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Barrie Examiner, 8 Jun 1976, p. 1

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EXAMINER TELEPHONES Circulation 7266539 Classified Advertising 7282414 All Other Departments 7266537 112th Year No 134 The Barrie Examiner Barrie Ontario Canada Tuesday June afternoon and evening WEATHER FORECAST Sunny and hot today and Wednesday Isolated thunderstorms in the late both All hands are busy at the Canadian Tire Store these days as the countdown be gins for the grand opening next week The expansion and relocation has cost UNTDOWN FOR GRAND OPENING BEGINS multimillion dollars and is expected to quadruple sales See story and photo Fireball fund drive is dragging badlg The Friends of the Fireball fund drive is dragging bad ly far short of its $50000 target with the June 30 deadline for the end of the campaign fast approaching The bad news for FOF sup porters who would like to see the old Collier Street fireball restored and converted into cultural centre was delivered today by Doug Cherry cam paign treasurer its just not happeinin he said noting that contri tions from the corporate and business sectors of the com munity have fallen far short of expectations Total funds raised so far amount to $15000 $5000 from the art auction $5000 from residential blitz and $5000 from an extensive ap eal by letter to city usinesses and financial in stitutions About 1500 letters were mailed out re uesting con tributions and ter fairly good initial reaction the campaign is all but stalled he said There is some coming in dribs and drabs but the large stuff we looked for from the financial and corporate sec tors is just not happening Mr Cherry said He said campaign organ izers will meet Monday to assess the situation and perhaps ask city council for Soday extension of the time limit given to raise the needed capital Any money raised locally will be matched by Wintario CAPSULE NE WS Paisley to complain LONDON CP Rev Ian Paisley controversial Pro testant leader in Northern Ireland says he will make for mal complaint about speech by Ontario AttorneyCeneral Roy McMurtry urging that Paisley be barred from Canada Final ballots cast Voters in California Ohio and New Jersey cast the final ballots of the longest United States presidential primary season today in elections that might tell whether President Ford can be overtaken and whether Jimmy Carter can be stopped Munro tours quake area UlllE ltaly CP As the people of ltalys earthquake country begin to patch together new lives amid the rubble of their homes Canadian Labor Minister John Munro is togring the area today assessing their need for Canadian at grant the FOF has been as sured by the Ontario govem ment It also has verbal pro mises from several other government agencies of unds providing fairly substantial amounts are raisedhere Besides the donations of money the POP has received pledges of material and labor estimated at about $10000 from sympathizers Mr Cherry said These contributions will also be matched by Wintario funds he added The FOF is lookin for total of $75000 from com munity and has raised some what less than $25000 in both money and offers of mater ials and labor to restore the 104yearsold fireball Firefighters avert danger The lnnisfil Township Fire Department cleared away what could have been serious fire before it got started Monday van driven by Dennis Kroul of Willowdale flipped about 520 pm after two tires blew on Highway 400 in lnnisfil Township and the contents fivegallon cans of paint and thinner spilled across the highway lnnisfil Fire Chief Ron Crone described the ma terials as being highly com bustible and said the paint had to be cleared up it caused hazard on the highway Two vehicles did skid on the paint but sus tainedonlyminordamage Mr Kroul was not injured and damage to the van was $1300 MIMING THE WIZARD Dorothy Brenda Kor patnicki meets the Scarecrow Joey Morton for the first time in the Wizard of 02 performed by the Grade and students at Goodfellow Public School in Goodfellow Beach lnnisfil The students have added new touch to the musical per forming it in pantomime Two performances are scheduled at the school Wednesday and Thursday at pm Tickets are $1 for adults and 50 cents for students Examiner Pho to Examiner on Pa ge Photo finders Twi litltttuuzi or Dam break probed IDAHO FALLS ldaho AP As the threat of more floodng from the Teton dam subsides government of ficials are looking for reasons for collapse of the earthfilled structure One theory advanced Mons day is that water seepage may have hastened the col lapse of the recently com pleted dam There was speculation too that 1975 earthquake on the ldah0Utah border might have damaged the dam which is about 150 miles north of the tremors epicentre Seven persons were con firmed dead in flooding along the Teton and Snake rivers that came after the dam broke Saturday including one man who suffered heart attack while preparing for flooding The list of missing dropped to about three dozen as communications were restored and roads rebuilt Jobless 1976 Cite Titanic Examiner 15 Per Copy Carrier Home Delivery 85 Weekly l6 Pages days Low tonight 15 high Wednesday 28 WANTS LAND INCLUDED IN PROPOSAL Objects to annexation boundaries Barrie realtor is against Barries annexation plans unless land he owns is in cluded in the proposal Emory Miller of Emory Miller Ltd said in letter to posed boundaries in the an nexation Emory Miller Ltd owns land on the north side of