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wirednescinalflyt WOMEN Students literacy levels report released recently by Canadian umversities painted bleak icture of the literacy level of Canadian stu ents In0ntario the University of Waterloo ad ministered freshman English Proficiency test in September 42 per cent of the 1259 freshmen tested failed Reasons for poor writing skills by students were met with various reactions by teachers and administrators in Simcoe County Story photos on Page Ll Welladjusted children NEW YORK AP Children whose parents both work and who spend part of each day with babysitters can grow up just as well adjusted as children whose mothers stay home all day Philadelphia psy chologist told seminar on twocareer families this week Thats because when mothers are home they really want to spend quality time with their children said Margaret Baker psychologist who teaches at Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia Research shows that even the best meaning adult can only spend maximum of six hours day in meaningful interaction with children The mother who doesnt work spends lot of time with extra activities such as volunteer work and tennis and of ten doesnt feel the pressing need to spend time with her child Mrs Baker said the minimum amount of time mother should spend with young child is two hours day and lot more time on weekends Movement not dead WINNIPEG CP The womens movement is tired but not dead Kay Sigur jonsson executive assistant with the Fed eration of Women Teachers Associations of Ontario said this week She told Canadian Teachers Federation it Slipstream grimace Sgt Tony Hughes parachute instructor for the Rhodesian light infantrys fire force teams leans out of the exit hatch of his aircraft into the wind as he watches his troopers jump relatively short 500 feet out of the plane travelling at no mph AP Laserphoto Put over one week Two Barrie men charged with armed rob bery and possession of weapon dangerous to the public peace appeared in court Tues day to have their case put over one week Brock Whyte 28 and Marshall McGrat ton 23 were held in custody during the court appearance after both were refused bail at separate hearings The two were charged in connection with an incident Oct 27 at the Clarkson Hotel at the corner of Dunlop and Mulcaster Streets Police were called to the hotel at about 1035 pm with report that two men had pulled gun on man and taken small amount of money from him Whyte was arrested at the scene and pellet gun was seized by police while McGratton was arrested Oct 28 at Duniop Street East apartment He also faces charges of carrying con cealed weapon break enter and theft and possession of stolen goods Appears in court 29yearoid Barrie man who kept police at bay for two hours Nov with shotgun after allegedly holding it at his wifes head appeared in Barrie court Tuesday William Russell Canning appeared in custody to have his case set over one week while he arranges for lawyer Canning was denied bail at hearing Friday Canning faces charges of possession of weapon dangerous to the public peace and dangerous use of firearm He was arrested by members of the Barrie city police tactical squad in the early morning hours of Nov lat his 106 Henry St home after domestic squabble Several guns and knives were seized upon his arrest say police as well as ammuni tion Trial date set Two Orilliaarea men charged with the theft of parts of the plane which crashed in to the CKVRTV tower Sept will be on trial Feb 17 in provincial court in Barrie Edgar Neil MacPhadan 21 and Shane MacPhadan 22 brothers from RR Orillia appeared briefly in court Tuesday to set the date Case set over An American prison escapee charged with firstdegree murder in the death of child whose body was found at Springwater Park earlier this year appeared in Barrie court Tuesday Richard Ra Carter 33 appeared briefly in custody to ve his case set over to Nov 22 to set date for his preliminary hearing Carter is charged in the murder of Jaime Triston Shearer who disappeared in July 1976 Police say Carter married the childs mother in Vancouver last June and the cou ple was in Toronto in July and August of the same car Canyer escaped from the Florida state rison system in 1973 where police say he llad been serving term for manslaughter since 1969 deadline Gown of taffeta This black taffeta gown with lace slip was among fashions shown by designer Bill Blass during show in New York this week AP Laserphoto workshop on the status of women that the womens movement has to organize take new directions and find new solutions and truths The next time someone tells me Youve Vcome long way baby Im going to punch them in the nose Ms Sigurjonsson said The dramatic battles are history she said and the long slow slog now is begin ning Rural Hydro rates TORONTO CP Ontario Hydro has an nounced it will raise its rural rates by an average 57 per cent Jan When the new rates go into effect residential rural customer whose monthly bill is $35 will pay $175 more Hydro chairman