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David Kerr real estate agent flees past police after being released by gunman iden tified as Derek Whitaker who was holding Kerr and two other real estate agents hostage Monday in the Sizemore Realty office in Fullerton Ga The gunman released Kerr and another agent but held Lloyd Koontz the offices general manager for several hours at gunpoint before surrendering to police AP Photo Derek Whitaker is escorted by police after he surrendered Monday after releasing three hostages he held at gunpoint in real estate office in Fullerton Whitaker rushed into the Sizemore Realty office and held his rifle at the head of Lloyd Koontz the offices general manager Whitaker released two other real estate agents but held Koontz for several more hours before surrendering AP Photo Unable to prove misuse of money paid on reactors OTTAWA CIi Commons committee said Monday it suspects some of the $18 million paid by Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd AECL on overseas sales of nuclear reactors was used for illegal or corrupt pur But the Commons public accounts com mittee said that after 15 months of study and consideration it has been unable to prove misuse of the money It is left only with suspicions some MPs had when the inves tigation started in November 1976 Involved in the case is payment of $25 million to Swiss bank account on sale to Argentina and $154 million to United Developments Inc of Tel Aviv as fee on sale to South Korea The successful concealment by complex and sophisticated payment and banking procedures in foreign countries of the identities of the ultimate recipients of the funds and the nature of services rendered mosday Is for the COUNTY Seed Fair coming The 1978 Seed and Feed Show will be held Thursday and Friday at the Elmvale Com munity Centre Over 100 local businesses organizations and individuals have donated cash and prizes This is the 26th annual show sponsored by the North Simcoe Soil and Crop Improve ment Association Exhibitors will place their entries Thurs day and the judging Wlll take place at am Friday Several sections of the show which will highlight speeches on agricultural related topics including grain forage seed feed maple and potato wnl prOVide 34 classes for entry iily seed grown in 1977 is eligible with the exception of clover seeds which may have been grown in 1976 Will not rebuild Bill Frampton owner of the Sandy Bay Inn which overlooked Penetanguishene Bay will not rebuild the resort which was destroyed by fire earlier this year Frampton said recently that he reached the decision after investigating the costs of rebuildingthe facility The resort was destroyed Ian 23 with damage estimated at $800000 Rynard to be honored MP Dr Rynards 25 years as parliamentarian will be honored March 13 with special evening at the Orillia Fairgrounds The tribute organized by the Simcoe North Progressive Conservative Party is expected toheginat730pm Tickets are $1 person with 500 limit set leads your committee to suspect that some of the payments were indeed used for illegal or corrupt purposes the committees written report said The report is sharply critical of AECL management and board of directors in power when the deals were made between 1972 and 1974 NMNAGEMENT RAPPED Senior management of the Crown cor poration at that time did not properly discharge their responsibilities as officers thecommittee says The committee made up of members of all parties and headed by Conservative had this to say in call for greater accountability toministers by the Crown corporation There is question whether the AECL should be in the business of selling reactors and at any rate there must be change in business practices Dignitaries throughout the riding who have worked with Rynard over the years are expected to attend Speeches according to organizers are to be kept to minimum to allow Rynard time to mingle with those in attendance Food Hard to find Merv Milson deputy conservation direc tor with the ministry of natural resources and the anadian Forces Base Borden Rod and Gun Club chops tree down to provide feed for the deermany of whom are starving to death The herd on the base and in some other localities is far too large resulting in shortage of food Stories photos on todays ounty Page 114th your No 49 Tuesday February 28 1978 the Development until at least March Were borrowing $200M US from special fund OTTAWA CP The government is borrowing $200 million US from special $112billion standby credit it set up with chartered banks last fall to protect the dollars value Finance Minister Jean Chretien announced Monday night The move follows announcement week ago that the government was going abroad to borrow money for the dollars defence but would seek interim financing from the standby credit The dollar touched 45year low of 889 cents US on currency markets Feb 20 but recovered slightly after the government said it planned to seek foreign financing to support its exchange value closing at 8965 cents US in Montreal Monday Chretien said the standby borrowing is only the first of sequence of drawings planned against the special credit but gave no in dication when or how much additional borrowing is planned As for the borrowing outside Canada Chretien said details would be revealed in due course Political opponents blasted him for issuing