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wodnoodoy Is for WOMEN Genius has problem CHELMSFORDEiigland CP boy genius who designed complicated electronic equipment still has difficulty reading and writing Matthew Tonks 15 of Chelmsford Essex was one of 10 winners in national contest to discover young designers of exceptional talent He built his awardwinning circuit tester during school lunch hours and in his bedroom at night when he was supposed to besleeping The circuit tester automatically checks minute parts of computers and other elec tronic apparatus and flashes the results on screen became interested in electronics just over three years ago said Matthew after he receiveda £50 $100 award from Educa tion Minister Gordon Oakes Matthew said he had been fortunate in gaining entrance to the Chelmer Valley high school where he could follow his hobby electronics Rentacoffin NORTH VANCOUVER BC CP An undertaker is offering rentacoffin ser vice for those who want lowcost funeral with an expensive coffin Jim Darby director of First Memorial Service Ltd sees his new service as an alternative to buying an expensive coffin Darby explained in an interview that for the sum of $125 the deceased can be placed in pine coffin which in turn is placed in rented $2000 oak coffin First Memorial adds only about $25 to the price of the plain pine coffin for the rental The inner pine coffin is held inside the oak coffin by several belt devices Following funeral services and after mourners depart the gravesite the outer coffin is simply lifted off before burial The rental show coffin has never been of fered anywhere in Canada and only in few United States locations Darby said Wandering Billy Debby Fraleigh comforts Jake the hilly goat at the Toronto Humane Society after he was found wandering the downtown area of the city Arthur Allibone manager of operations for the society has noticed an increase in the past year in backyard domestic animals and thinks the iii creases are notably in ethnic areas Theyre not really kept as pets but are raised for either the meat or milk Photo Snow hits Vancouver VANCOUVER CP Vancouver area motorists had to grind through as much as 11 centimetres of snow during the rush hour Tuesday night taking up to 312 hours to get to suburban homes Most of the main streets in Vancouver were in good condition but outside the city to 15 centimetres of snow fell at higher evations and most hills in North Van couver were impassable for while police kesman said there were no serious acci ents but number of abandon ed cars held up traffic The weather office forecast rain for today th temperatures about four degrees sius The eastern Fraser Valley was buffeted by gale force winds and driving snow all Tuesday Drifts up to two feet high were reported on sideroads and more snow was faecast for that area today Discrimination claim CANBERRA Reuter report of government inquiry into discrimination says some Australians believe the countrys native aborigines should be herded on to an released today shows that relations bet ween the white community and Australias 110000 aborigines are cause for grave con oern Many gross examples of personal rejec tion and exclusion were documented Grassb said The reaus inquiries in the state of South Australia found that blatant racist ex ions were not only tolerated but con sidered normal Montreal police issue MONTREAL CP The Gazette says HenriPaul Vignola Montreal Urban Com minity MUC police director may change his stand on the controversial fourday work week which officers are implementing without authorization The newspaper says highranking lice sources say Vignola is reassessing ad vice he has received from his advisers con cerning the schedule director fegls he may have led up the garden pat away from ismen The schedule drawn up by the MUC Policemens Brotherhood has been follow ed since Saturda despite temporar court injunction tained last week whic bars officers from following the schedule Vignola in statement last week asked the 5200 officers not to implement the new schedule in defiance of the law deadline offshore island and bombed Commissioner Al Grassby of the Com munity Relations Bureau said the report It quotes source as $8 ing that the Ev day out rfhoEumlnor 7266539 10an dOIlVON Block parents signs have become common in the windows of Barrie homes in the year the program has evolved and students like KeriAnn Lusty learn about the pro gram daily in their schools from police and teachers The program is designed to give children in trouble place to go and is led by chairman Jean Lusty KeriAnns mother Examiner Photo Prevention bureau It has been just over year since Con stable Gary Logan set up operations in the Barrie city police department for youth and crime prevention bureau and for block parents program Over 600 youths have been contacted through the youth bureau and block parent sigm sit in windows on almost every street in Barrie Crime prevention checks are being done in Barrie businesses and homes and new program designed to help senior citizens protect themselves from crime has begun For look at the years growth of the community service work done by Con stables Logan and Barbara Jenkins see to days Lifestyle Page Fire damage up Damage estimates have risen to $350000 in Thursdays fire at Odyssey II dance hall on Burton Avenue says Barrie fire chief Jack McAllister Estimates have jumped from $200000 to 5350000 with