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EXAMINER TELEPHONES Circulation Classified Advertismg All Other Departments 112th YearNo 230 DICK HOWITT of Shanty Bay asks question at Thursdays public meeting over the proposal to build generalaviation airport near Guthrie seven miles nor theast of Barrie Mr Howitt disturbance at the Barrie Jail Tuesday has been resolved satisfactorily according to Don Kerr information director for the ministry of correctional ser vices Mr Kerr said today that two CLEARWATER Fla AP Methodist minister was charged Thursday with mur dering his wife and 12yearold son with butcher knife while another son looked on Rev Mitchell Florence 45 of Friendship United Methodist Church was held without bond in the medical section of the Pinellas County jail where he is undergoing psychiatric exam ination after being charged with two counts of firstdegree murder Officials refused to speculate on motive in the slayings Police who responded to disturbance call at the Florence home said the minister was countys mu Medonte Township joined the Simcoe County Mutual Fire Aid System Wednesday night The meeting held in the Bar rie Fire Hall attracted about 45 firefighters from 19 muni cipalities in the county Ac cording to Barrie Fire Chief Jack McAllister the vote to ac cept Medonte was unanimous The firefighters also dis cussed regional fire school and Chief McAllister says the ntario Fire Marshals office TORONTO CP Ernest Caron 47 was sentenced to life imprisonment Thursday for at tempting to kidnap Signy Ea ton daughter of the chairman of the board of Eatons of Can ada Ltd Caron native of France who has maintained silence sin ce his arrest in June remained RNEST CARON silent 7256539 72824 7266537 said the airport should be managed by Oro township not the City of Barrie other residents complained about noise increased traffic and depreciation of property representatives of the Om budsmans office visited the jail Thursday evening and in terviewed the prisoners in volved in sitdown protest in thejail exercise yard He said the Ombudsman of Minister charged in slayings covered with blood when he an swered the door They said they found the bod ies of the ministerswife Na nette 46 and son Mark inside Both had been repeatedly stab bed with butcher knife found at the scene Another son 13yearold whose name was not released witnessed the stabbings and fled to neighbors house po lice said The neighbors called police Florence Miamiarea na tive who was ordained in 1959 was described by parishioners as compassionate man who took whatever problems he conlt fronted on personal basis Medonte Township in tual aid will be approached to organize the school The mutual aid system will be updated The addition of Medonte and new equipment purchased by other depart ments will mean that different coverage can be provided The system was set up so that more than one department could fight major fire and other departments could cover for the departments engaged in fighting the fire Kidnap attempt nets life term mute throughout presentence hearing He was convicted two weeks ago of attempting to kidnap the Eaton girl June 15 Judge Lloyd Graburn heard testimony from number of witnesses before sentencing Ca ron One witness Montreal po liceman told court that Caron shot him three times during 1959 bank robbery Constable Donat Jodoin testi fied he was shot in the chest and ademen and identified Caron as his assailant Court was told Caron served five years of 17year sentence for the attempted murder of Constable Jodoin before being de rted gt Robert Dougall testified that Caron was released from rison in July 1964 on condition stay out of Canada He said the man was laced on shi and deported ut he obtaine French passport in the name of Earnest Grillet and flew back to Canada within five weeks The policeman said Caron was arrested after bank rob bery in Delhi Ont in Septem ber 1964 and sentenced to 12 years in prison He served 10 years before being released in 1974 The Barrie Examiner values Rezoning of farm land is needed to permit the airport Oro planning board will receive written com ments until Friday Oct 15 Examiner Photo Disturbance at jail has been resolved ficials were satisfied that ac ting jail superintendent Bernie Parker had performed his func tion properly and was taking steps to rectify any problems The prisoners had com plained about quantity of food available and of being de prived of showers They made specific complaints about three guards Mr Kerr said that three of the inmates involved were interviewed by Mr Parker and were satisfied with his plans for handling their complaints about the guards Other inmates have yet to be interviewed by Mr Parker Some have been transferred to other institutions to serve sentences 145 students take course This week 145 student dri vers took to the roads in Barrie as part of 12week program of instruction offered in co operation with the Simcoe County Board of Education John Lougheed qualified instructor and coordinator of the course said this ears turnout at the high schoo level is one of the best ever However response to the pro gram for adults was low and Mr Lougheed has cancelled it The course includes class room instruction and car driv ing Playathon on two days The Eastview String Or chestra is holding 24hour music playathon today and Saturday at the school Music begins today at pm and go to pm tomorrow Under Joel Miller band director the band will divide into groups to keep the music