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Barrie Examiner, 18 Nov 1976, p. 1

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EXAMINER TELEPHONES Circulation 7266539 Classified Advertising 728 2414 All Other Departments 7766537 112th YearNo 269 The Barrie Examiner Barrie Ontario Canada Thursday Nov 18 I976 Che Tfiarrir Examiner 15 Per Copy Carrier Home Delivery 85 Weekly WEATHER FORECAST 20 P009 Board lists priorities on schools BySHEILAMcGOVERN Examiner Staff Reporter The separate school board has pre red shopping list of new sc ools and new school sites to be presented to the ministry of education Each year at this time trustees go through the exer cise of determining what schools should be expanded where new schmls should be built and when and where school sites should be pur chased The items are submitted in order of priority to the ministry In this time of restraint approval of the building projects has become rare The separate boards list is primarily resubmission of last years requests and will not be final until the next board meeting The board is again requesting the purchase of site for new senior elementary school in Barrie to replace St Jose hs in 1977 and funds to buil the school for completion in 1979 It is also uesting site pur chases in Bra ford and Colgan or Tottenham in 1978 The board is projecting that within the next five years new elementary schools may also be needed in the Barrie area to be located on Concession 13 of In nisfil in Bradford and in the ColganTottenham area The request includes two ad ditions scheduled for 1977 one at Our Lady of Lourdes in Elmvale and one at Our Lady of Grace in Angus Portable classrooms are also requested for Foley Separate in Brechin St James in Colgan and Marie of the Incarnation in Bradford 77 budget boost gets approval Separate school principals will have few extra dollars to buy textbooks and supplies next year Trustees have approved 155 per cent increase in school budgets for 1977 It is the first increase in two years principal will now receive $38 per student up from $33 Grants sought The separate school board is asking the province for $20000 in grants to continue and im prove its community education program Trustees are asking for renewal of the existing grant used to finance Reach Out The program provides funds for the school boards annual calendar and for individual programs in schools The additional 310000 if ap proved would be used to hire communityeducationofficer Trustee Mary Jo Quilty of Midland said the community education committee would like to see an adult religious education program instituted across the county and the of ficer would help set up the program May request lottery funds The Simcoe ounty Roman atholic Separate School Board is considering investigating the possibility of obtaining Wine tario funds to help build needed school facilities During Wednesday nights board meeting the trustees discussed the possibility of entering joint ventures with community groups to have recreation facilities con structed The board has requested funds to build libraries general purpose rooms and gymna siums at some schools but has not received approval from the ministry ofcducation Yugoslavia stays wary BELGRADE Reutcr Yu goslavia has served notice it will not relax its defences de spite public assurance from Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev that tthoviet Union has noag gressive intentions Shortly after Brezhnev left here Wednesday after three day visit the Yugoslav news agency lanjug previewed ex tracts ol an official report that said Yugoslavias armed forces are capable of fighting against any aggression whether by land sea or air The money is to be used for sup plies $17 textbooks $7 resource material $7 and other expenses High school principals will receive $52 student instead of $45 Lloyd LaPlume budget chairman said the board has pointed out to principals there must be sufficient religious education texts and resource material in each school He said the catachetics committee has been concerned over the availability of religious ma terials Principals had asked for more he said but in the interest of our financial situa tion this is what we have de cided School budgets will amount to $206000 on the 1977 budget Custodians get pay hike The Simcoe County Roman Catholic Separate School Board has reached an agreement with its 38 custodians which allows for an eight per cent increase across the board The 27 fulltime custodians will now earn between $8554 and $9504 up from $7920 and $8800 last year The 11 parttime custodians will earn between $411 and $457 an hour up from $381 and $423 The agreement was accepted by the board Wednesday night It had previously been accepted by the custodians The oneyear contract goes into effect Jan Rollback fight seen TORONTO Many trade unions will try to win back the negotiated pay raises they are losing because of roll backs ordered by the antiin flation board rail union leader told University of To ronto seminar on the controls Wednesday We are