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EXAMINER TELEPHONES Circulation Classified Advertising All Other Departments 112th YearNo 217 The Barrie Examiner Barrie Ontario Canada Thursday Sept 16 I976 =22522223 Uhr Barrie Examinrr mm Per Copy Carrier Home Delivery 85 Weekly ZOPoges La Salle camping here La Salle is coming back Twentythree American con oeists will camp in Barrie next week along the route of an eightmonth reenactment of the 17th century voyage of the French explorer Robert Cavelier Sieur de La Salle La Salle left what is now Montreal in 1681 and travelled up the St Lawrence and through the Great Lakes before gomg down the Mississippi to New Orleans Members of La Salle Ex pedition II an American bicentennial project also en dorsed by the Canadian and French governments left Mon treal in August and plan to hit New Orleans in April They are expected to land at Centennial Park beach Thurs day at¢5 pm after paddling from Holland River and will leave the next day at am for Orillia While in Barrie the group will camp at Molsons Park ci ty officials preference or at Centennial Park and will put on free pageant outdoors if weather permits dramatizing the expedition Aid Alex Arthur city finance chairman said today the city is prepared to provide buses to take the group to and from Molsons Park and to con tribute to the cost of barbecue At present the group is por taging from Toronto to Holland River in an effort to follow the original route as closely as possible liaison officer for the ex pedition is expected to arrive in Barrie Monday to complete ar rangements School attendance is down Preliminary enrolment fig ures released Wednesday in dicate attendance at Simcoe County Catholic schools is down slightly from the same period last year Frank MacDonald director of education for the separate board said attendance during the first three days of school this year totalled 5775 drop of 19 students from the previous years total of 5794 Kindergarten enrolment was down by seven per cent but this was offset by increases in the higher grades as result of peo ple moving into the county Mr MacDonald said the pro vince is expecting an overall decrease of two per cent in enrolment but the separate school board is well below that figure Helicopters irk residents NIAGARA FALLS NY CP Mayor Michael OLaughlin says Henry Kissinger United States secretary of state should be asked to resolve the problem of sightseeing helicopters both ering residents along the Niag ara River gorge The mayor was among 25 residents and politicians who met at the home of Tom Frank lin to discuss what steps can be taken to ban tourist helicopters City council recentl passed resolution to abolish elicopter operations on theUS side Mr Franklin said petition circulated among residents near the US side of the gorge has 1732 signatures supporting the ban More than 80 per cent of Canadian and US residents in the gorge area now have signed he said Richard Lee district rep resentative for Congressman John La Falce said the con gressman had written Mr Kis sin er outlining the situation an requesting his department to take the necessary steps to solve the problem MONTREAL CP Can Team Canada now call itself the best hockcy team in the rid WCThe man who scored the goal which gave them twogame sweep over Czechoslovakia in the bestofthree Canada Cu hockey tournament playof Wednesday night says they can This is the atest hockey team in the wor it said Darryl Sittler whose goal tilt1133 of the first overtime period gave da 54 win caipgjaying with the best Cana hockey players and play ing the best in the world we en ded up and won the thing The Swedes sent their best the used their pros lagélgzechsy Were the world This float plane belonging to Beelik Enterprises of Stoff ville developed some prob lems overnight It is docked at the Barrie Marina and Barrie City Police noticed this morning that it was beginning to sink It is ap parently in no danger as the water is not deep and the plane is still tied securely to the dock Police say the Judge asks lawyers apology when ruling said capricious By JOHN WROE Examiner Staff Reporter Lawyer Moishe Reiter was threatened with contempt of court citation after calling ruling by Judge Don Inch capricious Wednesday Reiter is representing Robert Rowbotham in preliminary hearing into three charges of drug trafficking He had been crossexamining Constable Bruce Calnen of the RCMP at thetime Calnen had revealed that person at party Rowbotham held at his Beeton farm was later source of information But he said he could not reveal the name of the informer because it was confidential He said all the informer did was confirm the identities of people at the party Reiter began asking which people the informer had iden tified but Calnen after several glances at federal prosecutor John Burgar replied know what youre up to Theres method in his madness Hes trying to trap me into revealing who the person was Judge Inch directed Reiter to discontinue his line of question ing and said he would give the witness the courts protection Reiter called the ruling capricious and said he would not discontinue his line of ques tioning Your remarks are contemp tuous said Judge Inch Ill adjourn court for five minutes and you can make an apology he said if he did not receive an apology he would take the 3p propriate steps When court resumed Reiter did not tender an apology but did say capricious was poor choice of word Judge Inch seemed to accept this and asked Reiter to get on with his crossexamination But Reiter said the courts actions seemed to accept Calnens words and he felt his integrity was in sulted by Calnens saying he was trying to trap him Ansis Semenovs lawyer for coaCCused John Mepstead in terjected that any