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Barrie Examiner, 15 Mar 1976, p. 5

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LAzwtmameaxyrmmwnmfiguwm1 vzw 4r PART OF group of more than 250 people march through downtown Montreal Saturday during twohour demonstration in support of total ban on seal hunting in the North Atlantic The peaceful march was organiz ed by local members of the International Fund for Animal Welfare CP Photo Controversial seal hunt opens in Newfoundland ST ANTHONY Nfld CP The seal hunt traditionally looked upon by New foundlanders as an adventure of ice and blood with chance of profit but described by pro testers as barbaric anachronism opens today about 100 miles north of here The federal fisheries service estimates that close to one million seals including possiny 300000 pups or young seals were on the ice at the front and in the Gulf of St Lawrence Seven Canadian and five Norwegian ships were moving into position on the front the ice area of northern New foundland where the main hunt takes place Dr Paul Brodie biologist with the federal fisheries bran ch said in an interview there were 125000 pups in the gulf herd part of which was located between Port aux Basques Nfld and St Pauls Island off the Cape Breton coast of Nova Scotia Ships are not allowed to hunt in the gulf but vessels up to 65 feet in length and landbased hunters may kill seals there PLAN EARLY START Brian Davies head of the In ternational Fund for Animal Welfare and five women pros testers were planning to leave by helicopters at dawn to con front Canadian or Norwegian hunters The 13member Greenpeace Foundation of British Colum bia also plan an early start Both the Davies and Greenpeace groups said they were not intending to protest the hunt by residents of nor thern Newfoundland who work from shore but what they described as big commercial fleets were their targets The pups skins or pelts bring about $25 each while the thick layer of fat on each carcass is used in cosmetics production and for food oils The quota for Canadian ships is 52333 while the Norwegians get 44666 Landsmen who were permitted to take seals as soon as they appeared in New foundland waters in early winter are allowed 30000 Four killed in accident among 30 weekend deaths By THE CANADIAN PRESS Four persons killed Saturday in carlttruck crash about 60 miles southwest of Edmonton were among at least 80 killed accidentally in Canada during the weekend survey by The Canadian Press from pm Friday to midnight Sunday night local times showed 19 other traffic fatalities three fire deaths two snowmobilerelated fatalities one drowning and one shooting The number of snowmobile related deaths so far this year is 53 Ontario had six road deaths two fire fatalities and the shooting Alberta reported nine traffic deaths Quebec and Nova Scotia three each and British Columbia and New Brunswick one each BC also reported the drown ing and fire death and Nova Scotia also had snowmobile fatality Newfoundland had snowmobile death Prince Edward Island Manitoba and Saskatchewan reported no accidental deaths The survey excludes in dustrial deaths slayings and known suicides SUNDAY Arnold Crough and his wife Ann both in their 705 in fire at their Peterborough home BA CK IN OTTA WA SATURDAY Antoinette DiCarlo 48 Hamilton in multicar acci dent in tunnel between Thorold and Niagara Falls Leon Roman Jankowski 41 Roseville Mich and John Rafalko 49 Detroit in two vehicle collision near Windsor 14yearold boy who police would not identify shot by his fouryearold brother in Dresden about 20 miles north of Chatham George Barton 32 and Bonny Prentice 24 both Toronto in twocar collision in that city Barbara Burke 18 North Gower in singlecar accident near Ottawa Clark cuts his tour short EDMONTON CPI Pro gressive Conservative Leader Joe Clark returned to Ottawa today cutting short tour of his home riding to meet party officials to discuss what to do about cabinet inference in the Quebec courts think the issue is very im portant and dont intend to let it drop Mr Clark said in an interview before leaving the Alberta capital where he cancelled appearances today at dinner in honor of former rime minister John Diefen baker courtesy visit with Premier Peter Lougheed and radio hotline show at Edson 160 rmles west of here The MP for Rocky Mountain decided to fly home during buffet reception with about 200 constituents at Hinton 180 miles west of here after he spoke by telephone with Con servative House leader Walter Baker Won sland neocolonialism WOODSTOCK Ont CPI The Anglican Archbishop of Uganda says Africa will not tolerate the neocolonilism of the Soviet Union and other socialist countries for long Most Rev Janani Luwum whose diocese includes the nearby countries of Rwanda Burundi and BogaZaire said Saturday that while recent political upheaval in Angola was regrettable to many Africans the influence of the Soviet Union should be regard ed as passing threat However such political strife should serve to warn Christians they