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Barrie Examiner, 17 Jun 1976, p. 19

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Marijuana LSD cocaineits all here in Barrie policeman say By RICHARD DUNSTAN seiZed the Same quantity of drugs already Examiner Staff Reporter this year as in the first 10 months of 1975 However he said local seizures can vary Barrie like every other community has Widely according to drug availability in drug problem Sgt Robert McKenzie of Toronto source of 99 per cent of the Barrie the city police told the Barrie Builders supply Association Thursday He told the audience of two dozen they Theres no sense pulling any punches should push legislators for harsher drug wecansay right nowthatwedohesaid penalties and should turn in their own He said drugs are in virtually all Barrie children if they become drugusers public schools at the Grade or Grade Sgt McKenzie said 90 per cent of Bar level LSD has again become real pro ries drug problem relates to soft drugs blem after an absence of some years and such as marijuana and hishish with LSD incidents of unsuspecting youngsters being and similar synthetic drugs accounting for slipped LSD happen all the time at teen most of the remainder dances here In addition he said small amounts of co In addition he said the city force has caine drug he said shows signs of tak ing the place of heroin in the drug world are showing up locally He said he had no knowledge of heroin use here but would not flatly state there is none DEVASTATING LSD he said is one of the most devastating drugs known to mankind and can cause injury or death by creating unbearable hallucinations and impairing perception Flashback hallucinations can occur up to two years after the original 12 hour trip he said Unlike many other drugs he said LSD is largely domestic product Theres illicit labs all over Ontario he said In fact Canada is one of the main suppliers for the United States of LSD Marijuana and hashish marijuana He said the next four or five years may derivative are largely imported he said answer the question as children are born to Ontariogrown marijuana is real gap eneration of marijuana users Mean bage containing only three per cent wh he would hate to see the day soft THC the narcotic ingredient Mexican drugs are legalized because of the doubt marijuana he said has 12 to 15 per cent that they aresafe THC because of more suitable growing Instead of considering legalizing it climate solid hashish has up to 25 per they should be tripling the penalties on it cent and liquid hashish as much as 51 per hesaid cent However he said after the meeting he Sgt McKenzie said it is not reliably would have to sugport legislation legaliz known whether soft dru such as mari marijuana an hashish if it also pro juana cause physiological amage vi ed for severe crackdown on LSD Co have never read anything that Would caine speed heroin and other more convince me one way or the other he dangerousdrugs said For everyone who says yes Sgt McKenzie said police know about 80 theres one who saysno per cent of the drug users in Barrie but must catch them in possession of drugs in order to prosecute He said police concen trate on catching dealers rather than users and place higher priority on LSD than on marijuana Royal Canadian Mounted Police the On tario Provincial Police and local forces such as Barries are all involved in the war on drugs he said Arrayed against them is organized crime which he said is responsi ble for 90 per cent of the drugs coming into Canada He told listeners drugs may turn up in anybodys family and turning in ones own child may be the hardest decision in an en tiredlifetime but its the only thing you can EXAMINER TELEPHONES WEATHER FORECAST Circulolon 726 6539 Sunny warmer today warm and humid Saturday With Clossdied Advertising 728 7414 showers or thunderstorms All Other Departments 7266537 1i gmganylaaolg7tco 17 Cu high 112th Year No143 The Barrie Examiner Barrie Ontario Canada Friday June I8 I976 Per Copy Carrier Home Delivery 85 Weekly 20Pages Weeklong nurses strike set to end Simcoe Countys striking public health nurses feel great about returning to work Monday Lillian Fralick president of Ontario Nurses Association Local 37 said today This was strike to end strikes she said of the provincewide oneweek walkout which idled about 30 fulltime nurses at the Simcoe Country District Health Unit Nurses at 26 health units across the province struck this week to back demands for compulsory arbitration of contract disputes and to sup port nurses who have been locked out at some units Along with compulsory ar bitration nurses want legis lation outlawing future strikes Mrs Fralick said nurses collected more than 2000 signatures locally on peti tion backing their demands Some 60000 petitions were collected across the province Nurses here are out an en tire weeks pay due to the strike Mrs Fralick said because there was no strike pay such as is often provided from union funds in strikes in other fields Provincial labor minister Bette Stephenson health minister