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Deadeye Dick at the rigging ctawwoq Deadeye Dick played by Jim Brennan l4 Grade student at Monsignor Clair School rests after rehearsal of the schools Operetta HMS Pinafore The Operetta is tonight in the school auditorium at pm along with second play Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Examiner Photo Hopes for development plan by end of month Barrie developer Ed Jennings whose Worsley Square project has been in mothballs since March said Thursday he hopes to pre sent new development proposal to Barrie planning board by the end of this month The Block is four acres of land Jennr ings owns bounded by Owen lappertoiL McDonald and Worsley streets north of the downtown shopping area Jennings unveiled SILKmillion Olllliiflr cial mallcondominium project for the site to planning board in January The scheme however was shelved when two major department stores the Hudsons Bay and and an unidentified store decided not to lease space in the develop ment Student employment But major supermarket has agreed to move into scaleddown version of Worsiey Square Jennings said And he has been working since March to LOlllt up with proposal for mall condominium project centred around the supermarket or an apartment development with service comnierCIal space such as variety stores on the first floor he said Jennings has not said which concept he will present to planning hoard He said he had plannmi to present the revis ed proposal iii early May But his plans is ere thrown into iiiiibo when his architect John Basil 33 of Toronto died in late April he said Extra $5M for youth program TORONTO iPgt Ontario will spend an extra 53 million to extend its 1973 Ontario Youth Plitlttllitltl Program Treasurer Darcy McKeough said Thursday McKeough had annoj need the coiiciiisioii of the program in the legislature June saying it originally was estimated that 30000 jobs ffiday is for HOMES Housing starts dropped OTTAWA tCPi Housing starts dropped to seasonallyadjusttxi annual rate of 155000 in May down from 208000 in April and 302900 in March eiitral Mortgage and Housing Corporation MHCi reported this week MH said in statement housing starts in urban areas in May were 15983 units decrease of 22 per cent from 20606 in May last year Starts on multiple dwellings were down 31 per cent to 7799 in May from 11376 year earlier Starts of single detached dwellings were 8184 down from 9230 year earlier Total starts in 1977 were about 245000 Want to discuss program TORONTO Pi Claude Bennett Ontario housing minister said this week the provincial government is not satisfied with the federal governments proposed housmg program and has not signed an agreement to implement it He told the legislature that he had invited Andre Ouellett federal housing minister and the nine other provincial housing ministers to meet him next week in Toronto discuss the program NDP Leader Michael assidy had asked Bennett whether an agreement had been signed or whether the government was prepared to press for delay in im plementing the oposed federal package until objections rom various housmg and community organizations could be an swered Bennett said Ontarios position has been that the new pro ams announced Feb should not be imp emented this year CHANGES RESPONSIBILITY Under the proposed plan the federal government would pull out of the planning and regulation of public housing leavnng this to the provinces and municipalities would be created at cost of $172 million Lnder the program the government subsidies eiiipioyeis who hire students McKeough said last week that linooo ap plications representing more than 38000 jobs had been received and the program was $3 million over budget Turning to log homes Tim Bullock marks log for fitting during the construction of log home Many people are attracted to the natural warmth of log homes says Chuck Peacock of Building with Logs Ltd Midhursi Peacock says that more and more people are looking into log con struction for permanent homes Story and photos on todays Homes Page Examiner Photo Your day lont oomph without The Emlnor 72150539 fqr horn dont Defeat says Trudeau but Chretien hails sal OTTAWA CHFinance Minister Jean Chretien hailed Quebecs decision to accept federal solution to the sales tax dispute Thursday as personal victory but Prime Minister Trudeau said the government has suffered defeat in the eyes of the public At separate news conferences the two gave their reactions to letter which arrived early that day from Quebec Finance Minister Jacques Parizeau In the letter Parizeau told Chretien he now is prepared to accept the federal govern ments Ian to pay most of Quebecs share of the eral budget directly to provinces 114th year No 134 Friday June 1978 the exam taxpayers through either income tax rebates or reductions But he said in Quebec City he will tax that money back so that the province will have it tospend The federal government made the tax rebate proposal month ago Quebec has consistently rejected it stuck to my guns and Im pleased with the result Chretien said telling reporters the twomonth deadlock between the federal and Quebec governments seems to be nearing an end es tax victory Trudeau told his weekly news conference he feels Parizeau robably gained ground as result of the pro onged tax dispute All the federal government wanted now was to close the file on the issue Quebecers still do not know whether they will soon receive an $85 rebate on last years tax or whether they will have their 1978 tax payment to the federal government reduced 85 The Opposition has supported Quebecs contention that the federal scheme is an mcursion into provincial jurisdiction Con servatives said Thursday they will continue 16° Per Copy Carrlor Home Dellvery 90° Weekly to fight the government proposal on those grounds despite Quebec acceptance Chretien told MPs he favors the idea of 1977 rebates for Quebec taxpayers because this formula would allow him to