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June Menzies vicechairman of the Antislnflation Board addressed 300 members of the Simcoe County Federa ABOIJT PRICES tion of Agriculture Thursday night at the federations an nual meeting in Elmvale Mrs Menzies told the au dience the AIB will now be monitoring food prices set by some marketing boards Examiner Photo AIB marketing boards must convince public ELMVALE Food market ing boards with substantial pricesetting powers should ex ercise these powers within the Antilnflation Board AIB guidelines June Menzies AIB vicechairman said Thursday Speaking to 300 members of the Simcoe County Federation of Agriculture Mrs Menzies said while farmgate prices do not come under the A18 guidelines the AIB and the marketing boards must con lvince the public prices comply with the program cannot overemphasize how important believe the visibili ty of compliance by marketing boards to be she said Mrs Menzies said the AIB has been meeting with rep resentatives of marketing groups to establish framework to ensure corn pliaance with the program The A18 would interpret the guidelines monitor prices and inform the marketing board if price exceeds the guidelines However it would be up to the marketing board to decide what action would be taken This think is important Mrs Menzies said Consumers will see such supervisory agen cies operating in their interests as well as in the farmers in terests She said many marketing boards have said their pricing decisions since October 1975 when the regulations came into effect have been within the spirit of the program This may very well be the case and judging by the action of prices within the Consumer Price Index this probably is the case she said Nevertheless it is im possible for the consumer to know whether this is actually the case without specifically defined framework by which compliance can be measured and measured consistently across Canada she said Mrs Menzies said the objec tivity of some marketing boards has been questioned and farmers have not done well in explaining to the non farm community the role of marketing boards that manage supply and influence prices She said governments and academics have failed to ex plain to producers and con sumers how marketing boards can achieve price stabilization without adversely affecting the position of products in interna tional trade Consumers thrashing about in the dark because of these failures in policy communica tion have been too sweeping in their condemnation she said adding We need time to sort out the good from the bad In response to question she told the audience compliance with the program means an Ill dividual or company can in crease prices if costs increase but is not permitted to earn ex cess revenue or profit She said the AIB is an economic scheme not social program designed to redis tribute incomes The board does not tell company how much profit it should earn but controls the amount of in crease she said Board does have control over some food prices ELMVALE The AntiIn flation Board has control over 58 per cent of the food factor which brought the Consumer Price Index CPI down to 65 per cent from 106 per cent says June Menzies AIB vice chairman Speaking at the annual meeting of the Simcoe County Federation of Agriculture Mrs Menzies observed that critics say the drop in the CPI is due to food prices over which the AIB has no control Food at the farm gate is not controlled she said but it along with imports amount to 42 per cent of the food factor The remaining percentage represents processing packag ing retailing and transporta tion which are controled by the guidelines she said The prices of agricultural products are determined by supply and demand she said and impossible to control without running high risk of severely distorting the supply picture While few of the 105 marketing boards across Canada have pricesetting powers Mrs Menzies said the public believes firmly if wrongly that they are at the mercy of monopolistic sup pliers making decisions in their own shortrun interests Mrs Menzies said expansion of the guidelines to include some boards will show the public the boards are comply ing She said the board regrets taking so long to establish the monitoring system Board guides apply to five marketing agencies egg turkey and industrial milk boards at the federal level and broiler chicken and fluid milk boards under provincial ju risdiction Dairy products poultry and eggs constitute 23 per cent of the food component of the CPI In the 12 months ended in September the index rose three per cent for