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1Uh the examiner SaturdayOctobor1 1977 serving barrieand slmcoe county Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited l6Baytield Street Barrie Ontario L4M 4T6 Elia Agostinipublishor NEWSROOM 7266537 CIRCULATION 7266539 ADVERTISING 7266537 CLASSIFIEDS 72824l Area MPPs given new key roles In his new position as parliamenta assistant to Claude Bennett minister of industr an tourism Gor don Smith MPP of Simcoe East as made good in itial impression at Queens Park So has former Simcoe County Warden George Mc Cague as Ontario government services minister The representative of DufferinSimcoe riding who was former Alliston mayor as well as the countys 1966 warden is serving his second term since he was first elected to the Ontario legislature in 1975 The Simcoe East member who is now serving his 10th year as an MPP was former deputy whip of the Pro gressive Conservative party Both Mr Smith and Mr McCague have served on dif ferent legislature study committees which made recom mendations to the legislature Mr Smith was first elected in the provincial electiOn on Oct 17 1967 when John Robarts was premier He also has won re endorsement three times for Premier Davis Mr McCague succeeded Wallace Downer former Speaker of the House who served for record 38 years when he made his first successful run in 1975 Before that he had considerable municipal experience in Alliston and also served as chairman of the Board of Governors of Georgian College The DufferinSimcoe member gained valuable ex perience for his cabinet appointment as former parliamentary assistant to provincial treasurer Darcy McKeough While his services in other posts were the chief factor Mr Smiths new appointment also was influenced by the fact he comes from one of the provinces leading tourist areas Long an active promoter of tourist trade in the county Mr Smith has played part in its steady development In his new post his role is certain to become more impor tant than ever letters to the editor Parent objects to questionnaire Dear Sir few days ago one of my children asked me to assist him with filling out form for school It turned out to be questionnarie for sub ject called Health which he takes in Grade Most of the questions are of an innocent nature Others found objectionable For example Question Some of my family difficulties are Question In general think my family relations could be improved if These type of questions show complete disregard for the privacy of the family and family life But other questom probe into the privacy of the childs mind with questions like Question My favorite person is Question My least favorite person is Question Ilove Question Ihate Question My favorite day dream is Question My weaknesses are Question do do not get along very well with members of the other sex Some of these questions require answers that reveal very private and innermost thoughts Is it fair to ask 13 or 1+yearold to reveal these thoughts write them down on paper and hand it in to his teacher Health means also healthy mentality teach my children to respect other people especial their teachers We owe our children same respect If they like to discuss their problems or write your mp mpp If you would like to write your Member of Parliament or Member of Provincial Par liament printed below are their mailing ad dresses If you send us copy of your letter it might be suitable for our Letters to the Editor columns After all if there is mat ter of concern that makes you want to write to your MP or MPP if it is not personal matter it should be of interest to your friends and neighbors too FEDERAL Dr Rynarrl MPNorth Simcoe Parliament Buildings Ottawa Ont Km 0A6 Ross Milne MPPeelIufferinSimcoe Parliament Buildings Ottawa Ont KIA OAS Sinclair Stevens MPYorkSimcoe Parliament Buildings Ottawa Ont KIA 0A6 lus Milges MPGreySimcoe Parliament Buildings Ottawa Ont KIA 0A6 PROVINCIAL George Taylor MPPSimcoe Centre Ontario Legislature Queens Park Toronto M7A 1A2 Gordon Smith MPPSimcoeEast Ontario Legislature Queens Park Toronto MIA 1A2 George MrIagur MPPm Dufferin Simcoe Queens Park Toronto M7A 1A2 thoughts they should feel free to speak to theiaparents teachers clergyman doctor or frie But lets notput it on paper We dont like wire taps or bugging devices It invades our privacy The privacy of the mind is just as impor tant especially childs unguarded mind Lets protect it give them their own thoughts their own like and dislikes and for that matter their own daydreams Earl Wynia Barrie Better forget Dear Sir May comment on remark by Mr Jack Diamond in your issue of Se tember 23rd Some years ago group consultants com pleted Transportation Study for the City of Barrie and in it they recommended that Lakeshore Drive be continued on the South to meet Highway No 11 near Minets Point and on the North to Duckworth Street and Highway 400 In their traffic projections they made no allowance for the energy crisis although when the report was submitted it was ap parent that the worlds oil reserves were be ing rapidly depleted Whether we like it or not Public Transpor tation will be in much greater use in the future and this will eliminate the need for many arterial routes It is my opinion and believe that of many others that the View from the Core Area is not nearly as good as it was before they started filling in the Bay The proximity to the water made Barrie stand out from most other cities and as the fill is ushed further and further out into the Bay whole Core area is degraded In order to connect Lakeshore Drive to Duckworth on the North End as in the pro posal an overpass would have to be built over the railway and this would robabl cost in the neighborhood of half mi lion dol ars It is by no means an inexpensive