Robert Taylor said in statement Monday the increase necessary to cover rising costs would have been 98 per cent but for extra revenue created by higher than expected operating results in 1977 Almost half of the improvement in the 1977 financial position resulted from an in crease in export 51lt8 to the and reduction in the cmts of administration operation and maintenaixe This extra revenuewnow estimated at $108 million will be allocated among the 352 municipal utilities Ontario Hydros direct industrial customers and the rural retail system Taylor said The rural retail Systems share current iy estimated at approximately $17 million Under the antiinflation guidelines established for Hydro by the provincial government this amount must be returned to the customers Drinking age resolution move in the provincial legislature to raise Ontarios drinking age to 19 will have to go forward without the support of Harrie city council Councils general committee refused this week to endorse resolution from the Markham branch of the Ontario Womens Christian Temperance Union calling for the minimum age to be raised to 19 from the present 18 Opponents of the resolution noted that 18 yearolds are given other adult privne es and said it would be inconsistent to for id them to drink Aid Janice Laking said the drinking age should not be raised unless the age of ma jority were raised at the same time However the resolution was not totally without support on council Aid Ernie Rot man said drinking is tremendous pro blem in local schools and raising the drink ing age to 19 would get students out of the local watering holes at lunch time private members bill by Remo Mancini LEssex South calling for the drinking age to be raised to 19 is scheduled to be debated in the legislature Thursday 10th planet CalTech Pasadena astronomer Charles Kowal 35 displayed print from plate made through the 48inch Schmidt telescope at Palomar showing location of what may be his find of 10th planet No positive decision has been made whether it is planet or something else The object is between 100 and 40¢ miles in diameter and is orbiting the sun between Saturn and Uranus AP Laserphoto weather Rain Thursday and continuing mild Lows overnight6 to Highs Thursday 10 to 13 Tax cuts proposal not responsible Chretien rejects ECC caII OTTAWA CP call by the Economic Council of Canada for personal income and sales tax cuts totalling $3 billion to stimulate economic growth was quickly rejected Tuesday by Finance Minister Jean Chretien as not responsible The taxcuts proposal suggested in the councils annual report was coupled with gloomy prediction of another five years of high unemployment persistent inflation large international deficits and slow economic growth George Post acting chairman of the coun cil federallyestablished advisory and research agency said the tax cuts were proposed as means of stimulating consumer spending and economic yowth without in flationary sideeffects The council suggested personal income tax cuts at the federal and provincial levels to 113th year No 261 Wodesday November 1977 15° Par Copy Carrier Home Delivery 90° Weekly 44 Page the examner serving barrie and simcoe county OMBs annexation tailing $2 billion or about $200 per taxpayer and onecent cut in provincial sales taxes with value of about $1 billion it said the govemments corporation and rsonal tax cuts announced in the budget ast March 31 which were repeated and ex panded Oct 20 by Chretien were not enough to stimulate growth ADVICE UNUSUAL The advice by the 18member council which lost some prestige when labor representatives walked out in March 1976 to protest wageandprice controls was unusual The council generally submits review of the current state of the economy and its future outlook but stops short of offering specific proposals And it may have suffered another blow by Chretiens quick rebuff Tuesday Chretien replying to questions in the Com mons said it would not be responsible now for the government to try to buy its way out of its economic troubles and that the onus of job creation should be on the private sector After his Oct 20 minibudget speech Chretien said the govemments budgetary deficit this fiscal year would rise to more than $9 billion compared to $64 billion in the year ending last March 31 FEW TAKERS Chretien had also offered the provinces revenues to cover half their losses if they reduced retail sales taxes but he said then there were few takers The council report entitled Into the 1980s said there were fundamental economic prob lems harming the economy and reducing Canadas ability to compete internationally Buy symbol The Ontario Ministry of Agriculture has developed the Foodland Ontario symbol as part of Slmillion promotional campaign for urging Ontario consumers to buy Ontariogrown produce The symbol will be shown in food stores and restaurants where provinciallyproduced food is eaten or sold Photo decision may not take effect Jan PCs termed crybabies OTTAWA CP Prime Minister Trudeau called Progressive Conservative MPs cry babis