were slow to act together to prevent upheaval the ar chbishop said in an interwew He said Uganda is isolated from the current conflict by geograph The country is so arate from Angola by Za re to the north In Ottawa New Democratic Party Leader Ed Broadbent said he wanted to obstruct legislation until the govern ment calls public inquiry Consumer Affairs Minister Ana dre Ouellet explains his in volvement and Prime Minister Trudeau accepts the resignation he refused from Public Works Minister Bud Drury Friday SOME DOUBT Earlier Mr Clark expressed doubt about collaborating with the NDP saying there was chance it could backfire Public opinion now is against government on the issue but it could very well be that they would not support the systematic obstruction of Parliament he said Lets assume was wrong and that public opinion sup ports the government or doesnt even care The public could turn against the Conser vatives Mr Clark said However Mr Baker assured himrtherewas liker the kind of SPAMOUS PLAYERS ROXY THEATRE ONE OF THE YEARS TEN BEST 43 Magazine Clyde Gilmoor Toronto Star Stan tnnnem talus tlnsluuttl IlllIllIlltI hltlldnltislmitnlfimlln fraud Ital goals l1ltI HI gt LU gt lt lt LI LU lt gt THEATRE RWY public interest he needs The issue was not on the tip of Mr Clarks tongue as he spoke with several hundred consti tuents who held public recep tions for him in Hinton Wildwood Edson Drayton Valley and Banff Mr Clark said some people voiced concern about the issue but most were just concerned about welcoming me home The controversy exploded Friday when the prime minister refused to acce Mr Drurys resignation ter report by Quebec Superior Court judge tabled in the Com mons described his in terference in court case on behalf of Mr Ouellet as grave and improper The report by Chief Justice Jules Deschene of Quebec Superior Court also described two other incidents where Health Minister Marc Lalonde and Treasury Board President Jean Chretien telephoned Edges to inquire about cases fore the courts FAMOUS Td Illltlttl 381V H1 AXOM SNSAV thwiulllletlnu SHOWN AT 700 920 ADULT ENTERTAINMENT SUSAVTd SnOWVI FAMOUS PLAYERS ROXY THEATRE MAY BE FINAL WEEK OF TRIAL SAN FRANCISCO APGovernment rebuttal testimon in Patricia Hearsts bank ro bery trial was ex pected to resume toda when Miss Hearst who suf ered bout of influenza returns to court Every indication is she will be in court Monday defence lawyer Albert Johnson said Sunday She told me shes im proved although she still has some aching and congestion Court sessions were postpon ed Thursday and Friday when the 22yearold newspaper heiress fell ill and was returned to her jail cell to recuperate Dr Harry Kozol Boston psychiatrist who interviewed Miss Hearst for the prosecu tion was on the witness stand last week and is ex cted to continue testifying to ay as the trial enters its eighth and perhaps final week Kozols controversial Jan examination of Miss Hearst was the subject of threeday pretrial hearing The defence tried to prevent further ex amination by the psychiatrist who Miss Hearst said had bullied her to hysterical tears with accusing questions Dies in crash THOROLD Ont CP An toinette DiCarlo 48 of Hamilton died Saturday in mvehicle accident in the tun nel between this community and nearby Niagara Falls police said Five persons were in good condition in hospital following the accident which police said occurred when blowing snow drifted into the tunnel entrance and froze on contact with wet pavement resulting in ex tremely icy conditions Highway 58 was closed at the halfmile tunnel for four hours while fire department crews and police cleaned up gasoline spills and removed wrecked vehicles Shambles WASHINGTON AP The Post says senior CIA officials estimate Israel has between 10 to 20 nuclear weapons and say the Russian space program is shambles In rare nonclassified brief ing last week for members of an aeronautics group CIA of ficials are quoted as saying Israel is estimated to have 10 to 20 nuclear weapons ready and available for use Israeli of ficials have declined to say Israel has atomic weapons Reports last summer placed Israels nuclear capacity at about 10 but this was the first public CIA estimate of Israeli strength The Post says No fur ther details were given says the newspaper The Soviet space program is shambles after series of failures that included the ap parent destruction of three large boosterstwice the size of the US Saturn rocketswhich blew up the of ficials said The Soviets ap parently have abandoned any plans for manned lunar Ian dings they said Four killed GUATEMALA CITY AP series of weekend earth tremors killed four persons and injured several more in earthquakeravaged Guatemala government of ficial said Sunday Four persons were killed Saturday in Patzun town with population of 6000 per sons in Chimaltenango pro vince the official said The tremors brought the number of aftershocks to 1369 since major earthquake Feb which killed an estimated 23000 persons and injured 76000 others verdict OTTAWA