Frank Miller and representatives of the As sociation of Boards of Health are to meet to discuss nurses demands that the govern ment order boards to submit disputes to arbitration Nurses from eight of the 26 striking locals will be unable to return to work next week because they have been locked out by their health boards pending settlement of disputes Chief issues in the dispute at the Simcoe County unit are arbitration and nurses demands for wage parity with their counterparts at hospitals Health board oflt ficials here have offered six per cent increase rather than the 24 to 27per cent hike they say would be needed to achieve parity and health board chairman Ross Ste phens has said no more money is available because of provincial funding restraints Talks here broke down March 12 after one session with provincial conciliators Death penalty asked LUANDA AP To cries of Death from courtroom spectators government prosecutor demanded the firing squad for 13 white mercenaries captured in the Angola civil war Returnable bottles TORONTO CP Eric Cunningham Wentworth North said Thursday it appears the government finally is ready to take some action to encourage the use of retur nable containers Bomb kills police chief BUENOS AIRES AP bomb killed federal police chief BrigGen Cesareo Cardozo early today as he returned home with his wife mother and daughter police said Smith backs boycott TORONTO CP Liberal Leader Stuart Smith asked the government to join his party in oneday boycott of pro vincial liquor stores Thursday Hospital strike in Quebec MONTREAL CP Medical services in Quebec were curtailed today as almost 80000 hospital workers and 5500 nurses began an unlirrited general strike Ashley Taylor 13 Grade student at Steele Street School was one of three youngsters who got together Thursday at Eastview Secondary School to see who could jump the most tires on EVEL KNIEVEL IT WASNT BARRIEREA rcnl rc vicw manager Bob Bentlcy right discusses policy with Bill Robbins executivedirector of the program Mr Robbins held media press conference in Barrie Thursday to pro sent progress report on the program Examiner Ihotot Rent review Whats that Ontario residents still ask By PETER LESNIAK Examiner Staff Reporter Despite all the free publici ty and millions spent in government advertising there are still quite few tenants unaware of Ontarios rent review program and paying illegal rent increases So said Bob Bentley Barrie rent review manager and other program officials Thursday who are touring the province to drum up business and to present pro gram progress reports Sincc the program was launched in February 14211 hearings have been held in volving some 11956 units resulting in rollbacks from the average requested in crease of 2104 per cent to 1401 per cent rent review executivedirector Bill Rob binssaid The average monthly rent in the province has been reduced from $21962 to $20686 under the program which limits maximum an nual rent increases without rent review to eight per cent Any increases greater than eight per cent is illegal unless justified before rent review W9 bicycle thcrs par ticipating in the contest which the youngsters said had parental approval officer at hearing In the Barrie district which includes Simcoe foun ty and Muskoka average rent increases granted amountcd to 13 per cent for an average allowable month ly rent of $19015 according to statistics complied by rcnt revicwofficials DISTURIIII These figures are somewhat distorted Mr Bentley said due to the inor dinately largc percentage of mobile homcs in the area for which rents were adjusted He added the average lil lowed monthly rent is actual ly lower here The Ontario government has budgeted Skimillion for the first fiscal ycar of the pro gram which is slated to for minatc Aug 1977 and ex pools to hold some 7000 hear ings There are 12million rental units in the province and rent review officials estimate that for every unit that gocs to hearing there are five where landlords themselves have limited rent increases lo eight per ccnt Mr Robbins said were Rick Bcatty and Ron Wall Ihoto both Examiner l4 Officials again made assurances that the way th present program is struc turcdwon costpass through bums it is not suitable for long term extension Mr Robbins said the pro gram is intended to be com plementary to the federal governments antiinflation legislation which is tem porary hedge against spirall ing wages and prices Whether the program be comes permanent will be assessed next summer after officials and politicians weigh lllf impacts against the bcncfits Mr Robbins said So far he said its too premature to say what affect rciit review has had on the supply of rental accommodav tion Its difficult to sort out im pacts from some other things Mr Robbins said lie noted that the present slowdown in apartment buildings construction is par tially the result of rent review but high land costs and high mortgage interests rates have also had an in fluence The government has only bad to take legal action against one landlord who has refused to comply with