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Barrie Examiner, 2 Sep 1976, p. 1

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EXAMINER TELEPHONES WEATHER FORECAST Circulation 7266539 Classtied Advertising 728 2414 All Other Departments 7266537 112th YearNo 206 BERT chairman of the board of trtistees ot the Barrie and District tnited Appeal sitting and George Wood this years cam paign chairman review The Barrie Examiner Barrie Ontario Canada Thursday September I976 some of the points in the 1976 campaign The campaign target of $163000 was an nounced this morning by Mr Wood at breakfast meeting of campaign chairmen Mr Wood said $151520 will go to 12 local agencies and the rc maining $11500 is for ad ministration and campaign expenses Examiner Photo Carter Ford will appear in three televised debates WASIIINGlUN AP Democratic presidential nomi nee Jimmy arter and Presi dent Ford agreed1cdnesday to meet for three nationally tele vised debates with the first live confrontation scheduled for Sept23 The debates will be the first between presidential cati didates since those between John Kennedy and Richard Nixon in 1960 Negotiators for the two illltllr dates reached agretment on the format after meeting Vedncsday with represen tatives of the League of Women Voters sponsor of the debates In addition to the three de bates involving the presidential candidates an unprecedented debate between the two vice presidciitial candidates Re publican Senator Bob mic and Democratic Senator Walter Mondale will be held after the second CarterFord meeting The topic for the first Ford arter debate will be economit and domestic issues The see ond debate topic will be defence and foreign policy and the final meeting ill be open to any Stiltv jett ioth Ford and arter proved the agreement llthSlCNlllllltll The president said at news conference that the debates will give voters an honest picture of thecandidates Meanwhile arter said at his home in Plants la that the ap CAPSULE NEWS Trudeaus leave for Rome TEL AVI Reutert 77 Prime Minister Trudeau left today for Rome after spending iourrday visit here with his wife Margaret touring the country and talking with Israeli leaders CGE workers off job TRENTON Ont TI About 230 tanadian letteral lilecv tric CGE workers are oil the job today following sitrin demonstration Wednesday to protest the layoff ot two workers Troops accused of torture LONDON AP British troops and police tortured suspected Irish Republican Army IRA members in Northern Ireland over three month period it late 1971 the liltiropean Commission on Human Rights declared today Smashing IRA is target DUBLIN AP The Irish government with parliamentary approval of its declaration of national state of emergency moves ahead today amid opposition hostility to the second stage of its threepart program to smash the outlawed Irish Republican Army Riots spread to white area From rRlill1CR JOHANNESBURG Riot police fired tear gas and charged more than 3000 colored mixed race demonstrators in downtown Cape Town today in the first major racial violence in white area of the city Walkout call in Quebec MONTREAL walkout call for 35000 construction workers could step work on most Quebec construction sites today union anti government representatives say debates will not make or break either candidate unless one of them failed miserably Richards request rejected FURESI HILLS NY AP The ITnited States Tennis As sociation IISTA rejected the request on tednesday of trans sexual lr Renee Richards that she be permitted to play in the tS pen tennis champion ships Association president Stan Malless said he received tclc gram on iucsday from the alilt tornia eye surgeon requesting permission to enter the tourna ment which began Iednesday as an alternate and saying she planned legal action if she wasnt accepted The New York Times re ported earlier Wednesday that Richards may sue the tiSlA un less the association waived its newlyinstituted sex chromo some test and admitted her to the championship Richards who was ranking player in the mens 33 and over division before her sex change surgery year ago had been told earlier that she could not play in the Open without the test She declined to take it Her telegram to Malless said in part This is to give you the opjmrtunity to waive your arclr aic concept of what constitutes woman My rights to be rcc ognixed as woman as well as the infringement of my civil rights are patently involved It ant not permitted to par ticipate this will serve as 110 tice to you of my intention to sue the tournament committee and all others involved for ap