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WEATHER FORECAST Mainly sunny today Windy and mild with showers Tuesday bow tonight high Tuesday 14 Details on Circulation 7266539 Classified Advertising 72824 EXAMINER TELEPHONES All Other Departments 7266537 112th YearNo 75 The Barrie Examiner Barrie Ontario Canada Monday March 29 1976 Uhr flame Ex aminer 15 Per Copy Carrier Home Delivery 85 Weekly 16 Pages To hire 20 more officers TORONTO CP Sidney Handleman Ontario minister of consumer and commercial relations said Sunday an ad ditional 20 rentreview officers will be hired to help clear backlog of rentreview ap plications estimated at 245000 At the present rate of appli cations it would take six mon ths to clear the backlog he said The minister said the esti mate of 245000 is inflated be cause many applications are duplicates In some cases ten ants file applications although their landlords already have submitted applications he said Provincial legislation recen tly passed limits rent increases to eight per cent unless lan dlord can justify higher raise to rentreview officers William Robbins executive director of the rentreview pro gram earlier had said he was worried that the provinces 70 rentreview officers would be hit with another surge of appli cations within the next two months POSITIONS NOT FILLED Mr Handleman said he had talked to Mr Robbins and given him the authority to recruit new officers Five of the officers probably will be in positions not filled previously because the government found no qualified persons the minister said He said Ottawa Kitchener and London have the biggest backlog of applications perhaps because there are universities in the three com munities and rentreview ap plications involving student housing have flooded the of fices The number of applications probably has doubled because of an amendment to the provin cial legislation to bring student and limiteddividend housing morning houses and housing with rent geared to come under the controls he said Identification cards flop TORONTO CP Hotels and taverns in Ontario are launching their own ageofma jority identification cards for young drinkers because they think the provinces cards are failure The Ontario Hotel and Motel Association plans to buy 35 photoidentification machines at $750 each for private clampdown on persons under the legal drinking age of 18 The association which has more than 1000 members will put the machines into bars around the province on rota tion basis Any youngster wanting to buy drink who hasnt got an ageofmajority card will have the chance to buy one on the spot for $2 said David Hol land the associations manag ing director birth certificate or drivers licence will be required as proof of age ACTOR DIES Veteran film star Richard Arlen died Sunday at River side Hospital in North Hollywood Calif ac cording to hospital officials Arlen earlyday film idol and character actor in over years of motion picture work had been hospitalized for month With em physema He was 75 AP Photo WHERE WERE you when the lights went out With candle and flashlight Barrie Optimist Club president Mike Herman and OptiMrs president Jean Blondin were trying to celebrate the local clubs 10th anniversary at the HiView Ilall Electrical power was cut off for two hours Saturday in the south end of Barrie The photograph was shot with camera flashlExaminer Photo Two miners trapped 24 days want to go back to work By ARNOLD ZEITLIN MANILA AP Two Fili pino gold miners rescued 24 days after cavein trapped them 165 feet below the surface described as fit as fiddle today and said they want to go back to work in the shafts But doctors ordered rest for Manuel Nilo Chatto 22 and Geronimo Acot 28 who hid their eyes behind dark glasses as they saw the sunlight today for the first time since March The doctors said they found some skin rash but no other evi dence of ailments during initial examinations The problem is the rescue workers said Dr Josefina Mi randa of the Surigao Medical Centre They will have to be given some sort of layoff togive them enough rest Chatto and Acot who said they would be ready to go back to work Tuesday were re moved late Sunday from the Lepanto mine on Mindanao island 430 miles south of Manila The bodies of three other men who had been trap ped with them were also taken out and the rescue crew scaled LEBANON CIVIL WAR Christian defences By FAROUK NASSAR BEIRUT AP Harddriv ing Moslem forces smashed through Christian defences in Beirut and other Lebanese towns today Syria was trying to arrange another ceasefire in Lebanons civil war But sources close to leftist warlord Kamal Junblatt said he will not join in truce until his Moslem forces capture the Beirut port area and drive Quake hits coastline BERKELEY Calif AP moderate earthquake measuring 65 on the Richter scale shook the South