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NEWS ROUNDUP Finance ministers agenda is topped by cos tsharing OTTAWA CP Finance Minister Donald Macdonald will face united front today as he opens negotiations with his 10 provincial counterparts on key federalprovincial cost sharing agreements background paper pre pared by the Quebec delegation to the talks shows the provinces agreed Oct 20 and 21 on an ap proach to the talks 0n the table are $8 billion of shared agreements covering key social welfare areas such as hospital care medical in surance and education as well as other tax transfers to the provinces covered by the Fiscal Arrangements Act that expires March 31 Ottawa has proposed changes to the financing of several of these programs offering the provinces more taxing power and grants to replace current dollarmatching arrangements for the social welfare pro grams The Quebec papers show that Ontario and Saskatchewan led the provinces in devising counterproposals during the summer to those made earlier by the federal government Eventually they agreed in Oc tober on common position to take at the current talks Jacques Parizeau finance minister in Quebecs Parti Quebecois government elected Nov15 said he agrees with the consensus But Claude Morin the provinces intergov ernmental affairs minister will make statement on future directions for Quebec Wants action WASHINGTON AP Con sumer advocate Ralph Nader urged the justice department Sunday to start an antitrust in vestigation into recent price in creases by the steel industry Several major steel companies recently raised prices about six per cent Off the rocks ST CATHARINES Ont CP The Pearl Asia Liberian freighter which ran aground Thursday onehalf mile offshore at nearby Port Weller was pulled off the rocks Sunday The 11000ton freigh ter headed for Thorold Ont with load of bauxite went aground in rocky area after being pushed by 40knot winds Noonewasinjured Not yet LONDON Ont CPI spokesman for 100 members of the United Auto Workers union at the Unifin Divison of Keeprite Products Ltd of Lon don said Saturday that the workers have decided not to consider taking strike action until after Christmas He said strike may be possible in early January if no agreement is reached by the union which has been without contract since N0v5 Fumes explode SARNIA Ont CP David Connor of nearby Corunna Ont suffered burns to his face and arms Saturday when fumes from oil and gasoline he was mixing in his basement ex ploded He is in satisfactory condition in Sarnia General Hospital Fire started by the explosion destroyed the Connor home but no one else was in jured fire officials said DONALD MACDONALD Slow progress NEW YORK AP lead ing business research organiza tion believes the United States economy will make slow but steady progress next year with little chance that the current pause in the recovery will turn into recession The forecast released Sun day by the nonprofit Con ference Board sees drop in unemployment and inflation but also predicts slowdown in the growth rate of industrial production 12 destroyed CANBERRA AP The United States will try to pr0 vide secondhand aircraft to rebuild the Australian navys force of antisubmarine patrol planes all but wiped out in hangar fire Australian Defence Minister James Killen said today The fire Sunday destroyed or damaged beyond repair 12 of the navys 13 twincngine Grumman tracker planes at the Nowra naval air station slightly south of Sydney The 13th plane was undergoing maintenance in Sydney at the time No one was injured board of inquiry was formed to deter minethe cause of the fire Feeling good TORONTO CP The elec tion of Parti Quebecois government in Quebec may be healthy sign if the vote was an expression of Quebecers feeling good about themv selves John Munro minister responsible for multicul turalism said Saturday Separatism has been an all toooften used bargaining ploy in Canada he told the ana dian Folk Arts Council have heard it said that the only part of Canada where separatism has not been touted as magical solution to problems is Ontario Mr Munro said the PQ vic tory should be reason for con cern but not for hysteria Enthusiasm MONTREAL CP Opposi tion Leader Joe Clark says he can feel sense of enthusiasm in Quebec because of the change in the provincial gov ernment That enthusiasm however is not necessarily for the aims of the Parti Quebecois govern ment separation from Canada he said in speech Saturday at dinner sponsored by the Ukrainian Professional and Business Association Mr Clark on founday tour in southeastern Quebechis se cond visit to the province since the Nov 15 provincial elec tionsaid he hopes to