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Barrie Examiner, 21 Sep 1976, p. 1

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EXAMINER TELEPHONES Quotation 72642539 Classified Advertising 72824l4 All Other Departments 7266537 WEATHER FORECAST SUNNY ll2th YearNo 22 15 Per Copy Carrier Home Delivery 85 Weekly IQPOQGS zn it 7g 21 ww By RANDY MCDONALD Examiner Sports Editor Member shareholders of the Barrie Golf and Country Club have 10 days to start move which would enable the club to continueoperating After that the For Sale sign goes up on the estimated milliondollar club The Country Club will be of fered for sale Oct if no fur ther financial assistance is received during the 10 day period The announcement was made by Paul Coffey vicepresident of the Country Club at news conference Monday The clubs board of directors has passed motion inviting any member shareholders or group of member shareholders to initiate move which would keep the club alive If the board does not receive proposal during the 10 days the club will be offered for sale publicly or by tender with any offer subject to the approval of the shareholders Mr Coffey said the board of directors does not want to see the Country Club sold We feel that in this club we have one of the finest golf courses in Ontario and it would be shame to see it ever go out of existence as golf club he said The board has been trying since the start of the year to steady the rocky financial pic ture of the club Since Jan weve been try ing every way possible to finan cially put the club back on its feet including looking into life time memberships two or three runs at the capital funds project and we kept extending it because we felt we could be successful DRIVE UNSUCCESSFUL The board has recognized that capital funds drive this summer was unsuccessful Strike sparks layoffs DETROIT AP As the strike against Ford Motor Co in the United States begins to cause chain reaction of lay offs at other companies bargainers say they are not op timistic about renewed efforts to reach settlement The United Auto Workers UAW and Ford resumed for mal contract talks Monday for the first time since 170000 workers walked off the job one week ago today At least 2000 employees at Ford supply firms have been laid off along with 1600 Ford workers in Canada as result of the strike the first against the No US auto maker since 1967 Spokesmen for several major automotive suppliers warned that layoffs would greatly in crease by Oct if the walkout continued Francis award is upheld NEW YORK APSinger Connie Francis who sued How ard Johnson Inc for $5 million after she was raped in motel room has had jury award of $25 million upheld by federal court judge Thats greatjust terrific Miss Francis said after being told of Judge Thomas Platts rulingMonday She had testified that she had to abandon her attempt at comeback as singer after she was raped on Nov 1974 by man who entered her Howard Johnsons Motor Lodge room through sliding glass door She contended that the lodge should have given her safe One of the 65 pheasants and secure room released Sunday by the Bar NEWS Party papers subpoenaed GRAND RAPIDS Mich AP Records of the Kent County Republican party with headquarters in President Fords home town of Grand Rapids have been subpoenaed by the Watergate special prosecutor the county partys chairman said today Cabinet adjourns talks SALISBURY Reuter Prime Minister Ian Smiths cabinet today adjourned crucial talks on plans for Rhodesian settle mept after more than three hours Of what he called straight tal ing Beirut fighting continues BEIRUT AP Christians and Moslems fought tank battles in the southern suburbs of Beirut and in the nearby mountains today and Christian and Syrian forces were reported bom barding the northern Moslem port of Tripoli and adjOining Palestinian refugee camps Plane search launched LONDON Reuter Sonar and salvage equipment were be ing loaded aboard US Navy tugin Glasgow today as the United States began its search for topsecret plane lying at the bottom of the ocean Hollands future the topic THE HAGUE AP Without referring directly to her hus bands disgrace in the Lockheed scandal Queen Juliana called on the Dutch today put the past behind them and look forward to the many things confronting us Search for survivors THE HAGUE Reuter Divers today were searching the wooden hull of the British navy minesweeper Fittleton in 162 feet of water for possible survivors from collision in the North Sea Monday Two sailors were killed and 10 were missing after the 36Hon Fittleton and the British frigate Mermaid collided in calm seas 80 miles north of the Dutch island of Texel during NATO exercise Queries potash motives NEW YORK CP Premier Allan Blakeney of Saskat chewan questioned today the underlying motives of the United States government in naming Canadians as part of an alleged conspiracy by eight US companies to fix the price of potash Police chief dies at 56 KITCHENER Ont CP Wilfred Henrich 56 chief of the Waterloo regional police department died in hospital today 31st session for UN UNITED NATIONS AP The United Nations General Assembly opens its 3lst annual session today with the