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Barrie Examiner, 5 Jun 1978, p. 1

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Somedays you cant do anything wrong With the bases loaded in the third inning of the Barrie Red SoxOrillia Jr game Sun day Rob Sutherland attempted to sacrifice Orillias bungling turned the sacrifice into three base hit and three Red Sox runners crossed home plate This set the stage for the rest of the game Which Red Sox won 100 Mike Timmins col lected the win and Gerry Wingrove the loss Bob Hepbuni had two runs Brian Neely scored on an infield single Orillia Jrs and Barrie will meet again Tuesday at pm at Barrie Fairgrounds Bradford loses 2l Bradford Marshlanders Soccer Club is finiding the going tough in the early part of the National Soccer League Bradford dropped its third consecutive game 51 to St Catharines Sunday St Catharines led 50 at the half Brad fords Manuel Borrosso scored the only goal of the second half Barrie team places second Barries entry in the Ontario Floor Hockey League finished second at the pro vincial championships in Toronto on the weekend The club playing in the toughest division last only two of six games at the twoday tournament sponsored by the Canadian Special Olympics program More than 600 competitors from 30 On tario centres proved that winning isnt im portant in amateur sports See story and photo on todays Sports page Now thats an exactor FORT ERIE Ont CP An exactor payoff of $202980 for $2 ticket was set up in the featured sixth race at Fort Erie race track Sunday when longshot Towering Heights finished first with another outsider Dolarobi placing second day Examiner Photo Dozen watch boy drown MONTREAL tCPi About dozen people watched sevenyearold boy drown Saturday and refused to jump into the Rivere des Prairies to save him some say ingthe water was too polluted olice said Martin Turgeon of Montreal slipped off wharf near spot where unv treated sewage is dumped into the river Were not going in there the water is much too dirty witnesses quoted one onlooker as saying Some people even left the scene as the boys father nonswimmer thrashed about in the water and screamed for help boater fished the boys body out of the river about 25 minutes later It makes you wonder about how human people are police officer remarked The boy probably would have been saved The boys family said they were too shaken up to talk about the incident Regrets his gestu re MONTREAL tCPl Edgar Roussel one of three men who held seven hostages at provincial prison for 15 days earlier this year says he now regrets his humanitarian gesture of releasing them unharmed In letter published today that Roussel wrote to one of the negotiators in the tiostagetaking he says special handling unit at nearby Laval Institute is monster factory Today regret the humanitarian gesture made in allowing the safe release of the hostages Roussel told broadcaster laudc Poiricr Alleging the special unit guards go out of tbcir way to make life tough for the prison ers Roussel says Wearent angels but we are still human beings Rules are needed but they ithe guards use them to degrade the detainees Breakin investigated Barrie city police are investigating case of break enter and theft reported early this morning at Mothers Pizza Parlour and Spaghetti House on Hayfield Street Sgt Ronald Pickard says the breakvin was discovered at today He says the back door had been tampered with and an undisclosed amount of money is missing Car interior destroyed lire destroyed the interior of 1977 Lin coin ontinental early today on Highway 4m says Deputy Fire Chief Len Mills of the Barrie fire department The fire broke out near 520 as the car was headed south on Highway 400 bet ween Duckworth and St Vincent streets he says Driver James Skeffington of Rexdale escaped injury in the incident which lepue ty Chief Mills says may have been caused by problem in the wiring cameo deadline Red Cross Water Safety week opens This week is Red Cross Water Safety Week To get the message across Walter Safety and helper Nancy Draper were at Centennial Park Sunday talking to youngsters about water safety Water Safety Week ends Satur Towering Heights ridden by Ted Colangelo covered about seven furlongs on the turf course in 127 and returned $6060 $2060 and $12 Dolarobi under Chris Bain paid $15 and $1010 while Arctic Falcon placed third in the 10horse field In the next race Sunny Kate ridden by Michael Quong finished first and returned $9380 On Saturday an exactor of $93570 was set up in the third race when Nefarius Gal $3190 finished first and Reasonable Morn $3570 wound up second Sundays exactor in the sixth race was believed to be an Ontario Jockey Club record with the previous largest payoff being $157360 at Woodbine in 1975 Go Bombers go An Oriilia Silver Bomber breaks away from the Stoney Creek defence at Bombers homeopener Saturday at Orillia The names and faces are different but the end result is still the same Bombers lost the game 2li See story and photo on todays Sports Page Mankind worn out VATICAN CITY iAPi 77 Pope Paul told cheering crowd of 15000 Italian school children Sunday that mankind worn out and tired of violence and has become horrified victim of tragic and bloody episodes The children students of Roman atholic schools in Rome and its suburbs marched from Rome stadium to St Peters Square to be blessed by the 80yearold pontiff Organizers called it march for love and peace Reply with operating love to this homicidal and destructive violence the Pope said addressing thechildren in