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Barrie Examiner, 15 Nov 1976, p. 5

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451 LA WA lt NEWS ROUNDUP Gilmore still waiting firing squad SALT LAKE CITY AP Today was to have marked the end for Gary Gilmore He wan tedit that way Instead more legal battles loom over the fateof the 35 yearold convicted murderer who foreswore appeals and de manded to go before firing squad on schedule Last week after court rulings delayed the execution then re stored the original schedule Gov Calvin Rampton stayed the execution pending review of the sentence Wednesday by the state board of pardons So today instead of drinkin the sixpack of beer he ha asked for as his final meal and facing the firing squad Gilmore waits in state prison as the fight goes on Dennis Boaz Gilmores law yer said he plans to ask the pardons board for another early date with the firing squad Boaz said his client wants to avoid the lingering death of wait mg Boaz said that if the state is unwilling to execute Gilmore on schedule it should release him on grounds that he would other wise be imprisoned without legal sentence Meanwhile lawyer Jinks Dabney of the American Civil Liberties Union said the organ ization is preparing strategy to prevent the setting of another execution date OPPOSES SENTENCE The ACLU opposes the death sentence as cruel and unusual punishment and Dabney said it hopes to outline its arguments for pardons board chairman George Latimer before Wed nesday Gilmore killed motel clerk during robbery If he had been executed today it would have been the first death sen tence carried out in the United States since 1967 Utah law gives condemned criminals choice of death by hanging or the firing squad and Gilmore had chose the lat ter On Saturday the London Daily Express quoted Gilmore as saying he wants to marry his girlfriend Nicole Barrett in death row ceremony Boaz said Sunday that no formal request had been made Prison officials said the re quest would be considered if made but they also complained about the circumstances of the Interview Boaz admitted that the Lon don newspaper paid him $230 to set up the interview Ban introduced himself to Gilmore as freelance writer and later replaced the courtap pointed lawyers whom Gilmore fired after they appealed his death sentence against his will Approval TORONTO CP Alan Mur ray president of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation said Sunday the federation has given cautious approval to the provincial gov ernments plan to tighten con trol of curriculum Mr Murray said in news release the profession will have to study the changes closely but welcomed commitment from Education Minister Thomas Wells that teachers will be deeply involved in plan ning ROBERT STANFIELI One Canada OTTAWA CP Robert Stanfield former Progressive Conservative leader says he is confident Canada will not lose Quebec Should the Parti Quebecois form the new government in Quebec after Mondays elec tion it would be my hope that the plebiscite would be against separation he said in an inter view for broadcast Sunday on the CTV Question Period Mr Stanfield said voting for the PO and support for sepa rate Quebec are two different things but long as the Parti Quebecois is the only means that people seem to have to vote against government they dont like then theyre going to get elected sooner or later whether its tomorrow or later on Breaks Rib PRINCE RUPERT BC CP Iona Campagnolo new federal minister responsible for health and physical fitness suf fered broken rib when her car rolled over after skidding off the road The minister MP for Skecna said she was returning here from figure skating cham pionship in Smithers on Frida night when her car hit patc of ice on Highway 16 about 25 miles east of hero STEPHEN LEWIS Urge review REGINA CP The Sas katchewan New Democratic Party has urged the federal government to review its pol icies and controls over environ mental and safety aspects of uranium production and to in sure such products for export will only be used for peaceful purposes Need change WINNIPEG CP Two Catholic priests agreed during the weekend that major changes are needed in Canadas hospital system Dr George Freemesser oi Orillia Ont psychiatrist as well as priest said modern hospitals have become mon strous temples of technology that ignore the dignity of the in dividual At large KITCHENER CP 17 yearold prisoner escaped Sat urday night from the Kitchener city jail officials said Sunday They said Guy St Amour of Kitchener climbed out bath room window in the former ov ernors residence attach to the jail walked along ledge and dropped about 20 feet to the ground The former residence although jail property is not part of the lockup area St Amour was awaiting re sumption of county court trial on charge of arson Cut bars BRAMPTON CP Two men escaped from Brampton jail early Sunday by cutting through set of bars police said Peel regional police iden tified the escapers as Frederick Cadeddu 26 of Niagara Falls Ont and Richard Jary 22 of Toronto Police said Cadeddu has been charged with seconddegree murder in the Aug 21 slaying in Brampton of Murray Anthony Durrer Jary 22 of Toronto has been charged with two counts of armed robbery in con nectiOn with holdups in Mis sissauga Ont lastApril The break was discovered during bed count at am Extra staff LONDON Reuter