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Ln Hitting high note Sheila Brennan of the Mello Blends hits high note during final practice Tuesday before the group heads to the international barbershop singing competition in Ottawa The Mello Blends will be competing Saturday against 32 other groups Last year they finished llth and are hoping to place in the top 10 this year Examiner Photo TORONTO CP Girls should be allowed play in the Ontario Minor Hockey Associ ation OMHA if their skills are comparable the Ontario Human Rights Commission said Tuesday The commission said the refusal of the Here comes Charles now Mama What if he doesnt have glass slipper with him inside local entertainment 22 lifestyle L1 sports comics 30 classified 28 to 29 Wednesday bier Couldnt find lab The story of Anne Martingale is the same stor of countless other teachers college gxadluatesflshe couldnt find teaching position with any of the school boards she applied to One of Miss Martingales drawbacks was that she was well qualified academically but had no practical teaching experience And because of the large teachers surplus and diminishing school enrolments principals are able to be very selective in whom they choose for staff members dont know why teachers college accepted all of us when they knew there wouldnt be teaching positions for us Miss Martingale says For Miss Martingales story see Page Li $20500 donation $20500 donation to Royal Victoria Hospital from the Barrie Cancer SoCiety will be used to purchase equipment for use in the education and diagnosis of cancer ac cording to Ed Tschirhart 197778 campaign chairman The money which came from accum ted interest of the combined estates of i3 and Mrs Hugh Quackenbush will be used to purchase audio visual equipment as well as oolonasco and gastroscope Dr Quackenbus was member of the Royal Victoria Hospital staff fora number of years and both and his Wife died of cancer Tschirhart says the couple left substantial estate and that the money will be used in the research diagnosis and treatment of cancer The estate which is being held in trust was left to the Canadian Cancer Society rie branch Ballione from the fund has already been us ed to urnish lounge at the lodge of Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto Should allow girls to play in OMHA rights commission OMHA to register an 11yearold girl as member of Huntsville Atom AllStars is contravention of the provinces Human Rights Code The boys only rule of the OMHA pur suant to which its refusal of services and facilities was made and which was offered to justify it ithe refusal cannot stand in the face of the provisions of the coder said the decision handed down by Mary liberts who conducted the inquiry The commission ordered the hockey association to apologize to tail Cummings of Huntsville and invite her to try out for the so called townrep team It was the associations refusal to register lail as player on the town team that promp led her mother Dorothy Cummings to comr plain to the commission If Gail is found to meet relevant standards of competence for the town team she should be accepted player the decision said Gail goalie played for house league team in Huntsville before trying out for the town team in the Atom division for players under 11 Coach Barry Webb selected her for the team only to have the association refuse to register the girl In its hearings on the question the com mission was told that Gail met all requirements for the team In addition to playing hockey the hearing was told she also takes part in track and field swims figure skates and plays defence for an allstar lacrosse team The commission rejected suggestions that facilities are not adequate for girl players The commission noted that Gail customarily dressed at home or in the washroom and did not share the dressing room with the other players until moments before the game when the coach was giving lastminute instruc tions Some witnesses said having boys and girls play hockey together would have harmful moral and social implications Selfcreation Dianne Preston of Perth Australia is all aglow In this silver plastic outfit that she designed and made herself Apart from dressmaking she lndulges in an unusual hobby she imports carnivorous plants from places like South America and Japan AP Photo Sale shows profit $2000 profit from recent craft and ourmet cooking sale held in the hospital obby was reported by Gerry Morton presi dent of the Royal Victoria Hospital Aux iliary Mrs Morton gave her report during Mon days meeting of the hospitals board of trustees held at the hospital serving ba 113thryear No 252 Wednesday November 1977 15 Per Coov Carrler Home Delivery 90° Weekly 40 Page the exa Brezhnev proposes halt rrie and simcoe county miner to Ablasts weapons MOSCOW Reuter In dramatic rever sal of Soviet policy Soviet president Leonid Brezhnev today proposed suspension of all nuclear explosions and an international halt to production of nuclear weapons Previously the Soviet Union has insisted that peaceful nuclear explosions are vital for major development projects should not be banned and that prOVision for them should be written into any treaty Brezhnev made the proposals in speech to the opening of twoday joint session of the Communist partys central committee the Supreme Soviet and the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation marking the 60th an niversary of the Bolshevik revolution He said international relations are at crossroads leading either to peace or to an evermore dangerous balancing on the edge of catastrophe Brezhnev said the Soviet Union wants negotiations on total test ban treatyreplacing 1963 accord barring all but underground testsbrought to suc cessful conclusion Brahnev