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im 252EtwwJtIvoc $44 may cw Howre two rr IbThe Barrie Examiner Tuesday Nov 23 I976 STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN lwentyyearold Pat Young pears to be walking on air ove this Miami Beach dock Actually shes on her way down into the drink Pat enjoys the beach as well as Rug hooking explained to Churchill Institute By MRS II SAlXTER CHURCHILL Rug hooking is getting to be an art Mary Lou Justason of Painswick told Churchill Womens Institute at its November meeting Mrs Justason is area coun sellor for tlte ntario Hooking Craft Guild and local teacher of rug hooking This she classes as third interest after her family and duties as nurse in the emergency uttit of Barrie hospital Only 10week course is needed to learn the craft she said and mode cash outlay formateriats While the technique is the same as used by our grand mothers the woollen material is cut as slender as drinking straw by machine This makes the work very fine and stylish The finished wall hangings showed the beauty that can be achieved by color shading which is acquired by dipping small swatches of material in the same dye pot As the dye solution gets weaker the material colors get lighter ton but in the same hue ne of the craftswomans outstanding pieces was stret ched over the ntetal part of washboard It hangs iit her bathroom ver 23 ladies enjoyed her talk and demonstration The speaker was introduced by Grace Kent and thanked by Hazel Dickie The Womens Institute will cater to the Sinttot County Holstein Association noon qur chcon on December Anyone Iltlttttttl in starting house logl may be interested to know lock will llt lodged at the district annual and prizes will be Sb SI and The meeting the 75th anniversary of the district will br held in Allistoit in Ma MELIJHIIJNDA The prize winning tarrto Mello Blends will be singing at lnnistil Central cloo Iridaj night November at pm Come and bring your family These ladies in love with bar bershop music were III the states this month singing in competition They placed Ilth against more than 2o liar bershop chapters from tanada andtinilctlSIaIcs The lnttcd ltltltlt Women wlto are spitsornit hc llliltlK have been kintttnt and doing handwotk lot cratt sale following thc pltttlllatltill good place to find thristtnas gift for that special person Several ladies from otir com tnunity enile tttl iwtnnu of hp Royal iintet hair with bus load trotn Lctroy Senior itizenslub The first Churchill cubs had Kub Kar Rally recently at In nisfil Central school These are Bamant tiny wooden cars carved by the boys that they race on special track VISITEI AUSTRALIA Welcome home to Joy Christian who has been in Australia for the past five years Get well wishes go to Ted tIillock who hasnt been feeling tip to par for some time Baptised at the United Chur ch on Sunday were Jill Elizabeth daughter of Mr and Mrs Neil Sturgeon and Shelly Lynn daughter of Mr and Mrs Blakeman Mr and Mrs Edgar Sturgeon Mrs Kenneth Sturgeon and Mrs Ernest Kneeshaw were among area folk who attended the 50th wed ding anniversary open house for Mr and Mrs Linwood Sturgeon of Gilford The event was held at their daughters home in Agincourt Jean Constable was hostess to the ladies bridge club Win ners were Eva Reid and Lois Sturgeon Mr and Mrs Gordon Mason of ollingwood were Sunday guests of Mr and Mrs Neil Sturgeon and family Mr ussel Browning is at home convalescing after surgery at Barrie hospital Attending the Anglican bazaar front distance were Mr and Mrs Joseph OItegan tlcan Flowers Janice and Debra Mr aitd Mrs Jack Att derson Mrs Ilarold Brown from Toronto Mr and Mrs Aubrey Sharpe and Wendy Irenton Mr and Mr Fred Wicks and llll Markham Mrs Lorne Maclittt Mt aitd Mrs Sloan and Mrs ltosc lloxcrsot lnitiic He prefers life in park ALHHNQIIN tAltK mt lt Atorincrprimwinning equestrian from Hamilton says he prctcrs working III this pro vlncial government con scrvation area as jackofall trades tnaking $500 week to citylitc lwentystwenycarold Jack lark says he can build cot tagc fix plumbing build docks and refinish boats among other things He tnotcd so years ago to the park where he and some people he has hired work seven days week He charges $550 an hour for construction jobs and says his fee is lower than those of car penters attd builders front the nearest town Mr Clark says his biggest difficulty is transporting sun plies in winter PROPERTY MANAGEMENT OFFERS THREE SEPARATE DIVISIONS TO SUIT YOUR SPECIFIC NEEDS Property and Financial Management Snow Removal Landscaping SERVICE IS OUR BUSINESS If you with to town your on opmonts roqulromonts plum colt 7264219 playing in the water and soaking tip the sun AP Photo Insurance rate hikes rapped LUNENBURG NS CPI An antiinflation board official says something will have to be done fast about unbridled in creases in insurance rates Alan Connors executive di rector of the antiinflation boards Atlantic regional of fice told the local board of trade inflation in insurance rates has in some cases reached 270 per cent anda handle will have to be put on them to protect consumers There has been far too muclt public outcry against these in creases not to do anything about them Mr Connors said People in the insurance in dustry are going to have hard time explaining their increases in the future Mr Connors said the board