vague statements that may lead to continuing speculation against the dollars value ProVince should join city in court decision appeal Mayor Ross Archer said Monday that the province should join the city in appealing the Ontario Divisional Courts decision nullifying the Ontario Municipal Board OMB decision on Barries annexation Premier William Davis said in the Legislature Monday the government may ask the Ontario Court of Appeal to throw out the Divisional Courts ruling The Divisional Court threw out the OMBs decision giving Barrie about 14950 acres of land from Innisfil and Vespra Townships earlier this month The court ruled that the OMB gave too much importance to letter from Ontario Treasurer Darcy McKeough saying the pro vince wanted Barrie to receive enough land through annexation to support 125000 people by2011 Premier Davis said the courts decision questions the right of cabinet ministers to issue statements on government policy Boy missing 20 days The matter should be cleared up through an appeal he said Simcoe Centre MPP George Taylor said to day he thinks the province would probably ask the Court of Appeal to be added as party to the appeal of the Divisional Court ruling launched two weeks ago by Barrie because the issue of ministerial responsibility is in volved Mayor Archer said Monday he thinks the Divisional Court ruling restricts ministers in their attempts to provide good govern ment in the province Ministers should have open lines of com munication with government boards and commissions the mayor said And cant think of better way than with aletter he said Innisfil Township Reeve William Gibbins said today he is not surprised that the pro vince mightjoin the city in its appeal Its nothing new he said The province has been with Barrie all along Body found six feet from home UXBRIDGE Mass AP For 20 days townspeople scoured the countryside for 10 yearold Peter Gosselin after he disappeared while playing in blizzard They found his body Monday in melting snowbankless than two metres from his frontdoor Although Peter was the object of daily searching by many of this towns 8500 residents the postman who discovered the boys body Monday wished somebody else had found him Ive been delivering mail there for the past three years but hoped to heck wouldn be the one to find him said Leo Lussier 53 Hundreds of police firemen and volunteers No death cause CHATHAM Ont CP safety con sultant said Monday that tractors rolling over are the No cause of farm fatalities in Ontario Michael Miller of Kitchener Ont farm safety consultant with the Farm Safety Association of Ontario said it takes less than 112 seconds for tractor to roll over and pin farmer Thats less time than it takes to look at your watch he told the monthly meeting of the Kent County Federation of Agri culture adding that farmers should put roll bars on the vehicles He said the number of farm deaths on Ontario dropped last year to 50 from 54 in 1976 but could not say how many were caused by tractor rollovers He said three of the deaths were attributed to sileage gases New chief officer James Shelswell was picked Monday by Oro Township council as the new chief building officer and plumbing inspector His duties will commence immediately fix sixmonth probationary period at salary of $11500 He was selected from 41 applications Oro Township also approved grant of assistance for $250 to the Barrie and District Association for the Mentally Retarded Pleads for sentence MILTON Ont CP An Oshawa 0nt mother who became distraught Monday when her son was sentenced to 45 days in jail returned to the courtroom later and asked the judge to sentence her instead Claude Arnold Whitford 17 was con victed of dangerous driving in an accident last October in which two persons were killed His mother Christine Munroe left the room when the sentence was imposed but returned later while another case was in progess His father was murdered and raised him myselfshe said Put me injail had hunted for Peter for miles around this central Massachusetts community Police Chief John Emerick said Searchers had used metal detector at the Gosselin home on Sunday without finding trace of the boy who last was seen Feb frolicking during storm that dumped almost metre of snow across New England It would appear he jumped and fell down into snow bank between the breezeway of the house and the garage said Emerick added that the cause of death will have to be established by medical examiner There was wroughtiron railing he could have struck It was covered Maybe he jumped off aroof Persons seeking jobs at Ford Motor oin deadfln Rush for job vacancies 15° Per Copy Carrier Homo Dollvory 90° Weekly page sserving barrie and simcoe county freeze By JOHN BRUCE Examiner Staff Reporter Commercial development outside Barries downtown core area will remain frozen un til at least March 11 Ald Ernie Rotman asked city council Mon day to repeal motion passed Feb 21 declar ing its intention to amend the citys zoning bylaw to steer future commercial growth to the Dunlop Street area while freezing com mercial growth outside the downtown core Only limited commercial growth will be permitted in the Allandale area Council passed the motion in closed special meeting endorsing the land use recommendations prepared by Diamond Planners Ltd and James MacLaren Ltd both of Toronto the citys downtown core revitalization