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Barrie Examiner, 17 Apr 1979, p. 1

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Twazau Police load money recovered Tues day from robbery of an armored truck into shopping cart to bring it into police headquarters in Waterbury Tuesday morning AP Photo Four held in robbery WATERBIRY onn iAPI Two men and two women were arrested today in connection with the $18lmillion robbery of Purolator Security Inc branch office in which three security guards were shot and killed Police said murder charges have been filed against Lawrence Ielletier 36 of Waterbury Donald outure 26 and Donna Couture 25 both of Wallingford and Evelyn Vega 20 of Waterbuiy Ilastic garbage bags full of cash stolen in the robbery were taken to police headquarters but authorities said they do not know how much of the St is million in cash food stamps jewelry and cheques has been recovered Authorities said the crime was carefully planned The pcttXtlatots were waiting in ambush for the people inside the tar moredi car thief Inspector John iriffin of Waterbury said Monday at news conference Waterbury police detective takes man arrested in connection with $l79 million robbery of an or mored truck at Purolator Securities inc into Waterbury police headquarters AP Photo tuesday is for county School not needed VMPP Amidst the controversy of budding separate facility for francophone high school students in Itnetanguishcnc Ieorge Taylor SlITleK entre Iti proposed that the needs of the francophone community can be met Within the existing institution initially the Simcoe ounty Iloard of Education decided the best means to deal with the needs of Frenchsixiaking students was to improve existing French language program at Ienetanguishcne Secondary School The board was concerned with the high cost of new building being passed on mine taxpayer However the question was reopened by the board on the advice of the French Language Advisory Committee The school proposed the construction of an annex at tached to Icnctanguishene Secondary School which would house gymnasium cafeteria library music room offices and classrooms The annex Would be joined to the existing facility by corridor allowing students to take technical courses The deci sion to build the annex is pending Negotiations resuming Ilarries policemen may resume negotiatons with the citys police coniniis sion within the next week says Barrie Police Associations president Constable Doug Ewart said today the commission and the association have com promised during the past several meetings but suggested salary increases remain about three per cent apart The association originally asked for wage increase of per cent but later drop ped it to mm per cent he said The comniis sion offered six per cent and raised that to six and half per cent with dental plan Barries 30 first class constables earn $19570 year Second class constables earn $16880 third class make 514876 fourth class get $11484 to$12tlltl Idependug on experience Sergeants earn $21 193 115th your No 91 Tuoodoy Apfli17 1910 the examiner serving barrie and simcoe county 80 000 now homeless 15 For Copy we Carrier Homo Dollvory 90° Wookly Powerful new tremor hits quakedevastated coastline Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito in light suit foreground inspects the damage Monday at shipyard at Biela after the Easter Sunday earthquake which struck the Montenegrin resort area along the Adriatic Coast The of ficial Taniug news agency set the death toll of more than 200 AP Photo Belgian police hunt terrorists BItlSSlIlb ilteuleri Iolice continued the hunt today for Palestinian terrorists who wounded 12 persons during an aborliye at tempt to attack an Israeli airliner and its passengers at Brussels airport Two members of the terrorist group yiti captured and taken into custody after bomb was thrown from gallery into the tlitlltl ball as Boeing 707 of Israels Fl iirliiic arrived from Tel viv All the wounded were Belgians The two were captured after it gun battle with El Al security men and Belgian pque Police ol Francis dc os told journalists small group of three or four ltIItiIlSl who later said they belonged to the laItd the Liberation rgamation iIlii tried to attack an El Al plane Police sources said lllt group apparently found security too light and threw tllttt bomb before the El Al passengers reached the transit hall Every Israeli plane arriving at tinairport It kilometres from Brussels city centre is es sorted by armored ehiclcs In Beirut an organization calling itself Black March in an apparent reference to lll months signing of peace treaty between Egypt 11ml ISIEHI claimed responsibility Little early Darl Darl Blaeser native of Australia finds its still too early to practise her putting at Edmontons Mayfair golf and country club where she works Shell have to wait longer still The weather office predicted between l0i5 centimetres of snow in some parts of Alberta with cool wet weather to continue this week CP Photo Ilii it of liatham iiid liover Iownship were bracing themselves Monday against the flood swollen Iliiiincs Itiyer llltlt was threatening iospill merits banks lltllflfll were predicting the river would rest at live metres