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44 Michael John Kelly was the first baby born in Barrie in 1978 He arrived at 430 am New Years Day at Royal Victoria Hospital and weighed eight pounds one ounce He is the first child for John and Karen Kelly 305 Big Bay Point Road Painswick Examiner Photo Countys first baby arrives at 430 New Years morning The stork had no trouble finding Royal Victoria Hospital through the snow on New Years Day The first baby of 1978 was born to Jdin and Karen Kell of Bi Ba Point Road at 430 am ichae Jo the Kellys first child weighed eight pounds one ounce About sixhours later at 1035 am the second New Years Day baby boy was born to Ann and Allan Crad dock of Barrie The first baby girl of 1978 was born to Gail and Doug Mather at 1230 pm At 503 Mrs Wayne Hiscock gave birth to baby girl at Royal Vic toria Hospital The four births were the only ones recorded in Simcoe County on New Years Day Barrie lawyer named QC among I9 across Ontario Being named Queens Counsel QC is the highest honor lawyer can look forward to says Frederick Edward Horton 43 of Barrie For goodness sake Edith Its supposed to look silly msude local Mutylo mumlmont upon to comics 15 classified 12 to 14 Supplornonts Toworo page Sears 12 p90 KMart 12 page COOPs face Swedes Chris Harris hopes this goal being SLIId against him wont happen to him taught Harris goalie for Barrie COOP lajtr Midgets will lead this team agaLnst underyds Sponsklubb of Stockholm Sweden at it at the Same Arena See story and photts on the Sports Page who is one of the 119 Ontario lawyers Satur day awarded the title Horton who is an acting CrownAttorney and parttime small claims court judge believes the title of QC is both relevant and significant for the law profession The Law Society has been restricting the number of lawyers who are granted QC titles to those members of the legal profession who have made significant contributions to the law courts and to the community Horton says As welQWci does not believe the QC Katie is either superfluous or discriminatory of lawyers in the law profession Being appointed QC is recognition by the law profession and the government of the achievements of the person who receives the title Besides lawyers are being appointed as QC based on their quality rather than on their political connections Horton says John Errol Farr lawyer in Orillia was also named QC Tvo Ontario cabinet members and two members of the opposition are also among the 119 lawyers awarded the QC title Satur day by provincial AttorneyGeneral Roy McMurtry larry Crossman minister of consumer and commercial relations and Keith Norton minister of community and social services are the cabinet members named One man dead in freak winds LONDON AP Hurricaneforce winds and freak whirlwinds swept across Britain today whisking roofs off houses overturning carsand claimingatleastonelife man was killed when Gofoot tree crashed on his car as he was driving in Birdwell Yorkshire Registration Saturday The indoor soccer season will begin in Barrie Jan 14 The Barrie Optimist Minor Soccer mociation will be holding registration for buys 1014 years old Saturday at Eastwew Secondary School Registration begins at 130 pm and the fee is $10 The league is limited to the first 96boys who register This is new venture for us said James Spruce association first vice preSident and one which we feel will fulfill need for the boys who do not play hockey during thewinter months Charged with scalping TORONTO iCP Pour persons were isued summorses for scalping tickets Monday outside Maple Leaf Gardens before an exhibition game between Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League and Kladno of Czechoslovakia spokesman for Metropolitan Toronto police said Earlier Mmday Philip Givens chairman the Metropolitan Toronto board of police commissioners said the practice of scalping tickets near the Gardens will be miewed by senior police officers He said he was stunned to learn that le pay as much as no for pair of eytickets No comment on fire IRVING Texas APgt There still was no dficial comment Monday from in yiestigating agencies on how spectator caught fire during the National Football Inference champiomhip game between Dallas Cowboys and Minnesota Vikmgs Meanwhile Dan Yoder the snowman who became human torch at the National Foot