investigations by fire officials and insurance adjusters at the scene of the fire he said today Fire broke out in the building at 1215 pm and completely destroyed the dance hall portion while heavily damaging adjoin ing offices owned by Microvue Products Ltd Chief McAllister says representative of the Ontario Fire Marshals office has been working at the scene since Tuesday morn ing because of the seriousness of the finan cial loss While official estimates have reached $350000 Microvue spokesman Jim Tanner says the company which manufactures microfilm viewers stands to lose $500000 in lost business over the next three months He says the fire destroyed two important shipments to Sweden and Germany and means threemonth delay in production Cause of the fire is listed as undetermiii ed says Chief McAllister although there is no suspicion of foul play The fire loss is the heaviest the Barrie fire department had handled in the last two years says Chief McAllister Our fire loss for the month of December will be atrocious because of the Odyssey lI fire he said in an interview Total fire loss for the first 11 months of 1977 was $334940 he said while the loss for December alone is an estimated $438500 The second major fire in December oc cured Dec 14 at an apartment building at Dunlop and Anne Streets he said Initial estimates in that fire reached $114000 but were later lowered to 360000 Last years major loss occurred Dec 15 with the fatal Essa Road fire which caused an estimated $164000 damage Children stabbed SHERBROOKE Que CP Police said woman attempted to commit suicide early today after her three children were fatally stabbed in their home here Police responding to call from neighbor found the bodies of two b0 one aged two years and the other 10 mont and the body of fiveyearold girl in the kit chen of the home Sherbrooke police spokesmen said Control Cambodian area BANGKOK AP Vietnamese forces control the Parrots Beak area of Cambodia but apparently do not plan to drive deeper imide the neighboring Communist country Ihai military intelligence officers reported today One source said the Vietnamese want to close the border area to future Cambodian invaders into Vietnam The ricerich zone site of the US invasion of Cambodia in 1970 is only 55 kilometres from Saigon and its centre is about 100 kilometres southeast of Phnom Penh the Cambodian capital Sources said the Vietnamese may have been inside the Parrots Beak Cambodian salient reaching 50 kilometres south eastward into Vietnams Tay Ninh pro vince for some time Jeanene at school WINDSOR Ont CP Just month after remaining conscious during delicate brain operation 14yearold Jeanene Smith is back at school Her Grade classmates welcomed her back Tuesday for the first time following brain surgery for epilepsy on Dec The operation at University Hospital in London 0nt ended her epileptic seizures Before the operation she suffered as many as 40 day She was required to remain conscious during the ninehour operation to respond to tln surgeons probes Jeanene said she received welcome from her friends at school think the teachers told them not to bug me about my operation because one kid started asking me about what it felt like but warrn somebody elbowed him and told him not to talkto me about it weather Mostly cloudy with nitric today Winds southwest 35 kmh to Lows overnight 12 to 17 um riods with isolatedflurriesThursday s4to7 Followin PARIS AP President Carter arrived to day for threeday visit to France the sixth stop in his sevencountry tour French President Valery Giscard dEsta ing welcomed the US leader and escorted him on the 15kilometre ride to the Paris city centre amid heavy security Earlier Carter met with Egyptian Presi dent Anwar Sadat during onehour stopover in Aswan Egypt and afterward expressed renewed support for the legitimate rights of the Palestinians Sadat told reporters he and Carter shared 14th your No Wodnoodoy January 97B 15° Por Copy Carrlor Homo Dollvory 90° Weekly 32 Page onehour visit to Aswan identical views and had decided on specific steps to be taken for peace But Carters en dorsement of the rights of the Palestinians did not go beyond his previous statements He refrained for example from endorsing the independent Palestinian state demanded by Sadat and other Arab leaders and rejected by Israel Reading prepared statement Carter enunciated first principles for lasting peace between Israel and its Arab neighbors True peace he declared must be based on normal relations between all the parties Israel must withdraw from Arab lands oc cupied in 1967 he continued and there must be secure borders for all parties There must be resolution of the Palestinian problem that insures the legitimate rights of the Palestiniam who must participate in the determination of their future IGNORES PLO As in the past Carter did not mention the Palestine Liberation Organization with which both Israel and the United States refuse to deal because of its dedication to the destruction of the Jewish state Carter arrives in French capital Carter and Sadat met at the airport outside Aswan the Egyptian winter playground on tie upper Nile during 90minute pause in the US presidents flight from Saudi Arabia to Paris the sixth stop on his sevencountry foreign tour Sadat asked for the meeting after Carter said he favored Palestinian homeland linked to Jordan rather than an in dependent state The two leaders were relaxed and