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42 Piece meal attitude wont work By DENNIS LANTIIIER 0f TheExaminer coordinated effort between the downtown board Chamber of Commerce and the Local Architectural Conservation Ad visory Committee tLACAC is needed to rejuvenate the downtown core That was the consensus of opinion at discussion session call ed by LACAC Thursday attended by 15 persons including city aldermen Chamber representative and about seven mer chants piece meal attitude of the three organizations working on their own for improvements is not good said Myles Allison local architect And something can be done with the two centre blocks in the downtown core between the proposed civic centre and the downtown improvement project to spark improvement and draw people downtown Allison said You can do it if people here establish plan said Allison People would jump on the bandwagon in no time believe me Im concerned and others arethat Barrie doesnt seem to be making changes said Jean Grant LACAC secretary It bothers me to go downtown and see empty spaces where stores should be set up LOOK AT TOMORROW Ms Grant said every Barrie resident should commit themselves to looking at tomorrow very seriously We want to keep Barrie on the map she added The first action which could be started now is the construction of multitiered parking garage most representatives at the session agreed The garage said Ian Malcolm of LACAC could be about three and ahalf stories and contain enough room for 200 cars The garage should be situated at Collier Street between Owen and Clapperton Streets he said The parking garage concept is an excellent one said Ald Jim Shirley But decision should be made now whether to construct the garage through strictly private funding or through city funds Whichever is the case lets get on with it said the Barrie alderman hotel of 300 rooms with convention facilities is realistic proposition Malcolm told the small gathering the examiner ffridmay Oct 26 1979 Improve downtown together APPLY FOR SHANI Barrie could consider applying to the federal government to set Smithsonian Institute type of structure to attract per sons downtown said Ms Grant It would be type of heritage centre she said At least we should try to do something like this she added recreation centre proposal was also introduced but Ald Jim Shirley said tht many persons were still divided on the idea of such centre The alderman also suggested questionnaire which could be taken around to downtown businessmen by representatives to get their opinions on downtown improvements dont think youll get anything from questionnaire disagreed Ald Ross Stephens The need in downtown Barrie is to attract more businesses There must be something wrong or there wouldnt be four vacant sites on the block Im in Aid Stephens owns mens wear shop on Dunlop Street Funding programs available to merchants for refurnishing the fronts and backs of their establishments wer also discussed LACAt will take the ideas and discuss them at the next com mit tee session Coaccused denies threatening Visits house to collect The white season wy weather at all As matter of fact its Lisa LaBlanc doesnt mind the sno great for making snowballs Lisa is 6yearold in grade at Hillcrest School Weekend weather calls for some more snow Examiner Photo $60000 recreation study begins with interviews $60000 master plan study to determine the recreational needs of Barrie is now well under way Member of the recreational planning coin mittee met Thursday with Proetor and Redfern Ltd who are conducting the study Initial interviews are now in progress committe chairman Bill Paulin told The Examiner today The group is starting to interview majo organizations in town along with majo recreational groups Paulin said The company also intends to follow that 1p witha public questionnaire to likely be publish ed in newspapers said Paulin Public meetings will also be held in ie future to acquaint the public with the grou findingsand to receive suggestions from he pulic which may have been missed she said Proctor and Redfern were given the conti act for the study following good deal of debat at Barrie city council Says subdivision icomplete Wont ell resident Proctor and Redern were given the contract for the study following good deal of debate at Barrie city council Some members of council said the city shouldnt spend additional funds on study which could end up back on the shelf The recreation advisory committee another group set up by city council investigated the feasibiity of recreational centre being established in Barrie GOOD IOCAIIO The committee suggested the downtown area might be good locale to st up the multi million dollar centre Ald Jim Shirley member of the planning committee said today major question re mains whether or not to set up major facility in one place or to initiate local recreation pro jects in various neighborhoods The alderman said he would lean towards the local project Labor minister questioned From he Examiner Queens Park Bureau TORONTO MPP Bob Mackenzie ltNDIHamilton East1 has accused Radio Shack of showing disrespect for Ontarios labor laws During