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Hg MW su ACCIDENT TIES UP TRAFFIC FOR HALFHOUR twocar accident in front of the Georgian Mall on Bay field Street tied up traffic for about half an hour around noon Monday OPP Con stable Smith directs traffic around one of the cars drivien by Michael Glenn of North Bay Driver of the other car Christina Armstrong of New Lowell was slightly injured and taken to ospital Examiner Photo Theres going to be fight reeve tells Vespra resid By JIM DALZIEL Examiner Staff Reporter MIDHURST At the urging of Vespra township council committee of ratepayers was formed Monday night to oppose Barries bid to annex 4500 acres from the township Theres going to be fight Reeve Alan Johnston told about 200 people packed into Midhurst community hall After Council explained its opposition to annexation the meeting was turned over to Midhurst resident Norm Cunn ingham who rounded up com mittee of 11 volunteers The group which plans to cir culate petition against annex ation will hold its first meeting Thursday in the Midhurst hall The petition similar to one in Innisfil Township will be sub mitted at public hearing of the Ontario Municipal Board scheduled for Oct 23 The OMB will rule Barries application to annex 4500 acres from Vespra 13500 from innisfil and 1500 from Oro 60 PER ENT HIKE If Barrie gets all the land it wants Vespras general tax rate distinct from the total mill rate Would increase 60 per cent Reeve Johnston told the residents Later in an interview he said the mill rate could in crease 13 per cent representing about $64 added tax on property assessed at $4000 According to the $40000 an nexation report prepared for ci ty council annexation would in crease per capita residential taxes 13 per cent in Vespra 15 per cent in Innisfil and four per cent in Barrie Oro would enjoy slight reduction In 1974 Vespra offered to let the city annex 1000acres But Barrie wants to profit from the high property assess ment of the Highway 27 com mercial area Georgian Mall Towers and Kmart and the Lit tle Lake recreational area says Reeve ohnston To fight the city at the annex ation hearing Vespra has hired lawyer planners and chartered accounting firm During question period Coun Lorne Wilson said the township has no guarantee of being reimbursed in the event of annexation Reading frequently from the citys annexation report prepared by the firm of Proctor and Redfem and kept secret un til recently Coun Venner Lambert said Barrie council perhaps had lot to say LOCAL GENERAL RESUME PLAYOFF Beatrice Foods resume the bestofthree Ontario Amateur Association OASA playoff series tonight in Peterborough The series is tied at one win apiece with the winner of tonights game to advance fur ther on the OASA layoff trail Beatrice is de ending OASA Intermediate champions There is bus leaving from the Barrie Armory at 530 pm for fans wishing to go to the game STIFF TEST Barrie Flyers will give their remaining rookies and return ing veterans stiff test Friday when they meet the Dallas Black Hawks of the Central Pro League Game time is 880 pm at the Barrie Arena FOOTBALL High school football swings into another season at Eastview Secondary School Wednesday Junior and senior entries from the Barrie high school see action in the league opener Juniors face Park Street of Orillia at pm with the Seniors going against Orillia District Collegiate Vocational Institute at3pm WINS TITLE Bill McLinden of 202 Innisfil St Barrie won the club cham pionship of the Horseshoe Valley Golf Club Sunday McLinden won the champion ship with birdie on the 17th hole He defeated Murray Wiltse of Orillia The two finalists of the summerlong playoffs met in 36hole match championship with rounds of 18 holes on Saturday and Sunday Mr McLinden wins the club trophy and free membership for next season for his efforts GIRLS SOFTBALL Girls wishing to play softball next season have chance now toregister Tonight and again Wed nesday between and 730 pm has been given as the time to register Organizers are looking for girls to fill two divisions 10 to 13 years and the 14 to 17 year grouping An early registration is being called for to hel with the scheduling of bat parks for next season Girls are asked to come out prepared to play POWER SQUADRON Registration for both basic and advanced boating courses Sponsored by Barrie Power Squadron takes place tonight and Thursday fr0m 730 to pm at Eastview Secondary School ANNUAL MEETING The annual meeting of the Painswick Community and Re creation Association will be held Wednesda at 730 pm at Warnica Pubic School Re source Centre There will be an election of officers All re sidents are welcome HOUSING POLICY Barrie Planning Board is holding special meeting Sept 28 at pm to discuss the citys housing policy statement The statement was sent to the board for comment in the spring and public meeting was held in Ju The board has not made ecision on the statement RECREATION MEETING The Barrie Recreation Ad visory Committee is scheduled to meet Thursday Sept 23 at4 pm at city hall The major points of discussion are the need for third beach area and an intorduction of Lesley Gor don thera utic recreationist with the epartment who is preparing special programs for the mentally retarded BIG SISTERS The Big Sisters Association has new telephone number 7372092 Aileen Carroll All potential big sisters and all who know potential little sister are invited to call Ap plicants will be interviewed and matched by Marilyn Kornyk and Jeanne Harris The