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TAKING MILK AND COOKIES Rowbothams hunger strike not genuine says jail superintendent There used to be volleyball basketball and By RICHARD DUNSTAN Examiner Staff Reporter Robert Rowbotham is not on hunger strike and Barrie Jail is no hell hole Jail superintendent Douglas Westland told The Examiner Monday And Rowbothams claim that inmates are put in solitary confinement for up to 10 days Without disciplinary charges is complete and utter Mr Westland said Rowbotham who has been in Barrie Jail since November awaiting reliminary hear mg on three charges of traf icking in hashish said in letter to The Examiner last week he is on hunger strike in protest against solitary confinement policies and 28 other complaints on the strike until he is allowed to talk to reporter or to Queens Park or until Mr Westland is removed But Mr Westland said Rowbotham has He said he would stay genuine said been drinking up to five glasses of milk day and eating cookies activities he says would form no part of true hunger strike So far as Im concerned Rowbotham can stay On his diet for as long as he likes he Mr Westland said solitary confinement is rarely used as punishment for breaches of jail discipline The register of charges which he showed to The Examinerlists only nine cases of confinement since April 1975 Mr Westland said four of the nine resulted from an armed escape attempt in September AWAITING HEARING In addition he said inmates are sometimes kept in solitary while awaiting the hearing of disciplinary charges but not longer than over weekend Such cases may arise once or twice month he said Mr Westland who will take early retire ment at the end of this month for health reasons after four years as so here also denied charges by Row that prison staff try to dehumanize in mates that staff laziness has resulted without outdoor exercise for days on end and being locked in their cells at 650 pm instead of the inmates going prescribed 930 thatjail food is inferior that Rowbotham has been forced to eat meat despite being vegetarian dehumanizing tendencies in the jail are due to the inade quacy of the building constructed in 1843 as Mr Westland said any maximum security prison Official capacity is 42 inmates but there are now beds for 52 and at peak periods jail officials must find some way of Partin investigation accident RCMP constable tells hearing By JOHN WROE Examiner Staff Reporter An RCMP constable says he took key role in the investiga tion of Robert Rowbotham almost by accident Constable Bruce Calnen had been involved in routine surveillance of Rowbothams Beeton farm July 22 1975 He testified in provincial court Monday that he had been at tached to the RCMP drug squad although he was part of the criminal intelligence unit Rowbotham who has been held in Barrie Jail since Nov 20 is facing three charges of trafficking in narcotic Calnen was testifying at ggeliminary hearing There has en no ban on publication of preliminary hearing evidence Calhnen said part of the surveillance had been recor ding licence numbers of vehicles entering and leaving the farm He had driven to the farmhouse to record licence number of car in the yard He said the original plan had been simply to drive in get the number and leave However while on the farm he approached Rowbotham on the retext of buying dog Row tham ran kennel at his farm and Calnen said he had read the RCMP file on the man already Under repeated questioning by defence lawyer Moishe Reiter Calnen insisted that he had merely read the ile as part of his background and that he had not been specifically assigned to the case as an undercover officer STANDARD PROCEDURE Reiter pointed out in Calnens case book notation that Calnen had been searched by other RCMP officers before ap proaching the farm Calnen simply said that was standard police procedure While Calnen was talking to Rowbotham he said Row botham offered him mari juana cia rette He said he reserved his and took it back Toronto Because he had already established an under cover relationship with Rowbotham he was sent back to the farm on the Aug 13 weekend This time he went with female constable posing as his girlfriend and she was to witness any purchase from Rowbotham But Rowbotham was not available that weekend and they bought some marijauna from John Mepstead instead Calnen returned to the farm again Aug 21 and this time succeeded in buying about an ounce of hashish oil from Rowbotham for around $500 He kept up the undercover rela tionship with lobster party partly funded the RCMP and on Sept ought half pound of hash oil from Rowbotham he says Under crossexamination by Reiter Calnen admitted to making entries in book which he had earlier said didnt exist Reiter had asked if there was case book on Rowbotham with all known information about him in it Calnen said no But Reiter asked where the officer got his information on Rowbotham and he finally ad mitted that it was from book with all reports on Rowbotham init WORKING FILE Well wouldnt you call that master book or case book asked Reiter We called it working file said Calnen Judge Don Inch discouraged questions about an informer Calnen mentioned Reiter was questioning Calnen about his sources of information sug gesting illegal wiretaps played significant role in the in vestigation Calnen said he knew of no wiretaps but had talked about to an informer about Rowbotham However he said it was not about the Beeton cases Reiter wanted to find out more about the informer