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CONSTABLE Terry Hogan from the Barrie Ontario Provincial Police Detach TDDD QCINN strains to tighten his mirror as he watches fellow classmates ment hands Forest Hill stu dent Andrew Spence the results of his safety check course through sections of bicycle safety rodeo held 1w during bicycle safety rodeo held at the Midhurst School Friday afternoon Friday afternoon at Forest Hill School in Midhurst Headline was wrong crown not singled out All lawyers involved in the current session of County Court were criticized by Judge Clare Thursday for not having cases ready to goahead with Judge Clare was not referr ing specifically to Crown At torney John Murphy as headline in Fridays Ex aminer said Judge Clare said in court Thursday jury court cannot be operated just to meet the TERRY IIAUGIITON Sunday is Mothers Day So some Barrie residents were asked if we really need day set aside in appreciation of mothers Terry Haughton mother of two says she likes the idea da Mothers Dav convenience of counsel His remarks were made to jury panel of 65 members who had appeared at court Wednesday for jury duty Crown Attorney John Mur was ready to proceed with the case of Darlene Duhamel charged with assault causing bodily harm She did not appear in court and her lawyer was busy in another court Mr Murphy told the court we really ne asde f0 meters bUIlUV IV llIUlllanl Its the day when can remember my mother and all the things shes done for me Its the one day can make special effort for her and like to give her card and nice red rose Suzanne Graham mother bench warrant issued for the woman Judge Clare said he would make representations to en sure the situation is not repeated and said We cant operate jury court just to meet the convenience of counsel He was referring to lawyers for other cases before the court not Mr Mur phy was PARENTS involved with the bicycle rodeo brought younger brothers and STUDENTS TEST DRIVING SKILLS BIKES IN OPP sisters to watch The pro gram for the rodeo in volved such things as safe ty quiz parent safety check OPP check zig zag course mockup in SAFETY ROADEO terscction figure eight narrowmg course and crosscountry course Hanging issue splits clergymen in Barrie By RICHARD DUNSTAN Examiner Staff Reporter The approaching House of Commons vote on the future of capital punishment is ex pected to provoke vigorous and bitter debate both on Parliament Hill and across Canada The Christian clergy of Canada appear to be just as much spilt as the country at large over the issueso much so that Rev John Speers of Trinity Anglican Church president of the Barrie and District Ministerial Association says it would be impossible to get that body to produce resolution on the subject It would divide us too badly he explains An Examiner survey of Barrie clergy of variety of denominations reflected this division Of eight clergymen polled four favored the death penalty and four opposed it Heading the list of those polled are two leading of ficers of the ministerial associationone for one against Ive always been opposed to capital punishment says Mr Speers really dont think men should take it into their own hands to take human life either one way or the other Mr Speers says he is not terribly positive about the issue and can see strong arguments on both sides However he attributes much of the current wave of prohanging sentiment to scare argument which demands that society get tough on crime and get ting tough isnt always the waysocietysillsaresolved OTHER SIDE On the other side is Rev Wayne Domm of Faith Missionary Church secretary of the association In the Old Testament Pastor Domm says the law is an eye for an eye tooth for tooth In the New Testament there is degree of lessening of that law he says but murder is still sin in the sight of God capital punishment should continue He says olicemen and pison guar in particular should have the protection the threat of hanging their killers provides but would think that all premeditated murder would be punishable bydeath Some argue that capital punishment entails risk of putting an innocent man to death but Pastor Domm em phasizes his belie that no in nocent man can be executed unless God allows it to be so Capt Gary Venables of the Salvation Army reflects in his own person the split in the country and in the clergy As human being Im kind of procapital punish ment he says but as Christian find it hard to bring in line with how Christ would view it The Old Testament com mands eye for eye he says but Christ turns that right around and commands us to do good to those who harm us He says he is unsure how he would feel if member of his own family were murdered and acknowledges the frustration with violent society which makes hanging attractive as deterrent but if the issue came to vote ultimately Id probably havetovoteagainstit DETERRENT TO MURDER Inn Roach of the Church Of Christ says he is in total agreement with capital punishment as deterrent to murder God is God of love but He also uses laws to punish things that are considered evilhesays However Mr Roach says he thinks it wrong to hang those who are convicted of murder solely on cir cumstantial evidence Rev Arthur Storey of Grace United Church says he REV JOHN SPEERS REV WAYNE DOMM Many displays planned for police week here Police Week in Barrie begins Monday and there will be displays in both the Georgian and Bayfield Malls Barrie City Police will have Constable Gary Logan the forces safety officer ex plaining the various aspects of police work in Barrie in the Bayfield Mall main attrac tion in the display will he the police boat and there will also be great deal of in formation on safety Bicycle safety one big area of concern for police forces will be concentrated on There will also he films on safety The display will represent all sections of policework At the police station on Vespra Street there will be flVQ UIRHV REPORTER ASKS NORMA MCDAIU of five thinks Mothers Day is getting too commercial But on the other hand being mother herself she likes to feel appreciated Norma McDaid has 11 children and believes we definitely need such day PERCY FAULKNER It starts kids thinking and it gives them the opportunity to do something concrete for their mothers Percy Faulkner is father and thinks Mothers Day is certainly needed However he too thinks its BRIAN Mlllll getting too commercial and says it should not be confined toa single day of the year Brian Moffitt says Yes sure we need Mothers Day They need rest sometime too dontthey Rov Schuett doesnt think tours for schoolchildren Ac cording to Sgt Ralph Berry the tours will be going on all week