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75in Published bv Can ii 16 Hayfield soars Berni Ontario Wliil Publisher MePhInon aortic mm wulumfrall Gen oral Manager Managing Editor mAYm mPAGBI rs caleadalfonornate Todays Speeclgworldz TbeRoyal Bank of Canadas Menthly better always provides an interesting topic The Letter recently dealt with our calendar We are so accustomed to using it at all times and for many purposes that we would not dream of questioning its accuracy Yet the Letter goes on to point out thatthe irregulanties of the Gregorian Calendar have become in creasingly evident in these days of swat communications complicated bustnesa calculations statistical comparisons and computer operations In short the cal endar is out of date Swift methods of travel emphasize some of the more glaring discrepancles of this method of measuring time When plane crosses the date lines around the world some of the passengers are quite disturbed at the wrecking of their religious belief in the recordings of some of the worlds best and met no curate watches The fixing of the break of day is as 20 YEARS AGO IN TOWN Barrie Examiner Oct 1048 Town Council convened by Mayor Grant May or decided to proceed with construction new farmers market building Co operative Medical Services federation held third annual convention at Barries Robindale Inn Prominent Canadian broadcaster John Fisher addressed Lions Club at Community House Barrie Examiner set new alltime circulation record of more than 8000 copies weeks 1y highest paid in Canada VOntario Premier George Drew electe head Cour servative party federal will likely be succeeded by Hon Thomas Kennedy of Brampton minister of agriculture Lou Vair won Chamber of Commerce fishing derby with lake trout catch 17 lbs Jaycees hosted regional con ference ofrlflil delegates with President George Jed Church D0 in chair Members of ChilliWllll Junior Farmer club of South Simone toured Cornell University Cornell NY Kiwanis Club heard address on Pr Freedom by William McCartney managing dirv ector Canadian Weekly Newspapers Assocn President Walter steckley pre sided Mrs Edwin Ineson and Mrs Allan Scott were present to promote Community Concerts for Barrie Peter Scott public school inspector for Centre Simcoe reported great in others have tinkered with our timing DOWN MEMORY LANE arbitan as the kids conundrum How longia piece of string Zero hour in the day is fixed by the arrivalof fictitiouus body called the mean sun at chosen meridian which in itselfis an imaginary line running from pole to pole For scientists who claim to deal with the tangible only theyhave certainly strayed in the world of the intangible for the measurement of time gt To start with says the Letter we slp er year zero by going straight from to AD Whichever way you look at it its mess Either you have had two BCs or two ADs you cant have it both ways one must be wrong Aristotle recognized that the moves ment of the earth the moon and thelt sun affected the timing of our days into hours and Its lesserdrvlslons Right through the centuries astron omers and mathematicians and many methods and devices They are still at it and it is to be wondered at whats coming next creases in kindergarten and prima classes this term Mount Calvary Pre ceptory with Jack lifonkman presiding had official visit from DrB Bailey of Winnipeg supreme grand master Knights Templar at Barrie Masonic Temple William of Newton Robinson captured feature harness horse races at Gre Northern Exhibition Collingwood Women Teachers Federation of Barrie held tea and business meeting at King Edward School with President Mrs Vera Wildman presiding Performance of The Drunkard which packed Minets Point dance paviliontwo months ago at will be given hyStraw Hat Pia ers of Toronto at Ottawa next week fea tures Charmien King Barbara Hamilton Murray Davis Beth Gillanders and Ar aby Lockhert Barrie Collegiaterboys and girlsvwon both Tudhope and Thomp son trophieszat annual Georgian Bay track and field meet in Orillia Coaches were Dalton Nesbitt and Miss Gore Boys were led by John Laokie Bill Hag an Bil Hinton Danny Macdonald Jim Agnew John Laking Gary Long Billr Spams Billy Craig Gerald Patterson Robert Lainson Town Planning Board reported houses would be started on Puget St under Veterans Land Act of Canada Al Shewchuk of Barrie reported to Portland Eagles of Pacific Coast Hockey League oTHEBJEDITORS VIEWS GEOGRAPHY AND CRIME KitchenerWaterloo Record Montreal held its second monthly lot tery last week handing out $150000 in prizes in much publicized event which has managed to survi gal entangle tie on no publicl outsidelits WmmuniiY the Kingsville 0nt lionsGlubreceutly tried to raffle off set to mumtyWor On line unfortunateLl the full th law descended as it has VlIleservr club was ster ly reminded=that prizes in draws must not exceed $507 in value and members were fo edtoreturnl the money for ticketiSol ington In about of generosity leavening the occasion town council passed hylaw permitting the Lions to hold lottery for $50 prize Kingsville firemen recently raffled off lawnmower exceedingfthe limit but theyhad the swag in the before council awakened Howeve sin willl not flourish in Kingsviile the future The Leann riot Agricultural Society ha been otif ed that it will not be pe mrtted toraffle off fair atéth end of MeanvVhile=the council memberscan go home and open their nr nd ge theirtickets for the new dra Mont reals third silver bar lotte Crime it is clear is like par ostl matter of geography bag serious exxobange ofvlews with the US on nuclear dc fencls and offences Meier Minister Gmmyiro cold the United Nations Thursday This emnhasson wanting or condone the EastWest dialogue is enoolnagtng amid the chill lmposedby the Sovictinvasivu qfCzechoslovnidn le also is little late President Johnson insist ently has pressed for prom on limiting race toward anti missiie defence systems Now the US national mood indicates readiness to ex INTERPRETING THE NEWS ry SOviei VieWs on Nuclear Curbs Come Little Late WASHINGTON orrnie Sp pamonnfmusclelir as aai intentions or its ex Uni preparai start number of other military fidds pension into the Hon Earl Rowe and son swung nmddwwmem The Soviet Union has displayed INVITE LETTERS TO THE EDITOR The Examiner lnvltea con