but Judge Inch ruled that any such questions would be out of order as they did not deal with the case before the court Calnen had already said that it would not be in the public interest to reveal the name of the in former He also said that he did not like dealing with informers and would prefer not to know them He said there was usual ly pretty good chance they would reveal RCMP under covermen to criminals as well as revealing criminals to the RCMP The preliminary continues at 114 Worsley St Friday at 10 am Beer chicken and art plentiful during citys annual Kempenfest By RICHARD DUNSTON Examiner Staff Reporter Beer chicken and art will all be in plentiful supply in Barrie over Civic Holiday weekend as the city celebrates the annual Kempenfest The Barrie Art Club and the Kiwanis Club of Barrie are combining to sponsor the sixth annual Huronia Festival of Arts and Crafts July 31 Saturday and Aug Sunday at Cciitcnv nial Park The display will take up 50000 square feet and feature 200 artists mostly from within 100 miles but in some cases from as far away as Quebec or New York Ray Marshall chairman of the show since its inception says the exhibit will be the big gest ever and will feature something for everyone from oil painting and water colors to batik and variety of crafts All artists will be on hand to sell their work Mr Marshall says organizers hope for at least 10000 spectators while interest from artists has been so high that en tries had to be cut off week ago As with most Kempenfcst events admission is free The Barrie Rotary Club is sponsoring mammoth chicken barbecue Aug Monday at St Vincent Park The afternoon event will feature 3000 half chickens ton of charcoal Gofootlong barbecue pit and 120 hardworking Rotaiians not to mention extra assistance provided by the citys recrea tion staff Tickets to the event cost $275 and will be available from any Rotariaii or at the park sellout is expected and profits will go toward the clubs ser vice work BEER GARDEN The Barrie Ys Mens Club will operate 50by30foot beer garden July 31 at Centennial Park The garden will seat 100 at time and proceeds $600 is the target will go to the building fund Another major event is the Barrie Firefighters skivathon covering 35milc round trip from Centennial Park to In nisfil Beach Last year the event organized on four days notice and not connected with Kcmpenfest drew 30 skiers and raised $2900 for the fire fighters muscular dystrOphy campaign which will also be the beneficiary this year Volunteer skiers with no boat or boat owners without skiers should call 7205221 to arrange for match The event will be held July 31 beginning at noon Also on tap for the weekend is the Barrie Lions Clubs open sky theatre at Centennial Park on the Saturday and Sunday afternoons The free show will feature talent from comedy drama to musical saw and from rock music to senior citizens choir The annual chpenfest re gatta will cover the entire threeday festival and will feature voyageur canoe race from Orillia to Barrie with teams representing chambers of commerce from Barrie Orillia and Midland plus two private entrants human kite flying behind power boats swim from Minets Point to Government Dock the great water walk on inner tubes underwater chariot races with scuba divers pulling drivers on inner tubes and variety of canoe and sailboat races The regatta is sponsored by the Greater Barrie Chamber of Commerce Canadas largest outdoor dog show and obedience trial spon sored by the Barrie Kennel Club and featuring nearly 1500 entrants will be held all three days in Molsons Park Outstanding performance of play by Gryphon Theatres performers By MURIlIl LEEPER Ah Wilderness An outsdaii ding performance of good play The Miller family epitoiiiir ing the American family of the turn of the century walked into the hearts of the large audience which had come to enjoy the sc cond of Gryphon Theatres Summer plays Eugene ONeill claimed that he dreamed Ah Wilderness in one night it is true that the playwright dashed off the play in few weeks the story of the youth he would have liked to have had The Gryphon company capr tured the nostalgic and endear mg look at America of the turn of the century that was ONeills dream It was an America of families who loved God order sobriety education regularity in conduct and mar riagc Nat Miller the head of the family was interpreted ideally by Semi Sullivan Sullivans gentle sometimes Wllllllsual approach set the tone for the whole play The audience wanted to plaud as he took an understan iiig look at his rebeliious son It was sen sitivc performance The play has fifteen cha racters each role real pcr SOnaIity Indeed there werc some outstanding per formancw last night adding up to 313 that remains in ones mi The lar er roles were cast with bril lance by Artistic Director Sean Mulcahy Richard Miller the young bookish son the dreamer the reader of poetry of Ibsen and Shaw was most difficult role Deni Allaire took the part and made it his own His few moments at the end of the bridge caused that rare mo ment of suspension of time for his audience And his meeting with his sweetheart Muriel was ii splendid inte lay of emotions Mary Haney ad the innocent young Muriel awakening to love but with my stinctivc feminine instincts well under control The two sistersinlaw Millers wife played by Sandra Scott and his sister played by Wendy Hicks gave endearing performances They com iiiuiiiciitcd casin with their listeners but more important won their total sympathy as well as their