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Barrie Examiner, 14 Jan 1976, p. 1

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BARR Eddie 315x miner 15 Per Copy Carrier Home Delivery 85 Weekly 28 Page EXAMINER TELEPHONES alienation moses Classified Advertising 7282414 All Other Departments 7266537 ll2lh Year No ll Toronto cabbie slain TORONTO CP Metropoli tan Toronto police said today Richard Turkiewicz 50 was the Toronto taxidriver whose body was found Tuesday evening in his car on an apartment park ing lot in the borough of Scarborough Police said and atitOpsy will be held today on the body of the driver who had been shot twice through the head No further details were given Last Sunday taxi driver Al Fagan 32 was shot in the face and robbed by gunman who later was shot to death by p0 lice as he tried to escape from home Where he was holding hostage Mr Pagan is in satis factory condition in hospital The Sunday shooting also took place in Scarborough Gordon Stoddard parttime cab driver was murdered on deserted road in the same borough last March Three men are on trial on charges of mur der punishable by life imprison ment in connection with his death THE DRIVER this north bound transport truck escap ed uninjured when the wit icle skidded out of control on BULLETIN SimoneCentre MPP Arthur Evans 60 said today he wont be running for reelection in the next election He is going back Into private business Mr Evans has been in the Legislature 16 years and is parliamentary as sistant to Transportation Min ister James Snow Backtowork meeting cancelled TORONTO CP An 0n tario cabinet meeting scheduled for Tuesday to discuss legisla tion to force striking Toronto teachers back to work was can celled spokesman for Pre mier William Davis said The spokesman said the meet irlg was cancelled because Edu ca ion Minister Thomas Wells wa unable to attend Mr Wells had meetings with representatives of teachers and the Metropolitan Toronto school board said the spokesman The cabinet decided Monday to call special session of the legislature Thursday to legislate the 8600 secondary school teachers on strike since Nov 12 back to work The boards negotiators for mally withdrew their las con tract offer to striking high school teachers Tuesday while both sides awaited legislated end to the strike After meeting with both sides in lastditch effort to see whether there was hope for negotiation before the teacher are legislated back Mr Wells said dont think theres much hope now Mr Wells said he was pre paring the final ddraft oftheleg islation and feltit should be ready later today CONST JOHN TER STEGE William Ross school board was one of three Barrie pol icemen who directed traffic at the citys crazy Five Points intersection on Tuesday The chairman said that althwgh the board should make some contribution to the legislation it would be presumptumu to insist on what the bill should say Teacher negotiators told minister their bargainingp051 tion and how they would like to see the dispute resolved 600 search for girl TORONTO CP Police said more than 600 persons searched empty buildings fields and ravines in the Toronto borough of Etobicoke on Tues day for an eightyearold girl missing from her home since noon Monday Police said Lisa Kowalski was reported missing by her mother Patricia Kowalski Monday night after the child did not return from an mod to milk store About 50 Metropolitan Toronto policemen participated in the search Tuesday along With nei and coworkors of the girls father Edward Walsh 42 Police said the girl forgot to take $20 bill her anther gave her to go to the store and may have thought she loot 1t and is afraid to return home Mr Ko walski said Lisa was scolded ior losing $3 about two weeks ago when she went to the store lie said Tuesday he would pot $1000 reward for the re turn of his daughter Mr Kowalski an employee at area CocaCola plant said that The minim said hmmms will lhoned say he lie resnnnvillntwinning $30 mil wouldnt be at work Tuesday 110 may and major the company sent 27 employeer mm Mle litJP if hunt llLllfll palm Inn 11 search headquarters were set 3000 beds and passihy 5000 up at noon Neighbors brought staff in my cake and who Said SDIne hObpilals 000m the Seanhm have been closed and other clos The now familiar story of re stnaints and cutbacks was told again at Georgian Theatre Tues day afternoon this time to groups involved in lhc provincial health program Minister of Health Frank Mill or met with over 300 repoer tatives from the counties of Sim coe Victoria and liaiiburton the regions of Durham York and Dufferin and the district mum cipahtios of Parry Sound and Muskoka lie told the representatives in creases in health care spending have been restricted to If per cent or $30 million but that money WWt fully meet the cf fects of inflation The minister advocated no frills approach to health care Programs aimed at the pre vention of disease and the pro motion of health will be main tained as will community men tal health program Drug benefit programs and the public health units will be given little room for expansion Because hospital costs amount to 016 billion or 53 per cent of the total health budget Mr Miller indicated the major re ductipns will be made in this ill luv Barrie Ontario Canada Wednesday January l4 l9 Highway 400 near the Jim ction of Highway 400 North lednesdzay Traffic was snar led early today and rerouted traffic lights were out of com mission for abou seven hours as new equipment was install ed The lights will be synch Miller meets with on restraints cutbacks lire are being considered but indicated few hospitals in this area have anything to fear This area be noted does not fall into the provmciul pattern of declining birth rate which has left surplus in obstetrical or pediatric units in other hos pitals nor are there two hos pitals in one locality lhc minisfer indicated the fu ture closures would he announc ed following his current