Barrie Historical Newspaper Archive

Barrie Examiner, 31 Jul 1976, p. 12

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Jungle village travel bargain at $1250 Written for By ROGER SMITH CHIANG MAI Thailand tlt The Australian woman pitf fed into view on the arm of our groups Thai guide the strain of climbing 800 vertical feet in dryseason ungle heat showing intheredo herface But the view from the palm fmnd leanto on to was worth sweating for roIling yellow green weave of rice paddies teak forest and bamboo spread ing toward the Burmese border from the tin and thatch roofs of the Kuomintang village below The rifletoting Kuoinintang refugees remnants of thiang Kai Sheks Nationalist tliinese army are one attraction mak ing jungle tours popular side trip for any visitor to timing Mai Thailands sewnd largest city and Rose of the North 10 miles from ltangkok Rut the biggest draw is shoestring riec tag that makes it one at tie best tourist air gains in the world IItlV days and two 92th including trans IyrIRllytl ItiiI tif eommodatma and National Geogia hir look at si hill tribes ail tom so POL RSLIFFRFD The tours start in row of restaurants and fresh irmishakc stands aloi the cana that winds old tiiang his lroppedrup sandwich hunts Nyenxi with pictuns aisi grammaticallyinuxrfect IltinldrkS show that four tour tum mines Best Manet and Ir Moo run basically the st me program it starts with bouncing four hour ride on local bus cranr med three to seat Thaistyle with the aisle full of banana Lllllt baskets of fruit and card txya rd boxes The road ends in Thaton here sightseers lunch in noodle shop built on stilts over the Mac Kok River and talk to sweaty group two days ahead of them on the jungletour as sembly line Thai riverboat its shallow draught and extended propeller designed to allow navigation when the water level sinks as low as six inches in depth dur ing the dry season takes the tourists downriver past bamboo rafts and fishermen in hol lowedout logs to Ban Tama Gang Shan village where the hiking begins iRDW PUPPIES This is the heart of the so called Golden Triangle the mppygrowing hills where the borders of Thailand Burma and Laos meet and much of the worlds opium is produced It is traditional cash crop for some tribes especially the Lisu and Meo cropsubstitution program sponsored by the United Na tions and patronizml by Thai lands King Bhuniibol encour ages tribes to switch to growing coffee corn and tobacco and to update their cnvironmentallyr harmful slashandburn cultivation lint old habits die hard and the remote hills still blaze poppy red at harvest time in February and arch There are an estimated ioo 000 hilltribe people in northern Thailand various shadings of nomadic Tibetan and Chinese ethnic groups Their wanderings are in fluenced by the politics of the area Meo refugees streamed into Thailand when the lathct Lao and Khmer ltouge took over in Vientiane and lhnoin lenh and Karen and Shun tribes both defend independent states in Burma TRAIL Ml NDIIIIS Except for one steep climb the tour trail is easy mean dering thmiigh bamboo jungle alive with the cicadas txolit bur and along ridges between flooded rice paddies Women wading ankle deep ilant seedlings where water buffalo have broken ground Further on two Lisii men oper ate teak sawmill driving wedge along handsaw cut they irodiice eight or nine bonrv ds ay They would produce none it snake cmssed their path on particular morning The hill tribes are animists their world revolving around spirits of an cestors and animals The Lisu week has 12 days each one known by an animal name if snake crosses some ones path on the Day of the Snake that person must return home do no work and hide from evil spirits Crossing small gullcy out side ths Lisu village the vis itors see baskets of clothing and food rotting remnants of offer ings to spirits dogs carcass designed to frighten evil spirits crowns the spirit gate that ar ches over the path into the Akha village highest in aid tude most primitive and most commercial village on the tour Pigs wander among naked children and pipesmoking women in colorfullybordered black costumes They wear their wealth in beads silver necklaces and coins dangling from headdresscs One woman sports nickel probably the gift of cameracarrying ana dian When the Pentax comes out so do the hands Even tod dlers demand candy cigarettes or one baht ifive centsi for ach exposure Tour operators suggest that hikers bring matches iodized salt medicine candy or ciga rettes but the hill tribes have learned about their visitors econmic system Now they like the money says Rungroje Mukdasaiiit our guide Before they didnt know how to use it Quaker hall restored Without govt help NEWMARKET tint itPi None of the $50000 spent to bring the Nthcentury Quaker Meeting House into the Both century was provided by any government Donald Laitin clerk of the Meeting House on Yonge Street about 40 miles north of Toronto said money came from Eng land the lnited States and anadzi and from Quakers and non Quakeis The original