as sociation also will hold discus sion group for current and potential big sisters the last Wednesday of each month Call the new number for time and location The Sept 29 meeting will begin at8 pm ART SHOW The Sandycove Acres Palette Club will hold its third annual exhibit of paintings and sket ches Thursday from 230 to pm at the Hub Sandycove Acres Tea and coffee will be served ANGUS PLAN ANGUS Essa Twonships planning board will hold public open house Thursda to present the revised draft the secOndary land use plan for the Angus area Public comments on the plan are invited The open house will be held at Lions Hall on Highway 90 in Angus PWP CONFERENCE The annual Canadian wne conference of Parents Without Partners will be held Sept 24 to 26 at the Continental Inn at Bar rie About 400 delegates from across Canada are expected CHILDRENS AID The regular monthly meeting of the Simcoe County Childrens Aid Society board of directors will be held tonight at at the societys of fices in the County Administra tion Centre Midhurst CHRISTIAN MOVIE The film Stranger in my Forest featuring adventure with spiritual message will be shown from to pm Sept 24 at Georgian College Theatre CURLING REGISTRATION STROUD Registration of curlers for the 197677 season will take place at the Stroud curling club on Tuesday Wed nesday and Thursday from to 9pm ALAN JOHNSTON about how the report was put together CITES TASK FORCE Citing the provincially funded Simcoe Georgian Area Task Force report the city says it needs to annex land to ac commodate growth to popula tion of 125000 by the year 2011 But Reeve johnston said the task force report also called for restriction of development in the Nottawasaga River water shed where Vespra is located Our first line of defense is the Nottawasaga watershed he said Coun Lambert said the risks of development in the water shed are too great as storm ents water runoff is more of pollu tant than sewage effluent he said Responding to question Coun Wilson said it is unlikely the townships will cooperate in opposing the city Innisfil is trying to push it annexation north and were trying to push it south he said Reeve Johnston said phasing of tax changes over fiveyear period is possible if annexation goes through Norm Cunningham after taking over as chairman of the meeting said public protest is not likely to stop all annexa tion But well make the city justify everything it wants he said draft version of the petition being prepared said Vespra would suffer from higher taxes after annexation with no substantial benefits and the possibility of endangering the Nottawasaga watershed Committee members who live in the proposed annexation area are Ken Weatherhead Wayne McKeever Ken Klein Paul Warner and Howard Par tridge Those who live else where in the township are Carl Doran former reeve Jim Crawford Jack Downey Cheryl Sutton Jim Redditt John Shannon and Brenda Campbell Barrie asks too much says Tory candidate GEORGE TAYLOR Steve Mills left junior helper at the Eastview Power Skating School pro vides Steven Lavery with some enCouragement and MIDHURST Barrie is try ing to annex too mueh land ac cording to George Taylor Pro gressive Conservative party candidate in the provincial riding of Simcoe Centre In an interview Monday night after Vespra townships public meeting on annexation he said he is opposed to the size of the citys annexation bid Barrie wants to annex 20000 acres adding to the citys pre sent area of 7800 acres Mr Taylor predicted that Barrie will have quite time justifying annexation of so much land at the Ontario Mu nicipal Board hearing Oct 28 He said Simcoe Centre MPP Arthur Evans who is not seek ing reelection at one time of fered to mediate in the annexa tion dispute between Barrie and the three townships But the of fer was rejected HELPING HAND few pointers during Mon day session There are no hockey sticks at the two week course where the em phasis is on skating About COUNCIL APPRO VAL NEEDED WANTED One school crossing guard for the citys worst intersection WANTED One adult cross ing guard to work at the worst intersection in the city The ublic works committee decide Monday to recommend to council the hiring of one guard on trial basis for Mulcaster and Codrington streets There are no adult crossing guards anywhere in the city now and the committee sug gests the city use traffic depart ment funds to pay the guard The guard should be super vised by the department sug gest the committee It came down to choice Monday between an adult guard and traffic signals at the intersection to help children from St Marys Elementary School cross the two streets Another problem at the in tersection is the steep hill on Codrington Street east and west of the intersection The hill would make it dif ficult to step at the intersection if traffic signals were used Ald Val Brucker said traffic DEL COLE is flowing smoothly through the intersection and the signals would restrict the flow back Cflhr Tfiarrir Examiner The Barrie Examiner Tuesday Sept 21 19769 Publication ban ordered by judge BRAMPTON Toronto lawyer expressed surprise Monday at publicity ban im posed on the continuing bail hearing of Robert Rowbotham 25 formerly of Beeton whose charges inclued importing ton of hashish through Toronto In ternational Airport Moishe Reiter expressed surv prise after county court Judge Dunlap agreed with re quest for the ban from federal crown prosecutor Harry Coomaraswamy Mr Reiter said it was the first time in 17 years at the bar he had heard rosecutor