ball League playoff game remained in fair umdition at Parkland Hospital with second cbgreebumsmhislegsandneck Yoder 24 was clad in snowman costume be rented for New Years Eve celebration As he started down an aisle Sinday his costume suckienly caught fire The source of the blaze was believed to have come from can jelllike fuel used byavendor to heatfood muckthinking fats finally managed to abdue Yoda who had panicked and srmthered the flames with the blankets the exa 114199 No Tuudy January 1973 15 For Copy Carrier Home Delivery 00 Weekly miner serving barrie and simcoe county 48 Page Twentyone gunsalute for Carter from Saudis President Jimmy Carter receives traditional Indian greeting from guest at Monday nights state dinner in New Delhi while Indian President Sanjiva teddy makes the same gesture arter leaves India Tuesday for Riyadh Saudi Arabia the fourth stop in his cur rent international travels AP Laserphotoi Rarthmoves to strip Gandhi of membership NEW DELHI CP 77 Indias Congress party split by rebel supporters of Indira Gandhi moved today to strip the former jrime minister of party membership Political observers regarded Mrs Gandhis expulsion as inevitable after she and her sup Snow hits New York BUFFALO iAP Snow and Winds stranded motorists and closed schools and highways in some areas of New York state today Its got to be bad out here because they cancelled bingo police officer commented in Angola in Erie County where snowplow crashed into ditch Blizzardlike conditions were reported in nearby Tonawanda Lp to 30 cm snow fell in some areas About five cm fell in Buffalo where several motore ists were strandazl by snow and winds gusting to near 65 kilometres an hour Snowmobiles collide WASAGA BEACH Staff Two snowmobiles collided on the ice of Not tawasaga Bay early New Years Day sen ding Mississauga man to hospital in Coll irgwood with broken hand and toe and with faCial lacerations Wasaga Beach OPP said Steve Boyce 21 was heading west across the ice about 145 am Sunday when his machine was in colli sion with another machine driven by Ann MacNeil 75 of Toronto Miss MacNeil suffered faCial lacerations in the collision and was treated by OPP of ficers at the scene Maureen Schweitzer 190f Mississauga passenger on Boyces snow machine received bniises in the mishap The snowmobiles valued at about 80m were destroyed in the collismn police said Pryor surrenders LOS ANGELES AP Comedian Richard Pryor surrendered to police Monday evening was charged with assault With deadly weapon and was released on 50 bail police said warrant had been issued for the comedian earlier in the day Over shooting incident in his home but he could not be found lnves tor Lewis Bobbitt had said dficers give him until today to snender before pursuing him Bobbitt said complaint was filed agaimt Pryor on Sunday by two friends Pryors wife Beverly Clayborn of Los Angeles and Edna Solomon of Washington state Pryor married Deborah McGuire 25 last Sqatember Bobbitt said neighbors heard shots Sinday morning and called police Witnesses said the three women were ejected from the house by force chased around the yard in car by Pryor and shot at when they escaped into the street he said Earlier witnesses said Pryor had rammed the victirrs car with his Mercedes Benz five Cl 511 times Disruption ends NANAIMO BC CP brief disruptwn of ferry sauce on Monday ended when an agreement was reached between t1 Britsh Columbia Ferry Corp and strikiig telephone workers porters engineered second split in the party in eight years at rebel convention Monday The convention declared that it represented the true party appropriated the OlfIClill partys name and elected Mrs Gandhi llS president although she said she would lead only until an election could be organized to replace her Mrs Gandhi said the split was necessary to luild movement strong enough to challenge Prime Minister Morarji IJtsais ruling Janata party The new party claimed it commanded the support of majority of Congress party members But party president Itrabmananda Reddy claimed less than 3o per cent backed Mrs Gandhi Other party leaders warned that her supporters risked expulsion them selves Mrs Gandhi first split the ongrcss party in 19659 when she successfully challenged Ilcsai and other conservative party leaders The majority of the party sided with her and she continued