tour and not before he has met with each of the hospitals involvcl As further restraint there will be no approval for further llllln log home bids or an tnvu in the amount of money being spun on llSLuIt and demonstra tion model projects Start News Year by trying Quiz Did you resolve to keep up with the news in 1976 Your News Quiz appearing oduy on Page in your Examiner can help you to keep that resolution By taking our Quiz each week this year you Can help yourself review important news events This week Your News Quiz asks interesting questions concerning the Male Athlete of the Year for ll nlili l1 nlumhinc new gov egigunrnl our ww Will tram in Canada Turn to it now Your News Quiz is sponsored eath week by The Examiner as service to students in our area AREA WINTER SCENE IS SNOWLADEN via Duckworth St The truck was carrying load of as sorted animal feed= Last nights snowfall of 12 to 18 ronizcd with lights at the in tcrsection of Maple Avenue and Dunlop Street Examiner Photo 300 Senior health executives earn in salary of $30000 your or more will not see salary in crease in 1970 The minister also called on doctors to exercise restraint by discouraging unnecessary office visits tests and days in bus pilai Mr Miller laid he was not prepared to give any specific details on actual cutbacks at the session He said the province has al way had hiin standard of health care and these restraints are not likely to have an ad wrse effect on founddeath sit nations TO END POSTAL live to seven inches was blamed for the mishap Ex aminer Photo US teachers union fined liTlSPlIiltllI AP Judge Donald Ziegler in separae court action Tuesday lined the the ctrikng teuchcts union an additional $10000 for not com plying with an earlier backto worl order bringing total fines nzftinc in union to Q31le lll lniltlj Mmuuuilc unvlcr ordcvs is sued Tuesday by the juigc board members joined negotia tors for latenight bargaining session Ziegler instructed those iniolved to continue the talks until further notice The trike affecting 62000 school children in Pittsburgh is now almost seven weeks old The judgc did not mention daily fines of $100 which he had said on Monday would be levied against intlhidual teachers Olympic stamps issue announce OTTAWA CP masterGeneral Bryce asey announced Tuesday the is sue of four Olympic stamps three featuring the Olympic arts and culture programs and one depicting the Winter Games in Innsbruck Austria this year The three arts and culture stumps 50ccut stamp repre senting the performing arts 25cent stamp depicting handi crafls and 20cent stamp por traying communications axis were designed by Ray Webber of Toronto The Innsbruck Winter Games 20cent stamp shows the official Innsbruck Olympic symbol combined with stylized snou flake and ws rl ilined by Rolf Harder of Montreal All four siamps will be issued Feb 1976 Post Iceland to break with Britain REYKJAVIK Router Ice land was due to take the firt step today towards breaking diplomatic relation with Brit nm because of the fisheries dis putc between the two countries The Althings parliaments sevennnemhcr foreign relations committee whose duty is to ad ii the government on the matter summoned to mornng meeting Committee chairman Thorar inn ihorarinsson said be ex pected every member of the all party committee would vote to sever relations because of Brit sn naval intervention in Icelan dic waters and the deliberate ramming ol Icelandic patrol boots by British trigafes Gunnnr Thoroddscn minister of indirtry elecricity and so cial affairs said the actual break in relations would proh ably take place by early Thurs day DISPUTE un storm which dumped 12 to 18 cm of snow on most parts of southern Ontario Tuesday will give war today to winds drifting snow and cloudy skies weather officials said Gusting winds will diminsh late today with temperatures dropping to around 15 tonight Environment Canada said Weather officials said the Tuesdays storm was accom panied flashes of lightning and few thunderclaps It cov ered the lower Great Lakes re gion reaching into Muskoka and the Bruce Peninsula In Windsor one of the hardest hit cities where 15 cm of snow fell airline flight wzre cancelled and trains and buses were reported one and two hours late arriving Adult night classes were can celled at the University of Windsor St Clair College and area high schools Harness rac ing at Windsor Raceway and lo cal basketball and hockey games were called off Police in the Windsor area said main streets were kept passable by snow crews but hazardous drifting conditions resulted in number of minor accidents High drifts left some motorists stranded on sides of county roads In London no major acci dents were reported and police said all main roads were cleared by early morning Early in the storm Tuesday number of drivers in the citys largest taxi company would not drive because of road condi tions In the Simcoe area school buses were not running today in PRESENTED AS FACT WEATHER FORECAST Drifting Filmlea tonight tommmw Low tonight 16 high Thursday Details on Page and on southern points the rural areas because of road conditions In Hamilton road crews worked throughout the night to clear roads after the city had declared state of emergency Earlier traffic was tied up for hours when tractortrailer jackknifed in the citys north end Provincial police reported no major accidents but said roads were still snowcovered Racing at Flamboro Downs Raceway in nearby Dundas was cancelled Police in Toronto said al though main streets were cleared slippery driving condi tions prevailed and warned that side streets were dangerous Environment Canada said the weather Thursday is expected to be mixture of cloud and sun with emperatures remain ing to below freezing News story angers SCBE recent report in the Barrie Examiner on 1th eliects of the county school takeover on Oro lmtoslun has raiwl tile ire of school board officials Frank Prothcro chairman of the Simcoe