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EXAMINER TELEPHONES Circulation Classified AdverbsLn 112th Year No 58 Barrie firefighters were rail ed out to the home of Will lam llclxay It linti limit at 847 this morning to quell the flames tire iii tn ptgt to have £ll in one of the bedrooms in the build Violin 71111411 All Other Departments 7366537 in Their were Itur tcnzi the ltliliitt plus the McKay family and tr injnric were suffered ckitll til 171Cth ago is available as xt Depiiy Barrie Ontario Canada Tuesday litcchici lif llc li for helpC our of the ini lliili it Pack in iiwxc llU to while dunia in Il iCtnovmi picture ligatimincr Iho ll Hcmt Essa Council stands pat on Sunday store opening l3lllt Erba council his ltlfl no nine to let ill and supermarket in ngu xth pen on hundays Cottnctl took no Ltrtion alter hearing and manager At Yalla attain lsk for exemption llmit llt lllfiltl ltctail Lillfit ness Holidays Act flee lllLIllI Smith said the turc will be able to opettuc on Sunday bceiiiiiiinl April be nice it sells fruit and veget ablcz nd he said council will have hier idea what steps to take next fall after the effect of ex iinpiug liudus Food in 010 Lenn ship is known UtU Utilittll recently exempted iudas from hc provincial clo nig liIltll the dore vi lthtiiiJ ecntiil to the main tenance or deieloptncnt totri inittxry lr Zaba had llnll iltnn iif btflllt Jftillll iltllf$lllf council lr Kina ti Hl that nth33 who lti parttime bznetit Ilirl when the itorc is first on Sunday Last riiuuncr three ll It dents Itllvtjtl $15000 at the th1 by working when needed to to in of 40 hours week Although council conidered ui formai motions councillors Dan lav nought ktlllp tlllfll on ill it Limes and Anthony Mancini mad tore should he allowed to open it the owner is iilillL Later in an interiiew lr Za ba said staying open on Sunday mill lliffill we Illlli tll ptoii of only two Pcl tllll lli ltltl ii tit till ltlIILiiiHn should lie the illlllf grip flliltil iinilit lllli don litIll lllf ll tlltt it Wt lbw tflllil it Hum without at flllilt un employment liniployces are paid overliine pnj nttt ll nuns of Uti ill Pill he Itltl the lIlilpliiv incii St iind cl lunilu the total to ill houri CONCRETE SLAB PLUMMETS T0 GROUND March 1976 01112 Earrie Examiner 15c Per Copy Carrier Home Delivery 85c Weekly 14 Pages OFFICIAL PLAN PAVING ROUTE T0 NOWHERE Downtown Barrie changes seen as election issue By PETER LESNIAK Examiner Staff Reporter The rejuvenation of downtown Barrie will be major issue in the December municipal election Ihat is the hope of the civic affairs committee of the Greater Barrio Chamber of Commerce committee chairman lalsl1dll Green said Monday Ile told the Barrie Optimist Club sixpart ques lionnairc will soon be circulated among residents asking if theyre satisfied with the present downtown and what changes theyd like to see The city core here is going nowhere Mr Green lawyer said And the official plan is paving the route to nowhere He said tin iotiuuittcc thinks downtown Barrie is in very troubled ride sulieiiie from lack of variety and vibrancy lf ttiutlLll citizens agree the committee would like to poor finale major study for im proving IliL downtown and pre sent it to city council he gtaid Well Uhl our own tllCtL to tell cit co incil who the people want he said Celf tltiHllllUlC Judy to trl out where the lliTliiItll jti lill ltl iicvidin to proitcl dual on dotin town redcvclopincm in Ontario Barrie is one of three cities with an urgent need to approve its ltlllltll busincw ddtic nd We in ion lit ton 4iii11tliilll iii to modeling Itil Ii llv IDEAS Kc Limo viriou idea and plans to our but vc think its premature to it Illli tio xlty with our idem if said We would tirt like to pu toechci sitvltmtlzl ptirnisc telling council that we can no longer wear Four killed at Olympic site MONTREAL ital loul construction workers died Mm iitiy night when concrete slab illih was being installed at the Illinunc stadium pluntuiclcd more than too feet to the tround Police identified the dead when of lilitlllllid firiler Jo at Aaiint Hunt ct Bcitnt Que did it and bet both of lion LlllLUillilill Que fun 27 of Levis laiil lumilc Levcu rand itortin 23 trcal lhe iltltltll ocigiiirel whtu iini being rivctd to mini column near the stadium 10w used to support the retractable roof firetr loou from support ethic and tell to ttr roiinn liie men were working izntdc the beam at the time The beam Lila ttllttl truck at the it the lower but caused no significant