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Barrie Examiner, 23 Nov 1976, p. 1

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EXAMINER TELEPHONES 7266539 Circulation Classified Advertising All OtherDeportments ill2th YearNo 273 EXCAVATION CREWS at the site of the Bayclub con dominium apartment devel opment have now reached 258 Dunlop St and are digg ing immediately behind the 7287414 7266537 house Ownership of the house is being contested and tenants can look out of their windows into the jaws of mechanical shovels Work men entered the building Monday afternoon to warn the remaining tenants that the shovels would be digging right along side of the Iiouse Examiner Ihotot Demolition issue still unresolved By PETER DEPODESTA Examiner Staff Reporter No court order has been is sued to stop the demolition of Two clinics for vaccine The Simcoe County Health Unit is holding taro Swine flu vaccination clinics this week for travellers people with chronic illnesses and people overdo On Wednesday from 104130 pm health officials will beat the Parkview Centre on Blake Street On Friday from am to noon and to pm clinic will be set up in The Hub at San dy Cove Acres This is public clinic open to residents and nonresidents People between the ages of 20 and 65 who will be travelling over the next few weeks will receive the monovalent vac cine which is for Swine flu on ly Others will receive the bi valent vaccine for Victoria and Swine flu 258 Dunlop St but six people continue to live in the building Ron Routledge president of the Urban Expansion Group owners the building told The Barrie Examiner this morning there is no injUnction against the company to his knowledge Mr Routledge said the mat ter is with his solicitor and he did not want to comment We are continuing to try and cooperate with the tenants he said Saturday one couple Cliff and Lillian Willoughby were moved at considerable ex pense by Urban Expansion Mr Routledge said The couple was represented by Paul Wessenger who was threatening court order against the demolition Two single girls Beth Trudeau and Lorraine Brennan and Raimo Forsman and his family remain in the building Viola MacBride 07yearold widow who claims to own the building also stays there durlt ing the day returning to her Berczy Street apartment at night Mrs MacBride said this mor ning sheis suingthc developer Itll cost me $1000 to sue blast probed NEW YORK tAPi Fire marshals continued their investiga tion today into the cause of an explosion at Queens chewing gum plant which killed one person and injured 54 others Novelist dies at 75 PARIS Al Andre Malraux novelist art historian philosopher and Gaullist cabinet minister died today lie was 75 Italy hit by strike ROME Reuter 24hour strike by public employees closed Italys public offices schools universities and post of fice today Syrians scout red line HEIRUT AIi Syrian troops scouted the coastal end of the socalled Israeli red line across southern Lebanon today as their leaders considered whether to risk clash with Israel by pushing into southernmost Lebanon 50 dead in plane crash ATHENS CI Greek Greece today and all 50 persons spokesman said Federal spending controls rapped in report Calling it critically serious situation AuditorGeneral JJ Mac donell said Monday government spending is going out of control and must be brought back into line by immediate appointment of OTTAWA CPI powerful financial watchdo The government responded by naming $1000aday royal commission to investigate federal spending controls making it clear no immediate action will be taken on the Mac donell reconinirndatioii The tourman royal commission headed by TorontoDominion Bank chairman Allan Lambert will have 13 months to issue an in airliner crashed in northern aboard were killed an airline terim report them she said They cant treatmelikedirt ADVISED TO STAY She said her lawyer Fran Bowman of Toronto advised her to stay in the building and help the tenants as long as they stay But theyre getting out as fast as they can she said Theyre lthe Crban Expan sion Group taking bread right out of my mouth Mrs MacBridc said the rent from the tenants was used to pay the various llll for operatingthchuilding According to land title search by the residents the property was transferred to Mr Routledgeiii1974 and to St Davids Investments Ltd part of the tfrban Expansion Group in March 1976 Monday afternoon three employees of the Expansion Group entered the building to warn people about the excava tion for the llaychib llti ment mechanical shovel was dig ging beside the foundation of thebuilding The employees started to tear off trim in one of the vacant apartments and removed valve on heating radiator After water spewed on the floor and Mrs MacHridc ob jected the employee put the valve back He apologized to her The property is part of bIOck bought by Urban Expan sion for the construction of 118 condominium apartment units The site is bounded by Albert Collier Dunlop and Blake streets hairless Funny how from up here the color of the skins all look the same The Macdonell report tabled in the Com mons went further than any previous auditorgenerals report in criticizing