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BARRIE CURLERS IN ACTION AT STROUD Ed Skinner top photograph was skip of one of two Barrie curling club rinks which competed in the IDA divisional playdowns in the British Consols series at Stroud rink He is shown as he tried to guide rock by sweeping In lower photograph Don Corby is taking careful look down the rink after firing rock as directed by his skip ExaminerPhotos Recreation activities topic at Bell Ewart By GEORGINA MITCHELL BELL EWARI Mrs Joyce Moisay program coordinator of recreation for senior citizens of Simcoe County told Bell Ewart club 308 about the work carried on when she attended meeting here Mrs MOisay also had display of crafts shown to the members earlier in the month These were viewed with in terest by the members and her talk also was appreciated The speaker had to drive through blinding snowstorm to reach here but she noted the sun appeared as she rounded the corner into the village After her speech the mem bers sat down to Christmas dinner with the tables decorated in festive manner Emilie McGregor won draw 7IST ANNIVERSARY Susan and Bill Ruffett who recently celebrated their 7lst wedding anniversary were honored by the gathering Mr Ruffett responded by reciting couple of poems The ld Violin and You Are My Friends duet by Florence Holt and Gertrude Benson Know Who Holds Tomorrow with Ruth Sprague at the piano was rendered All Joined in Singing carols Gifts were exchanged President of the club Eileen Johnston thanked the speaker Mrs Moisay and all who helped to make the event suc cess The first meeting for 1977 was arranged for Tuesday Jan EUCHRE WINNERS Winners of the euchre prizes at Bell Ewart community hall were Georgian Hutchinson LEFROY The LefroyBell Ewart Canadian Legion branch 547 participated in the Innisfil San ta Claus parade Dec 11 and were pleased to receive trophy on behalf of the color party They donated $200 to the lnnisfil youth group They also support minor hockey in the area The Legion put on great Christmas party Dec 12 for the children Nearly 200 children attended and met Santa and the clowns Each child received candy cane The ladies auxilliary of Bran ch 547 had their Christmas sup per at Bell Ewart Hall Dec 13 good crowd turned out to en Joy the buffet dinner Ken Wilkinson president of the Legion branch attended the dinner along with Ralph Crumb and Joe McKeown Mr Wilkinson said tickets for the Legions New Years Eve party to be held at the SICC are on sale They are 825 couple Seasons Greetings to all my readers Marg Peleck and Ina Mc Knight for the ladies EISie King had the most lone hands For the men the winners were Stanley Givens Lloyd Graham and Jenkins Several shared in the 5050 draw At later euchre night Ver na Lougheed Georgina Mit chell Darlene Curtis and Lily Hill were lady Winners For the men the winners were Emer son Curtis Angus Dove Given Collins and Peleck The proceeds from the euchre was donated back for the pur chase of turkeys chickens bacon and Christmas cake for draw in which many shared vote of thanks was given to Marg Peleck for running the euchres with Ina McKnight They in turn thanked all who helpedthem Santa was in the Village on the preVious Saturday as well as Christmas eve He earlier made VISit to Casa Loma Restaurant where nearly 100 children were treated to pop hot dogs and bags of goodies couple of clowns performed Workmen have been busy with improvements at the Bell Ewart school and it is hoped it Will be ready for use as the Bell Ewart community centre early in the New Year The Bell Ewart Baptist com munity church childrens con certs was well attended and ap preciated by the youngsters candlelight schice was held on Wednesday evening fashion show just for the boys By WIN RIDER MontrealGazrtte MONIREAL NIP Usually fashion shows are for the girls But this time the boys had their own special show in Eatons Adam Shop And Eve has something to be cross about Store fashion shows are usually dished out to her in Wideopen salon in the middle of the morning kaffec klatscli stylz But not for the Adams of this world They get invited at 630pm are served Wine in longstem glasses and munch cheese so perfectly aged that you can smell it halfway across the mens wear department But to keep everyone happy women were invited and couple clothes were shown The reason for the gathering was to introduce George Rechs mens fashions and his mens wear designer Jeff Sayre Rech long famous for his womens sportswear and tai lored fashions showed his first collection for men designed by Sayre last February This fall he launched his togetherness styles qualifying as the de signer for the couple AVOIDS UNISEX Togetherness for Rech does not mean unisex The outfits are not carboncopy lookalikes but rather harmonious reflec tions of each other For example the press re lease says of his matching blou son tops One with neck the other with crew both fea turing the same geometric shaped patterns but in different shades and positions The release