as prime minister until the partys defeat in general elections last March RIYADH AP President Carter flew into Saudi Arabia today toa colorful welcome fmm King Khaled Crown Prince Fahd and dignitaries of this Middle East oil giant Twentyone gun salvos boomed as Carter and his wife Rosalynn alighted from their plane after flight from New Delhi Khaled and Fahd clad in traditional Arab robes cloaks and bernousses stepped for ward to shake hands Khaled and Carter then walked to dais where they stood at attention while royal band played the US and Saudi anthems The two leaders reviewed royal guard of honor before sgreeting members of the Saudi royal family and ranking dignitaries armed forces commanders and the diplomatic corps Carter arrived after bidding farewell to India earlier in the day by touring farming village and joining Prime Minister Morarji Desai in signing declaration of lofty principles Sources in the Saudi capital said Carter was expected to try to secure pact to ensure steady supply of oil to the Inited States at stable prices But the sources said Khaled and Fahd the strongman of the Saudi government would refuse Carter was to urge Saudi support for Egyptian President Anwar Sadats peace drive with Israel But his hosts probably will continue to insist on comprehensive set tlement between Israel and all its Arab foes and will urge Carter to ease his opposition to an independent Palestinian state The Saudis also were expected to voice displeasure with an agreement Carter reached last weekend to sell us nuclear reactors to Iran Saudi Arabias rival for control of the Persian Gulf The Saudis were expected to ask Carter to sell them more arms to offset Irans growing military strength UREI VILLAGE Carter and his wife Rosalynn began the final day of their Indian visit with an hour long visit to the farming village of Daulatpur Nasirabad renamed Carter Poori or Carter Place in honor of his call Desai accompanied them and he and Carter spent some time discussing local method of fermenting cow dung and water into methane gas for energy Carter and Desai then returned to the capital to sign the Delhi Declaration Israel willstand behind plan for selfrule Begin lERlTSALEM AP Prime Minister Menahem Begin said today Israel Wlll stand behind its plan for Palestinian sclfmle rejecting Egypts demand for self dctermination for the Arabs now living under Israeli occupation Begin was speaking to reporters after lengthy cabinet scssmn called to discuss the positions Israel will adopt at peace mgotiationslatcrthis month We stand on our proposal and it Will be used as the basts for the negotiations Begin said Egyptian Prtsident Anwar Sadat in hristmas Day meeting Willi Begin rejected the Israeli plan for an autonomous Palestinian council to run the affairs of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip Egypt is expected to make coum tarproposals when Foreign Minister Mohammed Ibrahim Kamal visits Jerusalem open joint political committee set up at the BeginSadat summit Referring to President Carters planned stop Wednesday in Egypt Begin called on Sadat not to ask Carter to apply pressure on Israel for concessmns Begin said we have never asked the United States to pressure Egypt and negotiations should be allowed to continue unhampered Adair caps wild Alberta well By THE CANADIAN PRESS wild naturalgas well in westecentral Alberta which Red Adair Texas gas and oil well fighter called one of the toughest of his career was capped Monday 27 days after it blew out of control have McAsey spokesman for well operator Amoco anada Petroleum Ltd said the well was tamed by installing blowout preventer McAsey said heavy drilling mud now must be pumped into the well to offset the upward pressure of the gas Bulldozers will be used to clean up the area covered with flammable natural gas condensate The well about 130 kilometres southwest of Edmonton blew wild on Dec and was spewing about 20 million cubic feet of gas daily into the atmosphere along with poisonous hydrogen sulphide gas On Dec 24 the well ignited 753 vehicles stopped for checks Barrie City police said today that 733 vehicles were stopped during the 11day Christmas spot check program Eightyeight drivers were charged including two for impaired driving and 81 for not wear mgseatbeltssaids Sgt Ralph Berry Police also issued 609 warnings