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As Examiner Writer ct hrirnseif uh llll no news appears ularly st township council nicot lugs to report the deliberations Eith reevcfind the at not tp offldalfdusiness SEEN EVERYWHERE familiar figure with his big fcxan hat and his Kentucky colonels tie he can be tear it on himself pink lcas baseball or 59 games brickthrnwlng or anywhere in fact people gather and dedde tod will all won pr spa no geratlon to say that it is the best tnbwnntan ills7 fit township endly sunning and gregarious be Is on first name haslswith hundreds of pcople in lnniafll and surround ing townships lie cherishes this type of familiarity and cultivates ii ltlr Simpkin is staff mem hcl of The thiamincr but he re gards his work more as an avocatlon rather than as job in takes off on the hunt for alnries shurtiav after an early breakfast an he travels bo twccn 5000 and 10000 miles an nually in his quest Ageless to bls friends and associates he Lcels sorry for the man who takes to wheel chair alter re tiring and vegetates into rend ty CAME 1500 lie moved to Innisfil with his parents incisoil after attending school in West Gwiliimhury his birthplace Alter an education the problem that confronted SiMPKlti him in the early days when he set out to be regular Exann iner writer The councils oi that meant in be spent and enjoyed and not to be boarded this side of the grave he feels streets 19 that year Eoway felt he wuid find stay to translate the tonal range of photograph to electric en ergy The energy would be plifledtogovernthedepthnfa cutting tool This tool would ea grave loopI or shallow lines de was necessary produce lightlncdiinn or dark tone on the engraving surface lbs young inventor had been elvenauiindrlcal photograph by his parents lie used the parts of this phonograph to prove his basic principle DREAM GROWS in the following years he car ried his drum with him as he skyrocketedin the newapap Reward Offered For Suppress In iiorse Stealing Talesemanating from the American West about killing or stealing horse being worse crime than killing or stealing human do not ring quite true in the annals of Simone County but there tins an act passed by the province of Upper Canada inrltlal authorizing the payment gfi awnmuons 85 this in gr iii Gear JrlofutllfG Wash ihe two principles were oom ined to mate the plastic em grovingsthat are used in The Barrie Examiner today Howey had eventually licensed the Fairchlld Corp to on all development and production of the engraver By Dec 19 Fairchild thought it had an en graver it could offer to small newspapers and the Graphic Arts Industry Now the ma chines cover twothlrdsof the United States and parts of San ads and Bermuda More than $0 per cent of the machines are doing lob of photo ioumailsm for papers under 10000 circulation For the larger papers the photoelectric engraver is producing more pic lures at less cost nocar opsoaroa The Examiner Sean Gra iii may COOPER Graver operator some oihis handiworhlhe ScanA9 VSoianAecraver seen in the background transmits pan ate tograph to plastl through the marvely Pif umfiaumwmawvv to electric eye when placed on the press which printsthe daily Barrie Exam iner 10 FLORIDA Enjoy yourself could be his motto its dictum he follows without ignoring his responsi bilities Every winter shortly be fore or soon alter christmas he and Mrs Simpkln point their car lathe direction of Florida and take off They travel at leisurely pace visiting old friends on the way and arriving unhurried and rested in the play ground stalc For three to four months he and Mrs Simpkln enjoy them sclvu under the hot Florida sun They travel around the state but maintain home while there When they return to can ride they time their departure to reach lnnistil just as the of moneys towards the suppres sion of horse stealing The at reads The council of every municipality in Upper Canada shall pmvlde bylaw thatthe sum of not less than twenty dollars shall be payable as reward to any person or Persons who shall pursue and apprehend or cause to be up rehended any pe or per gone guilty of stcaiilisgmany horse or more within the said county and such reward shall be paid out of the funds of the munici pallty on conviction oi the thief and on the order of the judge before ban the conviction is obtained What makes these bylaws seem even more strange in this day and age isflthat of grass is turning green and people have shed winter coats mm dim ln this way they enjoy the heat the world has to offer gnuG me am HAY era were notalwaya aware oi the fact that they were conduc ting pidrlic business They would meet frequently behind closed doors or would huddle about round table and carry on in low volocs presumably to exclude the sharp ears of and others who might be in attend one The years have brought chang es and now Mr Slmpitln finds himself welcomed wherever he goes His column is widely read and the reason is not hard to find It has the touch which indudes plenty of names and opinion too IS ADMIBED The people know and admire for what he is ver which is operated by long time employee Harold Cooper is wh is known as 65 Screen The newspaper formers iy had an as Screen but soon found the 65 was more prac tlcai for newspaper work This machine which can en gravephotosuptouslxont eight by in inches can enlarge Miran mom iioaoiiiofiluiuo or tONGrSTANDING that involved spring and fall at tendance at high school he took off for Tomato to sea the as hibition there Fascinated by the big city he remained to years working at various labs includ ing that of street car operator He got his firstserlous taste of writing as medical orderly iii France during the First World War He contributed ar ticles occasionally to the Can adian Army newspaper Bittcn by the writing hug