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PASADENA Calif AP The American Viking space craft landed today on dusty plain of Mars to search for life on the red planet In spec tacular space achievement Viking began sending back razorsharp photos of the planets surface The pictures arrived dramatically appearing line by line on television monitors Viking spacecraft lands on Mars heightened the tension in the project laboratory The details are just incred ible said Dr Thomas Mutch head of the lander imaging team It just couldnt be better he said as the first picture portion of the surface directly under one leg of the lander ap peared on TV monitors at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory peaks and deep valleys and craters LOOKING FOR LIFE Later the unmanned three legged lander will make 1ifede tection and soil sampling tests For more than 100 years scien tists have thought Mars might harbor some form of life Scientists cheered and hugged each other as the 1300 after travelling Mars EXAMINER TELEPHONES Circulation Classdied Advertismg All Other Departments 112th YearNo 169 213 million miles at the speed of light The failure of two earlier Soviet landing crafts here Planitia had 726 6539 728 14 7766537 It was of the Chryse the Gold Plain of Marsthe smoothest place on planet marked by volcanic The Barrie Examiner pound craft radioed that it touched down on Mars at 453 am The signal took 19 minutes to Che flame Examiner IS Per Copy Carrier Home Delivery 85 Weekly PDT 753 am EDT reach earth For many the achievement was childhood dream come true7 Mars lan ding President Ford telephoned his con ratulations to the project eadquarters calling he mission wonderful and most remarkable success Ford said think its amaz ing that in the span of single lifetime the exploration of space has grown from the dreams of very very few indi viduals to such massive co operative reality Science fiction writer Ray Bradbury was at the laboratory for the touchdown his dreams racing ahead of the Viking mis sion know in the next 20 years well have manned landing on Marseventually well have colonized and taken over the planet Bradbury said CHUNKs or ROCK looked as though some of the rocks had tails of dirt formed by the rushing of strong Mar tian winds across the surface Scientists had expected the landing site low plain where streams may once have run would be covered by blanket of material de osited by the water Althoug the pictures showed rocky surface the lander ap arently avoided any ture could be seen one of Vik ings round metal landing foot pads The rivets on the footpad were visible and the footpad cast an oval shadow in the late afternoon sun as it rested on the soil among the rocks which Mulch described as beautiful collection of boulders The second picture was to be panoramic view of the Mar The first picture showed an area of soil strewn with what seemed to be chunks of rock of varying sizes Mutch said it Barrie Ontario Canada Tuesday July 20 1976 geologic azards that officials had feared might iin peril the touchdown In the corner of the first pic project the horizon tian landscape made by cam era on the lander with the abil ity to sweep long path across WEATHER FORECAST Pages Promotion fr city JAMES GREENIIALGH appointed man James Greenhalgh vice president finance of 1eVilbiss Canada Ltd since 1967 has been appointed vice president and general manager of the Barriebased firm The appointment follows the promotion of president Gerry Williams to the presidency of the DeVilbiss Company the Canadian operations parent firm in Toledo Ohio Mr Greenhalgh joined the firm in 1953 and was named secretarytreasurer in 1954 He is past president of the Barrie Manufacturers Association and served 11 years on Barries planning board The Barrie plant produces air compressors coating applica tion equipment and health care products Nine released in fire probe DETROIT AP Detroit police say they released nine rsons who were questioned ollowing fire that killed six rsons and left two others in capital with severe burns N0 warrants were issued by Monday in what police said ap pears to be firebombing which might have been linked to nei hborliood feud nine persons questioned were all neighbors of Mary Broomc 46 who remained in hospital in critical condition today after the Sunday morning fire that destroyed her home Lieut Robert Hislop of the police homicide section said the case has been difficult to in vestigate because most of the physical evidence was destroyed in the fire Four of Mrs Broomes children and two of her grand children died in the blaze Her son Edward 22 remained in hospital with burns over 35 per cent of his body Six other fami 1y members escaped with mi nor injuries Mrs Broomes oldest son Albert 26 who lives in the Detroit suburb of River Rouge said nearby family threatened to burn my mothers house down Musician