federal spending controls For the first time an auditorgeneral has said there is no effective control over much of Ottawas There were the usual tales bureaucratic waste and economic bungling including the 3828000 purchase and refitting of ship that riding was declared unfit for navigation and the payment of$10 million in unexplainul funds to agents involved in the sale of Canadian nuclear reactors to Argentina and South Tlaarric The emitter The Barrie Examiner Barrie Ontario Canada Tuesday Nov 23 I976 All Oro candidates oppose WEATHER FORECAST 16 Pages to Barrie expansion bid By JOHN BRUCE ExaminerStaff Reporter If the 197778 Oro townshi council has its way Barrie wi not annex any township land nor will the proposed Barrie airport planned for 242acre site near Guthrie get off the ground All eleven candidates for municipal office in the township went on record at meetthecandidates meeting Monday night as standing in op position to any further attempts by Barrie to expand into the township However some candidates such as former councillor Charley Sanderson said that expansionary pressures on the city will make expansion into Oro township inevitable Mr Sanderson candidate for council said however that township council must work to preserve farmland in ro in spite of pressure from Barrie and Orillia to prevent shor tage of agricultural land in the future Howard Campbell candi date for reeve said he was posed to annexation of township land by Barrie and praised the present council for its stand against an annexation bid by Barrie RIGIII STAND Council took the right stand on annexation he said be cause of the tax revenue that would be lost If elected Mr Campbell would urge that joint annexa tion committee be set up with Barrie to study future land needs of both the township and the city and to find ways to amicably settle annexation issues Mr Campbells opponent sit ting deputyreeve Charles Simpson said he was opposed to annexation of township land by Barrie because he views ari IOANNA MCEWEN Public board seat sought by principal of St Joes William Murphy principal of St Josephs junior high school is seeking one of the two separate school seats on the Simcoe ounty Baard of Educa tion Mr Murphy is challenging Gilbert Lesperance for the north ward seat which includes everything north of Barrie The south ward is re resented by Joe Whelan to was ac claimed Separate school supporters have the right to elect represen tatives to the public board to represent them on secondary school matters Mr Murphy resident of Ilawkcstone has been principal of St Joes for Six years He is according to the Education Act eligible to run for the seat as he will be serving on the public school board An amendment to the Educa tion Act in 1972 states teacher or principal may not run for the Dennis Cull dies at 47 Minor soccer in Barrie lost one of its stronger boosters last week Dennis Charles Cull 47 died Saturday at Royal Victoria Hospital Mr ull served the Barrie Optimist Minor Soccer Associa tion for four years both as coach and cxecut ive member The owner of the Hillcrest Garden Centre Mr ull ap peared on the television pro gram Gardening Weekly He was also active in the Canadian Family Camping Federation native of England Mr Cull was member of Coronation Lodge number 466 AF and AM Elmvale Kichikewana hapter of the Royal Arch Masons number 167 Midland and Mount alvery Ierccptory number 12 of the Knights Templar Barrie and Shealticl Council number2l Midland lie is survived by his wife Jean sons David and Gerry and daughter Carolyn of Barrie and father Charles and brother Brian of South Africa Funeral service was held Tuesday at cnnett Funeral Home school board by which he is employed In 1970 while employed by the Simcoe County Board of Education Mr Murphy served as the rillia trustee on the separate school board He resigned his position when he was appointed principal of St Joes From 1968 to 1970 he was trustee on the Lincoln County Roman Catholic Separate School Board YEARS Mr Murphy has been teach ing for 14 years He is past president of the St Catharines unit of the On tario English Catholic Teach ers Association and former provincial director of the association He attended Scollaid Ilall Catholic high school in North Bay and St Jeromes College at Waterloo University He is now finishing his masters degree with the Ontario In stitiite for Studies in Education feel with all the changes in smoiidary schools that are tak ing place right now you have to have very active and in formed trustcc representing the needs and aspirations of separate school ratepayers Mr Murphy said As separate schrml trustee 300 apply for vacancies TORONTO CI More than 300 men assembled at city hall Monday to apply for 30 va cancies in Torontos fire department Under new policy the city advertised the positions in the three Toronto daily newspapers to make the jobs more acces sible to members of ethnic mi noritics In the past the department had selected recruits from waiting list now grown to 600 names Milne Smith director of per sonnel services said he was looking for colored firemen al though therc were less than 10 nonwhites in the group survey by