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LONDON Ont CP Health officials are watchin the family and friends of two members nearby Old Order Amish community who are in hospital suffering from symptoms of paralytic poliomyelitis But Dr Nancy Tuttle associate medical officer of health for the MiddlesexLondon health unit said Tuesday that none of the lt family members is ill Soloman Swarey 26 and his sister Ella20 were admitted Sunday to Victoria Hospital with suspected paralytic polio Dr William Butt medical officer of health for Oxford County said his health unit is looking for polio symptoms in about 00 persons who have had contact with the wo Meanwhile the medical officer of health for MiddlesexLondon said tests to confirm whether the two have polio pro bany would be completed by the end of the week Dr William Hutchison said he was angry that Ontario Health Minister Den nis Timbrell announced Monday in the legislature that the couple is believed to have the disease He said he would never again make such an advance report to Timbrell Hutchison said he would have publicized the Situation after he had all the necessary information Soloman and Ella who live in the Amish community near Avon Ont about 25 kilometres south of Woodstock had placed their faith in God rather than in modern medicine TRUST IN GOD We keep away from it because we trust in Supreme God said Enos Yoeder bishop of the Amish community where the Swareys live Enos Swarey their father said he knew there were polio cases in the area last year but saw no need to be immunized He his wife and four daughters were iv immunized Tuesday Still not confirmed Officials wary in polio scare Enos Swaney stands outside his farmhouse in Avon Ont on Monv day after learning that his son Solomon 26 and daughter Ella 20 may have polio Mr Swaney said he was aware of the polio score in the area near Woodstock Ont last year but saw no need for immunization His two children are resting in London Ont hospital pending result of tests CP Photo Strategy plan introduced to cut core project beefs By DENNIS LANTIIIER Of The Examiner major strategy plan to reduce the objec tors to the downtown improvement project was introduced by mayor Ross Archer The step termed critical by Ald Fred Ruemper is to allow property owners around the project and in Allandale to maintain the same coverage as allowed in the past Property owners are now allowed to build six times the amount of floor space as lot area The city in its official plan amendment in tends to reduce that coverage to three times so attention would not be turned away from the improvement project But Mayor Archer told planning board Tuesday he couldnt blame upset property owners The owners feel theyre losing something in the deal and that council is not acting in their best interest None of them has ex plored six times coverage said the mayor But its clear that if it was removed it would be upsettingtothem We will lose any opportunity to revitalize downtown if we proceed the way were going now he said 4°C ka If Jane Fonda calls tell her looking into whatever it is shes attacking this week Start running women The time has come for Canadian women to get out of the backrooms of political life and start running for office Robin Jeffrey president of the Ontario Womens Pro gressive Conservative Association and vice president of the national PC Womens Association says For more details about what Mrs Jeffrey told members of the Sini coe County Women Teachers Association see the Today page Guest composer here Walter Babiak welleknown Canadian composer violinist and conductor will be the guest conductor at the lluronia District Youth Orchestra concert to be presented May 26 at Georgian College Theatre Babiak has just returned to Canada after working with the Stuttgart Ballet in Ger many See story on todays Entertainment page Habs cast off doubts Montreal Canadiens cast off doubts and the New York Rangers Tuesday and skated to 62 win in the second gamc of the Stanley Cup finals at the Forum in Mon trcal Ken Dryden returned to form along with his teammates See stories pictures on todays Sports pages may index lifestyle 68 entertainment pons 822 comicsv guide amplements Loblaws pages Food City pages Miracle M011 P8995 Radio Shack The mayor said the city has major project at hand the downtown improvement project and the city should not risk losing its case before the Ontario Municipal Board OMB because of an unrelated coverage policy suggest we remove it and get on with the seeder project he said Rick Jones city planner was adamant in his support of the mayors proposal The biggest objections will come from those lan downers he told the board This policy with the major landowners objecting will double the opposition against the amend ment But two members of planning board had serious reservations to the scheme Ald Fred Ruempcr said the city could be doubling the trouble it will receive before an anticipated OMB hearing Ald Ruemper said that most objections received were from nonlandowners objec ting to the scheme The alderman said he questioned the