proposal and according to the papers the Municipalities are now being asked to reduce expenses Considering everything the sooner this ex tension is forgotten the better for everybody Yours Very Truly Cooper we want your opinion Something on your mind Send us letter to the editor Please make it an original copy and sign it We dont publish unsigned letters although pen name will be used upon request Include your address and telephone number because we have to verify letters but we wont print your address should you prefer Weve found that short letters are the best read Because of space limitations public interest and good taste we sometimes have to edit condense or reject letters Letters to the editor run Wednesdays and Saturdays Send yours to Letters to theeditor The Examiner Box 370 Barrie Ont AM 4T6 BUSINESS 7266537 ADVERTISING Len Sovlck manner SALESMEN Shelia McGovernl assistant clty editor Dan Gaynor Bill Curran county editor Lyall Johnson Werner Bergen sports editor Barb Boulton Elli McFarlanowire editor Dana Graham Hope Dempsey Iitostyie John larecky Marina Guattrocchl photographer Janet Guthrie REPORTERS CLASSIFIED John Bruce Poul Deleon Ruth Biais supervisor Richard Dunstan Lesley Young Poi Guerpls Freda Shinner Scott Hasklns Karen Atkinson Sheila McGovern Peggy Chapel Sue Burke NEWSROOM Sean Finlay managing editor Randy McDonald city editor Rene Levesque is getting away with the things he is doing because of his great charisma charm and BUSINESS Marian Gough accountant Betty Armer Dorothy Bowland Gall Mc Parland Vikki Grant CIRCULATION Jon Butler manager Linda Haikes asst manager Andy Houqhton Judy Hickey Alva LuPlanle Elaine Porter Gary Prinale Published dolly except and statutory ildoyn WEBRV by carrier cont YEARLY by carrier 600 IV MAI Dania $4600 SIMCOE COUNTY $3650 MOT IONOFF Voyeur LSEWNHE CANADA 50 your brilliance says Joey Smallwood The Barrie Scene KEN WALLS Many to recognize in print for contributions to Barrie their contributions to communit life and fun EVHM William St in the late 1800s was location The Examiner met The Canadian Prose CP and Audit luroou oi Circulation VIC Only the Conodion PM my ropublioh new stories in this credited to CP The Associated MI Routers or Agent FrancoProne and local new published In The Erraminor 01 Iho Ionic Examiner claims copyright on all or lnol nova and advoriii mot quotodby its employees and published in this newspogor Fopyripht registration number mus register 61 Ibtlonolodvortislnp omm 65 Queen St Toronto sotmo 640 Coihcart St Montreal Modvonlsbiygrm that the publisher shall not be liable for damages arlIi out oi on you In advertisements beyond the amount paid for the spot actually occupiodmby that porv tion at tho odvorticomont In which the error occurred whether such error is due to the negligence of its servants or oihomlsa and then shall be no llabllliy tor noninsertion oi Fry advertisement the amount for such advertisement For all seasons Plan ahead beware By TRAYNOR MCFARLANE The best laid schemes mice and men aft gang agley It was true in poet Robert Burnss time and it is still the case It seems that the welllaid plans for an oc casion do go wrong at times times like vaca tions and honeymoons for instance During recent holiday we watched as patrons of our hotel burned off to the golf course thetenniscourtsandthepool Some of them lienaped back Elasticbandag ankles were in evidence in at least three cases and one fellow even had bandaged nose which had come in contact with diving board while he was per forming some fancy stunts Honeymoons too never turn out the way imagined We recall our own when brandnew brogue shoes had us crippled for the whole trip There are other anecdotes concerning our honeymoon but these are other stories Last weekend we met couple whod be in their early 205 and who had been married for one day They were on their honeymoon and sincere conscientious twosome they were We noticed the ooms third finger left hand was taped an swollen and asked what was wrong with it They to us story of things going wrong which you wouldnt believe And it is true Their wedding was doubler affair and during the actual ceremony as bride went to place the ring on the grooms third finger left hand it was too tight The of ficiating clergyman whispered to put the ring on the grooms third finger right hand This the confused bride did Later the couple went to the photogra hers studio and he wanted shot of the coup es hands crossed showing the two rings He asked that the groom switch his ring to the left hand The groom forced the ring onto his finger and the hole was taken Off to the reception to fi that the van con taining the bands instruments had been stolen disc ockey was contacted to fill in Thatwas ynomeanstheendofthe auspicious occasion At the honeymoon motel the groom was awakened throu the night with pain in his third finger left nd The finger had bluish tint and was ob viously dying because of the tootight ring fast tri to local hospital emergen ward and offending rin was sawn of Finger gradually become again On the way to the ai rt for the honey moon trip someone smas ed into the rear of the brides parents car When we met the couple the groom was still weari the ring now in two halves taped to his inger Irue grit Weve decided not to have honeymoon the next time Canadas story x957 Cartier the first By BOB BOWMAN Jacques Cartiers first visit to Canada in 1534 amused so much interest in France that arrangements were made to send him back the following year with much la er ex pedition of three ships He was also he ped by gentleman volunteers one of whom was laude du Pontbriand son of the seigneur of Montreal France for whom Canadas Cartier ot only as far as Ga on his first tri but is time he kept sai ing until the gqu narrowed to