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EXAMINER TELEPHONES 7269539 11 WEATHER FORECAST Warm and hazy today and Thursday with morning fog patches Chance of shower or thunderstorm Thursday Low tonight 17 high Circulation Classdied Advertismg 72824l4 All Other Departments 7266537 l2th Year No I47 Carrie Elliott props her feet up on the table to relax after Eightmonthold eating hearty meal Tuesday evening at the an nual strawberry supper put on by the Grace United Church Women at the church hall About 200 p00 ple came out between and pm to enjoy the supper Kay Eplett was conventr Outdated system $94315 cost county $5000 extra for audit By PETER LESNIAK Examiner Staff Reporter MIDHURST Simcoe Countys outdated and ir regular accounting system added an extra $5000 to the cost of having its annual financial audit done this year county councillors were told Tuesday The total Cost of the audit was $18000 but about $5000 could have been saved if the budgets and accounts of the various county departments were standardized rep resentative of the auditors Jarrett Goold and Elliott said He said much time could have been saved by his staff paid an average of $22 an hour if much needed im provements were made to the present accounting system Jarrett Goold and Elliott has suggested the county change its complicated and outdated accounting system for at least the past three years There is no doubt what soever that additional time and effort were required to complete the audit the auditor said Your audit has been made much more dif ficult by your accounting system Following suggestion last year by the auditors that county council update some of its accounting equipment motion was presented to council to buy at mini computer costing 8100000 The motion was not carried One of the reasons given by former county treasurer John ODonnell for his recent resignation was disappoint ment with councils decision about the computer Mara Township Reeve Peter Forbes suggested the new treasurer Duncan Green meet with the auditors to work out way of simplify ing the countys accounting system Council has not yet ac cepted the auditors bill and is seeking more detailed breakdown of the cost of the audit Story on firehall omitted one director One of the directors of the Friends of the Firehall FOP Inc was omitted from story in The Barrie Ex aminerTuesday Muriel Leeper was not in cluded in the list of five direc tors including Ald Janice Laking Roger atley Geoff Reid and Tony Gilsenan Mrs Leeper is the music and theatre critic for The Ex aminer and has been very ac tive in the development of the arts in Barrie during the past 15 years Olympic lottery extended OTTAWA CP Progressive Conservatives voted with the government Tuesday to authorize $5 million to extend the Olympic lottery Unfair labor practices By THE CANADIAN PRESS The Ontario Nurses Association has filed charges of un fair labor practices against four Ontario boards of health and charges against another nine boards are being prepared union official said Tuesday Gauthier resigns position OTTAWA CP dumping questioned in the Commons Pat Gauthier federal anti tribunal chairman whose business activities were has resigned his position at government requestless than two weeks before he was to retire Calls for new partnership LONDON Reuter President Vlery Giscard dEstaing of France called today for new and active partnership bet ween Britain and France to replace their ageold rivalry Addressing both houses of Parliament on the second day of his state visit to Britain the president said relations bet ween the two countries have recent years been altered substantially in Will look into allegations TORONTO CP Stephenson said Tuesday she Ontario Labor Minister Bette will look into allegations that three widows of uranium miners in Elliot Lake nt were refused benefits by the Workmens Compensation Board because of dispute over the tion exposure standard for measuring radia Fase alarm Lower hydrogen locket Its only Lockheed Orion Major oil spill in St Lawrence ALEXANDRIA HAY NY APi barge carrying 100 000 barrels of oil struck fog shrouded shoal near here early today unleashing major oil spill in the St Lawrence River which spread to both anadian and lnited States shores The spill halted traffic through the area Three of the barges 10 cargo tanks each carrying 10000 bare rcls of oil ruptured but the lS Toast Iuard said not all of the oil from the tanks had entered the water Every effort is being made to contain it as much as pos sible said Madelyn Iruski public relations officer of the St Lawrence Seaway Develop ment Corp one of several lS government agencies with cleanup crews at the scene It has been secured and no more oil is spillingout win Its race called hungry birds and members from two teams try to grab the most bcairbags from Betty Forinan dining room convener Alice Ford kit chen conventr and Jean Kell dessert convcncr The Barrie Examiner Barrie Ontario Canada Wednesday June 23 I976 CANT BELIEVE ATE THE WHOLE THING of cleared the Over 200 quarts strawberries were away Proceeds from supper go to the church Examiner Photo by Ro seanne Mcabei Abolition battle not over Trudeau tells the Commons TIAWA Cli The ml mons approved in principle Tuesday bill to end the death penalty in Canada but Prime Minister Trudeau calling the narrow vote an immense step said the abolition battle is far from over Even as he spoke opponents of the bill which passed