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sMA uw EXAMINER TELEPHONES Circulation Clossdied Advertising All Other Departments 112th YearNo 199 SONNY JAMES proved to be popular star attraction at the gandstand during the sameday 11 726 6539 778 2414 7266537 opening night of the Barrie Fair The country and wes tern singer enthralled his an Record first The Barrie Fair opened in style Tuesday drawing its largest crowd ever double last years attendance for the Norm Anderson manager of the fair estimated 10000 people attended firstday ac tivities Opening day last year attracted 5000 Sonny James opened the 28 LIP APPLI CA TI ONS Plenty of money says CMC The Barrie Examiner Barrie Ontario Canada Wednesday August 25 1976 diencc playing favorites sprinkled with his own brand day for Barrie Fair grandstand shows with two performances at and pm Mr Anderson said the stands were full for both per formances Seventeenyearold Tam my Myers of Barrie was crowned queen of the fair Runnersup were Jasmine Jozwiak and Kitty Kovaks of Alliston but few applying for funds Applications for federal Local initiatives Program tLlll grants in the Barrie area are running far behind last years rate George Wood public relations officer for Bar rics anada Manpower ent rc said Tuesday He said the shortage 28 ap plication forms picked up to date compared to total of 77 year ago may result from widespread misconception that the program has beeii can celled The program has in fact only been cut back from $134 million for 197576 projects to an estimated $100 million for the 197677 Theres plenty of money Mr Wood said Deadline for applications is Sept 10 lhcrcs always bit of rush toward the end Mr Wood said Funding of up to 5100000 is available for qualifying pror jects wluch must begin bet ween Nov 1976 and Jan 31 1977 and be completed by July 1977 Maximum funding is for 30 weeks To qualify project must create new jobs in areas of high unemployment provide wc thwhile service to the com iiiunity have local support be adequately financed for any costs over the federal share and require at least 60 man weeks of work No project will be approved which duplicates cx1stmg facilities is already in opera tion at the time of application employs persons already employed supports leisure ac tivities solely for the sponsors primarily improves priyate property or creates com mniiity deixndency which will go unsatisfied once the project ends or which will have to be satisfied with the aid of public funds lndividuals corporations partnerships Olgitlllllltlll and municipalities may file up CAPSULE NE WS Two brothers drowned LYNDEN Ont itl Two Lynden brothers were found drowned in an eight toot deep exca ation pit early today police said Jimmy Knglcr ti and Robert had been missing since Tuesday afternoon Soweto riots continue JUHANNESRLRU Al lolicc shot and killed two more persons in Soweto township today as blacks attacked blacks in iloody clashes apparently generated by the black boycott oi white employees in Johannesburg the South Atriain Press Association reported Keep separateKorea PAN MlNJ 0M Korea il North Korea proposed today that its tmops and those of the timed Nations Command be separated physically iii the lanniunjom truce one in which two United States Army officers were killed last week Cosmonauts back home MOSCOW AP Soviet cosmonauts Horis oly no and Mia ly Zhlobov were reported in satisfactory condition today after returning to earth from 49 days iii space Would consider reactor sale From PReuter JAKARTA itP Canada would consider selling nuclear power reactors to Indonesia if requested as long as it was satisfied the technology would be used only for peaceful pur Canadian External Affairs Minister Allan MaclIachcn said today plications Hiring of staff for approved projects must he conducted through tanada Manpower Staff must iayc been un employed registered with Manpower as actively seeking work and judged likely to have remained unemployed for the duration of the Lil preject Preferences will be given to those eligible for tlltlllpltiy ttll insurance those on welfare and othcrs tnost ill need of work Ninc lill projects were ap proved in thc Barrie centres area for 1973 To However Mr Wood said the low approval rate will not necessarily be repeated this year livery project is exactly on its own merits he said The chances of approval he with the originator and with very little else lll funds are allocated by federal constituency on the basis of unemployment rates and approvals ill be awarded within the inlablc funds in the order ot priority sit with the advice of the local member of parliament the provincial government manpower and other federal officials and in some cases constituency ad visory group set up by the membei of parliament The number one criterion is tomakejobs