strategy behind the move Plan exchange of prisoners PEKING Reuter Chinese spakesman said today China and Vietnam will exchange sick and wounded war captives next Monday The spokesman said the exchange will take place at the Friendship Pass in southern Guangxi Autonomous Region one of the at tack routes used by China at the start of its punitive monthlong border war with Viet nam launched on Feb 17 China announced on May 11 it would start releasing Vietnamese PoWs at the Friendship Pass this coming Saturday ViceForeign Minister Zhong Xidong told news con ference the first release will consist of about 100 prisoners Defends diary Otto Frank 90 father of Anne Frank is shown in London for the 50th anniversary tribute to Anne Frank still has to battle in court to defend the diarys authenticity from attacks by Nazi sympathizers AP Photo with year No no Wednesday May 16 1979 15 Per Copy Carrier Home Delivery 90 Weekly the examiner 300 at Le islature rall serving barrie and simcoe county Proposal for Frenchschool gets Liberal NDP support Local plant hit by strike By LORI OIIEN Of The Examiner Members of the Teamsters Union Local 230 at Dufferin Concrete Products in Barrie are on strike for higher wages dental plan and the right to be called at an early hour for work that day The strike which began Monday involves six plant workers from the block and dry material division on Tiffin Streetand about 15 drivers from the ready mix concrete sec tion onDunlop Street The workers have been without contract since February and negotiations started last November Ross Stinson shop steward at the ready mix section said drivers earn $735 an hour and were offered wage increase of $120 an hour over two year period Mechanics who earn $765 an hour were offered $110 Wages in the block plant range between $620 and $680 an hour The company offered machine operators an increase of $120 an hour over two years other employees 76 cents Laborers or unskilled workers were not offered wage increase The union had asked for raise of $150 an hour across the board Doug Hollingworth general manager for Dufferin Concrete said the company was sur prised when its contract offer was rejected He said the company had no plans to ap proach the union with another offer The strike could last long time he said The union also wants the company to call workers by am of the morning they are re quired to work as stipulated in their previous contract Stinson says the compahy wants the right to call workers by 10 am 100 slayings part of plan PARIS AP An official of Amnesty In ternational says the reported killing of about 100 schoolchildren in the Central African Em pire was part of violent repression of growing popular opposition to Emperor Bokassa The children demonstrated the parents demonstrated some principals of the univer sity demonstrated said Edith Villain vice president of the humanrights organizations French division in TV interview Tuesday night She also said Bokassa who seized power in military coup in 1966 and made himself emperor in 1977 had his Imperial Guard ar rest Information Minister Barthelemy Yangongo on April She gave no details Amnesty International which won the 1977 Nobel Peace Prize said on Monday that about 100 schoolchildren who demonstrated against orders to wear school uniforms were suffocated stabbed or beaten to death in April while in custody in Bangui the capital of the former French colony in West Africa The organization said its information came from numerous varied and reliable sources both African and European It wasnt 401 KITCHENER Ont CP Peter borough man pleaded guilty in provincial court Tuesday to impaired driving refusing to give breath sample and assaulting police Craig Leonard Smith 20 told police he thought he was driving on Highway 401 when he collided with another car Smith then tried to break into the other car claiming the other driver was on the wrong side of the road However Smith actually was westbound in the eastbound lane of street in Cam bridge five kilometres south of Highway 401 police said Later while undergoing hospital treat ment for cut hand Smith assaulted Waterloo regional policeman when the offi cer tried to arrest him for impaired driving The policeman suffered sprained thumb and fingerandacuthand Smith will be sentenced June 18 Sapping strength of US WASHINGTON AP President Carter says energy problems are sapping away the strength of our nation and residents of the US have been unwilling or too timid to deal with the problem Carters remarks came as some California drivers lined up for 12 blocks to buy gasoline at 999 cents gallon and New York Gov Hugh Carey asked motorists to reduce their driving this month by 160 kilo metres and ordered state agencies to cut their travelling by five per cent Meanwhile there are indications the government is partially to blame for the gasoline crunch in California federal official says And there were signs of new pressure for world oil price increase Blast kills nine TOKYO AP Leaking poison gas an explosion and fire in coal mine in northern Japan killed at least nine men Tuesday night