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Barrie Examiner, 22 May 1976, p. 19

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The Barrie Examiner Saturday May 22 l976I9 Some believe mares milk can cure many ailments BOMBAY CP Mares milk can cure tuber culosis stomach ulcers and even arthritis said the soft spoken doctor Dr Harshad Joshi trained in ayurveda the Hindu system of medicine said to be 3500 years old was com menting on Moscow report that the Soviet Unions health ministry has vindicated the curative claims for fer mented mares milk or ku miss Los Angeles Times report reprinted in Indian newspapers said an expert Soviet committee reported that kumiss produces toning up of the nervous sys tem increases oxidizing txocesses regulates acid and alkaline standards and stimulates blood production As cure for tuberculosis it is also effective said the com mittee Dr Joshi said the curative properties of mares milk have been known to Indian ayurveda doctors for nearly 2000 years LEARNI FROM AFGHAN In fact the Russians are believed to have learnt of the medical importance of mares milk from Afghan physicians who in turn were ob iged to an old Indian text on the subject The recognition by the Soviets of the Indian claim for mares milk has enhanced Soviet prestige in the eyes of many Indians horseowner in Bombay reported that he had been get ting requests for mares milk at the rate of two an hour Some ayurveda doctors say that if mares milk sheeps milk and deers milk are drunk at regular intervals major ailments can be kept at bay They recall that Mohan das Gandhi the father of Indian independence drank mly sheeps milk There is shortage of hor ses in India so we should depend more on sheeps milk said one ayurveda mysician would like the Russians to make an expert study of the goodness of sheeps milk Its time we gave up cows milk which has almost no medical value Can record in seconds TORONTO CP Univer sity of Toronto professor says there now is way to record mpage book in six seconds Prof John Locke says this speedy recording involves the me of an argon laser beam which encodes masses of infor mation on plastic video disc Recording by laser was developed in an attempt to im gove resolution of images ing sent back from earth observing satellites first laun dred in the United States in 1972 The laser can capture an im age that is more accurate con tains more information and records more rapidly than magnetic discs or tape Indignation in Hastings over sale of battlefield BATTLE AP Inhabitants of this town in southern England are up in arms over efforts to sell the local pasture land where William the Con ueror defeated King Harold ack in 1066 Indignation has been mounting in Battle ever since Nfld insurers are in boom ST JOHNS Nfld CP gt Newfoundland insurance companies most of them agents for firms in the United States and other parts of Canada have been doing booming business in recent months There has been tremen dous upsurge of new customers for automobile in surance since compulsory in surance came into effect Jan1 The provinces new law re quires insurance on all motor vehicles with the minimum set at $75000 public liability per vehicle Failure to comply with the new regulation is punishable by fines of $250 to $700 or jail tflelgms of 60 days to three mon Justice Minister Alex Hickeman warned the law would be strictly enforced The Newfoundland Police and the RCMP are co operating in checking for in surance and are laying charges against noninsured drivers The RCMP use check point system set up last year in drive against impaired drivers and it is expected that it will be bolstered for in surancecheckin There are out 200000 motor vehicles on the island However there may be fewer on the roads this year said Motor Vehicle Registrar Mike Haire REGISTRATIONS SLOW Mr Hair said he was puz zled by the lack of urgency to have vehicles registered this year By March 31 the deadline for driving on 1975 registration there were bet ween 50000 and 70000 vehicles unregistered He said his office extended its working hours during the last few days of March but there were no crowds to con tend with as in previous years The main reason for the slowdown is most likely the new insurance law Newfoundlanders are paying high premiums and those who have had ac cidents even the slightest ones are being hit hard on the renewals In addition the ovincial government has vy of seven per cent on in surance premiums The auto insurers have been increasing premiums everv vear saving that ac cidents are increasing and repair costs have been soaring Estimates of the number of uninsured vehicles in the province before compulsory insurance ran as high as 40 Tardif worried MONTREAL CP Marc Tardif the World Hockey Asso ciations scoring champion dur ing the 197576 season will not be able to compete for Canada in the Canada Cup international hockey tournament this Sep tember Tardif who suffered brain contusion in the second game of Quebec Nordiques WHA Cana dian semifinal against Calgary Cowboys April 11 in Quebec City said he has been advised by his doctors not to play had brain contusion which is much different than concussion he said It is much more serious injury dont know if there will be any after affects Im worried about that As for Tardifs future with the Nordiques it remains un certain just what condition he will be in when he reports to training camp next fall per cent of the total While some agents reported 50 percent increase in business last December and early January 1975 an expected nish to buy policies during March did not materialize Because premiums have been increasing rapid1ythey advanced 11 per cent in one jump last yearbrokers and agents do mt need new customers to in crease their business and some agents have actually been setting quotas on the number of people they will in sure Meanwhile spokesman for the Automobile Insurance Board said report on vehicle insurance rates being charged in the province is being compiled Real challenge for actress WASHINGTON AP Ei leen Heckart who has por trayed droll sad neurotic and poised women to high ac claim now is engaged in the hardest thing Ive ever tried inmy life The challenge onerole drama about Eleanor Roose velt If you start running downhill in performance she explained all you can say to yourself is Well theres nobody here being bore except me The protean actress opened an eightweek run of Eleanor May at historic Fords Theatre where Abraham Lin coln was assassinated Your heart must alpitate when you look up an see that box she said After the capital Eleanor goes on crosscountry tour Miss Heckart an infrequent road trouper has signed to do the show for six months this year five next and four in 1978 The script is by Arlene Stadd TV writer in her first stage workout Although set in the heroines latter years the freeflowing time and place format enables Miss Heckart to evoke past events go in and out through the early marriage then come back to