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Barrie Examiner, 1 Nov 1968, p. 4

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lublished ay Lcunadlan Newdpdnerp 16Bayfleld Street Barrie omen WIIII Publisher MoPhenon Managing Editor may ovzasnun rpmran Urges Sensible7 Firstly step wu notified that my Inclination in Barrie Urbanfiaenewgi Proposed renewal ofthe central bus iness core of Barrie comes as natural consequence of potential developments inother sections of the city the last few months city council has had applications from two financial groups which hope to build large shopping cons tres One alone would include 250000 square feet of shopping space Plazas of this size and cost cannot wait for solution of urban renewal problems lllembcrs of the urban re newal committee may have had this in mind when they recommended redevel opment in the central area After studying the report of Murray Jones and Associates Toronto who conducted renewal study of the entire city the committee feel that the down town area should have priority and so recommended The proposal if adopt ed by council will merely be the first step The next move will be an tin depth study of the central core which could take from five to six months With financial assistance expected from both the federal and provincial govern ments the study should he proceeded with without undue delay Renewalwill be major operation It iwill involve the purchase and levelling of properties to make way for new buildings perhaps including highrise YEARS AGO IN TOWN Barrie Examiner Oct 31 19 Reno vated Simcoe Manor at Beeton officially opened by Hon Goodfellow 0nt arid minister of welfa assisted by wil bur Reed Orillia warden Dubois Hamilton bus inessman told Barrie Kiwanians thatsal acious hooks and magazines should be banned Rotor Club luncheon heard reports by com ttee chairmen Walter Carruthers Denis SheardWllllam1mive Eldon Greer James Gilmore Three membérs of Barrie Boxing Club trained by Orv Dash were easy winners of bouts at RCAF Dyte Hall Camp Horde Don WallacePaul Kenny Syd Taylor Paul Emms former Barrie hockeystar was leading International League in scorr ing playing for Marion Ohio At 1m periai Theatre Working Her Way Through College starring Virginia Mayo and Ronald Reagan At Roxy Kaye in Hans Christian Andersen At Granada Leslie Caron in Iill May or Jamesw Hart awarded Coronation Medal Other Barrie recipients of honor MajorTruman Williams Aldermen Bob Bibby and Alfred Harris Group Capt John Syme MBE Commandant RCAF Borden presented awards at Moose Squadron Air Cadet Parents Night in Barrie Armoury warrant Of ficer Don McMartin was Acting CO Public SchoolBoard turneddown plan for addition to Codrington willbuild new sixroomschool in northeast at Oakley Park Government will rebuild old dock onKempenfelt Bay at Tollendai Army theatre at Camp Borden destroyed by fire James Parker Barries outstanding heavyweight fighter has challenged Earl Walls of Toronto Canv adian champion Salvation Army marked 70th year in Barrie with special anniversary weekend services Man ager Anthony Saso had special guest for showing of movie Titanic at Roxy Theatre She ivas Mrs Ernest Bliss of Strand who was one of 700 who survived Sinking of great liner in Atlantic in 1912 after hitting iceberg with loss of 800 live as Mrs Bliss was stewardess on Cunard FEDMANOHTAElo romancewok linens946 ideamm mincm WEIRD WiltIllsm 1r Waco454 Guam1mm thymuflaie messr nF sieoormsssaos use AROUND All ode race horde hand in sveeaowa witches suur purple SUNLIGHT Within an sssnmos user TREES ONLY scones CARRIEDAMSTANEE away av aloosauosoliams wusugv rung xoyamcunmnem JotAlt wk tramsW4 Waxwe 4V5 oermire autonomic sumac as nshlp county Danny without having to pay cent coozbioswnmstsoJuea stniciureato bear the cost of heavier assessments which would undoubtedly follow Within Renewal even witha council eager for action would be longterm pro ject covering many ears It would mean dislocation of business It couldalso mean that some retailers would choose to close down and take the compensation offered by govern ment ltrwould also bring new capital probably from large corporations that wish to lnvestin an entirely changed downtown area There is noquestion about the no for renewal The matter was settled long ago when shopping centres began to sprout in various parts ofthe city And now the necessity is even more ap parent aslnvestors clamor for the right to