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The establishment of full time university program in Simcoe County would require major financial committment locally says the president of Wilfrid Laurier University WLU During meeting of WLUs governors Thursday report concerning fulltime program here was discussed and options were listed but no action was taken school president Dr Neale Tayler told The Ex aminer today However it was decided that the study on the viability of fulltime program should con tinue and the costs ofsuch program were tentatively set Dr Tayler said FINANCIAL SUPPORT There would have to be some kind of financial support from the Simcoe College Foun dation likely $100000 per year to make it go he said Sue Mulcahy president of the foundation that has been trying since 1964 to establish univer sity at Orillia said today she is not prepared to talk of funding until she speaks with WLU Computer centre Acting Mayor Fred Ruemper cuts the ribbon during the opening ceremonies of Sigmatics Computer Corporation at 89 Collier Street Paul town country Deputy chief wanted City officials will advertise outside the fire department for new deputy fire chief Barries city administrator said to dav Gerry Tamblyn said applications from outside the depart ment will be considered with those from city firefighters before the decision is made Tamblyn said advertising for the position is not unusual City city advertised for the last two deputy chiefs Len Mills who vacated the position in August was hired from outside the department City officials will advertise in newspapers in Barrie and Toronto Applications will close by early October and new deputy will be hired by the first week of November said Tamblyn Mills left the deputy chief position to take job in the On tario Fire Marshals office in Chatham Vespra asks for survey Vespra Township council voted Thursday to ask the pro vincial housing ministry to conduct survey known as housing statement to determine if there is need for senior citizen housing in the township Deputy Reeve Venner Lambert told The Examiner the statement would answer if seniors housing project is Viable alid needed facility Deputy Reeve Lambert said the township has aleady held tentative talks with the Canada Mortgage and Housing Core poratoii lCMlK about finances for the project and describ ed the talks as favorable The township had explored the financial aspects first he said because there was no point doing all the legwork only to be turned down financially CLC head coming here Dennis McDermott head of the Canadian Labor Congress will be in Barrie for conference Nov 10 and 11 The conference will be held by the CLC in conjunction with the Barrie and District Labor Council at the Continental Inn Further details will be available at later date Welfare plan differs provincial incentive program for welfare recipients an nounced Wednesday does not affect Barries municipal welfare office Gary Calvert welfare director in Barrie told The Ex aminer that as far as he knows the program has nothing to do with the municipallyu program Calvert said that people tend to classify family benefits and general welfare assistance in the same category The provincial program is expected to be strictly for reci pieiits of provincial family benefits Calvert said Officials at the local ministry of community and social services were not available for comment this morning The program will offer cash incentives for up to two years for welfare recipients involved in the plan Court case continues preliminary hearing for Aubrey Phillip Rolfe charged with the April firstdegree murder of his wife Alicia Rolfe began Wednesday in provincial court and will continue Oct If 25 Rolfe 30 was charged after Mrs Rolfe 33 was shot to death in the couples home on Eugenia Street in Barrie He is represented by Toronto lawyer Brian Greenspan Topsoil restrictions BARCLAY lnnisfil will design bylaw to regulate and prohibit the removal of topsoil within the township The bylaw is necessary to preserve topsoil in the township say township officials Vespra Township is the only township in the area with topsoil bylaw lnnisfil is studying their if bylaw Excessive amounts of number one agricultural land have already been stripped in the township says Grant An drade deputy reeve The bylaw will be studied further with report made at the next planning and development meeting Bassett standing in foreground at left is the President of Sigmatics who operate computer timesharing system for local businesses and industries Examiner Photo Optional course to human If parent in Simcoe County does not want his child to take the human relations program alternate arrangements for that child will be made says Dr Robert Thomas the boards superintendent of curriculum During Wednesdays hearing in the Supreme Court of Ontario Marshall Green counsel for the Simcoe Taxpayers Organiza tion Researching Education STORE an opponent of the program said parents were prevented from removing their children because human rela tions material was being in tegrated with all subjects taught at the elementary school level The board has to make plans for the children of parents who object to the pro gram Dr Thomas said Thurs day Well consider that need this year while fieldtesting continues before full implementation of the pro relations gram Dr Thomas sid the field testing process has been redesigned this year to allow parents to pull their child from classes at an elementary level in which fieldtesting is being done The student will be put in class that is not part of the fieldtesting process he said At the secondary school level the program is taught as an op tion and choice is exercised by the student and the rent Dr Thomas said Last year the first of field testing the program on human sexual and emotional relation ships the option of pulling their children and having them plac ed in another class was not available to all parents Dr Thomas said Green said Wednesday the right of parents to chose for their children were being violated by the board because the material is to be integrated with academic instruction LaborcouncH must stand up for its rights By LORI COHEN Of The Examiner The Barrie and District Labor council must take serious look at becoming politically involved in the com munity representative of the Canadian Labor Congress said here Thursday Ralph Ortlieb CLC regional director of organization told 13 members of the Labor Council strikes come and go but the issue of community involve ment and the constant fight for workers rights is always there He urged members to con sider the importance of having representation or at least sympathetic labor voice on municipal