questioning regarding identification of per sons alleged to be at party where drugs were in use would Group wants San ta parade switched from Sunday date The Barrie and District Ministerial Association has stepped up its campaign to have Barries Santa Claus parade switched from its scheduled Sunday date Capt Gary Venables of the Salvation Army chairman of the association said today the association voted Wednesday to purchase advertising space asking the public to protest the Sunday scheduling to the Bar rie Jaycees sponsors of the Dec 5event Previous parades have been held on Saturday Jaycee esmen could not be reach for comment this morning but the club has previously said the parades pm or later starting time was chosen so that the event would not interfere with church or Sunday School However Capt Vena bles Compulsory retirement termed unnecessary TORONTO CP Dorothea Crittenden deputy minister of community and social services for Ontario said Wednesday that compulsory retirement is unjust unnecessary and waste in Speaking to the Ontario Asso ciation of Homes for the Aged the deputy minister said the American Medical Association reports there is clinical evi dence that physical and emo tional roblems are brought on or ma worse by denial of em ployment opportunities She stressed she is not again st voluntary retirement at any age but said the present man champions and we beat them three out of our The Canadians who won the opening game of the series 60 in Toronto Monday night jum ped into 24 lead in the first period Wednesday on goals by Gilbert Perreault and Phil Esposito Milan Novy scored the lone goal of the second period for the Czechs who then tied the score early in the third period on Jaroslav Pouzars goal KEPT 0N EDGE For the rest of the final pe riod the 18040 fans including Prime Minister Trudeau were kept on the edge of their seats as Canada took 32 lead fell behind 43 and tied the game with 212 remaining in regu datory retirement at age 65 is unrealistic It was set in 1850 when life ex tancy was 40 years she said Today life ex pectancy is nearly 70 The retirement system she said is designed by the young for the convenience of the young and imposed on older people with no regard for their rights or wishes Im not opposed to lowering the age of voluntary retirement since that gives the individual the freedom of choice she said But do ob ject strongly to telling workers that at certain age they are out no matter what kind of con tribution they are making lation time Bobby Clarke and Bill Barber scored the Canadian goals with Barber tying the game Josef Augusta and Marian Stastny were the other Czech marks men with Stastny puttin Czechoslovakia ahead 43 wit four minutes remaining The Canadians peared to have scored two goa earlier in the overtime period before Sit tler whip the fans into frenzy wit his game winner The first by Guy Lafleur was called back at 830 because the net was off its moorings The Czechs were assessed nalty by referee Ove Dahl rg of Sweden for deliberately removing the net The second goal by Guy Lap said earlier this week prepara tion for the parade by par ticipants would keep them from attending services He said his own churchs junior band was in last years parade but will not take part this year if the event is not rescheduled He said the association has met with the Jaycees and writ ten them letter but has not succeeded in persuading the club to change its plans The association has also at tempted to have sporting events moved away from Sun day morning but also without success he said He said activities which re quire participants particular ly young people to decide bet ween the activities and church attendance interfere with basic freedom of choice dont think we have the right to impose our religious values on the community as whole he said but do think we have the right to protect the values that are her and the freedoms that we have He said some members of the association also object to Sun day parade on the grounds that we feel there are six other days to do that sort of thing Another association member said today Wednesdays vote was unanimous except for one abstention among about two dozen members in attendance ointe entered the net as the si ren sounded to end the first 10 minutes of the overtime period There was little argument from the Canadians Sittler team captain of To ronto Maple Leafs of the Na tional Hockey League broke in on the left side against Vladi mir Dzurilla in the Czech oslovakian net When Dzurilla advanced well out of his crease to the area of the faceoff circle Sittler flipped around him and sliitl the puck into the empty ne PREDICTED MOVE Sittler said Dzurilla did ex 3ctly what he thought he would Thoughout the series in the two games he played in he Best hockey team in seem logical so he could see nothing wrong with finding out who was identified Reiter next questioned Calnen on the notes he had made after the party The par ty Aug 26 1975 was lobster Barty with the lobster provided Calnen Calnen said that while he was writing his notes at the RCMP head office he ate ive leftover lobster Reiter said it seemed incredi ble that there were no stains or grease marks on the notes and Calnen said he was just careful when he ate Reiter said it was his inten tion to show that Calnens notes were fabrication and said that the officers utter independence on his notebook to give evidence showed that the court could not rely on his memory alone When Judge Inch said Reiters extended cross examination was delaying the proceedings Reiter suggested the transcript of the hearing go before judicial council to determine who was delaying it think have shown this of ficer is an unreliable and evasive and uncooperative witness said Reiter and