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Marianne Maguire of Mines ing entered her horse Prince Charming in the horse sh0w ta at the Midhurst Fair Satur day The fair favored by warm weather and clear me Mo skies attracted several hun dred people There were about 20 horses entered in the My migt 45 MIDHURST HOLDS ANNUAL FAIR equestrian competition Ex aminer Photo LOCAL AND GENERAL PLAYATHON The Eastview String Or chestra raised about $1200 in the 24hour playathon Friday and Saturday The money pledged to the orchestra will help pay for an overnight trip in the spring and allow donation to the United Appeal PUBLIC MEETING LEFROY The use of two former schools as community centres will be the subject of public meeting tonight at 730 pm in the South Innisfil com munity centre in Lefroy The schools at Lefroy and Bell Ewart were given to Innisfil township by the Simcoe County Board of Education ENGLISH CONVERSATION An English conversation youp meets Saturday morning from 10 am to noon at the Barrie Public Library Mul caster Street Information may be obtained by telephoning 7281010 SCHOOL COMMENCEMENT Commencement exercises for graduates of Barrie North Col legiate will be held Oct 22 at pm in the school auditorium reception will be held in the school cafeteria following the formal presentation FIRE CALLS Barrie firefighters were called out twice on the weekend for an overheated fuse in an apartment building at 15 Vancouver St on Satur day and burning mattress on the side of the road at Bayfield and Cundles on Sunday FIRE DISPLAY Firefighting citiipment and antique fire truc will be on display starting Thursday at the Bayfield Mall as part of Fire Prevention Week Barrie firefighters will distribute fire prevention information and show safety films DRAW WINNERS MIDHURST Winners of turkeys in the Building Blocks nursery school draw were Ann Tidy of 10 Aleda St Barrie and Michael Collins of Mines ing The nursery occupies the basement of Midhurst United Church FENCE HIT Lynne Galloway 22 of RR Stroud was treated in Royal Victoria Hospital for minor in juries this morning after her car hit fence along Park Drive in Barrie The singlecar accident occurred at about am 150 LA OFF MIDLAND As result of the Ford Motor strike in the United States about 150 people have been laid off for at least two weeks at Midlands Mo torola plant Jim Townson manager of employee relations said the US strike has cut back on de mand for Motorola radios and tapedecks The plant employs mainly women RLMMAGE SALE The Womens Association of the Essa Road Presbyterian Church is sponsoring rum mage sale in the church hall Saturday Oct 16 from to 1130 am Anyone with articles to donate can call 7266262 or 7208810 for pickup WEEKLY ElFlIRES Weekly euchre games will start Tuesday Oct 12 at 830 pm at the Anten Mills Com munity Centre Everyone is welcome to attend and play PHOTOGRAPHS The Barrie Public Library now has display of pho tographs showing the art of the Byzantine Empire At the library until Oct 24 the exhibi tion includes pictures of the Cathedral of St Sophia mosaics from Ravenna delicate ivory carvings and decorative metal work FRAlI EXPERT private investigator will be Runin with bureaucracy has First War vet upset It looks like Im guy without country Thats how David Butler felt after his first major runin with bureaucratic red tape Friday Mr Butler thought he had very simple problem He wanted to replace stolen social security card But thats when his problems really started Theres too much damn red tape he said Theres too much talking and not enough action Mr Butler said he could not understand why he was having trouble getting new card After all he had had card he was born in Canada in 1888 he fought in the First World War and his family is des cended from United Empire Loyalists Ive been deprieved of card that puts me as citizen of this country he said Im so disgusted with society that if way younger man Id get out The Elmvale Fall Fair Queen for 1976 will be chosen from these nine girls posmg with the 1975 queen Char maine Dwinnell top centre of the country The major problem Mr But ler had in getting new social security card was producing the necessary papers He only has his army dis charge papers as proof of age no birth certificate UNDER lI George Wood of Canada Man power said Friday that social security cards are under the jurisdiction of the Unemploy ment Insurance Commission UIC Mr Wood said there are new regulations to get social security card even if its just to renew the card Two documents primary and secondary are needed he said The primary document has to be birth certificate or citizen ship papers while the secon dary document can be army discharge papers Theres no way we can issue The fair will be held Friday and Saturday at the Elmvale fairgrounds Front row Janice Lesperance Sheryl Devitt Brenda Handy card without the certificate he said Mr Wood said the tilt office told Mr Butler to write to the Ontario Registry of Births at Queens Park for new cer tificate But Mr Butler said he be lieves all records of his birth were destroyed in fire in Adolphustown in Lennox and Addington county