propriate redress anti dain ages Malless said Richards could not obtain waiver of the chromosome test because it would not be fair to the other women participants who have already taken the test ordered by the USIA after Richards signified her entry this years tournament Area UA target $163000 for 76 By PETER EIOIESTA ExaininerStaff Reporter $163000 target has been set for the 1976 Barrie and District United Appeal Campaign The target was announced this morning during breakfast meeting of the UA campaign organizers George Wood public rela tions officer with Canada Mair power in the city was named the 1076 campaign chairman He is former UA board and campaign chairman Mr Wood said $151520 of the target is allocated for 12 coin intiiiity service organizations with the remaining $11500 for administration and campaign XjNllStS The Barrie YMYWCA leads the organizations with an allocation of $45000 followed by the Barrie and District Slillltll for the Mentally Retarded $28185 and Canadian Red Cross Society $25000 Money is also allocated to the Canadian National Institute for the Blind $20408 Victorian Order of Nurses $8000 Cana dian Arthritis and Rheumatism Society $5273 Canadian Men tal Health Association $5134 The Raggedy Ann Day Care Centre coopcrative $5000 Rehabilitation Foundation for the Disabled $4320 St John Ambulance $4000 and $600 each for the Kempenfelt District of Boy Scouts and Multiple Sclerosis Society Mr Wood said the allocations are made for tWo reasons the amount requested by the agen cies and the agencies agree ment to share in the proportion shown He said most of the amounts are only slightly larger than last years requests because the LEGAL AID CANCELLED Tnable to pay lawyer says Mrs Rowbo tham With just over month re maining before his trial Robert Rowbotham has found he is un able to pay lawyer Rowbothams financial posi tion hasnt changed hes been in jail for the past nine months He found out this week hes been cut off from Ontario Legal Aid According to his wife Paula Legal Aid cancelled its pay ment of his legal bills because it was told Rowbotham has $100000 in banks across the country Its ridiculous said Mrs Rowbo who su ports her three ildren wit welfare payments We dont have any money Theyre just trying to get Bob any way they can Rowbotham has been held since Nov 20 1975 when he was arrested by RCMP officers on drug trafficking charges in Bceton He was finally granted 510000 bail Aug 11 but RCMP Sgt Reg Chad produced an ar rest warrant at that time because Rowbotham hadnt ap pcared in court in Brampton Jan 1976 when he was in BarrieJail The Brampton charges relate to an alleged incident in 1974 when one ton of hashish was im ported into Canada His trial there is scheduled to begin Oct After friend of Rowbothams and his wife posted sureties for bail here Rowbatham was taken to Brampton on the warrant His father had previously posted $15000 in sureties for bail in Bram ton when he was ar reste in1974 The Aug 11 bail hearing sparked front page editorial in the Aug 12 Examiner According to Mrs Row botham the Legal Aid decision to cut off Rowbotham also listed misquotations in that editorial She says she cant under stand why newspaper article would cause her husbands HOTELFTRE Fire Chief Jack McAllister estimates damage at several thousand dollars in an early morning fire at the Queens Hotel on Dunlop Street in Delegates welcome 28 offer flatlaks to assist in seabed mining UNITED NATIONS AM Some delegates at the Law of the Sea conference welcomed the United States offer to help finance international mining of the seabed But they doubted agreement could be reached be fore the current session of the conference ends Sept 17 US State Secretary Henry Kissinger met Wednesday with about 30 delegations to explain the US proposal hoping to break conference deadlock He gave reception Wednesday night for the conference deler gates and was meeting today with the conference president Hamilton Amerasingiic of Sri Lanka anti UN Secretarytien eral Kurt Waltllieim to continue his efforts Hes opened the door to lia loguc aii African delegate said thers termed the Ameri can proposals interesting con structive and worthy of detailed considerat ion Under Kissingcrs plan the US and other advanced coun tries would guarantee batik loans and provide technical hel for an international aut ority that would mine half the seabed for the benefit of poor developing countries In return private firms in the US and other industrialized coun tries would be guaranteed equal access to the oceanfloor minerals This doubleaccess system is major goal of the US