Mr oodsaid 0N PRICES Gerald Bouey governor of the Bank of anadir an nounced in news release Tuesday that targets for tfie growth of money supply have been lowered The move is aimed at gradually reducing price inflation Photoi Mom of humor Both the pm and pm performances Ten girls had entered the competition Todays activities include the junior hunter and jumper competitions the junior live stock show and horseshoe pitching contest There will be harness rac ing at the grandstand beginn ing atttpm were standing room only The Barrie fair will be con Lockheed being sued for $298 billion LDS ANGELES Renter Lockheed Aircraft Corp al ready plagued by number of bribery scandals has been hit with civil damages suit which court officials say may be one of the biggest ever Two companies and an ex ecutive who works for both firms have sued Lockheed for $29 billion alleging fraudulent misuse of their in illltill to remove sludge from petroleum lvc seen damage suits in the hundreds of millions but never one in the billions likc that before Superior ourt clerk said Tuesday The filing of the sun came to light in circular to Lockheed stockholders calling for special meeting Sept 29 to discuss the defence contrac tors latest arrangements with its banks Lockheed told its stock holders it regarded the damages claimed as grossly excessive The company said its lawyers have not yet had an opportunity to fully evaluate theclaim Airport moves step nearer It all goes well construction of proposed Barrie airport in tlro Township could begin next spring Don McNall chairman of the Barrie Airport Advisory tommittee said today He said the committee has learned that thitario Ministry of Transportation and oni mnnications tlltr funding for airports formerly available on ly in Northern thitario has been extended and is available as far south as Barrie He said the funding extension means the estimated$4511oooto $50M cost of the airport could be financed almost entirely with federal and provincial money The committees principal proposal calls for construction of an airport for light planes on land already owned by Barrie iii tiro Townships Fourth Con cession south of Highway 11 The airport would hai 35tlrfoot paved runway and shorter gravel runway and would sery businesses and iii dustries in both Barrie and tlrilha The proposal would reunire rezoning of the parcel and has met with some 0pp051l10ll from township council and resnlents public meeting on the pro posal is planned and the com mittee has asked that it be held Sept 30 The zoning is the key thing Mr McNall said today Once rewmng is approved if it is applications for pro vincial and federal aid would be made he said The federal department of transportation has allocated 75000 for the project he said but more may be made avaie fable if need he demonstrated 80 PER fIVT Mlt funding is available for up to no per cent of the cost of the main facilities including land acquisition and Mr McNall said he plans to argue that the city already paid its 20 per cent hen it bought the land several years ago Mr McNall has said approx imately 50 acres of the 242 acre parcel will be needed for the facilities with the remaindei ay ailable for parkland 1f the rezoning is denied he said the committee is looking at two other sites He would not say where they were but noted that neither is as appropriate as the tlro site though both would involve less rezoning controversy fourth operative ll possibility co use of landing facilities at Canadian Forces Base Borden has fallen through because the base operates firing range and pilots unfamiliar with the lan ding strip might fly through the path of shells Mr McNall said He said the committee hopes to take tiro and Barrie officials to Toronto Sept or to for demonstration of Short Takeoff and Landing STULi craft such as will use the airport lot of people dont under stand what were talking about out there he said Theyre thinking about Toronto lnterna tional Airport He said the committee is working on presentation designed to convince the public meeting that the airport will not cause the sort of problems people fear tinuing until Saturday Ex aminer Photo Why would anyone want to be president Fall kills area man lLIWiAllIlt 40year old Midland man died on Tuesday morning after he fell off the roof of twostorey apartment building here Harold asquenette was doing some repair work on the apartment when the incident occurred at 820 am He fell It fcet rillia 11 said asqucnette was pronounced dead at the scene post mortem at Soldiers Memorial Hospital in Urillia indzcated that as quenette lied of brain damage and skull fractures Cabbie charged NlAtHltA FALLS tint itli Niagara Falls taxi driver who was reported missing for week was charged with public mischief Tuesday Niagara re gional police said Sgt Morley