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EXAMINER TELEPHONES Circulation Classtied Advertising All OtherDeportmenis 112th YearNo 279 7266539 77834 7766537 The Barrie Examiner Barrie Ontario Canada Tuesday November 30 1976 0112 titanic Examiner DRESSING MEMORIAL SQURE FOR CHRISTMAS Tinsel lights stakes and guidewires are the basic components of the Downtown Improvement Boards Christmas decorations in Memorial Square The fee orations were installed Mon Cookstown council OKs signing of pact By JOHN BRUCE porter COOKSTOWN Village council Monday night voted unanimously to authorize Reeve Norman Cook to sign subdivision agree ment with Abasco Management Ltd of Bar rie for the proposed Cookslane subdivision Reeve Cook is authroized to sign the agree ment after making the necessary changes which council said it may want in the agree Examiner Staff Re ment The lastest draft of the agreement council Monday night applies only to the first phase of the Cookslane pro sal which calls for the construction of 35 amended by mes total of 92 homes are planned in three phase development and supplementary agreements between the village and the developer will be required for each of the re maining two phases Village council has been under fire from local residents and most of the candidates running for council in next Mondays mu nicipal elections for planning to sign the sub division agreement before the new official plan for Cookstown is adopted Council candidate Martin Connolly surn med up that feeling saying They are trying to pass the subdivision agreement before we have an official plan and recreation policy They should have held it over until the new council comes in and we have those things Coun Bob Geelen urged council to au thorize the reeve to sign the agreement say ing that council had discussed the Cookslane development long enough If it goes on any longer he said well dream about it Townships expansion hit if annexation bid approved Bé RICHARD DLNSTAN xaminer Staff Reporter Vespra and Innisfil townships will have to be content without EXlacrosse player dies ST CATHARINES Ont CP Joe Cheevers 61 one of Canadas top lacrosse players and father of Gerry Cheevers goaltender for Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League died suddenly Monday in hospital Known as one of the best faceoff players in lacrosse he played in Orillia for five Mann Cup champions and later in St Catharines In postwar years he was cofounder of the Little National Hockey League which provided minor hockey for St Catharines area boys In Orillia he was teammate of Bill Curran on Orillias Mann cupwinning teams the first of which was in 1934 when the Ter riers downed New Westminster at the Barrie arena major urban expansion if Barries annexation application is approved accountant Douglas Irwin testified Monday at the Ontario Municipal Boards hearing into the ap plication And both should be finan cially viable on that basis Mr Irwin said The hearing now in its 17th day resumed Monday after oneweek break The city is seeking 13500 acres from Innisfil and 4600 from Vespra Also included in the application is 2100 acres from Oro Township but the city announced early in the hearing it no longer wants the Oro land The application is opposed by all three townships and by Sim coe County council The proposed annexation which includes the Highway 26 27 commercial strip in Vespra would strip that township of half its overall assessment and 97 per cent of its commercial and industrial assessment Vespra will now have to con tent itself with being typical rural municipality of about 5000 people Mr Irwin said under crossexamination by Officer wounded by sniper fire PORTLAND Ore AP Waving his coat above his head sniper surrendered atop fivestorey Holiday Inn on Mon day about two hours after he began shooting into rushhour traffic policeman was hit by one of the more than 30 shots fired by the sniper He was reported in good condition in hospital The accused sniper was iden tified by police as Daniel Har mon Jones 20 of In dependence Calif Motel of ficials said he had taken fifth floor room Nov18 and indicated he planned to leave Monday Authorities said he was charged with attempted mur der and held on $100000 bail Police surrounded the motel in the northeast part of the city and spotted the gUnman on the roof shortly after the first shots were fired The wounded policeman Barry Cook 29 was one of the first to respond to reports of shooting at the motel He was hit while standing on sidewalk block away from the building Superiors said Cook was wearing bulletproof vest at the time He was hit in the tor so they said and suffered bruise near his heart Shots were fired into city street traffic and into traffic on nearby freeway An ambulance sent to retrieve the wounded officer had tire flattened by gunfire and second ambulance was called television crew car also was reported hit by the snipers fire Onyschuk Vespra There is ample evidence that that kind of rural municipality is quite viable Mr Irwin coauthor of Barries annexation report said under crossexamination by Innisfil lawyer John Sopinka his calculations which showed Innisfil will weather annexation suc cessfully are based on the assumption that that township too will restrain urban growth Mr Irwin said his figures assume both townships would receive financial assistance from the province over and above what is automatically provided for under current legislation The amounts in question would be about $125000 year for Innisfil and about $25000 for Vespra Mr Irwin said he based his assumptions in part on the precedent of grants made to Oxford County during restructuring Nobody has given me any assurance on the point what soever he told Mr Sopinka The present policy of the government is one of restraint and provincial assistance may be expected to decline Mr Sopinka responded If the extra provincial assistance is not forthcoming Mr Irwin testified the 18 per cent tax increase predicted for residents left behind in Innisfil will instead