its first hurdle lllit rigs in the 202 member llouse urged the pub lic to bombard supjxirters with demands for the death penalty In the free vote 39 Liberals mostly from Quebec and British Columbia voted again st the bill with all ll Social redit members and 75 Cone servatives For the bill were 99 Liberals including the 26 member cabinet 18 on servatives and 16 New Democrats Standing in the 234seat om mons is Liberal 139 Progrese sive onservative 93 New Democrat it Social redit 11 OPP association chief MPs not doing job Members of Parliament arent representing the peo ple the way theyre supposed to says McAfee ex ecutive director of the On tario Provincial Police Association based in Barrie Commenting on the federal governments second reading of bill to abolish capital punishment Mr McAfec said the Liberals have been trying to ram the bill through the House of Commons Ive heard comments from many people and they are not too happy with the abolition of capital punish ment he said Eighty per cent of the people in the province want capital punishment retained Mr McAfec said the 80 per cent figure is the result of THEYRE DOING THE HUN ring The race was one of 10 held during the annual play day at Johnson Street polls by his association the prison guards association and the news media When so many polls get the same result it shows the people are against abolition Mr McAfee said the as sociation doesnt plan any major action such as the tario Association of of Yhiefs of Police who will begin campaign to oust Mls who voted for abolition We will encourage our members to look at how their MP voted before they con sider voting for him again hesaid The association its head which has office in Barrie represent 4000 members of the Ontario Provincial Police rl 25 Public School Tuesday The idea of the play day was to give the children GRY BIRD Independent one and two va cancies Only three of the 262 mem bers were absent They were Albanie Morin IfLouisllc berti in hospital with cancer Walter Dinsdale PC Brandon Souris in Greece at confer ence and Erik Nielsen PCW Yukon trapped in Whitehorse by labor trouble that has groun ded most flights since Sat urday ALI RETENTIONISTS All three support hanging which will make the vote on third reading of the bill narro wer if everyone turns up Its too soon to say its all over Mr Trudeau said after the vote But it was move away from violence from barbarism for Canada The bill was before the om mons justice committee within three hours of the Vote But af ter hours the committee still had not dealt with any of the 30 clamses that would elimi nate the death penalty for treai son piracy and murder in an ada substituting life sentences buttressed by lengthy nonparo lable terms MPs against capital punish ment accused those on the com mittee who want the death pen alty continued of trying to fend off third reading until Septem her when another inters minable debate could be held Debate on second reading fea tured 119 speakers in 4rd2iy debate fun afternoon with little competition Examiner Photo by Peter dePodestal Thursday 28 lS Per Copy Carrier Home Delivery 85 Weekly 24 °ages By RICHARD DUNSTAN Examiner Staff Reporter MIDHURST One candi date ulled out another joine the fray and everybody opposed regional government for Simcoe Coun ty That was the story at Spr ingwater Provincial Park Tuesday as the Barrie Pro gressive Conservative As sociation played host to meet the candidates night featuring the four contestaan for the partys nomination in the Simcoe Centre riding in the next provincial election The successful candidate to be chosen Thursday at the partys nominating conven tion will take over from longtime MPP Arthur Evans as the Conservative standardbearer Mr Evans has announced his retirement effective as of the next election The nthhour addition to the slate is Lloyd Pridham Sunnidale Township reeve for 14 years and county warden in 1972 He has served on township council for 17 years as president of tawasaga Valley Conserva tion Authority for four years and on variety of county council committees and other bodies The dropout Williams who has been named president of the DeVilbiss Company and will be moving to Toledo Ohio omments on regional government came in response to question from the floor on whether the can didates would maintain Mr Evans pelicy of staunch op position to regional govern ment for Simcoe County No regional government for Simcoe Centre said can didate Bill Knowles who said the conce would interfere with his esire for oneto one relationship with his con stituents was Gerry the Not LLOYD PRIDHAM joins race AGAINST IT Ive seen regional govern ment in the school board and Im against it said George Taylor former trustee with the county board of educa tion Its too large and too remote Im against regional government but Im for bettereducated better informed people on municipal government was Derek VernonBrownes comment Mr Pridham said he op poses regional government here because the centralized services and administration it provides are not needed and would cost too much for the countys predominantly rural assessment He said some areas of the province do need regionalism Mr Knowles told the au dience they will be making the most important political decision of your lives Thursday in naming can didate to oppose New Dem ocratic Party candidate Paul Wessenger who ran Mr Evans close race in last yearsvote Mr Knowles called Mr