If the Ontario Registry does not have records Mr Wood said then the Ul office can take the problem to the central register office for social securi ty cards But first we have to make sure we have problem he said Mr Butler said he is willing to try and get his birth cer tificate but is still upset by the redtape Everyone else including the big companies took my dis charge papers as proof of age why wont they heaskcd NINE AFTER FALL FAIR QUEEN TITLE Sheila Nelson Middle Joan Dubeau Dawn Stewart Cathy Clark Rear Lucy de Groot Chairmaine Dwinnell Mignon Thiffault Saturday the guest speaker at meeting of the Georgian Bay chapter of the Society of Industrial Ac countants of Ontario on Tues day night at the Continental Inn former police detective specializing in fraud and bankruptcy in Toronto Daniel McGarry is president of Cen turion Investigation Ltd The meeting begins with dinner at pm RIG SISTERS Big Sisters Week began Fri day and will last until Oct name Big Sisters Will have an information booth in Georgian Mall Wednesday Thursday and Friday evenings of next week and all day ct Saturday of Raggedy Ann Day About 30 children each with little pair of scissors cut the ceremonial ribbon Saturday to officially open the Raggedy Ann day care centre at Georgian College With only few tearful excep tions they clearly enjoyed the limelight as well as the autumn sunshine Heavily subsidized by the provincial government the $350000 centre is an attempt to integrate normal children with the physically and mentally handicapped Such an arrangement was on ly dream few years ago Joe McReynolds of the ministry of community and social services said at the opening ceremony Cooperation of at least four groups made it possible The Raggedy Ann committee and the Barrie and District Association for the Mentally Retarded applied jointly for the provincial grant to pay for con struction Georgian College re re sented by president R0 ert Crawford at the ceremony pro vided the building site For almost two years the day care centre was in the base ment of the Church of the Nazarene an inadequate location Pastor Bob Boden ad mits Since July this year the new building has been used and there are 59 children enrolled now nine of them handicapped between the ages of two and Head injured in accident MINESING twoyearold boy is in satisfactory condition in Royal Victoria Hospital today after being hit by car Sunday on Highway 26 Jonathan Barron of RR Minesing suffered minor head injuries and scrapes in the acci dent which occurred at about 1250 pm near Minesing The driver of the car was Robert Farrance of Kingston June Menzies speaker at federation meeting ELMVALE June Mcnzres member of the AntiInflation Board will be the guest speaker at the annual meeting of the Simcoe County Federalt tion of Agriculture here on Thursday ct 28 Mrs Menzies was appointed recently to replace Beryl Plumptre vicechairman of the board The annual meeting and ban quet will be held in the Elmvale community hall starting at 630pm Mother of three children Mrs Menzies is the wife of the president of Menzies Group Ltd firm of consulting economists She has been spokesman for many womens groups since 1963 and she was vicechairman of the advisory council on the status of women from 1973 to l976 At the federationss annual meeting township directors will be elected to the federation board for the coming year The executive will be elected by the board of directors at later meeting Library will use microfilm for historical microfilming Money bequeathed to the Barrie Public Library in 1968 will be used to microfilm historical records Mrs Phyllis Johnston chairman of the library board has announced Mrs Agnes MontaguLeeds longtime member of the library board left the library $3800 when she died in in 1968 The amount has now grown to almost $6000 This will be the first time the Barrie Library has commis sioned microfilming The library now owns microfilms made by the Cana dian Library Association the Ontario Arc ives and the Na tional Library They cover the Barrie Nor thern Advance newspaper from 1854 to 1914 The Barrie Ex aminer from lJIS to 1929 and events at the fair include dance and performance by the Mercey Brothers Ex aminer Photo Simcoe County censuses from I861t0 1871 Mrs Johnston said micro filmed records are useful to researchers students and anyone interested in past events The collection will be named in honor of Mrs Leeds reflec ting her lifelong interest in newspapers regional history and the library Parts filled for musical All parts have been cast for the White Horse Inn to be resented by the Georgian Col ege Music Threatre March and Auditions were held Thurs day at Georgian Theatre v1th 48 people trying for positions Wendy Ilicks director said the group included lots of new faces and work will begin on the production next Thursday SPORTS SHORTS UBO TEAM WINS TOKYO Reuter The Uni versity of British Columbia rugby team defeated an allJa pan selection Sunday in the fi nal game of sixgame tour The Canadians ended their tour of Japan with five wins and one defeat BREWERS IOIl NAMED MILWAUKEE AP Frank Iloward former major league slugger who