get $186 million in federal money into the pockets of Quebecers within the next few weeks He promised final answer on the method of Quebec reimbursement in few days Liberal sources expressed hope the governments controversial budget legislation which contains the sales tax wovisions would receive final approval within week 18 pages ner serving barrie andtsimcoe county No changes next year in pmperty tax setup OTTAWA TP City police said Thursday they charged Pearl Paul 35 believed to be from Chicago with assault of public peace officer after bottom baring incident in Prime Minister Irudeaus office on Parliament Hill police spokesman said the woman went past security guards into Trudeaus office and when asked for identification she lifted her skirt and showed her rear and said that was her ll He said when security guard called colleagues for help she kicked one of the officers in the groin and was using obscene abusive language City police were called to the scene and Bares ID for guards immediately took her into custody the spokesman said She was being field for mental examination spokesman in Irudeaus press office said the prime minister was attending his weekly cabinet meeting down the hall when the incident took place on the third floor of the entre Block Shortly after the incident regular security spokesmen on Parliament Hill including the sergeantratarms refused to discuss the incident An RCMP spokesman said she was arrested after making threats and was considered some kind of embarrassment to the prime minister Nuns not told to disrobe through jealousy witness MILTON Ont itPt Brantford woman known as Mother of Perpetual Help angrily denied in county court Thursday that she had ordered teenage nuns to disrobe because she wasjcalous of them Anna Drode said the girls were ordered to disrobe as penance by Denis Edward Scal len 55 who ran the Itenedictines of Mary Immaculate retreat in the nearby hamlet of Limehouse north of this community about 43 kilometres west of Toronto Scallen former agricultural technologist has pleaded not guilty to charges of defrauding the parents of three teenage girls more than $4000 between September 1974 and March 1974 by falsely representing himself as priest Defence counsel John Hellegheii suggested that Mrs Drode ordered the girls to disrobe because she had worldly interest in the man she lived with for three years in the retreat He also suggested the woman had left the retreat becaUse she was demoted to secretary for harsh and jealous treatment of the younger women DENIES NATIONS In tears Mrs Drozdl denied the suggestions and said she left the retreat in 1976 because of arguments with Scallen and lsraeii troops attack TEL AVIV Israel Ali Seaborne Israeli commandos and paratroopers stormed Palestinian guerrilla naval base on the Lebanese coast and destroyed the outpost early today the army announced It said there was evidence that the base was being used to prepare for terrorist at tacks on Israel in the near future and that two Israeli soldiers were killed and eight wounded in the assault The army said the attack was on Dahar el Bouj 10 kilometres south of Sidon and 33 kilometres north of the Israelioccupied zone of southern Lebanon This would put it about 45 kilometres miles north of lsraels border pooled report prepared for the foreign press quoted military sources as saying all Israels casualties were caused by big ex plosion of Palestinian arms depot Education rapped TORONTO iCPi Government and busi ness representatives criticized Ontarios education system Thursday saying it overeniphasizes the importance of universi ty education while discouraging young peo pie from entering bluecollar jobs Cooper chairman of the National Advisory Committee on Accommodation Food and Beverage Services said that in terest is increasing in the provinces secon dary industries but community colleges and universities are not roviding the quality of education needed to ill such jobs We have over 6000 jobs that are not be ing filled he told 175 delegates to governments nsored conference on job skills And ey cannot be filled because we are not training enough cooks and waiters to fill the jobs Miss Canada here Catherine Swing the reigning Miss Canada will hold press conference Mon day at Maude Kourys Steak House to prom ote the Big Run For Little Brothers which occurs locally next Friday prerun for those unable to par ticipate Friday has been scheduled for Tuesday Participants will include Willard Kinzie former Barrie mayor Bob Malud zinski Barrie North Collegiate teacher irregularities in his conduct of the retreat She said she had not made up stories of luirsli treatment of the girls in order to pill Scalien out of business and denied providing the parent of OIIt girl with list of Scallciis supporters to use TUI complaint letter During tiiliiesdays testimony Patricia Kennedy 20 iiankville and Loretta Macho iiald I6 of Iiiantford testified they were forced to take their clothes off in front of other would be nuns and Scallen He IScallini told us this was what the blessed Mother wanted Loretta told the court Mrs Droid said she met Scallen in 1972 and then in December 1973 separated from her husband and moved into the retreat with her three children She said she was attracted to Scallen by his writings and the fact that he was opposed to modern sex educahon and helieied iii the nowdiscarded Latin lridentiiie Mass He was trying to make new start and dissociate himself from the world she said Mrs Drozdz identified December 1974 letter Scallen sent Rev Atlianasius laniontagne of Quebec telling him of his plans to be ordainial by at Bishop Joseph Raiiber of the Syro Antiochaii Rite deadfima and Steve Shivas chairman of the lbcal run Both the run and pre run begin at Georgian ollege and end kilometres later in Stroud Street may open today Dunlap Street East between Owen and Mulcaster streets should be reopened to traffic sometime today says Neil Fox city public works superintendent