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Barrie Examiner, 11 Jul 1977, p. 1

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Vie Tom Park of Anten Mills sang and danced his way into the hearts of some 3500 people who gathered at the Simcoe County Museum Sunday for the fifth annual Scottish Day Park joined Bill Bumetts Heather Trio making it The Heather Trio Plus One The program also included massed pipe hands country dancing performed by the Glcnquaich Group of Bar rie Highland dancing and the Toronto Gaelic Society Choir Examiner Photo Annual Scottish Day draws crowd of 3500 By SHEILA McGOVERN Examiner Staff Reporter People by the thousands flocked to the Sim coe County Museum in Midhurst Sunday to attend the museums fifth annual Scottish Day Bertah Cameron museum curator estimated some 3500 people circled the stage behind the museum and was so large it stret ched through the woods Those attending were treated to program of massed pipe bands country dancing Highland dancing Gaelic choir and the lively music of the Heather Trio Plus One Intermission included demonstration of sheepherding Mrs Cameron said Scottish Day began in 1972 and has been growing in popularity since The museum originally planned United Nations Day she said but after con tacting all the ethnic groups the Scots were the only ones to show real interest Mrs Cameron said the msueum is anxious to have an Irish Day and would be happy to hear from anyone who could assist in setting one up The museum is now negotiating with the Id nian chiefs of Rama and Christian Island and hopes to present Native Peoples Day in 1978 she added Scottish Day and Pioneer Day in September are the biggest events of the year for the museum Mrs Cameron said Scottish Day has been success right from the start Mrs Cameron said and this year the museum raised the stage and improved the sound system Mrs Cameron said the museum is grateful to members of the Ontario Provincial Police Auxiliary who volunteered their time for the afternoon Noise bylaw before council for final reading tonight Barries controversial antinoise bylaw comes up for third and final reading tonight at city councils regular pm meeting The bylaw given two readings last year has been to the Ontario Ministry of the En vironment for minor revisions It will require final minisitry approval before taking effect The bylaws provisions include bans on squealing tires and on idling car engines for Christine wins again scxasoaocon The higher Chris tine Rocchio jumps the more track meets she wins The young member of the Huronia Striders Track and Field Club jumped 12 metres at the Scarborough Mite Tyke and Atom meet Saturday at Scarboroughs BrichmountStadium It was personal best for Rocchio and the fourth straight time she has won the high jump event in tyke competition She also placed third in the long jump with distance of 373 metres Patti Boni won the atom girls 400metres event with time of 648 seconds which was rsonal best and the fastest time record to date in her age class Boni picked up fourth in the long jump and high jump events and third place rib bon in the 100metres with time of 136 seconds Jodie LaSalle set record in the atom girls 200metre Sprint with time of 283 seconds It was the third record set this season by Jodie In earlier meets she recorded record performances in the long jump and looetres Jodie had third in the atom girls long jump and joined Debbie Borho Boni and Julie lnsley in the medley relay event Their time of two minutes and five seconds was worth first place Bomo placed fifth in both the high jump and long jump events while Frank Walters earned fourth in he mometre run with time of 29 seconds Three double winners Barrie Red Sox Ivy Leafs and Orillia Ma profited from busy weekend in the jors South Simcoe Baseball League Each club won pair of games Red Sox defeated Tottenham in Tottenham Saturday then bumped Newmarket 41 more than five minutes in residential areas except under specified conditions Fines for violation of these and other provisions range up to $1000 Also on tonights agenda are approval of general committee report approving pro posed municipal airport and asking the pro vmcial government to study possible sites for the facility and presentation to high school track and field star Mike Forgrave Linda Watson leftfielder for West Bend crosses the plate with her teams third run of the third inning as Elmvale catcher Mary Ferguson waits for the ball to ar rive West Bend romped to 125 win over Elmvalc the championship game of the 0m Ladl Softball Tournament at Edgar on the weekend Story on page Ex aminer Photo Sunda fit the Fair Grounds Lea are closing the gap on the first place Majors Leafs beat Tottenham Bears 115 in Sun day afternoon then returned home to defeat the Majors 62 which moved the club within three points of the Majors The top man for Ivy was Bill Patton with two hits in three trips to the plate both of them doubles Majors took two games from Collingwmd Cavemen including 62 win in Collingwood