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Inn isfil says es to Sunday Openings STROUDThree lnnisfil Township stores will be allowed to open Sundays during the tourist season In nisfil Council decided Wed nesday Wilsons Supermarket Handy Dominion Hardware both in Alcona Bench and Hogarths Red and White Store in Lefroy were exemp ted from the new provincial regulations governing Sun day store openings despite the objections of Reeve Bill Gibbins dont see the reason for us defeating the provincial regulations Gibbins said Im very much opposed to Sunday store openings and dont mind saying it He said the move would open the door for Sundav opening of all stores in the municipality regardless of whether they are in tourist area or not question whether some of these stores are open Sun day to serve resort areas Mr Gibbins said If they are not solely serving tourists why are we allowing them we The Town of Wasagaheach has passed bylaw exemp ting all its stores from the provmcial regulations and Oro Township has exempted Fudas Food on Highway 11 Mr Gibbins said council was laying the groundwork for any store in the township with the required square feet of floor space and staff to be allowed open Deputyreeve Blake Con stable said council still has the power to include or exem pt individual stores from Sun day openings The stores will only be allowed open Sundays bet ween March 31 and October 31 EXAMINER TELEPHONES WEATHER FORECAST Circulation 7266539 Sunny and warmer today Clossdied Advertising 7282414 AH Other Departments 7266537 Friday 15 112th YearNo 113 As part of Centennial celebrations being held by Prince ofWales School commemorative service was held at Centennial Park Wednesday tree PART OF PRINCE OF WAL supplied by the parks department was planted to commemorate the bir thday Students Todd Arkell Ronnie Dubois and Ken Dube place soil MAMYMMV The Barrie Examiner Barrie Ontario Canada Thursday May 13 1976 VA ES CE around the tree as Jerry VanLeusen from the parks department holds it in place Prince of Wales principal Don Johnston NTENNIAL dressed in costume as he was period made opening and closing remarks at the certiiiony Examiner Ihotoi County board of education okays 11 professional days The Simcoe County Board of Education is giving elementary and secondary school teachers the maximum number of professional development days permitted by the ministry of education Trustees approved report Wednesday providing 11 professional development days next year including seven to nine of them at the end ofJune The board also approved school year with 185 teaching days starting September Next year teachers in semestered secondary schools in Elmvale Collingwood and Stayner will have seven of the 11 days from June 22 to June 30 One development day is scheduled Oct 29 and three fromJan27toJan31 Teachers in all elementary schools and other secondary schools have nine days at the end of the year running from Ramsay says separate board June 20 to June 30 The remaining two days are scheduled Oct 2829 The report by the school year committee came under lengthy debate for the second time in four weeks by the trustees The first time it was sent back to the com mitteeforfurtherstudv But this time the report was accepted in recorded vote 128 with trustees Frank Prothero Audrie Trotter Bill Black Gerald Westcott Guy Lesperance Joe Whelan Bet ty Thompson and Bruce Cum ming opposing the 11 day period One trustee Darryl McKenzie was absent GIVE CHANCE The professional develop ment days are scheduled to give teachers chance to do book and material in ventories text book repairs curriculum development department and grade meetings student coun selling parent interviews report cards and time tabling Mr Prothero led the trustees opposing the 11 days repeating many comments he made at the last board meeting He said the board is trying to keep its budget low but is giving the teachers the maximum allowable days with full salaries He said parents in the area have indicated they want fewer professional develop ment days but the boards ad ministration is bent on giving the maximum days Heavy snow conditions last year he said forced many schools to close during regular school days The students did not have full 185 teaching days allowed by the board Mr Prothcro attacked the boards administration for admitting that little work is accomplished in the schools during the last fivevdays of the school year The question to ask is why not he said Thats terrible thing to admit He said if the teachers can did not want same PD days Teachers in the separate and public schools will not have the same professional development days because the Roman Catholic Separate Board did not want the same days Jack Ramsa director of education to the Simcoe County Board of Education Chrysler The strike at Chrysler Canada Outboards Barrie plant entered its 14th week today with both sides waiting for second mediation list of the 11 proposed days was sent to the separate board before it picked its pro fessional development days The board chose to select days that were diffeient he said Thats their prerogative and its not the job of the administration here th change the days to suit the separate school board Mr Ramsey said