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WEATHER FORECAST Mainly cloudy with few showers Saturday Low over night to High tomorrow 12 EXAMINER TELEPHONES Circulation 7266539 Classified Advertising 72824l4 All Other Departments 112th Year No l02 amt Eightyearold Mary Lou Jeebe Grade student at Allandale Heights public school finds herself sur RAG DOLLS 7266587 rounded by dolls at the schools open house Thursday night The hand made rag dolls were The Barrie Examiner pular display and were made by the Grade and students Story on Page Examiner Photo Mall parking hours main downtoWn topics Parking Dunlop Street mall and uniform store hours were the chief topics of discussion as two dozen downtown Barrie merchants turned out Thursday to hear and debate the Downtown Im provement Boards plans for thecomingyear The mall which would in volve closing Dunlop Street from Maple to Bayfield and from Bayfield to Mulcaster is tentatively scheduled for June and Friday and Saturday Garry McCluskey the boards promotions chair man said the board plans to keep the mall fairly basic for the first year to see whether it succeeds or fails in bringing business downtown Plans call for special decorations outdoor cafes and beer gardens on the street musical group at Memorial Square and an ex tensiive promotion cam paign Also under consideration is Friday evening dance Merchants present divided over whether the mall should be run for longer than two days Board members agreed to check with Orillia mer chants whose lengthy mall last year went well for few days and then flopped DETOURS Concern was expressed that the traffic stoppage and detours might harm the motel business but Mr Mc Cluskey said detours would be minor and would probably be outweighed by the extra people who would come to town to see the mall Detours would be arranged so that traffic could move from Dunlop Street to Simcoe Street and then continue east on Dunlop or use Collier Street Will Kempenfelt Kelly help downtown Barrie Kempenfelt Kelly the elusive Lake Simcoe monster is being heralded as the savior of Barries downtown Arch Brown owner of the Canadian Tire store on Dunlop Street West told the Downtown Improvement Boards general meeting he hopes curiosity about Kelly will draw people from Toron to and other areas into the downtown core to look at the lake Sightings of lakedwelling monster have been reported for decades most recently this month At present Mr Brown said The coffers of the Friends of the Fireball grew $1000 richer Thursday when the Littles llill Players we have the distinction of being the city where more people enter and exit without stopping than any city in Canada He said he would like to see even one per cent of the traf fic drawn downtown by monster stories Mr Brown said he is indif ferent to people who regard him as fool for his belief in monsters and to Mayor Dorian Parkers expressions of skepticism dont give damn whether her worship believes in Kempenfelt Kelly he said but hope those kids in Toronto believe in it donated giantsized che que toward the restoration of the historic building Marilyn Campbell vice Parking chairman Stu Green told the meeting board members will meet with Ald Ross Archer chairman of the citys public works commit tee to discuss an assortment of proposals to improve downtown parking NEW LOT Ideas to be suggested in clude an attended parking lot so that longterm parkers will not need to feed meters ban on arking in prime on street ocations until after stores open to keep employees from filling the best spaces shorter parking limits in some key areas construction of an additional level on the Collier Street parking garage and im proved publicity for such parking areas as do exist at present Suggestions from the floor included purchase of land on the south side of Worsley Street between Owen and Cla perton to replace the par ing taken up by the new federal building municipal policy of using parking funds to purchase land rather than build garages and debenture financing of such land pur chases Mr Green and Ald George Harper board member both said Barrie parking authority may have to be formed to deal with the pro blem number of merchants in the audience raised the issue inform store hours nothing that only few stores are open Friday nights or the day before holiday STORE HOURS Board secretary Bob Hollywood said uniform hours would be in the interest of the merchants but was unable to get the audience to agree on appropriate hours FIREHALL FUND GETS BIG DONATION president of the amateur actors group gave the che quevto Dennis Herring If Barrie expects to grow it needs an airport but not an international jetport says Don McNall chairman of the Barrie airport advisory com mittee Mr McNall private pilot said the city does not need Pickering type