building has been used since llttl by the Religious Society of Friends Quakersi but needed restoration The Quakers named their gathering places as meeting houses which haye no symbols or religious motifs lion cwlands convenor of the improvement Lunltlltlltt said the house members were determined that restoration would not replace the old build mg or iltei its ipixarance The building now has an ttpto date central heating unit Illtl den in the walls The old foun dation has been replaced with poured concrete basement with completely modern built in heating unit kitchen toilets and large room suitable for lectures games and Sunday school LURNES DUPLICATING ti whit SERVICES RIGLIOHH Stentle kMi to original $3 00 No Job loo Sinoil BAYFIELD Si ilti 0955i The finest cuisine Lakeview l85 Dunlap 728515l FAMILY NIGHT SPECIAL MONDAY TO THURSDAY LIVER ONIONS ROAST LEG OE PORK Copm nods $3 25 Children under l2 225 Parents get the credit for successful youth curfew VANCOUVER itli An IhOllIlf are crediting parents not police with the success of youth curfew in two nearby mu nicipalities Cpl Ross Townsend youth eiHmliiiiitoi of the Surrey ltt MP said parents are enforcing the curfew by paying much more attention to what their kids are doing IltI where And in Port oqintliinr that gs BYK Set very appealing table at very atipetizing price 75 printed napkins to package mart Price 1520 SLIDE FILM itfl tlLitxtiHx 12620 SLIDE FILM lir VALUE PRICED up wires is Ill mart List Price 13 71° mart Special Xtiv7 community juvenile probation officer Ilob lriistluiin said factor in in creased inrciitnl awareness is the new to know lIttlt are limits titlicrwisc there is nothing to respect he said It is it no mans land and the ciirlcw is like white line on the hiin way you just dont cross WW II BoutiZIue Napkins LEENEX LIMIT FIGS PER SAVE 62c corrou DISH CLOTHS mart SpeCiai Your Satistution Guaranteed My CMrQullv Rounded mtiugtotwfl our wnv or use CUSTOMER lt mart List Price 36 ea 486° Mr lrnstluiin said be up posed the curfew when it was introduced in Port oquitlriin ll year ago thinking the policc Would be taxi service for juveniles ltut he said parents are using the curfew as guideline tlllllillb IN In addition to Surrey and IIill oqiiitliiiiL ninplc Itidgc which adjoins lort oipiitlaiii rind roll package soft ply tailot tiSSue White plilk Yellow Green mart Price LIMIT PKGS PER CUSTOMER lenticlon in the knnagnn Val ley hnvs instituted curfew by laws for juveniles llie bylaw pioVidcs that any one 15 yenrs or younger must be off the streets between II in and It in unless iiccoinpimied by it parent or guardian or on the street for it unavoidable reason Violators may receive war iiiiig ii trip hoiiic or it Visit to the police sliil inn WIltlt lllttll are called to pick up their charges Parents who habitually iilliiw IIllll children to Ulllillvtlll thi bylnw are liable to ii line of $2 onconViction lnsp Marv Young officer in charge of the oquitlnni RCMP detachment which covers lort oquitlain was an early oppo nent of the curfew but has changed his opinion My fellows feel the curfew bylaw is valuable It ives them another tool he suit IIYIAWISIIIICIIIC In the normal course of an evening shift ii child may be picked ll on liquor iict Viola lions or iotiction of hildren Act Violations but they inin also be violating curfew llic bylaw IH IIIIrf when there is nothingclsi VALUE lthiSSUi 425x145 WHITE SWAN BATHROOM TISSUE 88 9kg BIG SAVINGS on qua mavens gm 56c SAVE 51 I11 MOE SAVHI mart List Price 44 mart SpeCIal 88° 77 99 SH III MINI Mil SAVES mart Lisi Price 28 man Specmi MART PLAZA iiioiimr 27 umno sr BARRIE one MON to mi in an in minus AM to in nu SAVE 68c lift 01 mart List Price 67 mart Specml na Mae Roy president of the Coquitlam and district parlt entteacher council said the curfew gives parents mental stickma backup measure parent can say You have to be home because its the law In Penlicton RCMP officer incharge lnsp Howard Tur ner said the curfew is helping the citys new youth detail set up in April tr combat it high iii cidence of youthful vandalism and crime lurch was not put in as punishment think the stigma of having to go and pick your child tip at the local police stir BENSON zoom rot 00 him Length nugmio hr Brands CIGARETTES cartons of all popular brands Buy now while mines last mart Price PU Our Everyday Low hangars CREDIT CARDS STYLISH SELECTION OF SHORT SLEEVE LLOVERS Vb awn Jct mart Price up sum in or ac tion is more important as de terrent than higher fine would be REMOVESHORTSIGNS SHAWA nt pl Ald Jack Wiley cant be blamed for being 2i sorehead in two fl sioiis the sixfoot onoinch zil derman has cracked his head against one way sign erccr ted by the citys public works department Ald Alan Pilkey chairman of the public works committee didnt help much when he HSktfI for full comlt pensation for the sign Wiic Quailtrim 1M lic II Ilic rigi In Iimil Qiiuilirrcy LIMIT 7CARTONS PER CUSTOMER NOT NECESSARILY AS ILLUSTRATED may 931 Mariacw WEt

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