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EXAMINER TELEPHONES Circulation 776 6539 728 2414 7166537 Classified Advertising All Other Departments ll2fh YearNo 306 The Barrie Examiner Barrie Ontario Canada FridJY December3l 1976 AND AWAY IT GOES Mike Barsevich troin teniral tollegiate in Barrie delivers rock during lhursdays Gilmore back in solitary DHAPLH Ltah Heuteri Condemned murderer Gary Gilmore returned to solitary confinement Thursdaybut only after he issued new ap peal to be executed without legal interference The 36ltyearold convicted murderer issued statement through his lawyer ednesday night asking other lawyers to butt out of itiy lite butt out of mydeath McDonalds Junior Mixed Bonspiel lhe Bonspiel con ststed of 14 rinks from all Weve been invited to New Years Eve party Tank truck burning HAMILTON Pt pro pane tank truck was burning out of coittrol today on htdiltlalld highway bridge and section of east Hamilton was evacuated be cause fire officials feared the truck would evplode The tanker burst into flames after colliding with another truck on bridge crossing Burl ington Bay on the limited ac cess Queen lIlilabeth Way Two unidentified men were injured in the crash and taken to hospital officials said Firemen and police blocked off all routes to the bridge as the tanker burned out of control between the bottom of the bridge and street ramp Gilmore whose evecution by firing squad is scheduled for Jan was sent into solitary confinement for breaking prison rules for attempting sumde and for scullling with guards He will be taken out oi solitary 24 hours before his execution Wednesday Gilmore had 2+hotlr reprieve from solitary confinement and shared cache ot food and candy with other prisoners in the maxmiltmsecurity section of the state prison here His lawyer made public handprinted letter in which Gilmore addressed himself to the American civil Liberties Lnion sundry assorted lawyers or cowardly coit demned criminals invite you to finally butt out of my the Hutt out oi my death he wrote does not concern you CAPSULE NE WS Crude oil price boosted ll lndonesia announced today super cent price increase tor its standardgrade crude oil far short oi the to per cent it and to other members or the itrgaiiixation oi Petroleum haunting ountries MPH agreed on two weeks ago King abolishes court lltftllt hing Juan tarlos aboltsitut today the court that imprisoned thousands oi Spaniards tor political offences during the regime of the late dictator Francisco lranco Loss of lifeheavy Ptitht chtcr Political strife has led to it it war and serious loss of tile 11 hitia vast southwestern province oi Szechwan says regional radzo report Fleets need licence lLtll Beginning Saturday ioreign iishing fleets will have to have licence issued by the tedeial tisheries department beiorc lowering nets and other gear into waters within 200 nautical milesoit anada east and west coasts over southern Ontario With the lhornhill rink taking the antics Mayor doesnfit plan lnsurall lrophy and Barrie taking the McDonalds lro phy More photos on page Examiner Photoi to sit back and relax By PETER lEPlEST Examiner Staff Reporter Im long way from drawing old age pen sion Ill find somethingto do Mayor Dorian Parker says she isnt going to Sit back and do nothing shes ready for new life Ive got couple of irons in the tire she said think still might have part to play in public life lhe Sllryearjold mayor made he last liCial visit to City hall lhursday compieting her term as head of counCil Alter today she retires to become Mrs Dorian Parker housewife My first priority right now is to get my health back in order she said Mayor Parker is still taking treatments to fight cancer in her leit side The treatments at Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto will continue until at least Jan 15 int still getting over the shock of being told have it she said he mayor said the tests revealed the can cer may not be as localized as first suspected and iurther surgery may be needed For the tiist time in many years she will miss an inaugural meeting of counCil Monday because oi the treatments 1lllY HOLIDAY Im going on longpromised holiday when in finished the treatments she said Mayor Parker said there is always chan ce she may seek reelection in few years but as an alderman It be different after annexation With at least one or two new wards she said If the people in my ward wanted me then would certainly consider running She said she had always wanted to be member oi parliament hlit will not seek elec tion at the provincial or federal level have thought about it she said But it can be my own man as think most men in the federal and provincial governments then dont want to be part and parcel 0t it Mayor Parker said guess Just dont make good politician couldnt live with myself if had to button my lip During her 11 yeais on council including tour as mayor she has often been the centre of controversy and discussmrt SPlItKSlitT ve never been one to keep things inside in very outspoken she said But ve never been too big to admit Im wrong and vedonethat few timestoo Her biggest thrill she said was being elec ted mayor in 1972 alter seven years as am alderman lhat inaugural night in January 1973 was the highlight 01 her political career 111 nevertorgct it hen first ran as mayor ran as per son with no strings attached and lm still that same gal the same mayor she said that the only way to be and to do good rA XE CUT DORIAX PARKER holiday first Job in the best interest of all the people Elected to the 1966 owned her first motion put heat in the Barrie