said it would be crime to miss OTTAWA ICP Concern about possible RCMP security service activity peared Tuesday to be spreading beyond Que and parliamentary offices In Ottawa New Democratic Party Leader Ed Broadbent said he suspected the RCMP may have been involved in 1962 breakin at the partys national office here Files were rifled In Edmonton AttorneyGeneral Jim Foster took with grain of salt federal denials that his mail had been opened his telephones tap ped and his offices bugged Foster Progressive Conservative who last spring ordered royal commission into policeincluding RCMP handling of an in vesti ation said he may not have been of ficial bugged But he appeared to suspect unofficial surveillance of him was un dertaken by police without the knowledge of federal SolicitorGeneral Francis Fox In Quebec City Justice Minister Marc Andre Bedard told the National Assembl he found it extremely troubling that the MP had copied Parti Quebecois membership lists an operation Fox has said was done without warrant and may have involved breach of property law WAS TROUBLEI Bedard said he was more troubled by com ments Fox and Prime Minister Trudeau that Parliament should make such behavior by the RCMP legitimate in the interests of national security In Toronto Ontario NDP Leader Stephen Lewis called the RCMP dumb nuts more dangerous than the organizations they investigate They are quite dumb about the nature of radical and progressive forces They do not understand social change Lewis said in an interview Back in Ottawa Nova Scotia Conservative Elmer MacKay was still trying to find who planted lowpower wirekss microphone in New RVH proiect Royal Victoria Hospital Barrie is taking part in an experimental helicopter ambulance service This pilot project is now in effect and is expected to be used by the hospital in an emergency requiring such service Cecil Cook chairman of the Management Committee of the Hospital Board of Trustees said the proect with tab of $800000 is being pick up by government is on an experimental basis for one year It is not considered that this service will be used by this hospital to any significant degree he said Case put over Two Barrie men charged with armed rob bery and session of weapon dangerous to the pub ic peace appeared in court to face the charges Tuesday Brock Whyte 28 and Marshall McGrat ton 23 were in custody during their ap pearance in provincial court Their case was put over to Tuesday by assistant crown attorney Tom Cleary The two were arrested in connection with an incident Thursday at the Clarkson Hotel at the corner of Dunlop and Mulcaster Streets Police were called to the hotel at about 1035 with report that two men had pulle gun on man and taken small amount of money from him Wh to was arrested and pellet gun was seiz at the scene while McGratton was arrested Friday near midnight at Dunlop Street East apartment He also faces charges of break enter and theft and possession of stolen goods McGratton will be given bail hearing Friday at pm Whyte was denied bail at hearing Friday Diet confined to house OTTAWA CP Former prime minister John Diefenbaker has been confined to his home since last Saturday with what doctors describe as chest condition Diefenbakers office said today it is not certain how long the 82yearold former Progressive Conservative leader will have to remain at home for five the opportunity to establish genuine peace and he implicitly accused the United States of res onsibility for the continuing arms race an for the development of new weapons of mass destruction Much of Brezhnevs 90minute address was devoted to the development of the Soviet Union since the revolution and the position of the world Communist movement He disclosed that this years Soviet grain harvest would be only 194 million metric tons figure immediately described by Western experts as disappointing It is 19 million met ric tons below the official target and is cer tain to raise import needs Brezhnev Soviet president for 13 years and Communist party chairman since May im plicitly criticized some of the policies espoused by the Eurocommunist parties of Western Europe many of whose repre sentatives were in the audience in the Palace of Congresses HARM MOVEMENT And he asserted to loud applause from hun dreds of Soviet officials and proMoscow for eign guests that proletarian in Broadbent says he suspected RCMP involved in office spa1 El IlltfiliiPlNI Nli files rifled an armchair in his office It was found Mon day and led to sweep of some other offices at the request of MPs Ray Hnatyshyn Pt Saskatmnvlliggar suggested that Tommoiis Speaker James le rome also authorize sweeps of the homes and home riding offices of Mis for wiretaps and bugs The highlevel chorus followed revelations in recent days that the RCMP burned renovated barn near Montreal in the spring of 1972 to prevent meeting between Quebec AMSTERDAM AP Maurits Iaran sas kidnappers released the Dutch multi millionaire unharmed early today after payment of $4 million in ransom police said The said the gang who held Caraiisa ys were common criminals not political terrorists Caransa who controls hotels real estate and other enterprises valued at more than $40 million was put out of car in down town Amsterdam police spokcsman Bob Hoornstra said The 61yearold man told passing woman who he was and she took him to police headquarters in taxi Caransa was reported in good shape physically but dazed after his five days in captivity breakin Caralnsa left is congratulated by friend Dutch multimiliionaire released by captors took him home to Vinkeveen south of The Hague the ransom was delivered when and how it was demand and who paid it by four or five persons as he left an Am sterdam club after playing bridge Anonymous telephone