smiling after their talk and embraced warmly after their statements to reporters Sadat grinned broadly the examiner serving barrie andsimcoe county Multiplevehicle accident closes part of Highway 400 Sudbury man and his 11monthold son suffered minor head injuries Tuesday in multiplevehicle accident on Highway 400 that closed the road to traffic for over half an hour say police Yvon and his son Alain Arbour were driver and passenger in one of six vehicles involved in the collision which took place at about 230 pm in poor weather near the Duckworth Street exit Constable George Kleinsteiber of the On tario Provincial Police in Barrie says the ac cident occurred when driver Jean Guy Dube of Rouyn Que stopped to speak to Julien Ialonde of Spdbury who was stopped on the side of the road Other vehicles involved in the collision were driven by Sheila Guyer of Little Cur rent Max Neffeler of Willowdale and David Ashley of Burlington Ashley was driving tractor trailer Traffic had to be rerouted for almost half an hour while damaged vehicles in the north bound lanes were cleared says Constable Kleinsteiber Dube has been charged with illegally stopp ping on highway he said Arbour and his sm were treated for minor injuries after the collision threw them into the front wrnd shield The multiplevehicle collision was one of nine the Barrie detachment handled in Tues days bad weather while Barrie city police answered 13 calls for minor accidents twovehicle collision reported Tuesday at 11 am on County Road 22 near Stayner caus ed an estimated $5800 damage says an On tario Provincial Police spokesman in Stayner William Miller of Scarborough and Patricia May of Stayner the two drivers involved in the collision both suffered cuts Damage to the Stayner womans 1977 Volkswagen is estimated at $5000 say police Damage was minimal in the 13 calls answered Tuesday by the Barrie city police department says spokesman Barrie police were the only area police busy with accidents in the aftermath of the storm say police spokesmen In Midland the OPP handled four minor col lisions while police in Bradford Wasaga Beach Alliston and Elmvale report no ac cidents despite blowing em and poor road conditions Story on tow truck dispatch centre Page Monetary reserves up by $417M in December OTTAWA CP Official monetary rmerves grew by $417 million during December as the government added to its holdings of US dollars Figures released today by the finance department show the Bank of Canada bought $4153 million of US dollars in the month The increase in US dollar holdings follows earlier spending of US dollar holdings as the government tried to support the Canadian dollars falling value The finance department also announced to day terms of the $112 billion US standby credit that the government announced last October it was arranging through Canadian private banks The money was for use if need ed to protect the Canadian dollar on foreign airrency markets The terms permit the government to bor row USAdollars for periods of one two three or six months at its option standby fee of threeeighths of one per cent year must be paid on the unused funds If money is drawn from the fund the government must pay interest at the prevail irg rate on London interbank markets plus margin of fiveeig lis of one per cent year during the first three years of the agreement and margin of threequarters of one per cent in the final four years BULLETIN TORONTO CP Ontario Treasurer Dar cy McKeough proposed municipal tax reforms today which would shift some of the tax burden from singlefamily and apartment dwellings to vacant residential and commer wrists Henry Its you Thank heavens thought It was dose encounter of the third klndl Ins Ide local mumlmnont Ifloetylo apart oomlos 23 clonalko 20 to 22 Supplomonts Woolworth pogo No money has been drawn from the standby credit yet the finance department says December was the second month in which the Bank of Canada acting for the govem mant has been buying US dollars By the end of the month total US dollar holdings had risen to $2298 billion This is still well below the holdings of $34 billion in US dollars that the central bank had at the beginning of 1977 US dollars are Canadas main form of international reserves STEADYING VALUE Early in 1977 the Bank of Canada was us ing its US dollar reserves to buy Canadian dollars thus reducing their supply on foreign exchange markets and keeping their value from falling too rapidly Since November 1976 the dollar has slip ped from peak of $103 US to current value of about 915 US At one point late in the year it fell below 90 cents US By setting up the special standby credit and by the central banks activities in supporting the dollars value the government signalled currency dealers that Ottawa was ready to deal with any rush to et rid of dollars that might further depress eir exchange value With less pressure on the Canadian dollar in the international markets the government mw is replenishing its reduced holdings of US dollars Among the other major categories of inter national reserves holdings of other foreign currencies were reduced by $5 million in December to total of $158 million All figures are in terms of US dollars Gold holdings were increased million to $9356 million Special awing rights SDRs with the International Monetary Fund increased by $87 million to $5053 million The reserve position in the IMF was reduced by $377 million to $8521 