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Barrie Examiner, 9 Jul 1976, p. 1

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flv EXAMINER TELEPHONES Circulation 776 6539 Classified Advertismg 728 2414 All Other Departments 7766537 Il2th YearNo 160 Behind the makeup and wig ts Pauline Worth 14 leader in training with the citys LAUGH CLOWN LAUGH summer recreation program She was at Codrington Public Clip The Barrie Examiner School Thursday helping at fun fair Examiner Photoi Flyers agree to terms for arena renovations The Barrie Flycts have agreed to the citys terms to renovate the secotid floor meeting room at the Barrie Arena on Diiiilop Street Steve tripps team manager said this morning the Ilyers ex ecutive agreed to go ahead with plans to renovate the room and operate booster cltib Mr ripps said he is meeting with Gary Stoner director of parks and recreation and Millet Salter architect this morning to discuss plans The llttS proposed reuova tiing the room at no cost to the city but wanted reduction iii arena rental rates The club wanted to pay $300 game rather than the $5130 for regular season games and $375 for playoffs charged by Barrie City council decided not to reduce the rental but was vill ing to pay one third the cost of reumatioiis The estimated cost is $24000 with the city Ilyers and Win tario pay iiig $5000 each The city is also permitting the Flycrs tree tise ot the renmated itea tor three years for booster club Mr ripps said the team ecutne ts it little disap pointed in the citys decision btit can Inc with the pro posal re really pltlSI happy that weyegot it hesaitt ltslong overdue He said the team has been fighting for facility inside the arena to operate booster club following home games The executive he said has not yet decided how the club will operate or how member ships will be sold One possibili ty he said is that season ticket holders will be admitted free Were still discussing the situation he said But were looking to pack the booster club every night The basic facilities will in clude bar area with capacity for 170 people The plans in clude glassiiig in the second floor foyer to protect spectators from flying piicks Mr ripps said the team would like to have the renovations completed by September but will be pleased if the work is done by the first home game in October He said more details about the plans should be available after this mornings meeting with Mr Stoner and Mr Salter Weather impedes aid for quake survivors JAKARTAiBeutert Heavy rain and lowlying mist have prevented urgently needed food and medical supplies from reaching survivors of the devastating earthquake in the remote central area of In donesian New Guinea home ministry spokesman said today More than 9000 people are feared dead after savage ear thquake started huge landslides in lrian Jaya province the In dtiiicsiaiictiiitrolled western section of the island of New CAPSULE NEWS Finally make arrangements Ttiitiixtti itI With jUSI eight days left before their departure deadline Canadian tlyers taking part in the world aerobatics chattipionships at Klt July 25 finally completed arrangements to ship their second plane to Europe team iiiaiiagci Vanessa Hammond said lhtiisday Paddling to Olympics TORONTO 41 About 75 boys aged nine to 18 will get chance to recreate history and participate in Canadas Olympic celebrations at the same time The boys trom amp Ivandalore near Maiden Ont will paddle hugecopy of the historic canot du mattre Montreal canoe of the early voyageurs from Halibtirton along the Trent waterway to tungsten where Olymr pic sailing events will take place 17 yachts unaccounted for HALIFAX 1Pl The Sighting Thursday of the British yacht Laurie leaves 17 vessels still unaccounted for in the Single handed transatlantic yacht race US jobs for nurses TORONTO tCIl Plans are being developed for hiring hall to help graduating nurses in Metropolitan Toronto get jobs in the United States where there is nursuig shortage says spokesman for Hunihcr College which is coordinating the hall Lord Thomson progressing LONDON tCP Lord Thomson of Fleet 82 is making steady gradual progress in hospital where he is being treated for chest infection spokesman said Thursday Guinea Otily 420 bodies have been recovered so ar The ministry spokesman said fleet of helicopters and other aircraft have converged on Jayapura the provincial capi tal with clothing food and medical supplies But the mercy fleet has been unable to drop their cargo in the stricken area as rain and mist shroud one of the worlds most isolated and inhospitable regions Government officials said that 15000 Villagers must be moved immtxiiately to another area for fear of further tremors The last tremor oc curred Sunday DElltOlT AP The Tai wanese Olympic team em broiled iii controversy with the Canadian government ov vcr participation in the Mon treal Olympics was stranded today at Detroit airport because of dispute over