question period at Queens Park Thursday Mackenzie asked labor minister Robert Elgie when more effective enforcement of the labor relations act could be expected so companies like Radio Shack cant thumb their nose at the law and ignore reinstatement orders Is he not aware that during the course of organizing the union brought 25 chargcs against Radio Shack and won all of them Mackenzie asked Elgie Elgie replied that the Labor Relations Board had responded very actively and effectively to the problems that were presented at Radio Shackt However Elgie said he preferred not to com ment further on the issue because the chair man of the labor relations board is now con about union organizing laws sidcring decision as result of many prolt blems that were presented to him in an exten sive hearing Elgie said decision is expected shortly on charge by the United Steelworkers of America that Radio Shack failed to bargain in good faith during contract negotiations Warehouse worker at Radio Shack have been on strike since Aug after failing to suc cessfully negotiate first contract Dr Elgie was responding in the Legislature to NDP leader Michael Cassidy who said the governments failure to act amounts to aiding and abetting companies that fight their employees right to uiiionize Cassidy named three of about dozen strikes in Ontario where the main issue is union securi ty Radio Shack in Barrie Butcher Engineer ing in Brampton and 450 Blue Cross employees across the province The union at Radio Shack is fighting for form of union security known as the Rand For mula which requires that all employees pay union dues through compulsory check off do for about 37 residents in Surrcy Place Barrie sub division spokesman savs has been without proper ser vicing for over year Anthony Douglas of Fox run Street south of Letitia Heights and north on Anne Street from Highway 400 told The Examiner Thursday roads have not been paved and mounds of dirt remain between the sidewalk and the lawn areas In addition sidewalks were just recently put in the phase two dcvelo ment of Surrey Place Ive put out $4000 for provements to this house he said But if they lea the streets like this won be able to sell it when wa to it was nftce to have been part of someth ng which demonstrates what can really be done if people in this world co opera ire There is little the city can It looks like depressed at he added Douglas said that Tridel Toronto based company iflivolvcd had promised to rtomplete the subdivision by 1Un9 Douglas said homeowners re paying full taxes for in complete homes We want to makq sure we get what weve paid for Douglas Stud Peter Lee design engineer for the city of Barrie says that by agreement full servicing cant be put in by Barrie until the developer completes the subdivision And said Lee there is no time limit in subdivision agreement that says com Lorenza Savella spokesman for Tridel said today another developing company is doing the road work but he said he didnt know when the work would be completed Savella said that in his opi nion work was proceeding along the subdivision in the normal time period In some cases the city could take developer to court and perform work themselves should ima provemcnts be too long in forthcoming Lee said However Lee said he couldnt remember if that had ever happened before Generally speaking good contractors are busy and Tridel is one of the best Ida Tonks shows snake that is native to Trinidad and Tobago to students at King Edward School Thursday Mrs Tonks wife of Rev Basil Tanks of Eyes of curiosity pany has to complete work By RICHARD TIIOAIAS Of The Examiner On October 26 1977 Ali Maow Maalin cook in Somalia on the horn of Africa became the last known case of smallpox recorded by the World Health Organization Today aftcr exactly two years of fmitless scar chiiig for further cascs WHO will declare smallpox to be eradicated from the face of the earth the first tiiiic this has ever been accomplishth with any discasc Dr David Korn Simcoc Countys medical officer of health who as field epidemiologist with WHO played part in eradicating the disease from its last stronghold of Ethiopia considers it to be the greatest step in the history of public health believe this is probably 11th of the greatest If not the greatest achievement in the annals of medicine Dr Korn told The Examiner iii an interview Smallpox has probably been the most devastating and feared pestilence in all of human history Itis hideous disease and to realizc that by human effort we have eradicated disease like this is staggering Once considered the scourge of Asia smallpox is not only one of the most hideous of diseases leaving those who survive horribly scarred for life but is also one of the oldest known to man Dr Korn said References to it have appcared in ancient Cliittcsc and Indian writings frequently and it was first described by Persian physician in the 7th century he said IRI INFECTION An acute viral infection caused by the variola virus smallpox manifests itself as severe skin condition and is spread by close physical or respiratory contact Lasting about three weeks and communicable up to six weeks the