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Barrie Examiner, 7 Oct 1976, p. 1

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EXAMINER TELEPHONES Clrculotion 7266539 Classlied Advertusmg 778 24 All Other Deporimenis 7766537 112th YearNo 235 Clip Titanic Examitwr The Barrie Examiner Barrie Ontario Canada Thursday October 1976 IS Per Copy Carrier Home Delivery 85 Weekly No P0 strike here but somc dissatisfaction Theres no postal strike in Barrie but there is some dissatisfaction says Dan Westwood president of the Bar rie local of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers CUPW Rotating strikes by inside workers have hit post offices in Vancouver Ottawa St Johns London and Edmonton this week with Windsor reported ready to go at this writing The strikes were called in portest at the attitude of the Post Office and Treasury Board toward automation Barries 53 inside workers will go out ifand only ifdirected to do so by CUPWs national headquarters Barrie is not directly involved in the dispute Mr Westwood has said he doubts the call will come though he pledges picket lines on short notice if it does But he does have few com plaints about the local situa tion The local has failed 46 grievances already this year he says and won most of them Usually we file about 12 in year he said He says many have gone on to the second or third level for settlement though others have been settled at the initial grievance level REFUSED MEETINGS He also says post office of The halls of Eastview Secon dary School were infested with furry creatures Wednesday but there was no cause for alarm they were all stuffed Reward for lugg ing your favourite stuffed pet FURRY CRATURES INVADE SCHOOL around the halls all day was free admission to the Disco held in the cafetorium after school hours Helena Ho vorka brought her elephant to spectate at the basketball game in photo below while Clinton Smout left and Bob McDermid carried friend Oscar through the halls to class in upper photo iEx aminerPhotost ficials have refused to allow union officials to meet with management at the Borden and Bradford offices also rep resented by the Barrie local In addition he said Barrie as Grade office is going to get antitheft closed circuit televi sion and the union is concerned that the TV cameras may have more uses than the prevention of theft In response Al Secor area AN TIANNEXA TION TUDY manager for Central Ontario post offices between Toronto and North Bay says many of the 46 grievances are not in the dictionary interpretation of grievance and could have been settled between the worker and his supervisor without submission of formal grievance The high rate of grievances upheld he said suggests that most were uncontroversial and could have been settled in formally He said he has no information regarding closedcircuit televi sion in the Barrie office but notes that he cannot deny the possibility He said the subject may have been mentioned at nationallevel unionman agement negotiations and have come to Mr Westwoods atten tion though union channels He said unionmanagement consultations involving Borden should be held in Barrie The problem in Bradford he said is that his information suggests that the Ontario CUPW repre sentative rather than the Bar rie local is the authorized union agent there However Mr Westwood said Bradford union dues core to the Barrie local 24Pages Oro avoiding OMB order By PETER DEPODESTA Examiner Staff Reporter Oro Township is avoiding an Ontario Municipal Board OMBi order The township wont be able to make public Barries an nexation proposal until the OMB hearing its planning study against Oct 28 David White solicitor for the township said engineering and planning consultants are working on the study but it probably wont be finished until the hearing Mr White said the township is not intcn tionally avoiding the order but has had very short time to prepare its study The township only started after the Proc he said tor and Redfern study Barries $40000 an nexation study was released in September The four municipalities involved in an nexation Barrie Oro Innisfil and Vespra were ordered by the OMB to make any plan ning studies available The city is trying to annex about 20000 The Oro re 78 killed in jet crash BRIDGElt WN chutcri Sabotage is suspected by offi cials investigating the crash of Cuban airlincr which plungcd into the sea off Barbados on Icxlncsday killing all 78 people on board ubana Airlines said in lla vana the pilot told the control tower at Rarliados Seawcll Air port that hc had heard an ex plosion on board Officials here would reveal no details of the conversation be tween pilot and control tower in the 20 minutcs betwccn the air crafts takeoff from Seawcli and the crash Eyewitnesscs said the air liner one of two l8s leased to ubana by Air anada ap pound to be intact when it hit the sea One said trail of smoki was coming from the tail Air anada spokcsmcn in Montreal and Toronto said the leased planes SOIIltllllltS car ried anadian crew but there were no Canadians aboard the plane Wednesday Airport officials plane carried 02 whom 23 were iibaiia crew members ll luyaiicsc and five North Koreans The vic tims included the iiban fcnv said the ubans of More compulsory school subjects TORONTO CPI More sub jects will be com lsory for Grade and ID stu ents in On tario next year Education Min ister Thomas Wells announced Wednesday In what he described as the first of several steps to refine and improve education he told news conference students en tering those grades next year