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former Angus residentbharged with ar son in fire one firefighter called the most unusual he had ever fought went to trial in county court in Barrie Monday Ralph James Davey was charged with set ting fire to his splitlevel Brentwood Road home after it burned to the ground May 12 1976 No one was in the yearold house when fire broke out Brian Wakefield the first Essa Township volunteer firefighter at the scene near am testified Monday the fire behaved as though it containedsome kind of flammable liquid Wakefield professional Barrie firefighter said water which should have ex tinguished the flames instead had mushrooming effect The more water you put on it the higher the flames went he said He said the mushrooming effect made him suspect some substance was present in the fire which did not respond to water labelling the fire as Class fire one involving flammable liquids Wakefield testified he arrived at the Davey house after receiving call and found the fire contained to basement recreation room Attempts to douse flames through broken window only increased the intensity of the fire he said and the building was soon entire ly involved in flames Two hours later he testified the building was destroyed with spot fires continuing to erupt Wakefield estimated the fire began two hours before firefighters arrived saying one smouldering section had competely destroyed the dining room loor except for its joints He said the floor could not have been destroyed in the two hours firefighters were at the scene it would have had to smoulder for matter of hours he said Wakefield also said the basement fire could not have started the smouldering dining room floor fire because it was cut off by doors and other rooms It looked like the floor was completely gone before the basement fire broke out he said Topic farm taxes The Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food is again sponsoring oneday seminar at eight locations across Ontario on the topic of farm taxes and estate planning The seminar in Simcoe County will take place Nov 29 at the Nottawasaga Inn Alliston Enrolment fee is $12 Registration forms are available at the Elmvale Agricultural office Soil samples urged The Elmvale office of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food warns that des ite muddy field conditions an effort shoul be made to get soil samples for those fields growing annual crops in 1978 The soil test is valuable tool in plan ning next years cropping program says Robert Humphries associate agriculture representative The test gives farmers reading on phosphorus potassium ph and magnesium He says if field needs high rates of Esmorus potassium and lime these can applied as late autumn plow down If the application is left until spring it will be just another added chore in busy planting schedule Newman is guest William Newman Mimster of Agriculture and Food will be guest speaker at the Sim coe Count Federation Agricultures an nual meetlhg and banquet The meeting is Nov 10 at the Minesing Community Centre beginning at 630 rn The minister will be speaking on pre sent and future outlook for agriculture in Ontario There will be uestion and answer period following his tal Also at the annual meeting will be the fiction of township directors The ex tive for the 197778 term will be chosen at firstbornd meetinec Kg Night out for Margaret Margaret Trudeau estranged wife of Canadas prime minister dances with Bruce Bevins heir to the Perrier sparkling water fortune on the weekend in Studio 54 midtown New York City discotheque AP Photo Copyright 1977 New York Daily News Fire was most unusual arson trial witness He testified aspects of the Davey fire were unusual for residential fires saying the smoke was heavier than normal house fire smoke and the rapid spread of the fire wasnt normal PenetangMidiand Coach Lines employee first spotted the fire and aroused neighbours who called firefighters Ronald Grant testified he saw fire shooting out of basement window and used garden hose on the window with neighbours until firefighters arrived One neighbor Cathy Hlebka testified she had seen some unusual movement at the Davey house that night She said she saw halfton truck and car leave the Davey home at about 11 30 pm although no lights showed in the house She said the Daveys usually didnt return from their restaurant business in Angus before then and did not own halfton truck Crown attorney John Murphy told the five woman six man jury he intends to prove Davey set fire to his house under the crushing weight of heavy debts He said he plans to call insurance adjusters and evidence on Daveys mortgage to il lustrate his financial complications in addi tion to calling fire inspectors Murphy says his case against Davey is cir cumstantial based on number of incidents involving the fire and his financial situation that fit together to indicate his guilt He told the jury the crown is not required to show Davey had fraudulent intent in commit ting arson under the law although he con tinually stressed Davey was deeply in debt Through testimony Monday Murphy trac ed Daveys steps May 12 from cab ride to Barrie from his Brentwood Road business at 130am to his return at almost4am Barrie cab driver Roy Nunes testified when he drove Davey to