he returned to lanlsfil and event ually set himself up as resort operator on the eighth line of the township For is years he obnrated store tourist cabins and fishing boats for summer visitors He also found time to mne writer who records what he sees ramsp 573p and bears and works in opinions His first positive step in out of his own which may or may direction came in 1321 when he not Please Willis in dis pecially valuable when only small photograph of person or location is coptributcdxlhe re verse process is used predomlt neatly in advertising work walked into ilia Examiner build ing and saw the editor and pub llsher Alex MacLaren MrMacv Larch gave him the job of as slstant correspondent in the Etroud district Eventually Mr Slmpirins erritory was widened to thequ ownship and he was given as blgnmenls in other districts from time to time Soonrhls stories egan to appear under lnnis ii Notes and the now familiar initials it has been happyassncia inn since Mr Simpliin recalls it Looking back through vnlum and volumes of The Barrie xaminer onovis quick tonote he changes in the contentystylc nd makeup that havetalren laceover the years loan of the most obvious is allocation ofspaca for wo cnar In 19383Mrs MargaretAtkeya irstl weekly column entitled be Chat was pnhlished rolitic writer Mrs Atkey never rote less than two orthree col nmnswhleh hiding teas birthday parties dances and even fest fashion tips Mrs Atkaye husband was News Editor for The Barrie Ex dminnr at the some time and so was able to assist his writer fc in dlggingzup news for her lumn flier colium which gun flutternf excitement aasod through the Unitcdtiigai gioreahortiy after four oclock last Thursday afternoon when nia Beale Norwegian skating rid screen star arrived oaher ny to Toronto frumLittleN ay near Gravenilurat who he had inspected the Royal Nor giaeglau Air Force personnel was accompanied by CAP Officer hcr secretary it two civilians They pan notes on misses 0n the whole however he tries to inform and not to lnrure any person or institution After 15 years in the resort business Mr Simpkin bought at Mysore farm and started to raise purebred polled Hereford cattle Haraised his cattle large di ly for breeding purposes and managed to conduct successful and profitable farming industry Today with little more than his newspaper work to concern him Mr Simpidn admits to be ing man of considerable means Money however is to ln present in the storeto realize tliautI delightful Sonia was DOW although seemingly taken back by the requests Her complexion makeup was little toovdark for her beauti ful blonda hair but she really lookediovely and rather shy girl st to say Sonia tea hit danoe iéarty gold Camp amp it Wfififlahiliiii an ai Establisinnentwas gala shill according to the weeklyrolum Eight hundred fittest alto ed includinga long list of guests rs install Mrs Lee Mrs Van Struubsnzee Mrs Mo lea Stevenson Mrs Mas aon Mr and Mrs Mr and MrsA En lynn Mr and Mrs Paul Fisher slot and Mrs MacLarcn Capt andMrs Warren Wilgar and Mrs Scott Lt and Mrs Hawkins Lt auditing ChapmanMrnnd Mraiimv an Mr MraMeroer Hamilton Sit andMm Bowery Dr antimallfoil uric Mis sea Gwen lorrell Evelyn Chasm Mrs Atkeys column was also entitled Womans Viewpoint onflhis noted CB Around bad wide readership mrioqiubroim Sfevercii Barrleites are on orig trips ocma Mar 0n the fifth of next montlfillars old Cusden sailsfrom New York aboard the Queen Elizabeth bound for two months abroad with travels in England and on andlater intha month on the first day in Spring will set out gt the other cv another antic resident the contlue Walls Ltand mm tioin of lien tier gtmhfdaugh in Florida of course the col umns continue on restricted basis Usually however they arrive in The Examiner office three times week Frequently they contain references to the sunny southoitenattimes when people in tha Barrie area are gging themselves out of storms and turrung up the thermostat counteract low outside tem peratures it gets the newseven Florida and he writes it as ilhough he were sitting in his comfortable armchair at Min cts Point Binnie for new position and course his wife accompanied men colum nist as such for some timeral though the Jets Chat column appeared rniiiusrits byline with ew women readers Irenlinng that the own Mr column which appe 1954 Janie gtwro sett Beatrice Lucas Bermuda An ding for Europa cdherbookc wt usual for groups to skate to Big iiter was often our Walls or other male ter in the early Th on direct pltal out all the winteipastimes of Barrie long ago probably the one with the greatest appeal was skating on the bay in parties especially when the arrival of clear expanse of ice and bright moonlight night happen ed at the some time It is rec orded that in the 30s and 90s the surface of Lake simcoe was frozen over and it was not uu Bay Point and backalihere were instances whereekaters want as far north as Orillla andalso as far south as the Holland visit with Mr and Mrs Norman Wclnii in Tuckers Town Janie3bocame Mrs William Harrington in 1957 and was re placed by Miss Maxine Jones who was with the Harrie Exam iner until November 1959 when the paper went daiiy DAILY NEWS When Maxine accepted posi lion jwlth the wnasorpany scar Mrs Dorothy Anderson assum edthc dutlu of women editor along with the fastmovingpace ofpublishing daily news as it news stairot theToIonto Eve ning Telegram as feature wit in May 1960 Mrs Eileen Dixon was promoted to Womens Edi tarlisvtng onatall as so trial tor and Librarian for more an Her columns ESkiltiaig lliaBay1nd IKitcli cu Gossip appear as weekly features Mrs Audrey Coulsnn loin gr BarnetExamtnerMIVlliomgé partmen as part in January i961 and has worked both In the Womens inept and th Libr Ainmee orsofRo Vi Alidslltllllons KEEP UP winifnir iiirsi tinsel 576