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EXAMINER TELEPHONES Circulation Clossdied Advertsung All Other Departments 112th YearNo 253 dian Arctic Michael Valiquette and Douglas Swan at right couldnt quiet make up their minds on Thursday afternoon whether it was cold enough to SPENCE BAY NWT CP rescue team that was stalled by an Arctic storm is believed to have reached 12 Es kimos stranded since midSep tember in an icebound boat on Queen Maud Gulf in the Cana The 12 Eskimos including three women and eight chil dren left the tiny settlement of Gjoa Haven about 1300 miles ll IIIllllllIlllllIIIIlllllllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlllllIllIilllIIllIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIllIIIIIIlllllllllIIiIllIIIIIIIIIIIIllIlllllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII 7266539 728 2414 7766537 crushing ir play in the snow or warm enough to play on the grass Being resourceful young men they attempted to do both at north of Winnipeg in 40foot boat on what was to have been twoweek hunting trip Wednesday morning three men who had been with the par ty arrived at DEW Distant Early Warning Line station at Gladman Point after walking 40 miles to seek help The boat had been threatened by Arctic ice off an un NO SNOW BUT GREAT FUN the same time As Thursday and Friday are Professional Development days for tea chers in Simcoe County Will seek reelection hawko hr Aid Arthur chairman of the citys finance commitee and fouryear council veteran has announced he will seek re election in Ward in the Dec municipal election In announcing his candidacy Ald Arthur listed safeguarding the financial interests of Barrie residents as the city grows over the next decades as top priori ty for his third term on council Proper development of pro posed lakeshore park between Bayfield and Mulcaster streets is also priority he said Ald Arthur an ad ministrative official with the Canadian Forces Base Borden Board of Education was elected to council in 1972 and headed the polls in his ward the citys east end in 1974 native of Scotland he came to Canada in 1957 and to Barrie ALEX ARTHUR lists priorities Farmers sacrificed on controls says MP OTTAWA CP Farmers are being sacrificed on the altar of political expediency as the government tries to prove that its antiinflation program works Arnold Malone PC Battle River charged Thurs day The government is trying to credit the antiinflation board and the controls program with producing drop in the cost of living through lower food costs he said in the Commons But what was really happen ing was the callous and calcu lated attempt by the govern ment to willingly destroy the livelihood of 100000 farm work ers by maintaining low tariff rates on cheap imported food He was speaking during sec ondreading debate on bill that generally extends until next June tariff reductions on about $16 million worth of im ported goods about half of them food products The antiinflation board an nounced Wednesday that for the fourth consecutive month food prices had dropped as Ward aldeman in 1964 He is married and has two children In press release announcing his candidacy Ald Arthur describes city council as the instrument of the provincial governments policy to imple ment the Torontocentred re gion plan through growth and annexation Forced growth will mean the city must incur increased long term debt to pay for services he said and to avoid higher taxes the city must obtain written agreement with the province on the sharing of costs If we are to be abondoned to serve government industries we must not allow ourselves to be abondoned to shoulder all the costs he said Ald Arthur said proposed road along the lakeshore from Hayfield to Mulcaster will be unnecessary unless it is in tended to carry traffic past the downtown core heavilytravelled road separating the bay from the downtown district would make the proposed rejuvenated downtown dream without future he said Ald Arthur pointed to enact ment of city housing policy property standards bylaw two readings of noise control bylaw approval of plans for residential districts and fur ther development of Centennial Park operation of the citys sewage treatment plant and improvements in the working capital situation and in return on investments as council ac complishment during his time at city hall WW5 Urges charges in hosta DORCHESTER NB CP Federal SolicitorGeneral Francis Fox wants charges laid as result of the 27hour hos tage incident at the federal penitentiary here And lawyer James Letcher of nearby Moncton one of the ne gotiators who secured release of prison uard and two other hostages ursday said later that no guarantees were given their three abductors that charges would not be laid Mr Fox said in Vancouver shortly after the release that he was wiring Justice Minister Paul Creaghan of New Bruns wick