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EXAMINER TELEPHONES Circulation 7266539 Classified Advertising All Other Departments 112th Year No l2l 72824l4 7266537 The Barrie Examiner Barrie Ontario Canada Saturday May 22 I976 Che Titanic Examiner WEATHER FORECAST Mainly cloudy today and Sun day few showers tonight high Sunday 14 Low Per Copy Carrier Home Delivery 85 Weekly 20Pages READYFOR Kevin Beaupre left and Doug Boynton of the Red Sox get chance to select their uniforms in readiness for Sundays league opener The Red Sox open the South Simcoe Baseball League in Orillia against the Majors the defending league champions The 10 team group swings into ac tion over the holiday weekend Ivy Leafs host Alliston in 630 pm en Graveside pledge by AIM leaders BROCKEI Alta tCP Ca nadian leaders of the American Indian Movement AIM made graveside promise to Nelson Small Legs Jr on Friday vow ing to realize the ideas for which he took his ownlife Mr Small Legs 23 father of threeyearold and oneyear old daughters shot himself Sunday in his home near this Indian community 50 miles west of Lethbridge proclaiming his death protest to the present con ditions concerning the Indian people of southern Alberta The former southern Alberta director of AIM left three sui cide notesAto movement lead ers to the people and to rela FIDDLEHEADS SPARROWS AND TENT CATERPILLARS ITS SPRING IN SIMCOE COUNT tives the latter directing the way his personal effects were to behandled In the other notes he called for an investigation of the fed aal department of Indian af fairs and for the resignation of the departments minister Judd Buchanan LEADERS SALUTE As AIM leaders raised their arms in clenchedfist salute over the grave and gathered around drum to chant their mourning Ed Burnstick of Ed monton national director of AIM said Mr Small Legs notes would never be forgotten by the Indian people who would never let Indian affairs forget them ANOTHERSEASON counter Sunday to round out the local activity First home game for the Sox is Wednesday pm at the Barrie Fairgrounds aga inst the Tottenham Bears Examiner Photo OPP officer dies at 29 Funeral services will be held in Oshawa for Constable Darryl Vemon Welsh of the Ontario Provincial Police Barrie who died suddenly in Stroud lie was in his 30th year Constable Welsh had been member of the WP for five and half years all served in Barrie His hobby was raising Engliin sheep dogs He is survived by his parents Vernon and Jean nette Welsh of Oshawa and his brother Dennis of Fenlon Falls Constable Welsh is resting at the McIntosh Anderson Funeral Home 132 King St Oshawa Friends may call beginning Sunday evening and services will be in the chapel at pm Tuesday Burial will take place in Union Cemetery an sought intarrie robbery try Barrie Police are seeking man involved in an attempted robbery at Henrys Fish and Chips store at the Barrie Plaza Friday at 10 pm Mrs Warnaar wife of Ar thur Warnaar the owner said the man came into the store ordered four orders of fish and chips and then pilled knife Mr Warnaar threw hot geasc on the man and he fled Police are looking for man about 20 years old five feet eight inches tall slim mild and weighing 140 to 150 pounds He has dark brown shoul derlength hair and is well tanned He was described as wear ing read and black plaid shirt jean jacket bell bottom jeans and silver chain with silver diamond medallionaroundhisneck He is believed to have burns on his hands and arms and is armed with switch bladeknife SAFETY PATROLLER HONORED Gallop With the award for safety patroller of the month Examiner Photo Chairman of the Kinsmen Safety Patrol committee Don Lee at left and Bar rie Police Department safety officer Garry Logan were on hand Friday to present grade eight Allan dale Heights student Gail Death toll reaches 28 Hijackers release passengers in exchange for food drink in US bus accident MARTINEZ Calif AP It was like bad dream said Perry Martin who awoke from nap inside bus as it plunged from highway ramp across the bay from San Francisco killing 28 persons on high school choir tour All can remember is wak ing up and seeing everything turning around and around and around said Martin who suf fered only sprained wrist and some cuts held onto seat so that was hanging above lot of other people Martin an 18yearold senior at Yuha City High School was me of 24 survivors His girl friend ltryearold Kris Huston was among the dead Eleven of the survivors were in critical mndition and two were listed as guarded At the wheel officials said was Evan Prothcro 50 who had record of two traffic con victions since 1970rone for drunken driving and one for sixeding He was in semicriti GBSSAA RUGBY Central wins 2divisi0ns liarrics entral ollegiate made it