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EXAMINER TELEPHONES Circulation All Other Departments 112th YearNo ll2 Don Lee newlyelected president of the Kinsmens Club introduces his new ex ecutive for the coming season Front row left 7266539 Classntied Advertising 7282414 7266537 Doug Renault Treas Ferd Gatt vicepresident Uri Hess director John Ambrose vicepresident The Barrie Examiner Barrie Ontario Canada Wednesday May 12 1976 INTRODUCEIG THE NEW EXECUTIVE and Nick Borysenko secretary Back row left Tony Torr registrar Jack Angle director Russ Aldebert bulletin editor Bill Cowie director and Al Harris past president The election of the new officers rest was held at meeting at the Continental Inn Tuesday evening Ex aminer Photo Wessenger will seek NDP nomina tion at riding association meeting May 19 Paul Wessenger Barrie alderman and lawyer will seek the New Democratic Party nomination for Simcoe Centre at the riding associa tions nomination meeting Male Mr Wessenger 33 in his first try for political office last September doubled the NDP vote in the riding and ran close second to incum bent Progressive Conser vative Art Evans Mr Evan has announced he will not seek reelection The NDP collected 11628 votes or 339 per cent of the vote in Simcoe Centre which includes Barrie Bradford and Penetanguishene and the Townships of Vespra In nisfil Tiny Flos and West Gwillimbury The NDP nomination meeting will be held at pm at Trinity Anglican Church Hall 24 Collier St Barrie Stephen Lewis leader of the official opposition in the On tario Legislature will be guest speaker In announcing his can didacy Mr Wessenger said he has been encouraged by the interest shown in the next election by nonmembers as well as members of the party We have lost none of last falls momentum he said More and more people are coming to the realization that Stephen Lewis is the person most able to lead this pro vince He has proven himself an outstanding and rare leader who is able to combine such diverse attributes as toughness sensitivity and decisiveness Mr Wessenger said he does not expect provincial elec PALL WESSHNGER aldcrman City taxpayers face boost of 1142 to cover budgets Barrie taxpayers will pay an average 1142 per cent in crease this year to cover municipal and school board budgets The citys final budget is $15789763 including levies for the Simcoe County Board of Education and Simcoe TeI Lougheed that we pay thirty cents and not dollar more County Roman Catholic Separate School Board Herb Kirk city treasurer said $11203012 will have to be collected by taxes on residential commercial and industrial property in Barrie Residential land owners who are public school sup porters will pay an 1155 per cent increase this year They pay 2825 mills including 1481 for municipal purposes for public elementary schools and 644 for secondary schools Separate school supporters face 1129 per cent increase or 2845 mills with 1481 for municipal 72 for separate elementary and 644 for secondary schools Commercial and industrial property owners have an average 1145 per cent in crease Public school sup porters pay 3236 mills or 1153 per cent increase The public school sup CAPSULE NE WS Liberals will know today LONDON Reuter Britains demoralized Liberals will learn today whether Jo Grimond is prepared to come back and lead them again Three killed by shots KNOXVILLE Tenn AP Korean War veteran described by his mother as suffering from shell shock was held in lieu of $1 million bail today after allegedly firing highpowered rifle into downtown crowd killing three persons and wounding two others Four die in blast HOUSTON Tex AP Federal and state authorities began an investigation today into the freeway crash and ex plosion of tank truck that killed four persons and injured about 200 others Christians resume attack BEIRUT AP Rightwing Christians broke the ceasefire in the mountains east of Beirut today and resumed their attack on Moslems villages overlooking Christian territory porters are charged 1742 mills for municipal purposes 778 for elementary schools and 716 for secondary schools Separate school supporters will pay 3258 mills including 1742 for municipal for elementary separate schools and 716 for secondary schools This is an 1128 per cent increase mill equals onetenth of cent Tax payments can be calculated by multiplying the assessment of the property by the number of mills charged and dividing by 1000 An example is house assessed at $20000 for public school supporters The taxes this year are about $565 compa ed to $489 in 1975 and $44658in 1974 Downtown merchants and businessmen are facing an additional 226 mills to cover the cost of the downtown area improvement board The board set $45000 budget this year to promote and beautify the downtown area The additional levy will collect the necessary funds City residents are facing two more tax bills this year within one month of each other The third and fourth in stalment payments are due in August and September The payments are stag gered according to wards Ward residents must pay by Aug and Sept Ward Aug 11 and Sept 15 Ward Aug 18 and Sept 22 and Ward Aug 25 and Sept 29 Businesses in Barrie face one payment Sept The gap between residen tial and commercial industrial assessment is con tinuing to widen in Barrie This year the residential