meet soon with Premier Rene Leves que To keep Quebec in Confedera tion he said Quebecers must be convinced it is better to re main within strong Canada than to separate In an interview later be ad ded that westerners at first alarmed by the Quebec election results have become more concerned with trying to make Quebec feel comfortable in Canada Liz marries NEW YORK AP Eliz abeth Taylor was married at sunset Saturday to John William Warner former US Navy secretary at his estate near Middleburg Va It was the seventh marriage for the bride and the second for the groom who was married to Catherine Mellon of wealthy Pittsburgh family Miss Taylor 44 telephoned friends here and the news was relayed by her press aide John Springer that the ceremony was on hilltop at Atoka Farms She carried bouquet of wild heather The couple left for Israel where Miss Taylor will be guest of honor at fundraising din ner Warner who headed the American Revolution Bicenten nial Administration will de dicate bicentennial forest in Israel Line reopens HONG KONG Reuter Vietnam has completed the restoration of the 1080mile wardamaged railway linking Hanoi with Ho Chi Minh City formerly Saigon the Vietnam News Agency reported Sziturr day Two trains began an ex perimental run along the line one starting from Hanoi and the other from the former southern capital after the last link of track waslaid The project to rebuild the railway which was badly damaged during the war in Vietnam began last year after the Communist takeover in the south Therapy QUEBEC Pi The Part1 Quebccois victory in the Nov 15 provincial election was the first step in process of collective therapy that will ultimately lead to Quebec independence ultural Affairs Minister Louis ONeill said Sunday In his first major speech since assuming office Mr ONeill told the lunior Chamber of Commerce in near by Loretteville that it is wrong to argue as Prime Minister Trudeau has that onfederar tion is indivisiblc Peace bombs DROGIIEIJA Ireland AP About 10000 Roman Catholic and Protestant peace marchers from Northern Ireland and the Irish republic flocked in freez ing weather Sunday to pray and weep together at Irogheda where their armies clashed 286 years ago The rally came on the same day that terrorist bombs wrecked 22 stores in Lon donderry Northern Irelands secondlargest city blanket of fog that had Here it is again Back By Popular Demand 347 72 Bayfield St Barrie 80941 There were 26 rinks at the Barrie Curling Club Satur day competing for the Harry Armstrong Memorial Tro phy Ken Horven of Trenton former Barrie curler skip ped his rink to take the an nual daylong bonspiel Members of the winning foursome include from left Bob McLaren viceskip Ron Armstong who made the covered the area all day lifted as the first marchers met on the Boyne River bridge 30 miles from the Irish republics border with Northern Ireland The marchers clasped hands and prayed for peace Then US folk singer Joan Baez sang peace song It was near the banks of the Boyne that the Protestant ar mies of William of Orange defeated King James Ils Roman atholic forces in HM Sectarian strife has plagued Ireland since tight race WASIIINGION AP Ie mocrats in the House of Representatives picking new leaders today are certain to elect Representative Thomas ONeill as Ilouse speaker but they have to settle tight race for House majority leader among four candidates battling to succeed ONeill The legislative leaders chosen will be working with president of their own party for the first time in eight years ONeill of Massachusetts has no opposition to succeed retir ingSptakcr Carl Albert of Oklahoma who has field the post since 1971 The person who appears to lead the race for majority leader is Representative Phillip Burton ofalifornia But he is pressed hard by Representatives Richard Roll ing of Missouri and Jim Wright of Texas Chirac back PARIS Router Months of simmering political rivalry bet ween President Valery Giscard dEstaing and former premier Jacques Chirac burst into the open after the overhaul of Frances Gaullist party Sun day Chirac 44 whipped the old Gaullist Union of Democrats for the Republic party into new fighting force called the Rasscmblemcnt Pour la Re publique Rally for the WILLIAM PETER BIAITYS THE EXORCIST Directed byVIILIAM FRIEDKIN Harry Walter only DriveIn at only Columbia Pictures Presentation Republic at Paris con ference It left him the most un contested Gaullist leader since Gen Charles de Gaulle Upstaging the nonGaullist president whose authority depends on personal dominance of the government coalition parties Chirac set his move ment the task of beating the op position left in the 1908 general