delega tion which is under intense pressure from American firms that want to start exploiting the rich nickel cobalt copper and manganese deposits on the eastern Pacific seabed Third World militants led by Algeria Tunisia and Egypt are deman ding that the international authority havc unrestricted control of the seabed and that its decisions be by majority vote This would give the big Third World bloc veto it it could hold together FuTémsl To Emmet Caught him trying to get out with mouthful of water Sargl want Barrie The fire in an oc cupied room set off the sprinkler system Chief McAllister said the fire could have been very serious if it had gone any further As it was most of the damage was done by water from the sprinklers Cause of the fire is still under investigation Examiner Photo BEATRICE TAKES OASA PLAYOFFS BUT UA board of directors asked agencies for hold the line budgets this year BIG BROTHERS MISSING One agency missing from the list is the Barrie and District Big Brothers Association Mr Wood stressed that the organization is still member of the UA but did not ask for an allocation because of the suc cess of the Big Brothers bowlathon He said this is helping the UA meet the requests from the other agencies The campaign is divided into 11 divisions each with cam paign chairman The largest portion of the $163000 will come from payroll donations $33000 with cor porate donations adding $30000 and $15000 from both the schools and commercial divi 510 Legal Aid to be cut off John Allen assistant director for Ontario Legal Aid said he could not comment on the case He said Legal Aid regulations require that all applications be ke confidential However he di say he was impressed by the Examiners diligence in un covering the information Mr Allen said that Legal Aid is given on the basis of an appli cants financial position and type of legal action he is in volved in He said there are some specific areas which Legal Aid cannot cover Mr Allen said that in some cases an applicant will be granted some Legal Aid with the requirement that he pay share He said all Legal Aid decisions are made by the area director Jack Currie area director for Simcoe County Aid has been on vacation for the past week and will not be available until Tuesday His office could make no comment on Rowbothans case Rowbothams lawyer is Moishe Reitcr of Toronto He said he wanted to make no public comment on the situa tiop with Rowbothams Legal Ait He did say the Brampton trial is expected to last three to six months and he certainly did not want to work that length of time with no prospect of pay ment Will damage labors image STRATHROY Ont iCP Organized labors image in Canada will be damaged if its Oct 14 day of protest is un successful Larry Condon Liberal MP for Middlesex LondotiLainbton said Wed ncsday The Canadian Labor Congress CLC whose af filiates represent 23 million workers has called the day of protest to demonstrate op position to the federal program of selective wage and price con trols In an interview following luncheon address to the annual meeting of the western section of Ontario Municipal Water As sociation Mr Condon said la bor is putting all its marbles in one basket by using the day of protest as the major vehicle to oppose the federal program Its going to hurt labor if its not successful he said Mr Condon former union mem ber said the government has failed to explain adequately what the federal antiinflation board A18 is trying to accom plish We dont have time to ex plain he said In his address Mr Condon said the A18 program has united labor and business in mutual opposition to the meas ures Other targets are $14000 from professional people $14000 from residential mail cam aign $13500 from non resi ential commercial$10000 from Base Borden $9000 from special names and executives $4000 from Ontarioo govern ment employees and $2500 from federal government em ployees The UA is still looking for division chairmen for federal governement employees law yers miscellaneous profes sional people and commercial Other chairmen are Don Young payroll Dorthy Ban ting and Ben Dixon schools Jim Quinn special names Ma jor Edgecombe Base Borden Al Blackmore nonv residential commercial Ken Aay corporate Dr Doidge doctors Dr Bill Garner den tists Manley Chew Ontario government and Marilyn Jef fery public relations Other campaign workers are Joy Hogben and Margaret McGowen campaign assis tants and Minnie Kemp UA office secretary and accoun tant ONFIDENT Mr Wood said he is confident the UA will reach the $163000 target even though it only made 66 per cent of last years $145000 