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NEWS ROUNDUP Judge denies mistrial motions Harris trial ends in confusion LOS ANGELES AP The trial of William and Emily Har ris has ended in confusion and accusations with the legal af tershocks likely to reopen the long proceedings Superior Court Judge Mark Brandler denied three mistrial motions during two unusual postverdict hearings Tuesday and let stand the Harrises con viction on kidnapping and rob bery charges The hearings had been called to investigate charges that the verdict was tainted by bias against the Har rises Chief defence lawyer Leonard Weinglass stunned by contradictions revealed in the postverdict hearings said of the trials bizarre twists dont think theyre over have suspicion were all going to be back here before Aug 30 he said That is the Harrises sentencing date Weinglass spoke after he and other lawyers were hastily summoned back to court late Tuesday to hear two alternate jurors say their testimony earlier in the day about alleged juror misconduct was wrong Their reversals left unre solved the question of who had fashioned rope hangmans noose in jury room during jury selection llOIES FOR CLARITY Weinglass said deputy sher iff and some jurors may have to be requestioned to establish the truth about the noose incident which was revealed shortly before the jury returned its ver dict Monday Although convicted of kid napping and robbery the Harrises were acquitted of assault charges involving Patricia Hearst during 1974 crime spree The Harrises face the possiblity of maximum life sentences on the robbery con viction Miss Hearst codefendant is scheduled to be tried in January on the same robbery kidnapping and assault charges Her trial has been delayed while she undergoes psychiatric testing before sen tencing on federal bank robbery conviction in San Fran cisco The charges result from events at Los Angeles sport ing goods store on May 16 1974 Miss Hearst has said she sprayed the building with ma chinegun fire after William Harris was stopped for Shop lifting Prosecutors said the trio then commandeered van and car to escape Heart surgery INGLEWOOD Calif tAPi Academy Award winner Rod Steiger has made such good progress since his weekend open heart surgery that he is up and moving about in his hospital room spokesman said Tuesday The spokesman said the actor was moved from the hospitals intensive care unit to private room Monday after continuing to recover from cardiac by pass operation The Filryearold star of numerous motion pictures in cluding No Way to Treat Lady and The Pawnbroker won an Oscar for his portrayal of southern 78 sliefiff in In The Heat of the Night On board GEORGETOWN Ont ttlt Three new members have been appointed to the Niagara Escarpment oiiiiiiissioii chairman lvor McMulliii an nounced Tuesday Not tawasaga Township Reeve Edgar urrie of tollingwood Miiliniii lowiiship Reeve Jl Gallaughcr of Mansfield and taledon touncillor Alex Raeburn of Peel County were named to the commission The commission is responsible for drafting landuse plans for 20tlttsquaremile area which stretches 46 miles from Niagara Falls to Tobcrinoiy New students GlEHll Ont itlv About 3000 new students at lniveisity of Guelph will write diagnostic English test to determine their level of proficiency in conipreheiisioii and coiiiposit ioii liot Ioiii Settle dean of the college of ill ts said liiesda He said the test the first of its kind at the university be used as the basis of report to be sent to the presidents committee of deans later in the fall He said the idea of test was discussed early this year by deans of arious colleges who expressed concern about the inability of some students to write English correctly and effect ely Five fires TORONTO tCl Five for est fires were burning out of control Tuesday in Northern Ontario after severe lightning storms Monday started about to new fires John Walker of the ministry of natural resours ces ire control branch said looacre fire was burning out of control about 35 miles south west of Red Lake Although the blaze is not threatening the town he said the fire is in blow down an area of bush which has been damaged byuthe lvlvind which consequen ows fig to spread qmckly The other four forest fires are small and are located in the north western part of the Nipigon dis trict Remanded BRACEBRIDGE Ont CP William Murdoch MacKen zie 44 of nearby Utterson for mer secretarytreasurer of the Parry SoundMuskoka health unit was remanded to Sept for sentencing after pleading guilty Tuesday in provincial court to charges of theft and fraud involving $28947 The charges were laid after irre gularities were found in the ac counts