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NEWS ROUNDUP N0 leads in $500 000 Brinks heist MONTREAL CP Police said they had no leads in con nection with the robbery of $523500 from two Brinks guar ds Tuesday TWo men one of them carry ing rifle wrapped in Christ mas paper took the money from the guards as they were transferring it from branch of the Bank of Montreal to their armored truck at an eastend shopping centre Police said the bandit carry ing the giftwrapped rifle walked up to the guards tore the paper off his weapon and Jabbed it into the ribs of one am Telling the guards to drop their weapons the bandits or dered them to return to the bank then grabbed the bags of oney and ran to waiting car driven by another person Police said the guards were taken completely by surprise by the bandits who they said looked like ordinary Christmas shoppers It was the second time this year that Brinks has been hit by major robbery in the Mon treal area Last March $28 million was stolen from Brinks armored truck outside the Royal Bank of Canada in the financial district in the largest haul in North American history On June police arrested eight persons and said they had recovered about $80000 of the stolen cash However all eight suspects including two sisters and their 60yearold mother were later released for lack of evidence The case remains un solved Police said they saw no link between Tuesdays robbery and the theft last March More snow By THE CANADIAN PRESS Bitter winds that heralded winters official arrival into Ontario on Tuesday were diminishing early today but cold temperatures and snowflurries were expected to continue Minimum temperatures over night Tuesday ranged between 20 in the south to 35 in Northern Ontario Road conditions were better early today in the BarrieCof lingwood area where two high ways were closed Tuesday be cause of blowing snow School bus drivers in Lam bton County and the eastern part of Grey County were unable to make their rounds during the day because of haz ardous driving conditions The Ontario ministry of transporation and com munications reported moderate to heavy drifting early today in the StratfordLondon region but said most other highways were good Found guilty PATERSON NJ AP Rubin Hurricane Carter and John Artis each were found guilty of three counts of first degree murder Tuesday The jury deliberated nine hours and 15 minutes before re turning the verdict in the retrial of Carter former mid dleweight boxer and his co defendant Carter and Artis were con victed of murder in 1967 They spent nine years in prison be fore the New Jersey Supreme Court ordered new trial this year ruling that the prose cution Withheld ev1dence from the defence at the first trial Complicated OllAWA CP Govern ment officrals say they hope guides desrgned to bring into ef fect the governments policy of overcoming the Arab boycott oflsrael campaign will be ready early next month They said Tuesday the JOD has been complicated which explains why it has taken more than two months to put into ef feet the government policy an nounced by External Affairs Minister Don amieson in Octo her The policy is designed to pre vent potential Arab customers from putting restrictions on Ca nadian suppliers Named chief WELLAND Ont CP Deputy Chief Donald Harris of the Niagara regional police Was named chief of the 550member Welland force at police com mission meeting Tuesday The 53yearold policeman won the posrtion over deputy chiefs James Gayder of Niag ara and Stanley Raike of MIS sissauga Ont Mr Harriss appointment takes effect Jan when Chief Albert Shennan retires SIMCOE HOTEL At the Points Finest in Canadian Chinese Cursrne Daily Buffet for under for great entertainment $200 12 noon to am entertaining this week ADAM AND EVE RENE LEVESQUE sovereignty Drops words QUEBEC CP Premier Rene Levesque said Tuesday the words separatism and separation have been per manently dropped from the v0 cabulary of his Parti Quebecois government Henceforth the PQ would re fer only to Quebec independ ence or sovereignty when talk ing about the partys ultimate political objective for the prov ince The premier told the national assembly the banned words im ply breaking awaya nega tive actWhile the government considers independence to be positive step for Quebecers At home OIIAWA CP Olive Die fenbaker and Mary Stanfield wives of the two former Pro gressrve Conservative leaders will be spending Christmas at home Mrs Diefenbaker first ad mitted to the Ottawa Civrc Hospital 212 months ago with heart condition was released Tuesday She was home three weeks ago but was forced to return after short interval She Will be under continuous care by private nurses at home In statement former prime minister John Dieteribakers of fice said Mrs Dietenbakers present condition has stabi lized sufficiently to permit her to return home for the holiday season Mrs Stanfield has been at home for week as she contin ues to recover from lung op eration spokesman for Rob ert Stanfield said Mrs Stan field would be spending Christ mas quretly at home with her husband and daughter Mimi Annulled WESTERLY Rl AP The adoption of 32yearold woman by 3yearold man has been annulled by the pro bate court Judge who approved the legal proceeding last week Judge John Lallo of Westerly probate court revoked the adop tion Monday and