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One whale of smile Lugosi the Public Aquariums Beluga whale is all smiles these days in Van couver as the Easter holiday weekend approaches Lugosi performs four times daily at the whale shows CP Photo Crisis declared over residents return home HARRISBURG Pa IAPI Joyful women and their young children told that the worst US nuclear crisis is over are returning to their homes in the shadow of the disabled Three Mile island power plant The announcement was made Monday iov Dick Thornburgh and Nuclear Regulatory Commission NRC officials who 11 days Cockadoodle ornot to crowing rooster in Ward has city coun cil in quandary The rooster has been bothering residents and Aid Gord Mills is concerned The problem is very serious Aid Miiis toid council Monday There is nothing in the noise control bylaw that can gag the rooster because codes do not fall under the category of domestic pets Still other problems of equally serious vein emerge from the bylaw The bylaw says that householder can own 20 domestic fowl but there is no reference to sex of the creature in the bylaw After lengthy deliberation council decided to discuss the problem during general com mittee NDP motion voted down TORONTO tCPi Progressive onscc vatives and Liberals joined forces in the legislature Monday to defeat an NDP non confidence motion on the March speech from thethrone The final count announced by Speaker Jack Stokes was 67 against and 24 in favor tuesday is for COUNTY $7M improvements slated ORILLIA Improvements estimated at $7 million will be completed over the next three years at Fahramet Ltd an riiiia steel foundry Fahramet steel foundry is subsidiary of Indusmin Ltd Toronto Basically we propose long term proper ty modernization of our sand casting opera tion said Jim Caylor senior vice president and general manager of Fahramet Immediate plans are underway to spend about $4 million upgrade their plant located at Highway 11 and West Street The second phase with work scheduled to begin in 1981 involves modernizing their plant on Barrie Road Oriiiia Some of the foundry equipment being replaced has been in use since 1935 when the plant opened We have added to and ex panded over the years but this will be our first major improvements since the six ties said Cayior Fahramet producers of steel for broad range of Canadian and foreign industries employs about 400 people Chain reaction caused COLLINGWOOD tStaff An overnight fire in an auto wreckers yard near here resulted in chain reaction of explosions says Stayner OPP Police were called to McLaughlins Auto Wreckers on Highway 26 five km south of Coilingwood about midnight to investigate reports of fire there An OPP officer said oiiingwood firefighters were already on the scene and had the blaze under control when police ar rived There were several other explosions however gasoline residue in car fuel tanks was ignited The cars had been crushed ready to be sent to Toronto compactor and were piled in one end of the yard Combustion mused gasoline vapor explosion in the gas tanks said police earlier had urged pregnant women and pro school children living Within an eight kilometre radius of the plant to leave because of the radiation exposure risks In Washington meanwhile govern ment advisory committee on reactor safeguards said an instrumcnt reading pro biem that may have contributed heavily to the accident at Three Mile island might pose similar hazard at 43 other reactors across the United States Nitt officials said the instrument may have fooled plant operators into shutting down an emergency cooling system which had come on automatically making the accr dent worse than it might have been The NRC already had noted the problem in bulletins advising reactor operators of this and other problems found in the Three Mile island accident Inside the isolated plant engineers ginger ly worked to bring the simmering reactor to cold shutdown Officials said the atomic cauldron had been tamed and only traces of radiation were be mg emitted from the site consider the crisis over with regard to the status of the core Harold Dcnton the Nitts chief of operations said at joint news conference with Thornburgh inside today lifestyle entertainment county sports 121 comicsw guide classified 171 supplement Sears pages Towers pages Residents still barred CliESIVIEW Fla tAPi Hundreds of northwestern Florida residents were barred from returning home for the third con secutive day as disaster crews tried to salvage wrecked railway tank cars laden with deadly chemicals Crestview Fire Thief Dalton Brannon said Monday that although some anhydrous am monia still trickled from one car the main health hazard was posed in placing fallcn tankers