tiritfen said llcginald Smith owner of Taxi was charged alter police investigated statements he made about his eight day tllSdpptdllllltt Smith earlier said he had been been kidnapped and rob bed after plt king up three men 111 Niagara Falls on Aug it who dcltiaiidcd lo tic taken it To liilllif littllktiflll Police found Suith abai doned ldl in Mississauga west of Toronto Smith who said he had been held in house since his dis ttppxdldlltt turned up early Tuesday at the anciiston le wiston bridge between anada and the tilted States police said He will appear in prminciiil court Sept children die in floods HUM KHM iHeuteri Four young children were killed and several people were feared buried by landslides or drowned as the heaviest rain fall for so years lashed this Britishcolony The Royal tibservatory re corded nearly 113 centimetres of rain in 2+hour period min WEATHER FORECAST 15 Per Copy Carrier Home Delivery 85 Weekly 28Poges ct proposed to save quality of area lakes KESWKK nt special act of the Legislature may be necessary to preserve the quality of Lake Simcoe and Lake Couchiching an anti pollution committee decided Tuesday Frank Kehoe an Drillia coun cillor said pollution of Lake Simcoe is worse than anyone will admit The situation has gone fur ther than any political body will admit to the public The lake is in worse shape than anyone can imagine oun Kehoe said The committees recom mendation that special act be passed will be suhinitted for en dorsvment to about 13 municipal councils bordering the lakes The fivermembcr committee Nurses Contract negotiations bet ween public health nurses and the Simcoe ounty District Health Board are expected to resume in September Ontario Nurses Association officials say The information came in statement from Anne lribben president of the association released today by Bert Beausoleil vicepresident of Local 37 of the association Local 37 represents nurses at the Simcoe County District Health Unit where talks broke down in March was established June it at Lake Simcoe pollution con fereiice in Barrie Provincial and federal agen cies now deal with the lakes in an uncoordinated fashion an cording to Howard Shillington chairman of the committee and councillor in Georgina Town ship The provincial ministries there are about five of them have their own special policies each varying one from the other oun Shillinvton said The ministries often work with different population projections and regional plans There is diversity in the direction of planning efforts as they relate to the lake They need to be tied in oiiii Shillington said The federal government sometimes appears to work in nebulous fashion Its almost impossible to pin down some departments on particular problems oiin Shillington said development on Fox lslaiid in Lake Sinicoe is being consi dered although it flies in the face of present concerns about pollution The provincial ict governing the lakes sholtltl have wider powers than conservation authority perhaps resembling the Niagara larks om llllSsliill he illtl oiui Shillington said the act must serve the multi functional purpose of the two lakes providing drinking water sewage effluent outlet and recreation such as swim iiiiiigiindlioiiting contract talks expected next month In her statement the presi dent says she hopes to meet soon with representatives of the Ontario Ministry of Labor and the Association of Boards of Health of tintario to make the nurses latest bargaining posi tion known at that level prior to resumption of local level talks probably in September Mr Bcausoleil said the as sociation is not yet prepared to make its current position public Talks here broke down March 12 after one conciliation session withprovincialofficials SALAR RAISE WI TH PROMOTION WASHINGTON Renter The IRS House of Representatives voted Tuesday to promote George Washington to the rank of full general 176 years after the countrys first president died The idea to move Washington up from lieutenantgeneral to General of the Armies came from the House armed ser vicescoinmittee The lS Army however expressed mixed feelings about the legislation which still must clear the Senate The army said it had no ob jection to the bill but said promoting him would be of little practical value in determining lllS prominence in US history irrespective of his rank or grade George Washington is consnfered by all imericans to be the outstanding military figure of our nation the army said There has only bcen one other General of the Arums John Pershing who was given the honor follow mg the First World War Since the Second World War five men held the title of icneral of the Army on the military rolls Illt hiding Wight Eisenhower iiid Douglas MacArthur Fourth man arrested in Egyptian hijacking Allttl ilteutcr fourth man has been arrested