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Ma Mike Hoffman left and Allan Baedak Grade students at Johnson Street public school took first place in their division in the MEETING PLANNED Barries Downtown Im provement Board will meet with downtown merchants Thursday to discuss the boards program for the citys core area Presentations will be given by the boards development parking promotion and in formation committees and time will be set aside for questions and suggestions from the audience The meeting will begin at 630 pm at Collier Street United Church hall FIRST AID The ambulance nursing and cadet divisions of the Barrie St John Ambulance brigade will hold their annual inspection and demonstration of first aid Sunday at 730 pm at the Barrie Armoury EXPRESS GRATITUDE The SnoVoyageurs snowmobile club have ex essed gratitude to all the nd owners who permitted the club to use their property this last winter The Sno Voyageurs Inc in co operation with the Huronia Snowmobile Association were able to develop and maintain several miles of snowmobile trails GARAGE SALE garage sale sponsored by the Midhurst Recreation and Hall Board to raise funds for the upkeep of the hall will be held next Saturday May from 10 am until pm at Midhurst Community Centre Anyone wishing to sell any ar ticles are asked to bring them to the hall between the hours of and pm Friday April Eighty per cent of the sale value of an article will go to the owner with the remaining 20 per cent going to the hall fund ART RENTAL The Barrie Art Club sponsored Barrie Art Rental will be held Saturday in the STUDENTS The Ifiarrir Examiner CITYNEWS The Barrie Examiner Wednesday April 28 l97613 LOCAL GENERAL schools recent history project competition Students from Grade and participated in the event Projects based on basement of the Barrie Piublic Library from 14 pm Several new pain tings have been added to the collection this month club spokesman said Seven of the new paintings are by well known Canadian artist Gor don Peters of Caledon East and three are by Barrie artist Norman Taylor Over 100 paintings will be available for rental or purchase ANNUAL MEETING The Barrie Community Credit Union will hold its an nual meeting tonight in the Blue Flame Room of the Con sumers Gas building on Ferris Lane Business on the enda includes the election the board of directors discussion of dividend rates and the progress of the unions new building at 16 Collier St SPRING CONCERT The Barrie Boys Choir spr ing concert will be held May 10 at 730 pm at Georgian College Theatre The North Collegiate junior band and the sixth grade string ensem ble will be guest performers Tickets at $1 may be pur chased in advance at John Korens Barber Shop in Allandale and from per formers Tickets will also be available at the door CHILDRENS ACTIVITIES The Barrie Public Library has planned three childrens activities for May On May it will be Meet an Artist in which children from age five and up will spend an after noon with artist Allan Beckley May 15 Be Gardener will help children age five and up learn little about growing plants May 99 paste and paper party will be held for children age five to eight years The ses sions will be held at the childrens annex on Mul caster Street the students history cour se included covered wagon Indian forts and models of early farms CHRISTINA KOCH Grade student at Johnson Street public school looks over her history project which won first prize in Some students clothing particular to cer tain period and others did sketches made contest at the Christinas model fort was the best of the Grade entries Examiner Photos recent school 92 awards at festival include firsts for students of Lindys music school Students from Lindys School of Music of Barrie and Oro took 92 awards in cluding 51 firsts in accordion and guitar competition at the Midland Music Festival over the weekend The schools senior ac cordion ensemble took the festivals top mark 90 for its rendition of Sibelius Finlan dia while accordion soloists Patsy McLean and Andrew Persson scored 89 each and Lynn McLaughlin topped the guitar section with marks of 85 for her solo performance and for duet with Peter hizyk Other firsts in various ac cordion classifications went to soloists Tommy Carter Mandy Genyk Patoula Heliotis Karen Langston Howard Mendoza Lydia Mounier Floyd Partridge Linda Persson Kevin Riley Glenn Simpson Angela Vergeer and Melanie Weistra duets Bernice Baumgart and Shane Weistra Tommy Carter and Iawrence Verlaan Jeanette Forsythe and Lisa Wass Mandy Genyk and Rosi Ringhofer Karen Langston and Jamie Miller Lydia Mounier and Floyd Par tridge Andrew and Linda Persson Rhonda and Kathy Rawson Melanie Weistra and Peter Whitfield and Pat sy McLean and Angela Vergeer the schools first and second petite ensembles junior ensemble in termediate ensemble grade 15 ensemble and grade 6up ensemble Other guitar firsts in various categories went to soloists Jon Den Boer Doug Latornell Kelly Riley Judy Sass and Derek Weistra and the duet of Lynn Roberts and Derek Weistra Second award winners wereaccordion solos Brian Beard Karen Langston Jamie Latornell Jamie MillerLydia Mounier An drew Persson twice Linda Persson twice Kathy Rawson Rosi Ringhoder Erika Sajonvic Angela Vergeer Lawrence Verlaan Lisa Wass Melanie Weistra and Peter Whitfield ac cordion duets Tracey Adolph and Kevin Riley Tommy Carter and Lawrence Verlaan guitar solos Stephen Everton twice Craig Lockhart Tim Poole Bradley Rawson and Lynn Roberts Third award winners were accordion solos Tracey Adolph twice Bernice Baumgart Jane Kerr Deb bie Louch Jamie Miller Larry Miller Rhonda Rawson Stanley Sajnovic Angela Vergeer Lawrence Verlaan and Shane Weistra guitar solos Jerry Forsythe Scott McBride Lynn Roberts and Christine Sturgeon flIE SENIOR accordion ensemble from Lindys