attention The scene iii which Richards mother waits for him to come home at nearly 11 p111 is priceless The motherly aux icties and impatience become repeat performance for mothers today Sandra Scott balanced the aliXietics and Ill patience with skill and coin plcted the capsule with the relentiiig mother who im mediatcly forgives and spoils her son lNlllIRSTANDS The unmarried sisiter who loves but Wlll not marry Sid Davis Essics brother was very much understood by the women in the audience Wendy Hicks gave an understanding approach and made Lin very real person tlaudc Rac too caught his audience as the lovable brother who drinks too much lrres iiisible is the term used by Li The other roles were smaller but each contained cameo of very real person Richards brother Arthur was interpreted with skill by Howard Sicgel His touch of oldfashioned manners and romantic singing contributed great deal to the general early Anierica aura Outstanding capsules were contributed by Aaron Dyck as Arthurs classmate Raymond Holt as David McComber Joan Megraw as Nora and Bev Hana he as Belle $24000 not enough for arena renovation The city has ically opened can of worms said Ald al Rrucker Monday Ald Bruckcr was referring to the increasing costs of renovating second floor meeting room at the Barrie Arena for bar Millet Salter architect Sent the city letter saying the pro posed 324000 will not cover the necessary renovations in plans for booster club Another $6000 is necessary he said The City has agreed with the Barrie Flyers Community Hoc key team to pay $8000 each with Wintario paying $8000 for the renovations Ald Brucker said the city cant be expected to add any more money to the pot and the lilyeis and Wintario will have to pick up the $6000 But Wintario will only pay onethird of the total cost and will not pay any more than $l0000 which leaves the Ilyers With 2000 bill for the renovations The team executive is ex pected to meet tonight and make decision concerning the increased costs Originally the lilyers offered to pay $15000 which the team ex cted would cover all the bil for renovating the second floor and adding bar area MINIMAL Mr Salter said for 9244110 the bar will be extremely minimal He said mechanical and electrical work is our major problem adding it is con siderably more costly than first planned The mechanical and elec trical work which includes bar Sink heating ventilation and electrical panels is estiniatedat310500 The cost of new walls and assorted work to the mezzanine area he said is about $9200 which leaves about $2000 for work on the enclosed bar area It would be impossible to carry out work proposed for that figure Mr Salter said He su gested not including any tile ooring no folding wall to separate small meeting room from the larger room no covering on the cxxsting walls and no paintinginthearea Ald Ross Archer public works committee chairman said he hates to spend the dough if the city will get shabby job Mr Stoner told the commit tee tenders could be called for July 26 with closing date Aug and special committee meeting to approve the contrac tor He said the completion date is about the first week in Oc tober Im not too bothered by what we have there he said We can supply paint and then let the Flyers clothe work rintendent tham in commodating 80 or more at time Weve had to bed them down on the floor he said We cant refuse to take anybody dozen single cells each have just enough space for bed he said and another half dozen cells each eight feet square sleep three to four inmates apiece TEAR IT DOWN They should tear this thing down and build regional detention centre with capacity of at least 100 he said He gathers from con versations with correctional ministry architects in Toronto that such facility may be built in about five years Its all question of money available he said noting that Barrie seems to be low services priority in view of other new jails now plan ac THERES NOTHING LIKE CANDY APPLE ON HOT DAY The princesses and queen of the Innisfil Summer Carnival watched the brickthrowing contest at the Carnival and ned or under construction Mr Westland said his staff of 20 is not lazy and is doing good job under very harrass munched on candy apples as Innisfil men chucked bricks Left is Cheryl lizzuti princess Princess Barb ing conditions They are under lot more tension believe me than the inmates are he said These inmates can say what the hell they like about me or my staff and there is nothing can say about it which is very unfair situation feel He said outdoor exercise must occasionally be cancelled because the staff is busy wit other matters but such cases are rare More often he said the weather is unsuitable or some inmates miss exercise because they want to finish card game or television program Other recreational and educational pro rams are so good Mr Westland said that year the Barrie jail was cited by the ast ministrys chief program officer as having the best such program in Ontario Activities include games reading television movies and lectures he said Marsdcn who shows one way to eat candy apple from the cellophane wrapping Queen llcathcr Macliarlanc baseball facilities in the exercise yard he said but inmates kicked the volleyballs and basket balls over the prison roof and threw the baseballs at staff members Prisoners are not put in their cells before 930 pm unless they request it Mr Westland voluntarily said and are allowed to stay up as late as 11 pm if necessary to see hockey game or movie or listen to lecture Jail