disease in its major form kills 20 to to per cent of its victims and in its minor form three to five per cent Dr Koriisaid In Europe during the middle ages it was the leading cause of blindness and claimed the lives of to per cent of the children on the continent Brought to the Americas by the Spanish conquistadorsiii the car ly 1500s it swept the native population killing about the province across Lee said 35 million peoplc over the next 100 years he said In the state of Massachuescttsin 1716 anoutbreak killed ninetenths of the Amerindian population The first major breakthrough in controlling the disease said Dr Korn came through the efforts of Dr Edward Icnncr an English country doctor discovered vaccine for the incurable disease in 1190 Dr Jenner noticed that dairy iiitiids who contracch cowpox during the course of their milking duties were immune to smallpox Taking tltiid from cowpox le sion on one of thc dairy maids be vaccinated an eight warold bov Two months later be repeated the pro cess with fluid from smallpox lesion and the boy did il ract that disease tlt itas highly unethical thing to do but it was the discovery of the vaccination said Dr Rorn In Hit whcii the IN and WHO wcic formed thcrc was some discussion about possible attack on smallpox and it bccaiiic cvidciit flicdisczisc had been eliminated from Europc and tlict as well as some countries in South America Dr Korn said It was not until 1959 however that suggestion to conduct an eradication program was put forward by the Russians he said But minimum funds and resources were allocated and the program failed In 1966 the Russians again proposed an intensified global program for wiping out smallpox and in January 1967 began the task with intentions on completing it within 10 yeais When it began there were about 130000 cases of smallpox being reported in the world but the actual number was believed to have been between 10 million and 15 million Dr Korn said It was known to be continuously present in 31 coun tries and to have been imported into 11 others That was the magnitude of the task The budget for the entire program was initially 32 million said Dr Korn which was not even enough to buy vaccine for the first year Appeals were answered by the USSR who donated Ho million doses of the vaccine and the US which donated another 40 million as well as technical per sonnel Br 1970 it became clear that the program was St Giles Anglican Church was born in Port of Spain Trinidad and lived there most of her life Our OH helped end disease Eradication of smallpox greatest achievement in medicine Working and the number of countries where smallpox was endemic dropped from 33 to 17 By 1972 said Dr Korn it had been eliminated from all of the Americas and most of Africa south of the Sahara In 1975 Ethiopia and Somalia in Africa and Nepal Bangledesh and India on the Asian continent were the last countries in the world left with cases of smallpox The next year Ethiopia alone remained infected but by August the last known case was recorded by WHO officials in nomad encampment in the Ogaden desert Dr Korn said Unfortunately the disease was imported into neighboring Somalia previously uninfected resulting in about 3000 cases which ended with Ali Maow Maalin he added It was in Ethiopia during this period that Dr Korn served as one of 10 field epidcmiologists working with WHO in charge of the program which utilized more than 1000 Ethiopian health workers tracking down and isolating the disease in some of the most rugged mountain and desert terrain in the world The logistics there were formidable he said Ethiopia contained the third largest population in Africa with over 70 languages and 200 kialects Added to this was famine and civil unrest caused by the death of Emperor Haile Selassie during which one of the health workers was actually beheaded by suspicious tribesmen DEPIINI ON IIEIJCOITIIRS Dr Korn and other medical personnel had to de pend on helicopters to reach the isolated mountain villages tracking down rumors of smallpox and isolating the victims from the rest of the village He commended WHO for its administrative techni ques in training such people as boy scouts and school teachers who could learn procedures quickly and for reward system which made the tedious job of track ing down cases easier Towards the end of the program these rewards were as high as $1000 he said It was nice to have been part of something which demonstrated what can really be done if people in the world cooperate he said By LORI COHEN Of The Examiner One of two men on trial in county court for extortion testified Thursday he went to Walter Richardsons house merely to arrange for collection of overdue mortgage pay ments and was offered the ownership of car refrigerator stove and stereo system as security Richard Gary McLocklin 36 the man who sold Richardson his house at 52 Codrington St on behalf of Hamilton Real Estate and arranged second mortgage on it denied using threats to obtain cheques or goods from Richardson and his fiancee Linda Yeo Richardson testified earlier that McLocklin and coaccuscd Bruce Edward Nash 37 threatened to burn his house down and break