the public school boards cool year committee met before the separate school board and sent its recommendations Because the board did not accept the days he said does not mean there is major breakdown in relations strike continues Session scheduled for next Wednesday Mediation talks the first negotiations since the 38 em ployees went out Feb 12 Two counts of fraud follow 1975 bankruptcy Donald Patrick Haney 47 of Barrie has been charged with defrauding creditors af ter the bankruptcy of Barrie Electric Motors and C011 tracting Haneys company which had total liabilities of $91396 92 was Donald Hanney Ltd and operated as Barrie Electric The com pany declared bankruptcy in September of 1975 The RCMP has charged llanney with removing property of the corporation in order to defraud his creditors when it went bankrupt There are two counts of defrauding creditors one for $510 and the other for $900 began last week Wayne Green president of Steelworkers of America Local 6834 said United today about dozen dealers including one from the Barrie area have crossed picket lines since the company began moving merchandise out April 28 Money is the basic issue in dispute Union officials say they have asked for $135 anhour raise over tw0year contract and have been of fered 75 cents over the same period Company officials have declined to comment on the issuesin dis ute Union oficials say the average hourly wage in the plant before the strike was $127 prove the need for the five days extra given to clcmcir tary teachers this year then the board can grant the professional development days But havent seen enough proof tosatisfy me hesaid Joe Whelan trustee said he is upset by the number of professional development days because the schools do not operate during the heavy snow periods Mr Whelan said his son at tends high school in Simcoe County and during some of the snow periods the class played games rather than reviewing old work On snow lays the studen ts get absolutely nothing out of the schools he said want my child to have 185 days of instruction Bill Brown board chair man left the chair during the meeting to speak in favor of the 11 professional days Mr Brown said most of the discussion centred on the June days Donald Watson of Bar ne tries out the Ontario Provmcial Police motorcy 15 Per Copy Carrier Home Delivery 85 Weekly 20 Pages lnnisfil taxes rise only 27 SIRlUDlnnisfil Town ships tax levy for municipal and county purposes will rise 27 per cent to $1400982 in 1976 Residents with $42000 house assessed at $2850 will face tax increase of 43 per cent or $854 according to the 1070 operating budget ac upt by council The budget does not include the Simcoe ounty Board of lklucations tax levy of an ad litioiial $2085021 The budget was described by finance committee llilll man John owaii as the most difficult to prepare ever He said tcdnesday cute backs of provincial grants to municipalities required much work to ensure that the reduced expenditures will have the least effect on the quality of service To generate more revenue to cover costs of operation of township departments coun jl has increased user fees Building permit fees were jacked up 50 per cent he said and user fees for the municipalities recreation facilities have also been in creased ouiicil took additional steps to curb spendiny by voting not to send delegates to conventions outside tario Areducing the number of delegates attending con ventions in the province cancelling funding of em ployee annual banquets decreasing public works department staff holding salary increases to per cent across the board rnot allowing staff salary in creases for the first months of employment not allowing improved fringe benefits for staff other than insurance coverage for volunteer firemen not undertaking new capital projects this year gtemphasi2ing maintenance athci than construction in the public works department All township employees awarded pay increase STROITI All lnnisfil Township employees iii cluding the reeve deputy reevc and three councillors were awarded an eight per cent pay increase in the townships 1976 budget Weve done lot of soul searching to settle at eight per centoun Jack Ana dradc said Wednesday after the $14m982 levy for county and municipal purposes was approved lle defended the pay 111 SIROUI Ontario Treasurer llarcy McKeough GETTING TIlE FEEL OF AN cle on dispaly at the Georgian Mall The OPP and the Royal Canadian crease for elected represen tatives saying they are the lowest paid of any township employee and added nyone who is going to fill the position next year has got to be worth an eight per cent in dense Current honariums for council members are $10000 reevc $7000 deputyreeve and $6000 to the three mun cillors Salaries of top township ad ministrators are now $23539 for chief administrator is expected to meet with Bar rie rillia and Simcoe Coun ty councils in the near future to discuss Barries annexa tion proposal Mr McKcougb in letter read to lnnisfil 1ediiesday denied request from In nisfil for separate meeting prior to the meeting with the other municipalities lnnisfil asked for the meeting with Mr McKeough to outline its planning strategy and to seek advice on how to present its arguments opposing an iiexatioii at