Tuesday for trying to get him to with draw his allegation that they monitored their own offices electronically Trudeau reiterated his suspicions about the Wireless microphone found hidden in chair ct 31 in Conservative MP Elmer MacKays private office Commons Spaaker James Jerome might call police into the investigation today MacKay Central Nova briefed Jerome Tuesday night on the incident Trudeau reading from newspaper reports quoted MacKay as speculating that the Rt MP security service might have put the microphone in his office The fact is that the RCMP was dragged in the dirt by the honorable member from Cen tral Nova Trudeau maintained in the Com mons Comervatives had demanded that Trudeau back up his allegation that they had phoney bugs planted in their offices He made the remark last Thursday went to the Bahamas for the weekend and returned to the Com mons Tuesday Gerald Baldwin PC Peace River noted that Justice Minister Ron Basford had said that whoever placed the device was guilty of criminal offence 28 deer shot so far by PM in bug claim PIERRE TRllHIAl still suspicious CFB Borden deer hunt ends today CFB BURDEN Staff The deer hunt at Canadian Forces Base Borden will end today at sundown As of pm Tuesday 28 deer had been shot by some 50 hunters taking part Protestors from Tosorontio Township upset because the hunt does not include the whole township only the area inside the base are continuing their fight to have the hunt stopped MPP George McCague was contacted by Raps Queens expense raise LONDON AP The Labor government has given the Queen an 18percent increase in her expense allowance running the risk of angering the workers it is trying to hold to 10 percent pay raises The first adverse reaction came from Willie Hamilton the Scottish member of the House of Commons who has made career out of criticizing the Queen and her finances He termed the increase absolutely outrageous and indefensible Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey said Tuesday night in written reply to question from Hamilton that the Civil List the govemments allowance to the Royal Family is being increased £315000 $636142 this year Of this £290000 $585655 is going to the 51 yearold Queen Healey said bringing her allowance this year to £19 million about $3837 million It has risen more than £500000 in the last two years The Queens allowance ays the expenses of her palaces and her royalactivities and the salaries of her staff The chancellors statement stressed that the additional ap propriation was an increase in operating ex penses not pay raise However because of the Queens rivate taxexempt fortune conservative esti mated at £60 million about $121 million this distinction may be ignored by millions of in flationbruised workers who are bridling un der the governments antiinflationary ceiling of to per cent on wage increases now in its third year The countrys firemen have called their fir st national strike in history next Monday for 30percent increase The coal miners are threatening to strike for 90percent in crease BULLETIN Gerry Watson 44 owner of Barrie Speed way died this morning Watson is reported to have collapsed at the Barrie YMYWCA No additional information was available at press time one of the protestors to look into the matter but Dan Needles executiveassistant says the MPP has asked Ross Milne Federal MP for PeelDufferinSimcoe to look into the matter Borden is Department of National Defence property and is therefore private Unce permission is given by the ministry of natural resources for the hunt its out of their hands as far as controlling who has access to the area Needles said The ministry oversees the hunt making sure all their guidelines are followed he said He said he Tosorontio hunters question as to why the ministry was sanctioning hunt on the base and not in the rest of the township is legitimate one but federal land is restricted area Mrs Irene China Lisle who took part in the demonstration at the Lisle barrier Mon day says the township residents are not giv ing up Whats good for one side is good for the other she said More on Page local 17 entertainment 12 Ilfoatylo apart 14 oomleo 28 clanMod 24 to 27 Supplements woolworth ordlnald cash and carry By JOHN BRUCE Examiner Staff Reporter There is betterthaneven chance the On tario Municipal Boards decision on Barries annexation may not take effect Jan The decision which gave the city 13850 acres of land in lnnisfii Township and 1100 acres in Vespra Township is being appealed by the townships The appeals may not be resolved until sometime in 1978 lnnisfii will ask the Ontario divisional court Dec for leave to appeal the OMB decision to the Ontario Court of Appeal citing errors in law contained within the decision If leave to appeal is granted the township will have to prepare and present its case and the court will have to rule on the appeal within 18 working days to meet the Jan date set by the OMB for its decision to come into effect Bridges assistant registrar of the divisional court said lawyers involved in the