food is based on two rotating sixweek menus one for summer and one for winter he saidthe menu shown to The Examiner featured such items as pork chops for supper felt like it traditionalist who ust iiiunchcs away at the tiing and Princess Sharon Sicbcrt and spaghetti and meat balls for lunch and jail staff eat the same food as the inamates He said Rowbotham has been allowed to maintain vegetarian diet despite the fact that he ate turkey on Christmas telling Mr Westland he was only vegetarian when he who uses the one handone tingcr method Examiner Photo by Rolf Kraikcri Stollar gives council choice let me build or go to court Jack Stollar seems to have outfoxed city council Council will decide Monday whether to allow the Barrie developer to build eight more units on subdivision he owns south of Yundles Road and east of Carlton Road When Mr Stollar got the go ahead to develop the subdivi sion in 1973 council restricted the of number units to 95 There are 12 undeveloped lots left in the subdivision for 24 semidetached units Mr Stollar was given building permits for eight of those lots to bring the number of units in the subdivision up to 94 The remaining four lots are zoned for semidetached hous ing and meet city standards The lots are also included on registered plan of develop ment CITY NE WS The Barrie Examiner Tuesday July 20 19763 LOCAL GENERAL PIONEER DAY Simcoe County Museum at Midhurst will hold its annual pioneer day Sept 19 Exhibits and demonstrations of 19th cen tury arts and crafts are featured OPEN HOUSE The Innisfil Historical Socie ty invites the public to the one room school in Painswick for an open house from to 430 pm July 24 Copies of historic photographs and some artifacts will beon display DROWNS IN HAY MIDLAND iiyearold Mississauga woman drowned in Sawlog Bay sometime Monday The body of Margaret Somer ville 2lll Roche Court Mississauga was found floating face down in bi inches of water about pm by neighbors Police say thc woman ap parently went swimming sometime during the day and drowned She was staying at her cottage on Concession 19 of Tiny Township There will be no inquest BODY FOlND BRADFORD Ontario Pro vincial Police divers found the body of Craig Tezuka about 1130 am Monday in the Holland River Craig of 709 Kennedy Road Toronto was reported missing Sunday after noon He had been staying near the water with his grandparents The body was found directly in front of the grandparents house Police say there will be no inquest OlR MISTAKE Ptc Don Deschcnc is the son of Mr and Mrs Desihem of RR Little Lake Harrie not 25 Rose St Barrie as reported in the Examiner Plaque to be erected honoring fund raisers Barrie will honor con tributors to the arena construc tion fund which raised money for the citys second indoor ice rink The public works committee is recommending the city put plague in the main lobby at Eastview Arena on Grove Street to honor lllt orgaiiia tions and residents The Barrie Jaycccs made it formal request to the city for the plaque The club raised 6715 for the rink Gregory Henn Jiiycec presi dent told the committee Mon day the club members worked hard to raise the money and would like to have some kind of recognition at the rcna The fundraising project housc built and sold by the Jaycecs had quite financial risk for the club Perhaps something could be done to honour all those who contributed he said The Barrie Royal Canadian Air Force club made donation of Still 74 and VII receive special mention on the plaque with the Jay recs Cary Stoner director of parks and recreation said smtablc plaque would cost bet ween $50 and $75 BMW owners gather at park on weekend The gentle purr of BMW motorcycles will be heard at Molsons Park this weekend Between 125 and 150 members of the BMW Motorcycle Club of Ontario Wlll be attending rail ly Friday Saturday and Sun day The BMW German make is generally recongnized as the Rolls Royce of motorcycles The topoftheline model costs $5000 Registration for the rally starts at noon Friday Field events will be held at Saturday featuring events such as dart throw and backward push They are skilltype games in the field events says Marg Whittleton of the Motorcycle Club BMW owners from Quebec and the Lnited States are also expected The rally is the first held by the Ontario Club Similar rallies have been held in the LS The only thing preventing development was the 1973 agreement between Mr Stollar and the city restricting de velopment Mr Stollar asked fro permis sion Monday night to build on the remaining four lots He told the city development committee that if he does not get permission to build the ouscs he will take the city to court He told the committee he wanted permission by Wed nesday morning The city will lose either way said Ald Ernie Rotman member of the development committee Foundations have been ex cavatcd on the four lots Ald Rotnian said if the city wins court battle and no building is allowed there will be four lots in the subdivision with excavated basements If the city loses said Ald Rotman building permits will have to be issued The city development com mittee took the whole problem to city council at special meeting Minday night City council sent the problem back to the city development committee And the city development committee decided to get an opinion from Rowe city solicitor The committee also hopes to meet with Mr Stollar again Monday at 30 pm This isnt the first time Mr Stollar has got more from the city than the city was prepared togivc In the same sulidiVision