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i3 the examiner Monday Doc 1977 Owen Young of Barrie remembers Annianders Weaker sex just as bad Dear Ann We have been hearing lot about battered wives but now it appears that husbands suffer more domestic violence than their mates study sponsored by the National Institute of Mental Health revealed that men inflict more serious physical damage but the socalled weaker sex goes on the offensive much more frequently Also it was learned that the number of wives who kill their husbands is just about the same as vice versa 0f the 47 million married couples in the US ap proximately 17 million have gone after each other with guns or knives California statistics show that onethird of all females who were murdered were done in by their husbands Meanwhile 60th anniversa Tuesda The day Halifax blew up Hes 82 years old now but Owen Young of Barrie still remem bers vividly morning 60 years ago that he spent on ship in Halifax harbor Young then seaman in the Canadian naval service witnessed the collision of two hosts one of which was carrying war munitions The resulting blast killed over 1200 persons and devastated the Nova Scotia city Examiner Photo By PAUL DELEAN Examiner Staff Reporter Owen Young holds in his hand small heavy jagged chuck of metal You see this There were thousands of these They were all over the place That piece of steel which sits on the television set at Youngs home on Ferris Lane used to be part of ship the Mont Blanc The fragment has been in Youngs possession for 60 years It is for him concrete memento of one of the most tragic episodes in Canadian history the Haifax explosion of Dec 1917 The death toll was estimated at over 1200 in the calamity which left another 2000 injured and 6000 homeless It was day that Owen Young remembers well recent enlistee in the Candian naval service Able Seaman Young then 22 was on the deck of the HMCS Niobe itlf Halifax harbor enjoying some earlymoming sun me About halfmile away the Mont Blanc was entering the harbor through stretch known as The Narrows and the Norwegian steamer mo was heading out THEY COLLIDEI Through some error they collided in The Narrows Young recalls The pilot of the Mont Blanc who was suspended after the tragedy but later cleared by the Supreme Court said the steering gear on his ship failed to function The severity of what had just happened in the Narrows was never realized by the few onlookers The Mont Blanc was carrying deck cargo of benzine and an undercargo of 3000 tons of nitroglycerine and TNT then the worlds most powerful explosive The me had cargo of relief for the war sufferers of Belgium Almost immediately the benzine caught fire The Mont Blanc remained running in some manner and beached on the shore The Imo was out in the Narrows just lying there The Stella Maris tug was backed up to the Mont Blanc The crew and several other helpers were attempting to pult howzer aboard it to tow it out and scuttle it Young recs Aboard the HMCS Niobe there was no concern even after minor explosion aboard the Mont Blanc BETTING ON NEXT ONE The sailors watcing from our boat thought it was an oil tanker and that blast just meant that one hold was gone They were betting on when the next one would go when it blew up completely The second explosion was anything but minor Fuelled by the Mont Blancs deadly cargo it levelled virtually everything standing on the waterfront remembers Young The whole north end of Halifax roughly two square miles was aflame Throughout the city homes and public buildings crumbled Panes of glass for miles around were shattered it was 905 am All that remained of the Mont Blanc were tiny chunks of Iftiftal like the one that Young picked up from the Halifax ore After the explosion the Imo there was just hole where it had been The Imo was blown clean across to the Dartmouth shore Everyone aboard was killed except for two stokers shovelling coal in the hold They survived because they were down in the bottom of the boat All you could see on the shoulder of the harbor was fire Young said The Niobe through fateful positioning was relatively unravaged The boat had been pointing at the Mont Blancs broadside and most rojectiles blasted by overhead It was just like ig bag of wind It scared the hell out of me we all ran got below deck Young recalls Afterwards when he and his companions ventured ashore all we could see was destruction The blast was at the time the most destructive in history The anguish that it caused was massive but somehow the fact that it was wartime that atrocities