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News roundup Metric move irks Prairie farmers OTTAWA CP Opposition MPs say Prairie grain far mersare nearly unanimous in their opposition to the govern glileilit plan to use metric measurements in the grain in ry But the government majority turned back several Progresswe Conservative amendments in the Commons Friday that would have delayed for several years the switch from Imperial units to metric The defeat of the amendments cleared the way for third and final reading of the metric bill next week The govern ment had hoped to have the new legislation in place Feb The bill provides for grain measurement in metric tonnes Instead of bushels and land in hectares instead of acres Following the debate and vote on the amendments the Commons adjourned early for the second consecutive Fnday when it ran out of business Transport Minister Otto Lang minister responsible for the Canadian wheat board said the government was sym pathetic to the obvious difficulty posed by change in measurement The Barrie Examiner Saturday lvlarch 26 1977 Wire tap law seeks interpretation TORONTO CP Aprovin ler to the Supreme Court of three preliminary hearings in representing one of the ac cial judge in Lindsay Ont and Canada to clarify federal wire volving 25 men and women cused began attempts to have aTOTOfllO defenceiawyerhave taplegiSIalion charged with conspiracy to the the 1974 wiretap law in agreed there should be spe On March Judge GFW traffic in cocaine and ampheta terpreted cial appeal bythejusticeminis Inrig adjourned to April 14 mines while Anthony Bazos For dining and entertainment at its best Enjoy our Saturday night Hot Beef Buffet $675 per person reservations recommended Then be en tertained and dance afterward in the Caboose Lounge This week in the CABOOSE lOUNGE Music Shoppe Easier job if beer sold TORONTO CP Deputy chief Jack Ackroyd of the Met ropolitan Toronto police said Friday that if the Ontario gov ernment decided to permit the sale of beer at Exhibition Sta Escapes 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lives llElIFllRDHUFFMAN ALLTHE PRESIDENTgIIW DANCING EVERY SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE oflflfiggm Hwy 400 at Essa Rd 7286191 ITS THE MOST HILARIOUS an or £5 US hikes minimum wage NEW yous API Presi dent Carter endorsed modest increase in the US federal minimum wage this week step that simultaneously an gcred organized labor and mif fed the US haniber of oni iiierce Carter endorsed an increaSc of 20 cents an hour from the current minimum wage of Ru and suggested system ffj RIVER GARDEN Tavern Restaurant miles North of Barrie on Hwy II in Gasoline Alley ot indexing the minimum wage In future years Ile proposed that the new wage begin July and that on Jul 1978 the wage be tied to rate equal toBtJ percent of the hourly earnings of manufac turing workers JIMMY ARIIJK endorsement Woman heads of college TORONIO itli The first woman to head college at the tnivcrsity of Toronto in the universitys lSUycar history sillti in an interview Friday that she is honored at being given the responsibility Joan IS Foley was recently appointed to head Scar borough olltge which has staff of 434 and an enrolment o2 3oo fulltimc and Lottoparttiiiicstudents Mrs lolc has been acting principal since December when liiiiCipal Albert Allen died She came from tlgtlt£tii£t ltlfi joined the university faculty in I963 After good home cooked meal stay and enjoy fine music presented by Disc From 9pm lam Everyone Weiconie For Reservation call 7261009 Licensed Under LLBO Progressive Rock FEATURING TRITON WARROR Georgian Theatre MondaXpMarCh 28 GENE WILDER JILL CLAYBURGH RICHARD PRYOR EU COSMIC COIOI II4 STREAKHAMIIIHI Month IN Huntiims PICTURE iii iii it IAME cilniw lhunno compiexfflms NOW PLAYING Special Guest nuous nunluau ASHES PLAYIRS Awu ITEIIAMIENI Tickets $350 Advance $400 at Door Wm SHOWN DAIIY AT 700 900 PM Available at MATINEES SAT SUN AT 130 Acquitted of horse slaying OWICN St tNl Ont ili iordoii James lriddlc 28 of Mount Forest Ont was acquitted in county court Friday of the sledgehaiiinicr and pitchfork slaying of horse last Sept 1o Priddtcs trial was held before Judge JII Thompson on Feb 28 and March but judgment was reserved until Friday In his summation Judge Thompson said Inost of the cvir dencc linking Priddle to the scene of the 12yearold thor oughbred mares death was circumstantial and the frown failed to establish his guilt beyond reasonable doubt The judge said horse blood found on the shoes Priddle had been wearing the day of the alleged offence was never estab lished as coming from the mare owned by James and Kim Murphy of Mount Forest Had high mercury level OTTAWA Ii lwentyfive of 827 native people tested for mercury during January were found to have unsafe levels of the environmental contaminant in their blood the federal health department said in news release Friday buttier no it MAI Ill Nit ti ouitiLIy lel IN iidllilfllllu intro to HNYH lVJUiu MM it WJI 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lished until they were 21 by the Brantford Expositor Mrs Hales convention coor dinator for the city of London said her mother wasnt keen on publicity but that she and her sisters Wcrc photographed frequently Shc recalled the in cidcnt that is sometimes caller thetircat FlyingIripletsstory newspajwr discovered that Margaret had taken single flying lesson and posed all Raggody Ann Andy three in he cockpit of an air 9M Mfllineefi OHiY vgtkmw Tun not ngjdpling their 125 Sun 130 iltltlliilti injlittiumj wish to be known as separate om wllw individuals Mrs Halos said they were of Nlllllltl tcn taunted and teased by class 41 males in elementary school and Still it lllthl Ellllllllllllllllllllllllllll EVENINGS SAT PM SUN 130 0NIY 7269944 com Will have you shrieking with terror and keep you screaming fordays Rex Reed NEW YORK DAILY NEWS THERE MUST FOREVER BE GUARDIAN AT THE GATE FROM HELL ADULT mama1m SHE wAS YOUNG SHE wAS BEAUTIFUL SHE WAS THE NEXT if John Hniiiiiis I=oiiznanu ASTllll Patsy 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