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Valentines Day means happiness and love for tlireeyearold Toby Caldwell left and her sweetheart for the day Scott Barber Toby was really tickled when she received this handmade valentine from Scott and just couldnt help showing little gratitude Both Toby and Scott are students at the Raggein Anne Day are eiitre in Barrie Examiner Photo What better gift Several Simcoe ouiit couples received special Valentines gift today Royal Victoria Hospital Barrie had four births reported by 10 13 am Mr and Mrs John Pickering RR Miiiesiiig had an pound ounce girl Mr and Mrs Elwin Lightheart RR New Lowell had an eight pound 13 ounce son Mr and Mrs James Jay Midhurst had son six pounds 1314 ounces and Mr and Mrs Terry Jay 445 Blake St Barrie had an eight pound 10 ounce son Neither Midland or Alliston hospitals reported any births on Valentines Day City college split cost of Georgian facility study tity council and Georgian ollege will split the cost of study to find out if new recrea tioii facility is needed at the college The vote was to with Aldermen Lakiiig Stephens Knowles and Arthur opposing The study estimated to cost about $0000 will poll the city to find out if local residents feel there is need for major recreation facility with swimming pool sauna exer cisc rooms and lounges at the college which would be open to city residents as well as the college staff and students Robert Crawford Georgian ollege presi dent told council that the ministry of colleges and universities would be more likely to find the $2 million to build the centre if the city was willing to cooperate on the project In report to the city the college said the citys share of the construction cost would be about 3750000 No operating cost figures were given Ald Ernie ltutmaii said the city should help with the project because negative vote could be interpreted as an unwillingness on councils part to cooperate with Georgian Spending $3000 on the needs study shouldnt work hardship on the city he said because it spent $61000 on consultants fees for downtown core redevelopment study which he said probably few people care about But they might feel this expenditure is necessary because they do care about sports facilities he said Ald Arthur told council that needs study always shows there is need Ald Laking said she feels recreation facility at Georgian College is Georgians business Ald Stephens said he wants to know what the citys share of the operating budget will be before he will vote to commit the city to the project He said the province must know the facili tys operating budget because they know the size of the building and the recreational facilities it will house Federal provincial leaders Agree to hold down spending OTTAWA Federal and provincial leaders agreed Monday to hold down in creases iii government spending and to in vestigate the overlapping tangle of govern ment red tape as they opened threeday eco nomic conference The meeting billed as confidence building exercise for the country also saw an endorsement by Quebecs Rene Levesque of 10point Ontario job plan and slight movement toward acceptance of federal proposal for an agency that would check on payandprice increases after controls end The agreements started the special con ference ecalled by Prime Minister Trudeau after series of visits to provincial premiers last fallrioff on positive note despitea wide tuesday Is for the COUNTY Food conference Simcoe County farmers will be given the pportunity to attend the Ontario Federa tion of Agricultures Food Conference to be held in Ottawa Feb 22 bus leaving Midland at 1030 am will make stop at the Bayfield Mall Barrie as well as other stops between Barrie and Toronto to pick up food prtxlucers from the area interested in attending the conference Although similar National Food Strategy toiifereiice is being held at the same time in Ottawa Peter llaiiiiaiii resident of the lA said the second con ference was necessary because the National mnfereiice agenda did not consider all the current problems affecting the farming in histry Hiir conference will be aimed at clarify mg the farmers needs with respect to the present and future profitable survival of farming in auada to the aiiadian people In View oi the fact that food prixluctioii is the most important segment of the food supply chain it must be given greater tlll pliasis than presently planned at the Food Strategy onfereiicc Iliiiiiiam said The OFA president says he believes the situation to be so serious that Prime Minister lierre lrudcau has been invited to attend Any farmers interested in attending from Simcoe ounty may contact the WA office larrie at 72872330 Top indexing boar For the second month in succession Simcoe ounty swine breeder had the top indexing boar at the Ontario Swine Test Star tion This month it was McDerinid Farms Ltd owned by Robert and Colin McDer mid HItt Stayner Their Duroc boar was top in group of 102 boars which recently completed testing at the station It had an