spend their money on new and larger plazas Vlhé Examiner has taken the stand thatthese people must pot be turned away They should be encouraged for only with the investment ofthe kind of money they are prepared to spend will Barrie continue to progress instead of to stagnate Meanwhile we will await the indepth report with interest and so will the merchants DowN MEMORY ship believed unsinkable Lions Club sponsored reorganization Barrie branch Canadian Cancer Society Barrie Col legiate won junior football championship of Georgian Bay area with 117 win over Orillla Quarterback Bill Cherpeta fired touchdown pass to and Eddie McPhail for winning touchdown which elated coach Dalthesbitt Other BCI stars were Ken PrattlJohn ChristieBruce Bigelow and Jim Edwards Hap Emmsdlar rieFlyérs beat Guel Blltmores in Jun ior hockey Guelp best forward was rookie named Eddie Shack Manager Maurice Stransman announed that John Gray had rejoined staff of his ladies wear firm after 10 years with HarryJ lessmens wear and two years with BiliVGarner Barrie population how just26 short of 15000 Mr and Mrs George RossIlickling left on wedding trip to Miami Beach after ceremony in Burton Ave United Church Charles Douglas Carl Stewart Barrie lawyer and former Warden of Simcoe County ap pointed Judge in Supreme Court of Ont ario MOTHER EDITORS views WHEN JOB COUNTS Ottawa Citizen As humanlife lengthens it becomes vital that those over 40 or45 should not he discriminated against Governments everywherehave recog nized the need through their own hiring policies as well as through retaining pro grams Otherwise middleaged persons outof work would face completely empty future burden to jtliemselves and the community gt BOARD USED TO BE FREE Port Arthur NewsChronicle Texas millionaire has submitted plans to the myth of San Franciscorfor transforming the island of Alcatraz into swinging tourist resort Always the cost of living goes up There was time people went there and stayed along time OTTAWA REPORT People To Pay More but been received in foronto It head office after another three weén delaylu period Up to thls date whiohlsllmodelthf wdahdtMnIbsdtanayon lglnalrequestlhnvobeudnb soluter mum of an oftlcinl nature fnnn the government Lot niedescrlbe my financial situation Technically hive not been worldnrslnoe AW 1067 However my condition at that time did not seem as critical as finally was But at the begin ning of this year conferred with several physicians and they came to the conclusion that slnoclwmldbeumbletoearn my own living again my best course of action would be to sub mit an application for financial rapport fmm the government This is what did Fer Postal Services By PATRICK NICHOLSON UiiAWA The new Post masterGeneral Hon Eric Klar ans plans that you will pay more for nearly every pervco providedby the Post Office It is his view with which few taxpayers will disagree the although postal services are op erated by the government there no reason why they should not be selfsupporting lllr ltlerans has given MPs detailed surveys of the financial position of the Post office to support his recommendation for higher postal chargesults true result last year was alossof $67191014 on total sales of $327224461 And that was be fore the recentpostai strike which will increase operating costs through the wage settle merit ills forecast predicts sharp increase in that loss or this current year up to $90654000 on total sales of $72480000 And he estimates that next year the Post Office would lose $131738000 ontotal sales of $919300 CHARGES UNDULY LOW Underthe existing scale of charges for all its services the Post Office is even loslng money on lock box rentals spe cm dellvery registration and parcel insurance which is foolish situationThere Is no plausible reason why the tax payers should have to subsidise losses on these special scrvlces for individuals The one bright star invthe rPnst Offices rather tarnished diadem lsa small section called the Philatelic Division which Sella specially selected fine spe cimens of postage stamp to collectors Thismade profit of nearly $500000 last year and this should so steadily ln fu ture years unlesspeople stop collecting po age stamps llhe mhloplan in the postal woodplle la second class mail which consistsof printed mat ter chiefly daily and weekly newspapers and magazines The loss onthla service hasbeen climbing steadily for many do other jobs summons 16 Baylleld Street Barrie Ontario