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Barrie Examiner, 5 Oct 1976, p. 1

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EXAMINER TELEPHONES Circulation Cassied Advertising All Other Departments 2th Yea rNo 233 7266539 728 24 7766537 The Barrie Examiner OVERDRESSED FOR GOOD CAUSE Bob French of the Barrie Fire Department will be visiting schools for the next two weeks to remind children not to play with matches This is Fire Prevention Week and Mr Frenchs pro gram includes films and lec tures on preventing fire as well as emphasizing the hazards Monday afternoon eightyearold Kerry Horner helped with the demonstra tion at Codrington Street public school Examiner Photo Peace group changes plans following death warnings NEW ORLEANS AP Their itinerary changed by con cern about death threats two founders of the Womens Peace No decision on pacemaker KITCHENER Ont tCP No decision will be made until early next year on whether to implant brain pacemaker in an eightyearold Kitchener girl suffering from cerebral palsy her parents said Monday Dr Irving Cooper ofSt Bam abus Hospital in the Bronx NY said Leigh Burke is good candidate for the pace maker but needs to grow little more Born with cerebral palsy she is unable to walk or talk Ron and Loretta Burke took their daughter on Monday to see Dr Cooper who invented the pacemaker which can regu late the brain activity of per sons with certain types of brain damage Movement in Northern Ireland arrived here late Monday to ask Americans to stop financing terrorism in their homeland We have specific message for the American people Stop the flow of money going toward arms and ammunition for use in Ulster said Betty Williams 32 who planned to make the peace appeal today with Mai read Corrigan 23 The two women believe money is used to arm the Irish Republican Army and Protes tant extremist organizations that carry on hostilities in Brit ishcontrolled Northern Ireland At least 1625 persons have been killed in the fighting during the last seven years The women flew here to tape their appeal at WYES public television station The interview scheduled for national broadcast Oct 14 over the Public Broadcasting Service network was originally to have been taped in Buffalo NY But WNEDTV also public station cancelled the session CAPSULE NEWS 36 miners killed NEW DELHI Reuter At least 36 miners died in an underground explosion at Suda mdih in the northeast Indian state of Bihar on Monday Samachar news agency reported today Thai students protest BANGKOK Reuter Three were closed by authorities toda protest against the continued of Thailands main universities following growing student resence here of Field Marshal Thanom Kittikacnorn the countrys former military ruler Shelling mars lull BEIRUT AP Random shelling marred threeday lull in theLebanese civil war today and Christian militia com manders said the next move toward war or peace would be made within 48 hours Scroll fragments sought HEBRON AP Orthodox Jews combed through the rubble today 0f the synagogue at the Tomb of Abraham in the occupied West Bank searching for fragments of the holy Torah scrolls destroyed by Arab Moslem youths two days ago Police seek four men TORONTO CP RCMP and Peel Regional Police were searching for four men who sli pped away from immigration authorities earl today at Toronto Intematioal Airport police kesman sai hélh for deportation at hotel 14 members of two gypsy families were being near the airport after being picked up August for trying to enter the country illegally Detained in slayings From REUTERAP MADRiI CP Several persons have been detained by police hunting the assassins of senior adviser to King Juan Carlos his chauffeur and three of his bodygUardsy legal sources said today See story on Page there The stations general manager JMichael Collins said thewomenslives had been threatened There is large population of IrishAmericans in Buffalo with varying viewpoian on this project as well as consider able presence of Irish Republi can Army members in To ronto he said Toronto is 100 miles from Buffalo The women were met by po lice at the airport and were whisked to undisclosed quar ters for the night They refused to talk to reporters New Orleans is pre dominantly Catholic city with many residents of Irish descent but fund raising in con nection with the Ulster situation has not been widespread Mrs Williams and Miss Corrigan who are Roman Catholics have been denounced as traitors and threatened with death by the IRA Thugs once tried to burn down Mrs Williams house know might be shot by terrorists said Mrs Williams mother of two and the wife of sailor Carmakers have problem DETROIT Reuter US carmakers said Monday they would be forced out of business next year if the US Congress does not extend 1977 exhaust standards to cover 1978 models The companies said they had no choice but to defy Congress and go ahead with plans to build 1978 models according to 1977 emission standards By PETER DEPODESTA Examiner Staff Reporter Childrens safety is more important than saving money says Ward alderman Del Cole Ald Cole told the public works committee Monday the city should be looking for the best solution to the problem at Mulcaster and Codrington streets not the cheapest Ald Cole and Alderman Val Brucker are bringing minority committee report to city council next Tuesday recommending the city Barrie Ontario Canada Tuesda Oct I976 Uhr Earth Examiner WV fiww WEATHER FORECAST SHOWERS 15 Per Copy Carrier Home Delivery 85 Weekly 1690995 EVTERSECTIONPROBLEM sending children to St Marys elementary school Don Lowe Ward resident and writ ten reports from Mayor Dorian Parker and Barrie city police After the discussion the committee could hire an adult school crossing guard for the in tersection The two other committee members Aldermen Ross Archer and Nelson Garrett did not support hiring guard The committee discussed the question for about three hours hearing presentations from Mary Dunstan representing parents Mrs Dunstan told the committee are not concerned about which method is used to solve the problem as long as something is done Takes hard line against PO union OTTAWA CP Only three weeks into his new job