keeping track of what we consider legitimate gains lost to the antiinflation board said Dick Smith na tional vicepresident of the Brotherhood of Railway and Airline Clerks When controls come off we shall include these losses as legitimate catchup goals Ilis warning was followed by statement from Don Taylor assistant Canadian director of the United Steelworkers of America that up to $500 million in wages may be lost this year because of boardordered roll backs Another panel member Paul Pare president of lmasco Ltd of Montreal said the controls will shrink investment capital and reduce production in the economy Santa Claus arrived at the ayfield Mall Barrie ednesday night at 630 and one of the first to climb upon goo GUESS WHO CAME TO TOWN his knee and say what she wanted for Christmas was MikelAnn Breau But she decided very quickly that Santa may be okay but parents are much nicer and asked in the way only one School football teams cochampions for 76 It was the most satisfactory solution Thats how Bruce Clark coach of the Barrie Central Col legiate Redskins senior football team summed Wednesdays decision by the Georgian Bay Secondary School Athletic Association to declare Barrie Central and Thornhill Secon dary School cochampions for 1976 Clark said it wasnt the most desirable way to end the season but that it was in the best in terest of the players on both teams that cochampions be declared The meeting was held in Newmarket with members of the GBSSAA executive present Both Central and Thornhill coaches had been invited to gil tend the meeting but only eir tral was present It marked the first time in the ltrycarhistory of the GBSSAA that two teams had met and failed to agree on playing date said Clark This includes all sports he added The decision to share the senior football title keeps intact entrals Bogamc undefeated streak and third straight iBSSA crown FIKTIIER DETAILS ON PAGE 12 Favors partial annexation 20200acre bid too much Barrie is swallowing too much in one gulp with its an nexation application says Chris Kaszuba aldermanic can didate in Ward Mr Kaszuba 25 of Blake Street said he favors partial annexation by the city to provide more land to attract new industries The citys application to an nex 20200 acres is too much he said Some people say annexation will not be an issue in the elec tion he said But definitely feel it will be He said the citys bid should be so accurate that it will not impose hardships on the tax payers with some guarantee of funds from at least the provin cial level of government Better planning in Ward is needed he said with the preparation of plan for Residential District The plan for the last large tract of undeveloped land in the citys borders is expected to be completed by the spring of 1977 The development must be compatible and harmonious to the existing neighborhotxls he said Mr Kaszuba said the city should strive for better mix of housing to offer new residents College is setting for NDP minicaucus The provincial New Democratic Party will be holding minicaucus Friday and Saturday at Georgian College Participating in the caucus will be Michael Cassidy Ot tawa Centre the NDP housing critic James Renwick River dale counterpart of the at torney general Bud Germa Sudbury the caucus chair man Bill Ferrier Cochrane South and Tony Grandie Oakwood The group will be discussing local issues including WETS WITH BOURASSA TODA Levesque prepares to take over MONTREAL CP lut going Quebec Premier Robert Bourassa chaired the last meet ing of his Liberal cabinet Wed nesday as the wheels of govern ment turned toward an orderly transfer of power to the Parti Quebecois As the cabinet convened for the last time in Quebec City the PQs lSmcmber national executive met for several hours at Montreal hotel The transfer to the new re gime drew closer today with the scheduled meeting of Mr Bourassa and his successor PO leader Rene Levesque Mr Levesque said Wed nesday the PO executive discussed variety of issues including financing of the elec tion campai and the future relationship ctween the party and the caucus which is to meet Saturday For at least one Liberal cabi net minister an end to 612 years of government has come as relief feel liberated said Finance Minister Raymond Garneau whose government leaves $1 billion deficit for the PO to deal with ILAtAIE INVESTORS Mr Levesque has emphasied that his top priority is the prov inces financial situation The new government will have to placate foreign investors who ear that its separatist platform will undermine financial stabil ity An attempt to allay fears raised by the independence question among the provinces anglophone population was made by Dr John OBrien Rector of Concordia Univer sity who said the community should regard itself as minority group and be ready to adapt tot efuture Theres no question of re treating across the border as quickly as possible Dr OBrien said in convocation address The English are becoming agriculture education and mental health Questions will be asked by Tom Delaney of the Barrie branch of the