going band will play variety of popular and classical tunes There will be door prize drawn every hour Mr Miller said two years ago similar playathon raised about $600 for the orchestra to take trip to Quebec Funds this year raised from the play athon will also go for orchestra trips and for band equipment The band will present con cert during the last hour Barrie Ontario wv9 Conodo Friday Betti I976 33hr flame Examiner l5 Per Copy Carrier Home Delivery 85 Weekly WEATHER FORECAST JN IMPoges Airport group Optimistic By JIM DALZIEL Examiner Staff Reporter ORO STATION Barries plan to build an airport near Guthrie in Oro township ran in to substantial opposition at public meeting here Thursday night But airport committee members are undaunted The meeting was justlabout what expected Its traditional for people to oppose some thing committee vice chairman Graydon Richardson said after the threehour ses sion in the township hall About 125 people attended 25 spoke against the airport and four favored it Many of these people had already made up their minds Mr Richardson said dont blame them Thats their right Critics said the airport with 3500 foot paved runway would bring noise increase highway traffic hurt television reception and reduce surroun ding residential property values Oro planning board chairman Clarence Smith said the meeting was not intended to gather public comments but to provide information about Bar ries request to change Oros of ficial plan and wning bylaw to allow the airport He said the board will receive comments in writing until Friday Oct 15 Then the board will make recommendation to Oro coun cil which may approve or disapprove the citys plans 0MB HEARING Smith said another Sale 0R0 STATION Barrie has refused to sell the Oro airport site to sixmember group which wants to keep it in agriculture Ross Bradley who also ob jected recently to an industrial park at Guthrie showed the civ Mr ANGEL IS DEAD TORONTO CP Angel black mountain gorilla seized from its owner last week because of ill health was destroyed Thursday night spokesman for the Ontario Humane Society said Society inspector Dick Parry said the 10yearold animal had lapsed into coma and was put to death by society veterinarian Tom Hughes the societys executive vicepresident said in statement the decision to destroy the animal was taken reluc tantly but it was considered best to end the animals suf fering He said the gorilla is suf fering from scurvy and pan creatitls and an old wound has become gangrenous Angel was removed to game farm near Hamilton after being seized from its owner in Richmond Hill Society officials said the animal had been kept in garage Ruth Bowman Angels owner said in an interview before the animal was destroyed that the society never told us thing about it They said they were going to give him attention 24 hours day she said Mrs Bowman said she was at the game farm in the af ternoon but was not allowed to see Angel There were television crews filming the animal but was barred from that property public meeting is likely and there could be public hearing of the Ontario Munici al Board The airport would built on part of 242acre parcel of farmland on Concession south of Highway 11 The pro perty was bought by Barrie for $102000 in 1967 and 1968 Its not our intention to turn Oro into Toronto North air port committee chairman Don McNall said at the meetin He said the public ould recognize that Barrie and Orillia which would be served by the Oro airport are con sidered growth areas by the SimcoeGeorgian Area task force Like or lump it those cities are going to grow he said If Barrie has population of 125000 in 35 years and Orillia 80000 as is projected industry will be needed said Mr McNall Industry goes where the air ports are Thats fact slide show was given at the meeting indicating 92 per cent of the aircraft at general avia tion airports in the United States have piston engines CAN LAND Mr McNall said jets cannot legally land on the size of run way proposed in Oro dont think were going to have any problem with jets at least not in the foreseeable futre He said any expansion of the airport in the future would have to be considered by Oro council with the public getting chance to comment again The committee considered several sites for an airport two tys letter of rejection ac in Cm two in Innisfil two in Vespra and one in Essa Base Borden was possibili ty Mr McNall said until let ter came from the Department of National Defense DND in July this year LtCol Lines director of base planning and develop ment said the Borden airport is too close to training areas and military ranges Mr McNall said the Borden airports lack of use is stupid and he offered to fly to Ottawa if there was hope of changing the stance of DND of ficials One of the residents of the meeting said the airport should be in Innisfil township south of Barrie industrial expansion is planned Dick Howitt of Shanty Bay former chairman of Oro plann ing board said it doesnt seem logical that Barrie should operate an airport within another municipaltiy If there is going to be strip it sould be under the management of Oro township Paul Kneeshaw said he is worried that his home will depreciate after construction of an airport nearby Bruce Brock of Shanty Bay said surve of some Barrie in dustries in icates they would use jets for executive flights and thus the samll airport wont suit them There was confusion over the property tax benefits that the airport will bring Oro Mr McNall said