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Occupants of car surrender to Kurdish guerrillas after long chase near Sananda iran Thursday The car had passed In front of the revolutionary committee spraying it with bullets shahs portrait and ammunitions were found inside the car AP Photo Coldwater townships plan annexation talks By LORI UHEN Of The Examiner LDWATER Municipal officials from this village along with representatives from Tay and Medonte townships will go to the in tario Municipal Board March 26 to reopen hearings into oldwaters application to annex lands front the two townships oldwater wants to annex 000 acres from the townships 230 acre from Tay and the best from Medonte All three parties prescnlul arguments for and against the application at MB hearings last October but no settlement was reached further attempt at settlement was made at meeting between the municipalities January 17 with no results Julian Tofts oldwaters muncipal clerk said the village wants to annex land mainly for industrial and commercial development Most of the land in the village is being its ed he said He said the townships do not believe oldr water needs all the land its asking for Medonte made an offer of 36 acres which oldwaer refused Iay has not ntade an offer Tofts said shortly after the hearings closed toldwater Reeve Earl Brandon indicated he would reduce his claim in order to get negotiations moving He said he would ask for 500 usable acres front Medonte and 100 from Tay Isable acres involves all land not iii flood plaiii or already in use by roads rivers railroads or any other natural or man made obstacle Itie usable acreage originally demanded was much greater Tofts said despite the reeves remarks the village is still proceeding with its original claim Rene wins hearts dollars while promoting his book TORONTO iCPJ Quebec Premier Rene Levesque won the hearts and dollars of hun dreds of persons Thursday as he promoted his book and his cause Levesque said he was overwhelmed by the enthusiastic crowd of several hundred per Zoo worker loses fingers ROFKTON Ont iPi An animal care worker who had two fingers amputated after chimpanzees at the African Lion Safari mangled her hand Saturday says she has no qualms about going bacho her job Its like falling off horse said Sara Fraser 21 of Cambridge int You have to get right back on Zoological manager James Dailley said Miss Fraser wtio took three year course in animal care technology betore joining thi game farm about nine months ago was feeding the chimpanzees when she was in jured Daillcy said the chimpanzees food is plac ed on tray which slides iiito the bottom of the cage The workers are advised to wear gloves and apparently Miss Fraser as not he said Rockton is lit kilometres southeast of tani bridge ffiday is for business Workers change union Drillia nt PI The citys 23 public works employees have joined the Interna tional Brotherhood of Electrical Workers following the decertification Wednesday of their former bargaining utiit in the ana dian him of Public Enlpltttt Larry tox business manager for Local we at the electrical workers union said certification of the new bargaining unit which will be part of Local 636 probably will take two or three weeks ox said he had no details about the decertification application $16M orders received TURttNTU iPi Masseyferguson Ltd announced it has received orders valued at Slit million if for the supply of farm tractors and harvesting machinery from Mitsubishi orp of Japan The coiii pany also has recently secured orders valued at Slit million for the supply of tractors to Sri Lanka New option offered TORUNIU itli new mortgage op tion hich ill ease the financial burden of homeowners during the first year of owner ship has been introducid by Kinross Mort gage orp an affiliate of anadian IIIt perial Rank of ommcrce The bank said prepared statement the option allows homeowners to make interest payments on Iy rather than the standard interest payents plus principal payments during the first year Resignation announced TURDNIH itl Hiplcy chair man and chief executive officer of sons that greeted him at bookstore wherghc arriy ed tosign copies of the English language version of his book My Quebec spokesman for Methuen Publications said more than 100 people bought copies of the book within 13 minutes of cvcsqucs arrival But Levesque put things in different IISptcllt He told one person bet still have long way to go before catch up with Margaret ICvizi police were sympathetic as they turn ed blind eye while Levesque ignorwl city bylaw prohibiting smoking iii stores store spokesman said police were called to keep back the large number of media representatives who crode the premier but they also managed to remove one heckling by stander The Frenchlanguage version of the book titled La Iasston du Quebec was released last fall Iethuen bought the IInQIISIl language rights earlier this year for $33000 and made an initial printing of 23000 copies spokesman said between 10000 and 20000 advance orders have been placed he book is from series of interviews with lrench journalist lcaii Robert Lesclbaum Levesque fortiier tournalist told news conference it IS buy mans book Later the premier recicved an enthusiastic response from about to academics at the an nual conference of the International Studies Assixiatioii most of them American with some members troin anada Europe and Asia Lindas recovering llII itli Linda Jones the five yearold girl pulled unconscious front the icy Rideau River 11 days ago is recovering rapidly Doctors at the hildrens Hospital of Eastern Ontario said Thursday the child while still quite weak is returning to nor iiial and gradually beginning to walk Bill Linda who was submerged iii the icy waters for more than 10 minutes is alive partly because of medical technology and because of curious biological mechanism known as divers reflex Dr Gary Johnson chief of the hospitals detxirtnient of ancsthesia explained that the reflex is common to underwater mam mals such as seals and porpoises