Authde as mnd class mail by the Post office De partment Ottawa and for paymentof postage In cash Return postngej guaranteed Daily Sundays and Siatuloryflolidayr copied carrier suc yearly Sinfle copies the hy rnail liarrlopmm year Ontario 91500 year motor throw oft $ltlyeari Ll ANDGRUW side Ontariohm year Oil side Canada Brlusthosses sions 325 your USA and foreign $52 year National Advertising Office Universit Avenue Toron to 640 Cs cart StMnnb real Member of the Canadian Tress and Audit Bureau of Simulations elusively untitled republication the use all news dispatches in this paper cred ltcdto it or The Associated Press or Routers and also in raw published ether opened school in Montreal in ists inJlBl Communities put up stunt was for theoldsoldier and Cambridge However most years it was over $13000000 in 1950 and today runs at about 547000000 or nearly half the Post Offices total loss Last year the Post Office hnn died staggering 119451334 daily newspapers or about 400000 every working day it cost the Post Office an average of 93 cents to sort ship and de liver each copy At the then ef fective statutory rates the Post Office received an average of only L65 cents for that service thus losing on average nearly one nickel every time it accept ed onevngwspaperfor delivery arc PAPERer cosr The postmaster generals rec ommendation 15 to raise that average charge to nearly nick el pernewspaper handled His proposed rate in fact specifies five cents per pound for reading matter in newspapers and 15 cents per pound for advertising matter with minimum charge of two cents for any newspaper Atypical city newspaper today might be one casting 10 cents havlng 70 page and weighing 14 ounces Assuming its advertising content at 50 per cent the Post Office plans to CANADAS STORY 190151 G91 iFrom Churchilontrtil ay non nowimiv Education arly Canada took big step forarard on Nov 1341 when the first normal school for teacher training was opened at Toronto There was so much opposition to training teachers that the only space available for theschonlwas the ballroom of the former Govern ment House The general impression in those days was that teachers should be chosen from people who had physical disabilities orwere too old to There had been whools in Canada from the earliest days ravided by the Roman Catholic hurch and later the Church of charge the publishing company nearly nine cents for handling each copy brief usrdse in arithmetic will show that If you wish to subscribe to such newspaper running 70 pages and have it delivered to your distant home by mail that seer fee will henceforth cost the publisher of the paper over $21 year and be will be forced to adjust his subscription rates accordingly But even with these higher rates the Post Office will still be subsldlng oncfifth of the total cost of mail delivery for daily newspapers One school of thought argues that this is wrong that the government is merely subsldlsirig profitable newspaper businesses Another and perhaps more reasonable argument is that newspapers are delivered by mail onlyor chiefly in outlying conununl ties and that people who are willing to live in such dlsadvan taged situations should have the compensation of stateprovided or stateaided information such as newspaper This after all is the accepted reason for the 080s uneconomlc services to small remote communities insBishop Inglis opened an Academy at Windsor NS that became Kings College flitUS General Wilkerson beg campaign to capture Mon real toilsLord Durham salled for Britain after resigning as Gov order of Canada aimstatue to Sir John lllacdonald was unveiled at Hamilton Ont lidsIndEPendence of Club adopted platform Calibda England Margerlte Bourgeois 1651 The students were Indian and French children Schoolarbegan to get away from churchgcontrol after the urrlvalof Unlted Empire Loyal the money and teachers were often old soldiers They hadnn discipline problerris favorile teacher ito hang his sword and pistols on room so pupils would see them as they came in Quietness wonld reign supreme here was long battle in Upper Cbnada to3 get schools away from Church of England control This wasnit surprising because in Erltnln only mem bers of the Church ofEngland were allowed to attend Oxford of the United Empire loyalists belonged to other sects and their descendants gradually oh taincd mhoals of their own Egertoo yerson Methodist was one fthe mos mportant leaders aneduéatlonnl