deal with things have to do at the White House and this moment the ac tress said Reflexes leaving Ali MUNICH West Germany AP Duane Bobick took one look at Muhammad Ali and said all the trimmed fat and road work cant hide the fact that the world heavyweight boxing Champions reflexes are going Bobick 25yearold fighter from Philadelphia is unbeaten after 35 consecutive pro bouts He fights Bunny Johnson of England in 10round prelimi nary Monday night to Alis title defence against Richard Dunn of England The title tight IS tumrng into me of boxings major financial busts with the estimated loss to its German promoters of close i0$500000 report on ticket sales from the Bavarian State Travel Service which is handling sales in Germany for the fight which starts at am local time 10 pm EDT Tuesday was even more pessimistic than figures used by the American copromoter Robert Arum of Top Rank Inc to make the loss projection Arum said that on the basrs of 60007000 seats sold for the 12000 seat Olympiahalle the German fight backers Promot GMBH could collect about $00000 Arum said the break even int is somewhere over amil ion it was announced that an an cient 570acre estate in cluding the 30acre site of the Battle of Hastings is to be sold to the highest bidder tobany in June We are doing our dam nedest to raise public interest and funds to see that the bat tlefield of Hastings isnt broken up said Rupert RumleyDowson retired army major The major and dozen other citizens are cam paigning to get local or national organization to take over the site of what has been described as one of the bat tles which at rare intervals decide the fate of nations SEALED CONQUEST Victory over Harolds Saxons gave the Norman duke control of England and marked the last time foreign invader vanquished theEnglish Local people estimate that the estate which includes the ruins of an ancient abbey houses cottages farms restaurant and two parking lots may fetch up to $1 million Its trustees say it must be sold because the es tates income will no longer maintain it Our family has owned the estate since 1719 and it was never rich one said Evelyn Webster who lives in 300yearold converted gun powder factory on the proper ty More than 100000 visitors year pay approximately 50 cents head to see the ruins and the ancient battle site Townsfolk are proposing that efforts be ma to preserve the estate by making it more lucrative tourist at traction with greater em masis on its role in the his tory of England Deer made right moves in this Chinese film MEMPHIS AP Even the calm Chinese must have been disconcerted to see fluteplaying man leading 30 deer and 10 loaded school buses down Peking street But for Joe Wallach the sight of those deer in Chinese film solved oblem zoo directors had ced for15years When we saw those deer light bulbs blinked in our heads said Wallach direc tor of the Overton Park Zoo in Memphis Those deer were so condi tioned they could take them outside the compound for the first time and lead them in pairs through cities with school buses on each side of the line The school buses were filled with children beating drums waving red flags and chanting Mao sayings The deer would do just as they had been conditioned to do said Wallach Nothing distracted them What the Chinese did was apply method of controlling behavior called positive rein forcement to managing zoo animals INDIVIDUALSOUNI They gave each deer number and each number different sound When the deer made the right moves the keepers produced that deers sound and gave it reward The Chinese perfected the system to the extent that they could take the animals to the hills to graze and call num ber by sound and that in dividual animal would come out of the group Wallach saw the film in September at the meeting of the American Association of Zoos Parks and Aquariums inCalgary He immediately grasped the value of the conditioning systems for his 200 For one thing it meant that the zoo could increase the variety of animals in open air displays If we have ostrich zebra antelope and giraffe out in yard we would condition arch group so thut when we rang their note only the zebra would come in he said He expects to take about year to condition the animals Many styles andsnes Fast installation Iso Available ROOF VENTS See Them Now At Standard $31 AUTO GLASS KIND 726571 75 Yonge St Barrie Pay less on cheques VG Member Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation RM GREY TRUST COMPANY IN CE 889 MANAGER BENVENUTI ACCOUNTANT MIRTITSCH 35 DUNLOP ST 7371411 Where does The Examiner get its news like most daily newspapers in Canada we print many different kinds of news For example LOCAL NEWS is our chief concern Our editorial department includes reporters photographers and editors The editorial department is broken in to various fields of interest city district womens and sperts But ollperform basically the same task they collect write and edit news items about the events and happenings of Barrie and Simcoe County NATIONAL news is provided in large part by The Canadian Press cooperotive newsgathering agency The Examiner sends news of this region to CP and receives from it via teletype wire news similarly provided by newspapers in other regions Of course CP main tains its own staff of reporters assigned to special news beets or events Yet essentially it is through cooperotive efforts that CP creates web of exchanged information This gives The Examiner on the spot coverage from Newfoundland to British Col umbia while spreading to those points the latest news from Barrie Also The Examiner receives special coverage from writers such INTERNATIONAL news also comes to us through the Canadian Press CP maintains its own staff writers throughout the world each member newspaper including The Examiner pays on assessment to meet the costs involved 050 has agreemems Wm WOIldWlde newsgathering agenciessuch as The Associated Press and Reutersfor the exchange of news And again The Examiner receives special coverage from writers such as Stewart Mocleod EDITORIALS are separate function of daily newspaper written to express the views of that newspaper News items do not express point of view they simply stote facts It is only in its editorials and accompanying letters to the editor that opinions are expressed Editorials represent the voice of the newspaper in the community FEATURES come to The Examiner from groups called syndicates These include everything from Ann Loriders column to the comics and crossword puule They are purchased from various syndicates and generally appear as well in other daily newspapers hence the phrase syndicated columnist Six days week these elements are drawn together in the pages of The Barrie Examiner Each edition represents the collective of forts of hundreds of people from Boyfield Street to London or Singapore This is why Simcoe County Reads The Examiner Gila Earth Examiner l6 BAYFIELD STREET PHONE 7266537

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