County Board of Ed ucation an Lloyd Fletcher trusiee for Oro said they are more ipet with the newspaper report than they are with the project of the Bureau of Munic ipal Research Mr Prothero said his main objection is that the paper and other Simcoe County new med ia took the report which he call ed pure conjecture and present ed it as fact But the two also took issue with several statements made in the report of the independent research group Mr Prothero questioned the amount of research gone into its findings saying it tended to mad dwell on the negative and ar gued that the suggestion the board be divided into six smalL boards would be uneconom lcal and backward step doubt the credibility of the whole thing Mr Prothero said You can get negative report an anything up to and incluud inz motherhood lhe ciainnan explained he be llevel the researchers came cross negative people in th first place who continually referred My we CAPSULENEW FRANK PROTHERO raps report them to other people sharing the same views The current county set up en ables the board to save admin strative costs he said and also ensures that all areas receive equal treatment Mr Prothero said the board has area committees to deal with people problems and the whole board handles financial matters to ensure all areas re awn Aumvp Yw3 Saints payroll safe again ST PAUL Minn AP Wayne Belisle president of Minne sota Fighting Saints said today that money has been obtained to meet the payroll of the World Hockey Association loam Sinclairs condition satisfactory VANCOINBR CP James Sinclair 67 father of Margaret Trudeau and former fedemal cabinet minister was in sztisfiactory condition Tuesday after heart surgery earlier in the day Over million manclays lost OTTAWA GP The federal labor department said Tuesday that 1404443 mutHlays were lost due to work stoppages last tober compared with loss of 686480 mandays in October 1974 Malaysian PM dies at 53 LONDON AP Tun Abdul Rank 53 prime muister of Ma laysia died today in London clinic the Malaysian high commis sion said Moslems battle into port area BETRUT AP Leftist Moslem street fighters movel into Roi ruts rozt rco today in an attempt to cut off the last Oiriti has OTlAWA GP The federal labor department sai dlucsduy US labor secretary resigns WASHINGTON AP John Duulop has resigned as United States labor secretary the White House announced today gt5lltiihsdt iii ceive equal treatment People dont understand the workings of the board he said Everything we do is on per pupil basis and ii there are more schools in Barrie it is be cause there are more people The chairman said he has sat on other boards of education pr ior to amalgamation and finds the current board members have more say in the goings on par ticularly in the field of cirricu him He argued he believes the board is in touch with the peo ple noting there is free phone service everywhere in the coun ty iDEAL SCHOOLS Mr Fletcher argued the mam reason Oro Township has not seen any significant changes sin ce amalgamation is because its former school boatd was agres sive and the township already had four ideal schools The trustee said the county School takewer in 1969 left the board with many areas which required great deal of catch ing up and mest of its money has been spent in upgrading fac ilities The board is not perfect Mr Fletcher said we are still suf fering growing pains but if we are out of touch with the people wish wed heard of it before now The trustee said he has receiv ed phone calls from former me mbers of the Oro school board who are upset because they were not questioned by resear chers Mr Fetcher said the board could establish area offices such as those run by the Peel Coun ty Board but argued in time of restraint such an expenditure did not seem to be warranted Its the Ministry of Science Thwve found laxative that changes and to all Spanish draft strikers into army MADRID AP llie Span ish government drafted an esti mated 5000 Madrid postnicn and mail handlers into the army temporarily today to force them to end mail strike after one day It was the first such action since wave or labm unrott swept across poutFranco Spain During subway strike in Ma drid the government ordered the army to get the trains run ning again but ended the strike by giving the workers most of the raise they demanded The postal workers went on strike to protest the arrest of colleague for taking part in slowdown to press demands for more pay He was freed Tues day From 100000 to 200000 work ers ware off the job due to Spain strikes work stoppages of few hours or because they are locked out of their plants It was the mostserious labor un rest in Spain in years and left ist labor groups called for ex pansion of the walkouts to general strike TELEPHONES AFFECTED Strikes continued in the con struction metal electronics auto textile and banking in dustries Slowdowns disrupted telephme service in northern Electric company work ers in Barcelona refused to males repairs and dueatened to cut off service to the city Spains second largest if the police intervene The cabinet minister in charge of the governments un ion system Rodolfo Martin Villa told reporters the govern ment wants truce with labor He indicated moreliberal strike regulations are under consider ation Although strikes in sup port of economic demands now are legal creation of strilm finals and pickeiutg are lldllilc Meanwhile police in Bilbao in the Basque section of north west Spain repented that the 29yearold son of wealthy Basque industrialist was kid napped late Tuesday appar ently for gulilicai reasons The missing mans family said the kidnappers left note demanding ransom of $10 million to be paid abroad in dol lars The note walt signed lty ETA the underground Basque nationalist olgunwutiou nlIfl family Hui The elder inure beitla who owns steel mod ucts plant was said to have been Basque nationalist at one time

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