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mwsnovzvoop Abolition of death penalty is closer with compromise OTTAWA CP Abolition of the death penalty in Canada was in sight today as members of Parliament began debate on bill to write execution out of the Criminal Code compromise late Monday indicated the bill may come go final vote as early as July The compromise came as all parties waived Commons rules to allow the justice com mittee to end its study of the bill and report to the Com mons Opponents had threatened to delay debate until Friday but under the compromise the bill will be debated today and Wednesday when the House will rise for the holiday weekend coming back July SolicitorGeneral Warren Allmand told committee members during their session on Monday that he would ask the courts to postpone execu tions until the bills fate is decided The time has come to make decision Solicitor General Warren Allmand he told the committee His comment came as John Reynolds PCBurnaby RichmondDelta leading supporter of execution argued for postponement of the debate until the fall to give retentionists chance to rally public opinion against the bill Unwarranted MISSISSAUGA Ont CP City council was told Monday that Mayor Martin Dobkin knew before he was elected that allegations of bribery and corruption against James Murray son of former Mayor Charles Chic Murray were unwarranted Ian Outerbridge Mr Mur rays lawyer said council called for judicial inquiry into the allegations solely on the word of the mayor He said Dr Dobkin was told in letter during his 1973 elec tion campaign that the allega tions against Mr Murray had been investigated by Peel re gional police and found to be unwarranted Swine flu WASHINGTON AP Two polio vaccine experts Dr Al bert Sabin and Dr Jonas Salk disagreed Monday on the plan ned nationwide immunization program in the US against swine flu Sabin testifying before House of Representatives com merce subcommittee said the vaccine should be given to per sons more inclined to catch swine flu or have severe effects from it The rest of the vaccine should be stockpiled in case of more dangerous epidemic he said However Salk who supports the federal immunization plan said the vaccine will do better in peoples arms than in the re frigerator Lake strike MONTREAL CP About 5700 merchant marine workers on Great Lakes ships will go on strike Thursday unless their de mands for more time off are met the chairman of the Joint Maritime Unions said Monday Gilbert Gauthier said at least 80 per cent of members of the three unions involved had voted in favor of strike unless the demands are met by noon Wed nesday Divorce mill TORONTO CP Twelve justices of the Ontario Supreme Court are to hear about 800 unopposed divorce cases in three days ending Wednesday in an effort to eliminate grow ing backlog of cases Chief Jus ticeWZ Estey said Monday In an interview Chief Justice Estey said special family law division of the High Court has been established with its own staff and courtrooms as part of procedure to streamline fam ily law matters including di vorces custody of children maintenance and division of family property Under the new procedures pretrial conferences involving all parties and lawyers are to be held in the judges office re ducing legal actions to the es sentials Only one court appear ance is necessary to deal with matters of contention Driver errors TORONTO CP There were 1800 people killed in traf fic accidents in Ontario in 1975 most of them because of driver errors select legislative com mittee on highway safety was told Monday During the first public hear ing of the committee safety expert also indicated it was dif ficult to estimate the cost of traffic accidents in terms of dollars and cents Douglas Farrin research director for the ministry of transportation and commu nications came up with fig ure in excess of $460 million Mr Farrin said that up to 93 per cent of traffic accidents are caused by driver error five per cent by mechanical problems and two per cent by highway design or flaws WARREN ALLMAND time has come Was founder GRIMSBY Ont CP fu neral service was held Monday for Harold Clayton Jefferies 83 founder of Viceroy Manufac turing Co He died Friday at the age of 83 Mr Jefferies formed the rubber company in 1923 and under his direction it produced jar rings rubber bands erasers battery