an Ontario Municipal Board hearing later this year The minister said he would be glad to arrange meeting alone with lnnisfil later however Mounted Police are using the mall for their Police Week displays Decor PP MOTORCYCLE $20466 for assistant chief ad ministrator $17600 for the fire chief $15500 for the superintendent of public works $14250 for the chief building inspector $13500 for the bylaw enforcement of ficer and $13000 for the plan ning coordinator For comparison Barries city administrator gets $31304 $25327 planning director $25327 engineer $24398 treasurer $23611 clerk $17826 fire chief and $14437 deputyclerk OOPS Remember all the fuss about converting to the metric system The Simcoe County Board of Education in several discussions about conversion said often that the young would be teaching the old the new system But the board hasnt been learning its lessons too well The boards management committee gave temperatures in Fahrenheit not Celsius in report to the trustees Wednesday iii ght energy seatbelt manufacturing company also has display Examiner Photo The lnnisfil Police depart ments operating budget of $485479 up from $413256 dfew fire from Coun Bill Tip pe He said the police depart ments budget increased by 25 per cent and included staff increase of three It doesnt make sense he said The police department is getting larger for town ship that may be getting smaller He was Barries which if successful referring to annexation bid Wlll remove 13500 acres from the township including the com munities of Stroud and Pain swick He also objected to the school boards levy noting that lnnisfil Council has con trol over only 25 per cent of the total levy and ratepayers always blame the local municipality for increasing taxes dont mind standing up for the taxes we levy but we only have control over less than 25 per cent of the total levy Mr Tipple said Vespra tax hike would have been MIDHURST The residential property tax in Vespra township will jump 25 per cent this yearmainly because of higher school costs Vespra council on Wednesday approved residential tax of 156 mills of which 111 mills is required by the Simcoe County Board of Education person with home assessed at $3000 will pay $468 in poperty tax this yearan increase of $92 from last year The total tax levy will be $1293000 with 71 per cent oing to the school board 1512 per cent to the township an 13 per cent to the County of Simcoe The school board levy on Vespra increased 24 per cent this year If it had remained constant the county and municipal levies would have resulted in seven per cent in Iease overall The school board requires 21 additional mills this year the municipality seven mills and the county about three mills Purchase of $42000 fire truck is the biggest expen diture in the municipal budget Last week Oro council announced 23 per cent tax in crease and the village of Elmvale 10 per cent increase Darcy wants joint meeting at ofpeople on citys annexation bid write like Hughes LAS VEGAS Nev AP Wills purported to have been written by Howard Hughes are popping up from coast to coast and longtime em ployee of the late billionaire says think its becoming apparent there are lot of people who can write like Howard Hughes At last count Wednesday there were five documents claimed by various people to be the authentic Hughes will Two wills were delivered by the Clark County cour thouse Wednesday and New York newspaper said it received another in the mail Further adding to the hub CAPSULE NE WS bub was claim that the first and most seriously con sidered will was gag genealogist hired by distant relatives of Hughes told Chicago news con ference Wednesday he has made contact with person in Salt Lake City who claimed to be one of five forgers who wrote the document as joke However William Jones of Nashville Tenn was vague about the person To the public at large it may be carnival but cer tainly its not carnival to the court or any of its attaches said Russell Waite county probate commissioner Off to maximum security MONTREAL CP Two Archambault Institute prisoners who agreed to release tw0 hostages last week in exchange for transfer to Ontarios Warkworth penitentiary security institutions mediumsecurity have been sent to maximum Military is critical WINNIPEG CP Canadas military contribution is critical to nonnuclear defence in Europe and the North Atlantic Thomas Enders United States ambassador to anada said Wednesday Found hanged in cell WINDSOR Ont CP 194yearold Tecumseh Ont man scheduled to appear in court today on theft charge was found hanged in holding cell at police headquarters Wednesday Inflation slackening fluke OTTAWA CP Inflation officially slackened in April to the slowest annual rate in 30 months but prices are still climbing and the slowdown may only be statistical fluke Statistics Canada reported Wednesday that some food prices fell for the fourth consecutive month holding the April rise in the consumer price index to fourtenths of one per cent Says PCs hired MONTREAL CP The spy firm Gazette says the Progressive boservativc party hired multinational security firm directed by former United States government intelligence experts to investigate allegations of Liberal corruption in theSky Shops affair