Arena and her second gave the vote to boardeis lodgers sons and daughters Pr€llUSl in Barrie muniCipal elections only land owners tenants and spouses could vote She worked to get new senior citizens apar tments in the city and extended bus service to the Medical Arts Building and Royal ictoria Hospital One of the mayor tights was saving Sun nidale Park as community centre for all the people she said HlGll POINTS Some other highlights she said are the year the Barrie llyers won the Allan Lup tor senior hockey the year the Barrie Loop midgets won the Wrigley Tournament and went to SSH meeiing the deputymayor oi the City of Moscow and serving on the Simcoe Georgian Area Task Force in four years she has missed only three of about 400 counml meetings three general government committee meetings none of the police commisswn meetings four public utilities commission meetings and about 16 planning board meetings She is member of other Street united Church and sang in the ChOir from 1936 until 1972 gguxxsggjstfj Five persons were admitted to hospital and about dozen others were treated for minor injuries this morning following an eightvehicle pileup on Highway 400 north of the Duckworth interchange Names of the injured and other details were unavailable at press time but Royal Vic toria Hospital spokesman said the injuries were not serious Most of the Victims were from out of town the spokesman said The pileup was described by Ontario Provmc1a Police as two separate aCCidents both in the northbound lanes car spun out in the inner lane about 830 am and caused fourvehicle pileup fifth vehicle braked to av0id it and Greyhound bus was forced into snowbank to amid the brak ing vehicle and was struck from behind by other vehicles The braking vehicle aVOided collismn and drove on Without stopping lraffic was tied up for about half an hour while police and tow trucks cleared the road Police were still in vestigating the inCident at press time and had laid no charges Names oi the injured were Withheld pending notifica tion oi nextofkin Unly minor injuries were sus tained by passengers on the bus bound from Toronto to Vancouver Via Sudbury but the coach was disabled because of damage to its air brakes Convicted of murders LUS ANGELLS AP Vaughn Urnn Greenwood has been conVicted of nine counts of murder including eight of the Skid Road Slasher killings The Jury also convicted Greenwood on Wednesday of one count of assault Wllh intent to commit murder but failed to reach verdict on two other murder charges Greenwood 33 was indicted for 11 murderstwo in 1961 plus the nine skid road killings between Dec 1974 and Jan 311975 lhe throats of his victims were cut from ear to ear through to the spine investigators said the killings had ritualistic overtones with evidence the attacker drank the blood of his Victims Bloody glasses were found at two mur der scenes The shoes of the dead were removed and placed factng them and there was salt sprinkled around creating bloodymosaic The deaths centred in the downtown skid road area Wllh tranSIents as the victims before the killings moved to Hollywood tor the last two at tacks Greenwood is already serving 32yeartolife sentence arismg from robbery at the home of actor Burt Reynolds and hatchet attack on two men in neighboring house in the Hollywood Hills He has been in custody Since he was arrested Feb31975 The Barrie Examiner will not be published Saturday New Years Day Publication will resume Mon day Happy New Year Uh Titanic Examiner 15 Per Copy Carrier Home Delive y40 ry 85 Weekly DAMAGED VEHICLE IS TOWED AWAY AT ACCIDENT SCENE Spot check becomes chase routine spot check turned into car chase Thursday night after Barrie City police tried to stop man reiusmg to take the check Sgt Halph Berry said the unidentified man pulled away from the liliin Street Check almost hitting one of the policemen at the scene Police followed and later found the abandoned car in the Clifton Hotel parking lot Sgt Berry said today charges may be laid for refusing to follow police orders but said nothing would be done until the man is traced and brought in The inCident came early Thursday night during 73 checks in the secondlast day oi this years program lonight police will be throughout the City with checks from to am watching for impaired drivers the 73 cars stopped ac cording to Sgt Berry 49 war nings were issued and seat belts were again the mayor problem the 49 warnings 33 in volved seat belts he said He said that while police had hoped people would follow Un tarios seat belt laws on their own charges may have to be laid to enforce the legislation me people stopped lhur sday night were tested for im paired driving Sgt Berry said police look for red or unfocused eyes alcohol on the breath poor Cr ordination and balance and other symptoms of drinking it Weather headaches for some Canadians By THE CANADIAN PRESS blizzard in southeastern Saskatchewan and snowstorm which dropped about 24 centi metres in eastern Quebec on Thursday created yearend weather headaches for residen ts in the two areas The weather office said snow combined with strong north westerly winds to cause wide spread poor Vistbility often to onequarter mile or less in some Saskatchewan regions breezmg drizzle over east central Saskatchewan added to hazardous driving conditions in the northeastern grainbelt re gion ot the province The weather oiiice said con ditions would improve rapidly as the storm centre moved southward into the Dakotas In eastern Quebec the second mayor snowstorm within week blocked roads and disrup ted air traffic to the Gaspe and