boxes toys and other items In the Second World War he was chosen by the federal government to head Fairmont Corp formed to reclaim rubber for war pur poses and for his work he was made an officer of the Order of the British Empire Raises SARNIA Ont CPI City council members voted Monday to raise their own salaries by 12 per cent the maximum per mitted by the federal antiin flation guidelines The salary of an alderman will be raised to $3360 from $3000 effective Dec 31 1976 The mayors salary will go to $11200 from $10000 effective July 1976 Says no TIMMINS Ont CPI City council turned down request Monday by John Lane Progressive Conservative member of the provincial legislature for Algoma East for support in the establish ment of ministry of Northern Ontario All council members except Mayor Leo Del Villano agreed that what the province needs is better government not more ministries 50 times LONDON Ont CPI London man who has been con victed of crimes 50 times in the last five years was sentenced in provincial court Monday to 12 months in jail for six counts of stealing goods from parked cars Thomas Bennett 23 has previously been sentenced for offences of fraud forgery ut tering forged cheques theft possession of stolen goods mis chief and dangerous and dis qualifieddriving Wage details SAULT STE MARIE Ont CP The Sault Ste Marie and area Board of Education and the teachers economic pol icy committee released details of an 118pereent wage in crease for its 445 public ele mentary school teachers Mon day In the settlement teachers will earn between $9280 and $23980 in the 197677 contract They were previously receiving between $7400 and $22110 Un der the contract teachers will also receive new fringe benefits including dental plan and longterm disability plan of which the school board will pay 90 per cent of the cost Hit by train STILL RIVER Ont CP Deborah Outram 19 and and her nephew Robert Newell both of nearby Britt Ont were killed Monday when her car was struck by CP Rail train at crossing on Highway 69 Still River is about 60 miles southwest of North Bay Laid off POINT EDWARD Ont Jl More than 300 employees of Holmes Foundry Ltd were laid off Monday while the company installs $600000 antipollution system John Duncanson per sonnel manager said The in stallation is expected take five weeks and 150 workers will re main on the job at the plant one mile north of Sarnia Beef ruined KITCHENER Ont CI George Bergen an engineer at Burns Food Ltd received bur ns to his hands and side when ammonia leaked Sunday and ruined between $10000 and $50000 Worth of beef Mr Ber gen who was wearing safety mask was draining an am monia line which had plugged when the line burst and he was sprayed by the steamlike fumes Olympic hours QUEBEC CP All com mercial establishments except grocery stores in the Montreal area will be allowed to remain open beyond normal closing hours July 1829 due to an ex pected influx of tourists during the Olympic Games it was an nounced Monday Guy SaintPierre Quebec minister of industry and com merce said in statement stores in Montreal nearby Laval and lie Bizard will stay open longer to accommodate an estimated 400000 visitors The extra hours will generate abtziut $12 million in business he sai Cycle lights TORONTO CP Mo torcyclists will be required to turn on their front and rear lights day and night effective Thursday July under an amendment to the Highway Traffic Act recently passed by the legislature James Snow minister of transportation and commu nications also said in state ment that schoolcrossing guar ds will be required to display schoolcrossing stop sign when signalling for traffic to stop The stop signs are to be used only on roads with speed limits of 40 miles per hour or less and failure to stop for the sign could cost the driver fine of from $20 to $100 Bell tariffs MONTREAL CPI Bell Canada filed tariffs Monday with the Canadian Radiotele vision and Telecommunications Commission on the general ter ms and conditions for the use of Bells poles by cable television companies Technical specifications operation proce dures and conditions are in eluded in support structure agreement that would be signed by Bell and participating cable companies The cable television industry has sought for years the right to attach its cable to Bell structures Filtration HAMILTON CPI Steel Co of Canada Ltds $4million