The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

CHILDREN PRFORM GYMNATICS OPN 0Us Barrie Callegiate Band Ellie itaarrir Examiner CITYNEWS The Barrie Examiner Wednesday March 3i l976l3 Mary Hunt not guilty of manslaughter charge Mary Luella Hunt 42 of Coll ingwood was found not guilty of manslaughter by an Ontario Supreme Court jury Tuesday The seven women and five men deliberated two hours before reaching their verdict Mrs Hunt was charged with the Dec 13 1975 death of her husband who died of sub arachnoid hemorrhage ac cording to pathologist James Henning During his post mortem Dr Henning found blood in the cranial cavity but could not find definite source of the blood Crown witnesses said they saw Mrs Hunt throw bottle at her husband while the two were arguing and oneNorma Joan Brown said she saw the bot tle hit Mr Hunt in the right temple But there was no evidence of bruising on the head and Mr Hunts glasses which were on at the time were not bent or broken Defence lawyer Roger Salhany said the Crown had to prove three things before Mrs Hunt could be found guilty she meant to hit Mr Hunt with bottle she in fact did hit him and the impact of the bottle caused Mr Hunts death Mrs Hunt had testified Mon day that she threw the bottle but she said she did not see it hit her husband Mr Salhany pointed this out to the jury and also the lack of an external wound to Mr Hunt SEPCIAL EMPHASIS Crown Attorney John Alex ander put special emphasis on the testimony of Mrs Brown citing the fact that breath tests after the death showed her to be significantly more sober than MrsHunt or Mr Fawcett He said that if Mrs Hunt had thrown the bottle it must have been her intention to hit her husband He called upon the members of the jury to use their own ex perience as to cause and effect suggesting that if they saw Mr Hunt hit with beer bottle then slump on the couch as Mrs Brown had seen then the only conclusion could be that Mrs Hunt had killed her husband by hitting him with the beer bottle He called evidence that Mr Hunt had fallen down stair way about 15 hours previously red herring and said that evidence that Mr Hunt had previously beaten his wife was also not really relevant to the trial In his charge to the jury Mr Justice Goodman spent about oneandahalf hours reviewing the testimony and explaining the law regarding manslaughter Manslaughter is causing the death of another person by an unlawful act or criminal negligence but not while meaning to cause his death or meaning to cause bodi ly harm which could result in death After the jury reached its verdict Mr Justice Goodman said he would probably have reached the same conclusion if the trial had proceeded without ajury Three demands made by local boat firm Legal battles between Barrie and Delaney Boat Lines are far from finished Chappell representing Delaney Boat Lines and Ser vices Ltd former city com pany presented list of demands to city council Mon day Council sent the demands to the general government com mittee for recommendation Mr Chappell said the com pany wants three things from Barrie city waterlot permission for landfilling 50 feet of property ex propriated by the city With these he said Delaney Boat Lines and Services Ltd can begin operating in the city again The city expropriated the land south of Lakeshore Drive running westerly to Maple Avenue from Bayfield Street in October 1971 Reason for the expropriation was to widen Lakeshorc Drive tolOOfeet The work has not started yet Mr Chappell said Dean Ar buthnot owner of the com pany wants to build high dry marina for storing boats The building he said would be about two to four storeys high and could be completed by the summer for operation this season We want to salvage that land and salvage that business he said Were anx ious to do this and have it com pleted He is appealing recent court decision which ruled the city overpaid Delaney Boats for the expropriated land and buildings The firm was awarded $17220143 but the city paid $25000 in 1971 Parents of the 26 children who took part in the gym nastics open house at Codr ington Street School Tuesday evening showed ob vious pride as they watched their children go through their paces The open house was an effort to show what the children had learned at the end of the 10 week yarn put on by the Barrie pro Recreation Department TOP LEFT Instructor Faye Conrad provides help in Icar ning backwards hand stand TOI Holding hand stand is easier when you get little help as instructor Shari Lord lends little ex tra support BELOW Doing bunny hop on the balancing beam is that much simpler when your instructor Faye Tonrad provides that extra little support for balance tllxamincr Photos by Rolf Kraiker Violence commission meets at 730 in Orillia tonight ORILLIA Ontarios Royal Commission on Violence in the Communications Industry under the chairmanship ofJudy LaMarsh will hold public hearing Wednesday at 730 pm in the United Steelworkers of America recreation hall 50 Gill St in Orillia The hearing is one of more than two dozen to be held by the commission throughout the pro vince in its study of media violence Submissions from the public are invited The commission appointed in May 1975 is to study the effects on society of the increasing exhibition of violence in the media determine the connection if any between media violence and the incidence of violent crime hold public hearings such as the one scheduled for Orillia and make such recommenda tions as it may deem fit to the provincial and other govern ments the general public and the media The commission has the power to summon witnesses require evidence on oath and subpoena documents and other materials Serving on the commission with Miss LaMarsh talk show host and former cabinet minister are Family Iourt Judge