of an even graver nature were taking place on distant shore seemed to give the ple of Halifax courage and composure in the after mat Young observed The 82yearold who moved to Barrie from Quebec two years ago remembers something else about Dec 1917 It started as nice day After the explosion it started to gigoudover then began to snow It snowed for almost nine ys On pioneer families Oro township plans to publish own book Oro township plans to publish book on its pioneer families in the late part of 1973 committee has been established to handle the pro ject and deadline date for sub mittiiig the manuscript to the publisher is April 1078 meeting was held at the ly history Mrs Jean Campbell assisted her husband Howard for Guthrie Mrs Marg Watson for Dalston Mrs Fay Craig for Craighurst Mrs Kay Strachan and Mrs Marguerite McLean for Edgar Mrs Bernice Hickl ing and Ernest Partridge for Crown Hill Mrs Ruth Fraser their own family history along with some pictures and the committee hopes to have the manuscript ready for the publisher by April 1978 The committee is asking anyone who has not been con tacted and has knowledge about the early settlers of Oro the other coast isnt doing much better Boston which is supposed to be the cradle of class and intellectualiami reported that in the Boston City Hospital about 70 per cent of all assault victims cared for in the emergency rooms were spouses who had been attacked by husband wife or lover How does that speak for civilized society Just Plain Facts Mam Dear Just Very poorly Ill bet the animal kingdom is less violent than mans Can it be that what we call progress is actually step in the other direction Dear Ann What is happening to our country This story is not made up It appeared in Time magazine 40yearold woman admitted embezzling $84958 from Bostons South Shore National Bank where she worked as teller She told the judge she felt entitled to the money cause she used lot of it to help right such wrongs as fi nancial setbacks suffered by her brother who had seven children and her father whose pension evaporated when the milk company he worked for went bankrupt She also felt entitled to $6000 boat $12000 mobile home vacation in New Hampshire which she paid for with the depositors money and $2000 loss suffered at the racetrack The woman did not go to jail The judge ordered her to work six hours week in Boston hospital for six months The bank gets the boat and the mobile home and the problem of how to keep other bank employees from exer cising their feelings of entitlement What do you think of this Ann Landers Justice Where Art Thou Dear Justice think the same as you The whole thing smells like barrel of lost herring Dear Ann What can do about neighbors and relatives who dont even wait for me to answer the doorbell They just walk in My husband likes to sit around in his un dershorts which is OK with me These uninvited people seem horrified to find man halfdressed in his own home How about supplying me with jazzy answer to sling back at the intruders when they look down their noses at us It happened twice last week Rosie Dear Rosie lock on the door will work better than jazzy answer suggest you try it before stranger walks in and cleans you out Confidential to Should Go Out on limb Certainly Thats where the fruit is Telephone ring gistops everything By ERMAfiBOMBECK Americans arent intimidated anymore by authority big business or strong unions But let telephone ring and everything stops On television the other night watched love scene that was so torrid my kids suggested leave the room As the couple hungrily clung to one another shutting outflsllmsog and giving way to animal lust the phone rang The man dropped the woman like bad habit and said 11 et it Ive seen war movies where men will be engag in full scale battle for their lives As mortar shells explode tanks squeak along artillery thunders guns crack and aircraft roars phone will ring Everyone hears it and freezes with anticipation Instinctively one poor infantryman will crawl on his stomach for 500 yards dodging mines and bullets to answer it In one flick actually heard the guy yell down to foxhole Hey Captn its for you Wouldnt they feel township office recently and Mrs Bertram for Township to contact chaired by Mrs Joanna lowes history submitted by member Deadline for new in likeafOOI ifitwasawrong number McKeown The history commit arscaddcn of Edgar Mrs formation submission is March One evening when was takingI out the garbage cans was tee is composed of Mrs Ruth Loreen Rice for Mitchell 311978 at the end of