and seven others were missing police reported The accident occurred at mine of the Mitsubishi Coal Mining Co on Hokkaido Japans northernmost main island It was the first major accident in the Hokkaido coal mines since May 1977 when 25 men died in gas explosion Reieanne Guay of the Ontario Association of French Canadians addresses the some 300 Franco Ontarians who attended at rally at Queens Pank Tuesday to dem onstrate their support for French language high school for the Penetanguishene area UW announces target for 80 By CLAUDIA KRAUSE Of The Examiner Barrie and District United Way has an nounced 1980 campaign target of $180000 about 16 per cent lower than its 1979 target of $215000 Also Simcoe Rescue Squad has been ad ded to the list of agencies receiving United Way funding and replaces the Multiple Sclerosis Society which asked to be withdrawn These announcements were made public Tuesday evening at meeting of Barrie and District United Way board of trustees In report Arthur Webb budget and admission committee chairman said that while the new target is substantially less than last years target of $215000 it is none the less 169 per cent increase over 1979 collections In past years United Way has collected between 63 and 75 per cent of its campaign targets extra Restraint vests recalled TORONTO CP Montreal manufacturer is recalling 1000 restraint vests in hospitals across Canada because an elderly woman strangled in one of them in the emergency department of Toronto hospital Raymond Fortin president of Formedica Co Ltd said Tuesday he has told distributors to take back the vests He said his company is not aware of the current locations of the vests Last week Fortin told an inquest into the death of Kataryna Frydrak 87 that his company would recall the vests warn hospitals about them prepare instuction manuals and design new model Fortin said the vest is not dangerous if used properly Mrs Frydrak who had been admitted to hospital last Feb 22 had spent eight hours on stretcher in the emergency department at St Josephs Hospital waiting for bed nurse had put restraining vest on the woman because she was struggling to get off the stretcher Left unattended for 40 minutes Mrs Frydrak slipped from the sreteher and was chocked by the neckband of the vest Because there had been no instructions on its use the vest had been put on backwards Act changes proposed TORONTO CP Legislation which would permit fire trucks and police cars to drive through red traffic lights was in troduced Tuesday in the Ontario legislature The proposed legislation provides that before fire or police vehicles proceed against red light they must sound siren or flash red light come to full stop and make certain that the intersection is clear James Snow minister of transportation and communications said the proposed amendments under the Highway Traffic Act have been introduced because there re legitimate circumstances such as going to fires or pursuing criminals when police and fire officials should be exempt from these traffic laws By TERRY FIELD Of The Examiner TORONTO While Ontarios two opposi tion parties voiced support Tuesday for the Frenchlanguage secondary school proposed by the French community surrounding Penetanguishene the Conservatives reiterated their desire to see the issue resolv ed locally Dr Betty Stephenson Ontarios minister of education appeared at the Queens Park ral ly staged by the Ontario Association of French Canadians and told the noisy angry crowd that her ministry would not intervene in the dispute between the Simcoc County Board of Education and French ratepayers In contrast to Dr Stephensons reception NDP leader Michael Cassidy was greeted by cheers from the crowd of some 300 mostly students when he announced NDP support for new school Dr Stephenson said meeting has been scheduled for June in Barrie between the school board and ministry officials dispatch ed by her to act as chairman and mediators She also said the countys French Language Advisory Committee would attend although the committee has not yet decided whether it will take part in the talks It is meeting tonight on the matter When asked if the ministry would step in if the June talks do not result in settlement she dismissed the question Dont be such pessimist she told The Examiner Tuesdays rally was attended by Franco Ontarians from Windsor Cornwall Hamilton and Simcoe County and was designed to en courage government intervention into the dispute Supporters also hope to prevent lllt polarizing of the French and English com munitics of the lenetanguislienc area that could result from long battle organizer ltc jean Guay said Cassidy said the Nlll supported the lieiicli students right to have their own school Later he told The Examiner lhc uovcrn ment should make it very clear to the coun tys school board that the separate school should be built John Sweeney Liberal education critic ap pcared at the rally to demonstrate support but did not address the crowd He told The Examiner the Liberals want the distinct school built He said the govcrn ment should act on the advice of its advisory