index of 141 combined low backfat thickness of 128 mm 50 in clude 991000 unemployed in January ranging set of speeches by government leaders on what was wrong with the economy Opening the conference Trudeau said by coordinating government efforts policies and programs the premiers would be writing an insurance policy that would serve us the country well tomorrow But despite the optimistic note in part at least prescribed by conference organizers who said they had scheduled some areas of agreement on the first day there were some jarring notes Levesque after describing the Ontario job plan as striking said he was forced to en dorse the program because the federal government had proposed no specific answers to shortterm problems which in cheS rapid gain on test of 102 kg 225 lbs per day and exceptionally good feed conver sion of 227 kg feed per kg gain The performance index used at the test station evaluates the overall performance if each board and combines the important economic traits on backfat thickness average daily gain and feed conversion into me composite index with the group average always 100 index Fishing is good hristiaii Island and the fishing is good as this island resident proves with healthy Whitefish just pulled from the waters of Georgian Bay For closer look at the historical points of the county turn to to days County Page Brian Baker Photo Your doy lont comm without Tho Exomlnor Call 7260530 for homo dollyoryi Aboard Cuban boats he claims Arms smuggled into Quebec MP OTTAWA CP Arms shipments are being routinely smuggled into Quebec aboard Cuban boats and RussianFrench in telligence network is sending millions of dollars into the province to help fund terrorist activities Progressive Conservative MP Tom Cossitt charged Monday Cossitt told reporters that ammunition is being stockpiled in Quebec with the assistance of KGBRussian secret police 114th your No 37 Tuesday February 14 1978 agents and number of Canadian companies which disperse the funds to terrorist cells Cossitt promised to make public later this week the names and addresses of the firms receiving and distributing the foreign money The MP from Leeds said sources within and outside the RCMP have told him that the federal force is aware of the operation He said the Liberal government does not 15° Per Copy Carrlor Home Dollvory 90° Weekly the examiner serving barrie and simcoe county want to act on the matter before the coming federal election His comments came after concerted drive by Conservative MPs in the Commons urging the government to control spying activities in Canada And that came only days after 13 Soviets were expelled for attempting to hire mem ber of the RCMP Cossitt reiterated allegations that double agent has operated in Prime Minister Irudeausoffice He urged Trudeau absent Monday to at tend the federallprovincial economic con ference to tell MPs what the government knows about terrorists being trained abroad 01 missions in Canada He asked whether funds that originated with the KGB were channelled through Jacques Foccart of the French Intelligence Service 36 Pages Barrie will appeal annexation decision BY JOHN BRUCE Examiner Staff Reporter Annexation is going back to the courts City council voted Monday to ask the On tario Court of Appeal to overturn the decision Feb of the Ontario Divisional Court which nullified the Ontario Municipal Boards OMB annexation decision Last October the OMB awarded the city 13850 acres of land in lnnisfil Township and 1100 acres from Vespra Township lnnisfil appealed the decision last December basing its argument on legal er rors in the boards decision and its conduct of the 49day annexation hearing The Divisional Court accepted the townships appeal stressing that the board should have treated letter from Ontario Treasurer Darcy McKeough saying the government wanted Barrie to receive enough land through annexation to support 125000 people by 2011 equally with other evidence on issues 42 Suro like you best Anwar But dien again like Manahem best tool if lifester ontortalnmont county sports 10 cornlcs classified to supplements Radio Shack pages Sears 12 pages Mercury issue From The Toronto Bureau Of The Examiner There is little or no mercury problem in lake Simcoe Ontarios Deputy Minister of the Environment Kenneth Sharpe told the Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters 50th annual meeting on the weekend Last year the environment ministry detected elevated mercury levels in walleye pickerel caught in Lake Simcoe But Sharpe said these high levels were found only in large and old walleye The ministry is now convinced the levels were the result of prolonged accumulation of the substance from natural sources There is no significant industrial discharge of mercury into Lake Simcoe Sharpe said Current restriction on consumption of Lake Simcoe fish are Walleye greater than 30 inches should not be eaten Walleye between 18 and 30 inches long smallmouth and largemouth bass greater than 18 inches ling greater than 26 inches and lake