Barrie Historical Newspaper Archive

Barrie Examiner, 8 Aug 1968, p. 4

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Will cw Reorganize Canddasj Posialasyg em Canadas new PmtmasterGeneral Ellie Kierans is man who prides himself on hardheaded business approach to public affairs The Canadian postal system has been unsatisfactory from the standpoint of both organization and servrce to the ublic for so long that nobody remem Bcrs it in any other terms Now is the time for completevchange The post office dc artrnent should he nonprofit enterp se but there has never been much backlog in Canada that we know of for this idea it is par iiciilarly interesting in view of all this that Presidential commission has yust recommended to the White House that the US Post Office Department be con verted into minvprofit Government corporation prelimin report issued by this commission sal in April that the Post Office has failed as business because it is run as political institution The report went on Only basic change in direction can prevent further deteri oration of this essential public service The commission found that the Post Office is in state of crisis and recom Donn MEMORY LANE Dougall 96 oldest citizens vDetails BARRIES CENTENNIAL YEAR Barrie Examiner Aug 51953 In par feot weather Saturday afternoon Ontario PremierLeslie Frost officially opened Barries Old Home Week celebrating the communitys incorporation as separate village within Simcoe County in 1853 Dignitaries on platform at post office square for ceremonies included Mayor James Hart County Warden Wilbur Reed of Oriilia Township Sheriff Erna est Drury Groups from Camp Bor den andTrenton provided aerial salute lto Barrie Citizens Band andPipe Band tooklpart in program Chairman of Cen gtennral events for Chamber of Com area was Charles Griffin With Earl general manager In first weekend more than 600 Centennial visi tors former Barrieites registered at Community House Barrio was sai nted by CBC in CrossCanada broadcast Neighborly News Sunday morning from arena heard by million listeners Reid Forsee was producer Don Fairbairn announcer Speakers included Sandy Coulis Chamber president this year and Hap Ernrns Canadian junior championship hockey coach In troduced were Fred Grant historian Mrs SusanWatson 93 and James omen EDITORSiVEWS NEED To SPECIALIZE Peterborough Examiner Canada isto compete arwcrldo lower tariffs it is imperative that way be found to encourage morefirrns to specialize Canadian industry is turning out too many different kinds of pro ducts almost as many asintheUS for its own good The result is that manu featuring costs are far higher than they need be and this means problems both in se gabroad and in competing with voreligrtrbased firms in the tic ar MIRACLE mnsvsnsr Wall Street Journal Studios bygthe CommonMark close that France nih Gaullistdecade ht be called muons canvas WHEN WATERS nF cor rationope judicator mended thatthe new corporition be en lheauthority to sell bondsto capital financing the right to setits own hate subgecf to Congressionalzvetc and pro esaional management structure not tied to political patronage as at pre sent The Tennessee Valley Authority was named as the of Government chrvthe newrPos Office Should be modeled Theemphasis of theAmerican re ort would seem to he on running the ost Office in more businesslike way in or der to elinrinate some of the present losses It is difficult to align this aim with the basic idea of nonprofit or ganization Injihe Post Office we have vital department which should be mas naged in way which would rcsultin the best possible service to the public If it should prove possible to eliminate some of the extra cost to the public by efficient methods well and good But service should come first It will be interestinglo see whatif anything the new Government in Otta wa will do about the Post Office Per traps the American report will provide timely impetus given of $500000 plant to be erected in Barrle by DeViibiss Canada Ltd of Windsor Rt Rev Scott DDi Moderator of United Church in Canada laid cornerstone for new building at Bond Head It was announced that Rt Hon Lo St Laurent Prime Minis ter would visit Barrie Friday afternoon Band festival at Barrie Arena ndaynight delighted iargaaudience Six bands took part Featured was fa mous Toronto Signals trumpet and drum band Barrie hadpniy piperband led by Thomas Kerr in com etitlon and this group was handicappe when Bill Mac McBrides drum was broken right at start of play Oriliia Kiltie Band won Class group John Mitchinson was mas ter of ceremonies Lloyd iufford ad Barrie Driving and iii mg Assocnsponsored horse races at fair grounds Saturday as part of Centennial Jaycees held big regatta on Civrc Holiday off St Vincent Park as contribu tion to 01dHome Week Barrie Ex aminer published 100 Pages For 100 Years Centennial souvenir edition which was fsold outone hour after ting streets although several thousand extra copies were printed above thosegoing to regular subscribers creases in the Common Market while paying its workers the secondlowest ages iiLthe sixnation