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Mus$593 OTTAWA CP MPs restraintsprogram gave speedy approval in prin ciple Monday to bill was applamied freezing their salariesand ex ive approval and three Social Credit MPs voted against the pay freeze The bill passed by vigorously by many Liberals December as restraints program said the freeze will mean hardship for part of the centuated by the government decision to introduce an amendment freezin in principle to salary freeze ex Norm Centre that the freeze was only partial forcedthe government to reconsider its loss in expenses is not great sacrifice According to Mr Chretien penses for one year but many seemed bitter they were being forced to forego the sevenpercent raise Marcel Lambert PC+Ed monton West said MPs and senators are being offered as sacrificial lambs in the governments spending and Conservatives during his plea to allow continuation of the raise in the $24000 annual salary and the $10600 yearly taxfree expense allowance But when time came to vote on second readingsapproval in principle+only Mr Lam bert Dave Rooney vote of 125 to many MPs Many of the 262 MPstwo He said some MPs seats are vacantvwere ab struggling to make ends meet sent for the vote Others ab stained All parties but Social Credit off icially approve it GREAT SACRIFICE Even Treasury Board President Jean Chretien who introduced the bill last will suffer great sacrifice as result of the bill which now goes to committee and is expected to get quick passage in the rest of its parliamen tary journey The bitterness seemed ac penses as well as sa aries MPs originally were to receiVe an extra$700 in tax free allowances and only have their salaries frozen However an outcry from some MPs including then Conservative Leader Robert Stanfield and Stanley Knowles NDPvWinnineg decision to exempt expenses MPs will have to pay back about $250 in higher expense cheques they have received since Jan Senators also included in the bill receive $24000 in salaries but only $5300 in ex penses Mr Knowles said the $700 and others he said youd think the whole lot of us here were livin in sackcloth and ashes an thirdfloor tene merits Mr Lambert said MPs have to retain two residences and had to absorb increased expense costs including hotels meals and gasoline EXAMINER TELEPHONES Circulation 7266539 Classified Advertising 7282414 All Other Departments 7266537 l2th Year No l05 The Barrie Examiner Barrie Ontario Canada Tuesday May l976 By PETER DEPODESTA Examiner Staff Reporter City residents were hit with the first part of hefty tax in crease this year after council approved $1049 million budget Monday The $10496732 is largest ever approved by council and will boost taxes by 654 per cent in Barrie The tax rate for residential property increases to 1481 mills from 139 last year while commercial property increases to 1742 mills from WEATHER FORECAST Frequent sunny periods today Not as cold Mostly sunny Wednesday with seasonable temperatures Low tonight Titanic Examiner 15 Per Copy Carrier Home Delivery 85 We kly 416 Pages high Wednesday 18 Ci approves $1049M budget 1635 This increase does not in clude the tax rates for educa tion from the Simcoe County Board of Education or the Simcoe County Roman Catholic Separate School Board The county board approved budget last week which is 25 per cent higher than 1975 but the board has not prepared information detailing Bar ries share of the budget The separate school board has not approved its budget but is expected to pass pro posal Wednesday night at its regular meeting It only took council about three and half hours to pass the budget making very few changes to the finance com mittees proposal The committee recom mended budget totalling $10526432 Council added $1200 for grant to the Barrie Agriculture Society $3500 for maintenance or fix 0R0 TOWNSHIP clerk Henry Neufeld goes over Barries annexation maps Monday with left to right Coun Allan McLean depu rr who Coun Paul Hansen and plans council has Reeve Wallace Key Critical because Barrie did not consult with Oro before announcing annexation Barrie at 730 to meet With city councu in Wednesday Innisfil coun 01 will meet with Barrie in agreed public tonight at pm in the township counCil pm chambers 8th Line at Highway 11 Examiner Photo Heres what it means to the average taxpayer How much are city taxes $261000000lastyear budget and dividing by 1000 ty reeve Charles Simpson Strong objections from Vespra on citys proposed annexation MIDHURST Staff Strong objection was registered to Barries pro posed annexation of 4500 acres of land in Vespra at meeting of the township coun cil here yesterday We intend to fight it all we can said Reeve Alan Johnston in sharp tone CAPSULE NE WS Hydro sitin continues MONTREAL CP Eight HydroQuebec employees continued their occupation of power substation today switching power off and on at Will while police watch but made no attempt to remove them from outsi ed Palace denies reports LONDON CP Buckingham Palace today denied re ports that the