exmanager sentenced to 75 years MACON la iAl John Herring 36 former road manager to rock musician Gregg Allnian was sentenced Monday to 75 years in prison for drug trafficking US District ourt Judge Wilbur Owens said he would review the sentence in three months Authorities say they have been seeking Herrings help in investigations in central Georgia Allman was granted imiiiuiii ty to testify in Herrings trial last month The former mechanic was found guilty of five counts of conspiring to sell cocaine and other drugs The public tells me that Mr llcrriiig is nothing but scatwgoat the judge said in passing sentence They say the person who ought to be pro secutcd is Mr Allinan and all the other people who made Mr Herring do what he did He said they are overlook ing the fact there is gigantic differencc between those who use drugs and those who traffic in them Girl survives mobile home ordeal BLOOMINUIUN Ind tAl threeycarold girl sur vivcd five days locked in mobile home after her mother died She tried to feed her baby sister but the infant aged four months died by dehydration police say Michellc Lynn Percificld told authorities shc lived on milk and other food she found in il refrigerator after her mother died last Wednesday Joyce Marie lcrcificld 28 divorcee apparently fell out of bed while taking nap officials said They said the infant Angel Maric probably died Saturday of dehydration The deaths were discovered Sunday when relatives tried to visit the lercifields Nciglibois iii the mobile home park in which the Iercifields lived told investigators thcv did not sec or hear anything unusual during the five days Michelle was taken to hos pital for examination and later released to thi care of her grandmother SEEING THE SIGHTS BY BUS ELSIE DUCKWORTII and Bill MCKeOVRir residents of Kempenfelt Manor talk with Travelways bus driver Perry Rawn Monday when he took about 20 residents to see the sights of Barrie on new TRAVEL BIS drn cr lciiy Rawii helps Elszc Duckwortli rcsidcni oi Kcinjwntclt Manor onto bus by an automatic llll ciilinnct llic tiiis Travelways renovated bus which accommodates wheel chair passengers According to Bob Miller marketing representative for Travclwuys the bus was bore rowed from Toronto to test rciioyaicd by lrayclways to ltttillllllllliilt 1t ilicclcliau passengers iiid 1t rcgiilni 51th About 21 liwltliuls Rttitpcntci Imm suit tin COULD SPREAD TO COMMONWEALTH GAMES African nations boycott of Olympics gains momen tum MONTREAL itl Olyin pic performances included everything from perfection to scandal Monday while an African boycott gained momen tum amid predictions it could spread to the 1978 tom monwealth Games in Ed monton On the rts front fans mar yelled at skill of Romanias dimunitive gymnast Nadia Conianeci who turned in her third perfect rformancc the first ever ful marks awarded in Olympic competition Spectators were flab bergasted in different way when Seviet competitor in the modern pentathlon was caught usin an wired to score fake itsandwasexpelledfrom the Games In the offbeat department sort of phantom finish occurred in the computerized results of swimming event William thao Republic of China swimmer was listed in seventh and last place his name followed by the designa tion NP noiiparticipant An Official explained that Chan 30 tually had gone home with the rest of his team members when they refused to participate un dcr the name of Taiwan They receved heroes welcome Monday in Taipei The International Olympic Committee meanwhile beia tedly closed its 78th session with decision not to take any immediate action against coun tries boy cutting the tinincs bc cause of New anltiiids pilllltl patiou THREE VF REtRllIS By unofficial count 27 Am can and Arab countries lus Guyana in South America ad Joined the boycott Mali Vi cs1 African nation and Swaziland tiny enclave between South Africa and Mozambique with drew Monday and Iraq made its boycott Official Monique Berliouy Itit executive director said con stdcrable confusiOn still exists in the wholc picture and the 10C wants to leave open the possibility of change of mind by teams that might still coin pete The would deal with the question of sanctions ill ctobcr it joint lllttlillg with world SpilliS liclltlifliltli5 lll Htil ccionl Spain However tlic Montreal meet ing did adopt tough regur lotion new and expanded crsioi of Rule 23 spelling out the Itit suprcuic authority in matters of Olympic discipline with only technical control of sports being delegated to the federations This means the It could 1111 pose seyerc Sanctions 111 cluding expulsion on national tilympic committees that pull out The boycott arises from New Zealand rugby teams tour of South Africa whose apars thcid policies of racial segregav the need for such bus in Barrie The bus will ac commodatc 13 wheelchairs and 10 regular seats There are similar pilot projects in rillia