and Cen tral American coastline early Sunday the University of California seismographic station reported In populated areas an earth quake measuring five on the Richter scale can cause consid erable damage six can be se vere and reading of seven is major earthquake capable of widespread heavy damage The San Francisco earth quake of 1906 registered 83 on the Richter scale CAPSULE NE WS Christian militiamen out of crumbling salient they hold in Beiruts Moslem half The leftists came close to this objective when their forces stormed the unfinished Hilton Ilotel and overrun two neigh boring hotels Sunday night The victory put Moslcm for ces in control of the entire seaside hotel area on the west ern edge of the harbor police spokesman said left ists also have encircled the downtown banking and business centres and that Christian defences are rapidly collapsing The Phalangc party whose militia is the largest of the Christian forces abandoned its main Beirut headquarters near Martyrs Square The spokesman said the fac tions pounded each other with heavy artillery and rockets throughout the night in eight Beirut suburbs and fought housetohousc battles in sum mer resorts in the Christian hinterland of Mount Lebanon Units of the Lebanese Aral Army made up of Moslem deserters from the Lebanese Army who are equipped with tanks and artillery shelled Zagharta the hometown of Christian President Suleiman fl perative that Americans be vaccinated without delay against predicted outbreak of deadly influenza strain expected in the fall Believed hiding in Africa PRETORIA AP Former US diplomat Bradford Bishop wanted for the murder of his wife mother and three sons in Maryland is believed hiding in South Africa Gen Krult ger head of the South African criminal invcstigation depart ment said today Tentative agreement in strike DETROIT AP tentative settlement was reached late Sunday in the fiveday strike at Ford Motor Co axle plant here spokesman for the United Auto Workers said Sadat on European tour CAIRO AP Egyptian President Anwar Sadat began fivenation European tour today in search of support after burn ing his last bridges with the Soviet Union the tunnel because they feared another cavcvin STILL HANDSOME am still handsome said hatto bachelor in brief conversation with reporters Me too said Acot They spoke in Visayan the language of the central Philip pines fhatlo said he and Acot gave each other mouthhrmouth rc suscitation when they felt weak He said he had studied the method in firstaid class in high school and taught it to Acot smashed Franjich in northern Lebanon for the third straight day the spokesman reported FLEE TO YIIHS Hundreds of Christian rcfu gees arrived in Cyprus after 12hour 20lrmile sea voyage Cypriot immigration official re ported more than 1000 Leba nese Christians have fled to Cyprus in the last few lays crew member of one of the refugee ships said thousands were waiting to leave at Jou nieh the Christian port 12 miles north of Beirut to which Fran jieh moved last week when the presidential palace was par tially destroyed by artillery fire from Iunblalts forces Syrian President Hafez Assad met in Damascus for nine hours Saturday with lunblatt in an unsuccessful attempt to get him to agree to an immediate ceasefire The Lebanese leader returned to Beirut on Saturday night and sources in the Syrian capital reported he said his men will fight on until his dc mands are met When Lebanon became na tion after the Second World War the Christians were in the majority and were given the dominant position in the politi cal system Using this and their connections in Europe they set up an unrestricted capitalist economy which became the fi nancial centre of the Middle East CRIJIIINAL IRRESPONS BILI TY Nader slams Canada on reactor sales VANCOUVER CP Ralph Nader lashed out at the Cana dian government Sunday for selling nuclear reactors to Third World nations like India and Argentina No greater display of crimi nal irresponsibility has come out of this country than 0t tawas promotion and sale of nuclear power plants over seas Mr Nader told public meeting sponsored by the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear bit He said Canada should have learned its lesson when India set off nuclear explosion in 1974 using plutonium from Candu reactor Canada has also sold reactors to South Korea and Pakistan Mr Nader said it was tech nical insanity if not suicide to sell nuclear reactors to coun tries that are less capable of technically managing atomic power than the United States and Canada where radioactive spills and near disasters have occurred Mr Nader who made his rep utation in the midsixties by criticizing the safety of Ameri can cars now is leading opposi tion to nuclear power plants Plutonium is the most toxic element discovered by man kind potential source of can cer