lrlhutlons to its batten to the editor column on tha ed llorla page When posilhle letter should be restricted to 300 to 400 words and they shonld be ligand Writers may use pen name tt they de hire Convinced Gabon Manipuloied By President By HAROLD MORRISON Canadian Press Staff Writer The former French colony of Gabon appears to be playing role in world affairs which some Western diplomatsvisw as out of character with its local inter ests population and resources The sparselypopulated state on Africas west coast caused uproar in Ottawa last year inviting Quebec to contercn of Frenchspeaking countries ee without consulting the Canadian lovernment relations with Gabon which has population of about 500000 mostly Frendnepeairlng to beleaguered eslshng against hard pressrng federal Nigerian Maps The view in ionan is that this will prolong the war and eyes they can only seelight and dark De Gaulle the suffering already evident without offering hope of any fresh ideas for an acceptable peace in which afederated Nigeria can be restored It is no secret someBritish oh ficials suspect Gabon which may have no real interest in power politics on grand scale is being manipulated by French President dc Gaulls to pursue his own foreign policy simi lar accusation was aired at the time of the Frenchlanguage ference seen by some as an ml ral attempt to recognize Que $50 Ottawa later broke diplomatic bec as separate state The French gnvernment has denied it is sending arms to gBisfraand of course the fact that Frenchmade weapons may be finding their way into Biafra does not necessartirpointtn French source of supply French officials suggest the only reason why planes are moving between Gabon and Biafra istoprevide medical aid The Fr hdcfence department ls setting field hospital for Elstran wounded and refugee at Libreviile Gabons capital Eritain issending large sup plies of arms to the federal Nigerian forces confident the war mi soon be over with the defeated Btafrans ready to re needed against onamua cannons srorr To Pass To Lite Iynonnownrarl be huThamortuuitytodrive tlnchr Canyon EmiliaColumbia and see the Walnut rlvcr ihatSlmonFrn urendhlnmennavintedboih us has error alarm an in gen by their fingmtipe ode of them instting onvurrying tall from many parts of the world Iwarnred along the banks of the river and even helped to con Itruct rupplv road working without pay Then in 1500 lfwas decided to build railway British Colum hiahad agreed to Join Canada in 1971 on condition that rail way would be built to eastern no 3Itiii having difficulties Canada within to years but when nothingbad happened for coveraiiyearn manypeople in anted to sccedcirom Canada and Join the US The Canadian government organis tag compel to build the trans cmo warm5 HE some 10 no roe uusr we ceremony PEOPLE lddle East start on its own missile in fences and its hardiine hon diing of the Cleohoslovnks Arwmayor its USSR arms onnfclenco seems unlikely in tire near future The us attitude is illustrated bycnother futile effort in Don groes this week to trirna $71 300000000 defenccspeudingrhlli largest appropriation in US history minority of senators made continental decided to get started by working from west to east At least it would be ges turc to British Columbia 50 young Americanengineer Ap drcw 0nderdonk was engaged to supervise the work Ho began at Emoryr Bar on May it and there was ceremony in which ahiastul dynamite heralded the ocearlon It brought down heavy fall of ralnl Orderdonk found it necessary to import thousands of laborers from China to get the work an done This war very unpopular with marry citizens of prion Columbia and caused eome not However on Sept 26 less liter working in great danger and considerable lossof life Undudonks men completed the railway in Eagle Pass Mnny of the white laborerc celebrated by getting drunk in the nearest so lnons causing the North West Mounted Police considerable trouble The objectionable Chinese laborerscclehraied by eating their bowls of me The railway from the out met the railway from the west at Craigcliachte on Nov 1385 and Cnnadehnd kept its prom ise to liritlsb Columbia ale though little late Mm EVENTS lessBishop laval summoned brandy parliament to deal with liquor trade to indtausr le57Palltser expedition met grizzly boar near present day Saskatoon ms Oltawu Normal School opened 1911 Compulsory military service name into effect loseprime Minister Dlefen baker was first Prime hllnistc to visit the Yukon during hN term of office HORSES BURNED NEW YORK Reuters About 100 horses were killed early Monday when fire sworn through riding liable in Brooldyn enlslltiilalr IF YOURE THIRTfiYOURE THROUGH 52 of the Nation is under 25 and theyve got the pollenTlntshow24 yearold MaxFlostbommoPreaident of the United States lllisiaperbapatba nortunusual aMnhfioritopostpnothe start of defence site threat in the midmos Critics say it is start on sys tom that could cost $70 000000000t Richard Nixon as Republican presidential candidate and re garded as winner Nov declared the US strength is yielding to Soviet su periority He has said he will revive the lagging US space mm which has baryespects Senator Richard Russel of Goocgm Democrat who intro duced the record defence bill this week said we cannot con tinue to support war be capa ble of honoring our commie merits abroad and maintain an ltnl mili adequarte defence More with out substantially increasing the size of our defence budget in the near future Vietnam alone was costing about saoooooooooo annually Senator Joseph Clark Penn sylvania Democat made this weeksaburtive effort to cutde fence spending and quotednu clear physicist Ralph Lepp as staying the spent about 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Reuters and alsoflie newa blish NlBX in events massaldlumamongymas He thetaerveflr jof influence and interest While France so far has not recognized Biafra President de Gaulle has statcdhe will give it all the help he can The implica tion of his words together with meg may be ready to play anger role even though some military sire tegista conclude Blnfra cannot hope to withstand the federal onslaugbtfor any long pert omen seeking piston cod had beslnond place and people be serve Jo VVSponsored by VBar Minor Clint Eu as Tim ToJNighr HANGEM THIGH