trout greater than 30 inches should only be eaten occasionally Any fish under 18 inches in length can be eaten without restriction Barries portable jails OWEN SOUND Ont CP Frank Drea Ontario corrections minister says two por table maximumsecurity jails will be established in Barrie The jails will be constructed of precast moulds and assembled in eightcell units he said Monday in speech to the Kiwanis Club Drea said the jails which can be transfer red to other locations when needed will be manufacturered and assembled in Canada Prisoners in Barrie will dig the foundations for the jails The minister also said there will no longer be jail sentences for minor offences such as speeding sho lifting and vandalism Such offen ers will have to work in the community during their leisure time clear ing parks and visiting hospitals and will be considered to be on probation Drea said the citys population growth submitted by an nexation opponents Mondays decision followed closeddoor general committee session last week attendv ed by James McCallum Barries annexation lawyer The decision to appeal the Divisional Court ruling was unanimous But councils decision to meet with lnnisfil council to try to reach negotiated settle ment scraped through by six to five count Ald Alex Arthur said council was putting itself in schizophrenic position by accep ting the townships request to sit down and discuss annexation It is like negotiating with the citys enemies on one hand while trying to club them to death on the other he said Council should wait until the citys appeal of the Divisional Court ruling is decided before considering negotiations he said Ald Fred Ruemper also opposed talking to the township because the city and lnnisfil have fundamental disagreement over what Barrie should be in the future Referring to the Divisional Courts decision to make Barrie and two developers who favor annexation pay Innisfils costs of the appeal Ald Ruemper said the township should offer to forget about the costs as an opening gesture to serious negotiations with the city Ald Janice Laking favored meeting with lnnisfil council because she thinks the township feels as Barrie does that they are caught up in the middle of legal bat No date has been set for the meeting Security tight in bomb attack SYDNEY Australia Reuter Hundreds of troops in full battle dress were deployed to day to guard 12 Commonwealth leaders and their wives following bomb attack at the start of conference The troops were ordered to shoot anyone who did not obey orders to stop and be search ed The bomb at the conference site Sydneys Hilton Hotel killed two garbage workers when it exploded just before the talks opened Monday Nine other persons were injured Today scheduled trip to the resort area of Bowral 130 kilometres south of Sydney for the presidents prime ministers wives and aides presented nightmare for security chiefs They ordered troops to throw an iron ring around the conference party Helicopter gunships hovered above Bowral Million jobs in decade OTTAWA CP The federal government has plans for fullscale energy development program to provide one million jobs in the next eight to 10 years Such an allout program would require $100 billion from federal and provincial govern ments as well as private industry Government sources said federal Energy Minister Alastair Gillespie will give quick lflminute outline of 40 possible energy projects for the federalprovincial economic conference today The projects range from oil and natural gas pipelines from the North to more nuclear de velopment additional coal mines and con struction of more plants to produce oil from the oil sands of Alberta Government sees the proposals as both way of combatting the current high unem ployment in the country and as way of reducing dependence on imported oil to meet energy needs At the opening of the threeday economic summit Monday premiers William Davis of Ontario Allan Blakeney of Saskatchewan and Gerald Regan of Nova Scotia all called far development of energy projects to provide The only surprise in Gillespies list of projects is that government still hopes for an oil pipeline across Canada from Alaska AN ALTERNATIVE Ottawa officials have told the US that such line should be considered as an alternative to the Kitimat Pipeline Ltd pro posal now before the National Energy Board The US turned down proposals for an oil pipeline across Canada in 1973 choosing in stead to build one from the rich fields of the Alaskan North Slope t0 the port of Valdez on the states southern coast From there the oil is carried by tanker to markets in the lower 48 states But in the last five years refineries in the northern states with no pipeline access to the coastline have faced growing problems acquiring crude oil supplies Those areas traditionally depended on oil from Alberta but Ottawa ordered exports cut as domestic reserves declined To meet the needs of those refineries the oil industry proposed building pipeline to Edmonton from Kitimat BC to connect in proposed