urging that criminal charges be laid as soon as pos sible against the hostagetak ers Mr Creaghan in telephone interview from Montreal was unable to indicate immediately what his department would do but said he assumed justice will take its normal course Mr Fox reiterated Thursda his recent vow to get tough wit prisoners who take hostages wreck cells and initiate other disturbances similar to those in The Barrie Examiner imminent for Late Thursday member of the rescue party which set out to bring the Eskimos home re turned to Gjoa Haven with mechanically damaged snow mobileand good news Spence Bay RCMP Cpl Scott Wentzeil coordinator of the search and rescue operaton said the Arctic storm had bro ken and the men were likely al students from all the schools can be seen trying to make the most of the twoday holiday Examiner Photot hijacker MUNICH AP The West German government has re fused to return young detector who hijacked Czechoslovak airliner with 111 persons aboard and probably will try him on airpiracy charges authorities said The government rebuffed the Czechoslovak government de mand that the hijacker be re turned immediately and the ll yushin 18 flew back to Prague before dawn today without him None of the other 104 passen gers or six crew members sought asylum police said and all were aboard the fourengine turboprop when it took off on from the Munich airport Police said the hijacker was named Rudolf Becvar and that he was 26 Sources in Prague said he was railway worker The plane had loaded at Prague Thursday for flight to eastern Czechoslovakia and Becvar took control of it as soon as its engines were started several penitentiaries the country this year He said special supermax imumsecurity units will be set up soon to handle prisoners who are threat to other con victs or prison staff INQUIRY LAUNCHED The rash of hostagetakings and destruction in prisons has prompted an inquiry by Com TOSS Barrie Ontario Canada Friday Oct l976 stranded Eskimos They should be back in Gjoa Friday ready at the island where the Eskimos were waiting for help FACED WINDS Late Wednesday there were winds of 30 to 50 kmph with blowing snow and zerodegree temperatures Considering all thin sthe improved weather and fact that theyve still got supplies they should be in good health Cpl Wentzell said for ro acrea By PETER DEPOIWISTA Examiner Staff Reporter Barrie no longer wants 2100 acres in Oro Township The city told the Ontario Municipal Board hearing this morning it is dropping its bid for theOroland City council apparently met secretly Thursday night after the first day of the hearing and decided not to include the 0m landintheapplication Jack Stollar of Stollar Con struction Ltd owner of 314 acres in the proposed annexa tion area in Orosaid this morn ing he may be asking for post ponement of the hearing Lawyer Roger Oatley told the board Thursday Mr Stol lars firm supports annexation of the ro land Mr Stollar said this morning he needs time to prepare case opposing dropping the Oro land from the application The developerbuilder owns the land east of the old Pe netanguishene Road Barrie and area residents will have to wait until next week to give their opinion about the citys annexation applica tion Alex Arrell Ontario Mu nicipal Board OMB hearing chairman told about 230 people Thursday morning they can speak at the hearing Friday Nov55tartingat10am It is expected the city will have concluded giving its evidence in support of annexa tion by then Mr Arell said members of the public will also have an op portunity to speak at the end of the hearing He said there is no definite date for the end of the hearing The public can attend the hearing held at the Army Navy Air Force club hall It is expected to last from two to three weeks Attendance after the lunch break Thursday dropped to about 100 people James Mctallum QC Bar ries annexation solicitor said Thursday after the hearing he does not know how long it will take for the city to present its case Mr Mtallum said it will de pend on how long the opposition No chance Haven by sometime night if all goes well Concern about the condition of the party particularly that of two infants among the eight children prompted an emer gency airdrop Tuesday of spe cial food supplies including milk sugar flour and tea David Nakashook 19 one of 0112 Titanic Examiner WEATHER FORECAST l5 Per Copy Carrier Home Delivery 85 Weekly Poges the three Eskimo men who walked to the DEW Line station for help said they were in good health when he left but the two infants who were con lot crying and not eating Mr Nakashook described the ordeal as the part boat was crushed by ice be ore the men and women finally were able to moor it on the small island We had to chop the ice for days ghing children ANNEXA TI 0N HEARING City drops bid LAWYERS representing va rious parties in the Ontario Municipal Board