Barrie Historical Newspaper Archive

Barrie Examiner, 20 Sep 1976, p. 1

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EXAMINER TELEPHONES Circulation 7266539 Classified Advertising 7282414 All Other Departments 7766537 ll2th YearNo 220 The Barrie Examiner Barrie Ontario Canada Monday Sept 20 1976 PSTCOMES TO LIFE PIONEER DAY SW CON TORONTO CP Op position has arisen in the Can borough area 20 miles southeast of Hamilton to proposal to dispose of toxic in dustrial waste by pumping it 2800 feet underground under high pressure The disposal well would be the first in Canada to pump waste under pressure to porous Cambrian sediments The drill ing of the well would also set precedents in public licensing procedures and safety stand ards Those who support the well say it will reduce buildup of pollution that threatens drink able water supplies The toxic liquids now are being dumped on municipal garbage pits and are soaking into underground Barries tree vandals arc Tiff back atwork Friday night the vandals attacked and destroyed it im mature trees on Springdale Drive in the Tall Trees subdivi sion north of Cundles Road Dave Thomas general fore man for the city recreation department parks and forestry section said the vandalism was reported Saturday morning Mr Thomas said the city has no idea who destroyed the Museum Sunday The saw which can cut and trim large Vernon Connell used ractorpowered saw to cut wood slabs at Simcoe County blocks of wood dates back to 1874 It can be run by one man and takes its power from belt drive to tractor The tractor in this case was an ancient diesel $WWwwvv omawMv FRANCES LlGllTBOURN left sets the spinning wheel in motion while Matthew No mystery about price paid Norton samples life behind bars at the Simcoe County Museum Pioneer Dav Sunday The two Barrie residents were among thou by city for CGEproperly Theres no mystery about the price the city paid for 75 acres of land from Canadian General Electric CGE says Ald Alex Arthur finance chairman Ald Arthur said this morning the city paid $14000 an acre for total of $1050000 to the com pany for land west of Diebold td on the north side of Big Bay Point Rd There was never any mys tery about it to me he said adding the cost was revealed at number of city council meetings The bylaw to buy the land was approved and it included the cost for the parcel Bert Cook chairman of the citys industrial development committee announced the pur Airline back to normal By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Trans World Airlines service was returning to normal today after brief weekend strike by mechanics and other ground personnel ended Sunday following highlevel mediation in Washington Chlorine concern berated TORONTO CP Toronto specialist in epidemics has dismissed as utter nonsense city aldermans concern that this citys chlorinetreated water supply might be potential time bomb Undercutting charge denied WINNIPEG CP Grains industry officials in Western Canada have denied charge by high US government of ficial that Canada is undercutting the world market in wheat pricing British pound declines LONDON Router The pound fell heavily on foreign ex change markets today losing more than two cents at one stage to $17140 US dealers said Five wounded by police JOHANNESBURG AP Police wounded five blacks who threw stones at police ting bush fire near Johannesburg South African police spo eman announced today chase Friday CUE bought the land in 1907 after the city arranged con sent annexation with lnnisfil Township The land was for proposed future expansion of Barrie facilities But the expansion was not carried out because of change in the companys plans Ben Straughan city clerk said Barrie is negotiating the sale of the land to another in dustry He said he can not discuss the selling price or the name of the other industry Mr Straughan said the city will probably try to sell the land for price to cover its ex penscs The city has been trying for number of years to get CGE to sell some of its property he said CGE bought 125 acres on the site and will retain ownership of 50 acres Mr Straughan said he does not believe the other industry is interested in buying all 75 acres But he said the city OWnS more industrial land abutting the former CGE property which can be added to form larger parcels of industrial land He said the industrial com mission is negotiating with number of other industries at this time The city became involved in buying the land he said for three possible reasons to acquire more industiral land to break up the large parcel of undeveloped in dustrial land or because the interested company is competitor of CGL and could not make deal for the land sands who flocked to li museum to get an idm oi Rollers riol lille es 000 LONDON Al lhrec hun dred hysterical girls were in jured and the first four rows of London theatre were wrecked Sunday night at lay City Rollers pop concert police said him pinion1w livcd tlfix illililltliiltiiiril Qf ltiljallBLRL sued for steel Lift X1 rilf Essa township council and firmer members of the Angus arena board are be my word lot the cost of steel ltm 131w nt thc Ic ol the pro pnsa iiillfllu claim has been filed in On tario Supreme Court by John Wlieclwright Ltd of Toronto supplier of about $01000 worth ofstccl Essa council in addition is continuing its suit against nine former arena board members alleging that construction began without authorization of council in two occasions the Out rio Municipal lioard has refused to let llssa toWnship borrow money to build the arena And in luly this year the Ontario Tahincl refused to overturn the Mllsdecision Since then fundraising committ has been formed in Angus but no specific projects have been announced Dome discovers Beautiful Sea gas ABOARD EXPLORER Nl CP Dome Petroleum Ltd of Calgary has struck natural gas 10000 feet below the floor of the Beaufort Sea it was an nounced today shaft being drilled frmn this exixirimcntal ship pene trated four feet into natural gas zone said spokesman itll Canmar Corp Home drilling subsidiary He said as began flowing iir to the well mm but that the ex tent and value of the initial find is not known Drilling ceased after the gas was reached Saturday and might not go much farther be