ref omannvaivrs wall lifthe class Since the beginning ol this year have been receiving welfare payments from the city But this is only temporary pol utlon After all the necessary bills have been paid eaoh month am left with $50 on which to support wife and twosmn children in order to probe the department of the government into considering my plight made several inquires to Ice whpt progress had been made thus far To start with made several phone calls and vlsltato the local branch All got for my troubles was long line of phoney excuses was called on and visited on several occa sions too by representatives of the local office to obtain more in fomintion from me about my case but always they either al ready hadthe informationre prime named or they asked questions which were completely lrrelew out When they were quertlo by me on certain specific points illcsepeople left me with the question unanswered and the dis tinct impression that they did not have clue as to what they were doing In order to get some definite answers called the head of ncd infuhytlleboob lthinlr we in stlll way off to lust society Pater tangent 155 Base RdJarrlt ll WAGE LEVI The Editor This letter in written with raped for the idea that it would be to the advantage of every Canadian l1 maximum II well as our preseme enwloied minimum wage levels wm taken into consideration Min lmum wage levels or good 11 thing but to my mind unbal anced by the absence of wage leveLs at the oppodte and of the nick Some leaders would have 15 believe that Canadas problems could be solved by the govern ment without sacrifice on the part of individual Canadian Those who folow ouch unrullo tlc leaders are ganibilag against great odds Flor many people the old sys tan of government has been like goose thatlaid golden eggs Fortunately we now have minister with untr oge to tell Canadlans that the proper place for golden geese ll Dan smoothing for nothing phllosoplw lead to other than more of the unbalance we noM see at various stages of devel opment tn plum like Gane da America main and Rho AROUND THE worn Looks Over Record Of George Wallace By entire name Foreign AlfntrsAnIlyst George appeals to cv erythfng about America th worries the seat friends of that country He appeals to all those in America and in other coun tries too whose thoughts are dominated by dark learn which they seek to escape by violence and in the process become nwre and more overcome with hate He is not unskillf ries of reconstructed ebates on television In comparison of the views expressed on film by the three candidates speaking separately George Wallace did not sound bad by the standards of the uninitiated Surprisingly he managed to sound quite statesmanlike on various issues But he has record very recent record which cannot be overlooked He advocates turn ing the 115 over to the police for couple of years As gover nor George Wallace ran po llca force as judge hehad lot to do with police forces in the words of Nobel Prise winner William Faulkner the police man lo whom Wallace would band over the country is the man with the indelible mark of ten thousand Southern deputy sheriffs urban and suburban the snapped hatbrim thevsad istlseyes the slightly and un mlstakeably bulged coat the air not swaggerlng exactly but of gan proabsolved brutal érs To unleashle cops Wnllace would ask Congress labollsh some of the decisionsof Vthe Courts such as those that have brought about the breakdown of law and order and have caused the astronomical rise in the crime rate lhat Alabama is first in crimes of violence even though uhderWalluce rulecourt restrictionson police were lg nored does not matter his peal works because his au 325 know his message is ra He is being racist also when he says he would chase the fed eral government out of the schools andthe hospitals and stop interfering withthe seniori ty and apprenticeship lists of the labor unions stoplnter fcring with the ownership of rty put violators in for and fall thoie Americans who openly advocate the victory or the Communists while our son grandsons and loved ones are being sent to South East Asia to fight Communi BIBLE woven iauo son said nnfn Mmfno man having put his band to the plot and looldng bank in Hot kingdom of Godflanhe Retreat is foreign war to those who are looking for law iVWcilkIngithrough the 1695bervllle begin march across Avalonpenlnsulato cap

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