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inside story Amputee faces eviction locafwoman and her son face eviction from their Barrie apartment At 58 the woman thinks life has been struggle and is frightened Ontario Housing says it 03111 help her immediately and theres no hope in Sight She doesnt want to burden her other children and doesnt want to leave her son Examiner reporter Lori Cohen ex amines the plight of this woman and reveals her Situation Its the lone cry of human held that echoes throughout the story be it justi ied or not Read it On the Today Page Allandale rug finished After 200 hours of work Susan Armstrong has completed rug hooking of the old Allandale station in Barrie For story and photo see todays Lifestyle Page Local boy awaits pro call Mike Gartner of Utopia has Aug circled on calendar Thats the day he finds out which National Hockey League team he will play for as the league holds its junior age player draft flaw On kidnapping charge James Keith Tucker l8 of High Point NC is escorted by FBI agent Robert Geiger after hearing Tuesday in Florence SC before US magistrate Tucker was charged with kidnapping and interstate transportation of stolen vehicle Tucker is charged with taking 5yearold Caroline Thompson from Daytona Beach Fla to Myrtle Beach SC where he was captured Monday night AP Photo Elder Truscott dies tlll itl Daniel Truscott 62 father of the yearold boy whose trial for murder in 1955 caused controversy in Canada died of cancer Sunday Funeral services will he held today relative said Steven convicted of rap lilL and murdering lflvyearold Lynne Harper visited his father in Ottawa hospital about two weeks ago lruscolt and his wife Doris struggled in the courts for seven years to prove their son was innocent hut in 19 the Supreme Court of tanada upheld the conviction In 1907 lruscott separated from his wife retired from the ltllllttl forces and moved to an isolated cottage near arleton Place about 51 kilometres west of Ottawa Friends said he came out of his shell towards the end of his life to drive school bus and manage teenage boys hockey team extra Just missed it Gartners first season of professional hockey taught him much he says and now he looks forward to playing for either Washington Capitals or perhaps Detroit Red Wings See story and picture on todays Sports Page Shanty Bay students win Accordion students from Lindys School of Music in Shanty Bay have returned from national competitions in Florida with an im pressive array of prizes The 22 students who competed in Miami Beach in July won 28 awards See story on todays Entertain ment Page index today 15 lifestyle entertainment sports micsw guide 24 classified 2527 supplements Kempenfest 28 pages Loblaws pages Food City pages Three killed BALA Ont CP Three Toronto residents died Tuesday when two cars col lided after passing on either side of third car and went into opposite ditches police said Dead are William Thomas 20 Bruce Thomas 18 and Cynthia Weeks 18 Twoothers were taken to hospital with minor injuries Police said charges are pending against the driver of the third car Bala is about 50 kilometres northwest of Orillia Still off job TORONTO CP Rotating strikes and lockouts kept more than 4000 Bell Canada technicians off the job today in many of On tarios major cities In the Toronto area 3000 workers did not report for work company spokesman said and 1700 workers were locked out in the Hamilton Ottawa St Catharines Kit chener Brantford and Woodstock areas The 1700 technicians who staged one day walkout Tuesday will be locked out for three days the spokesman said Body identified CHANDLER Que CP Provincial police have identified the woman found floating in the Gulf of St Lawrence last week with $3600 stuffed into her bathing suit as Diane LabonteDespard of Hull Que police spokesman here said the iden tification was made with dental records Police believe the woman wife of Ottawa entrepreneur Andre Despard was with four others aboard 3100000 Jaguar yacht which left Ottawa July 12 and was reported missing last Saturday Police said they believe the other passengers on the boat are the womans husband Lorraine Despard Jacques Laflamine and Annick De Lahaic all of Hull The cabin cruiser is presumed to have either met with bad weather or collided with another vessel Fisherman found floating debris last week near Bonaventure Island where the body was found Police said search for more bodies is continuing Accidents killed L450 TORONTO CP total of 1450 per sons were killed in traffic accidents in On tario last year 30 more than in 1977 Many of these deaths could have been prevented if drivers practised traffic safe ty lransmrtation Minister James Snow said in 1978 accident statistic report released Tuesday weather Cloudy with sunny periods today Highs 24 to 26 Lows tonight l7 to 20 Showers and occasional thunder storms Thursday Highs 22 to 24 Barrie CoOpss Fred Hastings misses midair catch as Beatrice Foods Gary Hines slides into second base during practice game between the two Bark rie and District League teams Tuesday at Queens Park after CoOp was forced to default the game For other league results see story and picture on todays sports page Examiner Photo by David Fuller 115th year No 81 Wednesday August 979 5° Par Copy Carder Homo Dollvory 95 