visas an Alleghany Airlines official said Barrie Ontario Canada FridaY JUY I976 The 45member team arrived at Detroit Metropolitan Airport this morning on flight from Dallas and Los Angeles They had been scheduled to River residents fed up with property damage By PETER DEIODESIA IlvaniiiierStaff Reporter Residents along the Severn River are fed lheyre Illt of building new docks and of repairing damage to any shoreline development Its time for some controls by the federal and provincial governments on boat wakes they say About 25 area residents most of them from the Severn River attended public meeting lhiirsday in Barrie of the Canada Ontario ltideauTrent Severn ItOltlSt advisory coin iiiittee The biggest complaints were boat speed and boat wake loliii Shannon Severn River resident said the government imposed eight iiiile lllhOlll speed limit is good but only it boaters obey il Many of the local people Iie said he said go along the river between 3i and 40 mph Mr Shannon said the pro blciii is that many local boaters insist on skiing along the river rather than travelling one and half miles to Sparrow Lake The banks are being washed away underneath the docks he said lheres been more damage in the last two years than in the previous 25 years on river WAKE PROBLEM Al McMullin said the major problem with most boats is not the speed but the wake At lower speeds the larger cruiser type boats have no problem with wakes but the smaller boats do Mr McMullin said there are two new boat types which are really causing problems along the waterways The first he said is the short DR ALLEN FISHER broad boats with too powerful engines which cannot plane at slower speeds The second is the large steel hulch houseboat types which also have too much pwcr John Jenkins resident in the Lock 42 area said the problem is not the speed boats travel at but the wake they make Mr Jenkins said the problem started when the government set fees for locks along the waterway He said many of the larger boats try to go through as many locks as possible in one day He said he agrees with any type of wake control which the COBTS organization can imple ment Ital Hookc committee chair man and representative from the Trent sector in Peter borough said many of the com ments were similar to discus British trying to trace woman left after raid NAIROBI Kenya Renter President ldi Ainiii of Uganda has agreed to meet British Iliin Commissioner James Hen nessy who is trying to trace Britislilsraeli woman left swims Excuse me sir Theres no news Shall use the Olympics may be cancelmt story agari behind iii the Israeli raid on En tebbe airport high com mission spokesman said today The British okcsman reached by telcp one from here said President Amin phoned the commission today to say he is cancelling all ap pointinents in order to meet Hennessy who returned urgen tly to Uganda on Thursday from leave in Britain Police arrest airline officials TOKYO iAIt The two top officials of Il Nippon Airways Japans biggest domestic airline are under arrest in the spreading Lockheed payoff scandal Four other executives of the line were arrested earlier Lockheed is reported to have spent $12 million in Japan to promote sales of its aircraft and at least $2 million of this allegedly went to government officials However no govern incnt officials have been named yet sion at other public meetings Mr llooke said the meeting was every bit as good as other meetings held by the commit tee and some new ideas were expressed The meeting was the third of series of public meetings held in municipalities along the Trent Rideau and Severn waterways Earlier in the lay OItlS committee members met with representatives of various municipalities to discuss shoreline development and sewage and waste treatment CONTROLS Mr Hooke said the major concern of many residents and cottages along the waterway is for control on the weight and displacement of boat Speed is not the important thing weight is he said Matty of the residents at the two earlier meetings he said seemed to favor the idea of licensing boat operators similar to the licencees necessary to operate cars Money from the licence fee he said could be used to police rivers and lakes in the pro Vince Dr Allan Fisher Simcoe Couchiching sector represcii tativc said the thing car drivers fear most is having their licences suspended Dr Fisher Barrie resident said not only would the licences mean boat operators would have to be trained but they would also give further iden tification if the boat is stolen or lost There is great need for policing yet we cant have policing without paying for it he said adding the licence fee could cover the cost Arch Brown past president of the Huronia Tourist Associa tion srmke against licensing boats and operators Mr Brown said the txaucracy needed to issue licences would eat tip major port ion of the revenue He said he supports the idea of registering boats with the government if the