The street was closed to traffic Thursday while public works crews put in new sanitary sewer connection for the Queens Hotel he said The hotel requested the connection to try and relieve flooding problem he added Cost of the connection will be paid by the hotel he said But he could not say how much it will be Work started about am Thursday Fox said and work continued until about to in The department hoped to have the job finished Thursday but workers had trouble working around host of underground telephone gas water power and storm sewer lines he said Service to stop NORTH BAY Staff Barrie will lose afternoon Ontario Northland rail service to Toronto effective June 23 Gordon Webster Ontario Northland public relations officer told The Examiner today the train will stop in Orillia instead of Barrie Train 12 travels southbound from North Bay to Toronto every afternoon except Saturday with stop in Barrie at 12 pm hesaid Webster could not say why the change is planned The decision was made by Northland ofv ficials this week in series of meetings in Toronto he said new timetable should be worked out sometime in the next few days he said until then he could not say what time the train will stop in Orillia TORONTO iCPi Ontario taxpayers will see no changes in the provinces property tax structure in 1979 Treasurer Darcy McKeough saidlhursday McKeough told the legislature that the minority government had decided against in troducing property tax reform legislation this SCSSlt partially because support for tax reform has been less than overwhelming Some local governments and government associations have opposed reform and large number of school boards and some mult nicipalities are asking for more analysis before changes are made he said cannot agree more analyses are need ed McKeough said Instead believe many local politicians have not yet realized the need for moving on reform He suggested local politicians have decided reform is not worth while if the cost will mean decreased grants or incurring the agreement Lets hit with one amit Hi smite lifestyle entertainment hornea sports 10 comics 17 classified 12 to 16 Wasted money claim TORONTO iPi Two former jurors say sheriffs officers who guarded the se questered jury during recent murder trial wasted taxpayers money by ordering ex pensive meals and were often drunk on the job In separate letters of complaint to Roy McMurtry Ontario attorneygeneral the jurors accuse the constables who guarded them for 32 days of wasting thousands of tax dollars by abusing free food and drink privileges The 11member jury convicted three men of murdering Emanuel la ues 12year oid Toronto shoeshine boy ast summer It was sequestered in downtown hotel throughout the trial spokesman for McMurtrys office said the department is investigating the charges James Spencer jury foreman said Thursday Many times we the jury ordered in chicken or something at cost of $40 total white the constables went out for dinner at cost of $30 or $40each He said the constables also drank most of the beer and liquor su plied for the jurors The second juror said he did not wish to be identified for fear of reprisals said sheriffs officers often fall asleep while on guard duty As sequmtered jury the jurors were limited to supervised contact with famin members and were not supposed to talk to anyone else Hughes will rejected LAS VEGAS Nev tAPi The handwrit ten words that would have made gas sta tion attendant millionaire have been rendered worthless because jury conclud ed that Howard Hughes did not write them The unanimous dOClSttm showed that the arms did not believe the stran story told Melvin Dummar the once scure Ltan man who said he met Hughes as hitch hiker helped him out and won bequest of about SIOiniIlion wrath of taxpayers now paying less than their fair share of taxes Few taxpayers have responded to the governments proposals on reform which were presented in January CONSIDER IMPACT McKeough said this partially reflects the complexity of the property tax system and also suggests that many taxpayers are more concerned about the possible impact of reform than they are about existing ine quities Several cabinet members have said in Eivate discussions they are teary of reform cause under one proposal average taxes on singlefamily residences would increase about $l00 in Metropolitan Toronto compared with an average decline of almost $100 elsewhere in the province They fear public backlash provincialmunicipal committee review ing the governments proposals recommend ed in April that the current property tax system is unacceptable and reform should be implemented as soon as possible Barrie PUC talks held Negotiators for the Barrie Public Utilities Commission iPLfti and Local 636 Interna tional Brotherhood of Electrical Workers IBEWi met this week to discuss new con tract But nothing was resolved said Bill Elson PUC secretarytreasurer today It was just an exploratory meeting he said in which both sides set out their basic positions for the negotiations PtC negotiators at the meeting were PUC chairman Ernie Alexander John Murphy general manager Elson Stan Bobbette electrical superintendent and Roger Tomlin sion water works superintendent David Butler of Toronto lBEW business agent Lloyd Courser Local 636 bargaining committee vicechairman and Roger Hamel Local 636 recording secretary attended for the union Elson said the new contract will cover 38 outside workers He would not give details of PUC and union bargaining positions The negotiators will meet again June 26 at pm he said Solo sailor Naomi James farmers daughter from New Zealand wears smile Thursday in Dartmouth England upon her return from 9month roundtheworld solo sailing voyage Mrs James 29 clipped two days off roundtheworld record set by the late Sir Francis Giirchester AP Photo vveather Sunny with cloudy periods today highs to to l8 Lows tonight to Risk of frost in some eastern sec tions Saturday mostly sunny but cool Highs l4to