Lucien Beaulicu and newspaper columnist Scott Young The commission has already released preliminary report and has set May 31 as its deadline for receiving informa tion for its final report wins trophy third year Sid Oue president of the Kiwanis Music Festival Association of Greater Toronto announced today that Barrie Central Collegiate will receive the Major Brian McCoool trophy for the third straight year Mr Oue will make the presentation at the Barrie Col legiate Band concert Wednesday April 28 in Central auditorium Since 1966 theMcCool trophy has been annually awarded to the school earning the most festival competition points in choir orchestra and band classes Barrie won it for the first time in 1974 and has repeated each vear since Morley Calvert said am very happy Central is again so honored and am most pleased with this band and the effort they have put forth Also the junior band which is made up of students in their first and se cond year of instrumental band music did fine job for the school and some of them will begin to take their place in the senior band As every year they will have some big shoes to fill but am confident they too will make excellence their goal in maintaining Centrals top status in future competitions and performances The junior band contributed by winning for the fourth straight year the Class for Grade 10 and under student bands Some of these musicians will make their first start with the senior band at the April 28 concert The performance by the Bar rie Collegiate Band will mark this years graduating student musicians final public ap pearance at the auditorium in which they have performed many times during their high school days They have spent even more nights in practice and rehearsal in that same auditorium about 200 times each for the average Grade 13 graduates who are now approaching their final at home performance However that will not be the end of their careers with the Barrie Col Budget ceiling labelled By JOHN WROE Examiner Staff Reporter The Barrie Association for the Mentally Retarded will be hardpressed to maintain its present level of services because of budget ceilings established by the provincial government says Ron Haughton manager of the Adult Rehabilitation Centre The ministry of community and social services has imposed 55 per cent limit on budget in creases but when you take in to account the effect of infla tion this is more than restraint its cutback said Mr Haughton Joe McReynolds district director for the ministry said the ceilings will certainly limit expansion of any present pro grams but said there is more flexibility in the mentally retarded area than with the Childrens Aid Society Two years ago in Peter borough Premier Davis made commitment to the Ontario Association for the Mentally Retarded and because of that commitment there will be money available for new pro jects However the retraints will mean no increases in spenA ding on present programs he said The Peterborough commit ment stems from federal provincial costsharing pro gram It makes money raised federally available for new pro jects for local mentally retard ed associations The ministry of community and social ser vices provides 80 per cent of the funding for the local associations MORE REl TAPE Mr llaughton says that although the money is available there seems to be some difficulty getting it re there is more red tape to cut News quiz answers PART Ontario guilty PART II 1d 2a 3c 4e Sb PART III 1b2e 3a 4c frd PICTURE QUIZ Andre Oucllct 1Quebec 4Ialsc 2c fifth Retardation was guest speaker at the dinner and said that education and treatment of the mentally retarded is beginning through The one major project slowed down by the red tape is an expansion of the ARC train ing program Because of crowding in the present workshop ARC plann ed to start another training project aimed mostly at help ing those who could be in tegrated into existing in dustry We had planned this project for the first quarter of 1976 said Mr Haughton but the quarter is over and we havent got approval yet This project is in line with Queens Park policies so think its just matter of time before we can go ahead The men were interviewed at the annual meeting of the Bar rie an District Association for Mentally Retarded held at ARC Tuesday evening In his address to the associa parent child communication is becoming more meaningful tion outgoing president Russ Baxter mentioned another pro blem the association is facing financially He said that the other 20 per cent of the funding was provided by local dona tions including the United Ap peal However this year the United Appeal only reached twothirds of its goal so the contribution to mentally retarded will be $9000 less than expected The associatons new presi dent for this year Paul Abbot said the group would just have to do the best it could with the money available but he was worried about loss of quality of services Other directors of the association for 1976 are Mary Trowbridge Richard Foxcroft George Bradley and Mr Bax ter GUEST SPEAKER Margaret Engel of the Na tional Institute on Mental legiate Band Most of them will be on hand in Toronto at the Canadian Band Directors Association competition at the Canadian National Exhibition next August which will be their last band performance In the past four years they have played in junior and senior bands that have won 23 first prizes and two second places in 26 major competi tions In addition they were award ed First Prize Division Gold Medal at the World Music Contest in Kerkrade Holland in 1974 which was the first time Barrie had entered the top class there cutback to take new direction That attitude that mentally retarded people are helpless and must be dependent on the rest of society is on the way out she said Replacing it