therefore should be allowed full crosscxamination to show inconsistencies in his testimony The hearing which has been in progress off and on since April is set to continue Oct 15 However fourmonth trial Rowbotham is involved in Brampton is set to start Oct so the preliminary here may be delayed One candidate for Liberals So far Simcoe Centre Liberals will only have one per son to choose for their can didate in the next provincial election during the partys nominating convention tonight in Barrie Jim Corncau 25 Bradford businessman said Monday he will seek the partys nomina tion Margaret Kelly and Janice Laking candidates in the last provincial and federal elections respectively have said they will not seek the nomination The convention begins at pm at Eastview secondary school 462 came out and faced the shooter He outs down the angle Coach Don Cherry came in and he said if you get chan ce go wide on him and youll be able to deke him That went throu my mind when looked up an saw him coming out This is the biggest night so far for me Not only tonights goal but layin in this tourna ment wit Bob Orr Phil Esposito and Bob Hull While Sittler received much of the attention in the hot hu mid dressing room many re porters were clustered around Canadian goaltender Rogatien Vachon picked as Canadas top player in the series They voted me the best player but everybody played as owner has been contacted and is taking action to fix the airplane Examiner Photo senders is 30 news The workers have rejected your latest after Tremors force evacuation UDINE Italy AP Thou sands of residents of the quake devastated Friuli region aban doned their homeland today in an exodus to the Adriatic coast or the Dolomite mountains seeking ground that doesnt tremble Long lines of cars trucks buses and horsedrawn carts left the streets of this area of northeastern Ital The fleeing thousands left be ind the ruins of homes levelled by series of quakes that began May and still continue The government assi ned three army units with him reds of trucks to assist those choos ing to leave Several thousand persons have already reached hotels and empty ouses at summer resorts on the coast or in the mountains Thirtyfive tremors were recorded Wednesday two of them nearly as strong as the first uake four months ago that killed nearly 1000 people and put 70000 omeless into tents The May uake regis tered 69 on the Ric ter Scale HOPE KILLED wave of persons are aban doning their towns said Luigi Gui head of parliamentary commission that toured the quake area The new quakes havent just destroyed more houses They have killed the hope and determination to rebuild which had survived for all these months Since last Saturday eight more persons have died 80 have been injured and the gov ernment estimates that 20000 more people have been made homeless well The team showed lot of courage and determination coming back like they did late in the third period have never seen as much tension before or during game TOP IN TOURNAMENT Defenceman Bobby Orr hockeys most celebrated free agent few months back before signing with Chicago Black Hawks was named the out standing player in the tourna ment Orr whose presence in the Canadian lineup was question able duc to knee operation last winter was jut happy to have been able to take part in the series DOWNTOWN CORE By RICHARD DUNSTAN Examiner Staff Reporter The Downtown Improvement Board has joined the drive for an official plan amendment to promote renewal of Barries downtown core Board chairman Doug Cherry will appear before tonights public meeting on the future of the downtown area to support an amendment proposed by the Greater Barrie Chamber of Commerce The meeting called by sub committee ofcity planning board will be held in the coun cil chamber at city hall beginn ingat730pm The proposed amendment endorsed Wednesday by the Downtown Improvement Board would designate the core area as the heart of the city and as Barries primary retail cultural recreational and administrative district The amendment also calls for the drafting of secondary land use plan for the downtown core following variety of studies of the areas needs and ssi bilities One possibility to in vestigated would be major downtown seeder develop ment which could be shopp ing centre recreational com plex or an administrative cen tre In statement endorsing the proposal the Downtown Im provement Board supports the Chambers longstanding con tention that an amendment is necessary before the city can participate in the newly announced provincial down town revitalization program CITE STATEM ENTS Both the board and the chamber cite statements by John Rhodes provincial hous ing minister that in order to take part in the program municipality must Wm ya DOUG CHERRY to attend meeting make strong commit ment to its downtown core develop Ian in concert with its of icial plan to follow through on the com mitment and identify the seeder pro jects for which provincial funding is needed The provincial program pro vides for partiallyrecoverable loans of up to twothirds the cost of downtown renovations including land assembly and clearing acquisition and renovation of an existing key anchor building installation of an open or covered downtown mall and servicing The Downtown Improvement Board statement also notes that the board retained consultants in 1974 to work out longterm development plan for the down town area but abandoned the project after consultants said it would be waste of money until city parking and transportation policies and Oning bylaws were updated Tonights meeting is open to presentations by all Barrie residents businesses and organizations Discussion will not be limited to the chamber proposal but chamber officials ho to read the amendment