will be required to study math ematics seience English and Canadian history or geography The only difference in the basic core curriculum from what is requued this year is the addition of mathematics and science he said However curriculum guides for the high schools also will be revised to ensure that every student gets good grounding in English composition gram marandliteraturehesaid similar approach to history and geography will be under taken to teach students Can adas place in the world and how democratic society works headded The minister also said new measures are planned on the teaching of French as second language and the develo ment of provincial testing stan rds Saddle horse found dead ARTHUR Ont Pi saddle horse owned by Lloyd Bossence local farmer was shot and killed early Wednes dav Police said the horse was shot on Mr Bossences farm near this community about 25 miles north of Waterloo Arthur is about 15 miles south of Mount Forest where num ber of horses were killed in bi zarre slashing attacks last month cing team which was returning from the Youth Caribbean championships in Caracas whcrc it won all eight gold medals Orlando Ilrigolla ubanas general manager in Montreal said sabotage could have been involved in the crash although he did not specify who might be rcstxmsiblc PASSED INSPECTION He said the jOl had been in pcrfcct condition when it was checkcd last Sunday by main tcnancc crcv during stopover in Montreal Thc pilot was trying to return to Scawcll for an emergency landing Eyewitiicsscs said the aircraft nosedivcd steeply into the son after pulling out of its descent toward the airport uban cxdc groups hostilc to Prime Minister Fidcl astro have claimed responsibility for thrcc explosions in Barbados Jamaica and Trinidad since June The Jamaica blast was in suncasc due to bc loaded onto ubana airliner bound for lla vana Officials said the suitcase would hay exploded in flight if the jet had not been behind schedule Recovery of cvidcncc in Wod ncsdays crash could be difr ficult sincc thc wrcckagc sank in about ooo fcct of water 31 miles off the wcst coast of liar liadtis Mayor convicted Iwillll lHY li Mayor Mcrlc Dickerson was convicted in district court Kcdncsday of being found in common gam ing housc The mayor originally was lilllilttl of thcoffcnct in itto lwr 3073 and sciiiinicd to lays in Jail 5100 fincand two yni on probation llc its llZiithl now it int when hcap pulled llt original triiiviction and tllltlllt On kulncsday hi is fincd $500 but was not Jailed or placed on probation Dickerson has been mayor for 20 years and sziid he plans to run again in December Six other men also were con victcd and fined 523 after police raided hincsc restaurant Thrcc others were convicted of keeping common gaming housc and fined $2000 and an other was fined $300 In passing sentence on Dick crsoii Judge Stanton llogg of Toronto said that for first of fence jail term was not ap propriate He also said the pro bation term originally imposed did not serve the purpose for which it was designed One of the probation terms was that the mayor have no dis CUSSIOD of policy relating to the police department Judge Hogg said that by law the mayor was an appointed member of the Citys police commission be cause of his position Disease care not far off TORONTO CPI Discovery of cause and cure for mul tiple sclerosis is not too far away an international meeting of family doctors was told Wed nesday Dr William Mcllroy head of neurology at Toronto Westem Hospital said researchers now believe the disease which strikes the central nervous sys tem is caused by common virus contracted in early child hood acres from the townships including 2100 acres from Oro 4500 acres from Vespra and 13500acres from Innisfil RIGHT TO THE WIRE rt will go right to the wire he said at pu lic meeting Wednesday Itll be hot off the presses on Oct 28 When asked specific questions about how DAVID WHITE solicitor for Oro Township indicates the proposed boundaries of the Barrie annexation proposal in the township The city much assessment the township with annexation and the effect on remaining residents Mr White said Im not in position to give the answers now he said have some figures here that are very rough and do not want them quoted in the local newspapers more information said The township is annexation He said of the three townships Oro has the wants about 2100 acres in the township as part of total 20000 acre annexation ap plication Mr White was Mr White told the people if they wanted out the annexation proposal by Barrie they should pay $50 for copy of the Proctor and Redfern study None of us will get all the facts until the OMB hearing and perha not even then he efinitely opposed to would lose best chance to defeat the proposal because the township is in unique position think we have very good case to oppose annexation he said cant give you the odds of winning the case Mr White told the residents that if an nexation is approved they will probably have he said to pay for urban services water sewage even if they do not use them If youre annexed youll probably have services you dont want but have to pay for There is possiblility of the city setting two assessment rates for urban and rural areas he said which means the tax rates would not Ava Mm discussing the townships op position to annexation at public metting ledncsday tExaminer Photo Oro land not wan ted commission member Barrie doesnt want to annex 2100 acres in Oro Township but has to balance its annexation proposal says Arch Brown member of the Barrie