assessment is $237556034 or 6432 per cent of the toal $369327203 The commercial in dustrial assessment is $131771203 or 3568 per cent In 1973 the residential assessment was 6345 per cent of the total tion betore next spring Obviously the next elcc tion will be held when the PCs decide to call it The Liberals dont want an election and one can understand why he said It appears to he shap ing up as contest between moderate left anti moderate right which leaves no place for the Liberals Mr Wessenger said he will stress economic concerns such as jobs housing and the need for responsible financial mangement in govcrnmcnl The unemployment rate in Simcoe Centre one of the highest in the province is disgrace he said Jobs can and must be created here away from Metropolitan Toronto Results of housing study carried out by the Barrie city planning department are fur ther proof that young men must leave this area to find work he said The study showed there are more women than men between the ages of 15 and 35 in Barrie In areas such as Midland and Penetanguishcnc special government assistancc is needed to encourage the development of industry he said The alternate restraint measure to hospital closures would be reduction in spen ding on urban roads par ticularly in Toronto he sug gested Housing costs are also unacceptable and the govern ment does nothing Mr Wessenger said One way to reduce the cost of housing is to reduce the cost of land through some form of land banking Through leasing or sale cheaper land could then be provided to butldcrs and individuals He said he would like to see the rolc of the small builder and all small businessmen strengthened The government should take steps to stop the trend in both the private and public sector toward large struc tures and organizations The Dams government is synonymous with cen tralizaton he charged If this country and this province arc to move ahead cctmomically we must move away from society of con mutation and move toward society of cooperation practising lawyer for 12 years Mr Wessenger is the senior partner in Barrie law firm He was first elected to Barrie Tity ouncil in 1972 and in the 1974 municipal election lead the polls in his ward He is vicechairman of the Barrie city development committcc and member of the general government com mittee the housing commit tcc and the Barrie planning board former resident of oll ingwood he returned to Sim coe ounty with his family eight years ago His wife Mary Lou is former high school science teacher and the Wesscngcrs have three children Mr Wessenger is also on the board of stewards of Bur ton Avenue United Church Barrie and has been member of the Ontario NDP policy review committee for many years He obtained an honors economics degree and Bachelor of Law degree from the University of Toronto Girl wins top award at Orillia festival By MURIEL LEEIER Nena Kaczanowski has been awarded one of the top piano scholarships of the Orillia Kiwanis Music Festival The young Barrie musician will be presented with the $100 award tonight at the Festival program in rillia Next Tuesday May 18 Nena will perform at the Stars of the Festival pro gram at Georgian College Theatre Stars of the Festival will be NENA KACZANOWSKI an annual program spon sored by threc of the Musical Organizations in Barrie the Ontario Registered Music Teachers Association the Huronia Symphony and the Canadian Opera Guild All proceeds will be donated to the fireball and in the com ing years will help with the operations of the Firehall Arts Centre On the Tuesday night pro gram Susan Jay the other top scholarship winner of the Festival will also perform Susan Jay is Collegiate stu dentinElmvale Mary Jo Masterson top vocal scholarship winner will sing from Broadway Musical as well as Colleen Skinner vocalist who was awarded $50 scholarship Many of the young pianists from Barrie will play for the first time on the concert grand piano of Georgian Col lege Theatre Duets piano and accor dion flute solo cello and violin piano solos will make the pvaried The audience will hear Innisfil Central Public School choir with 120 voices The Alliston Brass Ensemble will travel to the auditorium to perform for the public Revitalization of Barries downtown should be priori ty program for city officials says Marshall Green chair man of the civic affairs com mittee of the Greater Barrie Chamber of Commerce Mr Green met the citys planning board Tuesday to discuss first draft policy statement prepared by his committee on the downtown core area feel Barrie can not put off the problems that exist in the downtown he said The first thing we have to do is raise the level of public con cern on the downtown and so we produced the policy state ment The planning board refer red the policy statement to the citys planning and development department for report as soon as possible The statement included three draft amendments to the citys official plan These are designate the core area as people place as the heart of the city and pro vide the community with sense of past present and future the core area should be the primary retail com mercial cultural enter tainment institutional recreational and ad ministrative centre for the city providing an area of vitality and pride all of this must be done within the framework of plan utilizing the max Airport