Post masterGeneral JeanJacques Blais took hard line against the Canadian Union of Postal Workers CUPW by threat ening legal action if the union continues the wildcat strikes it started Monday Despite the warning Ottawa postal clerks and mail sorters represented by the union were of the jobs today Vancouver postal workers staged an illegal 24hour work stoppage Mon ay to back CUPWs demand for suspension of all further tech nological change until the dis gzte over current changes has en resolved Mr Blais told reporters Mon day that Vancouver post office officials have been instructed to seek injunctions that would prevent further work stoppages there Joe Davidson president of the 23000member union said Mr Blais has adopted sort of toughman attitude without really knowing all the facts He said the post office should not introduce any technological changes until both parties have negotiated an agreement on the proposed change or special adjudication board has handed down binding decision Until that condition was met the ille gal strikes would continue FLAT REJECTION But Mr Blais flatly rejected that demand Monday saying mechanization has to go in and we have guaranteed to the workers that there is not going to be any detrimental effect as result of technological change The contract signed last De cember after sevenweek strike requires minimum of 120 days notice of technological change and consultation on pro ams to eliminate adverse ef ects of change Ready to strike here on halfhour notice Barries 63 inside postal workers are ready to strike at half an hours notice Dan West wood resident of the Barrie local the Canadian Union of Postal Workers CUPW said today But no one knows yet whether strike will be necessary CUPWs national headquar ters is calling the shots on series of rotating strikes designed to rotest the stand of the Post fice and Treasury Board on automation The strikes hit Vancouver Monday and Ottawa today and only the nation office knows if they will hit Barrie Mr West wood said Monday his educated guess is that they will not He said the word if any will come from head uarters four to five hours ahea of strike ac tion but we could get the pickets out in half an hour Meanwhile he said call your local post office to check on the sitution before stopping in to mail anything Few parking tickets during slowdown TORONTO CP The chan ces of getting parking ticket from policeman in Toronto will be slight during workto rule campaign by olice Allan Evelyn vicepresi ent of Metro Toronto Police Association said Monday He said that illegallyparked cars may be impounded instead of ticketed although police ad ministrators have not yet de cided to increase towing activ ity The moratorium on parking tickets is not to encourage the public to break the law Mr Evelyn said We want to dis courage this from happening On Sunday 300 association members voted for work slowdown until Oct 14 and called for the resignations of CO Bick chairman of the Metro Police Commission and Jack Ackroyd deputy police chief Some association members are protesting an arbitration decision Thursday which re established oneman pxtrol cars and fixed pay increase at about 10 per cent Police Chief Harold Adamson said he checked with police dis patchers and said there appar ently is no slowdown He said most policemen are handling calls at normal pace Under the arbitration award Ken Swan professor at Queens University Kingston Ont increased yearly salaries for firstclass constables to $17 900 from $16260 He also said police cruisers should have two men between pmand4amcom aredwith thepresent8pm an 8am 35 mildly retarded patients sterilized TORONTO CP Thirty five persons most of them women at some of Ontarios 19 institutions for the mentally re tarded were sterilized between 1972 and the end of last June says memorandum issued within the ministry of commu nity and social services Dr Ronald Farmer general manager of the mental retarda tion facility services division of the ministry said Monday that the patients who were sterlized were mildly retarded and re turning to the community He said in an interview that patients were clearly informed and knew the consequences of the surgery done at the patients or arents request Some of procedures may have been for medical reasons such as cancer of the uterus he said James Taylor minister of community and social services was not available for comment Peter Capps executive direc tor of the mentallyretarded community programs division said the memo was written in response to an advertisment that appeared in Toronto news Papers AD CRITICAL The advertisement was res olution by the Knights of Co lumbus of Ontario condemnin such eugenic sterlization and false concepts of sexuality for the mentally retarded Mr Capps said in an inter view there is no government policy on eugenic sterilization to prevent pregnancyand the facts were gathered to show how crazy the advertisement was The suggestion by the Knights of Columbus that we Were willynilly sterlizing all retarded females is totally un founded Gloria Mansfield of the Cana dian Association for the Men tally Retarded said in an inter view that such surgical proce dures are unfair This sort of thing happens all the time she said Who can say whether mentallyre tarded person is capable of making that kind of decision on his own The memo says the tubal li gations hysterectomies and va sectomies were performed in local general hospitals with the approval of each hospitals therapeutic sterilization com mittee and attending physician not get majority to agree on one solution Ald Archer chairman said he could only support special traffic signal lights at Berczy and Mulcaster and Codrington streets Ald Nelson Garrett said he favors re educating the children to use Peel and Berczy streets to cross Codrington Street SOMETHING parents She said the parents have high regard for student safety patrols There is just too much going on at wrists fl ll If Kissinger calls tell him running low on missiles Noblewoman denies part in drug plot LONDON AP An English noblewoman pleaded not guilty Monday to charges that she participated in an alleged plot to smuggle ton of marijuana resin from