opening the Olympic Games Queen will extend her stay in Quebec after 20 die in collision ROTTERDAOM CP The Rhine Express and Dutch commuter train collided hearon near Rotterdam today killing about 20 persons spokesman for the Dutch railway system said Ignore ceasefire appeal BEIRUT AP Lebanese Moslem and Christian forces hammered at each other today with tanks heavy artillery and rockets ignoring new ceasefire appeals Women will know today SAULT STE MARIE Ont CP Delegates to the 27th synod of the Anglican Diocese of Algoma vote today on whether women should be ordained to the ministry reflecting the feeling he said he felt The reeve referred to resolution passed by council which gave authority to engage legal help We are all very much con cerned interjected Deputy Reeve George Buie stating he felt this was great deal to expect Vespra to yield The reeve said Simcoe Georgian task force report stated Barrie annexation shouldnt extend to the Not tawasaga watershed c1aim ing the proposed annexation would do so It takes in altogether too much territory he said ex plaining Vespra would lose some 45 per cent of its assess ment if it were allowed to go through The area would only in clude about three or four per cent of our roads and leave us with the other 96 per cent to keep up and maintain with all that reduced revenue he ad ded It would even include our new $200000 bridge said Deputy Reeve Buie referring to new bridge spanning Willow Creek on St Vincent street which is due to be opened to traffic soon The proposed Barrie an nexation would include the Barrie Country Club golf course and the commercial area on Bayfield street north in Vespra as well as other ad joining land to the city They dont need all that asserted the deputy reeve More details on Vespra stand are reported in story on page Barrie on route of 8m0n th trip Americas bicentennial celebrations are spreading into Barrie next September with reenactment of Robert Cavelicr Sieur de La Salles Montreal to New Orleans voyage group of 24men are star ting the eightmonth voyage August 11 and are scheduled to arrive in the Barrie area AEGOTIA TI ONS DE VILBISS Says talks may make labor history Negotiations at DeVilbiss Canada Ltd in Barrie may be about to make Ontario labor history for the second time in as many months George Stevens national representative for the United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers of America UE said Monday In letter over the signature of Ross Russell na tional director of organiza tion the union has asked pro vincial labor minister Bette Stephenson to establish aputes advisory committee to deal with negotiations if ilbiss officials refuse to it to mediation letter dated day was released to xaminerMonday Stevens said he last believes the disputes ad visory committee would be the first appointed by the minister since the Labor Relations Act was changed to provide for such step In midMarch the Ontario Labor Relations Board OLRB broke ground in the case by finding the company guilty of bargaining in bad faith the first such ruling since the board was given urisdiction over badfaith hargaining The board ordered the firm to bargain in good faith an order enforceable by the Supreme Court of Ontario The letter to Dr Stephen son charges that union of ficials have made every reasonable effort since the ruling to get the company to bargain in good faith but have been unsuccessful because of the firms 19th century approach to collec tive bargaining Mr Stevens said Monday union and company officials have met three times since the OLRB ruling and have resolved some minor issues He said recognition of union stewards seniority and proposed fine for anti company statements by union officials are the chief issues still in dispute Monetary issues have not yet been discussed he said He accused the firm of seeking to undermine the grievance procedure by refusing to recognize September 23 The expedition is asking the city to help sponsor the event by finding campsite near the city for the members The citys finance commit tee is asking for more in formation which is available and will discuss the possibili ty of joint effort with Sim coe County stewards until the third stage the company vice president leavmg an ag greieved worker to pass through the first two stagesforeman and person nel manageralone He said the company wants superseniority for skilled classifications so that workers within such classification could be laid off without regard to seniority and for example welder with 15 years seniority could be laid off while three month man was kept and could only bump an un skilled worker with less seniority than himself He said the firm wants $5000 to $10000 fine per day of violation for any union going to hurt this year For municipal purposes on ly to pay the citys budget the tax rate on residential property increased to 1481 mills from 139 and commer cial property went to 1742 from1635 Tax payments can be calculated by multiplying the assessment of house by the number of mills charged