fore next Saturday expiry date for Domes federal permits for offshore drilling The spokesman said Ianmar will cncasc the entire drillpipe lo 10000 feet before resuming drilling This will tie the entire well into blowout protector and ensure that the steel pipe will not be snapped day sessions with Kissinger trees The damage will cost tax payers about $220 for replace ment of the trees The trees will not be replanted until next spring Mr Thomas said the city could have called work crew Saturday to take the broken trees out but he felt it was bet ter to let the subdivision residents see the damages Uhr Ilarrir Examiner WEATHER FORECAST 15 Per Copy Carrier Home Delivery 85 Weekly Pages water courses Opponents to the well say there is slight chance the toxic wastes will break through faults that may be in the Cam brian rock and owe to the sur face or to waterbearing layers of rock We have polluted the air and the water said James Wilkin son petroleum engineer Now were polluting the very earth itself ONLY POSTION CMENT Mr Wilkinson who is advis ing Canborougharca opponents to the well said deep under ground disposal only puts off the day when the economy must face up to recycling the mate rials dumped We cant keep pumping for ever into the earths crust Maybe the people will ask themselves where their kids were Friday night he said Mr Thomas said each tree was snapped in half at the tie used to attach the tree to stake Stakes are used he said during the first few years of growth It takes considerable amount of strength to snap live tree he said adding it was not little children causing the damage Unless the vandals made noise he added most residents would not have heard the trees beingbroken The city is still offering reward for any information leading to the arrest and con viction of people destroying cityowned property Mr Thomas said breaking trees is usually the vandals favorite form of damage RIIODESIA NAMBIA Kissinger aides say black rule closer PREIORIA tCl US State Secretary Henry Kissin ger flew to Zambia today and his aides claim he has ad vanced prospects of black rule for Rhodesia and Nambia SouthWest Africa Kissinger went to Lusaka to tell President Kenneth Kaunda about his weekend talks in Pro toria with prime ministers lan Smith of Rhodesia and John Vorster of South Africa Smith and several of his cabi net ministers who accompanied him to this South African capi tal flew home to Salisbury Sun after two fourhour Im satisfied that Mr Smith and his very close collaborators will report favorably to their other colleagues Kissin 1or said Twice before Smitis supporters have repudiated ac cords on lthodesias con stitutional future that he initialled with the British government Aboard his plane Smith said he thought Kissinger had en gaged in straight talk with us But Smith did not indicate Penalties came freely in the exhibition game between the Barrie Colts and the Toronto Red Wings Slinday at the whether he would report favor ably to his cabinet on the talks WANTCOMMITMENT The USBritish plan calls for commitment to black majority rule within two years constitutional conference in Geneva broadening of the Rhodesian cabinet to include black nationalists and $2 billion fund to compensate whites who leave Rhodesia and to finance development of the country under black rule The United States Britain South Africa and other countries would supply the money Observers in Salisbury ex pressed belief that both Smith and Kissinger made major con cessions They believe that Smith for the first time ac cepted the principle of black majority rule But they also be lieve that Kissinger had agreed to transitional period of longer than two years spokesman for Kissinger reported that he and Vorster made considerable progress in their discussions of the future of Nambia ll Barrie Arena game the Colts won 53 Torontos Don Ferguson is about to rude shove by Colts player late COLTS OPEN ON WINNING NOTE said David Strangway head of the geology department at the University of Toronto Even tually it is going to get satu rated The Ontario Environmental Hearing Board will sit Oct in Canborough to near the appli cation of Cambrian Disposals Ltd to operate the well The board will also hear objections to the project from the Tan borough Agricultural lre servation Association repre senting local farmers and home owners The province wants to stop surface dumping of toxic wastes and does not know of any other economical solution than deep underground pressure injections It is horrendous problem Underground waste systemis Opposed to get rid of it said EW Tur ner enviromnent ministry in dustrial waste pollution control supervisor Mr lurrmr believer the least of all evils is pumping the waste into deep porous rock Cambrian Disposals plans to take at existing well originally drilled for gas exploration and seal its lining with cement In dustrial wastes will be pumped 2800 feet down to ZOOfoot thick layer of CainlJrian sand stone The pressure at the bot tom ol the well will be about 2000 pounds aqua re inch Kenneth Crawford Cam brian Disposals president said he does not believe there is any chance that the waste would come to the surface as result of fracture in the rock Vandals on prowl once again destroy 11 subdivisirz es ANOTHER VANDAL VICTIM Federal policies force doctors our FREDERICTON Clt The president of the Canadian Medical Association tCMAi says the federal gmernments health policies are helping to drive many Canadian doctors to the United Statcs in search of higher earnings less income tax and less professional harassment In Saturday address to the New Brunswick Medical Socic tys animal convention Dr in the game Barrie will be in Toronto Tuesday for re match with the Metro Junior William Barootcs of Regina said the ncativistic attitude of some elements of our society and the capricious fickle nature of health policy legisla tion should be stopped from ser ving that end He also accused the federal government of cutting back on contributions to medical care programs to force the provinces to open negotiations on cost sharing formulas for hospital care and medical education Hockey League club Story and photo on Page 10 Ex aminer Photo agvu

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