Angus he commented on flashing lights in the Brentwood Road area and said Davey made no reply Nunes said Davey told him the lights were near his house but refused Nunes offer to drive him there Nunes said he dropped Davey off some six blocks away from the fire The trial resumed at 10 am this morning I=oocl storage Throughout Simcoe County silos in various shapes and sizes are found in farmers fields Silos are used for storage and on todays Page we take look at food storage with or without silo ExaminerPhoto Tickets for the annual meeting and ban quet are available from the directors in each township or at the Federation office 2731nnisfilSt Barrie Milk not natural NEW YORK AP Milk the perfect food the stuff that millions of mothers urge their kids to drink because it will make them strong tail and healthycould there possibl be anything wrong with it Not lust ibly argues Dr Frank Oski iatrician and department head at New York State University but defi nitei And he has set out to prove his case in starkly entitled Dont Drink Your Milk Cows milk is not natural Oski contends except for calves For humans especially infants and children cows milk is linked with irondeficiency anemia is cause of cramps vomiting and diarrhea can cause allergic reactions like nasal congestion psthma skin rash and chest infections in cluding bronchitis and may pla role in the origin of arteriosclerosis an heart at tacks His book is published by Wyden Books and written with reporter John Bell Firefighters resign BEAVERTON Ont CP Nineteen of 23 volunteer firemen in neighboring Brock resignations effective Jan to protest the placing of proposed new fire hall the district fire chief says Chief Carl Dennis said council decided to build on unsafe site adjacent to the town works garage and the outskirts of town He said fire trucks would have to con tend with traffic congestion on the towns twolane bridge Dennis said he and his men want the proposed fire hall to be built next to the 67 yearold municipal building in the town cen tre or on nearby municipal parking area Some residents objected to the t0wnhall site because the bui ding would cover part of small park Businessmen said they did not want the parking Space lost Beaverton is 32 Orillia Kenney out on bail SAINT JOHN NB CP John Edward Kenney c0nvicted last month 0f man slaughter in connection with jail fire that killed 21 prisoners was released on bail Monday prison sen nce The New Brunswick Supreme Court decision was made after Kenneys lawyer filed bail application Thursday Kenney was convicted who heard testimony about the June 21 fire in the cityjail Kenney he filed notice of Kenneys ap al Oct 11 with the Supreme Courts appea division 113th yourNo 241 Tuoaday Octobor 18 1977 ex 15° Per COQYlCerIQr Hot Doll moo 18 Puget miner serving barrie and simcoe county Terrorists commit suicide bid thwarted after ransom Unity plea in Queens speechtoday OTTAWA CH The last time Queen Elizabeth opened session of the Canadian Parliament Rene Levesque covered the event as commentator for the CBC Times have changed since 1957 Levesque is Quebec premier and when the Queen reads the speech from the throne today it will con tain an appeal for unity aimed as much at Le vesque as any other Canadian The speech will outline government in tentions in the third session of the 30th Parliament Althou the Queen will read the speecht is is usually task of the Cover norGeneral it is written by Prime Minister Trudeaus advisers The Queen will arrive at Parliament Hill in horsedrawn landau unless the weatherbad since she arrived Friday for ces use of limousine After 21gun salute and roar of jets over Parliament Hill she will enter the Senate to read the speech Members of Parliament and justices of the Supreme Court of Canada GovernorGeneral and Mme Jules Leger and host of dignitaries will be gathered in the red cham ber for the opening being broadcast live on television Later she and Prince Philip will dine in the Parliamentary Restaurant as guests of Com mons Speaker James Jerome DEPART WEDNESDAY The Royal couple leave for the Caribbean on Wednesday ending sixday Silver Jubilee visit in which emphasis was on the benefits of keeping Canada together as country iii That reminds me What time Is suppor msnde local IIIfOItVIo 13 entertainment county apart comics 17 claustflod 14 wpplomontt Kmart 12 Radio Shock have submitted their ilometres southeast of nding appeal Of his fiveyear Sept 20byajury lawyer Anthony Allman said Liver cancer cure HONG KONG AP Chinese doctors have deveIOped nine kinds of medicine that cure cancer of the liver and other serious diseases two Communist Hong Kong newspapers claimed Monday Ta Kung Pao and Wen Wei Po said Tientsin North China ha developed medicine called chin cer of the liver and has no harmful side ef fects The report said production of the drug has started grou of doctors in pan which cures can me still ex sdav from Andreas Baader shown here one of the jail ed leaders of West Germanys Baader committed suicide in his prison cell today Two other terrorists also committed suicide in their Meinhoi gang of terrorists cells Annexation costs soar Barries annexation costs have passed the quartermilliondollar mark with more still tocome Cit councils general committee approved two ills totalling $39000 Monday bringing