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wednesday is for women Coming to Barrie Roy McMurtry Ontario attorney general will be guest speaker March 15 at the eighth annual meeting and awards night of the Barrie and District Big Brothers Associa tion Dinner will be served at 730 pm in the Willow Room of the Continental Inn Barrie For more information contact the associa tioflgt 7280515 Trend an increase An increased number of single women are bearingchildren In 1974 Statistics Canada reported 9653 live births to single women aged 15 to 19 in Canada In 1975 that number had risen to 12497 and in 1976 it had risen again to 12869 1977 and 1978 figures are also ex pected to follow this trend Experts say the trend can be crushed however with improved education of young people better promotion of birth control and with increased numbers of birth control information centres and clinics For more on teenage pregnancies and Simcoe County Distric Health Units Birth Control Centre in Barrie see todays Lifestyle Page Discuss two topics Dr Roger Green of Barrie will speak about direct billing by doctors and members of the Simcoe Rescue Squad will discuss rescue squads in general at meeting of the Barrie branch of the Con sumers Association of Canada Thursday The meeting begins at 730 pm in the Blue Flame Room of the Consumers Gas Co building on Ferris Lane Barrie Anyone interested may attend Building their own OTTAWA CP Fed up with the lack of proper housing for the physically han dicap Raymond Lavigne and three frien decided to build their own And lowrent housing project under construction is expected to be ready by early spring says Lavigne Accessible housing is very hard to find for handicapped people We only have 10 buildings under construction and we already have about 25 applicants Lavigne 38 has been confined to wheelchair for 12 years because of muscular dystrophy Although he now lives in another co operative housing project where five of the 76 units are specially designed for the handicapped Lavigne says there are too many such people living in high rises In case of fire the firemans ladder only goes up to the sixth floor and anyone in whgelchair who lives higher than that has ha it deadfine Guess nobo dys perfect As the deadline for licence renewal creeps closer and the queues lengthen there ls consolation In knowing even the Barrie Motor Licence Office isnt perfect The sign outside the office proclaims License instead of Licence the correct spelling No one is sure why the sign is wrong but then no one is sure why everyone left it to the last week either See story Page Ex aminer Photo lgguest date set An inquest has been called into the New Years Day fire that claimed the lives of three children Dr Hicks county coroner said to day the inquest into the Big Bay Point fire will be held in Courtroom in Barrie cour thouse March 15 The fire destroyed the interior of cot tage owned by Joseph Horvath and killed Joseph Allan Horvath 11 of Toronto Kimberley Gail Hercia 10 and her sister Holley Elyse Hercia both of Houston Tex Catherine Horvath 13 the only other per son in the cottage at the time of the fire escaped unharmed Parents of the children were in nearby cottage when fire broke out said lnnisfil police Cattle deaths probed TORONTO CPI chemical company has suspended sales of lousecontrol for mula suspected of killing eight head of cat tie and paralysing 20 more while autopsies and an investigation are conducted Gloria charged Gloria Spann President Carters sister demonstrates her har monica playing technique at her home in Americus 60 Tuesday night She was arrested Saturday night charged with disorderly con duct after she refused to stop play ing the harmonica when asked to by waitress at an allnight restaurant AP Photo Zoecon Industries Ltd manufacturers of Starbar Prolate responded to warning to farmers from an Ontario government veterinarian who performed the autopsies The company also offered refund to pur Chasers of the chemical Billy Carter ailing AMERICUS Ga tAli Despite President Carters statement that his younger brother Billy is seriously ill at this point Billy Carters doctor says hes not really in bad shape Dr Paul Broun who visited Billy Tartcr Tuesday at AmericusSumter County Hospital where he is being treated for bronchitis said the presidents description of his brothers health was typical of family members concern when problem will not Clear up right away Couple to get $20000 TORONTO CPI An elderly couple