in an upright position As long as the chemicals are there there is always possibility that something could get out of hand Brannon said after several crippled tankers had been put back on the tracks Twentyeight tank cars derailed Sunday morning as 116car Louisville and Nashville LNJ train passed through sparselypopulated area six kilometres west of this city of 10000 in the Florida Panhan die Atomic leak contained MILTON NY AP leak of radioactive coolant at the Kesseiring site of the Knolls atomicpower laboratory was contained within one building spokesman for the secret facility said Monday John Vanseiow of the Schenectadybased laboratory confirmed Monday that there had been what he described as minor leak about 10 days before at the Kesseiring site in West Milton in Saratoga County Vanseiow would not comment on the nature of the leak the type of reactor in volved or how the laboratory disposes of radioactive wastes but said the leak resulted in no release of radioactivity into the atmosphere and resulted in no con tamination of personnel Clemency ruled valid NASHVILLE Tenn AP Former state governor Ray Biantons nthhour grants of clemency to 52 prisoners are valid and cannot be undone by his successor the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals ruled today The court acted on the cases of three prisoners granted commutations but who didnt reach the prison gates before Blanton was removed from office Jan 17 115th your No as Tuesday Aprll 10 1979 15 Per Copy Carrier Home Delivery 90° Weekly 0YfiWy the examiner serving barrie and simcoe county City officials pay raised despite aldermens protests By DENNIS LANIIIIER The Examiner Although number of aldermen opposed the motion city officials voted themselves pay increase Monday night Mayor Ross Archer will now receive $13500 year an 86 per cent increase aldermen will receive $4425 66 per cent increase Aldermen who are also committee chairmen will receive an additional $50 Aldermen were receiving $4150 year and the mayor was receiving $12431 year Touncil ratified an increase in car allowances for elected officials also The mayor will get monthly car allowance of $175 while city aldermen will get $60 per iiiontii Aid Meg Donal one of the objutors told The Examiner following the session the allowance increase amounted to between 17 and 25 per cent And thats flat rate said the Barrie alderman We dont even have to account for mileage DONT DEPENDON FlNDS In the case of the salaries for aldermen Aid Donal said that none of us depend on the funds for living Iherefore she said the salaries should have remained the same The alderman said however that the mayor rather tiieii make 513500 siioiiid make about $15000 She said the mayors position is part timcjob Aid Dorian Parker said the increase to city aldermen was illiimed if we set the rate of seven per cent how are we going to keep the budget down she asked council Aid lord Mills was another ilJttltil to the plan lve always considered being member of LOuli1l is the same as being member of servicc club he said Aid Ernie ltotman defended the plan lie said Barrie had some of the most underpaid city employees lni not ashamed of the honoraria he said work very hard for GO rates up By TERRY FIELD Of The Examiner ride to Toronto on the governments iO bus will cost you another 20 cents beginning Aprilztl The increase the fourth in four years was announced Monday by the Toronto Area Transit Operating Authority oneway trip now costs $1185 The increase of one half cent per llIlll is needed by the authority if it is to make up in per cent of its yearly operating costs through fares The ministry of transportation and com munications supplies the additional 35 per cent needed to run the IZycatrold system Ed Shea spokesman for the iuthority says yearly increases in fares do not hurt ridership Last year 15 per cent more people rode on the systcin than in the year previous Shea says the average yearly increase has been about it per cent hangcs April 29 include the intrixluction of Zifi per cent surcharge on fares for thmc in communities east and west of Toronto similar surcharge was placed on Barrios riders year ago Anyone who gets off the bus at sub way station in lorontos norili end will not pay the 35 cent charge Legislature evacuated after bomb threat Members of the Ontario Legislature and spectators stand in the lobby of the legislature building in Toronto Monday titt iNiO itii lthntario torkincus uiiipciisatioii Hoard has allowed two claims of rare form of cancer cruised by cpisuii to asbestos dust in il gas mask plant in H1 lawn during the Second World it iiic board said Monday in siiitcnicnt that three other claims were denied and one lill is under investigation The cases