Many London stores stayed open late and brought in extra staff Sun day to deal with tens of thou sands of European shoppers who came to Britain fora spen ding spree during the weekend Many Europeans wishing to take advantage of the fall in the value of the pound arrived in cars or trucks so they might return with such heavy items such as refrigerators and stereo units Former dean LONDON Ont IP Me morial services will be held Tuesday for Dr Bruce Ma callum former dean of medi cine at the University of West ern Ontario who died Satur day He was 91 Born in Cornwall Ont Dr Macallum received his medical degree at the University of To ronto He did postgraduate Work at Harvard University of Munich Lister Academy and the Royal Cancer Hospital both in London England Dr Macallum obtained his PhD in biochemistry at Toronto and taught there until he moved to the University of Western Ontario in 1924 He was teaching and re search professor at Western for 30 years including five years as dean of medicine He retired in 1954 Separated LA CORUNA Spain AP Siamese twin babies were suc cessfully separated Sunday in this northwestern Spanish city hospital spokesman an nounced The girls Marta and Almudena Villar were born last April joined at the ab domen hospital communique listed them in satisfactory con dition after the onehour 45 minute operation Reelected LISBON AP ProMoscow hardliner Alvaro Cunhal won unanimous reelection Sunday as secretarygeneral of Portu gals Communist party In closed meeting 1200 arty delegates voted to retain 63 yearold Cunhal party chief for the last 15 years War drill TEL AVIV AP The mili tary command announced plans Sunday for practice callup of reserve forces to test Israels war readiness The drill will show us how long it takes reservists to get to bases and from bases to the front said military official The time and size of the exercise were not announced Is executed SIDON Lebanon AP Pal estinian and leftist authorities executed young Lebanese man in public square Satur day and displayed his body tied to monument for four hours Ahmed Ismail was shot after being convicted by peoples court of stealing car and kill ing one person Just missed LONDON Ont CP shotgun blast was fired through the front door of the London p0 lice headquarters early Sun day missing the duty sergeant by only few feet police said There were no injuries but p0 lice said the blast which missed Sgt Dick Graham by about six feet left pellet marks on the ceiling car was seen speedin from the station after theinci ent Save elderly TORONTO CP Three nurses aides rescued 16 resi dents of nursing home Satur day after fire broke out in clothes closet The aides were taken to hospital for treatment of smoke inhalation and later released None of the homes 104 residents were injured in the fire that was contained to oneroom Gets award TORONTO CP The Bnai Brith Womens Council of To ronto presented Canadian au thor Margaret Laurence with its WomanottheYear award Sunday She has written such novelsas Theliviners Speculation LONDON AP London newspaper says there is lot of talk among European royalty about the possibility of Prince Charles marrying Princess MarieAstrid 22yearold daughter of Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg The Sunday Mirror says the speculation was caused by the state visit to Luxembourg last week of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip and the royal couples private stay with the grand duke and his ramily tailor Who Fol 115 Partner at 915 THE CONTROVERSIAL FILM YOUVE HEARD SO MUCH ABOUT HAS FINALLY ARRIVED IN BARRIE areas AN asmm fllMS RELEASE 1111812 the Amcni ZULH till toiintkltriuuitla Iix yic still tiylr ig Sarah Miles Kris Kristotierson Male saint VATICAN CITY AP Pope Paul approved on Satur day the canonization of John Neumann 19century bishop of Philadelphia as saint of the Roman Catholic Church No date was set for the ceremony which will give the United States its first male saint John Neumann who left his native Prachatitz Bohemia now Czechoslovakia in 1835 dedicated himself to the care of immigrants Honor man NEW YORK Reuter Hundreds of people from across the United States and Canada honored former resistance leader in Poland credited with leading more than 1200 Jews to freedom during the Second World War Vovia Bielsky 70 resident of New York City was feted Sunday at luncheon given by the Federation of For mer Jewish Underground Fighters and Holocaust sur vivors No embargo NEW YORK AFP King Khalid of Saudi Arabia told Newsweek magazine in an in terview published Sunday that were not even thinking of ap plying new oil embargo and We hope that circumstances will not force us to do so The king said that in studying the question of increasing oil prices Saudi Arabia will spare no effort to avoid causing consumer nations any damage Beautified VATICAN CITY AP Pope Paul has raised 16th century Spanish Carmelite nun to the state of blessed final step before possible sainthood in the Roman Catholic Church The Pope beatified Maria de Jesus Lopez dc Rivas at Sun day ceremony in St Peters Basilica before about 15000 persons including scores of cardinals and bishops JOII CLARK New Clark OTTAWA CP Opposition Leader Joe Clark 100k his wife Maureen Mcleer and their weekold daughter home from hospital Saturday Ms McTeer who prefers to use her maiden name said she and Mr Clark discussed the last name for