who sued the Ontario Provincial Police for not responding quickly to call for help will receive $20000 in an outofcourt settle ment police said Tuesday Kenneth Willman 68 and his wife Mary 63 of Keswick 0nt had initiated suit for $750000 against the OPP for negligence after they were found unconscious at their cottage near Parry Sound Ont four years ago OPP Commissioner Graham anv nounced the amount of settlement Tuesday with statement that Constable Johannes Taylor acted responsibly under the cir cumstances The incident occurred when the couples daughter Julia Jamieson of Waterloo Ont telephoned to ask for search of the cottage because her mother had missed dentist appointment An OPP constable went the next morning to find the couple unconscious from propane gas fumes that leaked from defective refrigerator weather Cloudiness will prevail in this area over the next two days Sunny with increasing cloudiness late today Highs to Cloudy overnight Laws to Some snow Thursday with strong easterly winds Highs to Your day isnt co plete without The Examiner Call 7266539 for home delivery 115th the examiner serving barrie and simcoe county No 50 Wadnaaday February 28 1979 5° Par Copy Available soon across Canada Homebuying made easier under new mor TORONTO CP Thousands of Canadians who previously could not afford to buy homes now will be able to under new mortgage plan an nounced Tuesday spokesman for one of the plans sponsors says Richard Griffith vicepresident of Victoria Wood Development Corp Inc estimated the program will enable about 200000 persons to buy homes Mortgage payments during the first year would be reduced by 17 to 25 per cent under the program spon sored by Toronto Dominion Bank the Mortgage Insurance Co of Canada and Victoria Wood The mortgage will cost however about seven per cent more than conventional mortgage over the life of the loan Griffith said savings resulting from earlier home ownership during time of high inflation would more than pay the extra cost William Clarkson Toronto Dominions assistant general manager of mortgages said the flexible loan insurance program also will allow those who own homes to buy more expensive ones The program now is available on to customers of Victoria Wood but the company says that within four months the program will be available across Canada from number of builders real estate brokers and lenders Down payments of 10 per cent are required on the loans About half that amount would be put into an interestbearing savings account to help pay for five years of reduced mortgage payments Viet troops penetrate across Chinese border BANGKOK Thailand AP Peking said small Vietnamese units penetrated 10 to 15 kilometres into China at three points but said all were repulsed Both armies in the Viet nam border war were reported regrouping in the Lang Song area and major battle was still expected there Chinas Hsinhua news agency said the Vietnamese shelled commune northeast of Lang Son and 15 kilometres inside Thina on Friday then sent about 60 soldiers across the border Saturday but border guards drove them back Hsinhua said the Vietnamese returned Sunday morning and burned down two villages then fled after 69 Vietnamese were killed and one was taken prisoner The third incursion was reported on the central portion of the frontier where Ilsinhua said company of Vietnamese attacked Menton in Malipo ounty about 10 kilometres from the border btit left 30 dead or wounded behind BATTLE FOR TOWN Intelligence sources in Bangkok said thc Chinese and Vietnamese forces wcrc regrouping around Lang Son 120 kilomctrcs northeast of Hanoi and 15 kilometres from thc Chinese border The sources said civilians were being evacuated but they could not confirm some reports the town on ccnturics old invasion route into Vietnam has already fallen to the Chinese The sources said they cxpcctcd major battle in the next few days Ihc battle has been predicted since last work and much fighting has been reported in thc hills around Dong Dang ll kilomctrcs northwcst of Lang Son at the cntrancc to thc Munan Iass lisinhua said that himsc troops scixcd lht border town of Ihuc tion about 100 kilometres north of Lang Son Three wouldbe hiiackers held in jet firebombing STOCKHOLM tAPt Three members of the Indian religious sect Ananda Marga were under arrest today after setting off firebomb and threatening to blow up the Soth airliner they were on as it flew from Oslo Norway to Stockholm en route to Moscow police said fourth