for mechanical defects during the program he said deadline MICHAEL BREA LGH gets support Gives support TORONTO CPi Ed Broadbent federal NDP leader said Monday he has given his personal supth to Michael Breaugh one of thee candidates to succeed Stephen Lewis leader of the Ontamo NDP Ive already told le Im voting for Mike Breaugh because respect him an ltmw hm abilities and if others ask me who Ill be voting for Ill repeat it Broadben said in telephone interview from Oshawa it Broadbert MP for OshawaWhitby said however he is not actively campaigning for Braiuyi his former personal campaign manager Breaugh 35 is the member of he Ontario legislature for Oshawa Toll rises to Six NEWARK 1APgt Two more bodies were pulled out of the rubble of the burned out Lucerne Hotel here Monday bringing to six the number of persons killed in fire that destroyed the 77yyearold structure fire department spokesman said the bodies were tentatively identified as hotel clerks Harry Erskin and Rosco Boyd He said there was an unconfirmed report that Erskin stayed in the hotels office after the blaze erupted telephoning residents to alert them Meanwhile firemen policemen and the citys demolition squad continued to search the debris of the fourstorey budding for VICllmS and the cause of the blaze that broke out about Fnday The spokesman said it was hard to say whether all persons in the hotel when the fire began had been accounted for because there were so many tranSients in and out About 150 guests and permanent reSidents were staying at the hotel when the fire be gan offiCials estimated No charges in shooting TORONTO CP No charges will be laid agaimt gasoline station attendant who shot and killed man hiring an at tempted holdup Dec Stephen Leggett dqauty Crown attorney for York County saidMonday Leggett said that after seeing all the witnesses statements he feels Amin Mohamed 2a acted in selfdefence when he shot Lawrence Bulpit 23 Leggett said an inqust will be held but said the coroners office wants robbery charge against another man in the inCident to be dealt with first The mother of the dead man Florence Bulpit said she wants an inquest to bring mt the true facts the coroner office has refused to set date for the inquest she said Mrs Bulpit said she was told that an inmost could not be held Without the me testimony of the man who has been charged an that his testimony in an Open atammauon might prejudice his case Sgt Berry said 54 drivers were stopped on New Years Eve No charges were laid for impaired driving or seat belt violations he said but five wamings were issued for faulty brakes lights and horns However three motorists were charged with imapaired driving Saturday by officers regular patrol duty Sgt Berry said Two charged OWEN SOLND Ont CP Two men lave been charged with firstdegree murder in the 1975 beating death of Aleitha Jane Henning of Ayton Ont police said Monday Eugene Lawrence Morgan 34 of Big River Sask and William Joseph Albert18 of Harriston Ont were to appear in provinCial court today Mrs Henning who lived over service station and restaurant she operated near the outskirts of Ayton about 65 kilometres southwest of Owen Sound was beaten to bath Sept 19 1975 Ontario Provincial Police OPPt said Morgan was arrested Sunday by the RCMP in Saskatchwewan at the request of the OPP and returned to Ontano Albert was arrested Monday at his home Hotels attacked SALISBURY Reuteri Black nationalist guerrillas attacked one of Rhodesia major tourist hotels with rockets and machinegum early today the resorts manager reported Geoff Courtney said that after busy mliday weekend only five rooms remained hooked when the raid took place on the Leopard Rock Hole In the Yumba Maintains of eastern Rhodesia about 10 lulometrts from the Mozambique border About rockets were fired Courtney said Delayed by weather MASERL Lesotho AP Bad weather in Botswana prevented fugitive Smith Afncan editor Donald Wows and his family from leavmg Monday Their departure was rescheduled for oday The dissident editor who is white scaped from home detention in East Inidon South Africa late last week and fltdhhlkedto Lesotho weather uent flurria today with brisk westerly vn causmg considerable drifting Wednesday mostly clout till few flur nes Lav tonight 2i high Wednesday 10 Cold weatrer expected to continue la the restof the week