groupgworkin them much longer hours than anywhere else in the Common Market and saddling its citizens with one of the worlds he burdens MARITIME uNiou 5Tqu Ottawa Journal on the Atlantic shore The governments of Note Scotia Prince Edward island and New Brunswick sponsor this excité ndertaking It will cover the pos fcrms er growlREPORT DiSCussed in Book rarities monomers UIMWA Few things are than the op portunity to see howother poo pla live during their private hours lnat fasclnntlnl WNW moi rid lring limp franc ill he into real life landfolfeled by book describing how some talented andweaitby people int Ingnlnativaly use their talehts and wealth to frame their ever yday life Vogue magazine has gained wide popularity by projecting tantalizmg nnage to the ordi nary housewife Opening her eyes to unlmaginative modi ocrity ound heir Vogue cslls upon her to take rip arms and Joinrtiie ranks of the Beautiful Peop Dare to be avant garde ales and many is the woman who will repeatedly spend her money to buy another issue of thla selftorture and uplift For Vogue magazines ro cret is that it displays the unobi ngs talnabln and subtly spark oftbo bizarre into the gt days of tbcdullpeople Vogurhss new extended its fuflydecnrated homes in fact territory by publishing strik ing pictorial mo of wealt up percrnst This is Vogues Book OUR ECONOMY the very env weahhy fUppercrust in Canada byiidaoupersonalitlesofthavery definite Miliana For no it will take you into varied kaleidoscope of the houses of very important per aonages rich families and prominent artistsWe mayuot be able to live in castle wbsre in Canada is the crafts mansblp or the need to build anal but we can all adapt and enjoy ideas The homes described and il lustrated include the Mush House near Honolulu built by to baccoheiress Doris Duke We also see how an American painter lives in Home photog rapher in the IIS pheasant farmer in England an errQueen in Italy and senator in Hawai among others The interests and environl ment of each of the careltu chosen sublech is described in commentary written by Val entine Lawford formerly dis tinguished backroombrain in the Diplomatic Service and nowa wellknown artist domiciled in levUS The book is illustrated by overvm colored photographs and several in black and white The colored plates reveal more than beauti some are scarcely what could be called decoratedilhey were picked and arranged to aid the individuals Thus abook which nl first sight may seem to be sdobs delight becomes upon reading gallery of nonconformlststof nli ages and nations whose only shared charactech is their taxbracket It tells you about vlntncrs wife who wears trousers and woman whose clothes are de rlgned by her hnshand thcfor riser happens to be the wife of the proprietor of the vineyards yielding the famous Chateau Mouton Rothschild Wines and the lattorvthc wife of Pucci the famous ltaiian fashion designer And did youknuwthat former king of Canada wearstwecd tomoshantern to match his suitsi The peek at these beautiful people at home which this book promises and delivers is an echo of the philosophy of Vogue mega for as Diana Vrce land EditorinChief of Vogue says tactfully in her introduc tion to this be Few things are more fascinating than the opportmiityto see how other people live during their private hours Underststsinent though that may be it is the key to th success bizarre fashio magazln and no doubtofihis of Houses Gardens People text in reflectingths testes and its herdcover child Credit =Developing Asway ByWARflN sawwnv UiiAWA few daysago Canadian newspaper carried cartoon thawing mail out tamer standing at ounter or desk and fishing in his wallet Two disapproving clerks tow cred over him andrlt scarce needed thescaplivn underneaui He wants to pay cash Like all good humor it carried avnieasine of truth The Bank of Nova Scotia bar now joined thl oF ToF SOLID HDZK BONNECHERERWEE accentr BilltRoW powwnzo crotoslsts flMKmkrs his caucus in such massage Bankofhfonh Royal Toron toltDnndnion Commerce and Burma Canadienne Nationals with itsown credit card system the Cheque Guarantee Planslt will be goinginto dfectfsoon in Toronto Montresland Hamilton spd by October may be operat at full is across the coup lan appears to ba airrrpler Degositors wtll have to apply for their cards on which they wiii be identified by color photograph Wbeii thcy apply the bank will deter the WM Ottawa fipayment of postagemoasln IHehirn postage guarantad Sundays and tatuioryHolidays oxeened mfipdonratea my attain Advertising University Avenue Tor also Cathcalt St for lul wi the amountHofvoverdrait they allovled on which there Will monthly interest ay ment in bank uizan be issued after erdrafts were frowned on in the av whenthlckpoteniial profit iarecognired so for the expo meat is beingconlined to nail buthish slated MB but presumabllxiiop bank ill ever may prove to be insig The Maritime Union Studyraises the hope of future governmenteconomies road credi rat Vital To US Welland Canal is aonsowmu in economic dealings with the US Canada has always held two tnimps fishing and water