but now is known toexist in humans The body will automatically shut down the circulation system slowing the heart rate to live or lit beats minute and provide Just enough pressure to keep the body alive Iiisaid Ihe diving reflex is especially well developed in children Dr Johnson said althoughnooiicknowswhy Towns hit by blasts BELFAST iIgt Bomb blasts hit Beltast and II towns across Northern Irelands six counties late Thursday in what police said was the first lilitjtil offensive of 19714 by the Irish Republican Army IRA No asualtiis were reported The combination blastincendiary devices exploded outside at least seven banks Woolworth store government office and number of other buildings authorities said Police and army units were put on emergency duty to search for more bombs tine bomb went off at the branch of the iiithcrii Batik on Alliance Avenue in the Ardoyne district of Be fast three at the IIster Batik on Waring Street the city 115th your No 70 Frlday March 23 1979 Carrier Home Dollvory 90 the examiner serving barrie and simcoe county Israel seeks US assurances in case peace treaty broken lnnisfil debenture gets OMB OK By NANCY IlilElDi Of The Examiner BARCLAY 8905000 debenture for the construction of new police station for In nisfil Township has been approved by the tario Municipal Board The cost increase to the average home is estimated to be about $5375 year for 20 years and to the average person $330 year for 20 years said George Navakovtch township treasurer All nieinbeis of council agree new sta tion is necessary said Reeve Bill libbiiis following special meeting Thursday to discuss the station Its ltSl matter of where its going to be Iownship owned land in Alcona Beach and in Barclay arc the two proposed sites Reeve Iibbins said both are good sites but he favors haying the station in Alcona Bill Brown Innistil police chief said the station should be built in Alcona Beach The bulk of ottr calls are along the Iakeshore he said agree with the thief of Iolice said Reeve iibbins The station should be built iii Aliona Beach When asked what was wrong with the pre sent station hiet Brown said llllllllt It doesnt function as police office he said It is overcrowded there is no security area no place to have conversation in con fideiicc IISIUSI all wrong The proposed station said thief Brown is altogetherdifferent It will have security area three holding cells photogmphic darkroom and finger print processing area closed circuit televi sion for surveilance of prisoners and provi sions for an indoor pistol range said tlitcl Brown The computers have asked me to represent them in the upcoming wage negotiations inside today lifestyle entertainment 12 business sports micsw gulde 14 classified 610 supplement panorama pages WASHINGTON iReutert Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan is conferring with IS officials to discuss assurances Israel wants from the United States in case of violations iii the proposed peace treaty with Egypt Dayan told reporters after twohour meeting Thursday night that Israel is seeking the assurances because it will soon give up control of the Sinai and vital waterways and the United States will be expanding military relations with Egypt We want to be sure that the agreement that we are now going to fiave with Egypt would be honored he said State Secretary yrus Vance met Dayan Thursday night then turned the meeting over to his deputies The Vance Dayan talks were to resume today Dayan said the timed States should give the assurances because II was in way partner and more than yust mediator in the peace process and should have some restxmsibility for implementation of the near ty NU DETAILS GIVEN Dayan who arrived from Tel Aviv Thurs day night said it would be premature to discuss the nature and content of the assurances Israel is sciking Stressing that Israel docs seek military pact he said he is trying to find out how bin ding the pledges would be IT officials said the United States is will ing to assure Israel that it would be consulted before any steps are taken if Egypt does not uphold the treaty The United States would also block UN Security Council action against the treaty the officials said Talks with the Egyptians on the last detail of the treaty the timing of Israels withdrawal front Sinai oilfields are expected to resume later today when Israeli Defence Minister Ever Weizman arrives from Tel Aviv Egypt wants Israel to withdraw from the oilfields several months before the end of ninemonth interim pullout from the Sinai Israel wants to delay withdrawal as long as possible The state department said it is certain this last detail will be completed before the treaty signing Monday Bill in airo Egyptian President Anwar Sadat says many problems will remain unresolved after the peace treaty with Israel is signed Sadat who will be in Washington on Moti day for the treatysigning ceremony told reporters We shall haveJerusalem and lots of other problems to solve New test helps predict blood pressure future PARIS Igt Three IIIltlt doctors say they have devised Ies that helps predict whether person will develop hiin blood pressure in time for the disease to be prevented The test hailed as breakthrough in France depends on new theory of what Job efforts stepped up Ilie federal governnicm is stepping up its effort it improve Job opportunities for graduate of manpower training programs Simcoe North Dr ftlillf was told Thursday Employment Minister Bud iIIItn told the Tory veteran during the daily oiiiiiions question period that the federal ind proviii cial governments are carefully monitoring available Jobs to see that people are not wasting time training for yobs that do not or will not exist in the very nearfuturc Rynard said in the ominous that many young people are bciiig encouraged to upgrade their skills through manpowci courses in community colleges but find it do ficiilt to locate yobs after graduating because they lack practical experienci The fact of the matter is that were con ceriicd about young people taking training and then