and leukemia and were dealing with it as if it was bundle of wheat or asparagus he said at an earlier news con ference He said the public must over come pyschological barrier and realize the dangers of ra dioactivity an accumulative silent violence that cannot be seen touched smelled or tasted Were fast moving into plutoniumbased economy and that means cancer he said There are many alternatives to nuclear power he said in cluding solar energy con servation of existing fossil fuels return to coal and using waste wood or agricultural plant residue He said study has shown waste wood would be able to provide 104 per cent of the present energy levels in the states of Washington Oregon and California Mr Nader suggested this was realistic alternative for Brit ish Columbia as well AREA BLA CKED OUT IN WEEKEND STORM March threatened to go out like lion on Satur day as strong winds battered Barrie causing at least one or two power failures The Barrie Raceway program was cancelled af ter one race when the south half of the City went dark at about pm Winning bettors had to collect their money by candlelight See page 10 in todays Examiner Mel Hughes line supervisor with the public utilities commission said power was not restored until about9230 pm The blackout occurred after 44000volt feeder line burned out on Lorena Street west of Anne Street PUC officials still are not sure why the line failed despite local radio reports that piece of metal became tangled in the wires Mr Hughes said At about the same time the Lorena Street line was repaired two conductor lines on Sophia Street in the centre of Barrie were blown together by win ds causing another blackout Only small area was without electricity for about an hour Ontario Hydro officials also reported blackouts caused by high winds in the Stayner area west of Barrie Flooding hits Ottawa Quebec By THE ANAIIIAN PRESS Residents of southwestern ntario were recuperating today from weekend of high winds and rain which damaged buildings and caused power failures Ottawa and parts of Quebec were cleaning up after flooding Kirkland Lakes police chief will probably have kind words to say about Barrics police department Chief Narcisse Danis was visiting Barrie Friday when was stolen from his car Woolworths downtown park ing lot after he left the keys in it and the doors unlocked However the Barrie department worked fast and The flooding began to stabi lize slightly late Sunday but of ficials continued to keep close watch on the rivers LITTLE THREAT EMAINS miservation officials said early today there was little threat of additional flooding in southern Ontario recovered the car on Napier Street and charged Vaughan King of Worscly Street with theft over $200 Three other men and one juvenile were charged later The men are llcn Wade of Mary Street Douglas Neil of Johnson Street and Bruce outts of flapperton Street All four will appear in pro vincial court in Barrie April 13 34 killed on weekend in traffic accidents By TIIE CANADIAN PRESS Four persons killed Saturday in twocar collision about 20 miles southwest of London Ont and four killed in two car accident about 40 miles southeast of Dauphin Man were among at least 41 persons who died accidentally in Can ada during the weekend survey by The Canadian Press from pm Friday to midnight Hunday night local times showed 34 traffic fatal ities six fire deaths and one drowning No snowmobilerelated deaths were reported during the weekend At least 59 per sons have died in snowmobile accidents so far this season Quebec had nine traffic fatal ities and Ontario six In Nova Scotia five persons died in traf fic and one drowned Saskatchewan reporter four traffic fatalities and two fire deaths Manitoba had five traf fic deaths New Brunswick and Alberta each had two traffic fatalities and two fire deaths British Columbia traffic fatality had one Settlement sought for Greenpeace OTTAWA CP The federal government has renewed at tempts to request the French to settle the cost of damages to David McTaggarts protest yacht the Greenpeace III an external affairs spokesman said Saturday After months of haggling over damage costs when French navy ship rammed his yacht as he protested on nuclear test site in 1972 Mr Mclaggart accepted the Canadian governments offer to takeover his case The government told him it would espouse his case and try to settle it on government to government basis the spokes man said Ile decided yes accepted the offer and the government sent note to the French gover nmcnt late this week France has yet to inform Ca nadian officials it will agree to handle the case through diplo matic channels About year ago External Affairs Minister Allan MacEa chen said the Canadian govern ment was pressing the French government to make an accept able outofcourt settlement with Mr McTaggart Will extend LESSON FOR CHIEF