explains that the clothes are designed to be worn side by side neither clashing nor competing with the other They include Norfolk jackets and swaggerpoats in Donegal tweeds pullovers and pants in sturdy checks soft flannels and doublebreasted Windcheater coats in melton cloth Tweed hats and bow ties on the men are matched by tweed slouch hats and cowl necks on the girls mans threepiece striped suit goes With the womans softer version With skirt BRITISH STYLES FEATURE Sayre who wore tweed pants camel flannel shirt and handwoven wool tie said The French have Just dis covered how the British dress and they like it Sayres life story plays like TV soap opera the was born in Pennsylvania mill town dur ing the Depresston His Jobless father hearing that workers were leaving Hawaii because they feared the Japanese took his wife and small boy to the islands and found work The boy grew up went to the United States and obtained medical degree at Johns Hop kins University But he was un happy During his university years he discovered his true loveart His family bowing to the in evitable set him free to travel and study in the art centres of the world Running out of money in Paris he found job with Rech produced an out standing menswear and brought about happyever atter ending IN SIGHT OF RICIIES PARIS AP Frenchmen believe fortune starts at half million francs or about $100000 the business weekly Le Nouvel Economiste found in survey CQUNTY GLIMPSES ORO STATION Staff Reeveelect Howard Campbell and other members of the 1977 78 Oro council will officially take office on Monday Jan when they make their declarations at the inaugural Henry Neufeld clerk will ad minister the oath of office Mr Campbell former deputy reeve will succeed Wallace Key as head of the council Mr Key retired after four years as reeve and 14 on council Councillor Allan McLean will be back as the new deputy reeve and former councillor Charley Sanderson will be returning to council Two new members are Clarence Smith who has been chairman of the planning board for five years and Paul Kitchen Hawkestone surveryor STAYNER MAYOR STAYNER Staff The town of Stayner will have new mayor for the 197778 term with George Charlton taking office at the inaugural meeting in January Stayner also will have new reeve in Eldon Bell Mayor Allistair McDonald and Reeve Harry Mathers are retiring from office BRADFORD MAYOR BRADFORD Staff Roy Gordon will become Bradfords third mayor since town status was achieved in 1960 at the inaugural meeting of council next month Arthur Evans MPP for Simcoe Centre was the first Bradford mayor and he was succeeded by Joe Magani who is retiring at the end of the current term LONG BYPASSED COLLINGWOOD Staff The town of Collingwood hasnt had representative of county council elected warden in nearly 50 years The last war den from Collingwood was the late Tom in 1930 PIONEER SUBDIVISION LISLE Staff First sub division development in this Tosorontio township com munity dates back to 1877 when pioneer settler Thomas Crosbie had his farm sub divided into lots LONG ACTIVE ORILLIA Staff The Orillia and District Chamber of Commerce dates back to 1890 when Orillia was lumbering and carriage manufacturing town of about 4000 people Slaven was then mayor LOOKING BACK ELMVALE Staff Earl Trace began another term as reeve in Flos township 20 years ago with George McFadden deputv reeve Councillors then were Al Spence Frank Coughlin and Lorne Graham ANOTHER HIKE ORILLIA Staff For second time in two years Orillia electric and power rates will be increased next year due to higher wholesale charges by the Ontario Hydro system NVCA BUILDING ANGUS Staff The Not tawasaga Valley Conservation Authority board meets regularly in the administrative building by the Nottawasaga river here The building was of ficially opened on August 18 1973 when GeorgeGuergis was reeve of Essa John Rhodes then parliamentary assistant to the minister of natural resour ces officially opened the building at ceremony presided over by Allan McLean of Oro then chairman of the conservation authority board VILLAGE TRUSTEES HILLSDALE Staff Vil lage trustees who will start new terms of office in January are James Rumble Grant Dunn and Douglas St Dennis Council at Alliston to show two changes ALLISION Staff Alliston town council will show two changes for the next term when members take their declara tions of office in January Mayor Oakla Gray Will be back for another twoyear term as head of the council He Will be starting his 14th year on council Reeve Peter Cameron and Deputy Reeve James Dickey again Will be county council representatives The two new councillors will be Gerry Moon who headed the polling with 937 votes and Joseph Heydon Returning councillors are Aiden Whelan and Elmer Hawkins John Taylor will be retir ing at the end of the year after some 15 years on council He received 639 votes Also defeated was incumbent Douglas Taylor who polled 737 The voters reJected fluorida tion by 1056 votes to 403 Similar deCision was made on the