finding no yoh opportunities at the end of the training or having taken the train ing and Jobs being available having no ex pcrunce ulleii stated federal provincial co operative education program IS Ill place to provide funding for young people that enables tliciii to iiiovc into the work force while they are completing their training lie added keeps some peoples blood pressure ab normally high Doctors have called high blood pressure silent killer because it underlies many fatal strokes and heart attacks Prof Philippe Meyer head of the iescarcli tcam working at Neckcr Hospital said the new test is still too expensive to be used on massscalc But he said it might soon be used to screen persons in families where there is history of high blood pressure Persons found to have tendency toward the disease could take preventive measures such as sticking to low salt dict Meyer said in an interview Meyer Ricardo iaray and Monique dc Mendonca used sophisticated techniques of flame chromatography to study salt and potassium lcv els in red blood cells The blood came from persons with high blood pressure healthy young people with family history of the condition arid control group itli no such family history lSIID IICSIS Ilic test measured the rate at which the cell membranes were able to cxtriidc salt and take up potassium froiti surrounding fliiid The researchers discovered that with one exception the blood cells from every person with high blood pressure had low ratio of salt removal to potassium intake when com pared with blood from normal persons The only exception as persons hose high blood pressure came from kidney coiidit ion Ihcir salt potassium ratio was noiiiiai Ibe rcseachers also found that the salt potassium ratio was low for five of eight healthy persons with family history of the condition We have shown that iii those people with hiin lilood pressure there is an anomaly in the membranes ol the red blood cells atid that this anomaly is genetically llttllSllllIlltI Icy cr said It was Algoma Railway headline in yesterdays front page ol The Examiner erroneously reported oll ingwood shipyard had received $30 million contract from Algoma Steel The contract was from Algoma tcntral Railway Senators talk hockey IIAWA Itli Senators spatted Ihursday about whether to call for expan sion of the National Hockey League and whether to interfere in the words of one with those cold blooded coldeyed businessmen ho ruti the league Eventually they got around to calling for expansion into Edmonton Quebec in and Winni ieg but by then the NHL had already decidedtoexpand Late they may have been but their remarks about whether they should wasti ttine talking of the league and those big businessmen still ere interesting Quebec Progressiye onservativc Senator Martial Asst1m got things going by propos ing the Senate pass the same motion as the onimons lid this week calling for aditiis you of the three World Hockey Assmiatioii tlltts intotheNIII Ihc Ht got bumpy from there oit and thercwerc ltllititks 5000 on strike ST ivTHiiRlNIIS nt itli Almost 5000 workers continqu an illegal strike to day at General Motors of anada Ltd plant Leo Rustin plant chairman of Local tin Inited Auto Workers said reasonable set tlement was reached with management at meetings late Thursday but was rejected by pickets Patience Frankie The puddles arent deep enough to fish in end when Frankie Pettipas of Gowan Street Barrie got to Lake Simcoe at the Centennial Park docks he found there was ice right to the shoreline Well maybe in few weeks Frankie Ex aminer Photo In theatternmn the 17 set up picket line in front of the plant and were llld by about 200 workers returning from lunch breaks The afternoon midnight and to days day shift as well as many office workers did not cross the picket line leav ing the plant virtually deserted Police said there have been no problems on the picket line General Motors axle plant in St tatliariiies at which about 1000 work still was in operation Banker assassinated BRISSEIS iAPi Two men shot and killed Belgian national bank official Thursday night and police say the slaying may be connected to the assassmation of British Ambassador Sir Richard Sykes in the Netherlands hours earlier Andre Michaux 47 was parking his car in front of his home it Brussels suburb when the gunmen cut him down witnesses told police diplomat lives opposite Michaiix but NATO and the British embassy denied reports that the diplomat was Sir John Killick Britains ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty tlrgamation Both refused to name the diplomat living opposite the Michaux residence Sy kcs and his valet ere killed outside the envoy residence in The Hague on Thurs day niorniug by two gunmen who escaped iti rush hour traffic Admits planting bombs MUNIREAI il Jean Pierre har rette former Front de Liberation du Quebec member who spent to years of exile iii uba pleaded guilty Thursday to charges of planting three terrorist bombs in Montreal In 1968 weather Showers are in the wind for the Bar rie area according to forecasts Cloudy with periods of rain develop ing today and Saturday High today l2 to I4 Overnight laws to re maining steady Saturday Workers were advised to return to their Jobs at the loundry and engine plant Rustin said The problem began when 17 workers who had staged an iii plant sitdown to protest against work changes were suspended Thursday morning Trustco Ltd has been appointed chairman of the board of Ietropolitan Trust to the company announced in prepared state ment Thursday ytifyl is the holding com pany for Victoria and Grey Trust and Metropolitan Trust centre fifth was defused by army bomb experts at the llstcr Bank on Antrim Road There also were explosions in New ry in Actress pleads innocent to charge mum lmmondorr Ookmm Actress Linda Blair leaves federal building in Jacksonville with her lawyer pundmm 0m MIMHDL Dungmwm after she pleaded innocent to charge of conspiracy to distribute cocaine Newcastle Ready May and noitwk She was released on $5000 signature bond pending trial AP Photo