group seeks hearing on city rezoning application Barries airport advisory committee wants public hearing on the citys applica tion to rezone 242 acres of 0112 ifiarrtr Examiner 15 Per Copy Carrier Home Delivery 85 Weekly 28 Pages FOR PLANNED NEW LOOK Down town priority urged by Green imum extent the beautiful yet natural setting MARSHALL GREEN chairman of the civic af fairs committee of the Greater Barrie Chamber of Commerce met the citys planning board Tuesday to discuss revitalization of land in Oro township for localairport Don McNall committee diairman said the commit No discussion yetsays board Barrie planning board wasnt prepared Tuesday to discuss proposed city policy governing future Subdivisions in medium density zones The policy was referred to the board Monday by city council after long debate on the merits of having the plan ning board members review the policy before decision was made The Cpolicy would put Assiste Home Ownership Program AHOP regula tions on all housing in R4 RM1234 and RA zones These are medium density zones for single family detached houses on small lots semidetached homes and small apartment buildings Ald Paul Wessenger board member said the The Canada Manpower Centre for Students is now in full operation As of this policy is one of the recom mendations inthe citys new housing study The only change made by the city development committee he said was to include the RAl zones Ken Byles vicechairman said the board could not discuss the policy because the members have not received copies of the housing study He said he is concerned about the blanket type of policy governing multiple zoning We havent had chance to see the logic behind the recommendation he said Rick Jones city planner said the copies of the hey will be delivered to the card members today Similar policies he said are in Oakville and some other municipalities preserve the unique natural environment the downtown Mr Green presented the board with draft policy statement for amendments to the citys official plan to improve the downtown Examiner Photo tee wants hearing so that all the facts may be brought out The city wants the land rezoned from agriculture believe Oros understan dable displeasure at the an nexation proposals in fluenced their judgement on the proposed airport he said believe when all the information on the potential advantages has been presented the Om council will review its position Mr McNall said the township will gain assess ment from the airport site because of the revised value of the land and any buildings constructed on it The net loss of ques tionable agricultural land would not exceed 20 to 25 per cent of the total he said The committee is in vestigating the possibility of establishing ocal airport for single engined and light twin engined airplanes at the site Mr McNall said the airport could be used by businesses in the area and possibly as one of the stopping points for the proposed Ontario Short Takeoff and Landing STOL commuter service The federal government liftii HECHNHELHUU GE ONLY YOU RRE ELY HOW TO HAVE YOUNG SUMMER week the centre has full staff and will be open daily at 28 Dunlop St upstairs The counsellors are left Jim Handy Marion Bailey Marilyn Mr Green said it does not matter how large Barrie grows or which direction the major portion of the growth is in the downton should still be the commercial and retail centre He said many muni cipalities in the province are preparing or have prepared statements in their official plans to protect and improve the downtown areas His committee he said is willing to help the citys plan ning board by preparing any background necessary or do ing the legwork Mr Green said some peo ple are opposing any changes to the citys official plan until after Barries annexation bid is completed But he said the downtown core has to be reassessed regardless of the results of annexation Mr Fairweather said one of his first recommendations would be to hold public meeting to get some input from residents and businessmen There are many segments of people along Dunlop Street he said with different ideas of how to improve the downtown Mr Green asked the board to wait for about two months until the chamber has chance to prepare and show slide presentation on downtowns in other municipalities has promised $75000 in grants but the possibility ex ists of the city receiving more money he said Mr McNall said the com mittee was appointed to in vestigate all aspects ofan air port in this area not major international jetport For the past several mon ths he said the committee investigated the possibility of establishing an airport at Oro and three other locations in cluding Canadian Forces Base Borden Communications with various levels of government and the department of natural defense regarding all sites have been carried out and are continuing he said The assumption that we are interested only in valuable agriculture land is in error The city owns 242 acres east of Guthrie and south of Highway 11 in the township When the rezoning ap plication was turned down Reeve Wallace Key said public hearing would be needed to explain the need for amunicipallyowned airport He said the city could take the rezoning to the Ontario Municipal Board OMB as well as its annexation ap plication Jeffery and Joanne Cameron Examiner Photo