the legislation The matter is now before the courts and will be test case of the legislation Mr Robbins said Another fact about rent review which many tenants are unaware of is that its possible request hearing to have landlord justify rent increase of less than eight per cent Mr Robbins said nly justified increases in costs to the landlord will be permitted to be asscd on to the tenant Robbins said The legislation docs not increase landlords pro fits but it does not allow for rent increases to offset financial loss situation Truck driver charged LONDON nt CP Christian Herbert Harold Magoo 28 Strathroy Ont truck driver was charged Thursday with the death Tuesday of 15yea rold girl PoliCe said Magee was ar rested in Strathroy about 20 miles west of here and will be taken to the Lambton County jail in Sarnia The partiallyclad body of Susan Lynne Scholes of Lon don Ont was found in field about five miles west of Forest Ont Death was caused by punctured wind pipe Police said Magee will ap pear today in provincial court at Sarnia WES FIND 0M As result of an Examiner story Jim Howes and his family have found new apartment that they can af ford and theyll be moving at the end of the month Mr Howes said today the owner of two bedroom apartment at 173 Collier St called him yesterday saying the place was available at SlSOamonth Mr Ilowcs his wife June and their threeyearold son Robert are pleased with their new accommodations and are looking forward to movingin lie is night janitor and earns the minimum provin cial wage and has had pro blems finding an apartment since he was told to evict his 15 Duniop St residence because the landlord would liketodorepairs Seniors building prOposed here Plans for senior citizens apartment building in Barrie were unveiled this week and sent to city hall departments forcomment The three storey building will have 52 of the proposed 92 artments built in the first pliase of the project The location is bounded by Holgatc Street Bayview Drive William Street and Baldwin Lane Wayman Fairweathcr rector of di planning and development said the On tario Housing Corp OHC which manages the building has not changed any of the parking or recreation facilities in the building Original plans for five storey building were scrap ped this year when detailed soil tests revealed the proper ty could not support the weight of the building Mr Fairweather said the building will take advantage of the contours of the site with each floor having ground level entrance It may be more expensive to build it this way he said No units will be below the ground level because of the slope of theland The land was sold by the In dependent Order of Odd fellows to the city which sold it to the OHC for the construc tion of senior citizens apartment building Trudeau labor boss to continue talks OTTAWA CP Canadian Labor Congress CLC presi dent Joe Morris and Prime Minister Trudeau trapped by crush of shoving reporters an nounced plans Thursday to con tinue consultating on labors demand for greater role in so cial and economic policymak in 153m they brushed off per sistent requests for details of their twohour meeting at the plush labor department offices in nearby Hull Que think We are being pretty cagey both of us said Mr Tnideau as reporters and cam eramen jockeyed for position The prime minister mocking the chaotic scrambling for quotes as both men emerged from the meeting stuck bor rowed microphone in the CLC leaders face and asked Well how did it go Mr Morris Mr Morris grinned but did not reply although he later said government and labor representatives have agreed to meet again July 12 but we labor havent backed off on any position And Mr Trudeau said the cabinet representatives did not discuss powersharing with the CLC The labor movement hasnt asked thus far to be part of the cabinet EQUAL SAY IS OUT Earlier Thursday Mr Trudeau told the Commons la bor cannot have an equal say in national decisionmaking be cause we answer to Parlia ment not to any particular movement However he said the govern ment was willing to examine methods of giving labor more say in forming social and eco nomic policies CLC manifesto adopted last month at its national Con vention calls for immediate withdrawal of federal wage and price controls It also demands an equal voice for labor with business and government in national decisionmaking Mr Morris said labors posi tion on wage and price controls is well known and we didnt have to discuss that today When he evaded specific questions on the likelihood of general strike to protest the an tiinflation program the prime minister interjected You never announce gen eral strike in advance When he calls it we will all be sur prised Torontobased developer is considering $1 million lawsuit against the city the plann ing director and Ald Jim Perri Lou Kozlov partner in Chez Belle Devel opments Ltd told The Examiner this morn ing he is considering suing the city Wayman Fairweather and Ald Perri Mr Kozlov said he has list of damages the city cost him in the last few years with the develo ment of his