Weekly the examiner serving barrie and simcoecounty Britain wholly committed to rule by black majority Innisfil police chief suspended NANCY FlGUEROA Of The Examiner Innisfil Police Chief William Brown is suspended from all police duties pending the outcome of impaired driving charges Stewart Fisher chairman of the board of police commissioners announced today Chief Brown was charged with impaired driving and having excess alcohol in his blood after car left Highway 11 Saturday and knocked out railway crossing light The ac cident caused chain reaction involving three other vehicles said Barrie police Chief Brown who has headed the township police for 19 years is to appear in provincial court Aug 14 In written statement the commission which includes Fisher Reeve William Gib bins and Judge John Greenwood said no deci sion has been made with respect to suspen sion of the chiefs pay The commission has been in touch with the Ontario Police Commission and will be speaking to them further in the next few days said Fisher Any further statement would be improper at this time as the matter is before the courts When contacted today however the On tario Police Commission said it had not yet been told Chief Brown was suspended We were of the opinion he had been asked to go on vacation said Fred Davies senior advisor of the Ontario Police Commission Although Chief Brown cannot be fired because of the charge if the charge leads to conviction and jail sentence the chief would be dismissed said Davies Davies said he was unaware of anyone ever being sentenced to jail on first conviction of impaired driving If the case leads to charge of discreditable conduct his job would be in the hands of the police commissioners said Davies If the board decides to fire Chief Brown he may appeal thc decision to the Ontario Police Commission said Davies Dairy product prices to rise OTTAWA Pi Butter cheese ice cream and skim milk powder prices will start going up next week the result of increased returns to dairy farmers announced today by Agriculture Minister John Wise Butter will cost at least five cents pound more and skim milk powder will increase at least two cents pound officials said They could not say how great increases in cheese prices will be but they will come into effect gradually Table milk prices are not affected by the iii crease because they are regulated by provin cial agencies The announcement came at the start of Dairy Year 12month period for which na tioiial production level is set for industrial milk used to make dairy products 17 oil workers killed in crash LERWICK Shetland Islands AP Seventeen persons died Tuesday when British charter plane carrying North Sea oil workers crashed into the sea as it was taking off from Mainland Island in the Shetlands north of Scotland Thirty other passengers on the Hawker Siddelev 748 operated by DanAir Services escaped through emergency OXIIS Survivors said the plane filled quickly with icy water Some swam for shore others were picked up by helicopter or small boat was five feet from the back of the plane one man told reporters Water was pouring in from the front tried to get out of the rear then went back for my lifejackct had to jump over the seats and the water was up to our necks just seemed to grab hold of the person in front and get dragged to the door The twinturboprop aircraft as chartered by Shell Oil Co and was taking off from Maiiilands Sumhurgh Airport near Lerwick with 44 oil workers bound for leave in Aberdeen Scotland and crew of three Refugee airlift begins Monday TORONTO iCP An airlift carrying Canadian food and medical supplies to starv ing Vietnamese refugees begins Monday as part of major increase in federal and private rescue work says relief agency spokesman Ian Stanley spokesman for Viorld Vision Canada said the relief agency will join the federal government in making 10 airlziu to Hong Kong using Canadian military planes Boeing 707 jets will leave the Canadian Forces Base Trenton near Belleyillc tint every three days starting Monday Stanley said Each plant will carry eight tons of food and nmlical supplies to Hong Kong for dlSlIllNl tion by World yision to refugu camps in Ialaysia Firefighters pour water on large west Houston apartment complex Tues day afternoon The fire at the three block long complex went to seven alarms in short order and quickly reduced the complex to rubble AP Photo 7500 tenants homeless in LOGOapartment fire HOUSTON AP Fire swept through huge woodshingled apartment complex Tuesday destroying hundreds of fashionable apartments and leaving residents stunned and homeless Houston Fire Chief Rogers described it as the worst blaze in his 24 years on the force At the height of the fire more than 35 got home our apartment was burned to the ground Ms Gardner said Arson is suspected officials say Were questioning couple of people right now spokesman for the police arson division said late Tuesday night No figures were available on the extent of the damage Rogers blamed the quick spread of the buildings were in flames but no one was fire on the wood shingles that covered the killedauthorities said apartment complex on the citys west As many as 1000 of the 1100 apartments side were destroyed Officials estimate that up Just few hours earlier Houston city to 1500 persons are