asking for such an Rowbotham and his lawyer both said they wanted the bail hearing publicized The pro secutor said he Would be in troducing trial evidence and did not want the hearing publicized This is the second bail hear ing for Rowbotham on the same charge of importing ton of hashish The first bail hearing was held shortly after his arrest with five others in January 1974 and he was released on $15000 bail However following his preliminary hearing at the Brampton Provincial Court which was spread out over year and ended December 1973 the prosecution sought grand jury true bill on new indict ment After the true bill the old bail Major clinic for officials The Central Georgian Bay Board of Approved Basketball Officials is holding an open clinic Wednesday at St Mo nicas school The clinic begins at 730 and is open to anyone wis ing to officiate high school boys and girls basketball games as well as the mens league No previous experience is necessary Any player or coach wishing to brush up on the latest rule changes is invited to attend the clinic 100 are enrolled in the third an nual school which ends Oct Examiner Photo youngsters aged to 18 was rcscmdcd and county court judge issued warrant Jan asking that Rowbotham who was in Barrie Jail at the time be arrested and produced in court for failing to appear Mr Reiter said the warrant was executed by the RCMP on ly last month after Barrie judge granted Rowbotham bail The bail followed Row bothams committal in that city to face trial on three charges of traffickinginhashish oil His lawyer had indicated to the judge that since lhc Bramp ton importing trial begins ct the Barrie trial would not be held until next year Rowbotham was arrested in Barrie in November 1975 by the RCMP While in jail he was also linked to conspiracy in Vancouver and charged with trafficking offences in that city Mr Reiter had expressed anger at the late execution of the Brampton warrant and alleges that neither he nor Rowbotham was imformed about the bail being rescinded He said in an interview in Barrie that since the RCMP flcw Rowbotham to Vancouver for court appearance they could have easily transported him to Brampton for court ap pcarancc The boil hearing continues today Also present in court Monday was US author Norman Mailer who has been following the Rowbotham case fora book on soft drugs in which he is in volvcd Talks soon for nurses The Simcoe County District Health Board and its 3t1odd fulltime public health nurses should return to the bargaining table soon Gerry Skipwith said today Mr Skipwith business ad ministrator for the Simcoe County Health Unit said the two sides have agreed to incct and are Working out mutually agreeable late The nurses are members of Local 87 of the Ontario Nurses Association lalks here broke down March 12 after one con ciliation session with provincial officials The public health nurses are seeking wage parity with hos pital nurscs Textbooks on agenda revision of staff mileage allowance and the approval of textbooks for the 197077 school year are among the items to be discussed at this Wednesdays meeting of thc Simcoe County Board of Education lrustccs will also receive preliminary report on secon dary school enrolment and discuss the Simcoe County Health Unit prcrnzitul classes There will be confidential reports on vandalism and theft and custodial stuff rcorgauizzr tion The intcling will begin at pin it the lilducation cntrc Ferris lizinc Woman dies in collision BRAMPTON Daisy Mitt tin 76 of 17 Blake Street was killed Monday after the car she was in and truck collided at Highways and 50 the Ontario Provincial Police said today Mrs Martin was in car driven by her husband Robert Lloyd Martin 78 who suffered minor injuries Police said the collision oc cured just as the Marlin car was making left turn from Highway on to Highway 50 No charges have been laid ingtI traffic Al Brucker supported hir ing an adult traffic guard for trial period He said part of the reason for the long delay for children crossing the street is the in struction given to all safety patrollers The patrollers are told not to allow chifdren to cross the street when traffic is in sight WILL REPLACE The adult guard will replace the patrollers now working at the intersection if the commit tees recommendation is fol lowed Ald Del Cole who represents the ward said he supports hir ing an adult guard for the in tersection If were going to try it anyplace in the city Id like it there first he said realize once we try it itll be hard to takeit away The committee decided to remove the guard if the situa tion is not improved by the end of the trial period VAL BRUCKER Ald Cole said he is concerned about the time between coun cils approval and the day the adult crossing guard starts work He said the city will have to equip and train the guard and pass bylaw approving the hir ing Whether we can do all this before the Christmas holidays dont know he said Its up to council to decide not this committee as some people seem to think We just make the recommendation Last spring area parents asked the city to hire an adult crossing guard because young children had to wait about 10 minutes before traffic was clear enough to cross Two weeks ago Constable Garry Logan city police safety officer said the intersection is the worst one in the city According to the Highway Traffic Act of Ontario the city can hire anyone over 16 to con trol traffic for student crossing areas The guards have the power to stop traffic to allow children