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H2 Yllr No By JUDY ILAVlN The CANADIAN PRESS In most parts of Canada cele brations marking the New Year often were exuberant but police generally had little to do Police departments across the country reported that the num ber of impaired drivers and traffic accidents was lower than in previous years Three traffic Crashes through ice main drowns ORILLIA Ont CPLThomas Harrington 35 of Brechin 0pL was killed Wednesday when the car he was driving collided math tractortrailer on Highway 12 five miles south of here Swiss firm lands TTC contract To hold lottery foruhpmg buyers Brechin man killed in crash ORILLIA Ont CFRobert Edmund Moon 32 cottager from Pickering Ont was drowned Thursday when the snowmobile l1gewt1s driving went through the ice of Lake Simooe if EightMile om TORONTO OPSwiss Industrial 00 of Bern Switzerland has been awarded contract to build 10 prohotype units of light rail vehicles deveJCxped for the Toronto Transit Commission TTC was announced today IT WAS 12 midnight at the Barrie Curling Club as guests joined hands in circle to DUBLIN ReuberA 36hour hunger strike by 90 Provisumal Irish Republic Army IRA prisoners at Portaloise prison ended may with firm refusal by the Irish government to meet the mimrs demamt for better conditions IRA hunger strike flop HAMILTON cmAIotwry will be held Jan 20 to choose buyers for 280 homes in Hamilton and Stoney Creek for sale under the Home Ownersmr Made Easy plan the Ontario Housing Corp OHC announced hoday SWANSEA Wales Amfirivors licences valid Vfor 50 years or until age 70 went on sae today all over Britain the national Driver and Vehicle Llcensing Centre announced at its headquarters Driving licencgs good for years LISBON ReuberA bomb was hurled from speeding car today at the Oporto headquarters of republican guards who shot dead bhree ldtist demonstrators Thursday night No injuries were reported 150 holiday death in CHICAGO lAPIhe New Years holiday weekend traffic death toll across the United States continued to mount today with winter weather affecting driving conditions over Wide area Ni am 150 persons had been reported killed Vatican denies Pope taking rest Leftists hurl bomb at guard HQ ISTANBUL Turkey MLA DClo jetlineKwith 380 passengers and 13 crew members landed 20 feet short of the runaway an Istan Two passengers suffered minor injuries airport VATICAN CITY APThe Vatican denied today reports um Pope Paul visibly tired at his New Years Day appearance would put aside his work and take rest following hectic Christmas week schedule See earlier story on page Plane undershoois runway iniured CAPSULE NEWS EXAMINER TELEPHONES Circulation 7286539 Classified Advertising 7282414 Au Other Departments 7266537 Quiet ushering of New Year report Barrie area police Exuberant across nation The provincial police detach ment in Barrie laid its last im paired driving charge There was some horn honking and bell ringing but 1976 did not come in with loud crash City and area police said the New Years holiday was quiet in most parts of Simcoe Coun ty The police did respond to one serious accident at 211 am New Years Day at the 13211 Line and Highway 11 in Ihnisfil Minor injuries including cuts and bruises were suffered by im Wednesday alrmEt 24 hours beiore 1976 arrived fatalities were reported in his snowmobile collided survey by The Canadian Press van of how 1976 dawned in Canada VIVhe annual Ncw Yeal However in Quebec four per sons died in ma fires Thursday and two men described by po lice as emale impersonatns were stabbed to death New Years Eve in Montreal apart ment WIVn Ontario 19yearold man was killed in Thunder Bay when sing Auld Lang Syne to wish goodbye to 1975 and hello to 1976 The party on New Years One vehicle driven by Helen ik Anthony of Sandycove Acr es had an estimated $1800d7ao magc while the other operated by Mazerolle of Bernick Drive Barrie had an estimat ed $500 in damage must of the eight people in the two car collision Barrie city poTice were busy during the holiday answering bout 10 calls or minor vehicle accidents These included acci dents on Sunnidale Roed Brad ford Street Meadowland Avcnv 1w Downsview Drive at the Barrie Plaza and on Victoria Avsnue THewpolice seized one set of The annual New Years stark derby was close this year sevenpound Iiiounce boy born at midnight Wednesday night in Montreal was the first baby born in Canada in 1976 based on local times The child is the son of Mr and Mrs Jean Lau But three babies were born 10 seconds after mmnight six pound l4ounce giri was born in Leduc Alta south of Edmon ton The mother is Mrs Dennis Riehl 19 of Rolly View Alta sevenpound ollzounce boy was born in Penticton BC to Mr and Mrs Robert Bonbhoux Mr and Mrs Earl Small of Coquita lam BC welcomed an eight pound fourounce boy rin GIRL 1N SASKATCHEWAI Mr and Mrs Mike Doro shcnko of theCanora district of 30435 First baby here born at 502 pm Eve was one qf many held in pictures see page Exam the any for residents For more iner Photo Results at medical tests in dicate that Mrs Eisenhower had apparently contracted viral infection which is now re sponding to treatment hos pital spokesman