Canadian lon sumers Association Joe Borrows industrial relations manager of MansfieldDenman General and Doug Bailcv Simcoe County president of the Ontario Public School Men Teachers Federation The meetings are on to the public and will be ield at pm Friday and 930 am Sunday in the business building much more like other minor ities in other Western societies We should regard ourselves in this role and learn from other minority groups that have we ceeded The presidents of two associ ations of Englishlanguage teachers welcomed the PQ vic tory but noted their dis agreement with the partys lan guage policy Mr Levesque has said that in future all immigrants would have to send their children to French immersion programs and there would be limits on the growth of the Englishlanguage school system and people now living here This may include higher density for more semidetached housing NUTSEIJJNG The city should not include too many new townhouses in the plans he said because the units are not selling in most municipalities Iownhouses are not moving in the market and Barrie is in buyers market right now he said Mr Kaszuba said the city should investigate the possibility if developing local shopping plaza in Ward for residents east of Bayfield Street He said the existing ribbon strip commercial development on Blake Street does not serve the needs of people in the north section of the ward The commercial enterprise must be viable one he said adding it could include chain food store and local conve nicnce store This would alleviate the traffic congestion on BayfieldStreet Barrie needs to revitalize the downtown and have more ur ban redevelopment in the pen phipal areas he said CAPsaLE NE WS year olds can to please be let off Santas knee Examiner Photo by Rolf Kraiker Hi there Mr Lang Long time no see BIG BIRD FLYING IN Big Bird will be sauntering back into the homes of Barrie and area children in Jan uary KVRTV Barrie has dev cided to carry Sesame Street at its regular 11 am time slot at the start of the new year The program had been dropped in favor of locally produced talk show Parents in the rillia area have been protesting the change and last week met with station officials Christians storm village BEIRUT AP Christians claimed the capture today of strategic Moslem village near the Israeli border and proSyr ian Palestinians battled in refugee camp in southern Bei rut with guerrillas who support Yasser Arafat The Christian Phalange party said its forces captured Kfar Kial in housetohouse fighting during the night But the leftist Lebanese Arab Army said the attackers were thrown back to the fringes of the village Bus drivers in walkout TlMMlNS Ont CP City bus service was halted today when the 37 drivers of limmins Transit members of Local 1544 Canadian Union of Public Employees walked off their jobs The bus line carries daily average of 6000 to 7000 passengers UK renews pledge GENEVA Router Britain proposed today that con ference on Rhodesias future conclude its work here by Dec 20 and renewed its pledge to declare independence in the breakaway colony not later than March 1978 conference sources said Two more quit contest LONDON Reuter Two more girls withdrew today from the 1976 Miss World beauty competition only few hours before the contest is due to be held tonight See story on Page Oil prices the topic KUWAIT AP The oil ministers of the Or anization of Petroleum Exporting Countries will meet as sch uled on Dec 15 to study proposals for oil price increases Minister of State Abdulaziz Hussein said today nigfiigfidi perhaps By RICHARD DUNSTAN Examiner Staff Reporter Its the last hurrah for Mayor Dorian Parker probably Mayor Parker told an allcandidates meeting Wednesday the new term she is seek ing which would be her third will also be her last However she said in an interview after the meeting which was sponsored by The Jay cees that though she has no plans to seek fourth term she cannot be certain what her attitude will be two years from now She said she had given some thought to retiring from the post at the end of her cur rent term but decided to run in the Dec municipal election after many people asked her to The mayor also said she opposes the citys current drive to establish local airport in Oro Township Any new airport she told the meeting should be at Base Borden In addition the mayor said in the inter view shc would be willing to consider any compromise annexation Eroposal which citys lawyers as way of shortening the current annexation fight before the Ontario Municipal Board Candidate Willard Kinzie former mayor said he would support any federal move to establish an international airport west of might be recommended by Base Borden Meanwhile he said he supports the drive for the ro facility which would not ac commodatc jets He has previously said he would prefer to see small jetport near Elmvale to serve the whole county but he said in an interview after the meeting he doubts the various municipalities which would be involved would cooperate on such project AUAINSTOTIIERS Ald Ross