Italian fgom his studio window overlooking the vastsquare Queen Reviews Guards LONDON iAPi The Queen riding her black mare Burmese reviewed the elite Guards regiments Saturday at the tradi tional trooping of the color In bright sunshine thousands of tourists crowded Horse Guards Parade off Whitehall to see 600 troopers led by marching band salute the flag of the 2nd Battalion Grenadier Guards The flag carries 44 names of the regiments greatest battles from Tangier in 1680 through Waterloo and the two world wars The ceremony tribute to the Queen by her personal troops on her official birthday is two centuries old Princess Margaret was among the Royal Family spectators It was her first public appearance since her divorce from Lord Snowdon on May 24 The waiting and the weather were too much for some of the husky guardsmen Ivo fainted on parade and were taken away by stretcher bearers Essa McCague to meet special meeting will be held in Toronto June 18 between Essa Township Council and George McCa minister of environment Arthur Rot township clerk says the meeting is being held to discuss the dum ping of sludge from Barrie within township boundaries as well as water problems in the Angus area and other environmental mlated matters Skeleton at least 100 skelton found by man digging out the basement under his Tay Township house May 20 is at least 100 years old say Midland OPP weather Variable cloudiness today with showers ending this afternoon Skies clearing tonight Tuesday sunny and warmer Low tonight high Tuesday 2i homo dolvory By CLAUDIA KRAUSE Examiner Staff Reporter Delegates to the 1978 convention of the United Handicapped Groups of Ontario have expressed support of recommendations per taining to the physically handicapped made by the Ontario Human Rights Commission in July 1977 Held in Barrie at the Holiday Inn on the weekend the convention drew about 250 per sons including about 150 handicap ed adults In workshop session on Satur ay follow ing speech by Bromley Armstrong of the Human Rights Commission the delegates put forth their grievances and suggested how ac tion might be obtained Their general opinion was that politicians at all levels of government had to be made th 114th year No 130 Monday June 1978 examiner serving barrie and simcoe county aware of their needs and the handdicapped have to become more vocal and active on local planning boards and community com mittees if attitudes are to be changed human right Commission report presented to the legislature last November suggests that physical disability be included in proposed New Ontario Human Rights Code Among its more than 100 recommenda tions the Commission urges revisions to the National Building Code increased ac cessibility of community facilities and better transportation facilities for the physically disabled The Commission also recommended that students with physical disabilities be brought into and made part of the regular school system and that all disab people be given the same beneifts as e12 iants under the Worksmens Compensation Jard The Employment Standards Act which allows an employer to hire physically disabled person at less than minimum wage should also be revised the commission says Its too bad that Ontario province which was once pioneer in the field of human rights has now let sister provinces surpass it said Armstrong Under Thomas Symons as chairman we looked at the existing code and thought it was inadequate We wanted complete revision the first in 15 years Based on briefs and 17 meetings held across the province the commission drew up the recommendations 15° Par Copy Carrier Home Delivery 90° Weekly Handicapped support propoSaIs The disabled no longer want to be shut away in back rooms and kept in institutions They need to feel part of the society and con tribute The only way to achieve that is to start lobbying MPPs and the premier he said Armstrong said the Code which says that all people are equal in dignity and rights that each is part of the Canadian community and has rich contribution to make must now be opened to include the disabled homosexuals and single people raising children on their own As commissioner in this province feel it is my duty to see that the rights of the disabled and other people are protected Armstrong said 74 03998 Office staff on strike at Jim Walter plant Nineteen office and clerical workers at Jim Walter Building Products Patterson Road manned picket lines today as part of strike which began Friday The workers members of the United Elccv trical Workers union Local 542 went on strike Friday afternoon when negotiations with plant management apparently broke down after Jim Montgomery vicepresident left the negotiation session The major objection of the strikers is the plants merit system The workers say it is unfair George Stevens national representative of the UEW told The Examiner today that the system has been very unfair to the salaried dfice employees He said that some employees have been there for more than year without receiving the benefits that he feels they are due as outlined in the merit system He accused plant management of arbitrary favoritism in admistering of the program and stressed the concerns of the strikers Its left us sitting at the mercy of favoritism of company officials said Stevens We feel the merit system is important said Montgomery In that it go es us the op portuiiity to appraise people and to reward those who give the little extra special effort ne striking employee said she disliked the merit system because it was prone to favoritism If the