wa ter filtration plant was ofv ficially opened Monday by George Kerr Ontario en vironment minister The facility described by the com pany as the largest of its kind in Canada can process 60 million gallons of water day from the companys hot and cold rilling mills In Mexico TORONTO CPI Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce announced Monday it has established an office in Mexico City JG Bickford vice president of the bank said trade between Canada and Mexico has nearly doubled sin ee 1972 with bilateral trade now in excess of $310 million 1000 attend LONDON Ont CI Most Rev James Doyle was con seerated as bishop of the Peter borough Roman atholic diocese Monday at St Peters Basilica before about 1000 per Sons Bishop Doyle who was born in Chatham Ont will be officially installed on July 14 at St Peters Cathedral in Peter borough $40000 fund TIMMINS Ont CP The Bishop of Moosonee Ont said Monday that public donations for flood victims in the village of Kashcchewan Ont have reached $40000 and are still trickling in The flooding of the Port Albany River on April 25 required the evacuation of about 400 residents from Kash echewan New owner GANANOQUE Ont IPi Ownership of the Canadian span of the Thousand Islands Bridge an international bridge connecting Ontario and New York State has formally passed from Ontario to the federal government provincial government passed an ordcrincouncil last week he gnu7 trawl MRS PATRICIA IIYMAN young British woman released from the hijacked Air France airbus at Entebbe airport Uganda arrives at Heathrow Air port here Monday Mrs Hyman who was released by the hijackers because she held British passport and because she was feel ing ill was told on her ar rival home that her mother had died She refused to answer any questions AP Ihotw Palestinians want terrorists freed KAMPALA AP Palestinians who hijacked an Air France jetliner two days ago today demanded the release of 53 freedom fighters held in Israel West Germany and three other countries as ransom for about 250 hostages and the hijacked French plane Uganda radio announced The hijackers said the prisoners must be brought to Ugandas Entebbe airport and the exchange must be completed before 1200 GMT am EDT Thursday The broadcast listed 40 Palestinians and those fighting for the Palestinian cause held in Israel They included Archbishop Hilarion Capudji the Greek Catholic archbishop of Jerusalem who is serving prison sentence for smuggling Palestinian Arabs arms Six prisoners were listed in West Germany five in Kenya one in Switzerland and one in France Most names were Arabic but those in West Germany were Ger mannames pregnant British woman who was released when the plane stopped for fuel in Libya Sunday reported that there were five hi jackers three Arabs woman With German ac cent and man who spoke Spanish among the 257 per sons aboard when the plane was seized just after it took off from Athens She said they were armed with guns and grenades Israeli general hostage KUWAIT Reuter The Kuwait newspaper AIWatan says that Ariel Sharon who led Israeli forces across the Suez canal in the 1973 Middle East war may have been on the French airliner hijacked on Sunday over Greece The paper says the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine PFLI plans to put the former general on trial if he is found among the otthe The funniest comedy passengers More than 250 passengers and crew of the Air France airbus now are being held captive by the hijackers at Entebbe Airport Uganda after the planes arrival there Monday Sharon well known for his hawkish views on Israeli policy resigned last April as military adviser to Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin year is the ImoVIe In America rrVariety ntéfiaiiiorois Lion tuttkllllyfttl to The Barrie Examiner Tuesday June 29 l9765 Libya threatens to intervene if Poles tinian camps overrun BEIRUT AP Libya has threatened to intervene in the Lebanese civil war on the side of the Palestinians and their Lebanese Moslem allies if the Christians overrun two besieged Palestinian camps on the east side of Beirut leftist broadcast reported today Beirut Radio said Libyan Premier Abdel Salam Jalloud who has been trying to arrange another ceasefire in the civil war warned that Libya will stand on the side of the nationalist movement Balloonist is behind in transatlantic bid