council and other bodies such as the school and hospital board The council agreed the only place it has representation is on the Royal Victoria Hospital board of directors with Bob Dennis president of United Rubber Workers union at GeneralTire REVITALIZE ORGANIZATION Labor council member have recognized the need to revitalize the organization and get more members out to mon Vespra council remains firm thly meetings for sometime but have not succeeded in at tracting more than an average of 10 labor representatives to meetings There are 22 dif ferent unions in Barrie many with more than one local It was decided weekend educational institute spon sored by the CLC in conjunction with the labor council would be held in January in Barrie on topic such as collective bargaining arbitration or psychology and human rela tions RUN FOR OFFICE Gaye Lamb representative for the striking United Steelworkers of America at Radio Shack said large pro portion of union leaders and members live outside Barrie making it impossible for them to run for municipal offices All labor council members agreed the key step in making the council more progressive is by educating the public on the needs of working people through elected representative and courses in schools There is an apathy toward unionism said Doug Tobin CLC education coordinator We must organize the unorganized She did say however the foundation has funds and reiterated that its goal is to have fulltime university pro gram setup We looked at three possibilities for organizing such County high school grads would go on to university get to university for one reason or another but Simcoe Coun program Dr Tayler said It ran from breakeven deal to losses of some $126000 per year closer to $200000 if we hired fulltime teachers There is much work to be done before anything definite Students graduating from Simcoe County high schools would likely go on to university in greater numbers if full time program existed here but there are not enough tential students to justify the cost of introducing such pro gram concludes report on postsecondary education plan ning First issued during 1978 the report prepared by the Sim coe County PostSecondary Planning Committee examines the issue of the countys graduates continuing their educa tion by attending university or community college and the number that might be expected to attend in the future Its no win situation says Dr David Coates an academic planner with York University and architect of the report Because there is no fulltime university program in the county some individuals cannot attend Dr Coates told The Examiner this week in anticipation of the release of an up dated version of the study In every place even Toronto there are kids who cant Molson donation Molsons Brewery Ontario Ltd donated $3000 to the Scholarship Fund of Georgian College on Thursday From left to right are Rob Rattray Molsons sales representative Vic Frisch President of Students Administrative Council Wayne Busch President of Georgian College Charles Coleman Central district sales manager William Caldwell immediate past president of chairman of board of directors Ed Calhoun assistant sales manager Mike Sheperd Molsons sales representative Examiner Photo Sell high density housing idea to municipalities MPP By DENNIS LANTIIIER Of The Examiner Municipal officials tend to equate medium density housing Deadhne forrehab Residents of Toronto Street have until this afternoon to register an appeal against the establishment of rehabilita tion centre for prisoners in their neighborhood but still remain undecided spokesman said Edith Shaver of 35 Toronto Street next door neighbor of the proposed centre told The Examiner residents are aware of the deadline and well know by tonight whether anyone has registered an appeal Mrs Shaver said residents have been meeting to discuss an appeal in the past but was not optimistic it would occur it costs money to fight somethng like this and we are all senior citizens mainly she said Jim Powell secretary of the committee of adjustment which decided in favor of allowing the duplex at 37 and 39 Toronto Street to be used as rehabilitation centre confirm ed that no appeals had been received Friday morning Although the 21day appeal period expires today couple of days grace will be given in receiving an appeal as so meone may slip one in as with cramped slum condl tions because of bad past ex perience MPP George Taylor Simcoe Centre told group of today appeal registered mail this afternoon Powell said Proposed by the Rotary Club of Barrie which has already sunk $25000 into the project the centre will be for men serv ing prison terms of six months or less At public hearing last month before the committee of adjustment Al Macmillan former president of the Rotary Club assured residents the cen tre would be rigidly controlled and prisoners would only be allowed out on passes to go to work The purpose of the centre is to allow prisoners with short sentences to continue their jobs and because they would not be allowed to use private transport the centre had to be located in the downtown area Macmillan said The Rotary Club is commit ted to maintaining the buildings exterior in the ap pearance of normal home he said Residents however objected to the centre because it could devalue their properties and said they were also afraid of having convicts in their midst Farmer denied severance By RICHARD THOMAS Of The Examiner espra Township council has refused to budge on its stand against land severances iii rural areas which do not conform to its official plan and Thursday rebuffed attempts by rown Hill farmers legal counsel to soften its approach Don Sinclair Toronto lawyer appearing before counCil on behalf of farmer Gordon Atkinson was told the township would not reconsider its appeal to the Ontario Municipal Board over decision by the committee of adjustment last March which granted the severance to Atkinson Sinclair told council his client felt there had been breakdown in communication over the reason for severance and wanted to resolve the issue through meeting with the township and save the further delay and expense of an OMB hearing Deputy Reeve enner Lambert however told Sinclair it was very irregular for you to come here and qmz counctl at this time Our argument will be put forward by our lawyerat the hear ing any argument is out of order at this time he said The only resolution visualize you having is that come back off and gve Atkinson the severance NOT IIOME FARM The land in question is located on 50 acre farm on Highway 93 in North Crown Hill which is not Atkinsons home farm In my estimation Atkinson does not meet any of these criteria Reeve Buie said