aid WASHINGTON AP Mamie Eisenhower is showing improvement in her battle against the viral condition which caused her to be admit ted to Walter Reed Army Medi cal Centre bulletin issued Thursday by the hospital also said the widow of former president Dwight Eis enhower is alert and resting comfortabiy Mrs Eisenhower is recovering The 79yearold Mrs Eisen however was taken ill at her farm home near Gettysburg Pa and taken to the hospital by am bulance on Wednesday Woudn it be easier if both teams had ball Earth Ex amine car keys from person who was considered unable to girive his car In the county Midland police laid two changes of impaired driving topping the list Both lnnisfil police and Alliston pol ice laid one each Bradford police said there were no impaired driving charges but few minor accidents The area had number of minor accidents involving some damage to cars Police in Stayncr Wasaga Beach and Elmvale had very quiet holiday period with no ac cidents nor impaired drivers with Barrie Ontario Canada Friday January 1976 Diefenbaker honored by Queen Saskatchewan are the parents of an eightpound girl born 52 seconds after midnight In Halifax six men brought in the new year with bone chilling dip in the twodegree water of Halifax Harbor The group members at the Nova Scotia Polar Bear Club swam for about one minute In Toronto Helena Dias 12 gave birth to sevenpound boy at 1201 am sevenpound twoounce son or Mr and ms Ronald Nu gent of St Albans Nlld are rived at 1206 am Skies were overcast in the Maritimes on New Years Eve and snow fell in the eastern parts of the region New Years Eve in Newfoundland was clear and cold Night clubs in MoMreal re ported quiet New Years Eve although festivities continued in downtown streets until dawn BEIRUT AP Rescue squads resumed their search in the desert wastes of north eastern Saudi Arabia today for missing victims of Lebanese airliner crash that took the lives of all 82 persons aboard an airline spokesmapsaid Missing plane crash victims sought in desert by rescuers Kamal Sinno of Middle East Airlines MEA said 73 bodies were recovered by nightfall Thursday 12 hours alter he wreckage was found 30 miles north of the town of Thai Qai souma The town is just south of an oilrich neutral zone on the Persian Gulf shared equally by Saudi Arabiaand Ifuwait The recovered bodies were taken by helicopturlo the Saudi oil port of Dahran where MEA officials were trying to identify each victim Sinpo paid The plane Boeing 707 car ried 15member Lebanese crew and 67 passengers Most baby boy was bom at 502 pm New Years Day to Deborah and Peter Godin of Bayfield Street The youngster tipped hhe Royal Victoria Hospita scales at eight pounds 11 and and half ounces making fine repres entative for 1976 in the city Thé first New Years baby in the area was bom at Orillias Soldiers Memorial Hospital at 1204 am New Years Day sixpound sixounce baby ghrl was born to Beverly and Bill Dunlap of OTialia who had not yet chosen name or the youngster lt hock little whflle but Barrie finally got its official New Years hwy LONDON OP The Queen expreSSed her special gratitude to veteran Canadian politician John Diefenbaker today ape pointing the former prime min ister as Companion of Honor CH an exclusive order lim ited to the sovereign and 65 members The roll call of past and mm rent members of the order es tablished by King George in 1917 but which carries no title includes many eminent names in the fields of art science and politics of this century APPOINTED COMPANION OF HONOR Two other Canadians are in the order Dr Charles Best of Toronto codiscoverer of in sulin and Torontoborn Prof Arnold Smith of Carleton Uni versity Ottawa the former Commonwealth secretarygen eral Smith was appointed to the order last spring spokesman for Prime Min isle Wilson said the honor is OTTAWA CF William Lyon Mackenzie King and sen ior members of his cabinet be lieved Canada was on the brink of civil during the con scription crisis of late 1944 which stretched into 195 The late prime ministers per sonal diaries made public Thursday tell of open mutiny among armed French Canada troops fear of attacks on Oma dian military aircraft by rebel lious soldiers and tense cabinet sessions where plans were dis cussed to mobilize militiamen from jobs in munitions fadories to put down threatened an archy Mr Kings diaries for late 1944 and most of 1945 recount how the government swiftly im posed censorship to suppress pubiic disclosure of the full ex tent of the situation Mr King was prime minister for 21 years between 1921 and 1948 lhe diariesmade public by the national archives traced the events following Kings fir ing of defence minister Ralston in October 1944 and cabinet decision few weeks later to reverse earlier policy and send conscripted soldiers many from Quebec overseas to light with volunteer foxcu King said in the diaries senior military officers lied in assur ing him that the conscripts many based at camps in British Columbia to defend against Japanese invasion would go to the war in Europe if so ordered REPORTS OF MUTINY Instead he wrote cabinet re ceived alarming reports of mut iny in the BC camps and threats that some