program dewfifime ANWAR SADAT wins understanding Sadat tour hailed CAIRO Reuter Egyptians today hailed President Anwar Sadats support seeking tour of the United States and Europe as success and said he has won more understanding in his Middle East peace efforts The masscirculation newspaper Al Akhbar says Sadat returned Monday from his 11day eightcountry tour more deter mined to work to achieve peace The newspaper AlGomhouria says that in addition to its olitical and military results the tour has ad great effect on world qiiiiion Arab rights won more understanding consolidation and support it says Sadat smiling broadly was welcomed home at Cairo airport Monday night by government ministers diplomats and members of the Peoples Assembly parliament many of whom embraced him Sadat made no statement on arrival but before leaving Rome the last stop of his tour he told reporters he was satisfied with his discussions in the countries he visited Italian officials also uoted him as telling caretaker Premier Giu io Andreotti will not give up my pursuit of peace and have been greatly comforted by the un derstanding have found among world lead ers Skyshops affair MONTREAL CP Liberal Senator and three prominent businessmen were committed to trial in sessions court Monday after preliminary hearing on conspiracy charges relating to the socalled Skyshops affair Senator Louis Giguere Clarence Camp bell former president of the National Hockey League and businessman Gordon Brown of Freeport The Bahamas will have their trial date set at the upcoming as sizes Montreal businessman Louis Lapointe recently hospitalized was committed to trial in absentia and will have adate set later The conspiracy counts allege that the four agreed to the use of the Senators influence in Ottawa to get government approval for lease extension in 197172 for Skyshops Ltd dutyfree shop at Montreals Dorval Airport It has been alleged the Senator made $95000 in the deal Vandalism is target KIRKLAND LAKE Ont CP Frank Drea Ontario correctional services minister said Monday Kirkland Lake and nearby Englehart will be the first com munities to use the provinces vandalism accountability project Expected to be in operation by April the project is intended to combat the number of vandalism cases by having offenders repay society by doing community work Oranges checked HALIFAX CP $2million shipment of Israeli oranges was put under National Harbor Board police protection and sub jected to visual and chemical analysis here ALASTAIR GILLESIIE outline today with existing lines into the US The oil would be moved by tanker to Kitimat from Valdez WANTS CONSIDERED But the government wants the US to consider as an alternative to Kitimat branch of the transtlaskan line running crossCanada to Edmonton from Fairbanks Alaska Sources say the National Energy Board will consider that possibility in its spring hearings on oil supply and demand for the next 10 to 15 years Gillespie has been pressing for develop ment of domestic oil natural gas and elec tricity supplies to reduce dependence on imported oil to meet energy needs The minister has said in the past that the Middle East prime source for most imported oil is political hotspot and the country should not be dependent on such sources Weve had embargoes before and we can have them again Gillespie says Monday as part of an international alert against terrorists Nine federal agriculture department specialists team of laboratory technicians and two investigators from the US Food and Drug Administration FDA sifted through the consignment of Jaffa oranges imported by FBI Foods Ltd of Montreal Two days before the ship left Israel the scare over mercury contamination was re ported and we decided to go ahead with it anyway because we had firm assurances of quality from the Israelis Barbara Bur man an FBI consumer affairs spokesman said Monday Were still going ahead with the second shipment of the same value which will arrive in three weeks Wants to stay in WASHINGTON AP Ethiopias ambassador to the United States Ayalew Mandefro has resigned and wants to remain in the US the state department said today De artment spokesman Charles Shapiro said did not know if the resignation was related to Ethiopias war with Somalia Shapiro said Mandefro was not seeking political asylum and had applied for ad mission under US immigration laws The Ethiopian government designated Tibebu Bekele who has been deputy per manent representative to the United Na tions to serve as charge daffaires pending appointment of new ambassador Mandefro presented his credentials to the US on Nov 22 He resigned Jan 29 but no official announcement was made Caretaker slain TORONTO CP Don Rochester 46 tennis club caretaker was found shot to death at the club Monday police said He had been shot through the head Police said doors were ripped from their frames in struggle Club members said little cash was kept on the premises weather Sunny with cloudy periods and cold today and Wednesday Highs both days to 10 uows tonight 18 to 21