He said the township was trying to discourage strip develop Reeve George Buie told The Examiner in March when council first opposed the severance Atkinson had bought the farm about eight years ago and has already obtained one severance Reeve Buie said then Council had also expressed concern in March that the land to be severed for house lot was to be sold to company which was not specifided by name in the committee of adjustments re rt Roeeve Buie said Thursday he did not understand why the committee had granted the severance He said that according to the townships official plan farmer can only sever land under three conditions to retain parcel of land for retirement home if he sells the farm to build house for son or daughter who currently works on the farm if he buys new farm the lot containing the old farmhouse can be severed for sale ment and Watkinsons farm was one of three properties along Highway 93 which were examples of this Sinclair told council the breakdown in communication seem ed to be centred around the company which would own the land He said the owner would actually be member of Atkinsons family and that his client wished to meet with council to discuss whether new application could be submitted or whether the official plan could be amended Reeve Buie said however that the townships new official plan was still in the process of approval and temporary freeze on severances was in effect until it was final Clerk Dennis Wilson later told The Examiner the new official plan will be even tighter on severances Farmers will no longer be allowed to sever lots for their children but would be able to build second house on existing lots he said No date has yet been set for the OMB hearing Two previous dateswere cancelled when Atkinson was unable to appear due to ill health builders Thursday night The Barrie Builders Association as group miist alter that view of lowucost hous ing development Taylor said speaking to association members at the Continental Inn New concepts of higher densi ty housillg must be sold to municipalities that will require authority to approve local plan ning regulations he said The new generation of home buyers want an individual unit which offers privacy and identi ty not high rise apartments or condominiums Taylor said Supply of housing available to home buyers in Ontario has grown steadily since 1970 Taylor said But the growth has been sur rounded with great deal of uncertainty on the future of the the 953999 Fulltime univrsity here would need big financing can be announced Dr Tayler said STUDENT ESTIMATE Estimates suggest some 130 students would attend full tinie program during its first year he said ty figures are somewhat worse The number of students who go to given campus drops off as distance to be travelled increases Dr Coates said Dr Coates also concluded that there are not enough potential students tsome125 to support fulltime universi ty program here Many organizations were represented on the planning committeefiincluding Georgian College the Simcoe County Board of Education and the countys Roman Catholic school board Bill Bolger director of the separate school board says Simcoe County is well on its way to having fulltime pro gram for first year students given the initiative of the Sim coe College Committee and its attempts since 1964 to develop university Irving Harris director of Georgian president Wayne Busch have also said they favor the development of universi space available in existing buildings for the school they say WV Friday Sept g1197 33 planning report on the post secondary situation for Simcoe County graduates says the small number of prospective students would make any at tempt at establishing univer sity risky one the public school board and ty Both are prepared to make Home numbering problem source Few disagree the system of numbering homes makes life easier once it is finished but putting it into place does have its teething problems as Vespra lownsllip council discovered Thursday The plan sponsored and financed by Bell Canada and designed by consultants Doucet and Associates was installed in all subdivisions in Midhurst Anten Mills Minesing and Crystal Waters during the spr ing But like most plans despite its undeniable benefits it did create few problems said Bob Byers the townships fire chief In some cases Byers said even numbers ended up on 0p posite sides of the street and some homes were assigned the same number housing market said Taylor Many potential homebuyers feel the supply of housing might well be limited in the very near future he said Since the start of the decade the municipal approvals pro cess has become more demanr ding and timeconsuming for housing developers he said But the ittlyearold planning act has been revamped to meet the needs of the province The government has placed iii particular emphasis on the vital part municipalities play in the planning process The new legislation will hopefully cut red tape and give more autonomy to local govern ment in deciding planning issues Taylor said Even with the changes Many people think the pro vince has not gone far enough Hidden plowman In other places homes with vacant lot between them were assigned consecutive numbers which would create bit of puzzle for the buyer of the va cant lot when he goes to number his house Byers said The problem he said arose because of the configuration of some of the streets According to the system homes on the north and west sides of street carry even numbers while odd numbers are assigned to homes on the south and east sides Some streets looped or curvv ed however and what was once the north side for exam ple suddenly became the east or even south side Byers said The fire chief met with repre sentatives of Bell Canada and Doucet and Associates Thurs day and the wrinkles will be ironed out he said he said Many municipalities are disappointed because the complete delegation of provin cial authority in the planning act has not gone to local governments he said But the proposed act is reasonable extension of the authority already provided nowhesaid Taylor also spoke briefly on the Small Business Develop ment Corporation program in effect since July He explained the program is set up to direct funds and pro vide management expertise to eligible small businesses Investors who purchase equi ty shares of Small Business Development Corporation received 30 per cent grant if they are individuals and 30 per cent tax credit if they are corporation he said Gerald Bell checks the depth of Steve Gorrills behind Mr Bell plow as the men compete in the East Simcoe Branch Ontario Plowmens Association plowing match Thursday on old Highway ll just north of Barrie Examiner Photo