lower St Lawrence areas FLIGHTS GRULNDlIl department of transport spokesman in Mont Joli 150 miles northeast of Quebec City said all Air Canada and Quebe cair flights in the two areas had been grounded lurther northeast at Sept lles the storm ended lhursday afternoon leaving 15 cm oi snow Last Monday blizzard dumped 30 cm of snow on the region Meanwhile ln Nova Scotia traliic aCCidents on my roads and streets resulted alter storm dumped between four and 18 cm ofsnow section of the trans canada Highway between lruro and Glenholme was closed to clear pileup which began when tractortrailer truck yackknifed after it was hit by car Several cars unable to stop in time slid into thepileup drivers fail the rudimentary tests they are taken to the station to be tested wtth the breathalyzer In addition to impaired drivers police are looking for faults in horns Windshield wtpers headlights emergency brakes directional Signals seat belts and marker and brakelights Drivers are given 48 hours on ce warnings are issued to go to the espra Street police station with proof oi repairs or with missmgintormation Safety officer Constable Gary Crowley and iadet Gary Som mers are conducting the checks The annual safety program has run in Barrie Sth the City force began in 1951 and operates in conjunction with an alcohol safety program spon sored by the Barrie Safety Association Count suffers heart attack PARIS APr Henri Count of Paris the pretender to the trench throne suffered heart attack and was admitted to hospital today but his condition was reported not serious hospital spokesman said the 68yearold count will remain in the hospital tor few days under observation The Count of Paris 15 direct descendant of King Lows Xlt In the unlikely event that rran ce were to restore the monar chy he would be candidate for the throne the republican government of lrance obviously does not feel itself threatened by the pretender Since the family has been permitted to live in rran ce Since 1950 after ban ishment of 64 years Mixed economy bag greets Canadians in 1977 Death law takes effect SAtHAMtA ltt talii Al ing dy ing person the right to talitoriiia Saturday natural death the measure which allows doctor to the tirst law 111 the giv takes etieci iii NHIOVC llltStlSldlltlltg ltllpilltltl trom lllg deKIlt in has authorized it in advance as signm into law by Gov Edmund Brow 45 missing in blast PKAGL fj Af Forty tive muiers ere missing alter gas explosmn in mine at thieixwice ll northern Moravii me Lzechthlovak news agency is reported today UllAwA itPi New ears Day brings an increase in family allowance payments higher crude Oll prices and reductions in personal income taxes Jan also marks the ettec tive date for Lanada declara tion oi control and management rights in an mile zone on all coasts for fishing This is an anrease trom the former 12mile fishing limit tiaiiada now assumes the right to set quotas tor most ships tishing within the 200 miles Most Canadians probably dont realize it but the world also is spinning more slowly lhat reqmres an adjustment by the countrys offictal time keepets at 7p in EST tonight in their superpreCise atomic clock it will be set back one second the same change is made sr multaneously by timekeepers around the world lt has ma yor impact on navigation par ticularly for sea and air traiiic but no practical etiec for the man in the street WILL EFFECT TAXPAYERS Some oi the New Years changes taking place under fed eral Jurisdiction that will have direct effect on taxpayers Family allowances Pay ments made by Ottawa to par ents oi children under 18 will rise by 82 per cent to $2389 monthly in most provinces The exceptions are Quebec and Al berta Petroleum The price produc ers receive for crude ou in creases by 70 cents barrel to $9 but the resulting cent increase in the cost of gallon of gasoline or home heating Oll wont hit consumers until Mar cht Natural gas users also face higher prices because of an in crease of 10 cents thousand cubic feet paid to produces raismg the cost to$l 505 Income tax Changes based on an annual inflation rate of more than eight per cent bump up the amounts of personal and dependent exemptions and shift brackets so that 3120210 ayear married man wtth two children will pay for example $166 income tax in in stead of $160 in 1976 the fi nance department calculates END OF SLRTAX 10 per cent surtax imposed during the 1976 taxation year on top of tederal income tax pay ments exceeding $210 ends This affects those with net talc able incomes over $30 in Lnemployment insurance The amount paid by employees and employers into Uttawa unemployment insurance pro gram is reduced by about nine per cent Weekly premium rates for employees go down to 81 50 from $1 65 tor each 314 oi insured earnings while em ployers contributions dropped to$210irom$2 31 Penstons Mailimum annual deductions from employee earnings for the Lanada Pent SlOri Plan are raised to $151 20 tor WIT irom 315 in 1976 Life players will also pay up to 515120 for each employee covered by the plan Seli employed persons pay both em ptoyee and employer shares£112 40 total insulation submdies Home owners in Prince deard island quality for maximum $350 in direct graan to buy in sulation materials while con tractors there can get up to $500 for home insulation Jobs Criminal laws Stricter road side screening of suspected im paired drivers comes into effect Jan in Saskatchewan he province yams Alberta the kon Northwest erritories Uh tario New BFULLSWICK and New iriundland in empowering police to reqmre breath tests when they suspect driver is impaired