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Separate board cuts professional development days By SHEILA McGOVERN Examiner Staff Reporter The Simcoe County Roman Catholic Separate School board has reduced the number of professional development days it will pro vide its teachers but the move could be costly Wednesday night Gabriel Marchand chairman of the school year committee said the trustees and principals on the committee had reed to six professional deve opment days at the elementary level and seven at the junior high school level Mr Marchand said the ministry of education allows for 11 nonteaching days in the school year but the com mittee after considering all political and financial aspects including use of the days decided all 11 were not necessary The trustee said the prin cipals had expected cuts in the number of days and were relatively happy although the feeling was not unanimous Trustees had instructed the school year committee to con sider reducing the number of professional development days as many parents had expressed concern over the number of teaching days nussed during school year However in following the wishes of parents the board may end up paying more for transportation The separate school board generally meets with com mittee from the Simcoe County Board of Education to arrange the off days as the two boards share transporta tionroutes Mr Marchand said the separate school committee had offered to meet with the public board but it had decid ed the meeting was not necessary because the two were far apart in their plans The public board commit tee is ex ted to announce its decisron at its April 28 meeting and should that committee opt for the full 11 days there would be at least five days in the school year when the separate board would hve to operate bus alone Corbiere superinteni dent of business said this could cost the board between $8500 and $9500 Mr Marchand said the financial aspect had been considered but professional development days are intend ed to be used for teacher education and his committee felt 11 days were too many Yvonne Healey trustee for Elmvale and area question ed whether the board should have its elementary students come back to school during the last week of June 1977 She said it could happen that the board would be runn ing buses for two days with no students on them Lloyd LaPlume of Midland agreed sayin he believed the last dayso June were the most important days for teachers as they would be preparing for the coming year The committees report was adoptedon 63 vote The ment rofessional develop ays for the school year 197677 will be Sept 24 all schools exce St Theresas high schoo Nov 25 all schools except St Theresas and St Josephs junior high school Nov 26 all schools Jan 28 St Theresas only Feb 16 all schools but St Theresas June 24 St Theresas only June 27 and 28 St Theresas and St Josephs only and June 29 and 30 all schools Eh limit Examine Public forces house costs up CITY NEWS The Barrie Examiner Thursday April 22 19769 LOCAL GENERAL ART TOUR The Georgian Guild will sponsor tour of six art studios Saturday from 11 am to pm followed by tea at Trinity Anglican Church Tickets are $3 from adults $1 for students or senior citizens and are available at the Firehall or at Trinity SQUARE DANCERS Square dancers from across Ontario are coming to Barrie Saturday to perform at North Collegiate from pm until midnight About 800 costumed thncers will follow music and calls in the 8th Annual Square Dance Promenade Every year proceeds from the event are used for com munity programs and this year the funds will go to the Simcoe County Childrens Aid Society to help operate the summer camp program Local callers Lorne Hay Betty Hay Mac Marcellus Ernie Brown and Al Calhoun will provide variety of calls and music with guest callers Norm Wilcox of Brampton and Earle Park of Yorkton Sask BAZAAR AND AUCTION The Knights of Columbus are holding bazaar and auc tion Saturday beginning at 12 noon at the Embassy Hall Items for sale include new and used lawn furniture new and used household furniture new and used clothing fruit sealers of all types ap pliances antiques garden tools and lawn mowers Bingo games will be held during the afternoon Proceeds are for charity FOLK OPERA Wind on the Prairie folk Qera is being performed at Georgian College Theatre tonight at8pm The opera by David Ar chibald is the story of Louis Rail and involves the use of three screens on which slide images are projected The production includes three musicians David Ar chibald James Gordon and James Hardy who are well known in Southern Ontario Tickets for the production are available at Sams The Record Man and at the col kge PERFORM BRAHMS King Edward Choir will present German Re iem by Brahms this Sun fiy at 730 pm in Collier Street United Church Susan Ricketts of Barrie and John Wilkins of Toronto will be the giest soloists and Charles Woodrow of Orillia will be guest organist