with scheduling in order to accommodate as many children as possible The Barrie Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police has dropped office tours from its schedule but has display planned at the Georgian Mall Again the display will in clude all areas of police work and will include police boat In conjunction with the OPP display will be presen tation by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police The RCMP which enforces the Narcotics Control Act and other federal statutes will show Mall visitors what kind of work it does ROY SCIIUEIT we need Mothers Day Its become commercially ex plonted he savs Al Christie says if it werent for our mothers none of us would be here Sure we need Mothers Day has written twice to Simcoe North MP Dr Rynard to oppose hanging It runs against the whole pattern of creation he says To me as Christian our whole business is involved in creating life and sustaining it Mr Storey says that in ad dition to ban on capital punishment he would like to see changes in the judicial and penal system to provide better protection from criminals and at the same time give more humane treatment to those in prison Rev John OBrien of St Marys Catholic Church says he favors capital punishment as deterrent particularly for killers of policemen and nrison guards but for other premeditated murderers as well Im just thinking more of the victim than of the criminal he says However Father OBrien says the eye for an eye text from the Old Testament is not properly interpreted as call for vengeance but rather as command that he who destroys an eye or life shall make restitution or in the case of murder support the family of the victim VIOLATES ETIIIC Rev Ray Waldock of First Baptist Church former ministerial asssociation president says he opposes capital punishment both because of the chance of executing an innocent man and because it violates the Christian ethic of love Im against the taking of human life period he says think capital punishment is not in accord with the New Testament ethic Pastor Waldock also calls for wholesale cleanup of the penal system to provide an environment which en courages criminals to reform rather than to learn to be bet tercriminals Rev John Klein of the Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd says he favors capital nunishment for all premeditated murders not just killings of prison guards and policemen though he notes that he would advocate leniency for murderers suf fering from mental illness Generally speaking when person is sane and plans murder think there should be capital punishment all the way through he says 4w xrffi ig AIIIRISIIE Beth Moffittv who only recently became mother and whose photo we missed says we dont particularly need Mothers Day Every day 15 Mothers Day isnt it Examiner Photos CHRISTY BAIRD concen trates hard on maintaining balance as she tries to ride her bicycle through the firm narrowing course without losmg any points Ex aminer Photos Rolf Kraiker 119 matrix Examiner CITYNEWS The Barrie Examiner Saturday May 19761 Mobile park residents await review decision Sixtyfour Sandy Cove residents objecting to rent increase are waiting for an Ontario rent review board decision About 100 residents of the mobile home park voiced ob jections to increases in maintenance andtax fees ata hearing in Barrie Wednesday Rob Bentley the local rent review officer said Friday He said the Sandy Cove situation is unique as its like small private town with its own water and sewage plant The tenants who own their LOCAL HOUSING TOPIC Paul Arbour real estate broker and former chairman of the city housing com mittee will discuss the housing crisis with the Barrie Kiwanis Club Monday The clubs dinner meeting starts at 615 pm at the Holiday nn SEMINAR SET Region of the Ontario Real Estate Association has set Sept 29 as the date for its mobile homes but rent land and pay service and maintenance costs had good meeting that lasted about four hours The landlord of the mobile home subdivision south of Barrie Sandy Cove Acres Ltd presented arguments in support of the increased maintenance fees he said Since the applications are each different he could not give an average rent increase asked by the landlord Bill Barnier president of the homeowners association could not be reached for com ment GENERAL annual education seminar to be held at Fern Resort in Orillia The region comprises real estate boards from Bar rie Orillia Midland Penetanguishene Coll ingwood Orangeville Muskoka and Parrv Sound SPRING TEA The social committee of ParkView Centre is holding Spring Tea and Bake Sale at the centre on Saturday May ts from to pm Admission is 75 cents Small family trend changes house needs The days of rambling four bedroom houses are gone in Barrie says the just completed Housing Policy Statement of the citys housingcommittee The report points out also that recent trend in Barrie is to smaller families which makes large multiple bedroom housing obsolete The average size of household is 29 people twobedroom house would be an ideal marketable product because the size of the average family is down Norman Shelswell member of the city housing committee says The housing committee has been pushing for smaller houses on smaller lots with fewer frills during the past year as one way to bring housing costs down Rental accommodation here comprises 37 per cent of the total housing available Most of the units however are substandard for family accommodation This has touched off some rather dangerous mods which the study says appear to be increasing annually Families are being forced to seek less expensive ac commodation elsewhere in Simcoe tount and their commuting costs wul even malty erode family savings and keep them from ever being able to afford house in Barrie Also if they continue to rent in the hopes of saving for downpayment they may find themselves paying more money for rent in the long run than if they owned their own house Long tenancy can very of ten be more expensive Specially if more elaborate forms of rental ac commodation are required such as threebedroom apart ments or townhousing Since the development of new rental units is not at tractive to developers because of high mortgage rates the immediate ad vantages of condominiums for medium and highdensity housing are increasingly favored resulting in the slow atrophication of the rental market Barrie has about 2020 apartments in buildings with six or more dwelling units 0f the 581 row townhouses in the city 88 are rental with vacancy rate of zero The study also notes with some concern that all future prospects of rowhousing con struction are for con dominium usage