Edgehill Drive in Vespra but the annexation proposal only goes as far as the south side of Edgehill Drive land be included in the annex ation proposal Another developer repre sented by Mike Brodigan of Windland and Associates sent letter to the city last week objecting to the annexa tion unless his land in Innisfil Both letters were referred to the citys intermunicipal liason committee for rec ommendation The city is proposing to an nex 20000 acres from three townships Vespra lnnisfil the city he objects to the pro Mr Miller asked that his township was included RAPS PLANNING UTHORITY and Oro Phoney zoning irks Wessenger By PETER lEPOlESTA Examiner Staff Reporter lnnisfil Township is trying to use phoney zonings to put residential development in the Barrie area says Ald Paul Wessenger Ald Wessenger objected to subdivision plan by In nisglen Heights in the Tollcndal area at city development committee meeting Monday The land is zoned for residential cottage use for seasonal or parttime occupancy but the development is for permanent homes Ald Wesscnger said the city should continue objecting to the plan and not endorse the use of phoney zonings to per mit development strongly object to the use of phoniness in planning he said Theres not going to be one cottage built on the land Its not the developers fault The blame he said belongs to the planning authority in lnnisfil Township Ald Wessenger said it is phoney method of pro ceeding and council shouldnt condone it Brian Moffatt represen ting thc developer met the committee Monday to try and persuade the city to withdraw its objection Mr Moffatt who admitted he is fulltime resident in the immediate area des cribed the houses as expen sive cottages He said the development in cludes 29 lots on Home site bordered by Bond Street Col bourne Street Dock Road and the Lovers Creek ravine The lots he said are bet ween 18000 and 23000 square feet and the plan received the ministry of the cnvironments approval for septic tanks Water he said will be sup plied from well west of the subdivision on the AB Cairns Ltd lands The Cairns land is under PAII WESSENGER objects to plan development now he said In price listing last year by Cairns Ltd house prices ranged from low of Changing of council motion going too far says Perri Ald Jim Perri attacked the city administration Monday night saying it had gone too far in changing city coun cilmotion Ald Perri and his city development committee members demanded full report from the administra tion explaining changes to proposed lakeshore develop ment plan The committee only rea lized change was made after reading letter from downtown businessman ob jecting to the lakeshore plans Ald Perri said this is an ex ample of when citizen knows lot more than we do aboutcityplans Drawings submitted to the federal and provincial governments by the city did not indicate the citys inten rate down in May OTTAWA CP National unemployment declined slightly to 71 per cent in May as fewer young people joined the tight labor market Statistics Canada said today The May jobless rate is down from the 15year high of 74 per cent in April But the number of Canadians out of work last month was still 708000 This is down from 769 000 in April The improvement in the job picture occurred mainly among workers 25 and over For men in this age group the jobless rate declined by threetenths of one per cent to 41 ger cent For women it eased the same percentage to 68 per cent The other major factor in the lower May jobless rates was smallerthanusual number of young people coming into the work force at time when many university students usu ally seek permanent or tcm porary work FEWER JOBS Statistics Canada does not speculate about the reasons why fewer young people en tered the labor force ut the figures indicate job op portunities for them are shar ply limited Among the 15 to 24 age group unemployment remained at 127 per cent last month the same as in April The overall improvement in the jobless rate was fairly wide spread with unemployment casing in five provinces and growing worse in five others tion of using sheet metal pil logs to protect the lakeshore from Hayfield to Mulcastcr streets Instead the city engineer ing deparmtnet substituted the use of riprap material as barrier Riprap is collec tion of large pieces of con struction material and ce ment which is placed on the shore to prevent it from washingaway The committee asked Ray Allen city engineer to attend the meeting and explain the changes which were made without councils ap roval Ald Perri said city ad ministration has to clear this all up and he suggested meeting of the three stan ding committees develop ment finance and public works Mr Allen tried to explain the changes saying they were made during discussions with the two levels of government Immediate decisions he said were necessar Ive ha my bent against the wall for delaying this project and if you take it back to council therell be more delays he said City council has criticized the administration and fed eral and provincial govern ments for delaying the ap proval which would allow the city to fill in part of the bay Mr Allen said the drawin only indicate one possibe method of protecting the shoreline and could be changed if council wants He said the estimated cost of sheet metal piling is about $400000 while riprap can be used at almost no cost to the city cant commit council to $400000 cost he said ad ding the motion recommend ed the possibility of using sheet metal