he did not know that Barrie as municipality does not pay property tax reform now being con offcr refused Thursdays public meeting He said the price of 242acre site would be negotiated It would cost $250000 he said 250 people could contribute $1000 each The airport requires rezoning from agriculture use to in dustrial Airport committee chairman Don McNall said the land is not good for farming but some residents howled at that sug gestion Mr Bradley also presented letter from the president of Black and Decker in Brockville contradicting an earlier statement by Mr McNall that the company was seeking site for new plant Mr Bradley said an apology should be given Mr McNall said he was merely qUoting an industrial survey report by the ministry of transportation cial agreement on con stitutional reform appears remote as provmcial premiers Wyiks Goodryo dear and remember whatever Clark say youre still the boal TEN TA TIVE GREEMEN PRISON ROSS BRADLEY showed letter Constitutional reform agreement seen remote TORONTO CP provin make another attempt to find common ground Quebec Premier Robert Bou rassa said in an interview Thur sday that the the conference which opened today may be the last chance for Canadas provincial premiers to reach consensus Prime Minister Trudeau has told the premiers that if they fail to agree Ottawa will act alone in making the British North America Act the coun trys constitution Canadian instead of British law Moving the act to Canada would mean it could be amen ded in this countr The amen ding formula is stumbling block here The conference is an exten sion of one opened in Alberta in August Conference host Al berta Premier Peter Lougheed threw the meetings into disaray by proposing that every prov ince have veto over any pro posed amendment sidered by the provincial government would end tax ex emptions for municipalities however Mr McNall said the airport will not cost Oro penn And with money ledged by pro vincial an federal govern ments Barries financial com mitment is limited to the pur chase of the airport site he said Sam Cancilla property owner in Barrie and Oro said noise and pollution can be ex pected around the airport The grass strip in Vespra township now serving the city can have 145 takeoffs and Ian dings on busy summer day Mr Cancilla said But Mr McNall said he thought the figure was too high Paul Kitchen of Hawkestone said there hasnt been an in depth study of the need for and the effects of the airport Answerin other questions Mr McNal said the airport should not affect wildlife and livestock but the height of structures such as silos would berestricted He said overnment laws would contro airport noise Jaws are coming to Barrie Not the jaws of death seen in horror movies but Jaws of Life hydraulicpowered device which can remove the roof of car in three minutes or life up the side of bus Jaws made by Hurst Safety Products will be art of the equipment carried the Sim coe Rescue Squad when it becomes operational next spr ing The ad will operate the Simcoe mergency Rescue Vehicle for Extrication SERVE and attend emergen cy situations across the county The squad will be organized by the Vespra Firefi hters Association but will in corporated as completely nonprofit organization Ac cording to Vespra fire captain Gary Joice this will allow it to cross municipal lines and therefore serve the whole coun ty He said that rescue vehicle operated by just one fire department would be restricted to whatever municipality own edit The vehicle similar to those seen on the television program Emergency will be equipped to handle just about any kind of emergency says Mr oice DONATIONS The rescue squad will be funded totally by donations he said The fundraising will be kicked off at the Midhurst Fair Saturday when the special rescue tool will be brought in for demonstrations Well be cutting up old cars there to show people the power of the tools said Mr Joice The emergency tools will be on display from noon to pm The fair will be at the Midhurst Community Centre on Thorne Road The squad needs $55000 to become operational As well the actual vehicle and jaws of life there will be total of 260 specialized tools for use in specific emergencies Mr Joice said the majority of emergencies to be answered would be automobile accidents but that it could also handle such things as person trapped in well or fallen par way downacliff In his experience with firefighting and working with the Ontario Provincial Police he says he has seen countless situations where the tools available in emergency vehi cle would have been used 350 HOURS The men who will work on the squad all volunteers will Guards release follows conference NEW WESTMINSTER BC CP Guard Wayne Culbert 21 was freed by prisoners at the strifetom British Columbia nitentiary early today more han 80 hours after he had been taken hostage during revolt over conditions at the 98year old federal institution Mr Culberts release followed brief news con ference His condition was not immediately known but on Thursday member of the prisons medical staff said he was in good health Kitchen worker Walter Day 50 released on Tuesday said he was unharmed and had been treated with courtesy by his captors They were taken hos tage at knifepoint in the kitchen area by 10 convicts while 200 prisoners in the institutions east wing went on wrecking rampage One of the convicts involved in the hostagetaking later re joined the general prison popu ation He was due for release soon Before Mr Culberts