racial confrontation insouthern Africa and the perennial ArabIsraeli standoff among its most pressing issues Ts rie and District Conservation Club and the Ministry of Natural Resources wings it way to freedom under the watchful eye of Dave Pensioners are fined LONDON Ont CP Two pensioners from London were fined total of $1500 in provin cial court Monday on charges of keepin common gaming house espite arguments from their lawyer that their actions were more of service to elderly people than bigtime oper ation Michael Sansone 77 was fined $500 and his brother Pe ter 74 was fined $1000 Mi chael had pleaded guilty to one count of eeping common gamin house while Peter pleade quilty to two counts on thesamecharge The charges were laid follow ing police investigation of their activities at London mo tel on four separate occasions In June 1973 third man Morrison Irwin 47 of Wallaceburg Ont was fined $500 on the same charge and for being found on the premises Acting Crown Attorney JJ Eberhard told Judge Fred Gregory that police learned the two motel rooms the men used hlaci been rented to social Mfr FREEDOM FOR PHEASAN Ferguson left conserva tion officer from Midhurst and Kevin Stone the man who was res nsible for the care and up ringing of the The minimum requirement of $400000 to free the club from its debt res nsibilities was not reached espite the extensions Mr Coffey said that $381000 had been committed to the Capital Funds Drive He added that the board is hoping some more of the members will come forward and offer their support to the capital funds project The capital funds drive if it had Some more solid support could still be successful and if the people realize right now the seriousness of this maybe they will come forward and we could carry on as memberowned birds Standing at left is club director Vaino Kukk and vicepresident Jim Roe The pheasants were taken from their pen by the ministry and Police fear thieves will melt treasure CAPE CANAVERAL Fla AP Police say they are con cerned that thieves who stole about $750000 worth of Spanish coins and jewelry from the Museum of Sunken Treasure here will melt their booty down todisguiseit The gold and silver arti factssome considered price lessdate back to 1715 and were recovered by divers from sunken Spanish galleons off Floridas east coast They were stolen early Monday from the private museum here Museum officials said the value of the haul could only be estimated The rarity and historic value of each item stolen makes it difficult to name specific values said Alan Mc Nair vicepresident of Pat terson Erie Corp of Vero Beach which has controlling interest in the museums operator the Real Eight Corp He said the stolen items in cluded chest of 1000 silver coins and 500 gold coins and $33000 Spanish captain en erals whistle on an llfoot ong gold chain McNair said the thieves also took gold emblem showing the cross of Jerusalem numerous gold rings with rare stones containing inscriptions of their ori in and various types of go pendants one measuring five feet Police Chief Bob Tweed criti cized museum authorities for having an inadequate security system He said the museum has no night guard and was not connected by direct alarm sys tem to police headquarters He also said the burglar alarm automatically shut off as soon as the door was closcd Have powers on safety TORONTO CP Ontario municipalities have the power to require the installation of childproof safety devices on the windows of highrise apart ment buildings says John Rhodes provincial minister of housing GETS IMPORTANT SPACE SUIT GIFT country club Its up to them They have to be the people that show us the way he said No definite price has been pinned on the country club but Mr Coffey mentioned cost hovering around the million dollar mark We havent set price on it as such but we know that to replace this property as golf club would be darn close to $1 million so we think we have to consider this figure or figure in that vicinity Mr Coffey said the board was hopeful that the potential buyer would carry on as golf course operation He feels should it be allowed to die that it would be the last Barrie would see of the country club My impression is such that if the Barrie Golf and Country Club was to be taken out of ex istence completely that you would never see another One ever in this area because the cost of producing not only the building and its facilities but to assemble the land and build golf course would probably be far beyond what any investor would like to invest Mr Coffey stated that he thought Barrie would suffer very very definitely without country club really dont think they realize what they stand to lose he said Mr Coffey stressed that the club had commitment to its members up until the end of the season He said the club had many functions booked until the end of the season The golf course will remain open as long as the weather per mits with the public invited to use the 18hole course The curling clubs ice will be in by Oct 20 Mr Coffey said the club intends to honor com mitment to curling school from west Canada drivcn to various locations throughout Vcspra lovvnshi where they were release More photos