goal He id the campaign which continued until the new year was plagued by the post office strike and few other pro blems This year the campaign will be six weeks long he said ad ding the name of the game is meetingdeadlines havent been in United Appeal campaign yet that hasnt had to be extended he said But Id like this to be the first Mr Wood said there is no reason why we cant do in six weeks what we want to do After today the campaign timetable includes updating lists and cards by Sept 10 sen ding first letters to commmer cial and corporate by Sept 15 recruiting canvassers by Sept 20 official public campaign start Oct active canvassing for three weeks Oct to Oct 22 every household mailing Oct 25 mobile last minute blitz Nov and campaign closes Nov 10 Mr Wood said one of the new features of this years cam paign is return mailing type of operation for the residential areas This replaces the doorto door canvass he said and letters will be mailed to all Bar rie residents rural routes and box special mail numbers He added the Barrie cam paign is separate from other municipalities Money raised in Toronto will not be used for Barrie agencies Bert Cook chairman of the board of trustees of the Barrie and District UA told the volunteers this morning he liked the idea of short snap py campaign Mr Cook said the $163000 is relatively small amount of money when people consider it is used to help 12 agencies in Barrie He said the United Appeal campaign is used rather than having the 12 agencies hold separate fund raising efforts Theres no question that United is the proper way to do ti he said Theres not doubt in mind that we can be suc ccssful Wage proposal given by nurses OWEN SOUND Ont CP The Ontario Nurses Association ONA representing 21 public health nurses in the GreyOwen Sound health unit presented an arbitration board with wage proposal Wednesday which calls for increases ranging from 17 to 20 per cent over one year Larry Robbins ONA grie vance officer and spokesman for the nurses said the proposal would increase annual salaries for starting nurses to $13716 from $11340 threeAmember arbitration board appointed to settle the contract dispute heard rep resentations from DNA and unit officials Mr Robbins said the pro posed increases would raise public health nurses salaries slightly above the amount now earned by hOSpital nurses The additional money is to make up for the increase hospital nurses will receive in their next settle ment Mr Robbins said John Middlebro an Owen Sound lawyer who represented the health unit said after the meeting that the health unit is prepared to offer wage parity with hospital nurses if we get equal work for equal pay The hospital nurses work week is 3834 hours and public health nurses work 3334 hours week he said adding that the differnccc is better than half day week Nurses also want clause in their contract which would pro vide compulsory arbitration to settle contract disputes Public health nurses staged weeklong provincewide strike in June to protest the lack of compulsory arbitra tion clause in their contracts with Ontario health units Two brothers injured while trying rescue THUNDER BAY CP Two brothers were in guarded condi tion in hospital Wednesday night with injuries suffered when floatequipped airplane crashed while attempting takeoff The brothers Thomas and William Rowe of Pickle Lake Ont were settingoff to look for friend who was injured while trying to take off when they suffercdthe same fate In the original mishap Rob ert Shetterly of Rat Rapids Ont suffered broken rib when his floatequipped singleengine plane went down on Kawino gans Lake 170 miles north of here Mr Shetterly spent 30 hours trapped in the planes partially submerged wreckage in the middle of the lake He finally was rescued by police in scar ch party Mr Shetterly was treated at Pickle Lake health clinic for broken rib and lesser injuries and was back home Wed nesday Police said Mr Shetterly left his home Tuesday to pick up some wild rice from area In dians He had engine trouble and landed his plane on Ka winogans Lake Mr Shetterly tried to fix the engine but it failed when he at tempted takeoff The next day police found the plane bur ied tailup in four feet of mud and six feet of water Const Jim Mansell of Central Patricia OPP said Mr Shet terly was lying on the cargo in soaking wet sleeping bag bleeding frotn cuts and with his beard matted with dry blood He said Mr Shetterly looked up at him and said Am ever glad to see your ugly face The constable added Hes one tough old salt Mr Shetterly told his res cuers he had been hurlcd through the