NEW YORK AP Karl Thomas is estimated to be more than 1200 miles out to sea today and flying behind schedule on his mission to make the first transatlantic voyage in balloon The estimate was made by Thomass ground crew despite its not having heard from the 27yearold balloonist for 24 hours The crew said Thomas was pro bably conserving power by limiting transmissions Paul Johnson the flight director said if there is no contact with Thomas by am today the flight team would again consider asking authorities to initiate special watch for the balloonist Earlier such lMPERIAt CINEMA Hl HIIDN lllll1lll1lltlll IIIHN NI lllll Rainc Twinr lt Drrvr In Thcotw 487 Til Adult Entertainment It it was The wildest car chase over filmed ADE EAST RESTAURANT Hwy 27 miles North of Borrie mile North of Cundles Rd NOW OPEN Specialist in Polynesian Chinese Canadian dishes Dine in our Intimate Dining Lounge OPEN DAYS WEEK Fm Delivery up order 10 Discount on Plotup order RON HOWARD pop the clutch and tells the world watch was held after no radio contact with Thomas for 19 hours Wally Clayton spokesman for the Spirit of 76 flight said good weather was reported in the estimated position of the heliumfilled balloon and Thomas was believed to be entering busier airtraffic corridor PICKSUPSIGNAL Thomas was last heard from at 1043 pm EST Sun day when an Alitalia New YorkRome flight picked up his radio signal The airline said his voice was calm and lid not indicate anything amiss But efforts by the plane to engage Thomas in twoway conversation failed 7373910 now PLAYING 715 pm IN lh Illllmlmli lJl l$ll NIIIX IIIIH lltltll tlilNHM llllll llllllllll llll ll Illl SI Ill MJI Hill thl lSlllll MINWIIIII Screen TOMORROW and the Palestinian revolu tion and will have nothing to do with proposed round table peace conference Jalloud called off peace seeking meeting with Chris tian leaders He said he will not talk to them until they stop the offensive against the Tal Zaatar and Jisr alBasha camps and agree to cease fire Jallouds threat raised the prospect of conflict between the several hundred Libyan troops in Lebanon as part of the proposed panArab peacekeeping force and the thousands of Syrian troops who have invaded Lebanon since June to prevent vic tory by the Palestinians and Lebanese Moslems There was no letup in the battle today in and around Beirut The fighting still was hardest around the two 7269944 CINEMA ADULT ENTERTAINMENT 1269944 CINEMA moi will Barrie Twin DriveIn Theatre 487 Hi Baybin Matt Mel Brooks BaliM ELLIOTT KAJTNER wrmm Palestinian camps which the Christians have been trying to take for more than week But fires raged in the Christianheld port area BATTLE WITH SHELLS Mortar and artillery shells exploded in the Christian and Moslem sectors of the city Fighting was reported in neighboring mountain areas Nearly 200 persons were reported killed Monday pushing the estimate for 14 months of civil war to nearly 29000dead The West German govern ment announced it is closing its embassy and advised the 500 West Germans in the country to leave The Christian Amchit radio said Christian militiamen captured hilltop positions overlooking the two besieged camps but Beirut Radio denied this IIElD OVER 4th WEEK lets Do It Again 7l5 Dog Day Afternoon 915 His incredible bank robbery is all the more bizarre because its true NOW PLAYING 9l5 pm MITRLON BRANDOMJ JACK NICHOIJON in ARTHUR PENNM Tl MIJJDURI TIREIKE nimwln ARTHUR PENN fiduimbyELLlOTT KLEINER am ROBERT THERMAN Itnllm THOMAJ MCGUNI Hm byJOHN 7me no kitvlhymlt on In 1ROBlRT MJIELRM41IT¥odmlrw UTIIIIIIMIIEI transferring the 40yearold structure to federal hands after winning concessions to have tawa pay grants totalling $30000 to promote tourism in the area and to protect the jobs held by the bridge authoritys 18 Canadian employees 10 INTERNATIONAL STARS SUDDENLY TRAPPED IN PLOT THEY CANT ESCAPE JfllIflIIElI Illlfl Side trips NIAGARAONTHELAKE nt CP The Cayuga II cruise ship will offer tourists two side trips down the Niagara River from here beginning to day spokesman for Sherwod iuawugouaiug uan PHONE 12M 430 pm Instead of remaining at the dock here it will offer two side trips he said Marine Incorporated owners of Lama jAwsu the boat said Monday in To tutfifls ronto The Cayuga II will leave 1W figlgmr Ema Oinmem ROOSTER COGBURN Toronto at 830 am and return WW Wv WE mm Dusk To Dawn Show Sunday Ju