CPI An Ontario Supreme Court jury was unable to reach verdict Saturday so Michael Seed 22 of nearby Ne pean Township will have to face second criminal negligence trial in April The jury deliberated six hours Saturday before deciding it could not reach verdict in connection with the July 15 death of 20yearold Janice Jackson On further charge of failing to remain at the scene of an ac cident the jury found Seed not guilty Trial evidence showed the youn woman was killed when stlfuc by motorcycle travell ing at high speed on township street while walking with two friends The street has no sidewalks Seed acknowledges driving his motorcycle on the street about that time but denies knowledge of the accident He said his headlight went out as he turned onto the street and the next thing he is being treated in hospital Expert testimony supported this saying the headlights on the model motorcycle he was driving had tendency to go out when the driver attempted to switch to high from low beam Sign pact TORONTO CPI Locals 43 and 79 Canadian Union of Public Employees CUPE have signed memorandum of agreement for oneyear con tract which union officials say will provide 12percent wage increase for about 10000 city and Metropolitan Toronto employees The labor rate in Metro and the city now is $506 an hour Fires probed TORONTO CP Police said two fires Sunday in the Royal York Hotel were being investigated as arson hotel employee was treated for smoke inhalation but remained at work The Royal York is the third large downtown hotel suspected of being plagued by firebug Several fires were set at Habour Castle in January and three small fires were reported Feb at the Four SeasonsSheraton Although police spokesman would not say whether the same person is believed responsbile for all the fires he said the Royal York fires are being treated as arson The larger fire about pm caused about $12000 damage to the building and matresses stored on the second floor fire departmentofficials said About four hours earlier fire in pile of rubbish was ex tinguished quickly Six charged ROBERVAL Que CPI The chief of police and city treasurer were among six civic employees of nearby Dolbeau Que who appeared in sessions court during the weekend in connection with an alleged $106000fraud Charged were police chief Charlestdouard Lallemand treasurer Marcel Boisson neault assistanttreasurer LouisPhillippc Moreau clerks Francois Casse and Leger Gaudreault and cashier Johanne Niquette Provincial police said the six appeared in court Saturday following threeweek in vestigation Boissonneault was set free on $20000 bail pending preliminary hearing while Lallemand suspended as police chiefwas released on $1000 bail The four others were released on $1000 bail Two of the accused were charged with fraud and theft while the four others face theft charges Judge JeanCharles Simard set preliminary hearing for April21 Roberval is 155 miles north of Quebec City Wage boost LONDON nt CP Public utilities commission employees members of Local Canadian Union of Public Employees ICUPE have ratified oneyear contract which gives them an average wage increase of 175 per cent union spokesman said Satur day Paul Senay CUPE interna tional representative said the contract gives trades and office workers l9percent increase and parks and recreation employees 145 per cent The union and commission will be making joint submis sion to the federal anti inflation review board to justify the increase which is above the 125 per cent the Come Hear TED MOSES JAZZ QUINTET Presented By Georgian College Faculty Assoc at The GEorgian College Theatre WedMarch I0830 pmTickets $300 and $200 At Mann Sams 7281951 Ex 280 or at the door board recommends Mr Senay said He said employees will receive 125percent increase immediately Back home ST JOHNS Nfld CP Most of the 23 men from the burned and sunken Canadian fisheries patrol vessel Cape Freels were back with their families Sunday in good health despite 15 hours on the stormy North Atlantic in small life craft They were hauled out of the water 120 miles southeast of here Friday by the Canadian scientific ship Hudson and brought to St Johns on Satur day for medical attention Only waiter Morgan Green of Grand Bank Nfld was detain ed in hospital He has back in juries but the hospital says his condition is very satisfac tory All had suffered some effects of exposure after being adrift in lifeboat and two life rafts They abandoned ship early Friday after fire broke out in the engine room The Cape Freels continued to burn but stayed afloat until 740 pm EST Saturday when it sank while the icebrcaker John Cabot was attempting to tow it to port An investigation is attemp ting to determine how the fire started on the Cape Freels and how it got out of control Some crew members from the John Cabot were aboard the Cape Freels but got off shortly before it sank Saturday The Cape Freels appeared to have suffered extensive fire damage to her stern portion Holdup fails WINDSOR Conn APIAn almostsuccessful Ii uor store