member was released No charges have been laid because authorities have not decided whether it was hijacking attempt Back from Guyana Stephen Jones 19yearold son of the late Peoples Temple cult leader Jim Jones carries dufer bag Tues day after arriving at New Yorks Kennedy Airport from Guyana The youth declined to answer news mens questions and was met by Federal Bureau of investigation agents who escorted him to separate room for questions before releasing him He left the airport with writer who is doing book about the Jonestown colony of the Peoples Temple AP Photo or political protcst Ilowcvcr policc said the group apparently wanted to draw at tention to oppression in thc Soviet lnion Those arrested wcrc chdish man Brazilian woman and West icrman woman An Indian man was rclcasod be cause police did not havc enough cvidcncc against him Saudi Arabian troops alerted JIIDA AP Saudi Arabia put its armed forces on the alert today cancclling all inili tary leave and ordering all officch and itll to their barracks immcdiatcly bccausc of prevailing circumstances The announcement broadcast by Riyadh Radio did not elaboratc But obscrycrs believe it was thc result of bordcr war in the southwest corner of the Arabian Icninsula between proSaudi Northern chcn and Marxist South chcn which has large number of East Bloc advisers in the Adcii area by the entrance to the Red Sea hoists amp had known Khomeini was going to et in would never have ad the facelift inside today ltfaatyla armrtalnmant upon DanicaN guide 20 olaealflad 21 23 uppiamanta eraola Mart page Loblawa pagan Domlnlon pages Food Clty page AdaIr Volume pagan Carrier Home Dallvary 90° Weakly igage plan Anticipation Natalie Schonlnard diligently works as the pancake chef while Albert Engel right waits for his pancakes Kindergarten students at Monsignor Clair School in Barrie each had chance at flipping pancakes on Shrove Tuesday if they werent happy with the pancakes they ate it was their own fault because they cooked them said Patricia Taurasi parent helping teachers Examiner Photo Amin regime near collapse say reports from Nairobi NAIROBI Kcnya tAll Rumors swcpt Nairobi today that Ugandan Ircsidcnt Idi Amins goycrnnicnt was near collapse and diplomatic sources icportcd that Tanzanian forces had haltcd thcir advance into Uganda tIIarliclslory Iagcfl The Tanzania ns appear to have stoppcd of their own accord said onc Western diplor mat Nobody sccnis to haivc stopped tlltllt lhcrc doesnt sccm to be much 1ch in thc way of organich Ugandan resistance Firebombers hit BC bank VANCOUVER It Firebombch hit another downtown bank early this morning bringing to 15 the number of Molotov cocktail throwing incidents in the last 10 weeks Police said branch of the Canadian lin perial Bank of Commerce was attacked at about 320 am There was fair amount of damagc spokcsman said but no onc was hurt The recent bombings have been dircctcd mainly at banks anti government officcs Officials arc pcrplcxcd by thc attacks but belicvc thc bombings may be linked to someonc who bears grudge against fi nancial institutions and thc govcrnmcnt downtown iiianpowcr office has bccn bombed twicc Rumors that Ainins governmcnt had fallen and that hc and his tamin had fled the country for libyi or Zaire could not be coiiliiincd lhc official lgaiida Radio moiiitoicd in Nairobi ieporlcd no new dcvclopmcnts iii the war which began tour months ago when Uganda scicd part of northwcstciii lan mum Iaiilaniaii troops aided by antiAmin Ugandan gucriillas and cxilcs as oil as reported dcfcctors from thc Igiindan army hayc kept Amin on tho dcfcnsivc in rcccnt wccks Diplomats lIl Kampala thc tgnndan capital said by tclcphoiic that thcy had rcports thc lzinmnians wcrc dctinitcly ycry closc to thc southcin towns of Masaka and Mbaiara but that both thc key citics rc maincd undcr Amins control lhc diplomats who dcclincd to bc identificd quoted triivcllcrs from southern lganda Masaka is 80 kilomctrcs north of the Tanzanian border and 133 kilomctrcs south of Kampala Amin said lucsday soldicrs loyal to him had rctakcn thc town after it was held for iiiarty three days by the cnciny Diplomats and rcsidcnts in Kampala dcnicd rumors that an cxodus of foicigncrs had begun Ihcrc arc an cstiniatcd 3000 white foreigners in Uganda including more than 000 Italians 400 lrcnch 300 Britons 130 Aincricans and 120 West ticrmans Most of lllt forcigncrs arc missionarics tcchnicail exports on goycinnicnt contracts diplomats nicdiciil personnel or businessmcn