Some tickets are still available and may be obtained by telephoning Jean Dobson at 7284671 CHILDRENS ACTIVITIES The Barrie Public Library has planned three childrens activities for May On May it will be Meet an Artist in which children from age five and up will spend an after noon with artist Allan Beckley May 15 Be Gardener will help children age five and up learn little about growing plants May 29 paste and pa party will be held for chi dren age five to eight years The ses sions will be held at the childrens annex on Mul caster Street SPRING CONCERT The Eastview Concert Choir Singers and String Or chestra are holding spring concert Tuesday May at pm at the Georgian College Theatre Tickets prices are $2 for adults and 75 cents for students CELEBRATE ANNIVERSARY The Brereton Field Naturalists will mark special event this month when it celebrates the 25th Anniversary of the clubs founding in 1951 The club bears the name of the late Dr Brereton who encourag ed its formation for the benefit and enjoyment of many nature lovers in the Barrie area On Thursday April 29th at St Georges Anglican Church Burton Ave Barrie at 630 pm the annual meeting and pot luck supper will be held All pre sent and former members will be most welcome On the program will be Dr Nancy Ironside of Orillia narrating her adventurous trip by canoe down the Nahanni River in the Northwest Ter ritories CUBS HOLD SALE The First Barrie beavers cubs and scouts are holding garage sale May 15 at 210 Toronto Street from am to pm All proceeds go towards the organization for young boys ang girls DEFENDO STARTS The Barrie YMYWCA will begin 10week course in Defendo starting Wednesday The course will run every Wednesday evening from 530 to 630 for children aged 10 to 17 and from to for adults The course will be in structed by Bill Underwood originator of Defendo Fur ther information may be ob tained by telephoning 726 6421 or visiting the at 22 Grove St developer group chief claims The publics Im all right Jack opposition to popula tion growth is primarily responsible for the high cost of housing in Ontario the president of the Urban Development Institute told the Greater Barrie Chamber of Commerce Wednesday Somer Rumm who is land vicepresident for Con solidated Building Corp of Toronto said this climate of public opinion leads govern ments to place roadblocks in the way of development and these roadblocks rather than market forces are resonsible for skyrocketing housing prices As result he said developments which should take three months to Cget ap proval may instea take three years in Barrie or as much as six in Toronto and semidetached home in Bar rie which ought to sell for $31000 or $32000 instead sells for $39000 to $42000 Developers are blamed for these prices only because they are an easy and obvious scapegoat he said He said the public does not really want housing prices reduced partly because of fear by homeowners that the market value of their own homes will suffer as result partly because lower housing rices mean more people will homes and we dont want all those people around But we have no right he said to try to stop people moving to Barrie or Toronto or wherever else they wish to live think we have duty to provide the housing at price they can afford he said TWO WAYS Government roadblocks drive prices up in at least two ways he said First if developer is only able to do business one year out of three or four because of such obstacles his prices will reflect the need to cover his overhead during the un productive period Secondly roadblocks create shortage of supply and peo le who want homes must bi prices up to compete for the available housing The housing industry is subject to exactly the same law of supply and demand as other industries he said To keep prices down he said community with an annual demand for 1000 homes must allow 1200 rather than 950 building lots to come on the market variety of techniques are available to municipalities to reduce housing prices he said Among these are creative use of higher den sities provision of greater variety of housing types as governed by the market opening up more than one area at time for develop ment in given community and especially avoiding unreasonable servicing re quirements He said munici alities often requrre si ewalks where none are needed 12 inch sewer ipes when eight inches will the job lavish recreational faclities and other unnecessary hard and soft services all of which makes it harder for newcomers to afford homes in the first place Our priorities shouldnt be Cadillac before we can drive any car atall he said INITIATION FEES He said lot lveies are often set higher than reasonable service requirements would dictate and serve in effect as initiation fees for those who wish to move into the com munity Mr Rumm also took swipes at rent control and at restric tions on residential develop ment on agricultural land He said rent control was the political thing