in con nection with the hijacking of an Egyptian airliner on Monday says the semi official news paper A1 Ahiam The newspaper says lilt lllltt hijackers scied by commandos who stormed the aircraft at liior airport to release the passengers and crcw told inter rogators that the fourth man helped lll iriiingiiiicnts to cap tore the plain The papci names llt man is Mohaitiid lihdi lultlllll hiit doesnotginhisnationality Thc lhicc hirickcis who Mlc wounded in fhc coin liiitlitlll titliiilv have lKtff ltllll llllttl IS lAH iilliillliflf illltl an llgyptiau hrim says tiled fi iiiilitai Aug 41 Tlit titgtpiti tilwi mixs li armed guards now pi iii ld for all HyQplait lllglilr tItl lid lrcmici laiiidouh iit will he ioiii ii flii liil ordered electronic cijiiapiiicn to bc fioiigli lllllllltllilitl to flttllp1fllUfl Salem has loader ltiilillllitl llli1ii thflJl oi financing hi liiiaiking lt dcmcs this and iiicnsid ligyp lltlll iiifiliigiiiti inniii oi ii iangmg lhc llltltltli as ii cx cuscvialtiick Khadiilt llii illitk1lL iiroiigfi the Yilist ltltllllllls lttlvkttl fullyji and ldivi ttli lll liliikiliuilti7 ii 11ttl iliistl ltli vyfilil lids fiiiitvtiitl ltl svytl liltiliitliizi Initiliiii will llgypt on sip tllit timid changed iti said liiisdm it ill iiimiic lit lLlilltlI ifipinniafit no iii ltiiighax Itis ttiliiiwiil lii iii ll ii ifit l1lyvll fiitliii lti iiiilli it itiltfrll 1ll ii in iil ingtdricliiiti lj liitlltIl iii illilttli iii ilii liilliilif 1m fii inf iioi air At the centre of the dispute were nurses demands for an arbitration clause and for wage parity with hospital nurses llealth board officials have offered an increase of six per cent saying hike of 24 per cent or more based on annual salaries would be needed to proVideparity Mr lteaiisolcil took issue today with statements earlier this week by Ross Stephens health board chairman that the difference in pay received by hospital and health unit nurses is cents per hour when the health units shorter hours and longer vacations are takciiintoaccount Mr ltcausoleil said associa tion demands are based on an niial rates not hourly rates and hospital nurses get as much or more hohdiiy time after three years check with iiiierui administrator at ltiirrivs ltoyal Victoria Hospital and Gerry Skipwith business administrator at the health unit revealed that nurses zit botfi places currently receive four weeks holidays an niially Vacation policy at the health unit is based on the nurses previous contract which tlllltl ill the end of last year lr Skipwilfi noted that lllisjnldl contract vary from place to place He declined to say what vacation provisions lltlllll unit nurses have been of lllttl lhi ioodd full time nurses niyolved in thc dispute locally malosluoooiiiyiirioannually iii gillitlil ll cording to health inlitllillllllillw Illstn liiic llillltti their col Einigiiiu from iciiiss lllt pro ttllt Attk strike in back demands for providing coin Illilllillltlll of their iiiif outlawing futnrc lliti Hi llllit in log vlti mil itiiiwii iispliis Iiikix Simcoe YPCs meet Saturday lhi siiiiioc tentri Simcoc iih liogrcssixc tonser itt Mann mtitléilltill will Iii new riding executive at lu illlliilill nowling Satuiday at to pm fit iH Ktllllxllftll In linom danishi will be the liicc llillitlillf stlkillti tllt lift iitcia if he tHilario lrii Lllxsiat fiijilillit titilh ldfltlddit its lllilftlif tiiililll1tlti iiini at the lllitfltl1tlll llflllv Harbour ll Iii ilitiiiiillittdlllflAiii uwi ii inii liii ll iir 1m ample iiivft ltl i1 lit li79f iiiwi iioimatvon may be owned iy telephoning lark cliff jtiltllf Barrie club to meet to discuss finances Barrie Bolt andt ountrv tluti officials will meet Thursday night to disiuss lllt sfltillldll of icampaignforum$60 0m Jim Sturriip cliib president called the metting following meeting Tuesday night The club is 571 short in its driyc to raisi sooooo to cop with the clubs immediate ti nancial problems Eighty club members have yet to pay $201 special assess iiieiit levied at niccting of club shareholders Aug 16 lali iil tfliist who liit ii and wctc illl hiili fiiji iii yirv liniiiiliiilml illitltilstii press ilixisi Thi clufi dittiitiltics lmili tltili ifuictois sci spct Lil asstsiiiciit of $2M on each shareholder in July to llltl cur rent prolifiiiis Shariholders titltcltirs Aug 1h The special assessment ils lids lltlli gtlllt llilillW ti illitllflll ll ippioyiif lllt action at mettun ii iiiiii iiict lftlttilnl loss of sod one liii ilill stipetatlolls ltiv tliib ls also holding citiiliiI illlll tit it Litl 000 ll wit cii slitiriholdtr the capital funds drive is planiml to wipe out the clubs iccuiiiiiiiilatcd capital debt of fit1w ttil Sooixio and Sioooo lhat tlllt which has goal of 340001 continues until Aug li Stiiirnp said Aug 16 that $illttiltll had been pledged for thidrivi