appeal request want the divisional court to hear the appeal immediately if leave is granted instead of sending the matter to the Court of Appeal However he said it is the usual pro cedure of the divisional court to send OMB appeals to the Court of Appeal Ratepayers in Vespra and lnnisfii Townships who will become Barrie residents when annexation takes effect have petitioned the Ontario cabinet for new OMB hearing Lewis secretary of the legislative committee of cabinet said Tuesday the peti tions have been received and committee members notified that they will be coming up for their consideration He said all petitions to cabinet go to the Sigislative committee when they are receiv Petitions are forwarded to the attomey generals office to determine their legality and then go to all ministries affected for their comments The ministries return the peti tions to the committee with recommenda tions and the committee studies the petitions and ministry comments before making re commendation to the cabinet Lorne Henderson minister without port folio and chairman of cabinets legislative committee said today the committee may need up to year to get the information it needs to deal properly with the petitions If the committee wants more information it could take anywhere from one week month or year he said Though he has not seen the petitiom yet Henderson said he hopes the committee can deal with them within two months But Im just preparing you for the worst he added dont want to sign my name to something just because someone says should Hender son said have to be convinced myself and have to be able to convince my cabinet colleagues He also said if the petitions are not frivolous he may decide to talk to the par ticipants in the annexation issue before mak ing decision The legislative committee will examine the petitions next week Henderson said Cabinet must make decision on the peti tions within 38 working days if annexation is to take effect as scheduled Vespra clerk Dennis Wilson said Ontario treasurer Darcy McKeough told him and Vespra Reeve Alan Johnston that he would do everything he could to expedite the review of the ratepayers petitions Reeve Johnston said Tuesday that he came away from meeting with McKeough Oct 26 with the feeling that the petitions would be dealt with by the end of this year McKeough could not be reached for com ment Tuesday However Tom McMillan the treasurers special assistant said McKeough told him it is before the cabinet and therefore he cannot discuss it any further Must await cabinet move before final order issued The Ontario Munici Board OMB can not issue its final or implementing Bar ries annexation until the Ontario cabinet decides whether to uphold the boards Oct annexation decision or order new hearing We cant do anything until the matter is settled by cabinet said Alex Arreil chair man of the OMB panel which awarded Barrie 13850 acres of lnnisfii Township land and 1100 acres in Vespra Township He also said the board would not issue the implementation order until the Ontario Supreme Court hears innisfils arguments hat the OMB decision contained errors in aw In its decision the board gave Barrie the land to accommodate 125000 people by mna provincial government policy Arreil said the implementation order would consist solely of the date when Barrie takes over the land Other issues such as electoral wards in the annexed areas and the rate at which the perty taxes of former Vespra and lnnisfii ratepayers will increase to current city levels will have to be decided at subsequent hearing Arreil said Area leaders reactions mixed News of possible delay in implementing annexation drew mixed reactions from the leaders of lnnisfii and Vespra Townships and Barrie lnnisfii Reeve William Gibbins said Tues day he has favored delaying annexation beyond Jan 1978 since the OMB deci sion was announced We said right along that the Jan date is unrealistic regardless of which way the 8p peais go he said There are so many things to be ironed out between Barrie and In nisfi Reeve Gibbins said township department heads are preparing 1978 budget estimates based on serving lnnisfii as it is now and as it will be after annexation The estimates will be submitted to council by Nov 15 Vespra Reeve Alan Johnston said Tuesday night if there is delay id hope theyd wait for the start of anot er ear because he forsees budgeting difficulties for the township and Barrie if annexation takes ef fect in the course of fiscal year BarrieiMayor Ross Archer said today that delay in annexation will cause problems for city de artments providing services in the annex areas But if there is delay well have to cope with it he said The mayor said city departments such as the police fire and roads departments have come to grips with the problems of pro viding services in the annexed areas He agreed with Reeve Johnston that the start of new fiscal year is the best time to implement annexation To my knowledge there has been no hint that it would be at any other time he said WILLIAM GIBBINS datc unrealistic