of the Parry SoundMus koka unit and the Bracebridge Community Mental Health Ser vice He told the court that sin ce 1971 he used bonds pur chased by the health unit as collateral for personal loans and juggled ledgers When he was unable to keep up paymen ts on these loans he cashed the bonds MacKenzie said Body found BRACEBRIDGE Ont CP Police said the body of man was recovered from Lake Muskoka on Tuesday after the boat he was in was found float ing in the lake Police have not released the name pending notification of relatives in Czechoslovakia JOE MORRIS mislcading Controls OTTAWA CF President Joe Morris of the Canadian La bor Congress accused Labor Minister John Munro Tuesday of using incomplete and mis leading statistics to argue that price and wage controls have elped rather than harmed workers real income He also set for pm EDT or little later Thursday the news conference which will reveal the date and details of the na tional day of protest authorized by the 23millionltmeniber CLC last Friday Mr Morris in statement took issue with various state ments made Monday in Quebec City by Mr Munro including the assertion that workers real income stripped of inflationi rose by 117 per cent in April in comparison with year earlier While it is true that real in dustrial earnings increased by per cent over the last year he said Mr Munro neglected to add that the workers con cerned had no real increase in their earnings between 1972 and 1974 nor that real earnings per paid worker in the last quarter of 1975 were actually below their level of the fourth quarter of 1972 14 injured BRAMPTON Ont lt Thirteen Brampton residents and one from nearby Mis sissauga were injured when the van in which they were driving crashed into ditch Tuesday evening Peel regional police said one woman was admitted to hospital with head injuries and the others were treated and released JUDD BUCHANAN top priority Indian Act TORONTO CP The fed eral government is working to speed up the transfer of power from Ottawa to native regional councils and will give top prior ity to revisions to the Indian Act to encourage this process says Judd Buchanan Indian affairs minister The real human needs and most pressing problems are out in the regions at the band and community level he said Tuesday in speech to the On tario All Chiefs conference Sufficient permissiveness will be built into the revised act to allow bands to assume in creasing amount of local con trol whenever they wish and are ready to do so Guilty plea CAMBRIDGE Ont CP Joseph Zemek 50 of Cam bridge pleaded guilty Tuesday in provincial court to charge of attempting to murder his 17 yearold daughter Beverley Zemek who will be sentenced Sept 10 was charged after Be verley arrived at farmhouse May in nearby Breslau She would not say what had hap pened to her but the farms owner said she was muddy and had an injured right eye Official dies STRATFORD Ont CP Mackenzie Francis Bell 58 di rector of the membership fund raising program at the Strat ford Festival died in hospital here Tuesday He was past president of both Royal Trust Co and Ontario Loan and De benture Co Ltd In London Mr Bell was active in the Boy Scouts and was member of the executive committee of the provincial council for that or ganization This year he re ceived the Medal of Merit for his work with the Boy Scouts He was also former board member of St Josephs Hospi tal in London Orillian killed KILLARNEY Ont tCPt Thomas Edward Kerr 26 of rillia Ont was killed Mon day night at nearby sandpit when the fr0ntend loader he was driving rolled over on top of him Pay boost WINDSOR Ont Pi City firefighters members of Local 455 International Association of Firefighters voted Tuesday to accept oneyear contract which will guarantee the 282 firefighers wage increase of nine per cent Local president Jack Fenton said the minimum increase would bring the salary of firstclass firefighter to 317254 year Centre closed llAMlLlON NT local Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals iSltAi cata adoption centre has been closed after to resident cats died of suspected virus infections be tween last Wednesday and Sun day SPCA spokesman Athony Perry said the building housing the centre has been fumigated but it will not be able to open for at least two weeks Mr Perry said area veterinarians have noticed rise in the occur rence of virusrelated disease among cats Bank robbed MACTIER Ont CP Two men armed with shotgun and revolver robbed branch of the TorontoDominion Bank Tuesday in this community about 40 miles north of Orillia spokesman for provincial police said no shots were fired during the noonhour robbery The spokesman said the amount of