to do for all parties but was the worst thing that could happen to this province There are very few rental units that are going to be built in the next few years because of rent controls he said He said farmers are cry ing the false wolf about farmland shortages in order to raise food prices There is so much agricultural land in this pro vince that isnt being farm ed that its unbelievable hesaid He said Southern Ontario has about 30000 square miles of easilyfarmed agricultural land much of which is not be ing farmed efficiently and only about 550 square miles of it will be needed for urban development by the turn of the century We need food he said but we shouldnt be panick ing about it because the farmers want to raise the price of food Can blame labor for opposition Rynard says at meeting of chamber Organized labor cannot be blamed for its opposition to the federal wage and price control program in view of the governments own lack of restraint Dr Rynard MP PCSimcoe North said Wednesday Dr Rynard made the com ment in an interview follow ing luncheon address to members of the Greater Bars rie Chamber of Commerce He said it is unreasonable to expect unions to be content with eight per cent increases when they see the federal budget rising 20 per cent You cant blame the laboring man because government is not setting an examplehesaid Dr Rynard told chamber members governments should be run in more businesslike manner and he agreed with suggestion from chamber general manager Bob Hollywood that more businessmen should be elected to parliament Businessmen he said must plan ahead and be efficient if they hope to succeed Governments never look ahead they just go ahead and plunge he said He attacked both the federal and the Ontario governments for their handl ing of the health care issueAOttawa for forcing On tario into nationwide medicare when the province already had successful medical scheme and both levels for lack of planning in health care spending leading to the current Ontario pro gram of hospital closings DR RYNARI and other health care cut backs He said the provincial austerity program has thrown 5000 people out of work many of whom must go on unemployment insurance The taxpayer he said is paying or government mistakes two ways in decreased service and in tax contributions to the unemployment insurance system Now he said about 4500 nurses are about to graduate in Ontario at time when Canada Manpower records show only one opening for nurse in the province Governments have helped educate these nurses he said and have no place for them Any corporation that would run business like that would be broke he said Governments are running far too much of our lives and theyremessingitup Dr Rynard also blasted the unemployment insurance program the federal bil in ualism program the eral deficit and Prime Minister Pierre Trudeaus policy toward Cuba We have got the worst unemployment insurance One of the best programs of season given at symphony concert Wednesday By MURIEL LEEPER Solo piano chorus and or chestra plus 5010 trumpet with orchestra highlighted the Huronia Symphony Con cert Wednesday night giving goodsized responsive au dience one of the best pro grams of the 197576 season The concert level of per formance came as something of surprise Beethovens Choral Fantasy is seldom heard thus the au dience was not quite sure what to expect But from the opening iano solo of large solemn ords of unutterable sadness they were cap tivated Craig Winters young 23yearold pianist gave brilliant performance His playing besides being technically clear and lucid had startling ring of authority Mr Winters even managed PIANIST CRAIG Winters performed solo pieces of Beethovens Choral Fan tasy during the final con cert of the Huronia Sym phony Orchestra series Wednesday at Central Col legiate The concert also featured trumpet soloist Stanley Elliotson in the Hummel Trumpet Concert Examiner Photo to draw beautiful and singing tone from the piano on the Collegiate stage an in strument long since past its time of glorious sound Vir tuosity and musical sen sitivity is the mark of this Canadian pianist As the Fantasy developed the blend of orchestra and piano became solid unit and then the choir entered Arthur Burgin caught in his grasp the entire group of or chestra and chorus nearly 100 people plus the piano soloist and brought dramatic moments before the listeners It was good performance thatshoul beheardagain The chorus for this great work by Beethoven was The Cantabile Chorale The 45 voices sing as beautiful cohesive group under Robert Richardson their founder and director The solo voices were controlled and absolute ly secure in pitch It was good choir well trained The Beethoven Choral Fan tasy highlighted dramatical ly the first half of the re gram which opened wit wellplaced Toccata by Frescobaldi and legato melodic Air for String 0r chestra by Arne Hummels Trumpet Con certo in flat highlighted the second