ordered the couple to appear before him Jan to answer questions about the arrangement Joseph Comolli who is divorcmg his Wife adopted Elaine Ivy Tat tersall last Wednesday Released LONDON Reuter Brit ish seientist who contracted deadly virus known as green monkey disease at secret re search laboratory was allowed home Tuesday after 40 days in total isolation Geoffrey Platt 43 was stricken With the MS ease which has killed hundreds in northern Africa this year when he nicked protective glove With hypodermic needle containingthe Virus Dies WINDSOR England Reuter Emil Savundra 53 key figure in noted fraud case decade ago died at his home here Tuesday In 1966 his cutrate insurance empire collapsed leaving 400000 drivers Without insurance coverage He served six years of an eightyear Jall sentence for conspiracy to defraud 13 killed LYONS France Reuter Thirteen handicapped children were killed and several more were severely injured Monday when bus they were riding in plunged into the Rhone River Police said the bus slid back wards into the river as the driver was trying to turn the vehicle around in wsrbility that was reduced to 30 feet due to heavy fog 40 years ATLANTA Ga AP Wif liam Williams was sentenced Tuesday to 40 years in prison on federal extortion charges in the 1974 abduction of Reg Murphy former editor of Atlanta Con stitution Williams 36 former building contractor from Lilburn Ga was sentenced by US District Court Judge Wil liam OKelley who said Wil liams would be eligible for pa role in six years Loan OKd WASHINGTON AP With US approval the World Bank approved two loans to Chile to talling $60 million Tuesday de spite appeals from nine Ameri can congressmen that aid should not be given to such repressive regimes Sources said five countries voted again st the loans and five other countries abstained from the vote by the banks board of di rectors The loans are $25 mil lion for agricultural programs and $35 million for an electric power project Fare hike SYDNEY Reuter Air fares from Australia are to go up 10 per cent from Feb to counter the devaluation of the Australian dollar the Inter national Air Transport Associ ation IATA decided Tuesday The increase also will apply to cargo rates we HEADS FIRM Colby Chandler above has been named presrdent desrgnate of Eastman Kodak Co succeeding Gerald Zornow as chief operating of ficer as of Jan Chandler 51 who Joined Kodak in 1950 said there was lots of room for improvement in ama teur photography products AP Photo Airline sues MONTREAL CP USlt based ilIIIIile has sued Canadair Ltd for $119 million as the result of an airplane crash in Zambia Seaboard World Airlines al leges that the undercarriage nose wheel on C1444 D4 it bought from the Crown corpo ration collapsed on landing at SINGLE LIKE MEETING PEOPLE Enioy Weekly Parties Dinner Dr ces Dance Instruction Trip Outings and much more Lusaka The aircraft then caught fire and was almost to tally destroyed The accident was caused mainly by fissure fatigue the result of construction fault says Seaboard which is seeking the $1million cost of the air freighter and $190000 in lost revenue Smugglers NAIROBI Reuter The Nairobi newspaper Daily Nation reported Tuesday that Ugandan troops killed seven coffee smugglers in two ports on the Ugandan side of Lake Victoria The paper says the smugglers seven of them Ugandans were killed when the soldiers raided the small ports of Nazangazi and Kiidi 27 arrested LONDON AP Police on Operation Santa Claus smashed gang of warehouse raiders and recovered 10 tons of mailorder Christmas gifts looted from British Rail depots in East London Scotland Yard said Tuesday spokesman said 27 men and women were arrested in suburban Dagcnham and Romford Webster dies STANFORD Calif AP Aviation pioneer David Locke Webstera developer of the klystron tube used in radar teleVision and linear accelera torsdied Fnday at the age of 88 it was announced Tuesday Author dies GARRET PARK Md AP Munro Leaf 71 author of The Story of Ferdinand and more than 30 other childrens books died of cancer Tuesday at his home Leaf was perhaps best known for Ferdinandthe story of Spanish bull who would rather smell flowers than fight in the ring The book published 40 years ago has been translated into more than 601anguages Exported BANGKOK AP The US state department has approved the sale of $450000 worth of DDT to Cambodia for malaria control the first US export allowed srnce the Communist government took over in April 1975 the Bank of America re ports The banks Indochina Spotlight newsletter for December quotes state depar tment spokesman as saying that approval was granted in response to clear humanitarian need and does not mean the American embargo on trade With Vietnam and Cambodia Will be lifted Forest fires OTTAWA CP There were 9967 forest fires in Canada in 1976 compared with 11221 last year the Canadian Forestry SerVice said Tuesday However this years fires burned out 397 million acres compared With 25 million acres in 1975 The annual average during the last decade was 8234 fires affecting25millionacres The statistics on tires are compiled from April to Oc tober Presidency LONDON Ont CP George Edward Connell Vice president of research and plan ning at the University of To ronto was named Tuesday as JOIN BARRIES OVER 30 PAIIIY AND DANCE GROUP PATS DANCE CLUB Call 7373610 Giant