iboyc normal today proi idini an unwelcome test for dikes liicli underwent emergency repairs after being inside today lifestyle entertainment county sports cornicew guide 10 classified 1113 supplement 588 pages Canada wms 54 ItSttW itli tanada defeated Finland iti today and advanced to the championship round in the world hockey toiiinaiiietit It was the second win in three game for tlietiiiadian team which now goes to the pool along with Iccliiisloyakia the Soviet pain and Sweden lrevor lohaiiscn broke it tie when he scored with four minutes remaining in the game aiiada had taken lead into the final period but Finland got two goals three minutes apart half way through the period toticthegaiiic The teams were tied after the first period with Wayne liabych getting the fanadiangoal anada got second period goals from Marcel llltlllllt llrad Marsh and Euy button The win foi aiiada came over team which has given the tanadians trouble in thcpast Six die in collision IAISHIY Scotland tIteuteri At least six persons died when two passenger trains collided head on Monday night in this community just west of Ilasgow ltescuers cutting through wreckage said today the number of casualties might still rise and the final death toll will not be known for some time ne of the trains was carrying about 200 Easter holidaymakers returning home from west coast resorts The other was packed Willi liomcward bound commuters Typhoon kills eight MANILA titeuteri Iyphoon ecil roaring across the central Philippines has left at least eight persons lead and nine persons missing from two vessels sunk by the storm The coast guard said survey vessel sank off western Visayas Monday night Four marine biologists aboard were picked up by passing boats but five others are missing Chatham area bracing for further flooding TIIUGRAI Yugoslavia ilteutcrt powerful new tremor rocked Yugoslavias illlliqIllktdlfthStiltNl Adriatic coastal region today causing further damage in resort towns and mountain villages It was the ltilh tremor since the first major quake which had the force of lit megaton hydrogen bomb Sundays quake killed at least 200 persons and injured tom while Albania reported it lead and 330 injured There were no immediate reports of further casualties in todays tremor which sent ma sonry tumbling down from buildings already damaged beyond repair in the earlier dis aster and caused fresh panic among the frightened population atrium of whom are homeless They had spent their second night in the open with oiin the lucky ones under tents and makeshift shelters Others huddled around campfires when rain began shortly after midnight toadd to their misery RAIN lliIPIItS ItICMl The rain which intensified during the morning turned muddy country lanes into impassable tracks and hampered rescue workers and relief aid Special teams with lifedetecting equip iiieiit and trained dogs searched for siiri ivors in the ruins of coastal towns lilao itltllillt the mayor of the port town of llar major crosspoiiit of sea and rail commumcations said Monday night that an unknown number of persons are belicyed still line under the debris of tivestoiiy loo room hotel there In Athens officials reported It moderately stroni tremor lll northern fitctct today btit ilaiiiaged iii floods llt weeks ago in south westernitiitario Mike lilsoii chairman of the Lower Thames Valley oiiservatioii Authority lll Monday there is concern that the row will again bieak through sections of the dike system which collapsed March it St in liovet Iownsliipfollowm last spring thaw At that time tiousaiids of acres of far mland were submerged livestock were killed and many families were forced to leave their homes The dikes weie not coinpicted properly after the March flooding and the crews are preparing for the worst Wilson said The crews and trucks are standing by to sandbag the likes if it becomes nwessary However the flooding in Dover is not ex pected to he as serious as in March because there are no ice jams to block the flow of water IllltIIII DIED The latest flooding was set off by unusually heavy rainfalls across southern Ontario on Friday and Saturday police said they knew of no casualties or damage The death toll in Yugoslavia is expected to rise further as rescuers using army helicopters reach devastated remote moun tain Villages The government said Monday night it is the countrys worst earthquake in terms of the stile of the area affected But because much of the area affected is mountainous and uninhabited the number of casualties was not as high as it might have been Ilowever scores of villages were levelled and Yugoslav icerIresident Fadin Ilodza who flew over the stricken area in lwlicopter descrile the scene as ab solutely horrible Local authorities issued an urgent appeal for 20000 tents Despite massive relief oper ation only several hundred have arrived so far because many roads were destroyed in tliequake Even persons whose homes survived relatively intact feartosleep indoors More than 200 aftershocks have been detected since the first major quake In places it even changed the gmgraphy of this coastal resort region sending slices of coastline tumbling into the sea The government which has ordered the release of emergency funds for the