consultants However Ald Rotmans motion was tabled by Aldermen Janice Laking Fred Ruemper Alex Arthur and Gord Mills Under councils rules of procedure mo tion can be tabled with the consent of four to last aldermen until the next regular council meeting or until special meeting is called to deal with it Ald Laking said she feels Ald Del Cole chairman of councils downtown core re vitalization committee which coordinated the work of the core study consultants should be present when debate on Aid Rotmans motion takes place Ald Cole is vacationing in Florida and he will not be back in Barrie until March 11 Mayor Ross Archer who was on vacation last week said he feels councils action last week was little hasty Council needs more time to consider all the implications of the downtown core con sultants recommendations before reaching decision he said Mayor Archer said he not favor im posing development restrictions to revitalize the downtown core area The city needs positive steps to encourage downtown redvelopment he said rather than restrictions which discourage commer cial development outside the core Rotman tags decision extremely poor move Ald Ernie Rotman said Monday he feels councils decision last week to freeze almost all commercial growth outside Barries downtown core is an extremely poor move that could land the city in court Ald Rotman speaking on his motion ask ing council to repeal its declaration of intent to amend the citys zoning bylaw to steer Oh for the good old peaceful days before the Watergate book cmzol ins ide llfostylo entertalnment theme sports 10 comics 17 classified pany in Dearborn Mich use police car as desk 1516 Dangerous gun stolen terrorist rifle mounted with laserbeam sight has been stolen from an exhibition at the London Science Museum Scotland Yard said today but the laser sight can be easily fitted to another rifle making it extraordinarily accurate focuses bright dot on the exact spot on target makes the sight Scientifica and Cook of London said Its frightening to think what someone capable of stealing the sight from the exhibition has in mind for its use in special section of the museum used for laser exhibition Visitors could sight the gun on target on the opposite side of the room Scotland Yard by the museum most future commercial growth to the Dunlop Street area said council has put the citys planning and building inspection depart ments in an impossible position If landowners whose property is outside the core but zoned to permit future commercial growth come to the city for building permit to expand he said the building inspectors have no choice but to refuse to issue the per mit because of councils decision However under the provinces Flaming Act the city has no right to refuse to issue the permit he said Ald Potman predicted such case would end upi court He also said he feels council is wrong to im pose restrictions on commercial development at time when the city needs new commer cial tax assessment to ease the tax burden on residential property owners Council should be doing what it can to make the core area much more attractive to commercial developers rather than telling them they cannot develop outside the core he said Ald Rotman also said the citys planning department is opposed to the restrictions because they discourage commercial development in Barrie they are difficult to interpret and they leave council with too much discretionary planning authority He also said the planning staff feels council subverted the normal planning review pro cess by accepting the core study consultants recommendations on commercial growth without submitting the recommendations to review by planning board and staff Ald Rotmans motion was tabled by Aldermen Janice Laking Fred Ruemper Gord Mills and Alex Arthur It will not be considered until after Ald Del Cole chairman of councils downtown core study committee returns from vacatior Marchll Rejects ocquit request TORONTO CP Mr Justice Maloney rejected Monday request that he instruct an Ontario Supreme Court jury to acquit Werner Gruener of the firstdegree murder of shoeshine boy Emanuel aques Mr Justice Maloney also rejected lawyer Earl Levys request that Gruener be granted separate trial Gruener 29 Saul David Betesh 27 and Josef Woods 27 have pleaded not guilty in the death of the 12yearold boy last July 29 Robert Wayne Kribs 29 changed his plea to guilty when proceedings began and has been remanded for sentencing when the trial ends Mr Justice Maloneys rulings were made in the absence of the jury and while Betesh was undergoing psychiatric testing at the Mental Health Centre in Penetanguishene Ont LONDON Reuter special anti Police said the gun cannot be made to fire The sight which is worth about $2500 spokesman for the company which The rifle and sight were bolted to stand The theft was reported Monday to new WW 137ZW7Xltmwflw Police and court attendants helped her Mainly cloudy today with occasional snow from the room Accumulations of one or two cms Highs to day to Overnight lows 10 to 15 Wednesday clearing with brisk northerly winds Highs to7 Examiner Photo to fillout application forms outside the gate of Fords assembly plant Monday The plant security estimated acrowd of about 2000 gathered early Monday morning outside the plant gate to seek applications for the l3jobs that are to be added to the plant AP Photo