the drive when eard the phone ring in the Fraser Mrs lsobcl Iudhopc Square Mrs Peggy Dunn and house instinctively drop the cans and as they rolled Howard aniphtl and the rs Jean Kendall for The book when completed into the street collided With garden hose in the garage chairman Hawkestonc Cam Raikes for will continue as living spiked small child knocked over kitchen chair and Others iiltfnding were Mrs Shanty Bay and Mrs Bessie memorial to those who called thelightswitchanobscenename Marjorie itoc lrs Mary Hot and Dick ltoc for the toe lililll rawford for ro Station Many people have submitted pioneered in the early days of Oro Township Six students are winners in history essay contests Canada Cords and AllRound Cords were presented to six guides recently at Simcoe Street School in Angus Front left Nancy Elliott Canada cord Susan Wakefield Canada cord Receive highest honor in guiding fernan allround cord Sherry Adamson Canada cord and Paula Bradley AllRound cord The AllRound cord must be earned before work can start towards earning the Canada cord When realized whomever had hung up said aloud dont know who you are or where you are but some day Mr Threeringadings well meet and when we do Im go ing to fix it so your fingers will never walk through the yellow pages again few years ago discovered another strange henomenon about the phone Not only did its ring make our eart beat faster and bring us to our feet but the hone always knew when we sat down to dinner and aerted everyone within our radius tried rattling dishes around 00 in the afternoon in an effort to fool it but the phone was too smart It rang only when we sat down to eat Ifffijfiflfifl Efilxfnj1mrlirg SEEM5 doveP research Stephanie Corbett 30qu com back row mane neg which is the highest honor in Canadian guiding Examiner We made gutsy stand We decided not to answer the on the history of Simcoe oun Lcsperance of Ecole Secon Judgfiséor thIiJs VféflrschHEleSl Photo ensfigzggifiif 1284128 wereue ty dill dc Pnfdngu5hn9won Finally grabbed the phone and called the operator to hl he contest was piUjfl of $2 for an essay on the history Yv0n ragnf and Ln Allan find out whaj was wrong Simcoe ounty historical of the school at litfaives Cor Fisher lnse cctingt ewinning association nor essays the judges looked for You see The phone even has ways of making you talk First prizv of 3100 nos award ed to Marion Zerafa of idlinvalt District High School lllllSi for her work on the history of Baldry both of Banting dary SChml StUdcms in Wycvalc Memorial High School of county The deadline for the The Barrie group of Amnesty ding member of the local chap regardless of the patients orgammuon 01 Income tax Anismn 1973 contest is Feb 15 international will welcome for recently obtained the names pollllcal afllllallons Purposes Eynthia Mostr of tanting Memorial high school in Alliston won $30 for research WILLIAM NIKEKSN Honorable mentions went to Catherine Hancock of tEIHS and Paul Morris and Senora The annual contest is intend ed to encourage interest in the history of the county and to help Real estate broker is to be guest speaker William Nickerson real estate broker from North Bay will be guest speaker at the Ladies Night monthly dinner meeting of the Christian Husinessmens Committee of Harrie Dinner begins at 630 pm on Dec 13 at the Holiday inn liar me All men and ladies singles or couples are welcome Tickets are $5 Guest soloist will be Edward Wicks of Bramalea Ont evidence of original historic research The essay is open to all secon Winning essays from the past three years have been publish ed for the Simcoe County Historical Association in an it lustrated paperback book by Victoria and Grey Trust Com pa ny These books are available free of charge from Barrie group welcomes donation donations to support its work in trying to free members of the medical profession im risoned in countries througiout the world Amnesty international is an independent nongovcmment al organization which works for and some details of 92 prisoners from the organizations In ternational secretariat It is hard for some of us in Barrie to grasp that members of the medical profession doctors dentists nurses medical students hospital received approval of its registration as charitable 15 The Barrie group recently at 14 Mount engagement The grou next meeting is tteii Road on Dec jPollys Einters DEAR POLLYI washed my polyester pants suit and then put it in the dryer and completely forgot it The wrinkles are really set in it and have washed it again and let it drip dry but this did no good It looks