OMB an nexation hearing had time to cross examines his witnesses and how many experts he will have to use to give evidence All of the afternoon session Thursday from to pm was used by Michael Bacon town planner with Proctor and Redfern Group consulting planners and engineers Proctor and Redfern pre pared the citys $40000 annexa tion study which was used as the basis for the application to annex 20000 acres from three townships The city wants land from Vespra 4600 acres Innisfil 13500 and had applied for 2100 acres in ro Mr McCalium said he ex pects Mr Bacon to continue giving evidence today followed by crossexamination to discuss airport land rezoning Oro Township planning board didnt get chance to discuss Barries proposal to rezonc land for an airport Thursday night Barrie wants 242 acres re zoned for small craft airport south of Highway 11 between the Third and Fourth lines Oro planning board had hoped to discuss the proposal mons subcommittee which is just beginning work The latest incident only the second time prisoners have been known to hold hostage in the liyearold history of the penitentiary here threatened to add new fuel to criticism by some area law officers of trans fers of violent and hardcore criminals from one region to Threatened to behead childmurderer MONCTON NB CP They were going to send his head out to us to show us they meant business James Letcher prominent Moncton defence lawyer and one of three negotiators who se cured the safe release of three hostages at the federal peniten tiary in Dorchester NB recalled this threat against one hostage in an interview Thur sday night after the 27hour drama The subject of the threat was one of the hostagetakers fellow prisonersDavid William Threinen admitted murderer of four Saskatchewan children who prison officials say is so despised by the penitentiary population that even other sex offenders might harm him The abductors called Threi nen Skinner Mr Letcher said As far as was concerned they were going to kill Skinner no matter how it all ended Near the end Tibbets one of the abductors and his ac complices were getting pretty hyper about child molesters They were going to send his head out to us to show us they meant business Mr Letcher also recalled re ceiving telephone call from prison guard John Gabriel an other hostage who told him all three hostages were going to die He said prison director Hum phrey Sheehan was prepared to storm the area Thursday af ternoon when we had received word that all three men were to be put to death However when he and two other negotiatorseCBC repor ter John Steeves and prisoner Allan Dunnreentered the area everything relaxed told Tibbets Up you nose with rubber hose And he was so spaced out by that time on tranquilizers supplied by prison authorities he started to laugh Threinen transferred to Dor chester about eight weeks ago was so frightened he was like jelly in the hands of his captors Mr Letcher said The abductors constantly grabbed him by the hair and placed sharp blade against hisjugular vein They were prepared to cut his throat as easy as cutting open bottle of corked wine robably easier would have it my home and property they were going to kill him no mat ter how it all turned out He recalled the tragicomic endingof the episode There was one inmate who had been there all along after being caught there when he was being scheduled for haircut That was the last demand that he get his haircut Thats when the release was made with solicitor David White Thursday but he was too busy with the Ontario Municipal Board annexation hearing The board is also awaiting report from its planning consul tant and no definite action can be taken until that is received date for public meeting will be set later getaking incident another One of the abductors James libbets 31 of Edmonton was transferred to Dorchester from the prison at Prince Albert Sask as was David William Threinen admitted murderer of four Saskatoon children who was taken hostage along with guard John Gabriel and another prisoner Threinen is so despised within the fortresslike walls of the penitentiary prison of ficials say that he must be isolated even from other sex of fenders for his own safety He is the lowest of the low in the prisoner hierarchy one prison administratorsaid Threinen transferred here eight weeks ago will never be able to feel safe said Tom Epp assistant director at the in stitution if they dont get him now theyll get him again he said Mr Letcher echoed this view saying Threinen was bullied and threatened re atedly by his abductors became hyper in talking about child molesters Iafl still discuss the case during an hourlong lunch break Thursday The city has ap plied to annex 20200 acres of land from Innisfil Vespra and Oro townships This mor ning Barrie dropped bombshell by announcing it the skin was coming off my hands he said