fee is used for the betterment of boating but is against an annual li cence tAnothcr page story photo on enora mayor takes exception to comments KENORA Ont Mayor William Iomashowski took strong exception Thursday to comment made by member of the Ontario Human Rights Commission that there may be racism in Kenora The mayor was addressing meeting called by the coniiiiis sion to review Ontarios human rights code and hear trom in terested citizens regarding possible changes to the code first written in 1062 The mayors remarks came after Bromley Armstrong one of the commissioners asked for comments regarding the In dianwtittesituatioii Longest Parliament endi with flourish By GERARD NIill OTTAWA itIi Canadas longest PHIIIRIIIQIII now in its 338th day is ending with dra matic and Significant flourish abolition of the death penalty anv Council President illI chell Sharp and other House leaders scheduled meeting to day to chart the last hours of debate of the abolition bill which appeared after series of votes Thursday night to be well on its way to becoming law in Canada Mr Sharp and John Reynolds PBumabyRichmond Delta who led hard fight for retention expected the final Commons vote to take place next Wednesday Three executions are sched uled for next Thursday This is all very optimistic but we would like to be out of here before the Olympics Mr Sharp said Thursday night The comment came after Rey nolds amendment that would have retained the death penalty for killing police or prison guar ds was defeated 132 to 117 in the 204 seat ommons It was the major test of the bill since it won approval lll principle by it ote of Hit to 12 June margin close enough then to comince the retention ists that they could still tIIIT IRIZSSL Mr Reynolds and Allan Law rence tPC Northumberland Durhami former attorney general of Ontario said heavy pressure on Liberals who want to retain hanging accounted for the defeat Some of them changed their minds Mr Lawrence said Others stayed away pur posely believe Howeve attendance was un usually heavy for mid summer vote Simnia Holt Lv Vancouver Kingwayt and Petei Elzmga iPCPembiaat were present With fractured legs in casts One member became ill during the vote and had to be helped from his seat Most of the 11 who were not present were in hospital or caught by commitments Al banie Morin IrvLouisHeterti is in hospital in Quebec City with cancer and Lincoln Alex ander iPt Hamilton West is in traction in Hamilton hospi tal with bad back External Affairs Minister Al lan MacEachen was in Paris on business and Erik Nielsen iItYukoni was in Whitehor se preparing for visit by party leader Joe Clark Jean Marchand received mighty threeminute ovation from Liberals and some Con servatives and New Democrats as he made his first appearance in the Commons Since resigning from the cabinet June 30 in protest against handling of bili ngualism issue ALSO PPLAIIHID Mr Clark and his predeccsr sor Robert Stanfield also won applause as they led scatter ing of Conservative abolition ISIS One was Bruce Halliday iPCOxfordi whose amend ment to give some killers choice between death or life in prison was soundly defeated He cheered as he later voted against the Reynolds amend ment SolicitorGeneral Warren lmand subdued figure who has led the tight for abolition taking personal punishment in the process also received hand With public opinion polls in Canada conststently running heavily in favor of hanging Mr Allmand has been prime tar get for abuse in long debate which began Feb 24 with In troduction of the abolition bill No one has been hanged in Canada since 1962 but 11 men are in death row The Trudeau government which has com muted five death sentences to life in prison since 1968 faced crisis unless the noose was abolished The current law which is due to expire in late 1977 provides for execution of convicted kill ers of police or prison employ ees The roposed law to replace it woud impose maximum sentence of life in prison with mandatory terms of 25 years for firstdegree murder and 10 years for seconddegree mur er leave Detroit for Rochester NY and then Montreal at 1045a in EDT The delegation had been scheduled to go frorn Los Ange les to hicago and Montreal However the team apparently went from the West Coast to Dallas then to Detroit officials said WANTS GUARANTEE The dispute between the team and the Canadian govarnr mcnt concerns whether the team will represent the Republic of hina or Taiwan WEATHER FORECAST sir The government has insisted the Chinese would not be allowed to enter Canada unless they guaranteed they would march as Taiwan and not dis play their flag or play the ita tional anthem When the Taiwan team ar rived in los Angeles on brief stopover en route to Detroit Lawrence Ting delegation leader accused ianada of breaking Olympic Committee rules by introducing politics iii to team selection tanada which recognizes the Peoples Republic of China has stated the Taiwanese can