money taken was not known The manager of the bank Gordon Garlin said the robbers asked him to open the banks vault but he couldnt because it has time lock Police said about 20 road blocks were set up on routes leading out of the Muskoka area to search for the two men causing traffic jam along 12mile stretch between Grave nhurst and the Severn River Some motorists said it took two hours to cover the distance Encephalitis TORONTO CP There have been no cases of St Louis encephalitis reported in On tario so far this year and if cool weather remains prospects are the disease will not surface say health department officials At news conference Tues day Dr Gordon Martin chief medical officer of health for the province said the same situation prevails throughout all of North America Medical officers of health from across the province met Tuesday to report on progress made in various spraying pro grams in their areas Dr Barbara Blake director of community health protection branch of the Ontario health ministry reported that flocks of chickens have been placed in highrisk areas Mosquitoes which spread the disease attack birds especially chickens The chickens which the doctor called sitting ducks were tested to ensure they were virus free before they were put out in the various sites So far she said the chickens have not contracted the virus Tent family BRANTFORD Ont tCP The Brantford Housing Author ity said Tuesday it has found house for fivemember family which has been living in two tents in city park But the family will remain in its tents until the end of the month Nick Edelman his wife and three children were found living in the borrowed tents in Brant Park last week Mr Edelman said he gave up his apartment in June when he could no longer afford the rent He said his income has been cut to $120 week in sick pay since May when be injured his shoulder and required surgery for the fourth time in seven years He expects it will be at least six months before he can go back to work Property tax TORONTO CP Stuart Smith leader of the Ontario Liberal party said Tuesday he would like to see property taxes phased out and replaced by pro vincial transfer payments to municipalities based on popu lations In an interview Dr Smith said payments may come from increased provincial revenues includingsalestax Inder the present system some municipalities are reluc tant to provide affordable hous ing or permit it to be built be cause lowerdensity higher cost housing produces more taxes and demands less in ser vices than lowerrcost housing he said ANNOUNCEMENT asutJuly 311976 ROY SCHUETl and BRIAN THOMPSON wish to announce the dissolution of the partnership ROY SCHUETT will continue the practice of Roy Schuett C0 Chartered Accountants 103 Collier Street Barrie Ontario Telephone 7265100 Roy F5chuett Co Chartered Accountants l03 Collier Street Barrie Ontario BRIAN THOMPSON will commence practice as Brian Thompson Chartered Accountant llO Dunlop Street East Suite 204 Barrie Ontario Telephone 7372500 Rock star Elton John per forms in splash of light reflections from his square 13 STARS SPANGLED rhinestonestudded costume at the Felt Forum in Madison Garden Tuesday evening full tended the opening night per formance AP Photo house at IAThe Barrie Examiner Wednesday August I976 Phone call anniversary marked BRANTFORD Ont CP The 100th anniversary of the worlds first longdistance tele phone call was commemorated Tuesday at ceremony at the Bell homestead here To symbolize the advances in communications since that first call on Aug 10 1876 between Brantford and Paris eight miles away the brief ceremony was screened on closecircuit television and beamed bv Tele sat communications satellite to Vancouver Island and back minute later Using the combined facilities of Bell Canada and Telesat the color television signal travelled 90000 miles through space from 15foot high station saucer constructed at the former home of Alexander Graham Bell who conceived the theory of the tele phone here in 1874 Accused still refuses to talk TORONTO CP The man charged with the kidnapping of the daughter of department store executive John Craig Ea ton refused to speak or ac knowledge the court Tuesday as woman told how she typed 500 pages of manuscript the accused had written Ernest Caron 47 has refused to speak publicly since his ar rest June 15 and the court must determine whether he can un derstand English and hear Crown counsel Frank Arm strong said Caron French citizen had spoken briefly to police after he was arrested and was seen by guard talk ing to prisoner July 26 in Toronto jail At an earlier hearing Mr The New 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