total city spending on annexation to $26475130 That breaks down into $19617759 for the 49 day Ontario Municipal Board hearing on an nexation and $6857371 for the citys inch thick annexation report The city originally budgeted $80000 last year to cover annexation $45000 for the report and $35000 for the hearing Another $100000 was included in this years city budget Bills approved Monday were $30000 to an nexation lawyer James McCallums Toronto law firm and $9000 to Paterson Planning and Research The Paterson bill is final but the McCallum bill is onlv payment on account Payment of the latest bill would bring the total received by McCallums firm to $800 though the firm has yet to submit detailed bill for services rendered City clerk Ben Straughan said today it is impossible to say that McCallums firm has been paid throug any specific date Total municipal expenditures on annexa tion including payments by lnnisfil Vespra and Oro townships and Simcoe County coun cil now have topped $700000 with more bills to come The figure does not include expen ditures by number of major developers represented at the hearing Mrs Kathryn msby right and her daughter Mary Frances 17 leaves press conference late Monday night after ar rival of Bing Crosbys body at the Lon Angeles international Airport from Spain lller two sons liarry and Nathaniel were also at the press conference Funeral ser vices for the famed singer were held early Tuesday Crosby died of heart attack Friday in Madrid See story photo on Page AP Photo Crosby funeral today LOS ANGELES AP Some rt 0f ta Bing to come nex Thur pain Kathrvn Crosbv said as STUTTGART AP Two West German terrorists whose freedom was demanded by the hijackers of Lufthansa airliner were found dead in their prison cells today third died later of selfinflicted wounds and four th was in critical condition after trying to kill herself the justice ministry of Baden Wuerttemberg state announced The ministry said Andreas Baader leader of the BaaderMeinhof gang of terrorists and his mistress Gudrun Ensslin took their lives in their cells in the earlymoming hours The first announcement said two other BaaderMeinhof members JanCarl Raspe and lrmgard Moeller also attempted suicide and were in critical condition But later in the day the ministry announced that Raspe had died The four led the list of 11 terrorists in West German prisons whose freedom was deman ded by the kidnappers of industrialist Hanns Martin Schleyer and by the four hijackers of the West German airliner last Thursday RAIDS ENDS DRAMA The hijacking ended in East Africa early today with West German commando raid at the airport in Mogadishu Somalia in which three of the hijackers were killed the fourth was seriously wounded and the 86 surviving hostages were rescued Schleyer kidnap ed by Sept an arm of the BaaderMeinho gang called Red Ar my Faction still is missing His kidnappers threatened again to kill him unless their demands were met by last Sunday but nothing further has been heard from them Officials first rted that Baader and Miss Ensslin hang themselves while Raspe and Miss Moeller slashed their wrists Then an informed source reported Baader shot himself with 765mm pistol The Badeanerttemberg justice ministry denied this but later it announced that Baader and Raspe shot themselves Miss Ensslin hanged herself and Miss Moeller cut her wrist There was no explanation of how the two men were able to get istols Since an emergency antiterrorist ecree was issued several weeks they have been denied ac cess to their awyers and other private visitors Baader 33 MissEnssiin 36 and Raspe 32 were sentenced to life imprisonment in April for bombings in 1972 in which four US soldiers were killed Baaders cofounder of the BaaderMeinhof gang 41yearold Ulrike Meinhof hanged her self in her jail cell during the trial Miss Moeller was serving time for mem bership in criminal gang and also was awaiting trial on charges that she par ticipated in bombing attacks on the US Ar my European headquarters at Heidelberg on the police headquarters in Augsburg and on the home of federal judge in Karlsruhe Commando force flies home after rescuing hostages BONN AP West German commando force was flying home in trium from East Africa today after raid on ijacked Luf Pilots demand UN debate LONDON Reuter Leaders of world airline pilots called today for 48hour strike starting Tuesday to back demands for special debate in the United Nations General Assembly on the problem of hijacking This is the last chance to fix hijacking problems statement issued by the Inter national Federation of Airline Pilots Associations IFALPA said statement issued Monday by IFALPA ex pressed outrage over the killing of the captain of hijacked West German airliner and urged governments to call conference aimed at stopping air piracy Galoline plan attheready TORONTO CP Alastair Gillespie federal energy minister says an emergency gasoline rationing plan is ready any time we need it He said Sunday that the federal plan com pleted by the enrgy supplies allocation board ast year has been cleared with all the pro vinces so they can each implement their own listings of who would get first priority on gasoline He said motorists must learn to conserve gas or rationing might occur in the early 19808 the singers crucifixtop