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Barrie Examiner, 3 Jul 1976, p. 1

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EXAMINER TELEPHONES Circulation Classified Advertising All Other Departments 112th YearNo 155 72645539 728 24H 7766537 The Barrie Examiner Barrie Ontario onado Saturday July l976 Chi Itiarrir Examiner l5 Per Copy Carrier Home Delivery 85 Weekly 26 Pages Cloudy WEATHER FORFCAST with frequent showers today Sunny with cloudy periods Sunday Low tonight 14 high Sunday 24 Four meetings set by planners Four public meetings are scheduled in July by the Bar rie lanning board for three resi ential and one commer cial property The board scheduled two meetings July 13 for Jack Stollar Construction Ltds proposal on Little Avenue west of the Canadian Na tional Railway line and for Barcor Developments Ltd for rezoning from residential to commercial for houses on the northwest corner of Bayfield and Wellington streets Two other meetings are scheduled July 27 for Broman Construction Ltds residen tial plan south of Baker Cres cent and north of Highway 400 and for single family detached and semidetached houses on Little Avenue east of Bayview Drive by Maxine Holdings Ltd Jack Stollar representing Stollar Construction is asking the city to rezone 2681 acres of land to residen tial from industrial The plan includes single family and semidetached units with 147 acres parkland dedication to the ex isting park site at Assikinack Public School Barcor Developments wants six older homes in the city rezoned for commercial use The company is willing to restore and renovate the buildings for commerical of fices The buildings are 1012 and 16 Wellington Street and 152 160 162164 and 166 Ba field Street The developer wil put in 52spot parking lot at the rear of the buildings 21 HOUSES Broman Construction which had attempted to re zone its 438 acres for townhouses at one time has plan for 21 single family detached houses The property south of Baker Crescent is near the highway and the planning department is asking for ad ditional buffering because of noise levels Also special building materials are included in the terms in the subdividers agreement to lower the noise levels The last public meeting is for Maxine Holdings on the south side of Little Avenue west of the Canadian Na tional Railway tracks public meeting was held in June and the plan was re drawn to comply with the comments made by residents at the meeting Townhouse units along Lit tle Avenue were deleted and 16 single family and 10 semi detached units were included remning is required for the singles and semis from second density single family detached to third density and multiple family for the semi detached units US team still in NEW YORK AP The United States is still in the Olympic Games at Montreal Apparently convinced that the International Olympic Committee 10C will not remove its sponsorship from the Games top US Olympic official said Friday night that the US team will be coming to Montreal If We understand to be fact that Lord Killanin president of the IOC has said the Games will be official Games then we believe we will participate in the Games said Don Miller executive director of the US CArsULE NE WS 76 Olympics Olympic Committee USOC Earlier Friday the USOC threatened to boycott the festiv ities scheduled for July 17 to Aug The USOC said it was afraid that the Montreal Olym pics were about to be down graded to international games The USOCs fears were based on published report in Mon treal Thursday which quoted an IOC official as saying We are in position one step removed from cancelling the Olympic Games The report said the 100 was considering withdraw ing its sponsorship of the Games President leading forces CAIRO Reuter Sudanese President Jaafar el Nimeiri is personally leading loyalist forces against military elements who tried to overthrow him Wednesday Sudanese government official aid today Violence kills youth TEL AVIV Reuter Violence broke out today in the Israelioccupied West Bank clashes late Friday in which town of Nablus following Arab youth was killed and 13 other persons injured witnesses said Bomb blasts ki BUENOS AIRES Reuteri At least 18 killed when bomb exploded police security department 11$ 18 rsons were Friday inside Argentine one of the most heavily guarded buildings in Buenos Aires Says agreement necessary OIIAWA CP Transport Minister Otto Lang said the governments recen king air traffic controllers nullify any future criticisms today agreement with English and pilots was necessary to they might have about the safety to bilingual air control when the service is eventually implemented in Quebec Blast rocks post office BOSTON AP An explosion that authorities said was caused by bomb caused extensive damage to in Seabrook NH less than 24 bings in the Boston area Al Harris president of the Barrie Kinsmen Club presents cheque for $5500 to Amson winner of the Kinsmen Pool Draw post office hours after three other bom KINSMEN POOL DRAW WINNER held June 12 at the Con tinental lnn Don Lee chairman of the draw wat ches the presentation Mr Amson had choice of It took lot of grunting and groaning but eventually they all made it to the bridge position This is one of the warm up exer SIMPLE WAY TO WARM UP cised learned by leaders for the Barrie Recreation Departments activity cen tres during an instructional session at Central Col legiate Wednesday after noon The leaders reviewed gymnastics and various Full flare publicity now follows Marchand OTTAWA CP Jean Mar chand for months lowprofile environment minister has broken into the full flare of publicity on several fronts in the last two days Once one of the most con troversial labor leaders in Que bec then an outspoken sup porter of bilingualism in Can ada later caught in the swirl of Sky Shops St Lawrence dredg ing and other minor con troversies he had almost drop ped from public sight after replacing Jeanne Sauve in January as environment minis ter Wednesday in