in lnfencyDlphihe rts took many children tuber culosis was rampant cholera and pneumonia were fatal to anyone exposed to them Old the Barrie area their lifetime because of the heavy demands upon the rural However families were ha places unmarried members ed with other brothers and sin tere who were married older elp in her household tasks with armts brothers sisters or cou Religion played an important as gathering morning or night for prayers and social life was church based As churdres were struggling for existence eocinls se funds for needed tequlp Evenings in the family horns found much handicraft going on singsongs if the family were DODGEES PLANE arr MILWAUKEE AP Light ning struck Los Angeles Dodge ers private plane en route here from Cincinnati Sunday night splitting the protective nose cone but causing no serious damage While the fourengine Electra was flying over Lake Michi gan in thunderstorm blind ing white flash lighted up the plane The landing was made By OflABN TOROmWiii this be the next stop for Judy Yits ie the intriguing thought we can now play withi National Welfare Minty ter Judy LeMarsh her hinted she might welcome draft for the provincial Liberal leader abi iron leusiii Okay leushi mtg thinks the idea ls won SHES UNDERRATED Miss Laiifanh was picked out as prime target by the fed eral opposition it made her butt Today the thing to do Is to ridicule Judy its the in thing to do You dont take her seriously And this is meter under rating GREAT ABle you know ability at know that this woman reams of it And along with it she has fantastic bundle of energy dogged and persistent devotion imagination and the mirage to think for herself Where she falls down and where aha lends herself to be ing butt is that she is in stinctively loner She Is not by nature team player Her genes dont add up that way She is one to do her own thinking and carry it outand INTERPREIING THE NEWS UN Force Is Leaving Congo Its Iob Far From Finished By HAROLD MORRISON Canadian Press Staff Writer The last of some 10000 United Nations troops are preparing to leave The Congo apparently glad to be out of that primitive African country but aware their Job is still largely unfinished The Congo is still untamed rocked by internal violence cor ruptlon greed and Indifference and faced with the prospect that eventually it may become guerrilla battleground between the big powers of East and West Evidence the 118 Central in telligence Agency secretly re rebels is just one part of the picture The other is Communist Chinese are reported encourag ing primitive triheamen in the Kwilu and Klvu regions to re volt ageiost the central Adoule Administration CHINESE ARE INVOLVED Dr Robert Scaleplno of the University of California writing in the current issue of Foreign Affairs magazine says the Chi nese are involved directly or indirectly in every active rev oluttlon on the African contin en Perhaps the mom striking es ample la the uprising led by Pierre Mulele in tha Kwilu re gion aeld Scelaplno who was flake the blame if that la called of When you get hermixed with prime minister and cabinet thinkinf for her ab bumblea She nt herself and shes open to ridicule CLEAN OUlI But these same qualities else seesses so siren are eIllior what the book Liberal leader rinsth thinkers will tel you that the party should have men who will get along with his supporters and can mend breeeiiee etc This is lot of nonsense What any party needs at time in leader is man will take lirrn control What the Liberals MCI lerly need at this time is aomelt one who will go in and clean upapersonwbowtl sweep out the fussineas the stufflness which lnhlbl be the party And Judy would seem to the girl who would do Just thet Sure there are lot of things against her She mlgbtnt get financial support Women be ing woman rrrlghtnt vote for her But she would bring be lifeboth to her party and our provincial attain Would she be able to upset the government Probably not bnrring an act of God new in the field But would say of the othare in Africa at the time Chinese Premier Chou Errlei made his trip Mulele who only returned to The Congo in the tell of 199 alter two years in Peking has sought to follow Communiste principles completely He is seeking to support guerrilll movement based upon the su port of the peasants seeking to play down the sig nliicance of far away brushs tires as President Johnson paints glowing picture of the great society unfolding be fore the American people stake in the two years under his re gime The Congo has me some progress Tire price of the countrys prime pmduct cop per has steadied and Oongolasa agriculture has become more productive Belgium plunged in to help train Cong ssa troops ltalymiso is land ing hand along with iereol Canadawae asked to pertldr pate in bilateral military aid but refused to this presidential election year the DIS government is seriously worry about the remoy vol of the last of the UNI troops including its Canadians Adoula is faced with so mush turmoil that the very existence of his administration may be at can ct cargoes by thousands of tons When lake levels fall beaches are in ageplants are adverse affectedwi1 life and recreation suffer Water usageincreases with population Our attitudes to water conservation are still geared to these do pioneer fore fathers The populstlo Ontariohas morethan tripled in the last six yearsr ncrease Handinhand with opulation has gone extensive ndustrlsilzatlon In The current anxiety entends far he and the levels of the takes it is reflecte the kitchens and bathroomsof every one as result of indiscriminatetree caring fnrthe pastoi iiorest fires firany of which are the result of careless ness oi thoughtless bullziozlng of sure of progress gerj retained th but long heavily pedd which were clawed down on dampened shirts end drnwn back with sweeping movement smooth out the wrinkles cran machines were in use by fashionable led to pro ducc ruffles in their Ice edga logs on their gowns Hand eew ing frosts the suits of clothes made by tailors to the dresses worn by women we be usual mode and it me safe to vesaunretirstneedl were prlm srliy of iron which would rust therefore the emery bag in the spa of strawberry or apple would be standard equipment in every home Almattreseee and springs as we intow them still had to 31er THOUGHT in desired mercy and int and the great whiskies Private Stock Itil ll highquality eneahend plete with 12 flexible estua eton hose You save 553 over due regular Ease retail prieeof $825 when you our MP Greasc CartridgesJim eure economical way to keep ing condition Get one from your imperial Eeeo Agent but order seen this roped otter for Maratas only Wflmmml ebueouewrtond60Esso your equipment its top work MOREINTHEFHTURLJMKIWMML yo

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