at beginn ing of the meeting to get public reaction PRESENTATION The meeting will also feature presentation byGeorge Przybylowski of the provincial housing ministry on the provi sions of the downtown revit alization program The meeting will be televised on Cable The planning board subcom mittee will study public sub missions to the meeting and report its findings to planning board probably at its Sept 28 meeting The subcommittee report is expected to include recommendation for or against the proposed amendment The amendment must go through planning board and ci ty development committee and win city council approval before becomin minicipal policy and must so gain hous ing ministry approval before becoming legally binding Chairman of the subcom mittee and of tonights meeting is Ken Byles planning board vicechairman Other members are Mayor Dorian Parker Aid Jim Perri who is chairman of city development committee and planning board member Doug Skelton Mayor Parker has said she opposes an official plan amend ment until issues raised by the SimcoeGeorgian Area Task Force report and Barries bid to annex 20000 acres from adjoin ing townships are settled School board joins effort to get Sesame Street back By SHEILA MCGOVERN Examiner Staff Reporter The se arate school board has oin the fight to bring Big Bir Grover Bert Ernie and the Cookie Monster back to the children of Orillia Wednesday night trustees agreed to support the campaign of an Orillia woman to have Sesame Street put back on Bar rie television station CKVRs morning programming Jack Mattenly general manager of CKVR said Ses ame Street was dropped in favor of Daybeat locally pro duced program in an effort to meet Canadian content re quirements think its an excellent pro gram and Im sorry in way that its off but we have to live by certain rules he said However several groups from the Orillia area are pro testing thechange Trustees received letter from Sandra Bates of the Huronia Chapter of the Reg istered Nurses Association asking the separate board to Gold price up again LONDON AP The price of gold rose $375 US an ounce today on Western Europes major bullion markets after an In ternational Monetary Fund gold auction in Washington pro duced higher prices than expected Cosmonauts orbit earth MOSCOW Reuter Two Soviet cosmonauts orbited the earth today in Soviet Soyuz spaceship equipped with an East German camerathe first manned spaceflight involving any of Moscows allies Armed struggle supported LUSAKA AP US State Secretary Henry Kissinger ar rived here today on the second leg of his African peace mission and was told that Zambians support intensified armed strug gle for black rule Township votes wet MEAFORD Ont CP Residents of Euphrasia township have voted 70 per cent in favor of licensed dining lounges In the plebescite Wednesday there were 270 ballots cast in favor and 114 against the lounges Meaford is 20 miles east of Owen Sound just came here to play Im very honored and very happy But everything about this tour nament was super Winning this is just fantastic The victory in the finals was worth $50000 to the Canadians while the Czechs gained $25000 The Canadians won $100000 for finishing first in the sixteam roundrobin while the Czechs won $75000 for finishing second Navy was picked as the Czechs top player in the tour nament but he will not take home the car which is his re ward He will sell it back to the manufacturer and the money will be split among his team mates The Czechs will return home tonight in the knowled that they are good hockey ub and were beaten by good hockey team ADMITS SUPERIORITY There is no question that Canada is No in hockey right now said coach Karel Gut They have proven this in this tournament How could anyone say anything different And think le in Can ada will acce uh act thatwe are good hoc ey players too added assistant coach Jan Star si We are the only ones in this tournament who mana ed victory over Canada ad ded referring to the Czechs 10 join in the protest She said CKVR had told her the program is still available on CBLTToronto and CHEX Peterborough Mrs Bates said these channels are not always received in Orillia Trustee Bill Hodgins ageed saying reception on those chan nels is not available in northern parts of the county where there is no cable television CANADIAN VERSION Mary Munnoch trustee for Adjala and Toronto school teacher said there is Cana dian version of Sesame Street in which French is substituted for Spanish She said she believed the pro gram is one of the available for children but length one hour might present problem for some stations Trustees agreed to send let ters to Mrs Bates and CKVR supporting reinstatement of the program In Orillia the Simcoe County Unit of the Federation of Women Teachers Associations of Ontario local school prin cipals and the nurses associa tion have ex ressed concern over the loss the program The various meetings this week similar letter was for warded to the public school board Bill Brown chairman of the public board said removal of the rogram was unfortunate and expects the matter will be discussed at the board meeting next Wednesday Obviously if it deals with education then were all for it he said the world wins Canada Cu win last Thursday during roundrobin play The tournament which brought together the best hockey players in the world for the first time will long be re membered This is ever more than thrill said Bobby Hull the veteran left winger who has played in both North American pro leagues How can forget playing with such great bunch of guys and for such great country have never played with better team know my family enjoyed me participatin even thoughlwasaway forso on It is always worth the ef ort when it means so much to so many people lt3