dani aee to the 1tl of til gtdiiun ltlt the official tlllll and closing ccicniohics the Sinn mor Games are to be held The liftinrr it Ir flflll fly ire other retinal writ How about $1000$500£ $2lOt treated in lltlnlflllni for nervous shock and later released police said Work on temporarily sus pendcd the stadium follouilt ilte Illll ti il ctr Lionel Itccvcs aid he lid not cxlttl the acct dent to seriously affect the tight construction schedule on lhr protect afford to grow out and mast grow in The civic affairs committee has been studying how other com munitics Peterborough Cam bridge and Strattord have worked to improve their down town cores he said He iid the citys official plan passed in 1969 mainly to blame for the slow decay of the downtown Our own plan has doomed the core to commercial atid service centre he said lle added the plan says The city core is to be come the hub at service and pro tessional establishments while the heart of the retail district is to be at Bayfield and Cundles fne bay is our most beauti ful natural asset but the official pan says it should only be en ioyul from to Monday to Friday he said People want good strong varied downtown core Mr Green said They want place where people can live shop and play to said the citys oftieial plan is an impossible document which is too technical and too ob score Its gt0 technical that it took me three readings just to get the main gist of it Mr Green said CAME ONE DAY The plan was written by lot onto consultants who apparent City parking big problem The aiailaoiity o1 parkvng the biggest obstacle to the devclopmcnt of Barrics down town lhats the initial reaction to questionnaire that will soon be widely circulated by the Great er Barrie Chamber of Commer cc Marshall Green chairman oi the chambers i1 attairs coni mittee gave the six question qticti0nnaire to nine members of the Barrie Optimist Club Mon day Seven of the nine ICgtplllnl5 said parking was one of the most pressing problems iii the citys core area Reaction to the question What do you think should be the three major functions of the core area was varied Responses ranged from resi dential parks cultural enter tainment retail and business How can the pity tell us that every time dollar is spent on the downtown its going into some retail businessmans poc ket Mr Green said Im tir Il of the implication that only retail merchants in the down town care hoot about the dc veiopment of the core CAPSULE NEWS British pound slightly higher lODOl ftPi The Britih potin which plummeted to re urJ lows Monday before levelline oft aul closing at 31111111 in 125 currency was slightly higher on foreign exchange market today Florida voters go to polls today Florida voters went to the polls today to cast hotels in the second major confrontation between Pregtidcnt Ford and challeng or Ronald Reagan while three leading Democratic contenders hoped to emerge as firnntrunnor for their partys p1IElttthIlltdl tlumlllJ tum Moslems hold Lebanese fortress BiliIAUFOltI CASTLE Lelianon hell this massive stone fortress 30 mlltS rotilh of 3eirut today vowing to open antiairenaift fire on Israeli reconnaissance planes Gunman demands $200000 ransom FRANKFURT West Germany ArPtA gunman seized bodac es in Fnaurkturt courthouse today and demanded $200000 ransom and jettiner in attempt to free another German from robheny trial police reported CBC operations hit by strike WINDSOR ll CBC operations in Windsor were dis rapted today by 24hour strike by 81 employees uiiieinbers of L0 ca 678 of the Canadian Union of Public Empkwees tidiaififiMfiMiMnhé am If the city kerps nn ditiding things up there is izo way it will ever get anyone together he said N0 SINGLE PROBLle Downtown businessman Bill llocklcy owner of iiaysonheld China and Gilt Shop said no single problem in to blame for the decay ot the core Its number of things and it LUl to begin by improving peoples atltuic he said Barrios not city but small town ttill ot lot ol small minds including the merchants Ir lrzcr said the commit tees function out the municipal election Hil be to make peo ple awar ot the fact that we really have problem here If the people dont think we have problem and say they want the bay filled in then well paCK up he said But we be lieve that once oeoplc 50C the potential of the downtown they will change their minds piecemeal basis he sa The provision of downtown parking should be municipal responsibility And the burden on downtown merchants of pro viding one parking space for