and Lindsay Ex aminer Photo sights of Burrit courtesy of Troy clway as par of pilot pronc to we if ut ii bus 15 lltltlttl ii linrivt rimminci lililllt tion hayc enraged black African countries particularly in the wukc of recent riots in which 130 persons ere killed POSSIBLE SPIKE Jeantlaudr tiangu secre tarygcncrul of the Suprcnic touncii of Sport for Africa told reporters other international events including the Edmonton ianies will be boycotted unless countries stop com petingwithSimtliAfrita Other countries ncltiding the and Britain had sent teams to South Africa but Mr ianga said New Zealand is dif ferent 1n the case of New Zealand it is the government which is pushing them he added The government is using sport for Civic Tower offer delayed by bylaw By PETER DEIODESIA Examiner Staff Reporter Barrie City Council has agreed to send counteroffer to the owners of Civic Square Tower But the offer wont be formal ly sent until next week Council decided Thursday to have bylaw drawn up authorizing an offer of $21 million for the building Work on the bylaw has not been completed by Rowe city solicitor Mayor Dorian Iarkcr told council Monday night at special meeting the bylaw would have to wait until the regular council meeting next Monday niglil to be considered Dunwoodco 1td receivers and managers of the building for the Bank of Nova Scotia have asked $21 million and the writcoff of about $155000 in back taxes for the building The city is prepared to pay $21 million The bylaw Mr Rowe is preparing authorizes the offer The city had uiilil today to no ccpt the counteroffer Iunwoodco Barrio is interested in buying the niiiostorcy office building for new city hall The city had answered tender call by llll1WtlCt and put in bid of $19 million with $95000 deposit Iiiiiwotxlco said the citys lcndcr was the oiin one acceptable but it was loolow Negotiations between the ily and liiiiwooilco have con tinned The Ontario Municipal Board from Only little money effort needed to create beach area Only little effort and money is needed to develop the third beach area says Gary Stoner director of parks and recreation In report to the public works committee Monday Mr Stoner said only little effort and money is needed to provide the area But the amenities including parking change rooms life guard towers and washrooms need expenditures equal to that of the other beach areas Mr Stoner said only real pro blem is access to the beach at the front of the Canadian National Railway station in Allandale Traffic could either come from Minets Point Road or from Lakeshore Road he said In the report Mr Stoner said he did an onsite inspection of the area with Towie of the ministry of environment The area for beach he said could start 150 feet east of the CNR station to point about 70 to 100 feet in the water and westerly to the boat launching ramp This would provide about 1117 acres of swimming area This is suitable swimming area without the need for weed control he said There is very little weed growth Mr Stoner said there is some Sago Iondwecd and some algae growth He said the major growth of weeds is east of the shallow water where it is very dense with fair amount of algae growth The weeds include the Turly Leaf Pondwecd the Sago Pond weed and the Canada Water Weed These weeds he said could be treated but there is some danger the algae would take over There is also danger he said that the weeds could creep into the swimming area and need hcrbicidc treatment Greg Burns program su perintendent with the depart motif was at the site with the Centennial Beach lifeguards last week to test the bottom Mr Burns said the bottom has good sand with small mix ture of coal particles The depth he said is between four and four and half feet deep at 125 cct from shore His major concern is thi noise level of passing trains which blow their whistles when passing the intersection of Iif fin Street and Lakeshore Road This could cause problem With guards communicating during an emergency Mr Burns suggested the city determine the number of trains passing the area between and pm when the guards work Thieves tunnel into bank heist may be biggest ever NICE France Reutch Thieves tunneled from sewer into the strongroom of bank and settled down with wine sandwiches and pornographic magazines to commit what may have been one of the big gest robberies of all time Police refused to estimate how much the sewer rat gang believed to number six persons escaped with during the weekend after looting 200 strong boxes But French newspapers and radio said the total could run into millions of dollars After cutting into the stroiigrooin of the Societc lcncralc Batik the thieves welded the door shut from the inside It was only when bank employee found he could not open to door Monday that the theft was discovered Empty wine bottles half To Sign contract in Orion issue OTTAWA 1PI The