Wessengerwhose name he did not mentiona paper tiger and charged that he regularly sets himself on fire when he stumbles and trips his way through labor halls Mr Knowles also described NDP socialism as day dream that will only destroy Canada and called for more free enterprise sacrifices by individuals for the sake of the economy and crackdown on lawbreakers particularly those involved in illegal strikes STRESSES BACKGROUND Mr Taylor stressed his background in party workhe has campaigned since 1956 and has spoken on behalf of Mr Evans and Sim coe North MP Dr Rynard and said Ontario Conservatives have gone as far as they can toward socialism and must concen trate on making existing pro gramswork Mr VernonBrowne said housing prices and industrial land for Barrie were top priorities in his view along with cutting red tape at Queens Park he il lustrated his point by cutting red ribbon as he spoke and presenting platform ap pealing to all voters even those with Liberal or NDP sympathies Barrie association presi dent Kerv Johnston told the audience as many as 900 delegates are expected at Thursdays convention to be held in the 950seat Barrie Central Collegiate au ditorium He said the overflow of nondelegate members will be ac commodated in the school cafeteria and will be able to follow proceedings by elec trical hookup Delegates are to report at pm and others will be seated after delegates have taken their places Canadian named president of US multinational Gerry Williams president of DeVilbiss Canada Ltd since 1968 has been named president of the parent DeVilbiss Company He will take over worldwide firm with head quarters in Toledo Ohio and operations in England Mex ico Brazil and Japan as well as the United States and Canada The company has eight af filiatedfirms As result of the promo tion Mr Williams has withdrawn his bid for the Pro gressive Conservative nomination for the Simcoe Centre riding in the next pro vincial election The nominee is to be picked Thursday native of Chatham Mr Williams now 50 joined GERRY WILLIAMS DeVilbiss at 17 as factory worker He came to Barrie in 1960 as sales manager and was made executive vice president in 1967 and presi dent in1968 He served two years in the Navy during the Second World War and was stationed in Prince Edward Island where he met his wife Ruth The couple has two sons and daughter Mr Williams is president of the Barrie Rotary Club past president of the Barrie Manufacturers Assocation past chairman of the Ontario division of the Canadian Manufacturers Association and past chairman of the United Appeals corporates division He is expected to move to Toledo in late summer Charges without foundation Fairwea ther says of ozlov Charges that city planning director Wayman Fair weather deliberately and maliciously blocked development proposal and deceived planning board in the process are frivolous and in fact without founda tion Mr Fairweather said Tuesday The charges were made by developer Lou Kozlov in let for to city officials calling for Mr Fairweathers dismissal The letter grew out of planning board decision last week revoking highdensity designation which would have allowed Mr Kozlov to build Itsstorey apartment building at Kozlov Street and Cundles Road The board redesignated the property for townhouses and roposed that Mr Kozlov uild his apartments on another piece of property where an official plan amend ment would be needed before the development could pro ceed Mr Fairweather said he supported Mr Kozlovs pro posal which met planning department requirements in his presentation to planning board The boards decision he said was made not by himself or his department but by the board itself on the suggestion of Aid Paul Wes senger board member Mr Fairweather said he also supports the Wessenger proposal and considers it bet ter than Mr Kozlovs pro posal Mr Kozlov has said he will go to the Ontario Municipal Board to get his proposal ap proved and is also consider ing $1 million lawsuit against the city Mr Fairweather and Ald Jim Perri chairman of the city development committee Major domestic airlines thousands may be laid off THE CANADIAN PRESS The major domestic airlines gave up efforts to restore air service Tuesday night raising prospects of widespread layoffs in the air industry Air Canada and CP Air said attempts to resume partial ser vice Tuesday afternoon were failure because of the airline pilots strike Both airlines said thousands of employees may be laid off if the pilots do not re turn to work by Friday Some flights by foreign air lines to Canada were also can celled as the battle over French in air communications in tensified spokesman for the International Federation of Air Line Pilots Associations said in London that member pilots have been told to stay out of Canadian airspace until the dis pute has been settled Federal cabinet ministers and opposition leaders said they hope the deadlock will be broken with announcement of new inquiry commission to look into air safety and bilingual air traffic control in Quebec The appointments are expected in the next two days Air traffic controllers walked off the job in Calgary and Mon cton NB and Treasury Board President Jean Chretien imme diately promised court action against them The government has already started legal action against Winnipeg controllers who walked out during the weekend Air Canada CP Air and East ern Provincial Airways also took legal steps against the pi lots