protest of an agreement worked out by Tran sport Minister Otto Lang and air transport employee national associations to end nineday disruption of air traffic across the country he resigned as en vironment minister He will continue as private MP Thursday Prime Minister Trudeau officially accepted the resignation and Friday Mr Marchand started talking about either the cash or 20 feet by 40 feet inground swim ming pool Mr Amson took the money Examiner Photo JEAN MARCHANI his reasons for resigning Also Friday it became known that Ed Broadbent New Demo crat Party national leader had sent letter to Mr Trudeau in which he mentioned Mr Mar chand made allegations con cerning the former minister and asked what the prime minister planned to do in the circumstances NTOMIENTING Neither Mr Trudeau who was unavailable nor Mr Broadbent would discuss the contents of the letter The only comment from either was ter sc news release from Mr Broadbent that said can confirm that have written confidential letter to the prime minister and regret very much that the news of this rivate correspondence has en released will have nothing more to say on this matter until have received reply from the prime minister Mr Marchand on the other hand said in an interview from Quebec City broadcast on CBC radio and television that he un dersood the letter dealt with al legations connected to scan dal over dredging contracts for Hamilton harbor during the time he was transport minister He said the allegations were unfounded and simply not true adding that he had been told first of the letters exis tence Friday morning in con versation with Mr Trudeau He said the letter had nothing to do with his resignationIt is coincidence THREATENS SUIT Concerning the letter itself Mr Marchand said in the radio television interview thought Mr Broadbent could do better than that And if he repeats that outside the House hes going to be sued Struck by baseball fouryearold dies By THE CANADIAN PRESS fouryearrold boy killed Thursday when struck by baseball at campsite about 20 miles west of Calgary was among at least 31 persons who have died accidentally in Can ada so far this Dominion Day weekend survey by The Canadian Press from pm Wednesday to midnight Friday night local times also showed 25 traffic fa talities two drownings two persons killed in the crash of light aircraft and man elec trocuch when he touched high tension wire while cutting atree All of the deaths except three of the traffic fatalities and one of the drownings occurred be tween in Wednesday and midnight Thursday night The Canada Safety Council has predicted that between 66 and 71 persons will die in traffic in Canada by midnignt Sunday night Ontario had six traffic deaths drowning and the two airplane deaths and Quebec re ported four traffic fatalities and the electrocution British Columbia had eight traffic deaths and Saskatche wan reported four Alberta had three traffic fatalities drown ing and the baseball death No accidental deaths were re ported in Newfoundland Nova Scotia New Brunswick Prince Edward Island or Manitoba Thc survey excludes indus trial deaths slayings and known suicides ball games and concluded with game of floor hockey More photos on page Examiner Photo BURNED BODY IS EXAMINED STAYNER Ontario Provincial Police at Stayner were unable to identify person killed ear ly today in singlecar accident near New Lowell Cpl Robert Pretty said the badly burned body is being examined at Royal Victoria Hospital in Barrie The OPP were called to the scene of the accident on township sideroad at about am Cpl Pretty said he was not sure who had called or whether the car was on fire when police arrived The car was found in ditch The sex of the driver has not been determined and the time of the accident is notknown Balloonist just alive when found MOSCOW tAPi Balloonist Karl Thomas was barely liv ing when he was rescued at sea by Soviet ship following failure of his attempt to be the first person to soar across the Atlantic the newspaper lz vestia said Friday The government daily said Thomas 27 suffered multiple injuries in abandoning the bal loon and was circled by sharks several times while waiting for rescueonhislife raft Izvestia said an account of the end of Thomass flight was reported in radiogram from the captain of the Soviet cargo ship Dekabrist which picked up the balloonist Wednesday three days after radio contact with him was lost lzvestia said Thomas fired distress rockets at ship two to three miles away Tuesday af ternoon but they apparently were not seen More and more schools of sharks began to swim around the raft lzvestia said They sensed the smell of blood His rockets were finally seen Wednesday by the Soviet vessel Special crisis team in contact with hijackers holding hostages TEL AVIV iAPi special Israeli crisis team was in in direct contact today with the hi jackets of an Air France plane who have been holding 110 hos tagesniostly lsraelisat Kampala Uganda for almost week An aide in the office of lsraeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin said consultions are con tinuing but that all in formation on the meeting of top cabinet officials is classified The aide said there are no developments in the negotiations The hijackers who sav tbev are members of the Po ular Front for the Liberation Pal estine have set deadline of am EDT Sunday for the re lease of 53 extremists jailed in four countries 40 of them in Is rael They have threatened to blow up the plane and the hos tages if their demands are not met Israel which has no diplo matic relations with Uganda is being represented at the En tebbe Air rt where the has tages are ing held by French Ambassador Pierre Renard Renard and Somali Am bassador Hashi Abdullah are handling the direct meetings with the hijackers Israeli officials agreed to negotiate on the guerrillas de mands departure from longstanding Israeli policy of refusing to grant any demands by terrorists The captives remained in an old terminal