their child Cath erine Jane and decided it should be Clark dont really like hyphen ated names she said find theyre quite bur densome for small children And since just found it too bur densome for myself to use two names think Catherine would find it even longer learning to writcit Mr Clark said he expects that hell be getting up in the middle of the night quite of ten 74 at least for while lm little more mobile than Maureen is for while so suppose Ill be doing little more of the getting up although then it has to be over to Mau reen The true story that has captivated over 8000000 Starring JULIE mm EILEEN nacnm mun oconnzu lnttoduci acumen cu mummyInns yumwnmm Evenings at 935 Sat Sun 130 Al5 Pu List Sauna David Priest centre No 10 of the Barrie Lions novices sweeps by three Newmarket defenders one of them sprawled on the ice during York Simcoe Minor Hockey League action Sun day at the Barrie Arena PRIVATE VENTURE Documents said to reveal authorization of project TORONTO CP The Globe and Mail says in an Ottawa dis patch that Ontario government documents show that Statis tics Canada employee referred to Sylvia Ostry former chief statistician for Statistics Can ada as the source of author ization for $100000 private project using data collected by the agency The same employee Gerald Snyder was one of three Statis tics Canada employees repri manded by Mrs Ostry year later in 1974 for outside activi ties which the RCMP found they were conducting through company Called Alan Jeffrey Associates Mrs Ostry was not available for comment Mr Snyder and the other cm ployees had sold Statistics an ada data to private companies through the firm between 1971 and 1974 in six contracts total ling $4500 The investigation ordered by Mrs Ostry now deputy federal minister of consumer and cor gate affairs found there had serious conflict of inter est and unethical professional conduct on the part of three eme ployecs although no breach of the confidentiality require ments of tthtatisticsAcI were found The Globe says Ontario gov ernment documents include an April 25 1973 letter to John Crispo dean of the University of Toronto faculty of manage ment studies from Mr Snyder in his capacity as dircctor of Statistics Canadas mer chandising and services division The Globe says that in the let ter Mr Snyder said Mrs Ostry has suggested that dis cuss with you possible re search project on shopping centre development Although the data input will come primarily from Statistics Canada sources it is envisaged that the study will be under taken on nongmerninental basis The letter the newspaper says went on to state that the $100000 project estimate includes an estimate of travel costs an honorarium for my self payment for professional assistance if necessary and the costs of programming and com puter use over and above the amount covered by Statistics Canada as part of its ongoing program The Globe says copies of the AND THE RACE IS ON Priest was held off the scoreboard Sunday but not Mark DAmbrosio Darcy Taylor Mark Ragot and letter were sent to Mrs Ostry Mr Crispo turned the offer down The Globe in another Ottawa dispatch says the system of us ing selection boards to choose the most capable candidates for appointment or promotiOn at Statistics Canada is followed in theory but often corrupted in practice Littles Hill Pla ers presents musico all play for chi dren of ages NG HOOD Written by Dobi Robb and Pat Patterson of Georgian College Theatre Nov181h 19th 20Ih at 730 pm Nov 201h matinee 012230 pm Tickets available at AIIondolo Drug Triton loyth Mall Jenn Stationery Downtown Group rat reliable THE GREATEST AFRICAN AMEN RE EVER FILMED LEE ROGE MARVIN and MOORE an BARBARA PABKIIIS RECOMMENDED AS Awtl RTEMAINNINI gnoxv 460UNLOPSTW 728 468 SHOWN DAILY AT 72001920 PM Here it is again Back By Popular Demand 347 Bayfield St Barrie 280941 he Barrie Examiner Danny Schaly as Barrie won 42 Priest had one of seven goals Saturday as the novices routed Bolton 70 Schaly had two DAmbrosio Scott Forde Keith Cyr and Corey Kiri one apiece in that contest The Loins have 301 record on the season They play next in Bradford Saturday Examiner Photo fa nV4L4lt Monday Nov 15 19765 Some38 die over weekend By THE CANADIAN PRESS Four persons killed near Montreal Saturday when the car in which they were riding hit post and collided with another vehicle were among at least 38 persons who died ac cidentally in Canada during the weekend survey by The Canadian Press from pm Friday to midnight Sunday night showed 28 other traffic fatalities two fire deaths three drownings and one man killed when acci dentally shot Quebec had 15 traffic fatal ities including the four persons killed in the twocar collision at Caughnawaga Indian Reserve near Montreal Ontario had six traffic deaths one drowning and one fire fatality as well as the death of man shot ac cidentally while hunting about 25 miles northeast of Fort Fran cis 160 miles west of Thunder Bay The Ontario dead SATURDAY William Walsh Guelph when the car in which he was pas senger collided with another ve hicle on Highway 86 just north ofGue1ph Hendrick Jansen 23 R0ck wood and Herman Van dermeulen 17 Oakville in twocar crash on Highway 25 at Hillsburgh 12 miles northeast of Guelph UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT The Clansman Manor Residential Home Big Bay Point 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