Saturday and 51 victory at home Sunday Alliston Canucks whipped the Orillia Juniors EH Sunday At Bruce nuclear power site Did Greenpeacers breach security DOUGLAS POINT Ont CP The Greenpeace Foundation says three of its members landed by canoe early today and breached security at the Bruce nuclear power development site on Lake Huron about 40 miles southwest of Owen Sound John Bennett coordinator for Greenpeace Toronto said in prepared statement today that he Rick Curry of London Ont and Douglas Saunders of Toronto landed about 430 am and wandered about the Site for an hour placing signs and decals on installations until they were stopped by an unarmed security guard He said they walked around the nuclear reactors and the heavywater plant but did 113th yearNo 159 not attempt to enter any buildings on the site We could have taken 100 people in there since it was wide open Bennett 26 said in the statement We just wanted to prove we could get in there Ontario Hydro has spent the last 20 years persuading the citizens of Ontario that its operation of nuclear power plants is safe clean and inexpensive the statement said This action demonstrates the vulnerability of Ontario Hydro nuclear plants to organized attack by international terrorist groups with resulting loss of life and release of radioac tivity Dan White an Ontario Hydro spokesman confirmed that three men with signs which read Nuclear power unsafe unclean and un needed were apprehended at the site about 30 am Asked why the three were not charged White replied They were cautioned As they hadnt really done an hi they were released Charges will be aid they reap pear at the site Bennett said the three intruders had made an earlier boat trip to the site taking pictures to become familiar with the layout of the plant before landing at the site fourth Greenpeace member Joanne Szabo of Toronto remained on shore while the three male members paddled the canoe from nearby Bale du Dore to the site Bennett said that once apprehended they were taken to security office and detained for about 45 minutes He said they were told that provincial police would be notified and charges laid but the call to police was can celled when the three men produced Green peace membership cards Bennett said they then were taken to their canoe by plant security personnel and released We just wanted to prove we could get in there Bennett said White said he didnt think the actions of the Greenpeace members proved anything about terrorism Monday July 1977 iii 15° For Copy CalHer Home Dollvory 90° Hijackers of Soviet ainer 14 Pug are threatening to blow it up Obstacles still in the way of Rhodesian settlement LUSAKA Zambia Reuter Anglo American negotiators still face two major ob stacles blocking the path to peaceful set tlement of Rhodesias burgeoning guerrilla war and third seems to be looming The negotiators ended second round of contacts with the wars black and white protagonists by meeting Prime Minister Ian Smith of Rhodesia in Salisbury Sunday Last week they met the Patriotic Front black nationalist alliance the mouthpiece of the guerrilla forces in the conflict in Lusaka Informed sources said the two major areas of contention were the composition of securi ty forces during whiteruled Rhodesias tran sition to independence as the black state of Zimbabwe and the nature of franchise for preindependence elections The latest AngloAmerican plan foresees Smith and his whiteminority govemment handing over power to Britishmanaged in terim government that would oversee the election But the prospect of third big problem was raised here Sunday when Patriotic Front spokesman rejected the proposed British role We are not fighting to pass over power to the British the spokesman aid We are fighting so that power should be surrendered to us WANT FINAL SAY Joshua Nkomo coleader of the Front with Robert Mugabe has made clear that he wan ts the Patriotic Front to have the final say in any interim government whose members could exert important influence on elections and thus on the states future leadership The negotiators John Graham of Britain and US envoy Stephen Low did not believe this was Nkomos final position sources close to the negotiations said But observers here said the mood in the nationalist camp at the moment buoyed by diplomatic successes and moreeffective guerrilla fighting than previously is not one that would easily agree to compromise We do not consider any agreement bet ween the British and the Rhodesian regime to constitute solution of the Rhodesia problem the Patriotic Front spokesman said Anything that is done without our par ticipation cannot constitute an agreement Prince Charles back home with kingsize problem EDMONTON CP Prince Andrew 17 flew to Yellowknife on an Arctic tour and canoeing trip Sunday while Prince Charles 28 arrived home in London with kingsized problem The heir to the British throne was presen ted with buffalo by Stoney Indian Chief John Snow when he visited the tribes reserve 40 miles west of Calgary on Saturday