When we left we didnt fig ure there would be any at all Thats why we took the If the 12 Eskimos are brought back safely to Gjoa Haven Fri day they will have spent 43 days isolated in the Canadian Arctic in temperatures as low as 30 degrees Celsius IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIE trouble EIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII g6 is dropping its application for 2100 acres in Oro township Examiner Photo Bourassa jostled by workers in Quebec campaign stopover MONTREAL CP Liberal Premier Robert Bourassa was almost knocked to the ground Thursday as more than 400 striking aluminum workers pushed and shoved at him in Chicoutimi Shouts of sellout and thief rang out in French as the sternfaced premier aided by bodyguards and police made his way to city hall He warned in an abbreviated speech almost drowned out by the strikers that voting for the Parti Quebecois can only create more insecurity and un certainty The crowd beat on the roof of his limousine with their fists as he left in the worst reception for any candidate in the Nov 15 election Both Parti Quebecois Leader Rene Levesque and Union Na tionale Leader Rodrigue Biron had campaigned in the Chicout imi area the previous day with out incident About 8500 alumi num workers have been on strike there for five months Meanwhile Mr Levesque Wants start to flu shots OTTAWA CP Health Minister Marc Lalonde has urged provinces to start in jecting citizens with swine flu shots as vaccine becomes available during the next few days The health minister tabled report Thursday in the Com mons from an advisory com mittee of doctors recommend ing that proposed mass vacci nation program proceed as planned Professors reject offer QUEBEC CP Striking Laval University professors re jected an offer of mediation in their dispute Thursday and oc cupied university avilion to press their contract emands Judge Robert Cliche who led an inquiry into the provinces construction industry last year said Wednesday he was pre pared to act as mediator His name was put forward by the Laval Alumni Assoeiation in bid to end the strike by 925 professors which began seven weeks ago buoyed by warm receptions in the northshore and Gaspe re gions predicted that victory is within our grasp He told about 200 students at the Col lege de Gaspe which he at tended in the early 19305 that the Liberal party is running in disarray In Montreal Mr Biron was given warm reception from 350 Englishspeaking residents of the wealthy enclave of West mount where his party is run ning Harold Fairhead an insur ance broker and former McGill University quarterback The crowd applauded Mr Bi rons promise that Union Na tionale government would re peal the Bourassa govern ments controversial language WS law The impact of other parties on the immigrant and English vote in Montreal was reflected as SolicitorGeneral Fernand Lalonde warned Englishspeak ing Quebecers and ethnic groups against isolating them selves from power by voting for parties that have no chance of forming government Mr Lalonde maintained that the Official Language Act does not discriminate against immi grant children by forcing them to pass Englishproficiency tests or go to Frenchlanguage schools But he said the govern ment is ready to reexamine ap plication of the tests to see if there are other ways to get the same results Truce No 57 threatened BEIRUT AP the night for the effect nine days Heavy fighting broke out in Beirut during first time since the latest ceasefire went into ago The civil wars 57th truce also was threatened by fighting south of the ca pital and by the return of more Palestinians to southeast Lebanon Second quake hits town JAKARTA AP major earthquake hit the indonesian province of Irian today for the second time within five months missronaries in the provincial capital reported Rhodesians in election call GENEVA AP Black Rhodesian leaders called today for elections that would effectively freeze whites out of twoyear interim government designed to pave the way to black rule Pound up over cents LONDON CP The pound gained more than 32 cents in early foreign exchange trading today on speculation that the British government is seeking another international loan to shore up its ailing currency The pound closed at an alltime low of $1569 US on Thursday and by midniorning today was being quoted at $16070 on the reports strength of the unconfirmed loan Congratulations rejected PEKING AFP Peking has rejected An official Chinese spokesman said today message of congratulations which the Soviet Union had sent to Hua Kuofeng on his appointment as successor to Mao Tsetung Millions inoculated in US ATLANTA AP More than 55 million US citizens have been inoculated against swine flu in the last two weeks despite lingering fear about the deaths of persons who had received the shots federal health officials say