residential or commercial property and dividing by 1000 On house with an average assessment of $20000 taxes will increase by about $18 to $29620 from $278 but this does not include education taxes The citys tax increase is not as bad as expected by many city officials because the city assessment in creased to $370000000 from Oro faces tax hike 0R0 STATION Property taxpayers in Oro township face 23 per cent increase this year according to preliminary figures reviewed Oro council Clark Henry Neufeld said the tax rate cannot be ap proved until official notifica tion of 25 per cent increase in the county school board re quirement is received Oro councils budget tak ing 24 per cent of the total tax is up 10 per cent from 1975 The school board will take 63 per cent of the tax raised The preliminary 1976 levy is about 160 mills represen ting tax of $642 on the average homeowner with property assessed at $4000 press release leaflet to workers oral statement or Similar communication against the company made Without company approval Gerry Williams president of the firm said Monday he was not yet prepared to com ment on union statements Mr Stevens said union of ficials had decided to seek mediation or disputes ad visory committee rather than attempt to invoke penalties for violation of the OLRB rul mg The dispute involves about 110 workers members of UE Local 542 The union was cer tified at the plant last sum mer and is seeking its first collectiveagreement tax rate for city is calculated by multiplying the assessment figure by the This is for commercial tax rate and the residential amount is 15 per cent lower 315mill tax rate approved by Elmvale ELMVALE Increased school costs account for 10 per cent jump in property taxes this year in Elmvale tax rate of 315 mills has been approved by village council representing an addi gtinal $55 on the average tax The average bill on residential property assessed at $18000 will be $568 Payments to the Simcoe County Board of Education and the Simcoe County Roman Catholic Separate gaggle of Barrie youngsters got to meet TVs Mr Dressup Ernie Coombs backstage at Geor ian College Theatre Mon ay after his sellout performance before 2100 School Board will take up about 50 per cent of the total tax The public boards require ment from Elmvale in creased 20 per cent this year The village councils stand pat budget for municipalser vices helped hold down the tax hike to 20 per cent Councils budget of $94827 is down two per cent from last year Clerk Faye Townes said completion of sewer and street projects last year per mitted the reduction children and parents It was the fourth year Mr Dressup has visited Barrie under the sponsorship of the Zeta Lambda chapter of Beta Sigma Phi sorority which donates proceeds to replacement of city hall air conditioner $30000 in revenue figures to offset the proposed expenditure at the citys marina and deletion of $5000 van for the Water Pollution Control Plant COLE SUGGESTED Ald Del Cole one of coun cils representatives on the agricultural societys board suggesting inserting the grant which the finance com mittee did not recommend Ald Cole reminded council of the societys cooperation during the past including its decision to move to allow the Canadian General Electric CGE plant to locate on Bradford Street Also he said the society at tracted the Barrie Raceway holds an annual fair and per mits city teams to use the baseball diamond on the pro perty The society receives grants from Barrie Simcoe County Innisfil and Vespra townships he said AId Alex Arthur finance chairman said his commit tee did not include the grant because of the apparent suc cess of the society He said according to the agriculture societys figures the 1974 revenue figurre was $7000 1975 $114000 while it only paid $61000 in expenses This he said left the socie ty with $53000 net revenue The finance committee recommended including money for the air condition ing unit one of four serving the city hall Ald Arthur said rough heplacement estimate of the basement unit is $3500 but he added the city could spend $1000 to repair it But there would not be any guarantee of how long the machine would operate before MR DRESSUP AND FRIENDS it needed major repairs again he said $30000 REVENUE Council agreed to include the $30000 revenue figure in the city marinas budget to dfset the $117150 in expen ditures The net expenditure for the marina including salaries capital expenditures proper ty rental shoreline maintenance trucking and service costs is $87150 Very little time was spent by council discussing whether $5000 van should remain in the budget The council members decided to delete the van and ask city employees at the pollution control plant to plan time use better with the existing van Whos this Kissinger guy on the menu charity Meeting Mr Dressu and trying on some oi his hats are Jeff Rumble in Bobby helmet Laurelle Boon behind Jeff Steve Run ble top hat Darren McQueen Steve Craig Rumble in Mr Dressups arms and Roann McQueen Wizards hat Examiner Photo next to