troops would use their arms against fellow Canadians it the government tried to carry out the transfer to Europe of the passengers were Leba nese and Egyptians but there were also four Britons two Frenchmen six Greeks Nor wegian and Cypriot MEA sax OUllOST RADIOS USED Saudi authorities transmitted information about the search to MBA headquarters in Beirut through the USowned Trans Arabian Pipeline Co tlapline which has radioequipped out posts near the crash area It owns pipeline that carries Saudi crude from Qaissouma across Jordan and Syria to Lebanese terminal in South Lebanon Sinno said the jelliner on regular flight from Beirut to Dubai and Muscat was found split into three parts He said wreckage was scattered over twomile area Feared Canadian civil war MACKENZIE KING DIARIES SHOW special since it is the personal decision of the Queen in con sultation with the British and Canadian governments It is be stowed in recognition of con spicuous national service Usually members are in vested with the insignia of the order by the Queen in private ceremony at Buckingham Pal ace But palace spokesman noted that the Queen will be in Canada in July to open the Montreal Olympics and said it was possible the ceremony might lake place in Canada With this honor Diefenbakers name is bracketed with such historic figures as British prime ministers Sir Winston Churchill and Clement Attlec novelist Graham Greene sculptor Henry Moore musicians Benjamin Britten and Sir Arthur Bliss and many obher former Com monwealth prime ministers number of these sub Paul Arbour campaign chair man said the project was suc cessful with increased donations of money food and toys comp pared with 1074 But the number of needy um ilies listed lor aid also increas ed substantially mother of our broke down and cried family of eight couldnt slop the tears yet mis was their happiest Christmas These were some of the 220 families helped this year through the work of the Barrie and Dis trict Christmas Cheer Campaign afiir 285 whiie HICWPFiIEO Rot ary Club handled 24 and the An gus Legion helped eight uPrivaEd individuals 5nd small er groups aided in few other fa milies vOrfftho famiiics hclned tlm Christmas Cheer grouprlooked Mr Arbour people hml because of crny 32 comrIniu 5102 rezldogns schools and other orgamza tinn The cheer group collected 36 274 in cash spendin about $6 300 with an additional $8000 in foodstuffs and toys also collect ed lhis was divided into num ber of hampers for the families which mnged from one or two individuals to eight or 10 people Tho average value of ham CAPTAIN GARY Venables of the Salvation Army spent busy few hours putting away all the Christmas kettles used Christmas Cheer Campaign enjoys successful season harni nonuatiun bout 1100 Christmas 15 Per Copy Carrier Home Delivery 85c Weekly 20 Page the spokesman at the Central chancery of the Orders of Knighthood the authority on royal honors said Companion of Honor ranks high next after the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire 7031 sequently were also appointed members of the higherranked Order of Merit OM an honor bestowed at the personal behest of the monarch on fonner Cama dian prime ministers Mackenzie King and Lester PearsonDie fenbakers old politiqai £er That order established by King Edward VII at the time of his coronation in 1902 is limited to 24 living members selected by the monarch without the ad vice of government Unlike this and the other or ders of chivalry neither the CH nor the OM carry titles or pre cedence although members may use the appropriate initials after their name or for family of four was $60 Mr Arbour said Included in the hampers were cans of vegetables soup beans juices dessert meal pop toys sugar powdered milk apples oranges some baby food and of course every hamper had turkey Almost every child was given new toy Mr Arbour said add ing that used toys were accept cd and given to the Salvation Army The toys varied in value but each was brand new because Santa Claus doesnt bring used nvb Captain Gary Venables of the Salvation Army echoed many of Mr Arbours comments concern ing the willingness of city resi dentsto help others boiled funds for the win ter relief program Captain Venables said the kettles which were used for 13 days and Sahxrdey Low tonight 40 High Saturday See WEATHER FORECAST Captain Venables said dona tions to the annual Christmas kettles raised about $5000 for the Salvation Armys winter re lief program He said if any money is needed by the Christ mas Cheer organization the army will donate it Winter relief he explained is an ongoing proiect of the Sal vation Army which is similar to Christmas cheer He said money in the relief fund is used for any emergency situation such as to help where tire leaves family homeless or to help trans ients PUBLIC INDIGO Captain Venables said he is pleased winll the reception Bar rie residents gave the kettle which were on the streets for bout 13 days during December wage PM Vtremendously gratin ful to the residents of Barrii and the area for their supportfl during the month raised bout $5000 for the Salvation Armys work Examiner Pho to JOHN DIEFENBAKER exclusive order