issue when submitted to the voters few years ago Documents at county archives tell of pioneer New Lewell MIDHURSI Stall Let ters of the pioneer New Lowell firm Jacques and flay Fur niture Company ranging from 1854 to 1875 were among items of the countys past indexed at Simcoe County archives which now may be viewed for resear ch purposes This completed prOJect provides an excellent inSight in to one of the largest manufac turing industrics created and operated in I9th century On tario said Peter Moran arr chiVist The New Lowell branch was operated from Toronto The archives is always ready to accept documents of historic interest to the county for safe keeping and preserVing During the past year 100 donations of such material were received If ENTlRY MAPS Simcoe ounty can now boast an extremely valuable collection of lfith to 20th cen tury maps which we know will be calling card to researchers throughout North America said Mr Moran We were able to introduce this donation to the public With permissmn of the donor earlier in the year Additional material has been received from others and their continued support is ap precmted he said We also have managed to convmce an increasmg number of people to trust the archives With their documents Last year the archives was fortunate in recciVing the benefits of two excellent porfunities for Youth Pchcts One group continued preVious proJcct of indexmg every ar ticle and advertisement of the Barrie Northern Advance newspaper now complete from 1847 to 1901 To our knowledge this is the only complete index of any filth Century ntario newspaper said Mr Moran This index was necessary due to the very fragile condition of the newspapers and has the ad vantage of capturing on card If one has the money abortion easy in Italy BthlIERAIi ROME Router Maria IS 17 an Italian atholic and this summer she had an abortion It has always been easy to get one if your family has the money shcsaid For Maria it means weeks Visit to luxury Romc clinic which she thinks cost her fam ily nearly one million lirc aboutSIo0 But abortion is against the law and Italy which went through one political CIISIS brought on by disputes over abortion in the spring now is facing this controversml issue again Parliament is discussing eight bills aimed at making abortion legal and freely available through the health serVicc But the Christian Democrats who now rule through minority govern ment are firmly opposed to any substantial changes in the law first passed by dictator Benito Mussolini in lint Maria thinks new law Will not mean real change Whats the difference she asked The new law Will Just mean that poor women can get abortion too LAWOMILItAIED For young Italian women an unwanted pregnancy is com plicated by Italian civil law which forbids marriage below the agc of 1874 although the church Will permit girl as young as 12 to marry in ex ceptional Circumstances Im not sure would have married Mama said But dont know that wanted to get rid of the baby either Every body elsc seemed to take the deCision for me might have been able to get specuil pcrmissmn to marry But it would have been awful going through the appli cationsltay is very bureau cratic And everybody seemed to think it was easier simply to regard my baby as slight ill ness Maria thinks that free abor tion would put tremendous pressure on women who were single poor or had had several babies already to take the abortion option When France introduced llh eral abortion laws in Novem ber 1973 it gave an impetus to efforts here public opinion poll was taken early in 1974 85 per cent of those questioned said they believed the present laws should be relaxed CAN BE JAILEI At present woman found guilty of having an abortion can be imprisoned for between one and four years and person performing an abortion can be sentenced to up to five years However the constitutional court ruled in February 1914 that laws forbidding abortion were unconstitutional if womans mental or physical health were endangered by con tinumg the pregnancy Dr Federico IAmbrosio who later performed abortions at Milans Mangiagalli clinic said at the time of the court ruling Within short time abortion may legally be per formed in Italy to protect womanshcalth Vital test case finally lor ced the Christian Democrat government to state publicly that it accepted the courts pro abortion ruling At Seveso about 200 women in the first three months of pregnancy heard that the babies they were carrying could turn out to be monsters as result of contamination by the cloud of tox1c dioxm that cs caped from nearby chemical factory Surprismgly only 25 women actually went through With abortion at the Mangiagalli CllnlC But it is it known how many women sought abortions elsewhere away from the glare of public1ty or how many appli cations the Maniagalli reJec ted Women entering the clinic had first to conVince rCSident psychiatrist that their mental health was in danger Elsewhere two leftWing groups the Italian Womens Liberation Movement MLI and the