in dustrial and commercial com mission Mr Brown resident of Oro told about 125 people Wed nesday at public meeting he has heard number of city politicians saying they do not Passengers awaiting the arrival of Mfg 24 from Tokyo are advised that there has been further delay Lunch eaten on gym floor NORTH BAY tCPi Car man Monteuil chairman of the NipLssing District Roman Cath olic separate school board said Wednesday he was appalled to hear that students at Our Lady of Fatima school had to eat their lunch on the gymnasium floor Last week several parents and many of the schools 500 students held oneday walkout to protest the lack of facilities at the school The parents say the school lacks proper gymnasium change rooms lunch room library and science and staff rooms want the Oro land He said the politicians have told him the land needed so the city dos not jeopardize its application for Vespra and iii nisfil township land Were tin Or0i the lamb being led to slaughter he said sacrificiallamb Mr Brown said the city in cluded the Oro land only as an appeasement for lnnisfil town ship Theyre politically ap peasmg the large takeover in Innisfil which they need so desperately for industrial pur poses he said The city is in dire need of industrial land He said he might have con flict of interest because he ser ves on the Barrie Industrial Commission nuinbcr of residents said they were opposcd to an nexation duringthcmecting Recvc Wallace Key said quite number have con tacted me and of this number think one or two didnt care and the rest were opposed Reeve Key could not give the exact number of people who contacted him but said if 15 called me then think three said they are not in favor of an nexation right now but may be later Tiffin of Baycrest Drive said hc took survey of 45 peoplc in the area proposed for annexation and it per cent were opposed He said one person was in favor and three others had not made decision CAPSULE NE WS Hurricane Mexicobound MEXICO CITY iAPi Hurricane Madeline packing 100 mileanhour winds moved toward Mexicos west coast today The weather bureau said the storm was expected to hit the mainland about noon Killed in clash COIMBRA Portugal Reuteri Two black miners died today in racial clashes at coal mine in central Portugal police spokesman said Vietnam asks aid MANILA Reuteri Vietnam appealed today to the finan cial leaders of the capitalist world to help repair the ravages of war and charged the United States with evading its respon sibilities Stunned by statement WASHINGTON tAPi Euro pean diplomats seemed stunned today by US President Fords Wednesday night statement that East European countries are free from Soviet domination Pages Tied for golf lead INZAI Ja Miller pos AP Americans Lee Trevino and Allen foururiderpar 675 today to tie for the firstround lead in the $300000 Pacific Masters goif toumamcnt Wfigfi4¢szr frncizwiwaw 4715 change for few years Is upset by radio reports David White is upset by news report on CKBB radio Mr White who admitted he did not hear the radio report said he did not say he was afraid local newspapers would misprint figures from Oro Townshi annexation study Wednes ynight He said he told the meeting he did not want to give the figures because they were not very accurate Im very upset he said referring to the radio story Mr White told the residents during the meeting Wednesday that he had done some figures on assessment and the effect of annexation but they are very rough dont want them quoted in the local newspaper he said The Barrie lawyer represen ting Oro Township said he would contact CKBB this morn ing about the story Don Lowe CKBB reporter attended the 90minute meeting in the Oro Township Hall Settlement reached An outofcourt settlement has been reached between Ald Paul Wessengcr and Louis Kozlov Toronto based developer Ald Wessengcr said his suit for libel against the developer was settled for$1200 The ltivrman who was not available for comment said in press release the suit had been matter of principle Ald Wesscnger sued the developer after Mr Kozlov sent letters to the local media coun cil and city hall asking for the aldermans resignation Mr Kozlov made claim in the letter which Ald Wes sscngcr considered libelous At Barrie planning board meeting during the summer Mr Kozlov apologized for his remarks to Ald Wessenger and Wayman Fairweather former director of planning and development in Barrie In his press release Ald Wessenger said in view of the apology he is satisfied with the final resolution Beef import quota seen WASHINGTON tReuteri Informed government sources say President Ford is expected shortly to impose quotas on beef imports because ship ments threaten to burst through the ceiling set under voluntary restraint agreements with ex porting countries Under these agreements with Australia and New Zealand and about 10 other countries the US is entitled to impose quotas if shipmean ex ceed socalled trigger level of 121 billion pounds this year Canada which refused to sign any voluntary restraint agreement has sent almost 100 million pounds of meat into the US This is about 50 per cent above US calculations Latest statistics show 926750 million pounds imported up to Sept 18 and sources said an im minent agriculture depart ment projection of im rts for the fourth quarter is nd to exceed the annual trigger point The sources said the presi dent may time an announce ment to coincide with his elec tion campaign visit to Okla horta and Texas this Friday and Saturday

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