dairy products and one per cent for eggs but fell six per cent for poultry Prices during the year before controls were introduced rose 27 per cent for dairy products 10 per cent for eggs and 15 per cent for poultry DAVE GRAHAM ANl LLOYD SIMPSON ERECT SIGN WARNING MOTORISTS Bayfield400 signal lights to be operating Wednesday Traffic lights at the intersec tion of Bayfield Street and the Highway 400 ram will begin operating Wendes ay new arrangement of the in tersection will mean the closure of the ramp on the east side of Bayfield leading from Highway 400 north to Highways 26 and 27 north Traffic heading for those hi hways from 400 north will taie the first downdown Bayfield Street ramp sign was erected Thursday on the ramp to be closed warn ing motorists of the change Ac cording to the ministry of transportation and communica tions the ramp will be closed sometiime Wednesday after noon about the same time as thelights start operating There will be two sets of lights one on either side of the bridge over Highway 400 While they will not be synchronized in the sense that they will allow constant flow of traffic there will be links between them Ac cording to the ministry they are designed with advance turn signals and arrows The idea is to provide simple and safe access between Highway 400 and Bayfield Street Because of the amount of traffic on Bayfield now the intersection often becomes traf fic clogge4 Barrie lost an argument within an hour of the start of the Ontario Municipal Board 0MB hearing Thursday The city lost decision to In nisfil lawyer John Sopinka Mr Sopinka argued against Barries request to present let ters from Darcy McKeough Ontario Treasurer to the OMB chairman John Palmer He questioned the citys right to submit the letters as evidence without sup rt from expert witnesses rom the treasury department James McCallum QC the citys lawyer for the hearing said he wanted the letters which are in the boards files included with his opening statements Mr McCallum said he does not intend to call witnesses because the letters are provin cial statements When he continued pleading to read the letters Alex Arrell hearing chairman said no Mr Arrell told Mr Sopinka to subpoena someone from the treasury department to tell the board the content of the letters Mr McKeough who wrote the letters can not be sub poenaed as he is provincial cabinet minister Mr McCallum won second decision later in the day when Mr Sopinka questioned whe ther the Toronto Centre Region report was indeed printed by the Ontario government Where does it say that he asked Mr McCallum Just as Mr McCallum was about to answer Mr Arrell told the lawyers not to get bogged down in mundane gruments NAMES GIVEN The morning session of the hearing was taken up by the various lawyers attending the session giving the names loca tion and stand of their clients In the afternoon the city started giving its evidence calling Michael Bacon town planner with the Prector and Redfern Group consulting engineers and planners Proctor and Redfern pre pared the citys $40000 annexa tion study which is the basis for the Barrie annexation ap plication The city wants to annex about 20200 acres from three townships around the city The city wants 4600 acres from Vespra 2100 from Oro and 13500 from lnnisfil Mr Bacon referred to number of documents during his discussion including the Simcoe Georgian Area Task Force SGATF final report the SGATF second interim report the Toronto Centre Region plan and the annexa tion study He stated some of the reasons for selecting the areas included Who owns what land where and ownersstand on issue South Simcoe Estates owns 4000 of the 13500 acres of land Barrie wants in lnnisfil Township Lawyers were asked Thurs day at the opening day of the OMB hearing who they represented how much land their clients own and their clients stand on annexation The west boundary of South Simcoe Estates holdings is Highway 400 The land runs east almost to Stroud and lies between Concessions and 12 Jim McCarthy represen ting South Simcoe Estates told the OMB his client supports an nexation About 800 acres in lnnisfil is owned by Abbey Glenn in two different parts of the township In the north on the east side of the CN railway tracks Ab bey Glenn owns parts of lots 12 and 13 on Concession parts of lots 13 and 14 on Concession 13 and parts of lots 13 and 14 on Concession 12 In the west Abbey Glenn owns parts of lots 12 13 and 14 on Concession 12 and parts of lots 12 13 and 14 and 15 on Con cession 11 Abbey Glenn supports annex ation lawyer Robert Macauley told the hearing PARAMOlNT DEVELOPMENIS