Barrie Historical Newspaper Archive

Barrie Examiner, 9 Jun 1977, p. 19

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Ready for takeoft Rocket Club Shown checking their rockets are club Courses in model rocketry for youth and adults are being offered for the first time this year by Georgian College Sum mer School of the Arts in Barrie in July The courses will be instructed by Brian Taylor teacher at Forest Hill Public School in Midhurst and leader of the schools active Model New law text isnt boring KINGSTON Ont CP new high school law text is de signed to excite students rather than bore them with fine print and grey language say its au thors All About LawExploring the Canadian Legal System was published last November and is expected to be available in Ontario high schools this all Terry Murphy head of the business department at Queen Elizabeth Collegiate and Voca tional Institute and coauthor of the new book said in an inter view that opinion has been fa vorable and he expects the book will appeal to Grade 11 and 12 students members from left Howard Brox Jon Riddell and Leonard Goodhand For further information on the Model Rocketry courses contact Georgian College Summer School of the Arts in Barrie Kids are excited by family consumer and criminal law said Murphy We were convinced text book could be more exciting readable varied visually at tractive and interesting to stu dents Murphy and coauthor Dwight Gibson high school teacher were engaged by Wiley Publishers of Canada Ltd The project took two years to complete Gibson wrote the text and Murphy supplied case studies newspaper articles photos and cartoons Much of the material came from cases already dis cussed with students Checking proficiency in French bicultural barrier and acquire proficiency in French con Jacques Pinault of CFB Borden who will instruct Conver sational French for the Georgian C0llege Summer School of versation by means of expert instruction and programmed it up LONDON CP With the Queens silver jubilee observa tions wellunder way some Britons are inclined to recall another royal observance where the radio commentary drew almost as much attention as the event itself That was the Policing At bygone royal occasion the axamlnor Thursday June 1971 19 quote caused BBC apologies time 40 years ago when BBC broadcaster announced the fleet was all lit up The date was May 20 1937 and the event was the review of the British fleet in Spithead in honor of the Coronation of King Iants giant task here HONG KONG Renter The Hong Kong government has doubled fines for factories caught employin children un der 14 as cheap la But policing clothing and gadget factories is giant task for the 100 labor inspectors in this British colony Their realm covers 37000 ac tories and most of them employ less than 100 workers each Labor Commissioner Ian Price who raised the maximum penalty to about $2125 said the social evil exists here but not on large scale He said that child labor pro voked foreign criticism and hampered Hong Kong trade ne gotiators because it is used as Fined by points CHICHESTER England CP Drinking drivers in this Sussex town are being fined £1 pointin Canadian funds about $180in recent campaign by magistrates Stanley Roth 70 magistrates chairman says we are concerned about the persistence with which drink driving offenders are coming before the court So its going to cost more If driver has 81 milligrams of alcohol in each 100 millilitres of bloodwjust one over the legal maximumhes fined £81 It goes all the way up to £400 the legal maximum fine Mileage rate Up ALLISION Staff Alliston council has followed the lead of most other Ontario municipalities and raised its mileage allowance for council members and town employees to 20 cents mile The old rate was 18 cents mile The new mileage rate is retroactive to May the date ttée 1977 town budget was pass two property purchases con nected with intersection im provements Monday Proper ties involved are fourplex on the west side of High Street south of Dunlo for $75000 and small pieces land on the nor basis for the fallacious argu ment that Hong Kong uses cheap labor to achieve com petitive prices In 1969 1700 factories were raided and 600 children found gt raid on 6230 factories last November uncovered 31 chil dren In doubling the fines Price called on courts to impose stif fer penalties on convicted em ployers He also has written to 90 trade unions asking for their support in weeding out offend ers He said In general terms they work because they want to and because their parents have no objection ATTACKED GOVERNMENT Urban councillor Elsie Elliott has attacked the government on the issue of child labor She said the best solution gould be to increase the bread winners salary and establish minimum wage so that man could fully support his family She said that child workers did not make up large propor tion of Hong Kongs labor force but still estimated they run in to thousands When discussing their work ing conditions she makes com parisons with Victorian Eng land wish Charles Dickens could have come here He would have had plenty of material spokesman for the Hong Kong Federation of Industries which groups 1000 companies welcomed the increased fines but said More inspectors would be one solution to stamp out the problem Price plans to rectify the situ ation with new influx of trainee inspectors When doubling the fines Price warned Hng Kong firms about the dangers of being in sular or complacent about for eign criticisms on child labor Such charges will be par ticularly damaging to Hong Kongs reputation and trading interests in the year ahead when several major inter national trade agreements are due to be renegotiated Parking banned