in 1973 Mr Stollar deeded one acre to the city for use park The city decided it wanted more park land And Mr Stollar obliged selling the city thrccrquartcrs of an acre at $05000 Forced cooperation helps students eliminate prejudice TORONTO CP Three consultants for the Metropolitan Toronto separate school board are working on project with innercity children in an attempt to prove that racism and other problems can be partially overcome in the classroom Since February Grade and classes have experienced series of exercises for one day which forced students to coop erate with one another without realizingit The exercises were presented tactfully To students it seemed day of games with no pres sure to participate Through the project children found it vital to eliminate prejudiccsfian obvious requirement for cooperation After the exercises conducted at the boards Districw office on llazelton Avenue some im provements were noted by teachers Nine innercity schools were the focus of the boards pilot project because we felt need for it in this area said Mr Nelder Some teachers dont like to think children are prcj udiced but some are SPARKS lllStlSSION One of the exercises film which involved prejudice against elderly people pro inked discussion hich led to talk on other prejudices Some children said things llkt lakis are not iiornial Then the class started to say Theyre just different then got into discussion about that said Mr Nelder Other prejudices included discrimination against peoples of Portuguese and italian origin malc and female hauxzmsni and discrimination against students who were slow or exceptionally fast learners Lilian Carnavale of St DaVid school found that among her Gradefi students there tended to be distinction between stu dents who attended speCIal edu cation classes iclassa for slow learners and other disabilities and those who did not attend In certain Situations those who took speCial education classes were excluded from playing with others Miss ariiavale noted an no provement after the exercises She partially attributed this to one of the exercisesa paper airplane contest between groups because it forced stu dents to cooperate in order to Will Trudy De Groot irade7 teacher at St Anne school said that there was strong anti hincse sentiment among her students There are no Chinese students in the class She said the project did little to help the situation because the focus was on cooperation not on prejudices Her girl students complained about the airplane contest because it seemed to them male orientatcd activity Laureen Wilson teacher at St Williams school found the main discrimination in the class was between students in terested in athletics and in tellectuals She said they used to sit in groups but new after the exerciseSi they mix Paul oady teacher at St Aloysius school said the most valuable exerCIse was street in terviews in the downtown area The kids learned lot from getting out into the community and talking with people people whom they would not normally speak to like construction workers he said In one case handful of chil dren aged 12 to 14 nervously approached two initltlleaged businessmen One little girl ar med with tape recorder asked one of the men Do you coopiratc With everybody Sir Responded the man Yes with everybody except my wife because she does not ctr operate with me Asked the girl whom have you tOOpCILllttl with todayV With my secretary said the man She had some prob lem that helped her with Students took pictures of people cooperating or not co operating For example citi was crossing street on red light were considered not to be cooperative 16 Simcoe projects share Wintario funds TORONTO Grants toinll ing 3297712 have been approved for 16 projects in Simcoe oun ty from the pmceeds of tin Ontario Lottery The amounts range from $260100 to $238 The city of Orillia is eligible for grant up to $360100 to restore the Orillia Opera House The Georgian Bay District Health entre in ollingwood is eligible for grant of 313818 to provide health centre With swimming pom and gyiiinas mm 310000 grant to the Georgian Bay Regional Library System will help buy du plicating and Video eqmpment and overhead prejectors Canadian books will he bought with $5000 grant to the County of Simcoe Library To operative in Midhurst The Penetanguishene Little NHL and the Orillia Mens Hockey ASSOClaIIUD Will use grants of $2159 and 51234 respectively to buy hockey equipment $1219 grant to the Penetanguishene Minor Soft ball Assoc1ation and 310791 grant to the Midland Minor lacrosse Association will be used to buy softball and lacrosse equipment The Leroy Minor Softball League and the Vespra Softball League will use grants of $710 and 3478 respectively to buy softball equipment Rayball equipment will be bought with $473 grant to the Kiwanis lub of ollingwood Harry MLKelviy of Orillia will receive $350 grant to help set up fitness programme for area Citizens $291 grant to the Pen etaiiguishcnc Minor Soccer ASStKlillltll will be used to buy soccer equipment The Tiny Township Parks and Recreation Committee Will buy softballs with grant of $202 The tullingwood Soccer Club and the Stayner Minor Soccer Club will use grants of S260 and 3258 respectively to purchase soccer equipment ulture and Recreation Minister Robert Welch said todays grants are part of the ongomg Share Wintario pro gram or the support of cultural and recreational activities To date the ministry has al lotted $43 It million to more than 2220 roups and projects acrosst eprovince