relief operations said many historical monuments have been destroyed It said the regions economy including hitherto booming tourist trade will be paralysed for long period No casualties were reported among the 2000 foreign visitors in the area Topless Easter hits Britain l0lt itli The British are calling it their topless Easter They also are calling in sick The Easter break for most firms running Friday to Monday inclusive ran over into luesday for many Britons renewing acquaintances with sun which has been elusive during this headcold of inter At one point during the holiday tem pcratiires hit 23 degrees thats 73 degrees to the ambivalent British who havent decided just how and when theyre going metrici In short it was the hottest Easter recorded in llritain since 1949 and it literally exploded at the tag end of winter which has been termed the coldest in to years ltlossoms are bursting daffodils are in the gardens and tulips are opening More than 300 sunbathers haan all at Britains first public nudist beach near Hastings tine national newspaper exulfs that by contrast on the beach over at St Tropez in France the home of topless and naked bathing the sands were bare There the temperature was coolish 18 degrees Light moment in flood crisis Mr and Mrs Gary Hill stand in the doorway of their flooded home in Cor dova Ala watching one son swim and the other lump off the roof The home is near the Kulberry Fork of the Warrior River The high water from last weeks rains now has receded at the Hill home but the boys got in their fun while they could AP Photo 51 jw Unusual passenger New Guinea mudman causes stir and few smiles as he rides on Melbourne streetcar after taking part in promotion for his countrys national airline In central Melbourne AP Photo Not sure what taken in P0 heist OTTAWA CP American Express appeared to be the main victim of multi milliondollar postal heist early Sunday and there was uncertainty 18 hours later just how much and what had been stolen The police estimate was that perhaps $4 million in American Express traycllcrs cheques part of $15 million shipment was taken by thieves from an unguarded Xistal terminal here The only person in the lhtttrstiilty building which has floors the size of foot ball fields was 56ltyearold commis sionaire stationed at the front door He said twoyearold could have robbed the terminal The thieves apparently parked Scout camper truck bearing Quebec licence plates at rear door broke window to open the door then went to the thirdfloor registered mail room where they rum maged through bags and cartons When the theft was discovered Sunday morning passports drugs and jewelry were littered about the floor along with about 30 empty cartons that had contained the travellers cheques with face values of Slttto$1000 It took hours for police to locate an American Express official from Montreal Post office spokesman David aricr said the official then came in and left leav ing police and post office to try to figure out which cheques had been shipped and which had been stolen LIKE Tl KNOW We would like to know exactly what was taken Carter said of the llictt We dont have solid figure detec tive said We do not have full listing of what was stolen the American Express New York office said arter said about half the Stu million shipment had been moved to banks across the country before the theft occurred What was left was what should have gone Deputy PostmasterGeneraI or kery said he believed it was planned job aimed at those American Express che ques The 10yearold terminal has about L200 employees Four policemen slain NEWRY Northern Ireland iIteiitcr Four policemen were killed today when their jeep was blown up by landmine close to the border with the Irish republic Police said the jeep was destroyixl by the explosion and described it as one of the worst acts of violence in the troubled ltritish province in many months Irish Republican Army iIItAi termrists campaigning for British withdrawal from Northern Ireland have killed five other persons this month The IRA has sworn bloody build up to the May British general election and has claimed responsibility for the killings this month of three British soldiers one part time soldier and prison guard who was gunned down Monday as he left church after his sisters wedding Warns Iranians IEIIRAN CPI Ayatollah Mahmoud Taleghani regarded as the second most influential of Irans spiritual leaders said today the country is in danger of falling back into dictatorship and despotism Ialeghanis remark from hiding place in thecountryside is the strongest criticism yet of the revolutionary government headed unofficially by revolutionary hero Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini It came as at least 50000 persons mare ched in various demonstrations in Tehran in support of Taleghani urging him to return to his home and office in the capital Ones boy An Examiner headline incorrectly reported Monday Anne Murrays first child was girl Her first child was boy William who will be in AugUst Miss Mur ray has two children her second girl bom Monday weather Partly cloudy today Highs to ll Clear overnight Lows to Wednesday sunny Highs II to l3

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