com pete not as representatives of the republic but as representa tives of Taiwan In 1936 Hitler was trying to intervene in the Olympic Games then taking place in Germany Ting said After the International Olympic Committees strong represen tation Hitler changed his mind and respected the IOC rules So really hope the anndian lead ers will somehow come to their senses if they are not worse than Hitler in terms of seiisi bility Union Jacks popular for Queen appearance WASHINGTON fli Dont nobody want the Ameri can flag Ihet uestion was asked good naturedly by city workman passing out small Ilnion Jacks and Stars and Stripes to eliil dren waiting to see Queen Elizabeth in her final ptiblic ap pearancc in Washington Ile got rid of all his flags out side the District Building which is what Washington calls its city hall But the Union Jacks went first Today after hanging in the hot humid air of Washington summer for two days the Brit iin flag vanished front the lamp posts around the White House Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip fly on to New York this morning on the next leg of their royal toiir Whlth will take them to Montreal for the opening of thetilviiipic Games Rain ends drought in Western Europe LONDON AIi Rain fell in Western Europe today bringing the first relief in the most serious dry spell on record in many areas It was the first appreciable rainfall in two weeks in most parts of Europe where tern peraturcs have been in the 30s Weather bureaus have re ported less than half of normal rainfall this year in much of Europe Agriculture experts said to days downpour in Denmark is worth millions of kroner to farmers The rain was lighter in north ern Italy and most of Central Europe and Britain where drought conditions continued Light rain fell at Englands Royal Birkdale golf course where the British Open is being played It was welcome con trast to the tinderlike condi tions that prevailed earlier in the week when play was stop ped once by brush fire along the course In Wales and Switzerland fishery officials reported thou sands of salmon and other fish Ed Hodges admires cer tificate signed by Prime Minister Trudeau presented to him Thursday in recognr tion of 39 years of federal have died because of lack of oxygen in depleted streams and rivers Swiss authorities ordered pri vatc swimming pools emptied and contemplated draining public swimming pools as well Tattle were allowed to graze in Belgiums forests as good pasturcland became scarce The price of beef ratio and labor unions called on the govern ment to freeze prices of vegcv tables and meat French dairymen fed sur lus bananas to cattle during ecd shortage An appeal for the British ar my to help tired London fire fighters battle brush fires came today from the London fire bri gades officers Fire officers have been work ing 24hour shifts to cover for ordinary firemen who are con ducting gtrslow in union dis pute over pay and other griev ances The Irish republic has not been hit by the drought and Dublin was flooded today after night of heavy rain Main roads Into the capital were in der water RECOGNITION OF SERVICE government service For the last 10 years Mr Hodges has worked at the Canada Man power office iii Barrie The certificate was presented by In their two days here the royal couple captured the It capital as decisively as the troops of her ancestors who burned the White House and part of the Capitol more thai 150 years go The Queens final public ap pearance was to accept the key to the city from Mayor Walter Washington in ceremony be fore she went on to glittering banquet at the British embassy in honor of President Ford and his wife Betty roll of applause drowned out the fifes and drums as she emerged with the mayor after the ceremony The Queen smiled and waved and walked toward her limousine WALKS INTO ROWD To the consternation of the secret service and uniformed metropolitan ilice she kept right on waking into the crowd smiling and passing remarks with the spectators Thursday was one long round of functions beginning at It in first to the New Zealand embassy to dedicate founda tion stone for new chancery on to the Washington Cathedral where the royal couple wit nessed the dedication of new nave to the tapitol for lunch on tothe District Building and back to Blair House to prepare for the dinner for the Fords and 82 other guests Then it was grand reception for List Somewhere in there the Queen managed time to Visit the rotunda of the Capitol to see Magna arta on display and on to the Smithsonian Institution to see dis lay of British treas ures Shea so squeezed in few minutes at the National Gal liry In addition to all this there was short time spent with the heads of foreign missions in Washington and time fora chat With the reporters and cam eramen covering the tour James Kelly program super V150 and acting manager Story on Page Ixaminer Photo

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