Smorgosbord Beverage included 50 Per Couple for reservations call 728I3I2 president of the UniverSity of Western Ontario Mr Connell 46 will take over the presi dency July He succeeds Carlton Williams who is retir m8 Killed BLACKSTOCK Ont CP Patricia Joan Hall 31 ofJanet ville Ont was killed Tuesday when car and school bus collided near this community 15 miles northeast of Oshawa She was passenger in the car School officials said some stu dents were shaken up and few were taken home by their par ents None was severely in jured Too slick OTTAWA CP The gov emments method of teaching metric is succeeding with chil dren but failing With adult Ca nadians Conservative and New Democratic Party MPs told the Commons Tuesday Bill Kempling PCHalton Wentworth said children are learning metric through government ads and promotional KllS But older people including professionals are not being reached It Just makes me feel some of the advertisrng the metric commission is doing is too slick he said Echorng that Cyril Symes NDPSault Ste Marie said adults who were taught by dif ferent methods than children today and who are set in their ways are havrng tough time Two offices RAMORE Ont CP Michel Therrien may be mak ing municrpal history in On tario by running for two offices on the same counCiI Mr Therrien resigned from his posrtion as counCillor in Ward of BlackRiver Math eson Township to run in the Dec municrpal election as candidate for reeve against in cumbent Jack Findlay However no one was nomi nated for election Dec to the owned seat vacated by Mr Therrien The provrncc ordered second nomination and date for possmle election in that ward was set for Jan 10 Reeve Findlay soundly de feated Mr Therrien who then decrded to run again for his own seat Voters Will decide Jan 10 whether to elect Mr Therrien plumbing and heating cori tractor or George GcoIIroy former reeve of Playfair Town ship who is postmaster in this community about 40 miles east of Timmins Warning OTTAWA CP Some small busrnesses may be forced to close because of recentlyan nounced quotas on imported clothing Ronald Huntingdon PC Capilano said Tuesday Mr Huntingdon said in an in tervrew that large busmesses may gain such large per centage of the quota priVilegcs that small businesses Will be unable to supply their custom ers and be forced to close Mr Huntingdon had asked Trade Minister Jean hretieri in the Commons What was being done to prevent import priViIeges falling into the hands of few people Mr Chretien said quotas would be distributed to those who need them most The Barrie Examiner Wednesday Decemberzz 1976 PRESENTS TROPHY T0 WINNING RINK Barry Peacock presented the Peacock Petroleum Trophy to Joy Glasman skip of the Winning rink who Friday night won the trophy in the first schedule business girls championships at the Barrie Curling Club At left is vice Mary Ransom Beside Mrs Glasman is Yvonne Parr se cond vice and Florence McKenzie lead Examiner Photo Another try at unity is aim of Egyp tSyria conference CAIRO AP Two months ago Egypt and Syria werent speaking Now theyre engaged again Egyptian Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy announced Tues day that Presrderit Anwar Sadat of Egypt and Syrian PreSident Hatez Assad agreed in talks here Sunday and Mon day to make another attempt at political union of Israels two Daley funeral changes plans PLAINS Ga AP lrcsr dentelect Carter is postponing until Thursday his final cabinet appomtmenl so he can go to Chicago to attend the funeral of Mayor Richard Daley Daley the Democratic boss Whose efforts in Carters behalf fell short of grvrng the presi dentelect Illinois electoral votes this year died Monday The presrdcritelcct had plan ned news conference today to announce his choice for the final cabinet vacaricyw that of secretary of the department of health education and welfare The news conference was rescheduled for lhursday The most exciting orlgi chief adversaries The late Gamal Abdel Nasser organized the first Egyptian Syrian union in 1958 and called it the United Arab Republic The Syrians pulled out three years later because they were fed up With Nassers domina tion 1972 agreement to Jorn Egypt Syria and Libya into Federation of Arab Republics was never implemented political statement after Assad flew back to Damascus Tuesday announced the forma tion of supreme political lead ership made up of the two prcs idents and aides to be named later No target date was an nounced for completion of the merger Fahmy said Jornt com mittees Will be formed soon for foreign affairs defence con stitutional questions economics and other areas and these committees Will dccrdc the form of the union SPLIT OVER PEACE Egypt and Syria coordinated their attack on Israel in 1973 and fought the war together but split over their responses to US State Secretary Henry Kis Singers peacemaking efforts Assad broke With Sadat 15 months ago because he signed the second Sinai agreement nal motion picture event of all time Dino De Laurentiis presents John Guillermin Film Warning King Kong Screenplay by Lorenw Semple Jr Produced by Dino De Laurentiis gaoxv 46 DUNLOP STIW Every 79841 may frighten Theatres Branch Ont Daily at 700 930 MIND All IIEIIAMII THURSDAY BURGERS only Crisp golden FRENCH FRIES small order vi 347 BAYEIELD 51 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