Rodney Moore the princes press secretary said Prince Charles was unsure what he would do with the animal He may well leave it with the tribe to look after for him Moore said It probably wouldnt like the weather in Britain Prince Andrew was to visit Resolute Bay and Alert in the High Arctic before canoeing Off with your hand ISLAMABAD Reuter Pakistans new military rulers introduced Sunday the Koranic penalty of amputation of the hand for those convicted of theft Amputation would be carried out by surgeon in public or in prison martial law decree said Pakistan is the only country other than Saudi Arabia to introduce amputation which is provided for in the Shariat law Army strongman General Mohammad ZiaUHlaque said after the coup that ousted Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto last Tuesday that he considered the in troduction of the Islamic system as an essential prerequisite for the country Introduction of the Shariat law became an issue in recent political agitation waged by the Pakistan National Alliance to force Bhutto to call new general elections The 1973 constitution envisaged the in troduction of Shariat law within seven years Bhutto in an effort to ward off at tacks by his political opponents promised to apply it within six months He banned alcohol horse racing and gam bling Foreigners can still buy liquor but only in specified bars and on presentation of passports Russian protest reply MOSCOW AP An unusual 43minute concert Saturday of protest songs by John ny Cash Joan Baez Judy Collins and other US folk singers was the latest move in Soviet campaign to convince its citizens that human rights are violated in the United States Apparently responding to President Car ters criticism of civil rights violations in the Soviet Union the theme was em phasized during the program by narrator who delivered social commentary on American life Fiat exec returned PARIS AP The president of the Fiat motor companys French subsidiry kid na ped three months ago was released to ay near Versailles Police said that Lucchino Revelli Beaumont was in good health but had been kept blindfolded most of the time since his abduction April 13 down the Coppermine River in the Northwest Territories He will be joined on the trip by four pupils the headmaster and teacher from his Lakefield Ont school Prince Charles arrived home an hour late Sunday after the jumbo jet on which he travelled developed minor technical fault in wheel and was delayed in Edmonton Paul Martin Canadas high commissioner was among those who met the prince at Heat hrow Airport Earlier at civic luncheon with Calgary Mayor Rod Sykes as host the prince light heartedly acknowledged generation gap between himself and Prince Andrew NJ The winner Seventeenyearold Donna Perri relaxes on Miami Beach Sunday after she was named winner in local bikini contest held on Miami Beach the South Philadelphia resident lists modelling as her hobby AP Photo Advahced sabotage LONDON AP Advanced sabotage and silent killings are just two of the courses being offered by British company the Sunday Times says The newspaper says the Londonbased company Donne Holdings Ltd uses ex British servicemenincluding former members of the elite Special Air Serviceto teach courses in variety of lethal and non lethal skills Among the fimis clients the pa er said was Libyan leader Moammar Kha afy who used the fimi to train his bodyguards The company went to court Friday in an effort to prevent gublication of the Sunday Times report ut an injunction was refused the newspaper said Donne Holdings Ltd is listed in the HELSINKI AP Two hijackers of Soviet airliner threatened to blow up the plane at the Helsinki airport today unless given fuel to take them out of Finland the director of the airport reported Meamwhile six Palestinians who hijacked Kuwaiti airliner Friday surrendered Sun day at Damascus Syria The two hijackers of the Soviet plane released 20 women and children today but kept 50 male passengers hostage Finnish government spokesman said It was believed they wanted to go to Sweden which six weeks ago refused to surrender another Soviet hijacker to Moscow The Finnish Board of Aviation said if they surrendered in Helsinki they would be sub iect to automatic extradition to the Soviet Union under 1974 FinnishSoviet anti hijacking treaty The pair commandeered an Aeroflot jetliner with 79 persons aboard during 175 mile flight from Petrozavodsk the capital of Soviet Karelia to Leningrad Sunday night The pilot radioed Stockholm Sweden for per mission to land there but instead came down 42k When said there was nothlng wrong with pipeline In an area was notspeaklng about our area Johnson local lifeston ontortalnment sports oomlcs classified 11 12 13 London telephone directory as security coh sultants The Sunday Times quoted from sixpage company brochure listing courses in unar med combat including silent killing basic and advanced sabotage including the manufacture of homemade explosive devices interrogation lock picking and technical