City councils general com mittee voted Monday to ban on the south side of Purchases approvedton Street The vote also General committee approved king ied for restricting parking on the north side of the street to George VI just eight days be ore As Britains sea might all ships dressed in lights passed in review Britons and listeners round the world were startled to hear these words from usu ally staid BBC announcer At the present moment the whole fleet slit up And when say lit up mean lit Its lit by fairy lamps Weve orgotten the Royal Review The whole thing is lit up by fairy lamps The whole thing is fairy land In short time the BBC swit chboard in London was also lit upthis time by listeners asking whether it was the Royal Navy or the announcer Cmdr Thomas Woodroofe that waslit up Woodroofe who had retired from active service but re mained member of the naval reserve was known then by his old navy title It is also known that the afternoon of the review be had visited some of the fleet wardrooms with old naval com panions BBC APOLOGIZED The BBC issued so man apo logies over the affair at it was thought Woodroofes career was over There is little doubt that he was reprimanded but he was back on the air short time later and on Sept 30 1938 he broadcast lucid description of then Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain NOW 16 BAYFIELD Join the over 2l0 carriers earning their very own regular weeklv income APPLY NOW Make sure your application is on tile now Well call you when route ls available in your area Dont be left out while others earn regular Income Get in on the action act now Phone 7266537 CLlP COUPON AND MAlL TODAY YES WANT TO EARN MY VERY OWN REGULAR WEEKLY INCOME ENTER MY NAME AS CARRIER NAME ADDRESS AGE PHONE NO PARENT SIGNATURE THE EXAMINER returning from the famed meeting with Hitler in Munich That was the historic oc casion when Chamberlain waved slip of paper and promised peace in our time But the BBC evidently holds no grudges The broadcastin organization this year issu two logsplaying records with record highlights of its 50 year history and the Woodroofe lit up commentary is faith fully reproduced Woodroofe died in Sussex sev eral years ago Appropriately the sound his tory of the BBC opens with the chimes of Big Ben from London and reproduces some of the ex periments conducted by its first engineer Peter Eckersley ST BARRIE 726 6537 More than just regular weekly income Prizes tool Contests to earn extra money and chance for exciting never to be forgotten trips Theres lot of advantages in being newspaper carrier two hours between am and pm Monday to Friday The 24 footwide street has been sub ject to heavy parking due to parking restrictions on nearby sections of Wellington Maple Mary and Toronto streets the examiner serving barrie and simcoe county thwest corner of Wellington and Donald streets and the south east comer of Donald and Anne Streets for total of $2800 exercises aided by portable minilab Kevin is son of Mr and Mrs Phil DeVulder of RR Shelburne For further in formation on the Conversational French course contact Georgian ollegc Summer School of the Arts in Barrie the Arts in Barrie in July checks Kevin leVulders profi ciency in French during the colleges open house The Sum mer School course for basic and intermediate level students offers area residents an opportunity to step through the Donald Murphys idea held lot of water Failure becomes success LONDON CP Two young British business executives have turned redundancy into £70000ayear export success Within 12 months of becoming unemployed Alan Weller 42 and Brian Hampsheir 38 have built up company which builds and markets unique range of British racing cars mainly for export Alan met Brian at twoweek career development course of fered by the professional and executive recruitment service of the Manpower Services Com mission Transfer of employment courses are designed to upgrade basic business and selfmarketing skills for executives who are faced with the need to change jobs in mid career After the course Alan and Brian decided to set up small engineering business to manu facture series of formula rac ing cars Peter Hampsheir Brians brother is an experienced rac ing car designer Using his knowledge prototype For mula Ford car called the Sara cen was develo The manu acturing firm Saracen Engineering Ltdbased near Swanley Kent has appointed dealers in the US and Switzerland and export sales are expected to reach £70000 in the first full year of business The main feature of the Sara cen racing cars is the inter changeabi ity of basic parts throu out the range or example Formula Ford driver wishes to move on to faster national formula then all he has to do is convert his rolling chassis into the more powerful car by chan ing the ront uprights the ear rear crossmember He got action Niagara jumped right in to help your childs education or money to consolidate your bills So youve got an idea and its time has come Why not sit down with the people youve come to know at Niagara Were what ideas are made of ity You see at Niagara we know lot about ideas We also know lot about money Putting money into action is our business at Niagara Money for mortgages money for home improvements money for NIAGARAW3 loans Mrtgagts$ak financing Mmcy in action Don Murphys idea measured thirty four feet by fifteen feet by six feet and came complete with diving board and water slide for the kids With little help from Niagara Don Murphys idea became real DESII CARomALIZHHU Hwy 26 27 Opposite Georgian Mall Barrie 7268132 llRt be hmi Th mern 888 98 a4 Side austsystemsMltmsat M° Wd l7f7 fraction of the cost of buying new racing car

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