the Canadian Civil Liberties Association last year found that only two of To rontos 1300 firemen were col ored Boxing Day here causing confusion Boxing Day is causing some confusion in Barrie this year Usually theres no problem Boxing Day is the day after Christmas But this year the 26th is Sunday and the city has declared Dec 27 Monday as Boxing Day in Barrie Bob Hollywood general manager of the Greater Barrie Chamber of Commerce said the chamber has contacted Queens Park in Toronto for ruling Mr Ilollywood said ac cording to John Mac Beth Korea But Mr Macdonells strongest words were for the grossly inadmuate spending con trols SEESCONTROLSLIIIING am dee ly Parliamentan indeed page review He said the situation has been deteriorating for years ever since successive govern ments began ignoring recommendations of the 1902 Glassco commission on government efficiency concerned the govern ment has lost or is close to losing effective control of the public purse he said in his 631 Solicitorgeneral Boxin Day is the day following Christmas Day So that means all stores ex cept those exempted will be closed Dec The citys resolution to declare Dec 27 as Boxing Day has no effect he said and stores which want to remain open can City ball will be closed Friday Dec 24 and Monday Dec 27 while the provincial of fices are closed Monday Dec 27 and Tuesday Dec 28 to the public board Mr Mur phy said he believes his role would be to act in the best in terest of all high school students but always keeping in mind represents different group and his views may vary on certain matters He believes there should be separate school trustee on the budget committee If elected Mr Murphy said he would pro bably ask to be put on the moral education committee As for his possible conflict in interest Mr Murphy said he was able to serve on school boards before without running into any iroblems Ile will however declare conflict ot interest on any matter pertain ing to teacher or principal salaries WIFE rCIAIIIII His wife Anne Lynne Mur phy was acclaimed to the Sim eoe ounty Roman Catholic Separate School Board to repre sent Matchedash rillia Twp ro oldwater Mcdorite Mara Rama and Morrison She Will also be declaring conflict of interest on salary matters Mr Murphy said The number of teachers or spouses of teachers serving on the two boards is increasing There could he as many as four on the separate and to on the public for the next term Mr Murphy explained lliat when education is his lifes work this is where he feels he can contribute the most Ile said he would be more informed as trustee than he would as an alderman Mr Murphy has three children and is member of Guardian Angels Parish in rillia Ile plans to attend as many allcandidates meetings as he can throughout his ward Sometimes you have to get close to the problem to find solution Monday afternoon new senior official was urgently needed on treasury board the government financial controlling agency to watch spending and report directly to the treasury board president currently Robert Andras that Mr Macdonell told special meeting of the Commons public accounts committee he was not give to alarmist statements He said he agonized over each word in the opening statement rewriting it by hand no less than 15 times Ile said he had no objection to the royal commissmn but did not want it to interfere wrth early action on his own recom DONVFCLOSE nexation as way to develop regional government majority of the candidates also oppose the proposed Barrie airport Deputyreeve candidate lan McLean said he is against the airport proposal because the proposed site is not on land that Barrie wanted to annex He urged the city to spend the money on the existing facility in Vespra township If new airport is to be built he said more central location should be found to serve other areas of Simcoe County such as Collingwood and Midland However Paul Ilansen the other deputyreeve candidate said he was in favor of building the airport on the proposed site near Guthrie CAN GET ONIROI He supports the proposed facility because he believes that right now council can get control of the management and planriingof it Council could maintain con trol over the airport he said by getting enough township coun cillors in the airport manage ment board to constitute ina jority of the voting members Council candidate Anthony Keene also favored the airport because we can make what ever we want of it His reasoning on the airport was consistent with his general campaign theme that the town ship must look after itself or you know who will come in and look after it for us All of the candidates agreed that ro township must have in dustrial development but they differed on location of the development Reeve candidate Howard ampbcll favors industrial development but added feel that privatelyowned in dustrial park would be best for Uni LIIAVIII IIIS harles Simpson advocated townsliipmwried industrial park but he iitlll he Hillltl prefer to see it located in itian doncd gravel pits away from ALLAN McLIiAN populated areas When the gravel pits are ex hausted he said they are bestsuited for industrial development or trees Council candidate