School of Music in Barrie scored the highest mark of the Midland Music Festival for rating of 90 for its Der of Sibelius Iormance Finlandia Wessengers position on annexation has Innisfil reeve asking questions By JIM DALZIEL Examiner Staff Reporter As the New Democratic Party candidate for Simcoe Centre in the 1975 election Barrie lawyer Paul Wessenger stressed the need to preserve farmland in On tario And he did well at the polls coming to within 2000 votes of unseating Arthur Evans Progressive Conservative member in the Legislature for 15 years Seven months later he is being accused of wearing two hats on the farmland issue Thats how Innisfil town ship Reeve Bill Gibbins put it recently as he noted that Mr Wessenger as Barrie alder man supports the citys plan to annex and develop Innisfil landmuch of it excellent for agriculture Coun Bill Tipple also won ders about Mr Wessengers position He says the NDP candidate did so well in In nisfil during the last election better than Evans precisely because of his stand on preserving farmland Barrie council has applied to the Ontario Municipal Board for permission to an nex about 20000 acres to han dle growth over the next 35 years 13500 from Innisfil 4500 from Vespra and 1500 from Oro WANTS MASTER PLAN The only way can see farmland being preserved is by the province acting through zoning Mr Wessenger said Tuesday in an interview Id like to see master plan for the province so we can either agree or disagree If you look at the whole province of Ontario you can make better decision than if you look at your own area in isolation Earlier this month Premier William Davis said the government does not plan new legislation to protect far mland So the onus remains on municipalities and their official plans Mr Wessenger however says more provincial controls are needed annexation plan Wessenger admits having misgivings about the Simcoe Georgian Area Task Force report on which it is based have no confidence in any municipality preserving farmland on its own Its sort of natural to have certain ambition to be bigger than you are He sa Barrie and Innisfil are not ree of such fault While endorsing the citys Mr He said the Midland Penetanguishene area north of Barrie could have received more emphasis in the provin cial government re port and incentives may be needed to boost development in that area COULD QUADRUPLE The task force report says Barrie could quadruple in population to 125000 by the year 2011 Orillia could have a000 people Midland 80000 and Collingwood 35000 Mr Wessenger also questions the Toronto Centred Region Plan of which the Simcoe Georgian report is spinoff Won try for signs on Highway 400 exits Barrie will not try to have additional signs placed on Highway 400 indicating exits to the citys major downtown shopping area because it was unsuccessful last year The city is informing Hart and the Downtown Area Improvement Board that council tried last year to have more signs from the ministry of transportation and com munication MTC Ald Ross Archer public works committee chairman said MTC told the city only me sign in each direction of travel is permitted and the wording on the signs is uniform in the province The present signs are located at Bayfield Street for the southbound traffic and Essa Road for the northbound traffic Ald Archer said the city tried to have signs for Bayfield Dunlop and Essa in both directions to indicate the citys downtown shopping area The MTC he said also re jected suggestion to have the signs at Bayfield and fisa indicate the next three exits lead to the downtown Only one entrance in each direction to the city can be in dicated as an entrance to the downtown business section hesaid Finish expected next week in Robinson murder trial By JOHN WROE Examiner Staff Reporter The murder trial of Eugene Robinson may last well into next week despite official ex pectations of completion this week The court calendar shows county court is to begin Mon day but it must go on in the same courtroom now oc cupied by the Supreme Court considering whether Robin son killed his wifc Karen last June 25 Robinson the final defence witness gave evidence Mon day and crown attorney John Murphy said then he ex pected to be two or three hours in his cross examination After spending about five hours questioning Robinson Tuesday Mr Mur phy was not near completion when court was adjourned for the day Robinson had testified Monday that he was robbed by two men who shot his wife when he failed to produce enough money He said that after one of the men killed his wife he struggled with the man in the spare bedroom of his house and took the gun from him Mr Murphy questioned him as to why he didnt tell the police about he struggle in the spare bedroom and Robinson said he couldnt recall exactly what he told police but knew he told them he had struggle FIRSTTIME Robinson said the first time he told anyone the complete story of what happened was when he had talked to his lawyer then Gord McTurk Mr McTurk was appointed judge and Paul Hermiston took over the case Mr Mur phy began questioning Robin son about just what he told Mr McTurk and Mr Her miston objected saying clientsolicitor conversations were privileged Mr Murphy questioned Robinson in another area then got back to conversa tions with the lawyer when he questioned in the area of handwashings Constable Frank Fraser of the Ontario Provincial Police took handwashings from Robinson the day of the murder He testifed that the prime purpose of the hand washin is to determine if person as fired gun but he thought they could also be used to perhaps trace the clothing of anyone Robinson had struggle with Mr Murphy asked when Robinson first knew that the handwashings could be used to determine if he had fired gun and he answered that he had learned it from his lawyer