million The change in reserves included an in crease of $597 million in SDRmeasured assets that reflected appreciation of the US dollar An increase of $19 million represents the book value of gold transferred from the mint Canada bought $97 million in gold in gecember as part of the IMFs gold purchase an At Dec 31 the total of official reserves was $4607 billion compared with $4190 billion at the end of November $358 Ngrth Ygrk ggntrgllgr JeanGuy Dube of ltouyn Quebec tries to pound the back end of his Lincoln Continental away from the rear wheel Tuesday afternoon after his car was involved in sixcar colli sion on Highway 400 at the Duckworth Street exit Two people were taken to Royal Victoria Hospital with injuries caused by the accident but they were later released Examiner Photo $204000 damages sought by family of black leader JOHANNESBURG AP The family of black leader Steve Biko who died of brain damage in jail on Sept 12 is demanding $204700 compensation from two government ministers Legal letters demanding the sum were served in Pretoria on Tuesday on Police Minister James Kruger and Health Minister Schalk van der Merwe the familys lawyer said The letters are preliminaries necessary for the filing of civil suits against the ministers This can be done if the demands are not met within month Bikos widow Ntsiki 30 demanded $112700 for herself and $57500 for their two sons Dumisani and Samora Bikos widowed mother Alice with whom he was living in King Williams Town is claiming $34500 Bikos death in Pretoria prison cell three weeks after his arrest set off an international outcry Criticism of the government was heightened by the inquest verdict last month of Magistrate Marthinus Prins who ex onerated the police The family charged in its demands for com pensation that Bikos fatal head injury was inflicted by police officers They also said that security police wilfully or negligently misled doctors treating Biko The letters to van der Merwe said the two government surgeons who examined Biko were derelict in the performance of their duties They said the doctors neglected or failed to diagnose the head injury and to give ltilieatment which might have saved Bikos At the inquest one of the doctors Ivor Lang admitted giving highly incorrect medical certificate four days before Biko died It said the man showed no evidence of any abnor mality or pathology The other district surgeon Benjamin Tucker said under crossexamination he put security interests before those of Biko by not imisting the prisoner be transferred to hospital To endorse government Chileans vote on referendum SANTIAGO Reuter Chileans voted to day in national referendum expected to solidly endorse the military government of Gen Augusto Pinochet Results from 24000 polling booths throughout the country were not expected un tillate today About six million people over the age of 18 were entitled to vote yes or no to the question of whether they support President Pinochet in his defence of Chilean dignity and reaffirm the legitimacy of the government Pinochet called the referendum Dec 21 six days after the UN passed resolution con demning his regime for alleged violations of human rights Claiming that Chile was the victim of an in urged Chileans to demonstrate their patriotism by supporting his government in the referen ternational conspiracy Pinochet dim It is the first vote in the country since the armed forces seized power by overthrowing President the Marxist government of Salvador Allende in September 1973 In calling the referendum Pinochet 66 provoked barrage of unprecedented cri ticism from within the ruling military junta the Roman Catholic Church and banned political parties Opposed to giving Bryant medal TORONTO CP Barbara Greene con troller for the Toronto borou of North York said Tuesday she is op to giving singer Anita Bryant the Mayors Medal for her campaign against homosexuals Miss Bryant is to speak at The Peoples Oiurch in North York Jan 15 but she is not expected to talk about homosexuals or the tmching of homosexuality in schools Cont Bob Yuill had suggested Miss Bryant be given the medal and Mayor Mel Lastman initially agreed with the idea However Lastman said later he would present the medal only if majority of council members agreed toit Cont Greene said Yuills medal presenta tion was publicit stunt She is one of six of eight council mem rs opposed to the presen tation Cont Esther Shiner said Miss Bryants campaign has nothing to do with North York Yuil is always coming out with some clownish things she said Like the time he wanted Margaret Trudeau to take photos of the opening ceremony at the new municipal building Cont Ron Summers said Miss Bryant will be here on church business and that the church and government should not interfere with each other Ald Marilyn Meshberg said the presenta tion would be regressive move and that by giving Miss Bryant the medal council would becondoni everthing she stood for Its total inappropriate she said Her campai is against group of people on civil rig ts basis and is discrimination Ald Norm Gardner said that Miss Bryant discriminates against homosexuals in hous ing and jobs and that North York should not get into that cause Ald Pat ONeill said the out of peoples bedrooms Ald Betty mind resentation was just politics and think p0 itics should stay Sutherland the only council member who was undecided said she wanted more information before making up her