like had slept in it so do not want to wear it so the company offices the 31035 me and women Stan the are milled hope you will tell me what to doMRSJK throughtout the county are Prsm llvTcuuiv 9f blriy FNSL deifinuon wthom DEAR POLLYI have three beautiful sheer panel their beliefs or their ethnic trial Violent disappearance curtains that are full of wrinkles and have Steam Safety promotion The Ontario Trucking Association has unveiled the origin color or language provided that they have neither used nor advocated violence it has consultative status with the United Nations the Council of Europe the Organ ization of American Stalin and the Organization of African Unity torture and other violations of their civil and political human rights by the regime under which they live he said Some are in prison for their peaceful political activities Maire explained But others have done nothing more than exercise their ethical respon ironed them pressed them while soaking wet and sprayed with fabric finish as well as putting them in the dryer do hope someone has solution but am afraid this is one of those materials one can do nothing aboutMARY DEAR MRSJK and MARY LYou do have problems and hopefully the following will help both of you had the same problem with pair of white polyester permanent pressed pants and finally made them presentable looking by ironing with 12 tents ligggztugrilncggen hillghrylvgyefiigfig DdVId Mdlr Ol Bdrllh mun bl ow pa pressing cloth that had been wrung out of WHITE phed in canadap vinegar Repeat if necessary as the results may not First phase of the campaign Obltual be smutPOLL involves the display of four 24 by Winch safety decals on the rear of trucks and trailers It is William Edward Lloyd DEAR READERSA couple of the ladies and one gentleman wrote to disagree with my suggestion to Mrs JFS that she cut her toolong zipper off at the bottom and estimated that these safety ill pe died rcgory amp then firml tack or stitch across to revent the messages see more wmmm MWid boy Francesca fromo nth too far down and ettin ff thetra than 20 billion times ann ii at the Royal VLtond 05 Ud on Dec His Wife enevwvc its letter is the least complicated so we are printing it and m0 onstS He is survived by daughter deceased then you readers can choose the way that seems best for George Hendrie president of the Ontario Trucking Association said that 33000 English language and 400 French tan uage decals are being distri uted to trucking companies during initial stage of the campaign The highway safety cam paign was unveiled at the OTAs 515t annual convention which is Canadas largest singie gatncnng oi trucking in dustry mangement One of the decals promotes the wearing of seat belts second decal with drinkin and driving and two focus on river failure to stay alert Mrs Cynthia Lloyd Denne of Texas brother Wesle oyd of Toronto and grandc ildren Funeral service was at Jen nett Funeral Home Burial was at St Cemetery Barrie Marys Roy Wesley Carter Roy Wesley Carter died Nov 26 at General and Marine Hospital in Collingwood He was 84 He was born in Sunnidale Township For the past year he was at Creedan Nursing Home in Creemore He is survived by sons Frank of Barrie Kenneth of Sarnia Roger of Manitoba Douglas of Barrie daughter Mrs Ziegler of Toronto and brother Milford of Creemore He is predeceased by his wife Della sons Clifford and Wallace and daughter Dorothy Funeral service was held at Crawford Funeral Home in Creemore Burial was at Barrie Union Cemetery 2i Mr and Mrs Donald Baldock of Barrie are pleased to an nounce the forthcoming marriage of their daughter Dianne to Jim Porteous son of Mr and Mrs Neill Porteous of Win chester The wedding will take place on Dec 10 at Horseshoe Valley Chapel youPOLLY DEAR POLLYI read your idea on cutting off zipper have always cut them from the top Put closed zipper in as usual open to the bottom cut off excess and sew across top tapes or tuck under facing and stitch across couple of timesEG DEAR POLLYI want to tell the lady who does not know what to do with her 25foottelephone cord that attached coffee mug hook near the phone drape the long cord over it in large loops and it is most convenient When one moves the phone there is no fussALENE DEAR POLLYWhile visiting my sister in Ohio she showed me how to get every drop of toothpaste out of tube When the paste is partially used turn it up at the bottom and then roll with rolling pin You will be amazed at how much more there is than you thought This is also very good when person has weak hands or wrists FUORENCE Anna nnmdggw