supervisor doesnt like you you could be there five years without an in crease says Sylvia Booinbery The strikers are also asking for joint cori tract with the plant in which specifications pertaining to office salaried staff would be iii duded They also want union security in the office where union membership would be mandatory for all office staff Montgomery said that negotiations have been going on since last March He stated that the reason for his walkout from Fri days session was that the negotiators had reached an impasse There was no point in continuing he said Montgomery said that as yet no further negotiation meetings had been scheduled He said that he felt it would be best for each side to reappraisc the situation before negiota lions opened again The 97 employees of lllt plant arc at work as usual and tlicrc are four office staff members including union and non union members ho are working today Iiiii Walter liiiildiiig Products Ltd 111 Pat tersoii road manufactures intcrior finishiiigs for homes Davis let us down over bill says Danson TORONTO Pi federal cabinet minister says Ontario premiers have always been leaders in national unity but Premier William avis let us down seriously in refusing to back private members bill guaranteeing French language rights in the province Defence Minister Barney liaiisoii MP for the Toronto riding of YorkNorth said in an interview Sunday he was disappointul Davis questioned the bills basw principles when several of his ministers lent their support The bill introduced by Albert Roy Liberal MPP for Ottawa East calls for educational judicial health social municipal and other services to be plOVltltd in French It would have been better to have said nothing Danson said It is OK to disagree with the bill itsclf btit not its basic priii ciplcs in statmeiit Friday Davis defended his decision not to let the bill which had received sccond reading in the legislature approval in principle proceed to third reading kn Heavy smoke damage caused by fire fire in secondstorey bedroom at H4 Sanford St Saturday afternoon caus ed heavy smoke damage to the room and damage to box spring and mat tress says Deputy Fire Chief Len Mills Smoke and water damage resulted in the rest of the second storey of the building owned by Scott Simms of Bramp ton and rented by Ted and Denise Harper Examiner Photo George Stevens left national representative for the United Electrical Workers talks to striking office workers from Jim Walter Building Products Ltd at 3i Patterson Road With Stevens is Marian Bryk centre and Lila Fen ton who began picketing this morning at 630 am The strike began Friday afternoon Examiner Photo Russia the common enemy Churchill tells Chinese PEKING lRCUtCIi Britains Con servative Opposition defence spokesman told Chinese army officers today that Britain and China face common threat from the con centrations of Russian military forces op posingthem Winston hurchilL Conservative MP and grandson of Britains wartime leader was speaking during visit to the 3rd Garrison Division 21 mechanized division 56 kilometres northeast of Peking Churchill returning home today after threeday visit at the invitation of the Chinese Peoples Institute of Foreign Affairs also had twohour meeting Sunday with Chinese VicePremier Li Hsiennien He said they discussed the world situation and the Russian military buildup The British official said he raised the question of British supplies of arms and technology to China and Li certainly ex pressed interest in this Post Office mistrust steady between union managers OTTAWA tCPi PostmasterGeneral Gilles Lamontagne says there has been steady disintegration of trust and com munication between post office management and workers represented by the Canadian Union of Postal Workers UPWi Lamontagne said in recent interview he has asked LPW president JeanClaude Parrot to put the mistrust aside would say there is better communication since February it is not enough but it is start Lamontagne the 16th postmastergeneral in 20 years said the post office com municates very easily with all the other unions but dont think you can deny there is trouble communicating with one DOESNT WANT STRIKE We are not trying to provoke strike Lamontagne said No one would gain and we would all lose The 23000 mailsorters and postal clerks represented by CUPW have been without contract for almost one year conciliation boardis attemptingtoiron out the dispute Key union demands are the right to veto Elected moderator HAMILTON ICPI Rev Jesse Bigelow 61 was elected moderator of the 104h general assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Canada at the opening of the assembly Sunday Bigelow was the official nominee chosen recently in chiirchwide ballot He was in stalled by last years moderator Rev DeCourcy Rayner of Toronto Bigelow is currently minister in Ed monton and vicechairman of the churchs administrative council which carries out the churchs business between general assem blies proposed technological changes that CUPW feels would adversely affect the members and an end to the use of casual nonunion labor in the post office Lamontagne said technological change has created drastic change in habits of work but new technology is not something we can stop It is part of the evolution Carafui He could be Frondiman deguised as Moowean pretending to be Cuban Katanganese Marxistt inside lifestyle entertainment business sports 10 11 comics 15 classified 12 to 14 supplements Canadian Tire 12 page Sears 48 page

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