calls to Dutch newspapers and authorities claimed the ab duction was carried out by terrorist groups including the West German Red Army Fac tion and South Moluccan nationalists But when no after several days the belief grew that it was kidnapping for money only ternationalisma term no longer used by many parties cannot be abandoned without causing harm to the world revolutionary movement Citing China as an example he declared that Peking had aligned itself with the for ces of reaction in the world arena The Chinese peoples Socialist gains have been gravel endangered At this point Chinas newlyarrived am bassador to Moscow Wang Yuping rose from his seat among other diplomats and stalked from the hall Brezhnevs speech was the first event in week of festivities which have attracted Com munist and leftist officials from all but han dful of countries notably China Albania and Cambodia After the twoday Kremlin meeting Soviet leaders and their foreign guests will go to Leningrad formerly the Russian capital of Petrograd where the first shots of the rev olution were fired in 1917 They will return to Moscow for the highlight of the anniversary week the annual Nov parade through Red Square terrorists and Black Panthers from the United States took copied and returned Par ti Quebecois membership lists Jan 1973 without warrant or permission and may have stolen dynamite from an eastend Montreal plant in 1973 These incidents tied in with the one that started the whole thingthe October 1972 raid also without warranton the offices of leftwing news agency in Montreal That raid left the news agency complaining to JeanPierre Goyer then federal solicitor general Jerome Choquette then Quebec justice minister and Montreal Mayor Jean Drapeau that federal provincial and city police had broken into the agencys offices Burned inn says officer MONTREAL Pi RCMP agents burned down rural inn five years ago to head off scheduled meeting between members of the Front de Liberation du Quebec and the US Black Panthers says one of the men iii volved Sgt Claude Brodeur testifying Tuesday at provincial inquiry said the Mounties bur ned the building because they had been unable to infiltrate the FLQ Cell or to plant an electronic bug in the inn housed in con vertod barn in Ste AnnevdelaRociielle 85 kilometres east of here Brodeur said he and three other officers in volved were part of special mobile group under the command of Staff Sgt Donald Mc Cleery since dismissed from the force after an investigation of his ties to Montreal businessman with alleged underworld links His wife his daughter and several friends The spokesman refused to disclose how Caransa was forced into car last Friday political demands were received both she and her husband were unemployed LEONID BREZHNEV Soviet policy reversal Warm words from Levesque PARIS CP Quebec Premier Rene Levesque today had warm words for past present and future FrancoQuebec relations as he opened threeday official visit to France Nothing can prevent us from feeling close to France which was the first to un deistand Levesque said shortly after his arrival from the provincial city of Metz Levesque said his visit which will include talks with French Premier Raymond Barre had special character By getting to know each other well he told his hosts we have reached point where we can say everything to each other as true friends have come to tell you what we have done and where we hope to go shall explain to you how we see our future and am sure France is not indifferent to our collective project FrancoQuebec relations have been those of two equal peoples Quebec is more than province formed from one of the peoples making up the Canadian federal state he said GREET VISITOR Levesque was greeted at Orly airport by senior French government officials led by Barre The airports main reception lounge was decorated with Canadian Quebec and French flags and detachment of Republican Guards paraded past the visiting premier The Quebec premiers visit is being given lavish coverage by the French news media The conservative newspaper Le Figaro devoted an entire page today to the visit un der the headline Frances Second Yes to Free Quebec Theres still no progress reported in strike by six workers at Central Optical Inc on Morrow Road now in its eighth week Spokesmen for both sides in the dispute said today no talks are scheduled The workers members of Optical and Plastics Technicians Local 67 went out Sept 12 in dispute over union security The union working toward its first con tract at the plant wants the Rand formulaunder which all plant workers pay union dues while actual union member ship remains optionalincluded in the con tract The company has refused Both sides say money is not an issue in the disnute Stole to feed baby lsyearold Elmvalearea woman told provincial court judge Tuesday she stole merchandise from department store in Barrie to sell for food for her baby son Nancy Joyce Fountain said she needed money to feed her ltrmonthold son because She pleaded guilty to charge of theft un der $200 Mrs Fountain told Judge Norman Nadeau she and her husband were turned down by the county welfare office after her ffusband refused an dfer of job at 82 In our My husband refused the job because it offered so little money she testified but when welfare contacted the employer he told them different story and we were refused welfare Her husband has been jobless for two months said Mrs Fountain while her ef forts to find work failed because she was un trained Judge Nadeau set sentencing on the mat ter over to Dec and requested pre sentence report on the couple situation weather Mostly cloudy Thursday with showers be nning later in the day continuing very firfitd Lows overnight to Highs Thursday 18