transportation Many American cycltiea in the industrial north owe their growthJo the accessibility of the Great Lakes and St Law rence River Cooperation with Canada has been necessary The most important link in thewater route is the Welland Canal which lifts and lowers ships 1395 feet between Lakes Ontario and Er distance of 27 miles The need for water route around Niagara Falls was rec ognized as early as lelowhcn the grcai Interdent Jeanflalon wanted to bringicopper imm Lake Superior to Quehec It would have been shipped to France to strengthe nKlnll Loniss cannon However it wasntunti I798 that the dream of water route from Lake Sn periorbegan to come true The North West company built small canal at Sault Ste Marie improving transportation be tween Lakes Shperi or and Huron Th iazi William Mer rittro St Catharines formed comp uild the canal that Id byp araFalis Itwas completed in im although Merritts com out of money and had fromthe go fact the canal costs much that the govemineot nearly went bankrupt Th Welland Canal has bee re it several times sndis the most modernin the ih winned locks providing twoway tra dges have been making persdnal loans for some time and recently encour aging borrowers But an auto matically honoredoverdralt is differenttmatter from arranging loan and there is little doubt ihetthe new system willrnenn an expansion of credit some Lhinflthe Bank of Can will be watching carefully In one respect the Chartered Bank plans will make it simpler had more effective for thecenl tral bank to control credit in the country More than once Gover nor Rasminskyhas warned that the banks power to control credit when inflationary pres can parent companies on which can draw Others do ii panclng in thegllnited States othe extent that herbank plans to switch credit operations from these companies to the chartered banks the controlling power of the Bank ot Canada be extended This transfer the lending business at leas onlil there was more compel tion among themselvesThero is enough crltlclsm already of bsnkln ractiees mpeiltlon widened by bringing loan companies the near banks tinder mm norm2 NEW YORK APlThings columnist might never it he didnt open his mail Csnadinnssecmto betiie most talkative people on earth and Americans are arclosr second The average annuab number of phone calls per person in Canada is number in the United Looking for bargain buy in nice neighborhood swank East Side Manhattan apartment house is offering Mroom new apartment for salefat $7500W But thats only lor the key You also have to pay maintenance and upkeep costs of $48000 yearly be high price of prosper Itsigettins nioro eypen naive to retire in the United Institute of Life netirndcc estimatestgthe an nlthlv cash requirements of mtlred couplewho want to Main moderate comfortaw suini they probably own more THOUGHT lavish note ldbor and pro heavy laden an gt will give you not Maiuiew mu Here the ed vifatlon over or 1iieyoucnn lured in amwlth age seat been replaced by tunnels so highway traffic is not delayed What might be called the new Welland Cannlwss opened otii cisliy on Aug 1m although great improvements have been made since then allowing oceangoingahlpa 730 feet long and 75 feet wide topsss through the canal Lock Number at Port Colbourne Is the longest in the world OTHER NTS tinJohn Cabot arrivel at Brisiol after first voyage to Canada 1665iHudscna Hey Company lost one ship in battle with French lastHenry Kelsey claimed Red River area for England rmSir John Johnson defeat ed Americans in bloody battle at Oriskanv JillGovernor Prevost and General Dearbcrn signed armi stice in War of iarz but it was rejected by LS InnOregon boundary agIee ment of laid was renewed indel ioitclyl lmllacdonald and formed governmenl intoImperial statute author ed ion of Vancouver Island nd BrlLish Columbia linoThere was serious or ange riot inToronto lilacPublic school systemin arate 1s Eon ries lleJohn Bryant killed at orie was Canadas first aviation iatnlit ionEdward Pri of Wales now Duke of Windsor opened Union Station at To ronto Cartier car their own home and most major household appliances varies from $3200 in small Southern town to $4200 in big metropolitan area The most costly retirement meccai Honoluluystioo lIungry mouths UNICEE estimates that twothirds of the wo rid children300 0mare undernourished one reason malnutrition is so dangerous to the young isthat the brainldbcsnt reach 80 per cent of its full size until the ageoi three and lack of prep er nutrition during this criti that period can retard its de yelopmeni permanently awnnos nunser Quiz for inovlelans can you name thoonlyrtcademy Award winner who presented himself with 105cm In ml Irving Berlin opened that maaltcant happen all unomlnees nulonser can present prizes in their own categories Our wide ide women The Wladiesmny begdispleased to know they are getting bigger amThey even dth of 144 inches compared with seat wilth of It inchesgtor meir to survey by AincrieanSeatingCo Man bands tohia htliaeatitlle tweenldand woman he tween ti anti Sfi

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