itas met its 1976 goal of keeping inflation below eight per cent but there are still very serious problems with energy postal rates property taxes and insur mice proposed increase of up to 65 per cent in electricity rates in Nova Scotia was out of the hands of the antiinflation board Tinkering pays off VEGREVILLE Alta CP weekends tinkering in 1967 by two farmim plement dealers produced business with 20 ent ployees and gross sales of $2ntillion in its first year The firm has since grown to Sloanilltonaycar operation with seven distribution outlets in anztda and the Ilnited States It now cmploystifi Im no engineer insists Eugene tiemkiw manager of Exec0n Manufacturing Ltd We Just upgraded existing equipment There was nothing toil ICcc 0n specialties Ill front end loaders tor tractor The scoops sell for $3000 The advantage of our design was its ease of removal he said Before loaders were bolted on so securely it took day to put One on tractor and anotherdaytotakeitoff Along with number of shareholders the company is owned by Mr Iemkiw and his partner John Yakitnetz It has expanded its manufacturing fae cilitics in this eastrccnttal Al berta community twice so far ammo or ourooon mum on no no on vanm Historic rock shown NEW ORLEANS AP On July 25 1806 explorer William Clark carved his name and the date into rock beside the Yel lowstone River in what is now Yellowstone County Wyoming The carving the on physical evidence of the Lewis and Clark expedition was still there this summer when modern traveller Dr Steven Ambrose retraced the 8000 mile route But the rock is now locked in side glass case and marked on tourist maps of territories that were once wilderness Ambrose New Orleans au thor and outdoorsman said he was sometimes thrilled some times dismayed by the changes that have occurred since the two explorers and an Indian guide journeyed at the behest of thenvpresident Thomas Jeffer son Fertile farms line the Mis souri River iit midwestern states that Lewis and Clark in their copious journals predic ted would become prime fartn land But the Columbia River which the expedition followed to the Pacific is disaster All its rapids aitd waterfalls are gone We canoed where Lewis and Clark did we backpacde over the mountains attd spent fourth of July on the Continental Di vide at the spot where Lewis first crossed it Ambrose said We hiked through the Bitter root Mountains and visited their winter quarters at Fort flatsop oit the Pacific LEARNED ItlISIIXT The Ambroses set out frottt St Louis May 14 exactly 172 years after the expedition attd quickly learned respect for the hearty frontiersmen We didnt expect to find the Missouri River current so strong With two of us in small canoe we could make only mile an hour upriver and that was hard Work And the hiking They made as many as 28 miles daythe best we could manage was 14 The Ambroses resorted to their van and pickup truck peri odically But they were on the trail long enough to spot 250 species of birds several Rocky Mountain goats and bighorn sheep bear moose more deer than we could count and more snakes than they care to remember They took along the Lewis and Clark joumals to compare notes and made notes of their own for planned book Suicide rate highest CARSON CITY Nev tAPt Nevadans have the highest sui cide rate in the United States Experts say lack of roots among residents here often ag gravates the problems blamed for suicides elsewhere Dorothy Bryant of the Suicide Prevention Centre in Las Vegas says the area is different be cause of the heavy influx of newcomers who make Nevada one of the countrys most rap idly growing states Many of the newcomers are transients seeking divorce and already in stressfillcd situation site says These people generally tend to lack any grass roots here she says Matty people tnoved here recently They dont have any parettts or grandparents nearby They might not know their neighbors This condition magnifies the love problems alienation and health troubles that catisc stti cide no matter what the Ioca tion The statistics on suicide in Nevada show I975 rate of nearly 27 suicides for 100000 persons more than dottble the national average of nearly 13 suicides per 100000 persons Suicide is the fifthranked cans of death here while ita tionally It is the tiltranked Mr liryant says site fittds no significant relationship bet ween suicide aitd gambling which is legal iii the state She says heavy gatnhling ap pears to be only one facet of pattern which develops when person develops feeling of helplessness and hopelessness What catt be done More education is needed says Mrs Bryant If friend can recognize symptoms sui cide can be prevented If per son facing these problcms catt learn more about tltcnt they can cope better themselves gt¢Ugt it grand prizes 12 prizes of 8I MILLIoItr prizes of 8I prizes of IIIIIJIIIII up to 975B IIIIZES more than 33 MILLION 2213 Mado mssnble by the transfer of St Million from the Olympic Lottery and to be drawn at random in any of the three sorles Includth as scioch for the first draw three extra one million dollar grand prizes to be drawn at random to any of the three series Loto Canada tickets are sold at banks caisses populatres most trust companies some credit unions and retailers The number of prizes and the total amount prize money available are based on the sale of all the tickets issued