Iaul Kit chen said development in the toWnship must be carefully planned to maintain all of the rural and recreational features of this township Once they are gone he told the audience they are gone forever Barbara Tiffin also running for council said she would only favor development that bene fits the community socially and ulturally as well as financial Improved tax assessment alone is not good enough reason to allow industrial development she said However deputyreeve can didate Paul Hansen said he favored industrial development in the township to improve the tax base of the township We have to equalize the tax base of this township he said The candidates for municipal office in Oro township are REEVE Howard Campbell Charles Simpson DEPUTYREEVE Paul Hansen Allan McLean COUNCILLORS Ross Bradley David Bull Anthony Keene Paul Kitchen Charley Sanderson Clarence Smith Barbara Tiffin Quebec election to be topic OTTAWA tCPi Prime Miri ister Trudeau plans to discuss the separatist Parti Quebecois election victory in Quebec dur ing countrywide radio and television appearance Wednes day at in EST The prerecorded broadcast on both CBC English and Fren ch networks ill be his in st full statement on the Iari Quebecois wetp since the Nov 13 election The 20 to 23 minute hroarleest also ill be carried by and AREA WEATHER BAD other smaller private networks spokesman in the prime ministers office said the broad cast will prescnt Mr Trudeaus reaction to recent develop merits in Quebec and his views on how to maintain calm pros perity and unity However the broadcast should not be interpreted as direct response to challenge the spokesman said He Mr Trudeaut still considers the separatist threat hypothetical threat School bus schedules hlt School buses plowed through snow and tipped into ditches this morning making almost all routes to Barrie and area schools late but just one lid not get through in the end Route 120 from Minesing was cancelled by the Simcoe ounty Board of Educations transpor tation division while all others were estimated to be from 15 minutes to halfanhour behind schedule Vespra ro and Flos town ship roads were all considered slippery and bad with one bus trapped on road in IN township between two snow plows stuck in ditches Both Douglas McBride of the public school boa rd and Mel 49 truck to check the car mendations There was no reason why the new financial watchdog should be delayed for years while the royal commission conducted its study IASIIS OPPOSITION He said there was strong opposition within the government particularly in the treasury board to his recommendation and told the committee that he stands OIIVR ted in their eyes as an accountant gone wrong But have told them that if they took course in basic accounting practices they would be better officials he added over the job as When he first took by of the Simcoe ounty Se parate School Board said buses were expected to arrive late No classes or schools were Closed Students faced an added pro blem in making it to school Allandalc Taxi stopped running taxis to outside areas after cars experienced difficulty on coun try roads according to com pany spokesman Areas af fected were Oro township and Midliurst Trucks out all night clearing city streets Barries Public Works department switched from saltcrs to scrapers this morning as snow continued to fall covering all major roads and THATHOOD Glen Rose of Brentwood climbed into the engine of his buretors to find out why all four barrels werent working properly Parliaments spending from Maxwell Henderson four ears ago he asked the treasury board for ist of bus routes Neil Fox superintendent of public works said salt trucks were out Monday night from 11 pm to about am and were out again today at am Roads throughout the Barrie area are snowcovered and icy in sections according to On tario Ministry of Transporta tion and Communications of ficials spokesman said Highway 400 north of Barrie and south to Highway 89 would continue to be plowed until snow flurries stopped but said no roads were blocked The snow is expected to continue through the day Police probe arena incident Barrie city police are in vestigating an incident between Brantford player and Barrie fan at the Dunlop St arena dur ing Barrie Flyers game Fri day says Constable Don Bulmer Barrie fan Perry Cole says he was assaulted by layer Jim Vanni who ha been ejected from the ice with game misconduct The incident followed fight between players on the ice The fan was treated after the game by the Flyers team doc tor Some stitches were needed Constable Bulmcr said police were called in to investigate Friday night following the game investigator of government all Crown corporations and was shifted from treasury board to the finance department and finally to the such list out The government has $710 million invested in Crown corporations and cant even get an authoritative list of the corporations Some opposition MIs suspected the royal commission announcement was deliberately timed to divert public attention from the critical report rivy council office No one had The has not seen one yet

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