but did not in clude costs Mr Allen said he was cri ticized for not getting on WEVE RIDDEN OUT WORST OF CRISIS 5billion loan sends UK pound climbing LONDON AP The Labor government has ridden out the worst of the sterling crisis Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey said Monday night after announcement of $5billion foreign loan sent the pound and the stock market climbing Healey spoke to Labor mem bers of the House of Commons at meeting called after po sition Leader Margaret at cher announced that the Con1 servatives will introduce mo tion of censure blaming the government for Britains economic crisis It is the first censure motion against the government since Labor took office after the Oc tober 1974 general election Adoption of the motion would force Prime Minister James Callaghan to resign and call an election for new Parliament But there was no indication the Conservatives who trail Labor by 36 seats can rally enough support from the Liberals and other small factions to turn the government out The governments fortunes were boosted by the announce ment that the 260000 coal min ers voted to accept the 45per cent voluntary ceiling on wage increases that is the key plank in Healeys counterinflation program The climate in the business and financial communities was likely to be improved still more by the governments announce ment that for the time being it is shelving its legislation to na tionalize the shipbuilding and aerospace industries The Con with the approvals but added he was trying to go as fast as can with the government bodies letter of objection was sent by Alvin Robinson of Robinson Hardware Ltd Mr Robinson said riprap will stop boaters from docking in the downtown area He suggested using sheet metal piling as protection Many visiting boaters go elsewhere taking with them revenue that might well have been spent in Barrie he said The city has sadly neglected the visiting boater Barrie should develop more facilities downtown for visiting boaters he said because Government Dock at the foot of Bayfield Street is usually filled GIVING THE GIFT OF Mark Neclin of Barrie gives the gift of life Mon day at the Red Cross blood donor clinic at Trinity Anglican Church Supervis ing the procedure is clinic assistant Vandy Barnes Mark is regular donor servatives have delayed the bills repeatedly on procedural points The pound rose to about $180 US in early foreignexchange trading today The pound has now gained almost 75 cents against the US dollar since the credit was announced Monday The pound rose four cents Mon day to close at $1756 US after the announcement that the United States Canada and nine other financial allies were maki ing $5 billion in credit available to the Bank of England to be $94900 to high of $103900 The prices are subject to change Mr Moffatt said the In nisglen subdivision is natural infilling situation and will use the last open land in the area zoned for residen tialusc Ald Jim Perri citydc velopmcnt committee chair man said he is satisfied and suggested the city withdraw its objection The citys questions he said were answered by the developer The city objected for four reasons the plan is in the proposed annexation area urban services are not available watershed boun daries are not defined and the existing neighborhood is permenant use and not seasonal cant see any problem Ald Perri said Its like In nisfil objecting to any re zoning in the city until after the annexation question is answered The committee referred the plan to the city planning and development department for report and recommenda tion for the next committee meeting LUCKY MALLGOERS GOT SHOES FREE Saturday mallgoers who were quick and alert picked up some bargains in shoes Bill Oakes of OK Shoe Repair at 120 Dunlop St dumped about 200 pairs of shoes onto the road and let people help themselves There werent too many people down our end of the mall so we thought wed do turning up to give blood at threemonth intervals The clinic collected 218 units of blood Monday evening with another 20 donors turned away for medical reasons The clinic is on used to halt the precipitous do cline of the British currency it was one of the best gains in months for the pound which has dropped from $202 since early March Prices on the Lon don stock exchange also roso The United States agreed to put up $2 billion $1 billion from the Federal Reserve Board and $1 billion from the treasury de partment The United States will accept pounds for the dol lars used and the Bank of Eng land must buy the pounds back later LIFE something about it he said today Some of the shoes were brand new others were old stock he said Some lucky people got shoes valued at $20forfree Mr Oakes has owned the repair shop for three years but the building has been used as shoe store for about 75 years aS again today from to pm and tonight from to 830 Overall goal for the clinic is 600 units and clinic officials say the need is unusually urgent at pre sent Examiner Photo Canada is providing $300 mil lion of the loan The rest of the $5 billion is coming from Bel gium France Italy Japan the Netherlands Sweden Switzer land West Germany and the Bank for International Settle ments in Zurich The Bank of England can use the money to buy ounds on the world money mar ets when the rate of exchange begins to drop US Treasury Secretary Wil liam Simon said it is impossible to predict how much Britain will actually use of the credit

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