managged Mil waukee Brewers Spokane farm team of the Pacific Coast League to 6578 record this year will join the parent team coach next season it was announced Saturday Howard 40 will be an addition to the four coaches now serving man ager Alex Grammas YARHOROUGII WINS NORTH WILKESBORO NC AP Cale Yarborough breezed to victory Sunday in the annual Wilkes 400 for his fourth consecutive Grand Na tional stock car victory Yar borough put his Chevrolet in front of the pack on la 109 and kept it there until the eckered flag fell on lap 400 of the 250 mile race over the fiveeighths of mile aved North Wilkes boroSpee way five Supervisor Diane Barrow said each child has an in dividual school program but they play together There are three playrooms gym nasium washrooms staff room and the kitchen in the building With integration it is hoped the children will learn un derstanding tolerance and lov ing attitudes toward other children said Don Grant president of the lomember day care management board Handicapped children func tioning at the highest level come to Raggedy Ann from the Sunny Park Nursery at Central United Church where Virginia Hartley supervises about 20 The theory is that the han dicapped can learn normal behavior and normal children may not develop prejudices if they are ex sed to the han dicapped ear enough All the children are learning for instance that they have to put droughts into words if they want to communicate with blind boy at the centre Only children of parents with low and moderate incomes can attend Raggedy Ann Mr McReynolds said his ministry provides subsidy of about 80 per cent for the arents whose income is usual between $5000 and $8500 year The annual budget is about $100000 administrator Ann Locke said so $20000 needs to be raised from the parents and fundraising activities The day care committee is now sponsoring lottery Among about 100 people at the official opening were Sim coe County Warden Orville Hughes and Ald Alex Arthur The guest speakers were Mrs Locke Mr Grant Mr Craw ford Mr McReynolds and Mr Boden AMONG ABOUT 10 children cutting the ribb0n to official ly open the Raggedy Ann day care centre on Saturday were The Barrie Examiner Monday Oct 19769 Heather Godin 212 of Painswick and Angela Starr of Essa Road The centre now in new $350000 buil Just few tears at official opening Care Centre here fly ding at Georgian College will have both normal and handicap children Ex aminerP oto Comments from conference form basis of recreation brief to county council Neighboring municipalities should plan recreation facilities together conference at Georgian College agreed on Saturday Planning on an area basis was endorsed but countywide planning was supported only to some extent according to George Coulson assistant recreation director for the County of Simcoe About 80 people from throughout the county at tended The county recreation com mittee now will digest com ments made at the conference before making report to Sim coe County council later this year Council is considering countywide recreation plan to avoid duplication of municipal recreation master plan for recrea tion is magnificent idea Peter Cavill county recreation director said Saturday But if the county is too large then lets plan on an area basis and then bring the plans together He said five area committees could be established in the county each trying to co ordinate efforts with other areas IT WASNT ANOTHER WOODSTOCK The Country PickIn on Pete Kings Medonte township farm on Sunda shine an the rought out about 1000 people to enjoy the sun performances of 10 music groups ABOVE Sabou an eightweekold lion cub born at Jungle Zoo in Elmvale is given some milk by Catherine Lauzon of Sault Ste Marie as Holly Gushup of Medonte looks on AT RIGHT With toy guitar John David What of Wasaga Beach mimics the musicians on stage Mr King said he had trouble getting permission from Medonte council for the first concert on the farm held on Labor Day But there have been no problems despite the poor publicity People were afraid we were going to have another Woodstock Mr King said Frank Proctor of CFGM RAdio was master of ceremonies for Sundays concert Examiner Photos County funding may be available to supplement provin cial funding for cooperative recreation projects Mr Cavill said Dick OConnor of the min istry of culture and recreation praised Simcoe County for leading the way in our eyes in the recreation field He said area recreation plan ning will result in better facilities and better locations for them without sacrificing local autonomy Cooperation can mean lower costs to the municipalities too he said as each one involved can apply for separate Com munity Centres grant from the province There is also saving when operating costs are shared he said The county recreation com mittee hired planning assistant David Carrick to gather data on county recrea tion and help prepare the final report In report at the conference Mr Carrick said there are 19 arenas in the county three in door swimmin polls and 15 curling rinks eir area of ser vice is expected to diminish as the population becomes more dense over the years