In the northeast corner of In nisfil 800 acres is owned by Paramount Developments Corfi company supports an nexation lawyer Allan Blott said The land includes parts of lot 16 on Concwsion 13 parts of lots 16 17 and 18 on Concession 12 and parts of lots 16 and 17 on Concession 11 Fortyfive acres is owned in the area of lnnisfil wanted by Barrie by Taurus Develop ments Sugg lawyer for the firm said The land is part of the north half of lot on Concessiun12 Taurus wants the annexation boundary moved to the west so all its land can be included Mr Sugg told the hearing Star Bush Holdings Ltd owner of 33 acres west and south of Stroud supports an nexation lawyers Allan Leibel and Goodman told the hearing The company wants the an nexation proposal adjusted to include all the land it owns in lnnisfil Rice Construction is opposed to annexation of the 500 acres it owns northwest and southwest of Stroud Mr Goodman the companys lawyer said COVENTRY GROUP LTD Allan Leibel told the hearing his client Coventry Group Ltd is opposed to annexation for 256 acres it owns north of Stroud The firm thou wants the annexation boun ary extended westward in Vespra to include 100 acres the firm owns in that township North Barrie Developments is opposed to annexation of 120 acres the company owns north of the Barrie city limits at the intersection of Highway 26 and CITY NE WS The Barrie Examiner Friday Oct 29 19763 35 witnesses expected at pallet fraud trial The County Court trial of Harold Scheel began Thursday before Judge Couture Scheel is charged with 13 counts of fraud Crown attorney Doug Ilunt told thejury that he intended to show that Scheel who ran pallet company took money from potential purchasers with no intention of providing the supplies they ordered Mr Hunt said Scheel was in volved in Metro Pallet Repair company which made and repaired pallets The pallets used to stack things to prevent them from contacting the ground were bought mostly by farmers Mr Hunt said the business started in Mississauga but in the winter of 197273 moved to Alliston He said that by the fall of 1973 Scheels company was in bad financial condition and was working with $35000 bank overdraft He said that at that point Scheel began taking orders and accepting partial payment for pallet boxes rectangular wooden structures farmers used to store vegetables in fields during the harvest He said that some of those placing orders had actually gotttcn all they ordered some had only gotten some and others had received none Mr Ilunt said he intends to prove from testimony of Schecls workers that Scheel never intended to provide the pallet boxes and therefore ac cepted the farmers money dc ceitfully Mr Ilunt from Toronto is handling the case instead of Barrie Crown attorney because he was involved at the beginn ing Scheel is represented by Harrie lawyer Paul llermiston There is no estimate on the length of the trial There will be about £5 witnesses says Mr Hunt Seven get licences Seven plications for liquor licences area businesses have been approved Simoro Golf Links in Oro Township Simcoeside Golf Course in Hawkestone Cortina Restaurant in Barrie Black Soil Restaurant in Bradford Grand Park Motel in Wasaga Beach and Maple Valley Club in Tiny Township all appeared before the Liquor Licence Board of Ontario Oct Mothers Pizza and Spaghetti House which is opening in Bar rie in December did not attend the hearing because of mis directed mail but its applica tion was approved because there were no objectors Mothers representatives ap peared before the board in Toronto Laurel Woods licence officer for the board says the licences have not yet been issued because all the firms applying had to make renovations or were in the process of contruc ting their buildings She said that as soon as the premises pass inspection the licences will be issued Queens Park today Queens Park today will be the topic when Ontario Premier William Davis addresses the Greater Barrie Chamber of Commerce Nov at luncheon meeting The noon session will be held in the roof garden of the Con tiental Inn The premier will also address history students from Barries high schools during his visit to the city He will meet with the students at Eastview Secon dary School at 10 am Later in the day he will travel to Tiny Township to open the new Huronia Hospital Small claims move Barrie Small Claims Court will also be housed in the new courthouse at the corner of Worsley and Berczy Streets Small Claims Court is now at 29 Owen Street and will be moving into the new building in late November The $64 million building is scheduled to open