double at yester days Georgian Bay Secon dary School Athletic Associa tion iBSSAA scvcnaside rugby tournament held at Radio Shack playing field in Barrie Thi entral senior and junior teams both won their respective filial matches The Seniors in closely fought final game defeated Harrie North ollcgiate 64 At one point in the game North was leading 10 with an unconverted try and in the closing minutes of play cn tral scored on converted try and won the game In the junior division the cntral squad was down 80 against Brock District High School in the final game but ended by taking the match LESIll In the Bantam division Brock downed Eastview 10 in Ultlllltll special division where players must weigh under 115 pounds and be under It years of age was taken by Stouff ville who won all their games Winners in yesterdays games are now slated to com pete in the AllOntario scvcn asitlc rugby tournament at Guelph May 29 Next Friday lIISSAA rugby tournament will he held at the Radio Shack field lSasidc cal condition ROOF RLSIIED Just before noon the 2year old chartered bus smashed through 90 feet of steel guard tail on curved highway exit ramp and landed upside down trushingits roof guess we were just going too fast said another sur vivor Tom Randolph The speed limit on the ramp is 20 miles an hour Police were investigating the cause of the crash Two persons were ejected from the bus when it landed 30 feet below But most survivors had to wait while rescue work as cut their way through the wreckage and two cranes la bored to right the vehicle batters From REUTERAP MANILA CP Six hijack ers holding Philippines Airline BAG111 at gunpoint at Mindanao airport today released four women passengers and their nine children in return for food and drink airline sources said Release of the hostages was the first breakthrough for the military team negotiating with the hijackers The military refused earlier to provide food and water to the hijackers and their 109 hos tages including two US citi zens The sources had few details about the reed hostages except that they were all Filipinos and that at least one was an infant They reported that the hijackers earlier today called Ford will try to dent Reagan support today By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS President Ford took his cam paign to Oregon today at tempting to dent Ronald Reagans strength in Western states Reagan meanwhile raised the possibility of selling the Tennesseee Valley Authority TVA an issue which put crimp in Senator Barry Goldwaters 1964 presidential campaign After his twoday swing through Oregon where Republican voters hold their presidential primary next Tuesday Ford heads for southern California Sunday at ternoon and then to Los Vegas Monday Reagan generally is seen as the favorite in Nevada and is expected to be formidable op ponent in his home states race mJuneB In addition to Oregon and Ne vada Ford will be competing against Iicagan on Tuesday in Idaho Tennessee Kentucky Howard Hughes being of and Arkansas sound mind The six primaries represent 176 Republican convention dele ytes and 191 Democratic dele gates Reagan now has 528 com mitted delegates to 479 for Ford 322 are uncommitted and 1130 are needed for nomination DEMOCRATS Former Georgia governor Jimmy Carter leads the Demo crats with 714 and Arizona Rep resentative Morris Udall is his closest contender with 275 1505 delegates are needed to nominate Replying to question in Nashville on Friday Reagan said the sale of TVA power fa cilities to private industry is something to look at He later backtracked saying he has no plans to sell the TVA and could not as president since the TVA was created by Congress Ford meanwhile said in his interview with the Tennessee journalists that he has heard no complaints about TVA oper ations but perhaps the situ ation should be reexamined for food for themselves and the hostages The military said they would first have to release the moth ers and children The communication line to the hijackers went dead at this point but apparently the gun men then reconsidered Area road traffic heavy Ontario Provincial Police Barrie report traffic was heavier than usual in the nor thbound lanes of Highway 400 Friday night PPS head office in Toron to expects the heavy traffic to continue throughout today and again Monday Despite thetraffic only one major accident was reported threevehicle collision Friday at 730 pm on Highway 400 at Highway 93 resulted in an estimated $5550 damage but only few minor injuries The first vehicle driven by Gwenythe Crosdale of Sud bury received $2000 damage the second vehicle driven by Melvyn Carl Buc ker of Elmvale received $750 damage and the third vehi cle driven by Colin Metcalfe of Toronto received $2800 damage