Again Mr Hermiston ob jected and Mr Justice Alan Goodman directed Mr Mur phy not to ask questions about lawyerclient conversations After Mr Murphy finishes his cross examination of Robinson he may call reply evidence to refute any evidence which came to light from the defence witnesses Depending on the amount of evidence it may be next week before all witnesses are heard After the evidence there will be submissions to the jury by Mr Hermiston and Mr Murphy and the judges charge to the jury The latter will probably take at least day since he must review the evidence for the jury CEMENT TRUCK was used to hold the estimated one million entry forms in Radio Shacks 450 draw Tuesday Company vice president Lorrie Clarke right icked the winner of trip or two to London England as hundreds of sub mitted forms spilled out the trucks chute Helping Mr Clarke are Jackie Christie and Donna Gregory of Radio Shacks advertising depart ment Examiner Photo Radio Shack uses mixer to pick contest winner When inore than one million reople across Canada respon ed to Radio Shacks mailin contest in celebration of the opening of the Barrie tirms 450th store there was problem The company couldnt find container big enough to hold all the submitted entry forms for the more than $30000 in prizes offered in the draw To the rescue came Sar jeant Co Ltd in Barrie which provided an empty cement truck Tuesday for the draw held at Radio Shacks headquarters on Bayview Drive Radio Shack is division of Tandy Electronics Ltd The company recently opened its newest retail outlet in the Ar ctic community of Inuvik NWT On hand for the draw were company vicepresident Lorrie Clarke and number of company executives and advertising personnel The cement mixer slowly rotated throughly mixing the entry forms and then spewed out several hundred forms down chute towards Mr Clarke who selected the lucky winners Winner of the first prize trip for two to London England for 16 days plus hotel accommodations and $500 cash was Workman 29 of Brandon Man Second and 1mm prize was QTA770 stereo system Fourth through 11th prize were other less expensive stereo systems Twelfth and 13th prize was travel voucher for $1000 to be used for two on Sunflight tour There were also 437 prizes of merchandise certificates valued from $100 to $10 TorontoCentred The Torontocentred plan is good alternative to Toron tos sprawl he said because it directs growth to other cities in southern Ontario But what about the rest of the province he asks There is danger in having all of the growth in this area We could en courage development in other regions There is need to examine growth alternatives Mr Wessenger said and that would be easier if there were master plan for develop ment He said other members of Barrie council also have felt odd about annexation because you dont really feel theres choice Maybe there is no alternative Rather than oppose the Region Plan the task force and the provincial government Barrie has decided to do the best planning we can with acceptance of the Barrie growth concept he said SOME RESERVATIONS have some reservations about it but its the lesser of two evils He said Barrie will use planning control on an ALD nexed areas have more confidence that the city of Barrie will exercise controls Smaller municipalities are more susceptible to develop ment pressures He said he is completely disappointed in Innisfils proposal to develop town of 17000 people at Alcona Beach onthe 8th line If you want to preserve farmland you dont build up an urban area in your municipality Such community within 15 miles of Barrie would result eventually in develop ment sprawl and one massive urban community hesaid Development of Alcona and annexation of only 6000 acres by Barrie are two major components of In nisfils proposed new official plan recently approved by township council MPP Arthur Evans said last week that Barries an nexation application will delay consideration of In nisfils official plan by provincial government agen cies No date for an OMB hearing has been set AUL WESSENGE Sara Maley named chief librarian Sara Maley has been ap pointed the new chief librarian of the Barrie Public Library replacing Constance Hardy who retires June 30 Mrs Maley who has been the head of adult services in the Barrie library for the past four years as well as Miss Hardys assistant was reference librarian in the sociology division of Van couver Public Library for fiveyears Miss Hardy ends career thatspansZOyears Mrs Maley worked at the Barrie Library in 1964 for two years as bookkeeper She left to take her degree in library sciences at the University of Toronto After her graduation in 1967 she went to Vancouver She returned to Barrie in 1972 to head the adult services bran ch The appointment was an nounced by Phyllis Johnston chairman of the Barrie public Librar Board Mrs John ston so announced the ap pointment of Andre Van Vugt as associate chief librarian At time when the board is planning expansion of library facilities and services in the community plus projected new building program within the next few years Andre Van Vugt the new associate chief librarian has been selected because he brings wide range of ex perience in library operations Mrs Johnston said Mr Van Vugt has worked for the Scarborough Public Library the ColchesterEast Hants Libra in Nova Scotia and with Midwestern Regional Library in Kit chener He will assume his new job in Barrie July Douglas Hamilton chair man of the selection com mittee which considered 17 applications for the position chief librarian The appointment of Mrs Maley and Mr Van Vugt as team to direct the future development of the library services in Barrie is in recognition of the fact that libaries are assuming larger role in the cultural and recreational life of Ontario communities Mrs John ston said