of airport to meet its needs The com Barrie Ontario Canada Friday April 30 1976 Cite flame Examiner 1014C 715 Per Copy Carrier Home Delivery 85 Weekly 26 Pages ADVISORY COMMITTEE SAYS Barrie must have airport mitteehe said is supporting local airport for smaller singleengine and light twin engine airplanes This pe of plane he said is used businesses and in dustries to transport person nel across the country If we dont get an airport then well be beautiful big Local airport for commuters local Barrie airport could be the base for airplane commuter service linking Simcoe County to major municipalities in Ontario Don McNall Barrie airport advisory committee chair man said local airport used by single engine and light twin engine airplanes could be built in the Barrie area And it could be the base for proposed provincial com muter air service linking Barrie to Montreal Ottawa Toronto and Windsor The service would use the short takeoff and landing STOL aircraft probably DeHavillands DASH7 The committee arranged STOL demonstration by the airplane company in June in the Barrie area for the benefit of city council Someone in this area is go ing to get the STOL flights Mr McNall said adding Midland and Orillia have an advantage with existing air ports With STOL in corporated in the airport it could be more commercially viable Mr McNall said the city could run the operation and collect some money from the various commercial outlets that operate at airports He said other fees could be charged to people who want to tie down airplanes over night and any possible STOL operations Development days set near Should the public school board decide to proceed with plans for 11 rofes sional development ays at the elementary level it will cost the separate school board ustunder $18000 Unli ast years the two boar did not work together on their school year schedules The separate board plans six professional development days while the public boards committee has pro posed11 Should the public board adopt this schedule there will automatically be five days on which the separate board will have to bus its students alone Because the days were $18000 not worked out jointly the dates do not coincide and could result in total of nine days during which the separate board will have to pay the total cost of transporting its students at cost of $2000 per day Ab Carr chairman of the public boards committee said he had met with the separate school board on this matter but felt the boards were too far apart on their plans to benefit from joint meeting Frank Macdonald direc tor of education for the separate school board said the separate board com mittee had been willing to meet with the public board Police find windows broken at Chrysler Police were called to Chrysler Canada Outboards Lorena Street premises Thursday to investigate com plaints of broken windows and blocked driveway Barrie police said today spokesman said police found two broken windows and no driveway blockage and no charges were laid Chrysler employees have been on strike for 11 weeks Police said they had been fundraising chairma Photo campaign Examiner called to the company remises Wednesday cause ickets were block ing riveway Pickets cleared the driveway when directed by sergeant police said The company began mov ing its products to dealers across picket lines Wednesday bedroom community he said Well have rough time attracting industries because businesses today travel by air and not with wheels on the ground Mr McNall said his com mittee has studied the possibility of developing an airport in the Barrie area but added public support is needed for the project Other communities he said are developing airports as incentives to industries to locate in there Two ex amples are Tillsonburg which built an airport in the 1960s with success and Corn wall which has decided to build one CITY DRAGGING Barrie is dragging its feet he said The advisory committee has established need If we had an airport five or six years ago there would have been marked ef fect on the citys develop ment The advisory committee was set up by city council last year after the federal govern ment said $75000 grant was available to Barrie Mr McNall said after talk ing to the ministry of transportation and com munication MTC at the pro vincial level and the federal Department of Transport DOT he believes more money is available Both have said if theres enough local support for the airport then theres all kinds of money available he said In the past any local groups looking for local airport never had any support of the community The committee he said as an offictal body of council is surveying city industries to see what the existing com panies want Most of the groundwork for the airport is completed he said saying the city pur chased 242 acres