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WEATHER FORECAST Guiding over with occasion snow this gamma and eveninc Cloudy with may periods Su day Continuing cold Low to midst 15C high Sunday 7C EXAMINER TELEPHONES Circulation vacass Classified Advertising 7232414 All Other Departments 7266537 xiignh Your No 26 Barrio Ontario Canada Saturday January 31 I976 Che Karrie emitter 15c Per Copy Carrier Home Delivery 85 Weekly 28 Page SWIMMING AT TENDER AGE David Weichel is enrolled in the YMYWCA swimming course for two and three yearolds and as can be seen here has progressed to the point where he can swim on his back to his mother For more photos of the rubber duckies turn to page three Examiner Photo Raps shabby treatment of exforces members Joek Shields national director for the Canadian Forces Long Service Pensioners Association accuses the Canadian govern ment of treating former mem bers of the Armed Forces in shameful shabby and scornful manner Mr fields was speaking to 57 members of Georgian Branch number two Friday 1131 at Georgian College The association is pushing for better treatment of pensioners with one of its prime goals be ing the Indexing of pensions to the cost of living 0314 lilac hand paid into by all metal of the Armed Forces and Mr Sit says this has now reach ed Million And do you know how much Is being paid out in pensions each year he asked the gath ering flatmillion Why if that Won was inveded even at modest retum of eight per cent it would make $400mihion every year The government wont be able to say that increasing pen alone will cost it money be cause the may is there Armed Forces personnel have paid into it for years and they arent get ting it back The present system is that If servicemans age plus his time of service equals 85 or more his pension is indexed to the cost of living That means fornmstofuswhofacedmanda tory etiremont from the forces oz in our forties well be waiting 15 or 20 years before our pen sions start increasing By that time they will be so far he hind it wont help muc LOWERED T0 70 What we want is for that number to be lowered to 70 That would give most of us indexing shortly afte we leave the ser vice We wouldnt be continual ly falling behind the cost of liv mg Another sore pomt is the pen sion for widows Under the pre sent syaem widow only gets hall of her hmbands pension if he dies wliJca ivllpzi gets his full pernion if an wife dies The aeaodation feels the pension is the family income so shouldnt be cut in half just because one family member dies The association also wants col lege accreditation for military comses 0f the 84 courses offer ed by the Forces 64 have par allels in the civilian field How ever many former servicemen have trouble getting jobs becau se they dont have recognized certificate or diploma for their courses Take my Own case said Mr Shields was senior captain in traffic management in the Forces and when left applied for similar job in the private sector At the job interview was able to demon strate my knowledge of the field but the company oculdnt hire me because didnt have diploma Workshops cover many topics of teachers development days Friday was the end of two day professional development for Hornets I0 Terriers ORILLIA Ont CP Cam bridge Hornets blanked Orillia Terriers 100 Friday in Ontario Hockey Asaociation Senior league action Ivan Bellsle led the Hornets with three goals and Norm McLeod and Gary Brewer each scored twice Steve Robson Al Osborne and Don Vipond each added one Hornets outshot Terrier 2018 III elementary school teachers in Sumcoe County The teachers were joined by the secondary teachers during the day for number of joint discussions and activities number of workshops were organized with guest speakers covering variety of topics in cluding motivation of adolescents ation of school cirricla from En glish to history and science in Kindergarten to Grade 13 and coaches clinic for school boy curling During Friday the teachers had choice of number of workshops including introduc tion in math and daylong workmop twith guest speaker Faye Blos em for resource librarians Shields said there are thous ands of former servicemen fac ing the same problem and the only solution is to make sure the certificates handed out by the forces are recognized by civilian colleges As well former Forces memb ers have great deal of diffic ulty finding jobs through Canada anpower Mr Shields had mili tary experience with traffic man agement but Jie only job Man power could offer him was one as prison guard he said When you combine the fact that our pensions arent Index ed plus the ind that we quite often cant find he type em pkrment we were trained for it means we end up getting paid less than our comrades in the Forces now To make it worse since Forces life usually means moving around bit most of us ever had chance to buy home while we were serving What the association would like to see is loans to pensioners from the Forces pension fund This would enable them to buy homes while not costing other taxpayers anything The assooia tion is also making arrangements for group insurance for all mem bers This would allow for sub stantial reductions in auto and home insurance The association now has about 3000 members with Georgian being the first actual branch It received its federal charter in 1974 Mr Shields says it has potential for 50000 members and since the work it does help present forces members it can count on another 80000 there When you combine this with wives anl famiies he said We have political clout of half million votes Perhaps now some politicians will sit up and listen To hold vote on death penalty OIIAWA CP Solicitor General Warren Allmiand said Friday free vote will be held on capital punishment after the government presents an aboli tion bill to the Commons next month free vote means members of Parliament do not have to vote along party lines Mr Allmand Indicated he would prefer vote along party lines but said free vote on capital punishment has become House tradition in the last 10 years MANY RESIDENTS IN WHEEL CHAIRS ACCEPTS INVITATION TO VISIT HERE Perez wants Canad Prime Minister Trudeau of Canada found President Carlos