be 216 per cent In response to question from Mr So inka he said this figure woul not include any costs which might arise if the township decided to replace the police station firehall and libra in Stroud all of which woul be brought within Barries new boundaries if the annexation application were approved 1n Vespra taxes would go up 112 per cent on the assumption that the additional provincial assistance turned up or 17 per cent if it did not The figures in clude educational taxes The township and county portion of the tax levy excluding education would go up 417 per cent with the extra provincial assistance 647 per cent without it lawyer for ordered to write essays on Pakistan after incident BRAMPTON Ont CP Five Bramalea Ont youths charged with mischief after they painted racist slogans on the home of Pakistani family were iven absolute discharges Mon ay after submitting essays on Pakistan to provin cial court judge who had or dered them to write the papers David Wetmore 16 Wayne Dean 17 Michael La Croix 17 Robert James Taylor 17 and Lawrence Bennie 17 pleaded guilty torbarges of mischief They were charged after Pakistani family found its house tool shed and fence pain ted with slogans Judge Donald August ordered the youths to clean up the slot gans apologize to the family and be dinner guests at the home of Mahmood Khan presi dent of the local CanadaPaki stan Association The judge said hewas happy with the essays adding that they were well researched Es say topics included govern ment agriculture economics industry language and religion of Pakistan Understandin people who are different and particularly why they are different leads to respect and acceptance Judge August told the court He told the youths that in my opinion the racism which has emer ed from your conduct is part boyish prank and was due to youthful misunder standing rather than wilfull ra cial cynicism day by the board and some helpers Included is train It took little strain some muscle and lot of groaning to get the giant snowman in the air Monday at Memorial Square The snowman is part of the Christmas decorations downtown this year installed by the Downtown Improve snowman and giant can dle Examiner PhotOi mcnt Board The total cost of the display is $7000 This years decorations are the first in thrccrpurt program by the improvement board for the park Examiner Photo May boycott products TORONTO CP The tario Federation of Labor may consider organizing boycott of products manufactured by MiamiCarey Ltd becausc it feels the company has an anti union attitude Cliff Pilkey federation president said Mon day The company said it is mov ing its west Toronto operation to Barrie nt Jan for economic reasons Officials of Local 518 United Electrical Workers represen ting 125 of the 175 workers at the Toronto plant said thecom pany is trying to bust the union CAPSULE NE WS Clothing quotas surprise HONG KONG AP The Hong Kong government expressed distress and surprise today at the Canadian governments move to place quotas on imported clothing $100000 tennis victory SYDNEY CP Pat Bostrom 23yearold American beat former Wimbledon champion Maria Bueno of Brazil 62 62 today in Australias $100000 international tennis tournament Dollar drops another cent LONDON Reuter The Canadian d0llar drop ed more than one cent in relation to the United States ollar but recovered in the space of an hour in burst of chaotic trading on European foreign exchange markets today Home rule proposal LONDON AP The Labor government unveiled today what is billed as the gcatest British constitutional change in centuries measure for home rule for Scotland and Wales paid $45000 for the ITS FREE NEW EA EVE firms sponsor bus service Three Barrie firms have de cided to sponsor the citys an nual free bus service New YearsEve Kerry Columbus operations engineer in the citys traffic department said this morning Canadian General Electric Barrie Welding and Stock Brothers Bus Lines are spon soring the service The total cost of the venture is $513 which the companines are sharing equally Buses will operate free of charge to passengers Dec 31 745 pm to 315 am on the same half hour schedule along the regular bus routes Mr Columbus said the city and the companies hope as many people as possible use the service to keep drinking drivers off city streets The city is also starting its Christmas shopping hours Dec 15 Buses will operate until 915 pm every evening except Sundays and Saturdays until Dec 23 Christmas Eve the buses stop at 715 pm and will not run Christmas Day Dec 25 Boxing Day Dec 26 and 27 and New Years Day Jan Mr Columbus said the extra buses which operate during the morning and afternoon to ban dle the student passengers will also not be in service Dec Z3 to Jan Kinzie attacks Archer onpolicy statements By SUE ROUTIJFFE Examiner Staff Reporter Willard Kinzie came out swinging Monday night against opponent Ald Ross Archer in mayoralty candidates meeting held by the Barrie Optimist Club Mr Kinzie who had earlier warned he did not approve of Special interest issue raised Special interest groups became political issue Mon day night as all three mayoral ty candidates denied owing anythingto anyone Ed Jennings brought the sub ject to light when the three faced the Barrie Optimist club asking if special interests had allowed the Pit Stop at Tana dian Tire to be approved without fees or applications be ing required Mr Jennings said owner Arch Brown had not had to go through the procedure most ex perience and asked Ald Ross Archer directly if more favors would be given should he be elected Ald Archcr stressed Mr Brown joined his organization six weeks ago while approval of the Pit Stop came through in the spring on recommendation of city development committee He said applications were not necessary because there was no rezoning involved just an amendment to the present zon ing Mr Jennings maintained ap proval was received through the back door statement which Mayor Dorian Parker gave some support to She said no application was officially made