release Jim Murphy Canadian Penitentiary Services regional director read memorandum of agreement between the sevenman prisoners com mittee and he solicitorgen erals department The agreement reflected the prisoners distrust of guards who had been seeking increased security measures atfithe prison The agreement said RCMP were to remain in the peniten tiary for two weeks and after one week meet with prison of ficials the prisoners com mittee and citizens advisory committee to discuss needs for continuing the presence of the force within the prison walls The nine prisoners who held Mr Culbert turned themselves over to RCMP who were to take them to an RCMP lockup before transfer to another federal penitentiary In addition the RCMP were to be responsible for removing the prisoners from the damaged east win and were to be observed by prisoners committee and the citizens committee The reement also said there wil be no physical pun ishment of any prisoner in volved in the insurrection and no internal disciplinary charges laid until after public inquiry has been held into the incident The agreement also said pris oners in uninhabitable areas of the penitentiary will be moved immediately to habitable areas and receive necessary medical attention There had been reports of dysentry because toilet facilities were destroyed in the east wing It is believed prisoners from that area will be moved to the gymnasium The reement also stipulated at every case of risoner seeking transfer rom the penitentiary be referred to committee com rising the regional transfer rd and the citizens com mittee PrISOners who gain transfers will be able to take all personal effects with them Members of the prisoners committee will be permitted to meet any prisoner held in the supermaxrmumsecurity sec tion Those in the su rmax imum unit will have he same rights to meet any member of the prisoners committee If criminal charges are laid as result of the insurrection internal prison charges cannot be placed before wardens court despite strong Opposition DON McNALL LISTENS T0 OBJECTIONS Jaws of Life will be too of county emergenc GARY JOICE fire captain receive 350 hours training before the squad becomes Operational As well as learning how to operate the tools they will have basic medical train ing Mr Joice says that after the squad becomes operational the medical training will con tinue and within four years the men will reach paramedic status Major training sessions will be with the Canadian Armed Forces St Johns Ambulance the Royal Victoria Hospital Medical Staff the Industrial Fire School in Sarnia one of only two in North America In ternational Fire Training School in Vermont and Ontario Hydro As well there will be sessions with specialists in about 25 fields to learn how to handle specific emergencies Three volunteers will travel with the rescue vehicle when it ysquad attends an emergency Mr Joice says plans are also being made to have Registered Nurses available to work with the rescue squad The rescue vehicle is also made by Hurst Safety Pro ducts and is based on Ford Econoline Van It has dual rear wheels to handle the increased weight 11000 pounds and the body back of the drivers seat has been completely changed Behind the seat is reverse seating for three under half roof The rear half of the 20foot long vehicle contains compart ments for the cialized tools and firefighting oses The van is powered by large V8 engine which is linked to generator When the vehicle is at rest the engine provides the power for tools and pumps The jaws of life can be powered by the vehicle or remote por table generator When the squad becomes operational it should be busy By checking ambulance police and fire department records Mr Joice found those organiza tions would have used such vehicle about 300 times in the past year Microwave oven warning LONDON Ont CP People may receive painless burns from microwave ovens without knowing it because the radiation sears fat and muscle deep beneath the skin surface says Dr Muc engineer with the occupationalhealth protection branch of the On tario health ministry Dr Muc said in an interview Thursday that burning occurs without pain because most of the pain sensors are on the skins surface Rhodesian leaders meet From REUTERAP SALISBURY CP Rhodesian black nationalist leaders Joshua Nkomo and Bishop Abel Muzorcwa met secretly today in an attempt to heal the rift in the African National Council ANC which both claim to lead School classses cancelled MONTREAL CP Classes were cancelled today at the pro vinces 330 Protestant schools ting up picket lines striking teachers began sct Mine blasts kill 16 MERLEBACH France AP fire spread through three levels of large coal mine in northeast France today after caus ing two explosions that killed 16 men including nine members of mine safety team fighting the blaze PM to visit Japan TOKYO Reuter Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau will arrive here Oct 20 for sixday official visit at the invrtatron of the Japanese government the foreign ministry an nounced today Ali to quit ring again ISTANBUL AP World heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali said today he himself to spreading the Moslem is fitting fighting to devote fait throughout the world Tanks threaten strongholds BEIRUT AP Syrian tanks advancing under air cover closed in today on two Palestinia force the guerrillas off the vital out of Lebanons civil war Nemesis strongholds in finaI drive to BeirutDamascus highway and