Andres Perez of Venezuela good man to do business with Canadian officials said today After two hours of official talks Friday and informal dis cussion at various social func tions Perez accepted Trudeaus imitatlon to visit Canada to cooperate in organ CanadaVenemela eco nomic commission and to help cut down Canadas whopping trade deficit resulting from the high cost of cmde oil pur chases One government source said Perez prepared the way so well he began bringing up questions from the agenda almost as soon as Trudeaus plane arrived in the country Thursday afternoon This visit should not just stay on paper Perez was quoted as saying during the two leaders meeting Friday He in dicated he wants to come to Canada as soon as possible but not before he has something concrete to offer At the same time the Ve Trudcau persistent angument to bring Canada into member ship in the Organization of American States OAS which he said is no longer dominated by the United States GAVE DINNER At dinner for Trudeau and his wife Margaret at the foreign affairs ministry Perez invited the prime minister in the name of the Latin American peoples to play more impor tant role in matters concerning our hemisphere by collaborat ing more closely with the OAS As result of Perezs press ing invitation Trudeau said his government wil reconsider its decision of 1970 not to join the OAS Canada has been attending OAS meetings as permanent observer since 1972 and belongs to number of OAS subsmiary organizations Perez also pressed Trudeau to affiliate Canada with the newly created Latin American Eco nomic System SELA aimed MPP TElIS PRESS CONFERENCE to join the OAS to foster Latin American in tegration and international co operation He gave Trudeau reassurance that Venezuela will continue to provide Canada with vital part of her petroleum require ments Venezuela has supplied the markets of eastern Canada and will continue doing so with sat isfaction Perez said He promised to try to find ways to reduce Canadas annual Vene zuela trade deficit of 51 bII lion County taxpayers getting unfair deal Mike Cassidy MPP NDPOt Iawa Wein thinks Simcoe Coun ty taxpayers are getting an un fair break with the provincial government getting the profit The way it stands now he said at press conference after talking to the Simcoc County director of education the board of education is forced to make tremendous cuts to stay within the trovincial guidelines The board has been fairly tight with its budget before so the cuts will be possible mthout hurting too much but still the boards costs have risen about 20 per cent in the past year But because of the provincial grant structures the board must cut off two or three dollars for every dollar taken off the l0ll tax levy It ends up that local taxpayers are facing cont hike in farms while the province will actually be putting less money into Simcoe County educatim Mr Cassidy Ross McClellan MPP tNDPToronto Bell Wood and Iain Angus MPP ND For William tolled Simcoe CouMy and Muslooka Friday on an NDP can swing through emit31 Ontario Mr McClellan is the opposi tion commodity and social serv ices critic and spent rmst of his time talking with represen tatives of the local Childrens Aid Society He said the 56 per cent can increase ceilings im posed by the provincial govern merit are going to be very hard to handle We agree with the principle of restraint he said but the Conservative government has its priorities all wrong in hitting the social service area so harSh ly The Childrens Aid Society is such small sector yet the government goes blindly ahead with very costly work on high ways The widening of Highway 400 can be scrapped 2530 per THREE NDP members of the Ontario legislature spent Friday touring Simcoe County and Muskoka and meeting 10 They have put two per cent ceiling on increased highway cap ital costs but the amounts of money are so huge that they are still talking about millions of dollars And then to put these harsh restraints on the CSA with almost no warning And what is this 55 per cent Its just an arbitrary real ity It means the Childrens Aid Societies will have to cut back Ww le cal people From letlt are Ross McClellan Toronto Bell Wood MPP Ken Cargill of tho Muskoka Childrens Aid Soo in the preventive area the most important one The philosophy has been that the social services should work to prevent future criminals or whatever from get ting start in poor home life instead of just taking of care of children after the home life has broken down If they cut their case workers who are always in the field they may meet the new budget res Barrie homebuyers have special problems People trying to buy houses in Barrie are facing special prob lems says Mike Cassidy Ottawa West MPP and housing critic for the New Democratic Party First since you are so close to Toronto he said in press conference here Friday you have to pay Toronto prices for houses The problem is that wag es here are only central Ontario wages Barrie workers are forc ed to go to the townships for homes taking the same problem but on smaller scale there Land in Barrie is so expen sive the Ontario Housing Cor poration didnt get involved But if OHC cant afford the land what about the lowincome peo ple OHC is supposed to help Mr Cassidy feels we must start looking at smaller houses again Municipalities dont like small houses he said because 13 die in nursing home blaze CHICAGO AP feel sad so many people were injured and there was nothing could do to help them said priest after fire in nursing home killed 13 residents and injured at least 30 others The blaze broke out as he was saying use in the homes dispel Rev William Pollard said the fire alarm ran as he finished celebrating mass on the top wpr at the wincroot Nursing and Rest Home He left the chapel and found the hallway filled with smoke Many residents were in wheel chairs and couldnt get down said Father Pollard Smoke blocked the corridors He said he tried to put out the fire himself until the smoke be came too heavy Fire Commissioner Robert Quinn said the blaze started in room near the chapel and spread into the adjacent hall way The area near the chapel is where most of the injiuod and dead came from