is an education program that teaches the retarded to be able to cope with society and find role they can fill What you expect is what you get she said When we ex pected the retarded to be helpless they were Now were beginning to teach them through their parents at pre school age and letting them know that we expect them to learn The results are truly fan tastic We have nurseries with average and retarded children and the retarded ones with ex tra help are learning as fast as the normal ones She said the change in at titude is partly due to change in the attitude toward children in general She said there is more emphasis being put on the parent as the teacher and IAUI ABBOT is the new president of the Barrie and District Association for the Mentally Retarded He was named to the position Tuesday evening at the associations annual dinner Margaret Engel of the Na tional Institute on Mental Retardation was guest speaker at the dinner and talked the new directions in the teaching of the mentally retarded Examiner Photo Picnic remains Two rent increases granted by officer despite cutback MIDHURST Meeting in private Tuesday Simcoc Coun ty council hammered out nestrained financial policy for 1976 But the Wardens picnic remains Reports of the finance com mittcc were quickly approved in public without discussion after debate took place behind closed doors Council agreed to freeze councillors honorariums offer wage increases of $500 plus two per cent to about 300 employees and limit spending on conventions The I976 budget indicating seven per cent reduction from last years tax rate will be debated in public today finance chairman Bill Gibbins saidtoday In preliminary discussion lhcsday he said it was agreed the Simcoe County Health Unit should have budget $17000 higher than was recommended by the finance committee The proposed health budget now stands at $262000 up from $243000 in 1975 The Wardens pay will stay at $6500 annually plus $2000 ex pense account for the annual Wardens picnic $45 day for all committee or board meetings $45 day for atten ding conventions $45 day for expenses while attending con ventions registration fee for conventions plus use of leas eticar Members of council receive $45 day for all meetings $45 day for attending conventions $45 for convention expenses and the registration fee onecent increase will give councillors and employees mileage compensation of 10 cents mile up to 10000 miles and 15 cents mile over 10000 Chairmen of standing com mittees or boards will receive $50 for extra duties By PETER DEPODESTA Examiner Staff Reporter Only two proposed rent in creases were granted un changed by the Barrie and area rent review office in 19 hearings held during March Bob Bentley rent review of ficer for Simcoe County and Muskoka District said 10 deci sions were made giving two increases of eight and 15 per cent Nineteen roll backs or reduc tions and six rebates were ordered Most of the decisions be said involved buildings with more than one rental unit The nine remaining hearings had decisions deferred until landlords provide more in formation justifying proposed increases Rent increascs are limited to eight per cent year by the tario Residential Premises Rent Review Act The Barrie office has about 1300 applications but many are duplications About 353 hear ings are scheduled The provincial government set an eightweek time limit for review offices to hold hearings and Mr Bentley said his ap plications should be completed by midMay Its only because the staff did such an excellent job in February organizing the office that we were able to start hear ings right away he said Mr Bentley said starting next week hearings are scheduled in Orillia and Barrie doubling the amount of work in week The usual days for hearings are Tuesdays Wednesdays and Thursdays So far the tempers and at titudes of people have been verv cooperative and pretty lower rent and the increase was over eight per cent understanding he said As general observation Id say the herings created lot more understanding between both sides NOT SERIOUS One problem he said is that many landlords are not serious about supplying financial in formation for the rent review officer The landlords have to attend hearings financially prepared to justify any increases over eight per cent he said If the landlord wants quick deicision than he better come to the hearing well prepared Mr Bentley said The landlord has to establish that he has extra expenses and has tried to spread this expense over all his rental units in building The purpose of the act he BOB BENTLEY said is to protect tenants while guaranteeing the landlord con tinues to make the same profit from building by charging nent increases to cover new or increasing expenses The 10 decisions made by the review office included 27 landlord applications and three tenant applications he said ad ding that one rent increase was nullified because tenant applied for justification but the landlord did not attend hear ing No tenant should be afraid to apply for hearing Mr Bentley said Its just fac tual look at figures and if the landlord has justified in crease then he should welcome the hearing He said new tenants moving into building can also request justification hearing if they believe previous tenants paid No checks on rents Barrics rent review office is not sending people to check rents in city apartment buildings Bob Bentley rent review officers says Mr Bentley said people pos ing as representatives of the Simcoe CountyMuskoka District rent review office are checking rents in some buildings by going doortodoor We dont operate that way be said cant think of any reason Id have to send anyone out to check rents Mr Bentley said residents are under no obligation to give infornuition to people going dtmrtodoor