gov ernment and Lockheed Aircraft orp will sign contract Wednesday for 18 rion air BULLETIN 1tiTltEAl tReutcr The Egyptian delegation announced today its im mediate withdrawal from the fly inpic tiaines electoral purposes anadian Press correspondent reported from Auckland in June that rugby mad New Zealanders regard the question of sporting ties with South Africa as one of the most contentious issues since Prime Minister Robert Muldoons National party ousted Labor government last year Labor had banned visus by whiteonly sports teams from South Africa long New Zea lands keenest rival for rugby honors But the Muldoon party opposes mixing politics with sport and allows sports organ izations to deal with teams of any country though con demning apartheid craft for the military sources close to goverllllltlltrtttnlpiilt negotiations said today The aircraft to replace the Argus longrangi patrol plants now patrolling anadas North and coasts ill cost the govern ment slightly more than $1 billion About $700 million of that ill go to Lockheed The remainder will be for such things as ground support and training Prime Munster Muldoon said Monday in Wellington that his country extends considerable aid mainly in agriculture training to African countries and he does not expect any countries will refuse this help as result of the tilympic af fair ATHLETESOl TllBEREI As result of the boycott athletes now are outnumbered by journalists at the Games roughly 6900 to 7900 There re more than two security person nel for every athlete While one American police detective was detained after being detected entering the Maurice Richard Arena carry ing pistol the Games have been peaceful indeed catcn saiidwiclics por nographic magazines and neat hole leading to 251m tunnel to the citys sewer system were revealed once the door was cut open Rank officials contacted customers who were victims of the raid in an effort to llttl exactly what had been stolen The largest robbery of illl time was the theft April 20 1074 of 11¢ paintings from Russborough llousc Bless iiigtoii toiinty Wicklow Ireland The raid by Iriin Republican guerrillas iicttid an estimated $13 million worth of iirt tioiis tllltlttl an additional $300000 in its application to the OMB for the necessary changes to con vcrt lhc building building ground parking was built in 10721 at an Slllllillttl cost of $11 million by Harvey llarbridgc Developments 1111 ttiMI has to approve the sale and thc citys application to borrow the money before the building can be bought The Mll delayed decision on request earlier this year by Barrie to borrow about $750000 to construct new indoor swim milliptitil until it was too late for construction city lo proccctl with the Also llic Mlt turned down request by the Tity of North Bay to money to build new city hall borrow additional $21000le IN Ll IH Without any plans for rcnova liarric council has in The city hopes to rent part of the Officc space to regain some cxpcnscs Barrie if the OMB approves will not take over ownership 11n til Dec 15 and has until Nov 15 for It approval The city has been planning foi new city hall for number of years and included $150000 in tllt 1077 capital budget for the preparation of plans and $315 million in 107 for coir striictioii llarric hits assembled land at the intcrscctioii of ollicr and Miilcastcr strccts on llic north side The land includes tlit parking lot cast of thc AIIIIIHEIII llolcl tlic childrens library the pro sent city hall tlic parking lot cast of the city hull and the building cast of the parking lot The ivic Tower iindcr Square which has Mr llarbridgc wciit lIllU receivership earlier this year and iiioilgiigc coiiipnniis took over lilt owncisliip of his pltir pcrty Don tum your back on the Queen CAPSULE NE WS New fisheries zone BRUSSELS Rt llltl loicigii iiiiiiistiis of lilt lliiiopinn Economicoiiiiiiiiinty zippiowd today ti decimation of lllltlit to create 200 llIllt tislicriis mnt ttltlllltl tlii roasts o1 nitiiibci stains Riilisli souri is mill Price of gold plunges lti1iti iiium llic pi llt of gold plunged to $100 an ounce today is iiimy selling gi lppttl the bullion iiiziikit Riot alert in Africa It llANNESIil Rt Al RciiJoiccd leltt patiols irc on the iilcrt toi new lililliltulv of rioting toilav III the sowcto tow iisliip ciglit iiiilcs south of llilianiicsburg UK jobless rate up LUNIit litllltfli iiciiiployiiicnl in Britain has risen to Litiiotio or ti it per cent of the work fort the gouiiiiiiciit an nounccd today Floods kill over 120 MEXICO ITY IAI Mcxuo was cleaning today after the worst rains iii memory caused floods in it at least 120 persons were reported kllltd 30 missing and 200000 homeless Drought hits Welsh homes LtiNlhiN iAPi About 50000 homes iii the coalmining district of South Wales were without water overnight Monday as the effects of Britains worst recorded drought began to hit home