half of the pro am Stanley Elliotson trumpet soloist is well known is Bar rie and for many miles around He became something of star while with the Central Collegiate Band Now that he directs his own student band at Coll ingwood Collegiate it was happy thought to have him play here again as solo ar tist The Hummel Trumpet Con certo is technically dif ficult one Mr Elliotson however seemed to revel in the difficulties and enjoyed the innumerable trills and turns He captured the spirit the concerto particularly in the last movement com pletely captivating the crowd The Rondo was delight SECOND HALF On this second half of the program the Cantabile Chorale sang group of solos Songs ranged from Thomp sons Choose Something Like Star Godfre Ridouts WhenA eand Yout Unite with wor by Claude Bissell rhythmic favorite Negro Spiritual arranged by ShawParker Want to Die Easy and the popular Imagination by BurkeVan Hewson But perhaps the most pleasing of the group was the charming songs from Auntie Mame by Jerry Her man Director Robert Richardson used wide range of dynamics and long legato phrases These two ef fects are perhaps the trademark of the Thornhill choir The two pieces from Eric Coates London Suite were studies in contrast fund that there is in the world and one of the dearest for an industrial country he said He criticized as failure Ottawas expenditure of $120 million to teach 10000 civil servants French program he said had only 10 per cent success rate The $5 billion federal deficit he said prevents the government from keeping taxes down as it should Thats the way you make prosperity is cut taxes as low as you can he said He said Mr Trudeau was wrong to lend $100000 at three per cent to Cuba country sending guerrilla troops to Africa when the money is needed in Canada We at 2959 14 Ben Straughan Barries ci ty clerk is the citys top boss says the Barrie Bran ch of the National Secretaries Association and Helen Foster his secretary who nominated him for the honor Judges BARRIES TOP BOSS Lauries Clark president of Radio Shack Marg Dawson of Reid and Associates and Bob Hollywood general manager of the Barrie chamber of Commerce agreed after reading resumes about bosses writ ten by their secretaries Mr Straughan was given plaque by the Ass iation at dinner Wed esday night at the Continental Inn Examiner Photo Molsons Workers back after work stoppage Employees at Molsons Brewery in Barrie are back on the job today following work stoppage which saw the day shift refuse to report for work Wednesday until pm when company and union of ficials agreed on settle ment of the job assignment grievance which led to the walkout Talks on lesser grievances were to continue this after noon Night shift workers put up picket line at the Big Bay Point Road plant at about am after getting off work at midnight union kesman said today He sai day shift workers who ordinarily report on staggered schedule between and 830 am did not come to work However two employees reported to work to keep the brewe operation going so that no eer would spoil Jim Applegate president of Local 306 National Union of United Brewery Flour Cereal Soft Drink and Distillery Workers of Canada said the work stop page was sparked by the companys action in assign ing student to work in the plant when three proba tionary employees were working in the cohpanys park at lower wage He said the company agreed to remedy the situation Personnel manager Garth Hines blamed the dispute on communications breakdown He said the temporary employee will be sent to the par and one pro bationary employee will return to the plant He said the company will make up the pay difference only pennies to the probationary employee Both sides expressed op timism concerning settle ment of other grievances Most of its petty stuff Mr Applegate said The company is expected to have formal re ly on grievances ready Fri ay and Mr Applegate said it will be submitted to union members Sunday He said he did not consider the walkout true wildcat strike because the employees did not walk off the job but instead failed to report for work in the first place dont feel we did anything wrong he said Sawedoff rifle killed Karen forensic expert says at trial By JOHN WROE Examiner Staff Reporter sawedoff 22 cal rifle found hidden in Eugene Robinsons couch was iden tified as the weapon used to kill Karen Robinson in Supreme Court Wednesday Robinson 32 is charged with the June 25 slaying of his wife 27 and is now standing trial before Mr Justice Goodman He was arrested four days after the murder in the house adjoining the Roll ing Pin Bakery and had becomeasus ctwhen police found the rife hidden in the couch June 26 Finn Neilsen of the Centre of Forensic Sciences in Toronto testified that he ex amined bullets found in the body of Mrs Robinson and determined they were fired from the sawedoff rifle He also examined two shell cas ings and found they had been fired by the rifle One of the