acctpied were those of Eugene Jamian who died in April 107M and Lena Lynch now in hospital llllllliiWZl The board Jlitl liiivcnu and Mrs inch were among about 130 workers 111 llll plant which inanuiaciurid this masks liOlii ltifti to llllli deadline Synchronized swimmer at practice Synchronized swimmer Kelly Kryczka of Calgary goes through her paces before coach Debbie Muir Kryczka is the new partner for Helen Vander burg who won the world duet title last fall with Michelle Calkins Calkins has since retired CP Photo Com hemetin after the chamber was ordered evacuated by the Speaker of the House security guard said the evacuation resulted from bomb threat CP Photo Board allows claims for rare cancer form The rare form of cancer known as iiiesotlicliiiiiia is caused by exposure to ilitlli dust and attaclv the thin membrane lining of ilit chest and ibduiiicn tlic board said The distisc to which lliill is no pro tll tlllt iiiti tcliiaiii diiiiiizitii tor 111 to tilt ycarsaticiiiiitialexposuic The boaid said llltltl was not handled ill bulk it the plant but was received in prc ciil pads which were inserted iiiltlt41iiiii4ltis The board said ii is difficult to piece tngctltcl tltltlltt because employment rotunis itll livstitiyctl litll lilililit tlltt ciiiplo ccs Itttli Tlltll of age Testing nuclear site TORONTO ii Ontario ilydro is con ducting seismic tests at possible site for nucleaivpower plant on the Ottawa River at tliats Falls about 65 kilometres upstream from Ottawa ilydro spokesman said Mon lav iiut the spokesman dcclincd comment on published reports that said the plant would be built in an earthquake area called Seismic Zone which covers all of Ontario east of line between North Bin and Kingston Hydro currently is testing at that site but there is more drilling to bc done ieoff Mctaffrcy said adding that the hats Falls site is only under consideration it this time ilc said liydro sends its tcst results to the Atomic Energy outrol Board which passes the results to the federal niinistiy of mines energy and resources for construe llOlI lltOlIlllitllfltll iOllb Miller Sidesteps iOltONiO li Ircasurcr Frank Miller delicately sidestcppcd question in the legislature Monday that would have given hint about todays budget Floyd Laughren NDI Nickel Iielti asked whether Miller could assure the house that the budget would deal with foreign owner ship which Laughren said puts big drain on Ontarios economy would like to speculate whats in the budget but cant Miller replied already know whats in the budget lie said however that Ontario was conti nuiiig its efforts to get more industrial research and development done in the pro vincc Budget expected TOltONTO cautious budget cut piiasiliiig fiscal restraint is expected to be presented to Ontario taxpayers Tuesday night by ircasurer Frank Miller But those perennial government targets drinkers and smokers can expcct to get it he laminar Call 7263539 for home delivery agree theyre next in line but what makes you think you can get John Wayne and Jane Fonda to visit ainp David again in tiic form of increased taxes some government sources predicted Miller who will read his budget in tc in tario legislature begiiiningat it in ERIK is not expected to raise personal income lie is expected to offer inctnincr to businesses to stimulate jobs including $200 million to save jobs and attract them in anadian industry including thc piin and paper trade This will be Millers first budget iiltt taking over from Darcy Mcixcough who suddenly retired from politics last summer Warnings ignored TORONTO Ontario gmcrnnzcnt officials have brushed aside Inited States professors warnings that enouin ilkliiit was released from the Pennsylvania nuclear accident to warrant thyroid tests on babies Irof Ernest Sterngiass radiological physicist at the University of Pittsburgh was quoted in published report as say ing iodine released from the Three Mile lslund plant near Harrisburg Pa meant that tests should be done on all babies born along the US east coast and in New York Boston and Ottawa But Dr ll Aitken chief of ltitlidlltill protection service in the Ontario labor ministry said Monday that figures released last week showed only small levels oi iodinc in illllli from cows in the area near the plant Dr Jan Muller chief of the hcnltli studies service agreed that the amount of iOtlitit released was extremely small He said it is so small that it is not distinguishable from the normal risk of thyroid condition Radioactive iodine in child may indicate nubiious tumor or risk of cancer The professor said if failure of thyroid function is not detected early it can lead to mental retardation weather Sunny today and Wednesday High today to low overnight 13 to high Wednesday