election Blacks shot CAPE TOWN Router Twelve blacks were shot and wounded when police opened fire on stonethrowing crowds in Nyanga township near here today police said Three persons were killed in Nyanga last Saturday after fighting broke out BrigGen Theo Bischofl divisional com mander of the Western Cape said in reporting on the violence Ile said he knew of no one be ing killed today Earlier un confirmed reports had said three persons died today Trouble broke out in the township during the weekend Bischoff said that on Sunday migratory workers who live in hostels in the township at tacked students who were call ing for twovday strike The students retaliated and one of the hostels was burned down Bischofl said police riot con trol units are trying to keep the two factions apart IMPERITEOO CINEMA HARY ARMSTRONG TROPHY WINNERS presentation skip Korven Frank Hersey second and Ben Cooke lcad All are from Barrie with the exception of Mr Korven who along with Mr Hersey were part of trophywinning rink last year Examiner Photo Crunch is coming down for cultural agencies TORONTO CPI The Globe and Mail says the Ontario government has told the cultural agencies it supports that they must cut their budgets by five per cent and make special case to obtain more funds The newspaper says agency directors have also been told that if their agencies get in creased donations from other sources the money will be deducted from what the govern ment gives The Globe and Mail says that the budget measures were an nounced to agency directors last Monday at dinner meeting with Robert Welch Ontario minister of culture and recreation who said the in formation mUst not be revealed to the news media The newspaper says the agencies affected include the Royal Ontario Museum On tario Art Gallery Ontario Science Centre Ontario Council for the Arts the McMichael Art Gallery at Kleinburg TV On tario and radio station CJRI FM owned and operated by Rycrson Polytechnical In stitute Toronto The lltWSpilptl says that at present total grants to the agencies are to be limited to no more next year than this year Now Playing 710 905 pm IF YOUVE GOT TASTE FOR TERROR TAKE CARRIE TO THE PROM ADULT lNIlRIAmNINI CAR WASHiwhere between the h0UIS 0f and anything can happen and USUEIIIV GOES Ell IIIISIItuesi Siais Iiinllin ljait Ieiiielailin Iiitessui Iiiiin tiiii Iiin Iliinii Iniiiin Iiiias liiiiiiie Iiaii lick lilac Clarence IIiise Ili Inintii Iisltis IlitIaiiI Ilium Now Playing 705 900 pm Because of inflation this would mean cut in services The budget requirements were outlined in detail in let ter sent to agency directors after the dinner meeting the newspaper says It says that the letter orders agencies to deduct any capital grants included in this years budget then deduct any ex pected increases in revenue from other sources and submit base budget for no more than 95 per cent of the balance The Globe and Mail says that the museum was told at the Monday dinner that it must re main open in the evening and that the McMichael gallery was ordered to begin charging ad mission or the government would slash grants The Barrie Examiner Monday December 1976 They thought kidnappers had killed their daughter BRUSSELS Reuter Dutch schoolgirl Johanna Berbes released for ransom of $135 million said she was forced to sleep bound and blind folded between her kidnappers during five days of captivity Her wealthy parents dis closed at news conference Sunday they thought they had handed the money over in vain and that the kidnappers had killed their 13yearold daughter We feared the worst her father William said Her release had been pro mised 10 minutes after the ran som was left at lake near the family home But it was two hours before Johanna reached home in taxi after being driven in van to the city centre and left near police headquarters Belgian police are hunting an Englishspeaking couple who knocked the girl out with chloroform on her way to school last Tuesday ABDUNLOPST 7784581 gRoxv Looking remarkably calm and composed Johanna told the news conference the man and the woman had spoken English The woman had described her partner as her fiance and said he was American Johanna added They told me they would release me so many times gave up believing them she said It was real surprise when they actually let me go After the first night spent in derelict house sleeping on mattress on the floor under pile of blankets tied up and blindfolded Johanna com plained of the cold and was moved to house in working class suburb of the city There she spent the rest of her captivity forced to sleep between her two abductors After her 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