building at the En tebbe Airport sleeping on ben ches and the floor The 12 crew members and 98 passengers from the Air France airbus hijacked Sunday on flight from Tel Aviv to Paris are re ported to have been treated well by the halfdozen Arab Palestinian and German hijackers Volunteers join the search for 14yearold girl PENETANGUISHENE About 150 volunteers joined 20 Ontario Provincial Police of ficers in miserable weather this morning to scour Tiny township for signs of 14year old Cindy Knowlton missing since Tuesday Members of the Midland Citizens Band rescue unit were helping in the search Sgt Len Doolittle said He was unable to say if the search directed by DetInsp Tom Lennon Toronto would continue Sunday Rainy weather prevented use of OPP helicopters said Cpl Wes Prosser of the Bar rie detachment Participating are officers from Barrie Orillia Elmvale Midland Shel burne and Alliston Prosser said the police an volunteers would con centrate on fields near roads in the Georgian Bay area of Tiny township between Wasaga Beach and Pene tanguishene Todays search was or gainzed after the apparent suicide Thursday of man who had been questioned about the disappearance of Cindy Knowlton Kenneth ordcsx Penetanguishcnc sho self in the basement home One of Miss Knowltons brothers told police he saw red pickup truck owned by Mr Cordes in the area where she was last seen Mr ordcs told police he had driven the girl to Wasaga Beach Miss Knowlton is five feet 10 inches tall and weighs 120 pounds When last soon she 27 of him of his was wearing yellow sleeveless Silifl white slacks and high platform shoes Age of majority cards now coming in to effect Staff at Barries two liquor stores are not yet demanding official age of majority cards as proof of age But some hotels in the city are refusing to serve young people who dont have the cards Issued by the provincial government the cards carry the persons photograph and state that he or she is over the age of 18 the legal drinking age Jack Lynn on staff at the Mary Street liquor store said Friday that Sidney Handleman minister of con sumer and commercial rela tions has encouraged stores operated by the Liquor Con trol Board of Ontario to ac cept only official cards as proof of age Torontoarea liquor stores may have been the first to respond to the ministers plea but Barrie stores have not Mr Lynn said dont think enough have been obtained yet It may be some time before we demand the cards Mr Lynn said Application forms for the free cards are available at li quor outlets and most bars Lynn Coutts at the Well ington Street store said the official policy has not changed so less reliable forms of proof of age are aC cepted drivers licences and birth certificates Most city hotels are asking for age of majority cards While spokesmen for the Simcoe Bayshore American and Brookdale hotels said they now demand the cards Wellington Hotel manager Andy Milne said they will be required at the Wellington when renovations are completed in the next month Harold Trapnell at the Queens Hotel said customers of questionable age are asked to produce the official cards but management will accept birth certificate or chauf feurs licence combined with social security card American Hotel manager John Maloney who has distributed 300 application forms for age of majority cards said he supports the concept because it takes burden off the shoulders of the hotel owner For serving liquor to minor even someone using false identification hotel owner can be fined and lose his liquor licence The official cards are Quebec controllers refuse to cooperate QUEBEC CP Quebec air traffic controllers vehemently refused Friday to cooperate with the federallyappointed commission inquiring into bili ngual air communications and threatened to take legal action against the commission Roger Demers president of the Association des Gens de Umpire Arnold Bellinger was the centre of minor uproar Friday in game between Tupperville and Leaside at the annual Bar rie Red Sox Baseball Tour nament Tup erville coach Dan Par argues RAIN PLA TO lAir du Quebec said in tele gram to federal Transport Min ister Otto Lang You have day by day infringed upon and trampled not only our honor and our language but the fun damental principles of natural justice deeplyrooted in Quebec in Canada and in thecivilized world UR with Bellinger over run he felt should have scored which was overruled Tup perville protested the game Last night tourna ment committee ruled that the game be played over Tupperville however NAMEN great help in curbing drink ing by minors said Bing Mayor manager of the Bayshore Motor Hotel We have to get tighter grip on things he said The official identification cards should be low ac cording to ins Mclnnes manager of the Brookdale Park Inn It would make it it lot easier on the establishments he said lot of kids borrow identifica tion and we cant really catch them all Tom Parker manager of the Simcoc llotcl said drivers licence should carry the drivers photograph to allow easy identification and discourage fraudulent use Two events for sailors Two sailing events are be ing held in the Barrie area today About 25 entrics are ex pected for the ygniis na tional championship at Hawkestonc Yacht Club which began this afternoon And about dozen sailboats are taking part in racc from the Barric Yacht lull in Lagoon City at Brccliin The Cygnus competition for boats between 16 and 2P feet long will feature throc races today and two on Sun day There Will it party mc dinner for participants tonight at the Hiirric Yacht Club After the 20milc rfitt ti Lagoon City liiiriii Yacht Club members Will stay over night at Brcchin and return Sunday to Bilfllt zit il ltlSllrt ly pace according to club member Digger Wilson declined and took the loss The rain plagued tourna ment was set to start this morning at the Fair Grounds after organizers decided to take chance with the weather Ex am iner Photo

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