radical Centre for In formation Sterilization and Aobrtion CIGA set up clinics to give contraceptive and abor tion adVIce Apart from the clinics for the rich Marias abortion has long been available in Italy for the poorfrom backstreet abor tionists Why Spend Another Evening Alone Phone now for your FREE Brochure SINGLES SOCIAL CLUB Baiiies only now and true adult singles ilnncu cluli Invrtes membership par llClDiillllll Being Single 3i and over in Barrie need no longnr leave you feeling like llllll wheel or an onlsulsi You no longer need ilrive to iorunio lust l0 VlSll Singles rliili Why out ltllll us now for as little as $3 for an evenings an tiertainrnenl Coll PATS 7373610 pm pm Nlon Fri information which might other wrse have taken days of un productive reading to locate it was explained Headed by Reeve Ingram Amos of Medonte the archives board in report to Simcoe County told of increased use of the place by researchers during the past year nearly 500 researchers 74 per cent were from the county 18 per cent of the others from Ontario six per cent from the US and two per cent from other countries Among the research prOJects were the proposed updated history of the county economic and somal development of several communities in the county town of Penetangmshene Penelang road survey publication of several articles and books in honor of noted events and in diViduaIs for example Sir Sam Steele and studies conducted by the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education Children rights law TORONTO CP Toronto family court Judge says she wants to see more legislation guaranteeing the rights of chillt drcn in custody disputes Judge Rosalie Sillierinan Abclla said in an inlerView she supports the new trend of ap pomting lawyers for children 12yearold or even SIX yearold must have some way of effectively representing what he wants or needs to the court she said adding that child can get lawyer through legal aid or Ontarios offICial guardian Lloyd Perry official guar dian of Ontario says lawyers have counselled record num ber of children recently Roy McMurtry ntario at torneygcneral recently said For so many years if was as sumed that the lawyers repre senting the parepohzk u7$$2$222rily want to act in the interest of the child but too of ten that isnt the cast at all Judge Abella said changes in federal and provmcuil family law are needed as well as leg islation to delineate Jurisdiction of the courts At the moment you go to the Supreme Cmrt for divorce family court for maintenance you can go to surrogate court for custody Judge Abclla said Different Judges have overalapping Jurisdictions Roy McMurtry Ontario attorneygeneral said the pro vincial and federal govern ments have planned pilot pro Ject for unified court in people to go to one court and deal with all problems related to marriage breakdown Some of our more popular ac tivities are dancing with people 2070 yrs young din ner dances nightclub outings Social club dance parties popularity sessions and generally breaking the trend of being alone PRESERVE RECORDS People have used local recor ds in order to confirm the legality of land ownership and some to establish the dates of births marriages and deaths listed in past newspapers In this last instance we regret that the archieves collec tion of government records is not complete and we appeal to each township and municipality to assist in the ef fort to preserve these records said Mr Moran Other groups have been assisted in research prOJects during the past year Su Murdoch IS the assistant archiVist Peter Moran is now member of national com mittee and has been asked to speak at Fredericton NB next June He has given lec tures to different groups in Sim coe County interested in the historic past as well as ap pcarxng in teleVision series SubJect inventories prepared have been used cxtenswely by researchers We were glad to see these inventories given so much use There was large volume of material in the collection and it took con siderable time to do thorough indcxmg The archives section of the museum was opened in the fall of 1966 Norbert Moran father of Peter was the first county arcIiiVist Peter was his assistant for time and suc ceeded him little over two years ago Major challenges Seen New Oro councfl takes office Monday ahead by Ross Milne By ROSS MILNE MP Peel Dufferin Simcoe It is hard to believe that 1976 has gone by so quickly as we get older it seems the years move faster and faster One day you look around and realize that your familylhas almost grown up The job of Member of Parliament is both demanding and rewarding It is not an easy life for the family because am so busy and away so much of the time but they have ad justed to the changed life style very well am looking forward to having few days between Christmas and New Years to spend with them am also grateful for the tremendous effort of the people who work with me Many of you have met Pat Emmott in the riding office dont know of anyone who works more sin cerely and