he said The cause of the blaze was not determined immediately Fire officials estimated damage at $6000 most of it due to smoke and water Most of the injured whose ages ranged from 65 to 82 were treated for smoke inhalation and not burns spokesmen at three area hosfitals said One fireman suffered heart attack inside the nursing home and was admitted to hospital One of the injured Mary Dio trich head nurse at the home said it was hard to get the people out because there were so many wheel chairs social worker said 83 per sons were believed in the home which had capacity of 88 About 40 residents stayed in the building after the blaze was out fire official said Edward King assistant city health commissioner said the brick building built in 1952 was inspected Jan and found to be in good condition they provide less taxes and dc velopers dont like them because they provide less profit But he says threeor four bedroom house is usually out of the ques tion for family that is just starting out As well they would like to see more buyer protection for hous es such as warranty system At the same time he wants review of building standards be cause he feels there arr mm which are just frills and so need lessly push up the price of new homes Another area that needs chan ging is Home Ownership Made Easy H0ME he said It is good idea because it can provide good home for under $30000 but the lottery setup it now uses not realistic There is also no obligation for the owner to keep the house for certain amount of time There are cases in Toronto where people have bought the then turned around and sold them for $50000 said Mr Cas sidy Shouldnt stop at Three Rs speaker tells county teachers Reading writing and artith metic are important in educa tion but teachers should not stop teaching tlhere says John liolch superintendent of prog rams in Haiton region Mr Boioh spoke to secondary and elementary teachers in Sim coc County rluriuy promoionol 3lII urnflrnm Barrie North Collegiate Friday The Hallow Board of ltrlucation superintendent saitl basics in education are an absoluto pre requisite for children He said tcmlicir shouti rcmiwl of the need to teach reading writ ing and arithmetic skills But if thats all they do then theyre cheating the children he said Mr Boiclh said teachers have to be involved in the vallucs ed ucation of children also He said this includes teaching ouch things as some of responsibility and the meaning of good citizenship Children should also learn how to do job on their own and working wit other children he said adde that thin was one reason for the use of open school concepts The ohailenge for teachers he sold is the prevention of ap aluy in the pulvir toward the educational system Teachers mm intervene on behalf of the children so people do not lese confidence in the school system Prople have to lamn to do more sacrificing He said Weve become too much of selfcentred society and people have to begin giving something PROBLEMS Mr Boich told the teachers there are problems in the edu cational system in Ontorio He aid the system is under lot of criticism by many people in the provimm iety Barrie alderman Paul Wesscnger Roger Pretty de feated Simcoe East NDP can didate in the last provincial tricions but in the future the problems will get worse If they keep the field workers but cut dawn the number of children they take into care they are in trouble because they are legally obliged to handle these chil dren Even as it stands said Mr McClellan The government measures are illegal The courts can order the Childrens Aid election Fort William MPP Iain Angus and Ottawa West MPP Mike Oassidy Examin er Photo Society to take in children and then the government must ap prove tlbe budget submitted This bullying of the munici palities is symptomatic of the Conservative government It is just trying to produce an air of confrontation between people and local organizers with the gov ernment showing up as the lily white saviour which is not spend ing any money MPP mayor hold Ontarios NDP housing critic Mike Cassidy met with Barrie mayor Dorian Parker on visit to the city Friday but did not refer too much to their talks during press conference after ward told her had served on Ottawa council with Charlotte Whitton and said disagreed her on her human services pol icy he said when asked How ever Mrs Parirer said she alg reed entirely with the late Miss talks Whittons policy and we had very good discussion Mr Cassidy said it seemed Ba rie Council was doing very good job running the finances of the city so the new restraint measures would not have ser ious affect However he did warn that if the citizens pressed for more so cial serViCeS the town chould find itself in trouble as Barrie is now providing less than many other cities In high spirits during tour Three NDP members of the Ontario parliament seemed in fairly high spirits during their tour through Simcoe County and Muskoka Friday despite some disappointments about the res traints on Ontario spending The main complaint they had was the way the government seemed to stick to the Hender son report as way to cut ex penditures They arent listening to hu man needs said Mike Cassidy of Ottawa West They are just implementing the Henderson re port to the day they die Which will be soon added Ross McClellan of Toronto Bell Wood Residents plan legal action against subdivision builder Tall Trees subdivision resi dents are continuing with plans to hire lawyer to take action against Norhhdown Homes Ltd About 40 residents met last week at the final meeting of the Ta Trees Ratepayens Associa tion and decided to continue plums to take action against the house builders The problems which many of the residents have in the new subdivision on the north side of Cundles Road cast of Bayiield Street including flailing plaster leaking roofs and dead grass The association set up com mittees for membership social day care and childrens centre community park and playground and house caistructlon In report to residents Bill Knowles president said resi dents in the subdivision who need day care should contact one of the committee members and it is possible day care can be made available at low cost