casings was found in the bedroom where Mrs Robinson was shot but the other was found in the houses spare bedroom As well this second shell was not found in the course of the regular police investigation when they searched the mom but several days after ward when it was pointed out by Mrs Robinsons father At the same time bullet hole was found in the ceiling of the room Mr Neilsen said he had tested the rifle in his laboratory and had attemp ted to reproduce sound of Bang bang click the sound Robinson told police the gun made when he said two robbers killed his wife THREE TIMES Mr Neilsen said that out of 200 test firings he had only been able to approximate the sound three times when the automatic action of the weapon had described the sound as being more of thud not click He also mentioned that the rifle jammed He th ejected the spent shells weak ly and that they only travell ed about two feet He testified he had seen the bullet hole in the ceiling of the spare bedroom and felt that the sawedoff rifle could not have ejected the shell to the location where it was found six or seven feet away if it was fired from position where it could have made the hole Crown Attorney John Mur phy attempted to qualify Mr Neilsen as an expert witness in the area of what would hap pen to human head when rifle was fired into it but Mr Justice Goodman ruled that Mr Neilsen did not have the necessary expertise in the area of human anatomy WORTH $75000 professional real estate appraiser said that in June 1975 the Rolling Pin Bakery and the adjacent house were worth about $75000 $40000 more than the Robinsons had paid forit Gordon Andrews said he based his appraisal of the market value of the house and bakery on prices paid and offered for other similar buildings in Alcona Beach and predictions of the com munitys growth rate Lawyer Edwin Myers testified that he had examin ed documents pertaining to the Rolling Pin Bakery and the house at the request of the Crown attorneys office He found the entire property had been sold to Karen and Eugene Robinson as oint owners in March 1973 or price of $50000 This was divided into $35000 for the property and buildings and $15000 for the equipment and fixtures in the bakery There was $40000 mortga on the property as we with payments to be $368 per mon Mr Myers ex lained that the joint owners ip contract meant that sole ownership of the property was to be gained by longest surviving part ner and was not an arrange ment that could be changed by will or any other docu ment The trial continues today with defence lawyer Paul Hermiston beginning his case Harpsichordist plays at Grove Park Sunday By MURIEL LEEPER Sunday afternoon program with difference will take place at Grove Park Auditorium Richard Birney Smith Canadian organist and har psichordist has been ac claimed by critics as an ex citing combination of scholar ship musicianship and per sonal electricity The in ternationally recognized musician has performed throughout Europe England and the USA as well as in many centres throughout Canada Because he is har psichordist with the New Chamber Orchestra and organist at St James Church Dundas Ont Mr Birney Smith is sometimes available for performance at Ontario centres At 230 pm Sunday Mr Birney Smith performs on his personal harpsichord at Grove Park Auditorium in Barrie laying both music that stu ents use for their examinations but which were originally composed for harpsichord and also several larger works The Barrie Branch of the Registered Music Teachers Association realizes that this recital will add new dimen sion to the musical education of students in this city and with the assistance of the On tario Arts Council bring this concert to Barrie Only 200 seats are available for next Sunday afternoons Har sichord Recital ult tickets are $2 and students $1 The tickets are available from any teacher of the ORMTA They arealso available by calling the President Mrs Elizabeth Black4363198 BRAHMS REQUIEM Sunday Evening April 25th at Collier Street United Church the lookedfor Brah ms Requiem takes place The King Edward Choir under the direction of Jean Dobson has been rehearsing for some months preparing to perform this great work Even as young man in the midnineteenth century Brahms was force in the world of music He was traditionalist alwa working to counteract rapid trend towards Roman tic school of music Brahms was most con cerned with preserving the skill of taut brilliant and dramatic development of musical work the trademark of the masters of the turn of the 18th and 19th century Brahms strong melodic gift made him natural vocal composer and the Requiem is one of the choral master pieces of its period The spaciousness and grandeur of its lines and the power of its construction will come to life in the accoustically fine chan cel of Collier Street United Church No tickets are available at the door for this concert Tickets are available by calling Jean Dobson at 728 4671