action plan IN BARRIE VISIT TORONTO CP The On tario Housing Action Program OIIAP scheduled to end Wed nesday probably will be ex tended by year housing ministry spokesman said today The spokesman said formal announcement of the programs fate will be made when the provinical budget is brought down April MAP introduced in 1973 is designed to cut through govern ment red tape and put housing units on the market Under the program uncon ditional grants are given to mu nicipalities and interestfree loans to regions to develop serv iced land for housing as Shelly Duncan holds the award presented to her Saturday for her work as chief timekeeper in the AHL division of Barrie Legion minor hockey The presenta TIMEKEEPER HONORED tion was made Saturday at the annual banquet in the Legion hall on St Vincent Street Other timekeepers were Darlene Sibbald Molly Exell and Janet Bates Ex aminer Photo Dief off to UK to get insignia LONDON CP John Die fenbaker arrived Sunday for speaking engagement and to re ceive the insignia of the Com panion of Honor from the Queen at Windsor Castle Diefenbaker 80 also will meet with number of British political leaders many of them old friends from his days as Ca nadian prime minister He said he has been following the current British labor party leadership contest but asked whether he has favorite said never have favorites when Im in another country However on another subject of foreign affairs he said he is deeply concerned over the developing problems in white ruled Rhodesia and South Af rica In 1960 at the London meeting of the Commonwealth heads of state Diefenbaker was instrumental in South Africas departure from the Com monwealth because of its racial policies Diefenbaker was greeted by Canadian High Commissioner Paul Martin his host during the visit They dined Sunday night with Britains former Con servative prime minister Ed ward Heath at Martins resi dence After quiet day meeting friends today Diefenbaker is to be guest at luncheon with the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association on Tuesday and guest speaker at luncheon of the CanadaUnited Kingdom Chamber of Commerce on Wed nesday Thursday he will be driven to Windsor Castle to be invested by the Queen as Companion of Honor an exclusive orde limited to the sovereign and 65 living members Really special evening for movie director By BOB THOMAS LOS ANGELES AP Di rector Milos Forman whose One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest is favored to be the big winner at the Academy Awards tonight will have pair of spe cial guests at the ceremonies the twin sons he has not seen for five years Peter and Matej Forman arrived Sunday from Prague Czechoslovakia to join their fa ther as he awaits the vote on what may be the height of his career as film maker the car for best direction of mo tion picture in 1975 His competitors are Robert Altman for Nashville Sidney Lumet for Dog Day Afternoon Federico Fellini for Amarcord and Stanley Kubrick for Barry Lyndon Cuckoos Nest also is favored to win the Oscar for best pic ture but it has competition from Jaws as well as Dog Day Afternoon Nashville and Barry Lyndon Winners will be announced from the stage of the Los Ange les Music Center in ceremonies telecast by ABC television starting at 10 pm EST Cuckoos Nest is also repre sented in other categories Jack Nicholson has been nomi nated for best actor and Louise Fletcher for best actress Nicholsons competitors are Al Pacino of Dog Day After noon Walter Matthau of The Sunshine Boys James Whit morc of live eni Ilcll Ilarry and Maxnnilian Schcll of The Man in thc llass Booth OTHER ONTENDERS Miss Fletchers category in cludes Glenda Jackson for Hed da Isabelle Adjani of The Story of Adele II AnnMargret of Tommy and Carol Kane of Hester Street For Forman 44 the awards would mark personal as well as professional triumph Ilis efforts to see his sons have been thwarted by the Czech govern ment since February 1971 when he made his last visit to his homeland The boys live with their mother from whom Forman is separated left the country legally in 1969 when came here for film deal with Paramount the director said went back twice to visit my family but then stayed here after my exit visa expired Three years ago wrote the Czech government in an effort to legalize my living status in the United States he said received no answer The fact that my sons can Come to visit me is good indication Now Im hoping that they will give me an emigration passport sol can return to visit my family and friends Forman said he left Czech oslovakia after his work was criticized on the grounds that it didnt portray realistically the positive side of society Such films as Loves of Blonde and Firemans Ball established his reputation in the West but did not endear him to the Com munist government of Czech oslovakia