Archer stood ainst the other two candidates in arguing at the mayors is fulltime in day job is not truly fulltime though he agrees it the sense of taking eight hours He said he could devote two or three hours each morning to his refrigeration business ding meetings and spend the afternoon and evening atten and taking care of city affairs All three candidates were asked their pic ture of the Barrie of the future hope we figure Mayor Parker said she regards the citys 125000 population target for the year 2011 set by the Simcoe Georgian Area Task Force as an absolute maximum dont reach that even in 35 years she said Ald Archer said he has accpeted the 125000 With the technology thatll be available then think we can handle that growth he said in the city think you ation had been Mr Kinzie noted that the He said he has seen the city more than tri ple in size from less than 9000 to nearly 34000 and it hasnt hurt us yet He said he welcomes new residents to the city even though he himself is native STABLE BASE Mr Kinzie stressed making Barrie city within our own right with stable tax base and enough jobs to allow all residents to work On annexation Ald Archer defended the ci tys 20000acre application need that property to plan for the year 2011 he said He said Barrie might be in less trouble now if the last major annex larger who was mayor at the time city asked for more land than was eventually awarded by the Ontario Municipal Board Mayor Parker said she is in favor of realistic annexation but was neither ualified or at liberty to say how much land city should borders will be up to the OMB get She said the citys new City of boosters is Kinzies aim Willard Kinzie wants Barrie to be city of boosters and not city of knockers Mr Kinzie one of the three candidates for mayor in the Dec municipal election told the Barrie Manufacturers As sociation BMA earlier this week this is one role of the mayor and city council He was at the lunch meeting with candidates Dorian Parker incumbent and Ross Archer an alderman want city of boosters rather than city of knockers he said Part of making Bar rie progressive city is leader ship from the mayor and city council Mr Kinzie said he hoped to make the city really come alive The manufacturers associa tion questioned councils ap proval of Bylaw 76107 which amends the citys zoning bylaw adding provisions of Section 35 of the Ontario PlanningAct The section permits the city to control development by site Legal issues delay igning by Flyers Wayne arleton formerly with the Edmonton ilers of the Ali buying mansion HOUSTON AP Houston veterinarian and in vestor says he is negotiating to sell his mansion in the ex clusive River Oaks area to heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali for about $35 million The Houston Post quoted sources as saying Ali is seeking 90 per cent financing Ali was not available for com ment Simcoe County Health Unit operated two clinics Wednesday to administer Victoria and Swine flu vac cine The clinic was designed to innoculate people 65 and World Hockey Association WHA did not sign with Barrie Flyers Wednesday as expected Gord Coates president of the senior hockey club said this morning that legal matters are holding up the signing of Carleton Coates said Flyers were still hoping to have Carleton signed by Friday when Barrie meets Brantford Alexanders at the Barrie Arena ExFlyers Corby Adams and Jim Thompson joined the Alexanders on the weekend following months of haggling which saw the veteran per formers go to Orillia back to Barrie then to Brantford it as GETS SWINE FLU SHOT over the chronicallyill and those persons 20 to 65 who cx peet to be travelling soon Parker Kelcey was one of the people to receive his shot plans even though property is correctly zoned SCRAP OR REWRITE Mr Kinzie told the associa tion either the city should scrap the bylaw in its present form or rewrite it adding definitions for key words He said the bylaw will leave new industries moving to the ci ty without any idea of develop ment costs The whole restrictive bylaw zoning bylaw should be thoroughly amended to make it simplier and put it in simpler language he said dont like it in its present form Mayor Parker said according to her information not every new building in the city will have to be approved by city council She said it was not meant to be detriment to manufac turers or industry The bylaw would be changed she said if council decides it is not doing what the city wants Ald Archer said if the bylaw becomes too restrictive then it definitely should be changed But he said the purpose of the bylaw is to help the re development of certain areas in Barrie If it works hardships and isnt doing what he wants it to do then well have to change it he said The city has received number of objections to the bylaw including an extensive one from the Greater Barrie Chamber of Commerce from registered nurse Mrs Doubt at the clinic held at the Parkview Centre for Senior Citizens on Blake Street Examiner Photo

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