his arm if he didnt give them 11 cheques One for $176 and 10 for $6750 Richardson testified he was also forced to sign ovcr the other items and give them the actual stereo during the early morning hours of Aug 30 1978 and sign note that he did so willingly She was invited to do presentation on Trinidad and Tobago as part of weeklong series of presentations and events held in conjunction with United Nations Week Examiner Photo Richardson said he was forc ed to lcad thc mcii to Miss Ycos housc whcrc they obtained another $170 clicquc McLockliii said he was ziskcd by Larry McArthur who held the second mortgage to try and collect the arrears for two or three months and stopped by the house 20 to 30 times before finding Richardson home at about am that morning PARENISOSItiNERS He said he informed Richard son the paymcnts had to be brought up to date or his parents cosigncrs on the house could be held responsi blc for the debt He said he also told Richardson the hotisc could be rclistcd on power of sale if no money was received Richardson thcii oftcrcd to give up his belongings McLocklin said He denied receiving the ownership of radial arm saw note lllr dicziting voluntary surrender of all the goods or that lit had bccii drinking as Richardson testified McLockliii said Richardson town country Commencement tonight Tonight beginning at it pm offered to have Miss Yeo write cheque after he explained that his cheque of $176 would be no good becuuse he didnt have the money in the ba nk Her che que was taken as replacement for Richardsons McLocklin said Neither he or Nash posed as Larry McArthur as Richardson and Miss Yeo testified McLocklin said Both he and McArthiir mct Richardson carlicr he added In his address to the jury defence lawyer Levy said the most the two accused did was remind Richardson of his parciits responsibility for his payment He said the basis of Richard sons testimony was his claim about the false identification of McLocklin as McArthur and testimony reveled he met both men previously rown attorney John Alcx under said it was hard to im aginc Richardson giving up his possessions voluntarily Judge Clre will charge the jury this morning North ollcgiatc Institute is staging its annual fall commencement cxcrcisc Iliosc graduated last June will receive their diplomas sciics of special awards will also be handed out rcccption follows Eastvicw Sccoiidary School will hold its ceremony Novcnibcr 10 Central ollcgiatc stagcd its week ago Seminars continue The second in scrics of discussions on mental health will he held Tuesday Thc discussion Tuesday at the Barrie Public Library will be calch the Work Place Situation Thc discussions arc cosponsored by Information Barrie and the Barrie Mciital Health Association The final discussion in the series will be on the social situation and will be held the following Iucsday All discus sions begin at 730 pm Meditation course offered meditation course designed to provide the individual with variety of methods for improving the quality of cvcryday life will bc offered in Barrie The course lllllttlthl sct to begin November 1979 is free and will he hcld zit Iriiicc of Wales School The eight to lo wcck introductory session entitled Mcditav tion and Personal lrowtir will provide instruction in number of lllltltill meditation techniques drawn from wide variety of sources Iack Williams the instructor has previously offered the course at Georgian olligc campuses in Baric and rillia lcchiiiqucs range from the use of mantra and mandala through various breathing and visualization techniques all of which have been studied and practised by him under the guidance of meditation teachers in India Sikkim Burma and Toronto Registration will be limited and those wishing to enrol are asked to contact 7280427 for further information Possible recruit Madlyn McBride of Barrie discusses her interest in joining the regular forces with Petty Officer Larry Skaalrud the recruiter at the Canada Employment Centre Ms McBride has previously served in the reserves The Mobile Recruiting Unit is at the Canada Employment Centre Thursday Nov from lOam until pm Examiner Photo Dangerous annual eyent Creek flooding investigated BARCLAY preliminary engineering study will be con ducted to see if flood control program can be installed on the Eighth Line in Alcona Beach The flooding caused every year by nearby creek is dangerous said Grant An drade deputy reeve The study will determine if huge culverts can be built to pro periy channel and enclose the creek If the project is deamcd feasr ble project costs will be shared by the South Lake Simcoe Con servation Authority Simcoe County and Innisfil Although Innisfil has not budgeted for the work funds previously allocated for the Carson Creek project will be transferred to this project Council decided this project was more urgent than the Car son Creek project Its lives were playing wnn here said Andrade It is an immediate urgency we owe it to the people Coun Kathe Jans chairman of public works said council had no idea what the total cost of the project would be discussion concerning the proyect was held in camera at the request of Coun Jans