Nov 22 but clerk Myrill Dean doesnt expect his court to move in until one week later He said the court will be site ting during that week so would have difficulty moving 27 owner Carmen DiPaolo said Kempenfelt Developments Ltd wants the annexation boundary extended to include the land it owns in Vespra lawyer Sugg told the OMB The firm owns 54 acres in Vespra at Barrie Airport on Sunnidale Road Four companies are in positive opposition to annexa tion in Vespra lawyer Peter Howden said because the land the companies own is not included in Barries annexation proposal The firm Mr Howden rep resents are Emory Miller owner of 97 acres in the west half of lot 22 on Concession 513 John McManus appears to be taking his game of table ten nis rather casually sipping coffee However he and his partner Greig Dymond have Bela Siferall 220 acres in lot 22 on Concession Morris Miller 58 acres on the east half of lot 24 on Concession and No 30556 Ontario Ltd 125 acres in the east half of lot 23 and part of the east half of lot 24 on Concession ANNEXATION SUPPORTED Two landowners in Oro Township support annexation Roger Oatley representing Stollan Construction and Saltham Construction said the two firms support the annexa tion bid The companies own 314 acres in Oro About 100 acres IS owned on the north half of lot the rest is parts of lots and on Concession east of the Pe nctanguishene Road reason for not putting their accustomed spunk into the ame As fundraising ef ort for the Barrie and District United Appeal the in the study In lnnisfil he said there are two major watersheds formed by Lovers Creek and Hewitts Creek which drain to Kem penfelt Bay These he said could be ser viced with one new sewage treatment plant in the Painswick area Some of the land he said is environmental ly sensitive Mr Bacon who was been planner since 1954 said the ma jor roadblock to development in the annexation area is the Not tawasaga River Watershed area The watershed drains away from Kempenfelt Bay north to Georgian Bay he said creating expensive servicing problems He told the board that the city does have good water supply from wells and should not have to depend on water from Kem penfelt Bay for some time Also he said there is good supply of gravel in the area Oro Township and part of Vespra he said does drain into the Nottawasaga but Will not need expensive servicing tech niques Mr Bacon said shallow creek bed runs through the Oro area which can be used for ser vicing to take the storm waters to Kempenfelt Bay The hearing ended at pm Thursday and resumed this morning at 10 Enough lawyers present to start good argument There are enough lawyers at the annexation hearing to start good argument Barrie lnnisfil Vespra Oro and Simcoe County are rep resented at the hearing by lawyers as are several developers James McCallum QC leads the Barrie legal team of John Chipman and Rowe citysolicitor Representing lnnisfil are John Sopinka QC and Bill Bogart David White and Colin Camp bell are representing Oro Township Vespra is repre sented by Boraks SimcoeCounty is represented by Robert Lawrie For the developers Jim Onyschuck and PIN GPONGIN THEIR WAY TO RECORD two Eastview students plan to ping pong for just over 80 hours breaking the world record This photo was taken after about six hours of play Carthy QC is representing South Simcoe Estates Robert Macaulay QC and Robert Borrna are rep resenting Abbey Glenn Allan Bott is representing Paramount Allan Leibel representing Caventry Group Ltd and Goodman Rice Construction are acting for Star Bush Holdings Sugg is representing Kempenfelt Holdings Ltd and Taurus Developments Roger Oatley Stollar Construction and Jim Baxter North Barrie Developments Oro ratepayers are also represented at the hearing by Dennis Wood Chairman for the OMB hear ing is Alex Arrell Hearing arguments with Mr Arrell is Colin Charron ing The record attem is being made in the main oyer of Eastview and began at am Thursday Examiner Photo Didnt mean to discredit others with remarks about Parker Perri Ald Jim Perri said Wednesday night comments he made about Mayor Dorian Parker were not meant to discredit other candidates in the mayorialty race Ald Perri said Monday in announcing he was dropping out of the mayoralty race that he will support the reelcction of Mayor Parker Mayor Parker is the only one running who is at least honest with the public Ald Perri said in an interview with The Examiner announcing he would not run Willard Kinzie former Bar ric mayor and Ald Ross Ar cher both running for the mayors job took exception to Ald Perris remarks Tuesday Ald Perri said