effectively than Pat Elizabeth Birss and Marta Burka are great help to Pat and myself as well In Ottawa Mary Kennedy Rosanna Stecheshen and Ken Tufts also work hard on our behalf We are indeed fortunate to live in Canada We may have problems and sometimes we may feel very concerned about our personal expectations Compared to most other coun tries we have more personal freedom more freedom of op portunity and one of the highest standards of living in the world It seems to me that we ought to reflect on what great coun try Canada is and take im mense pride in our country As the Queen said when she visited here in July Canada is the envy of every other country It has provided the opportunity for people of many different linguistic and cultural backgrounds to live in harmony together Surely Canada is worthy of everyones very best efforts to ensure that this tradition continues The New Year will bring with if large challenges National unity and the economy are two major ones will be holding series of Town Hall Meetings in early January to discuss these and other issues lam honored to represent the riding in Parliament and con sider it privilege to hear from constituents Their views and opinions are always welcome because they reflect the thinking of Canadians everywhere which helps mould our national destiny Please do not hesitate to drop into the riding office or contact me at any time Festive season marked by parties at Midhurst MIDHURSI The Christ mas and festive season here was marked with special church services parties and of course visits from Santa Claus The candlelight service which was held in the United Church was well attended The choirs under the direction of Mary Ford with Helen Good hand at the organs was much appreciated The Junior choir rendered lovely anthem Christmas Lullaby Led by the ch0ir the con gregation Joined in singing Christmas carols The pm carol service was first for the church and it was decided to make it an annual event in the future Midhurst community bridge club enJoyed Christmas dinner which was followed by an even ing of bridge at the half pleasant Christmas party was held at the home of Mr and Mrs Hector Faragher of Car son road when she entertained her coworkers at the Royal Victoria Hospital Twentyfour guests sat down to bountiful supper The evening was spent in dancing Mr and Mrs McLean and family of Burlington visited Mr and Mrs Hector Faragher on Sunday Miss Patti Deitch and friend visited with Mr and Mrs Deitch for the weekend Robin Goodhand and James Deitch of Glendon College York University are spending holidays at his home IVY RyII1NIENNETT IVY Our community was sad to hear of the death of Brian Fletcher who was accidentally killed Dec 18 while operating machinery on his farm here Deepest sympathy goes to his Wife Marilyn and daughters Crystal and Amber and also to this father Arthur and family He will be greatly missed in Christ Church where he was seldom absent and acted as Sidesman every Sunday Mrs Irene Hirons attended the funeral of her aunt in Hockley Her aunt was 101 years old last week ViSitors With Edward and Jean Jennetf this week were Mr and Mrs Douglas McLean Barrie Bill Parr and his boys from Creemore and Gordon NE WS The Barrie ExaniiiierfThursday December 30 1976 Russel Cannington The birthday party for Jesus scheduled for last Saturday afternoon was cancelled due to the death of Brian Fletcher It was held during the Sunday ser vice when film was shown The children brought many soft toys for the hospital in Orillia Mr and Mrs Gordon Cann ington visited with Mr and Mrs Clive Patton on Monday Mr and Mrs James McDer mott spent Sunday with Mr and Mrs James Shelborne good crowd attended the Presbyterian church supper and concert Dec 17 Mr and Mrs Clive Patton at tended Christmas party with all the Patton families atten ding for Mr Ed Patton at Sunset Manor Collingwood Dec 19 The In girls hockey team lost to Beeton 30 Dec 18 Lorna McVanel Jean Jen nett and Minnie Arnold Visited friends at Sunset Manor Dec 17 MI and Mrs Terry Arnold enterained few friends Dec 18 This is an opportunity for you to participate in the development of the great City of Barrie The Striking Committee of the Council of the City of Barrie will be recommending appointments early in January 1977 to the following boards and commissions Airport Advisory Committee Barrie Public Library Board Barrie Planning Board Barrie Market Committee Barrie Citizens Bond Borrie Industrial and Business Development Committee Recreation Advisory Committee Committee of Adjustment Court of Revision Central Simcoe Area Planning Board Downtown Improvement Area Board Property Standards Committee Simcoe County Health Unit Applications marked as to what board or commission an ap pointment is desired with brief resume attached are requested from an individual or sponsored application with the consent of the proposed person attached and will be received by the undersigned to 500 pm December 31 1976 Straughan City Clerk P0 Box 400 Barrie Ontario MM 415