aircraft windshield on impact He had managed to crawl back into the wreck and spend cold night there OUTOFTEAM Detroit Red Wings star Dan Maloney above formerly of Barrie was one of six Team Canada cuts announced Wednesday Goaltender Dan Bouchard of the Atlanta Flames defencemen Paul Shmyr Cleveland Cru saders Dave Burrows of Pit tsburgh Penguins and for wards Rene Robert Buffalo Sabres and Jean Pronovost of the Penguins were the others Pronovost and Robert were upset by the announce ment while Bouchard com plained that the selections were ruled by politics and that experience not training camp performance was the key criterion Arena list termed out of date ORILLIA Ont CP list issued Wednesday by the pro vincial government listing un safe recreational buildings in the province has been called out of date by the commis sioner of the Orillia Parks Communities Centres and Recreation Commission See story on Page John Parkes said Thursday morning that the listing of the Orillia community centre as safe but sus ect is at least threeyearsol We were on that list three years ago but we have done the work and have been given clean bill of health he said There will be no closing of the centre and we do not plan any further renovations of the structure at this time Mr Parkes said Horizons is still on Rumors circulating around Barrie that the federal govern ments New Horizons grants for senior citizens projects have been cancelled are not true ac cording to Dr Rynard PC Simcoe North spokesman for Dr Ry nards office in Ottawa said today the program is continu ing The spokesman said it is possible that certain project under New Horizons funding may have been cancelled and that this could have caused the confusion Is opposed to arms plan WASHINGTON AP The Ford administrations $59bil lion arms package the bulk of which would go to Iran faces roadblocks in Congress based on concern for Israels security and on fear of an arms race in the Persian Gulf Calling the United States the wouldbe arms pusher of the century Senator William Proxmire Dem Wis has pledged to introduce resolutions to block most if not all of the projected sales to 10 countries before Congress ad jouriis on Oct Sources said other senators and some members of the House of Representatives are prepared to whittle away at the Saudi Arabia share In an nthhour concession the Ford administration trim med its Saudi request but pro Israel congressmen may try for further reductions Streetsville lodges protest in umpire call Rick Buchanans homer in the 13th inning gave Beatrice 65 win Wednesday and sweep of the bestofthree Ontario Amateur Softball Association Intermediate playoff round with Streetsville That is unless the OASA upholds the protest lodged in the third inning by Streetsville Streetsville lodged the pro test claiming misinterpreta tion of the rules by plate umpire Doug Cundles Streetsville had men on base with one opt when better fouled third strike to Beatrice catcher Chuck McNicol who ap arently trapped the ball be ore it hit the ground Cundles called the batter out Cundles said this morning that Streetsville is protesting that the foul tip has to go directly from the at to the catchers glove SECOND HIT It was the second key hit for Buchanan in the game played before good crowd at Queens Park It capped comefrom behind win for Beatrice after losing an early 20 lead At one point the defending Ontario champions trailed Streetsville 52 Buchanan was called off the bench in the eighth inningi His pinchhit single knocked ome the tying run and sent the game into extrainnings the second straight in the series after Beatrice took the opener 10 in 12 innings earlier this week in StreetSVille There was no further scoring until Buchanans dramatic gameendin homer in the inning Beatrice opened the scoring in the first inning with McNicoll knocking home Jake Miller The Barrie lead was increased by one in the third with Gary Hines driving in McNicol Streetsville tied the game with two runs in the fourth Streetsville took advantage of pair of Barrie errors in the fifth inning to score three runs Butch Boyd was given the inthepark ttom of the 13th starting nod for Beatrice but was pulled in the fourth in favor of Leo Belcourt Beatrices leftfielder Mark Vincer cut down Streetsville nuiner at home with his throw to salvage rather uninspired fifth inning by the Beatrice in field Corby Adams triple in the fifth scored Belcourt In the seventh Vincer reached Streetsville pitcher Rod Stewart fora runscoring hit Buchanan supplied the key blow lli he eighth

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