river as the Indians had told him and he saw the site of presentday SURPRISE The above name once again becomes byline in The Examiner never really retired except as publisher five years ago but then The Thomson Co hung that title editor emeritus around my neck and it almost throttled me However series of journalistic events duri this Silver Jubilee year brought me out the obscurity of Ward One plus some suggestions by our new brilliant publisher and general managgr Elio Agostini young man places helluva hurry got me out earlier than usual to enjoy these great sunshlny days of Ontarios banner coun tySlmcoe The eminent maestro from Mississauga can restore The Examiner to its top place in less than one year He has welded in staff into team Im afraid to lapse into sports parlance the Cincinnati baseball club will grab him to restore the Reds to former dia mond davs Or the Barrie Citizens Band WHAT WILL WRITE ABOUT Welljust people and events Not just the past but the present too The writer never quite disap peared from the local scene Have fairly active in service club golf club curling club church four years as Elder believe It or not but hardly my cup of tea theatre sports of sorts mainly as spec tator Which reminds me of one favorite quota tion Curling like sex was never meant to be spectator sport This is attributed to my old friend and com trlot of the Roarin gamethe late Jack orby NOW PEOPLE There are many around Barrie who should be recognizediin print for can hardly wait to tell you about them such as Gordon Roach Arthur Powell James Paul Frank Taylor Charlie Christie Hank Partridge Donald Emery Jim Morley Roy Kirkpatrick is that the right spelling Ray Gariepy Bullet Joe Sim on and his less famous son Ross Marve lous Marv Frank Longhurst exmayor Pete Sinclair Bruno Favero Paul Meger and many more people on jlohnnycomelatelys have little or no know edge of their claim to fameor notorie ty BUT SERIOUSLY Lets start with one of Barries most famous sonsEdwin Headley Holgatewho died in Montreal at age 85 in May this year He was one of two remaining members of Canadas Grou of Seven artists Born in Allandale in 1892 exhibited early talent and was encouraged by his entrants to to the Academic de la Grande haumiere Paris in 1912 As an artist he was no recluse although shunning publicity in nrivate life He was an adventuresome man over the ears said the assistant director the cMichael Collection in Kleinburg which houses the largest collection of Group of Seven paintings And this adventure comes out strongly in his paintings the rugged ex istence he led ED HOLGATES FATHER The late Henry Holgatewas top engineer for the Grand Trunk Railway in the days of steam locomotives like the one on display the tracks at Barries Centennial Pa he ami ly resided on the west side of William St across from the 100F Home Holgate St was named after Henry for ma famous Allandale families Archie Marshal exmayor John Little John Patton the Parks the Johnson Atbol Mentionto name few can remember Right now our former Barrie postmaster Thomas Kerr and family reside in the H01 to house Only AJ Casson of Group Seven is still living But there are number of promis ing artists in Barrie right now like Ray Mar shall Edwin Headley Holgate was one of my artistic tastes He stressed disciplme and elementaa skills Holgate was known to outs sire of nude made in Paris and te with satisfaction that he had been compelled to do it In three minutes before she changed her CLOSE THIS EFFORT with favorite uotation by senior citizen named ohnsonSomeone asked me how it felt to be so old and still so active answered it felt good0neofthereasonsisthatlhsveno more enemies because theyre all dead THIS HAS been real rush job No longer used to deadlines after 46 active years in newgpaperingfrom weekly to daily If this con button is received with favor by the County and some guy named Seein another will pear next week Bet repared With some references to Barries Senior Citizens They used to be dirty old men but we try to keep up Now nobody uses telephoneits blower The county fell is the slammer And us seniors must with it because never trust one over 30 Jerry Rubin Whats that to YOU are 32 now Well said you would age fast running The Ex aminer Quebec City for the first time It was then the Indian village of Stadacona If the sight im pressed Cartier the Indians there were even more impressed by the sight of his three sailing ships They had never seen anything larger than canoes Cartier was told that if he continued sailing up the river the water would change from salt to fresh but Indian Chief Donnacona urged him not to go He said there were devils ahead who would kill Cartier and his men Cartier was not afraid In fact be ted to arrive at some great Oriental city left two of his ships at Stadacong we guarded and went up the river in the Petite Hermine craft of about 120 tons and wellarrned It was Is glorious trip in late September and Cartier went ashore occasionally to meet the natives On one occasion huge Indian waded out to Cartiers small boat picked him up in his ar ms and carried him to shore as though he were baby There was no trouble In fact the Indians gave him small girl whom he even tually took back to France However the great Indian village of Hochelega where he arrived on Oct turned out to be disappointment He had expected to find wealthy Chinese city but it was only poor settlement of about 1000 Indians who nevertheless gave him warm welcome While there he climbed to the top of what is now Mount Royal and saw the magnificent country all around him The Indians made sigm that gold and silver could be found to the west So Cartier was the first white man to see what is now Montreal The village was located in the present area of McGill Uni versity