in Oro township in 1967 to develop an airport The land primarily rocky isrented COST RISES In 1970 the federal government funded survey and study of the property Maps showing the airports proposed runways and soil tests were prepared The estimated cost of the airport was $225000 for 3000 by 100 foot runway The federal government pro mised the city $175000 in grants Nothing was done It probably cost closer to $500000 to build the same thing now but thats very mugh estimate Mr McNall said The land is located 106 miles from downtown Barrie on Concession south of Highway 11 in relatively sparsely populated area It is zoned for agriculture but the city is applying to rezone it for local airport CAPSULE NE WS Investigation being urged LONDON Reuter Pressure increased in Parliament 303 for Scotland Yard investigation into allegations of ed currency deals inside the Bank of England Nurses were not consulted TORONTO CP No one consulted the nursing rofes sion when healthcare reductions were announce says Laura Barr executive director of ths Registered Nurses Association of Ontario Suspect gets life sentence FORT LAUDERDALE Fla AP Walter Rhodes one of three suspects charged with firstdegree murder in the slayings of state trooper and an Ontario Provincial Police corporal has been sentenced to life imprisonment in deal with prosecutors Kissinger off to Liberia KINSHASA Zaire AP US State Secretary Henry Kissinger left today for Liberia apgarently recovered from stomach upset ch kept him in ed Thursday Members seek successor BEIRUT AP Indepe ndent members of Lebanons parliament are looking for compromise candidate to sue ceed Christian President Suleiman Franjieh Moro expected to resign ROME Router Premier Aldo Moro appeared certain to resign today unless lastminute development saves his minority government and thus avoids general election which might bring Communist government to Italy Barrie Flyers centre Ron Robinson and his seven yearold son John get ready for the teams journey to Spokane Washington where the team will com pete for the Allan Cup The Eastern Canada cham FLYERS FF TO SP to bolster development pions left this morning from the Barrie Arena for Toronto and their flight to Spokane via Chicago There was some concern expressed earlier this week that the Flyers may not be OKANE able to ice full team in Spokane due to work com mitments by several players Barrie left only Don Pagnutti and Ken Knapton behind this morn ing Examiner Photo Mormon Canada president to visit here tomorrow Russ Ballard president of the Mormon Canada Toronto mission and newlychosen member of his churchs First Quorum 0f 70 will speak Saturday at pm at the Church of Jesus Christ of LatterDay Saints 79 Ferris LaneinBarrie Mr Ballard 47 Salt Lake City native now based in Bramptdn has been in SENIOR CITIZENS PREP FOR PAR TY Second annual Senior Citizens party will be held by the Kiwanis Club of Barrie at Holiday hm Saturday starting atx pm About 500 invitations have been sent to the various senior clubs homes and churches in the district Last years party attracted more than 400 guests There are about 1200 seniors registered in the city area alone This year it is hoped to have many present who were unable to get invitations in 1975 Kiwanian Jim Paul will be master of ceremonies Ross Stephens official greeter Bob Jackson and Ken Walls in charge of music Wayne Pennett transporta tion by bus Star entertainers will be singer Bruce Owen Barrie lawyer and pianist Gerald Death of Orillia Kiwanis Club Refreshments will be handled by the Kiwanis Womens Auxiliary and Kiwanian John Green of Holiday In OPENING Thursday was openin night for the Littles Hi Players production The Man Who Came To Din ner The play is dramatic comedy of big tim New York columnist who feigns broken hip in small town Peter Noy star of the show playing tr IGHT FOR COMEDY HIT charge of about half of tarios 51 Mormon congrega tions as well as 200 young missmnaries Slll 1974 This month he was ap pointed to the newlyformed First Quorum of To by church president Spencer Kimball whom Mormons believe to be alivingprophet In his new role Mr Ballard one of 14 men so far appointed to the body will assist the ouncil of 12 Apostles the churchs gover ning body in supervising missionary work and growth He is expected to rcmain at the helm of the Canada Toronto mission until his threeyear term expires in July1977 Before coming to Ontario Mr Ballard spent and half years in England as mis sionary beginning at age It and 24 years in automotive sales and real estate During his business career which will end as result of his ap pointment to the First Quorum of70 be twice served as bishop of his local con gregation in Salt lakeitv Sheridan Whitesidc gesticulates over cockroach colony to Aaron Dka as Bert Jefferson ExaminerlhotoE