coffin arrived here for todays private uneral and burial Most of me doesnt realize yet that he wont be coming home Bing Crosbys wife said as she talked to reporters Monday night at Los Angeles International Airport after the coffin draped with grey cloth was removed from jetliner and taken to waiting hearse Services for Crosby who died after suf fering heart attack Friday in Madrid were to be held early today at St Pauls Roman Catholic Church in suburban West wood with burial following at Holy Cross Cemetery in Baldwin Hills Crosby was to be buried near his parents and first wife Dixie Lee who died of cancer in 1952 The grave is on hillside overlooking the graves of other family members about 150 yards inside the cemeterys entrance Bald win Hills is about 10 miles southwest of downtown Los Angeles Maury Foladare Crosbys press agent said the services and burial were to be limited to Crosbys family including four sons by his first marriage his brother and sister and several longtime employees Wins lawsuit TORONTO CP former prisoner at Oillhaven nitentiary in Kingston has been awarded 15000 and all legal costs in lawsuit against three guards from the prison John Dodge 37 was awarded $7500 in general damages and $7500 in punitive damages in decision handed down Mon day by Mr Justice Donald Keith of Ontario Supreme Court Dodge sued Thomas Bridger 37 of Napanee Ont Wayne McPeak 29 of Bath Ont and Thomas Perrault 49 of Am herstview Ont in connection with an in cident at the penitentiary Oct 1972 Dodge said the three guards assaulted him in his cell causing back injuries which led to Operations and spinal fusions and kept him in body cast for several months JUDGE CERTAIN in his written decision Mr Justice Keith said he has no doubt that the plaintiff was assaulted by all the defendants and ren dered unconscious in circumstances that cannot possibly be justified Wednesday to thansa airliner in which they rescued all 86 surviving hostages and killed three of the four hijackers Later in the night after the raid was an nounced three of the imprisoned West Ger man terrorists whose freedom the hijackers demanded committed suicide fourth terrorist on inc list also tried to kill herself and was in critical condition The Entebbest le rescue operation early today at Mogadis the ca ital of Somalia provided very serious esson for some people around the world on how to deal with terrorism said West German government spokesman President Carter congratulated the Bonn government for the courage of their decision to end the tieday hijacking without giving in to the hijackers demands Japanese Justice Minister Mitsuo Setoyama whose government met the demands of Japanese hijackers two weeks ago said the West German action showed how to prevent hijacking Eighty hostages arrived in Frankfurt today The six others remained in Mogadishu apparently because they were unable to travel Lufthansa spokesman said Somali officials said nine passengers and one commando were slightly injured in the 10 minute raid and the terrorist who survived woman was badly wounded Lufthansa the West German airline said one other passenger was taken to hospital in state of collapse But all the hostages left Mogadishu today for home Radio Somalia reported WOMAN SURVIVES The surviving hijacker the lone woman in the Arabicspeaking gang remained in Mogadishu hospital officials said The identities and nationalities of the terrorists remained in doubt But Somali In formation Minister Abduqaldir Salad in dicated that the three bodies were being sent to West Germany Defends police action COLLINGWOOD Ont CP Police Chief Carl Johnston said Monday he does not care what members 0f the Ontario Press Council say about police cooperation with the news media in gathering information about the death of sevmweekpld baby giri iast July The press council said Friday that the news media did not obtain accurate in formation about the death of Mary Elizabeth Patton because police re fused to cooperate The council said it made the decision af ter reviewing one of the recommendatiOns of coroners jury that investigated the death The jury said the news media should do everything possible to obtain accurate information before blication ltsaidthechild tighter of Terr Patton and Beatrice Caines was initially entified as Ms Patton Elizabeth Caines and Mary izabeth Caines The council said in letter to Dr HB Cotnam chief coroner for Ontario that it examined the news stories and concluded the news media tried in this case but failed due to the refusal of police to comment dont care what they say will con tinue to work as have in the past Chief Johnston said will release infarmation when see that it will not hamper our investigations Cut trees fined LONDON Ont CP An area farmer convicted of violating Middlesex County bylaw for cuttiéig down trees on his own pro perty was fi $500 Monday with the op ion of three months in jail Axel Frandsen Rance of the peace said he was im ing maximum penalty on Anthony sake 43 of Arkona because Veeke had disregard ed bylaw forbidding the clearing He said Veeke was told about the bylaw after he began to cut the trees but that he continued to permit them to be removed on was iti sites few showers overnight in the Barrie area Clouti Wednesday with clearing later in the Low overnight to aunts