and story on Page 10 Examiner Photo Death toll 18 in crash LJUHIJANA Yugoslavia Router The toll from the collision between the famed Orient Express and Yugoslav commuter train rosc to 18 with the death Monday night of one of the injured The express travelling from Istanbul to Paris slammed headon into the local train in fog near here early Monday The victims all bclicvcd Yu goslavs included the drivers and coltdrivers of both trains and 14 passengers aboard the local train carrying workers to Ljubljana About 40 persons were injured Metro man murdered TORONTO CP James Stewart Kennedy 49 an em ployee of thc dcpartmcnt of revenue was found murdered in his downtown apurlmcnt Monday Police say that Kennedy who came to Toronto from Manitoba ten years ago had been beaten and stranglcd Bubble babycelebrates 5th birthday HOUSTON AP David the boy in the germfree plastic bubble who as never been touched by ungloved human hands celebrates his fifth bir thday today waiting for his most important ifta space suit that will al ow him to ex plore the world outside David was born without natu ral body defences against dis ease He suffers from severe combined immune deficiency SCID an inherited disorder that strikes about one in every 10000 males Doctors said the simplest of germs could kill him David was placed in the germfree environment seconds after birth and his last name has been kept secret by his par ents and hospital officials Normal in other respects Da vid runs around inside his nine bysevenfoot bubble and lays with ball and several astic toys Doctors say he displays considerable curiosity about the world outside His space suit should be ready in December Officials at the Johnson Space Center and Texas Childrens Hospital said Monday the legal documents authorizing Davids cc suit have been signed en ing more than two years of negotiations that began after space officials were asked to study the possi bility of adapting space tech nology and hardware to extend the boys environment We are now in the process of fabricating the suit said Gary Primeaux space scientist in charge of that prOJect He said the suit called Mo bile Biological Isolation System consists of rub berized garment with soft transparent plastic helmet It is connected by 10footlon air hose to transporterventi ator mounted on pushcart The system provides bile sterile environment at will allow David to make ex cursions of at least four hours outside his bubble He now divides his time bc tween the plasticwalled bubblc at the hospital and an identical germfree bubble at home travelling between the two in special van Davids medical care is paid by federal grant to Baylor College of Medicines Research Centrc at Texas Thildrcns llos pital Baylor now dcscribcs David as healthy physically active child and the oldest immune deficicnt patient in medical his tory to survive without rccon stitution of the bodys protcc tivesystcm Doctors have said he is well developed physically mentally and emotionally His curiosity about thc out side world bcgnn morc than two years ago on visit homc Aftcr watching his futlicr working around the house David said You let inc got out of this bubble and Ill help you Scientists arc still trying to find curc that will allow Da vid to lcavc his plastic bubbli forever Industrial land sale approved by city council By PETER IEPOIESTA Examiner Staff Reporter City council jumped the gun Monday an nouncing the sale of 25 acres of cityowned in dustrial land Council held ecial meeting Monday to approve the sale land on Bayview Drive to Tandy Electronics Ltd Radio Shack Divi sion But company representatives told The Bar rie Examiner this morning the sale has not been approved by Tandy officials administrative assistant Radio Shack Barrie said no decision was made but there is very strong possibility Bob Nicholson thc company will buy the land Mr Nicholson said Iandy is proposing an officewarehouse building on thc sitc north of Big Bay Point Road on the east side of Iiayvicw Drivc Council approved the sale for $393750 which includes the land cost of $14000 an acre $1000 an acre for administrative costs and $18750 for real estate agent Last week the city bought the 25 acres as well as another 50 acres of land from the Canadian General Electric CGE company for $1050000 or $14000 an acre Ald Alex Arthur finance committee chair man said the city is paying real estate agent George Worrall Realty Ltd because of council policy the area Ald Arthur said council decided to pay the fee if an agent helped attract an industry to He said the selling price of $14000 an acre is low because the land is not serviced The city was selling serviced industrial land for about $20000 an acre The remaining 50 acres of land will have higher selling price because the city will have to service it he said Council accepted the selling price of $393750 unanimously Ald Ernie Rotman was the only member absent Will back carnival if selfsus taining By JOHN WROE Examiner Staff Reporter The Greater Barrie Chamber of Commerce will back the 1977 Winter arnival providing the affair is selfsustaining and is held in thcdowntown area The Chamber board of direc tors made motion to approve an