Cundles an west of Bayfiel Cproperty north of Street Im only considering it and havent taken any action yet he said The developer said he has list of 21 items against Ald Perri including legal battle few years ago when Chez Belle fou ght the ci ty about the number of lots in Riverwood Farm subdivision They keep pushing me and pushing me and pushing me he said this morning dont want toldo it but theres no other alter native Mr Kozlov said his lawyers and partner talked him out of proceeding with lawsuit earlier against the city Mr Fairweather and Ald Perri Iv told them we wont get anything until we do he said This is the only kind of thing they the city understand OPP wont cut back TrentSevern patrols From The Toronto Bureau of Thomson Newspapers TORONTO Ontario Pro vincial Police waterway patrols on the TrentSevern system will not be cut back due to transfer of units to the Olympic sailing events at Kingston solicitor general John MacBeth told the Legislature Thursday Earlier this week he in dicated there pr0bably would be decrease in servicee Instead the launches used will be replaced by smaller skiffs he said The original question on the matter was raised by MPP Gordon Smith PCSimcoe East who sought assurances the TrentSevern patrolling wouldnt suffer because of Olympic duties Eight launches one skiff 50 vehicles and 350 men from the OPP are assigned to securit duties at Kingston seven ays week for seven weeks Mr MacBeth said Because all OPP vacations are being cancelled during Wife charged in slaying RAMA Eileen Sawyer age 49 charged with murder punishable by life imprison ment in the death of her hus band Orville Glenville Sayer age 41 is scheduled to appear in Orillia Provincial Court on Tuesday Orville Sawyer was found stabbed to death in his home on Rama Indian Reserve Wednesday night Mrs Sawyer is now in Bar rieJail PLANNING DIRECTORS VIEW Down town core needs positive action An amendment to Barries Official Plan alone is not enough in itself to revitalize the city core and make it the prime commercial and busi ness area of the city says city planning director Wayman Fairweather The plan should be amended as the civic affairs committee of the Greater Barrie Chamber of Com merce has suggested he said but more positive action is needed to help the city core com te effectively with the Bay ield malls for shoppers Efforts such as the recent twoday downtown mall gave the core tremendous boost and made people aware of what fun place the city cen tre can be he said He added the mail has pro ven itself as peoplegetter and boon to downtown mer chants who have been left in the shadow of heavy mall development on the city boun dary dont like throwing bricks but Id like to be part of something substantial be in done to help the core be sad PUBLIC MEETINGS He said city planning staff will soon hold public meetings to find out what residents want of their downtoWn he said The first of such meetin could be held in July or ear August There are many cities worse off then Barrie Some dont even have good peri heral development and resi ents do all or most of their business in another city Other cities such as Lon don 0nt or Calgary are far ahead and have made their cores into real people places hesaid The Cal ary downtown was paved wi warm rustic redish brick instead of asphalt to enhance its attrac tiveness In London the streets were widened and the travelled portion of the road was reduced This cut down the amount of automobile traffic in the core and attracted more estrianshesaid Similar things can be done in Barrie to improve the core Bfoviding people want them Fairweather said The city still has chance to maintain and enhance its the period the rest of the pro vince will suffer only slight reduction in service he said Waterway patrols will not be reduced Launches being transferred from Barrie and Orillia will be replaced by two skiffs from Orillia for use on Lake Simcoe and the Trent system Midland already has skiff for use when its launch goes to Kingston Additional coverage will be provided by launch at Parry Sound and skiffs at Hale and Bracebridge Total cost of OPP protec tion at the Kingston events is estimated at $19 million which Mr MacBeth said may be recovered but Im not looking for much success from the Olympic committee in Montreal hevtks Vol ijfi li Due to unforeseen circumstances it has befaIen me to announce to those occupying positions related to todays proceedings that the building is on fire downtown To find out what some downtOWn businessmen think of the city core The Examiner conducted number of inter views Most of those talked to had just made or are in the pro cess of making substantial im rovements to their stores an businesses Although these busi nessmen had invested lot of money in the improvements most were concerned with the cores future Most wanted to see some form of major redevelopment take place to give the core focus and attract the people needed to make downtown businesses thrive See todays Page for stories and pictures

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