and that it was originally Planning Boards decision to allow the Pit Stop felt however that he should have to pay his bucks like the rest she said and the final recorded vote was 124 with me voting against it Asked directly if special lIl terest groups would be favored all three candidates said no Tempers flare at OMB hearing witness was told to obey ruling or go home Monday dur ing fourrway battle of tcni pers as the Ontario Municipal Board resumed its hearing into Barries annexation bid Embroiled in the dispute wcrc accountant Douglas Ir win witness for the city hearing chairman Alex Arrell nyschuk lawyer for Vcspra Township who had been crossexamining Mr Ir win and Barries lawyer James Mcallum The dispute began when Mr Mcallum jumped up to protest what he said was Mr nys chiiks failure to let Mr Irwin finish answering questions Youve got the right to re cxamine Mr nschuk re spondcd Ive got the right to protect my witness Mr McCallum shot back Mr Arrell got into the battle by telling Mr nyschuk he was including in crossexamination matters which should properly be brought up in argument Then Mr Irwin seeking to clarify point began can No you cant interrupted Mr Arrell Mr Irwin tried twice more to speak and was twice told that he could not Ill see that you comply with my rulings or go home which ever you like Mr Arrell said afterthcthirdattempt To Mr Irwins protest that he was only trying to be helpful Mr Arrell rwponded youve got Mr Mcallum to be helpful Mr Irwin had also exchanged sharp words with John Sopinka lawyer for Innisfil Township during crossexamination Nov 19 the last day of the hearing prior to Monday He had protested Mr So pinkas use of the word jug gled in describing Mr Irwins preparation of financial figures for Barries annexation report She waits on fair value Viola MacBride is waiting for fair market value for her apartment building at 258 Dunlop St her son Carl said today Mr MacBride said as far as he knows his mother is still in the building and has yet to be served with threatened Supreme Court writ Developer Ron Routledge has been trying to get Mrs Mac Bride out of the building so that it can be demolished for the proposed Bayclub develop ment Mrs MacBride says she still owns the building Mr Routledges company roperty and title was trans erred in 1974 Mr MacBride said today his mother should receive bet ween $80000 and $90000 for the property based on fair market value at the time of sale still Mr Sopinka completed his crossexamination of Mr Irwin on Monday without further inci dent DEBORAH PIIANKIJN and son Roy fivc may be out of their SlfitHimonth Dunlop St mudslinging accused Ald Ar cher of using Kinzie policy statements have seen my policies copied he stressed saying statements that polices were developed by Ald Archers TEAM To Elect Archer Mayor surveys were untrue MORESTORIES more He said the survey was mere ly votegetting gimmick used by Ald Archer to cover the use of Kinzie policies You wonder whos in touch with the times when they come out with your policies he said in his opening speech at the club meeting He also criticized Archer campaign strategy quoting sup ort from prominent Barrie usinessmen If Im elected Mr Kinzie said youre electing me not Les Cooke Arch Brown or Ross Nixon In promising to make Bar rie come alive through new business Mr Kinzie said he would get it done rather than spending nine years doing nothing direct reference to Ald Archers time spent on council Ald Archer who spoke right after Mr Kinzie described the accusations as smoke screen and denied all of them He said policies for his cam paign were develo before the survey was difne with survey information added later What Mr Kinzie says is not fact he stressed If it was fact would have had to have very shiny crystal ball Mayor refuses to attend Mayor Dorian Parker refuses to appear at the allcandidates meeting Saturday afternoon at Canadian Tire This is another vote BULLETIN Iorne Knowles is the new coach of the Barrie Colts Junior Hockey Club Jim Short manager of the Colts confirmed the appointment of Mr Knowles late this mor ning Knowles replaces coach Don rowc who was fired by the olts last week apartment by Monday if she cant raise the $545 she Deserted mom ordered out welfare office won help Deborah Franklin and her two young children could be out on the street by next Monday The 25yearold woman whose husband left her Sept 25 owes $545 in rent and legal costs to her landlady Pat Knight and has been given until Mon day to raise the money The order came from county court registrar Barry Dunn at hearing held Monday morning in the new courthouse Mrs Franklin says she is unable to pay the $545 to keep her $160 month twobegoom apartment at 184 Dunlopt She says her husband Harold Russell Franklin left her $140 when he left and she hasnt heard from him in over three weeks went to the welfare office for help she said Monday aftemoon but they said Id have to talk to my husband first She is unemployed unable to leave children Gail and Roy to find work cant afford babysitter Mrs Franklin who has been married five years has no family in Barrie to turn to for help catching gimmick like the so called poll conducted Satur day she says and will have no part of it Mayor Parker said she refused to be connected with any special interest group and would campaign on her own She referred directly to ac cusations made against Ald Ross Archer Monday night that he favored such businessmen as Mr Brown will do my campaigning on my own as have always done and it will be aboveboard she said has been ordered to pay in rent and legal costs She comes originally from Sudbury while her husband is from Toronto The two have lived on the outskirts of Barrie for the past two years She admits she owes $500 in unpaid rent but sees no way to raise the money and no way to support her family dont know what Im going to do she said when asked what she intended to do When came out of the hearing all could do was cry she continued Im so nervous now about what is going to hap pen to us