holdup in Hartfor shopping centre ended in failure Satur day when the getaway car ran out of gas before it got out of the parking lot Police said two men held up the Spirit Shop and made off with an undetermined amount of cash They jumped into waiting carwhich ran dry of gas few feet later The clerk had sounded an alarm and police arrived at the scene and arrested two men and the driver of the idle car Pioneer dies OTTAWA lCPl George Ross pioneer of aviation in Canada and former generalmanager of the Air Cadet League of Canada died Sunday lie was 81 Ross became pilot in 1917 23 Patricia Hearst in courtafter fluwbout with the Royal Flying Cogs and during 193133 piloted first Canadianregistered private aircraftGypsy Moth CFAAA Owner of Canadian Aviation Magazine until it was sold in 1939 he attended the first in strument flying training course ever held in Canadain 1912 and held public transport license No 12 From 1944 until his retire ment in 1961 he was Air Cadet League generalmanager Die 1n fire HAMILTON CP Two children were burned to death in fire in their home early Sunday and later resident of the house was charged with two counts of murder punishable by life imprisonment The bodies of Lorna Gilchrist and her brother Alan were found in bedroom of the fireravaged brick home on Hamilto Moun tain The mother of the children was not at home at the time of the fire George Edward Vasil 38 of Hamilton was charged spokesman for the city fire department said the two childrens bodies were found after the fire was put out It was believed to have started at about5am The blaze also destroyed the other half of the semidetached house leaving six persons homeless Police said Vasil appeared at the Mountain police station shortly after the fire Vasil is scheduled to appear in court here today Vacant space TORONTO CP The Globe and Mail says the federal customs department has been renting offices for the last eight months in the new Manufac turers Life Centre on Bloor Street while 10th of the space in its old quarters on Front Street remains vacant Both buildings arewithin the downtown area of the city The newspaper says that customs employees began mov ing into the new centre last year and that the government rents space there at $812 squarefoot Recently about 39400 square feet of the available 360000 square feet were empty The Globe and Mail says It says the federal public works department the federal government landlord charges its tenants in the customs building $5 square foot NOW PLAYING AIRPORT 75 AT IS ROOSTER COCKBURN 7l5 SOMETHING HIT USthe crew is dead umuw Ill II III WW 726994 help us please please help us For Your Pleasure JOHN NE Il tlli COGBURN mam It Lady NOW PLAYING TOMMY AT 845 LORDS OF FLATBUSH 700 59H sum mum 0y MYSTERIOUS MONSTERS PLUS 7269944 OUTER SPACE CONNECTION 25 FREE PASSES TO BE GIVEN AWAY FOR THIS PERFORMANCE When visiting the Boytield Moll drop in tree ballot available at theatre entrance Draw will be held Friday March 19th for 25 free passes The Barrie Examiner Monday MarchJS 19765 WILLIAM DAVIS On benefits WATERLOO Ont CP Premier William Davis said Sunday that insurance com panies shoul pass on to motorists the nefits of cost savings brought about by the compulsory use of automobile seat belts in the province He said the use of seat belts partly credited for 27percent drop in fatal highway collisions last month might have direct effect on insurance rates It should have an impact on the industry in ositive sense the premier saiil at the annual meeting of the Pm gressive Conservative campus association Companies already have in creased insurance rates for this year and Mr Davis said in an interview later he doubts they will be reduced WARNING GIVEN The premier also said On tario will have to wake up to the reality of economic restraints if the province hopes to maintain its standard of liv ing The province is providing leadership in its restraints through its reductions in health education and social service spending This leader ship is lacking at the federal level he said Is married SAPPORO Japan APA US soldier who hiked the nearly 2000mile length of Japan to promote his countrys bicentennial put on formal Japanese mens skirt Sunday and married Japanese woman he met early in the hike Robert Constant 28 of Rosendale NY married Noriko Yoshikawa 27 of Sap poro They met when he stayed overnight at her fathers inn The TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION Program INTRODUCTORY LECTURES No admission charge WEDNESDAY MARCH l7 I976 6008 800 PM EASTVIEW SECONDARY SCHOOL ROOM lll MAHARISHI MAHESH IMPERIAL CINEMA Best Actor because its true Apiurfl NOBOG ll delta HI IMPERIAL CINEMA $IIIIIIIIIIII IIIIIIII Nominated for Academy Awards including Best Picture and robbery is all the more bizarre The language in this film may be offensive to some people TO ANY VII WIN OF THIS HIM WHO CAN SHIV IHI MVSHRY It Ukle IRIANGU Iutummmm AVIIFGTIIE at Each Showing 010 IinAPIIAl RICHARD WINER 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