he made the remark in trying to answer the question of why he was sup porting Mayor Parker The question he said did not ask why he was not supporting the other two candiates It was in no way my inten tion to cast shadow on either Ald Archer or Mr Kinzie he said It is unfortunate that my comments about the mayor may have been taken by me to imply that the other an didates are dishonest That was not my intention OBSERVED MAYOR Ald Perri said he based his comments about Mayor Parker on the years he has observed her attitudes and behavior at city council was referring to her characteristics and not to anyone elses he said really regret it if anyone took it to mean anything close LOCAL AND GENERAL SUPPORT MOTION The Simcoe County Board of Education has supported nio tion condemning Ontario Hydros proposed rate in creases Thc motion is being circulated by the Elgin County Roman Catholic Separate School Board In introducing motion of support trustee Frank Prothero said feel it should be supported but dont think it will do any good NO CONCESSION Up With People an interna tional youth group that will be appearing Barrie and Midland in November will not receive more favorable rental rates from the Simcoe County Board of Education Representatives of the group appeared before the board Wednesday night asking they be moved into category two of the boards rental fee schedule They are classified as category three an outside group required to pay double the flat rate plus cusstodial costs They argued they are non profit group donating 20 per cent of their prceeds to United Appeal While the board was sym pathetic to the group it decided during private session that it could not reverse its policy in one case without leading to an onslaught on deputations from other groups seeking better rates The group will be required to pay $540 for Barrie Central Col legiatc and $335 fo Midland secondary school as well as custodial costs KING EDWARD The caption of photograph of group dressed in Ilalloween costumes in Thursdays Ex aminer referred to Halloween Paradc at King George School It should have been King Ed ward School TWO CALLS The Barrie Fire Department had two calls to answer Thursday night Both were to put out burning garbage one at Steel Street public school and the other at 42 Maple St RMIIA IAG DAYS Barrie Minor Hockey As sociation annual tag days are being held tonight and Satur day This year the motto is keep boy out of trouble by putting him on ice Players on eight teams from minor hockey will be wearing BMHA jackets and will be seeking donations ON TRACKS Theodore Keneluk of Toronto was charged with impaired driving after cartrain acci dent on the Ridge Road in Oro Township this morning Ac cording to provincial police CN freight train struck car abandoned on the tracks about 159 am Damage was es timated at $1500 CUTS BRUISES MIDLAND David Prout 23 of Waubaushene and Cathy Hudson 20 of Midland were treated for cuts and bruises after single car accident on Highway 12 west of Victoria Harbour Thursday evening The car sustained $2500 da mage HYDRO POLE COLLINGWOOD Mer ghani Merghani of Collingwood was charged with careless driv ing after his car struck hydro pole on Hume Street about 525 pm Thursday The car had $1200 damage and the hydro pole $2000 There were no in juries did not mean to imply anything else by the com ments Ald Perris withdrawal from the mayoralty race was raised at the meeting of the Simcoe Count Board of Education Wednesday night Jack Ramsay director of education for the board said no pressure was laced on Ald Perri to with raw from the mayoralty race Broadcast reports suggesting Ald Perri had withdrawn because of pressure from the board were untrue Mr Ram say said replying to question from trustee Audrie Trotter Ald Perri teaches history at Eastview Secondary School He has received no pressure from within his school or from any member of this administra tion Mr Perri said Mr Ransay said he had not talked with Ald Perri about running for mayor since Ald Perri announced he was runn ingin March Found guilty of beating Ron Bielec and Keith Goerke were found guilty of assault causing bodily harm in County court Thursday The two were charged with the Dec beating of Stan Dubowik 57 of Orillia Dubowik was enticed into car then beaten and left on the roadside near Brechin The jury made its decision after hearing both men say the other had done the beating The jury also heard Darlene Bylow who was with the two men at the time testify that Bielec had beat up Dubowik and Goerke had tried to stop him They will be sentenced Wednesday at 930 am Is