intrusion Easier through US TORONTO CP US Consumer ad vocate Ralph Nader said Sunday it is easier for Canadians to obtain information about Canada from Washington than from 0t tawa Speaking on CBC Radios Sunday Mor ning program Nader said the United States Freedom of Information Act resulted from pressure from citizen groups the media and Congress Nader said law students working in Washington last year obtained Canadian government information classified secret by using the US Freedom of Information Act Compared to Washington govermnent officials in Ottawa are extraordinarily secretive he said Extremists arrested CAIRO Reuter Eightyone more members of Moslem extremist group ac cused of planning campaign of terror in Egypt have been arrested as police crack down on the sect says the semiofficial newspaper alAhram More of the youps hideouts were found Sunday and explosives and arms including machineguns and pistols seized the Mid dle East news agency reported More than 300 members of the Takfir Wal Hijira or the Society for Repentance and Flight from Sin have been arrested following the kidnapping and murder last week of the former minister of religious en dowments Ahmed Hussein Zahabi reported in the last two days Three attacks at the Helsinki airport It was thought he did not have enough fuel to fly to the Swedish capital 250 miles to the west Police surrounded the twinjet TU134 and it was towed to remote part of the airport Soviet Ambassador Vladimir Stepanov and three Finnish cabinet members went to the airport to negotiate with the hijackers The interior ministry announced that the hiiackers released the seven crew members Sunday night Early today they freed woman and her infant child and 22 hours later released the 12 other women and six children aboard the plane the govemment spokesman said No one was reported hurt The hijackers presumably are Soviet citizens although their identity was not an nounced They demanded that the plane be refuelled and allowed to leave but it was not known where they wanted to go It was the second hijacking of Soviet airliner in six weeks 37yearold mechanic named Vasily Sosnovsky took over twin engine Aeroflot AN24 on May 26 and forced the pilot to fly him to Stockholm After he applied for asylum the Swedish govemment refused to extradite him and said it would put him on trial The Soviet airliner was seized about eight hours after five Palestinian hijackers turned on their leader and forced him to surrender with them to Syrian police who guaranteed them absolute safety Two Arab officials and five British crew members of the Kuwaiti Airlines airliner were freed unharmed City teenager drowns Sunday Barrie teenager drowned in the Magnetewan River 30 miles northeast of Parry Sound Sunday Dead is Clarence Allen Rhynold 14 son of Mr and Mrs Havelock Rhynold Mary Street spokesman for the Parry Sound OPP detachment said today Clarence who was on holiday with friends from Downsview was swimming alone in an area of heavy rapids when he ran into difficulty and called for he Jghn Swartz of nearby Dunchurch jumped in the water but did not reach the youngster until he had gone under Swartz pulled Clarence out and gave him mouthtomouth resuscitation but could not revive him Services are scheduled for 330 pm Wednesday at Steckley Funeral Home Three shot in Jamaica KINGSTON Jamaica AFP Two policemen and civilian were shot and killed today at northcoast resort in con tinuing wave of armed attacks on police stations in the last week Six deaths and many injuries have been have been made on police stations by per sons armed with submachi neguns No arrests have been made In todays in cident 68 miles from Kingston five men were seen fleeing in speeding car 78 GMs to be delayed DETROIT AP The president of General Motors Corp says the start of the 1978 model year for GM car and truck pro duction may be delayed unless Congress guarantees that US antipollution stan dards will not be toughened for at least an other year GM sees no suitable way under the ter ms of the law to continue the production of automobiles into the 1978 model year Elliott Estes said Sunday Con ess should act quickly so that amen ments to the Clean Air Act can be approved and signed into law to avoid disruptions within our industry Estes said the US industry expects new vehicle sales during the current model year to top the 1973 record of 146 million cars and trucks and 1978 should see more sales records set He spoke at the opening of fourday symposium sponsored by trade publication Automotive News The US Senate and Hoase of Represen tatives have passed different versions of an amendment to the Clean Air Act Both ver sions extend current standards into the 1978 model year but the standards for future years are subject to change Hazy and humid with few showers ori thunderstorms later in the day is the forecast for Tuesday Low overnight should be near 16 and the big tomorrow near 30l degrees Chance of thunderstorm over night

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