chance to cross the street $2000 from minor hockey to help with arena plans The Barrie Minor Hockey Association BMHA is taking part in the $32697 arena renovation The BMHA is giving the city $2000 certified cheque to help pay for renovations to the se cond floor of the Barrie Arena on Dunlop St Gary Stoner director of parks and recreation told the public works committee Mon day he met with represen tatives of the BMHA and the Barrie Flyers Senior hockey club Mr Stoner said the city Flyers and Wintario will pay $10899 each for the renovations to the second floor for booster club room and bar The BMHA has agreed to pay $2000 of the Flyers share The original tender for the project was $32397 which the city accepted from Bentorswell Construction Ltd But Mr Stoner said the Flyers asked for review of the architects specifications for the project He said the ar chitect agreed that ventilation equipment could be deleted This lowered the tender by $3000 he said bringing the price to $29397 Mr Stoner said the estimated architects fee for the project is $3300 increasing the total to $32697 The architect has already spent time valued at $294690 so far and theres not too much left in the estimate Mr Stoner said The Barrie Flyers club he said is willing to give Barrie letter of credit for $8000 but wants the city to include the re Expedition arrives in Barrie Thursday La Salle Expedition II is com ing to Barrie Thursday Ald Alex Arthur finance committee chairman said the plans for the expedition which is following Robert Cavelier Sicur de La Salles voyage are completed The 24 modernday voy agcurs will beach their hand crafted canoes at Centennial Beach at about pm Thursday and spend 45 minutes setting their camp Ald Arthur said the city will take the travellers by bus to Molsons Park for special barbecue dinner before the group performs pageant at pm The pageant is free to all area residents and will be followed by question and answer period The city and the Simcoe County Historical Society will make presentations to the group following the pageant maining $899 in its share The committee decided the city will not pay the extra $899 not covered by the Flyers let ter of credit WINTARIO LETTER Mr Stoner said the city has letter of commitment from Wintario for $6000 but should not have any problem with the additional $4899 needed He said the grant is paid when the project is completed and the final bills are paid second provincial grant he said under the Community Centres Act may also be ap proved by the Ontario govern ment This grant will pay 25 per cent of the total cost of the pro ject but will also affect the Win tario application The 25 per cent grant would lower the total cost to $24523 which means Wintario would $8174 Community Cen tres $8174 Barrie $6349 and the Flyers $10000 We dont know when the fun ding from the community cen tres grant would be coming he said It could be this year or next year Mr Stoner said Bentorswell extended the deadline for the city to accept its tender until Friday Both the certified ch ue and letter of credit are negaed before the city will ac cept the tender The city is also asking Ben torswell for further extension until Tuesday morning to let ci ty council make an official ap proval of the tender and changes Backyard flood upsetting action sought from council lwo Alcona Beach residents are upset with Innisfil Councils lack of action on backyard flooding William Johnston and Jack RamsayBrown of the 8th Linc have 18 inches of water in their back yards because of the blocking of natural water course The creek normally only an inch deep runs cast parallel to the 81h Line to Lake Simcoe In Mr RamsayBrowns back yard it comes down off an elevation and runs practically horimntally east through Mr Johnstons back yard The problem is in the next year Bob Scott who lives on the next lot east has been raising the level of his land and this says Mr ltamsayBrown has blocked the creek Mr Scotts WINNIE JOHNSTON of Al cona Beach is up to her knees in water in her own back ard The flooding is due to lockage of natural water Il lot is now about foot higher than Mr Johnstons and there is no culvert through his pro pcrty Mr RamsayBrown and Mr Johnston said they are unable to get Mr Scott to do anything so they went to Innisfil Council But that was two weeks ago said Mr RamsayBrown They havent done anything yet and in the meantime Im unable to use half of my proper ty And the water is so deep that small child could drown in it REFERRED CASE Innisfil Council has referred the case to the South Lake Sim coe Conservation Authority Mr Scott has little to say on the matter He says flooding is problem in the area and that everybody has it course The blockage is land fill in the lot next door in background The Johnstons have approached Innisfil Im just trying to improve my lot Its what worry about most and guess dont worry too much about my neighbors lots hope something can be done because have water on my front lawn right now But there are still 18 inches of water in Mr Johnstons back yard and he and Mr Ramsay Brown see Mr Scotts landfill as the sole cause The rain in the last week has caused pro blem now and Mr Ramsay Brown is worried about runoff next spring It will flood out our whole yard he said Already Mr Johnston has water in the crawlspace under his house and it could cause rotting Ive spent $3000 on improvements to my house and this water is doing it no good Council about the problem but say they have not got satisfaction Examiner Photo