Morocco into the United States Lady Rose Delbray 25 pro fessional antique restorer and daughter of the 9th Earl of Har dwicke pleaded not guilty to charge of illegally importing drugs Prosecutor Roy Amlot con tended that US citizen Her man Fine was the ringleader in the alleged plot which began with Fine and Lady Delbray purchasing 50foot yacht named the Hermit The boat was loaded with 016 pounds of cannabis resin purchased in Tangier Amlot said He said Fine and others sailed the Hermit to the United States while Lad Delbray re tumed to England Amlot said British customs alerted US narcotics officers who watched the yacht arrive off Long Island NY saw it transfer drugs to another boat and arrested four persons when the second boat reached Sto nington Conn The Hermit con tinued on to Bermuda where another four persons were ar rested the prosecutor said Batsman Winston Bennett of the Barrie Cricket Club wamis up with hit prior to Saturdays match against team from Orillia at Radio Mulcaster and Codrington for safety patrollers she said The present system wont go on working forever she said in written statement EARWKWW the intersection He said the longest time taken to cross from know the record is perfect so far but we have been very lucky and its only matter of time before child is hurt or killed Joe Duncan St Marys principal said guard wild be needed from 815 to am 1145 am to 1245 pm and 15 pm to 415 pm Mr Duncan said about 30 to 40 children have to use the intersection to get to school dont care how long they have to wait for break in traffic he said Its very seldom that see driver going through there at what call moderate speed Mr Lowe disagreed with most of the statements saying Monday morning only 23 children including the crossing guards used way east the northwest corner to the southeast comer was about 11 minutes ONLY STREET Codrington Street he said is the only street in Barrie which runs from Blake to Bayfield streets without one stop sign or traffic light This is one reason for the high volume of traffic he said Mayor Dorian Parker said the city should either build Mulcaster streets and have the children cross at Peel Street or make Codrington Street one sidewalk from Peel to The city administration said the cost of building sidewalk at about $10 foot for 200 to 250 feet is $2500 traffic lights are estimated at $15000 to $20000 and the cost of hiring guard is about $2500 year Peel and Codrington crossing is urged Children should be educated to cross at Peel and Codrington streets not at Mulcaster Street says Ray Allen city engineer Mr Allen told the public works committee Monday it is easier to educate pedestrians than it is to get drivers to change their ways Regardless of what some say weve got streets to move cars not to move predestrians he said We should try to accomodate cars and recducatc the pedestrians Mr Allen said the roads were built for traffic and the in tersection handles minimal number of pedestrians and horrendous number of cars In traffic count Sept 17 the city traffic department found 794 cars eastbound on Codrington Street turned north at Mulcaster and another 263 cars westbound turned south during the eighthour period The study also pointed out that 38 northbound cars on Mulcaster Street turned left or west onto Codrington Street and 10 southbound cars turned east or left onto Codrington Street These cars were making illegal turns The city banned left hand turns from Mulcaster Street last spring Bodies of 16 more victims found in wake of hurricane LA PAZ Mexico AP Searchers have found the bodies of 16 more victims of Hurricane Liza in building demolished by water and mud when the storm burst dam just outside the city Gov Cezar Mendoza of the state of Baja California Sur said Monday the bodies raised PM should blame self not party says Clark OTTAWA CP Prime Min ister Trudeau should blame himself not the Liberal party for its current slump in popu larity position Leader Joe Clark sai Monday As he left meeting of Pro gressive Conservative MPs Mr Clark said the prime minister had accurately gauged government un popularity when he told Toronto audience last weekend that Liberals have to start worrying about their survival as national political party But the Conservative leader added that number of Liber als may be surprised to find that they and not their leader LOCAL CRICKETERS Shack field Behind him is wicketkeeper Roland Hink son The local cricketers were in top form for the con test beating Orillia 6968 are the cause of that unpopular ity think that number of rank and file members of the party think that their current standing in the polls and public opinion which think the prime minister accurately gauged is due less to the Liberal party than it is to the current lead ership Mr Clark was commenting on speech made by Mr Trudeau on Saturday during which the prime minister said Liberals must put more empha sis on defending policies such as bilingualism or face the prospect of being the party in power at the collapse of Con federation gta is with eight wickets in hand Carlton Deroy Errol Peter and Oliver Martin played ex ceptionally well for the EV TOP FORM the hurricanes official death toll t0423 However death toll figures continued to differ widely among various officials Mexi can President Luis Echeverria put the number of deaths at 435 on Sunday La Paz chief of police Ramon Elizondo said 353 persons had died while source involved with military search oper ation said the hurricane killed at least 1050 Most of the deaths occurred when shanty town housing an estimated 15000 people on the outskirts of La Paz was de stroyed by water and mud when 30foot earthen darn nearby broke in the storm last Friday By Monday evening elec tricity was restored to about one third of La Paz city of 85000 located near the southern tip of the Lower California pen insula 700 miles south of San Diego Calif An electricity company official said full ser vice would be restored by Friday Hundreds of people were being vaccinated against teta nus and typhoid each day locals It was the last home game of the season for the Barrie Cricket Club Ex aminer Photo

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