boards and take lesson from the Esscx County dispute Ontarios languages commission the education ministrys regional office and Sim cocs French Language Advisory Committee have each suggested that new school bc built for 340 French speaking students now at tending Penetanguishene Secondary School The province has pledged $2 million for Frenchlanguage unit for 1980 but says the ministry the local board must decide for itself on the type of unit it wants for thi area Ontario will pay 95 per cent of thc cost of constructing either the annex or the distinct building The $2 million would be enough money for small but separate school ac cording to several board trustees Natural gas discovery may be largest ever CALGARY CP natural gas discovery described as possibly the largest in Canada was announced Tuesday by Panarctic Oils Ltd Charles Hetherington Panarctic president said the find could add at least 10 per cent to Canadas proven gas reserves estimated at 73 trillion cubic feet This could well be the biggest gas field in the Arctic Islands Hetherington told news conference He was joined by Bill Hopper chairman of PetroCanada the federal oil company which provides about 80 per cent of Panarctics financing Were talking in the neighborhood of four to five trillion cubic feet conceivably dou ble that said Hopper The previous largest discovery in Canada also made by Panarctic in the Arctic Islands was at Drake Point where reserves are estimated at 55 trillion cubic feet The discovery was also announced by Prime Minister Trudeau who was campaign ing Tuesday in Kamloops BC for the May 22 federal election ATTACKS CLARK This would not have taken place if Joe Clark had been prime minister because he would have abolished PetroCanada Trudeau said Swallows lye Shonelle Jones of Baltimore Md who swallowed water mixed with lye sits in University Hospital bed She cant speak yet due to the injuries but doctors hope eventually she will be able to talk and even yell The reads around her face and the tube in her throat are part of the treatment AP Photo Panaretic and PetroCanada arc two of thc companies that will eventually gain share in the field under an acquisition program of the Arctic Islands Exploration Group which also includes Esso Resources Canada Ltd Gulf Canada Ltd Sun Oil Co Ltd lhilliis Petroleum Canada Ltd and Global Marine Arctithd The discovery is welcome news to sponsors of the Polar Gas Project The Polar iitS con sortium which includes lanarctic and lctro Canada proposes to build gas pipcliiie from the Arctic Islands to southern markcts along route that would run west of Hudson Bay Hetherington said the new offshore llllfl about 40 kilometres west of Loughccd island and some 1800 kilometres north ot Yellowknife puts us awfully close to ll not over the level of reserves necessary to maki the Polar Gas pipeline feasible lle envisaged 1984 starting datc lot the project with completion in 1989 WIILLIIJGGIII Panarctics optimism about the sizc of lllt discovery is boosted by the prospccts of future drilling Hetherington said Hi discovery well built on an ice plattoiin on seas 227 metres deep had to be pliniud before it reached planned liplll Win Hi weather brought an end to thc drilling moon with deeper potential zones untouched Terrorists kill three SAN SALVADOR AP lolict ex panded their roadblocks around El Salvadors capital after terrorists killcd three policemen and soldiers killed at least two demonstrators north of the city rinsing the toll 034 dead in week of violence Two of the policemen were guarding thc South African Embassy and were killed Tuesday night when at least eight guerrillas of the leftwing Popular Liberation Forces opened fire on them seized their rillcs and escaped in two cars in hail of bullcts from other policemen Officials said they did not know whcthci the guerrillas planned to raid the litltS There had been rumors of plot to kidnap South African Ambassador Archibald Gardner Dunn who was inside thc mission during the shooting but not harmed Raps xray training TORONTO CP radiation physicist and former teacher of xray technicians has described them as trained button pushcrs likemonkeys Dr Paul Kantorek said in an lliltlt luesday that many technicians hsm lllllt knowledge of their jobs Their theoretical knowledge is ilisoluc ly ridiculous he said dont litltt the have the qualifications to imnimm lltit radiation emitted by xray machines Kantorek said he resigned from teaching position at the Toronto liistitutc of Medical lcchnology where he taught tio students in 1975 and 1970 l£ttlt hc lclt lll efforts to improve the program tlt being ignored Only one of 10 instructors had bachelor of science degree ht said llowcvcr Dr Diana Schatx xccutiyc director of the institute said Tuesday its graduates are qualified to minimic radia tion doses and carry out qualin control tests on machinery The 24 month program for xray technicians gives students solid preparation fortheir iolis Slitsiirl weather Mainly sunny today with highs of 13 to l5 Clear overnight Lows about Sunny Thursday with increasing southerly winds Highs l8 to 20