executive committee recom mendation to that effect at breakfast meeting at the Con tinental Inn this morning Don Coulson who was secretary of the Winter Car nival Committee last year said the Carnival was working with $10000 deficit Chamber president Ed Harper said that unless the Carnival could pay for itself and hopefully make profit the Chamber should not sponsor it The winter carnival commit tee will begin meeting soon and Mr Harper said that when the committee draws up budget the budget could come before the board of directors for approval But Ed Tschirhart committee chairman for this year said he would like some guidelines In reply Mr Coulson said the main problem last year was depending too much on gate receipts He said the committee followed its budget closely but had expected $22000 from the gate Instead it only got $14000 when rain washed out the se cond day of the carnvial Mr Coulson also criticized the city for its lack of support of the carnival He said the car nival does lot for the city so the city should give some sup port toit Barrie alderman Ross Archer explained that often city coun cil members were in favor of project but felt constrained by the need to keep taxes to minimum But Mr Archer agreed that relocatin the car nival to the centre the city was good idea Mr Harper sug ested closing off some streets or use in the carnival and Mr Archer said there might be some problems there However Mr Tschirhart said he was very much in favor of closing some streets When the Winter Carnival committee has rough plan and budget for the carnival it will be submitted to the Chamber for approval Citizens petition committee to probe rumor on housing We bought that as our retirement home and weve been there 17 years We dont want to be uprooted again Betty Murray of 62 Newton Street made plea to the citys finance committee for help She and other residents on the street north of Grove Street have heard rumors which are spreading like wildfire The residents bclicvc ninc governmentowned houses will be used by the Ontario Housing Corp OHC for lowrental units This she says will force her and her husband Bruce to look for another home Weve seen too much of this thing before she told the com mittcc lhc committee is in vest igat ing the rumor Four residents of the street presented petition with 49 names to the committee They want the city to in vestigate the rumors and use its influence to stop any change to lowrental units OHC officials were not available for comment this morning There are 36 homes along the blocklong street including nine homes used by the Ontario Provincial Police for em ployees Frank Minns of 68 Newton St spokesman for the residents said number of the OPP officers have either moved or are looking for other houses in the city Mr Minns has lived on Newton since the street was opened about 20 years ago Seeking two pledges on African issue DAR ES SALAAM AP JS State Secretary Henry Kis singer as followup to his alks with southern Africas vhite leaders is seeking two pledges which Rhodesian wrists itll 41 Whom shall say ls calling Prime Minister Ian Smith wan ts from black leaders senior US official in Kissingers par ty reports One is that all guerrilla ac tion in Rhodesia be suspended as soon as negotiations be in for constitution providing or the transfer of power to the black majority The second is that the secur ity and interests of Rhodesias 270000 whites be effectively safeguarded when power is transferred to the six million blacks Kissinger flew here today to see Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere after reporting Mon day to President Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia on his talks during the weekend with Smith and Prime Minister John Vor ster of South Africa He said the residents com lained when the government uilt the OPP houses because they are twostorey brick homes while the other homes are bungalow style houses One of the OPP houses is now being used by OHC for low rental accommodations and three other homes are vacant We want council on our behalf to prevent the houses from becoming lowrental units he said Weve got no objection to the houses being sold to police personnel other government ficials or other individual owners Mr Minns said some re sidents are sending letters to Arthur Evans P3Simcoe Ccntrc but they have not con tacted the local Ht office in Banic The city has about 50 OHC rentgcnrcdtoincome houses scattered throughout Barrie Last year Barrie paid between $16000 and $17000 to cover operating losses The operating losses are divided between the city pro vince and federal governments Were dealing with some thing hypothetical Ald Alex Arthur finance chairman said If we just sit and wait for something to happen it will be toolate Ald Arthur said it is logical for the government to use its homes valued at about $40000 each for OHC rentgearedto income He said the city does not have the power to stop the govern ment from using the homes for low rental because the govem ment is considered an in dividual home owner In the end no matter what our opinion is theres nothing wcdcan do to stop them he sat

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