homeless council had tabled an ordinance to As darkness fell some victims of the strengthen safety requirements for wood fire arrangtd salvaged items of furniture shingle roofs Houston Mayor Jim McConn on tennis court to provide beds for the said he thought the measure would be night reconsidered quickly Standing beside the swimming pool were two young women in bikinis their only clothes LOSES EVERYTHING Everything everythings gone said Peggy Gardner 19 waitress No shoes no money She and roommate Bette King 21 had spent the day at Galveston beach about 48 kilometres south of Houston When we 3f Because most residents were away when the fire started only few were in jured Three persons were admitted to Houston hospitals The tire was the second disaster in week Tropical storm Claudette forced 5000 persons to flee their homes last Wednesday and Thursday dumping up to 75 centimetres of rain on the Texas coast Carter lets his hair down PreSident Jimmy Carter shakes hands with people from atop his car along the parade route through Bardstown Ky Tuesday Carter climbed on top of the car as the parade began AP Photo LUSAKA AP British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher told the Commonwealth conference today she will listen with the geatest attention to what is said about Zim babwe Rhodesia and that her government is wholly committed to genuine black majori ty rule in the former British colony Zimbabwe Rhodesia is the big issue at the conference which opened today and is being held on African soil for the first time British officials predicted much debate and no new action and Mrs Thatcher gave no concrete details of what policy her govern ment would follow The aim is to bring Rhodesia to legal in dependence on basis which the Com monwealth and the international community as whole will find acceptable and which of fers the prospect of peace for people of Rhodesia and its neighbors she said As Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda opened the conference score of guerrillas from Zimbabwe Rhodesia paraded outside The demonstrators carried placards blam ing Britain and the United States for the sevenyear war in their homeland and attack ing their passive attitude toward the white minority government in South Africa REMAINS COLONY Kaunda said black Africas position is that Zimbabwe Rhodesia is British colony and that nothing has changed Its leaders are rebels against the Crown He said the rebellion sparked an escalating war of liberation and declared Africa will win this war Kaunda said if Zimbabwe Rhodesia and Namibia former German colony ad ministered by South Africa despite UN cen sure were located in different part of Africa there would be no problem And if South Africa didnt enjoy support from the West there would be no problem Britain and the US have huge investments in South Africa military and economic power in southern Africa bordering both Zim babwe Rhodesia and Namibia Today was Mrs Thatchers first meeting with the prime ministers chiefs of state or other government leaders from Britians 38 former colonies since her Conservative government took office three months ago Commonwealth SecretaryGeneral Shridath Ramphal told reporters Tuesday that just to avoid split on the issue of Zim babwe Rhodesia would be an achievement for the weeklong meeting However Canadian Prime Minister Joe Clark who arrived Tuesday after threeday visit to the West African state of Cameroon told an airport news conference he expects moderation to win out Mrs Thatcher met with Kaunda Tuesday night amid intensified manoeuvring to pre vent an open row over her leaning toward recognition of Prime Minister Abel Muzorewas new government in Zimbabwe Rhodesia Cockroaches ankledeep SCHENECTADY NY AP Police arrived on the quiet city street expecting only to respond to call about barking dog Instead they found an ankledeep swarm of cockroaches that had spilled from house to the street and trees covering one policeman as he stepped from his cruiser Inside the officers discovered 64yearold woman with her two dozen dogs 15 cats two mice and parrot all suffering from cockroach and flea bites Its unbelievable but true said police Sgt Rudy Basha who said the cockroaches were ankle deep in some spots The cockroaches were all over the street The walls of the house were so full that they had nowhere else to go Schenectadys health commissioner Dr William Bartlett called the infestation in credible and added it was the worst he had seen in 20 years on the job ESTIMATES NUMBERS Although city police had initially said there were hundreds of thousands of cockroaches around the house exterminator Harry Linindoll said later The number is definitely in the millions One of the two women who lived in the house 64yearold Iva Fletcher was taken to Ellis Hospital where she was in satisfactory condition with cockroach and flea bites covering much of her body James Provost manager of the animal sheltei where the pets were taken said the cats were so starved in the house they had fed on each others flesh The cockroaches in turn had apparently feasted on the flesh of everything in the house including each other Provost added that several of the cats had to be destroyed because they were so badly M435 v1213 As major stockholder he insisted on taking the well with him