ev ery 300 square feet of store floor space should be lifted he iiged He said existing municipal par king lots must be expanded And the city should take steps to lease lanCways and parking lots behind gttore from the merchants gto that coordinated parking masterplan can be implemented lr Green said that up to now the city has had no compreheu sivc plan tor the development of the downtown The job has been given to number of small committees such as tn Dowzi town Improvement Board and the Bay Area Study Committee He said any study for the im provement of the downtown mnrt include the bay the parks the business community and resi dential needs MARSHALL iltblZN guest speaker ly came to Barrie one after noon one day and then put to gether gttudics done for other ccntrcs he said Our plan look like someone cut and pasted sections from oth er ofttciol plans for other cities to make 1m gut tccling of his commit tee is that the parking prob lem is the main hindrance to fine revtaimtion of downtown larknie cant be cot rcctcd on till This gtitlttt Hitlllf want the downtown to be pciplc place Where the can lric shop and play he gtLtltl Main reasons ciicn by Optim ist Club lllLlllliti tor the decay of the city core were Incl of variety luck of leadership from city count1 and tftlldiatllls un der the official plan and loIltIl bylaw To the uticstiou It all other factors were equal and you as an incstor were looking for We to locate large commer cizil development would you set ct 1i site on lninlop Street in Ion Highway 401 or on ling ttcld Sticeli the response was surprising Ilub tintubers overuhclliiing ly said they would locate on Bill fteld Street JACK McALLlSTER starts duties April Deputy named new fire chief Its official after seriine with the barrio de Ciiy countll Monday appouited partuent since 1063 From 1963 deputy fire chief Jack McAllilt to 196 he as firefighter ll ILitl Crllilt lllCl lkl lCl as ti replacement 01 10 and was then prolnmcd to fiie Jennings iho gtlitl he was the tiring chief Dan Keast prevention officer larget single owner of down Mr McAllister will start April Mr Hunger U5 born in town property admitted that on sisinonth probationary Collinguoml whcre his father hed prefer to own property on period with an annual salary of was the me Chm for about 40 Baylield $19703 Mr Keast retires March ycmx Two other Illlim$ ported by 31 the questionnaire Ill What are There were 18 applications for the two major ltl that flar thc position but the general gov tir hos to dirt LI Il mid ernmcnt committee held person What are the boundaries of Bur at interviews with only four of ries core the applicants Mr McAllistcr who celebrat os his 40th birthday Sunday was appointed deputy chief last May Mr lcllttcr worked with the department of defence at the for mer Edgar Radar Station as firefighter and received re commendation birth the depart ment when he joined the Bar lie fire company Before this he worked for Northern Electric ompany Lti dealing with alarms and detec tion units Mr ItieAllister married his wife Cynthia July 1039 and ha daughter and son If He is an elder at Collier Sireel United hnrch and thus at 24 North laik thud CanadaCuba flights begin ltiNllllfAl tlt Regular air service between Illlfldd and Can began Sun when DC llnwn by pilots from the Cu Assault charges are dismissed lillv SOUND 0111 tll lliitge of INltlil cation bod ily harni against provincial po ilcc coiistiibles Vernon Meyer and David Scott were dismissed Monday in provincial court lieu ltll Schell 723 cf 1Iir Iier liil alleged tthaL the two constables both of Rain Ont beat him last Dec after he was iiieel on bench vitir rant Maelier about 20 miles nI mlhneers south of here ban tiiteowned airline Cabana Ml Swen roamed he He arrivcl at illlabCl International beaten dIlNlWe dumi at Alrlurtg An Air Canada spokesman the Bala provincial police rifl lion parking lot and in the sta ion Constable Moyei testified lr Heliell had kicked at him while being taken from the cruiser and they both lost their footing and fell said Monday about 30 persons were on board for the flight which was itllowiil bv inziil reception organized by Cubans at lllu airport miles liorth of Montreal Cubana will be operating an average of two flights week WISE GT3 54 between Havana and Montreal could lino no evidence to sub Sim hm D085 leased from stantiate Mr Schells allega tions Parry Sound in 63 miles north pmgiwm of Drilliii Air Canada Were also ttalnntetheir pi lots the Air niiritlii socket mai nd