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TORONTO CP Any hopes Canadians may have had for sudden changes in the federal pension system were dashed Thurs day by Heward Grafftey minister of science and technology We do not intend to take any immediate and radical steps to alter the pension Tries to save wife in blaze Thomas Burridge of Brockville Ont ls restrained by fireman and neighbor after he tried to enter his burning home in which his wife was trapped Firemen later recovered the body of his wife Sally form the car red ruins of the home Thursday Clark Commons anno Pledges pipeline talks in Carter visi No big steps planned to alter pension setup Native of area appointed new commissioner From the Ottawa Bureau Of The Examiner Newton Robinson native Jean CasselmanWadds has been named Canadas High Commissioner in the United Kingdom to succeed Paul Martin who is retiring The appointment of CasselmanWadds was announced this morning by Prime Minister Joe Clark The graduate of the University of Toronto and Weller Business College was born in the south Simcoe community Sept 16 1920 She was first elected to the House of Commons for the constituency of GrenvilleDundas in by election Sept 29 1958 She was reelected in 1962 and 1965 but was defeated in the riding of GrenvilleCarleton in the election of 1968 During her term in office Casselman Wadds served as member of Canadas delegation to the United Nations in 1961 and as parliamentary secretary for the minister of health and welfare in 1962 She was member of four Commons committees deal ing with agriculture broadcasting the civil service and external affairs After her defeat she served as national secretary of the Progressive Conservative party from 1971 to 1975 She has been member of the Ontario Municipal Board since March She has been married twice and has two children Castro reports to UN today UNITED NATIONS AP Fidel Castro reports to the General Assembly today on the stormy Havana summit then lunches with US Ambassador Donald McHenry and 90 other dignitaries after laughing off US military exercises aimed at countering Soviet troops in Cuba The Cuban president guarded roundthe clock by massive net of security men travels to the United Nations headquarters in Manhattan from the fortresslike Cuban Mission where he has remained in seclusion ever since arriving in New York early Thurs dav inside story Copa Banana opens Copa Banana the new Littles Hill Players cabaret show opened Wednesday night at the Embassy Hall for fourday run and proved once again that cabaret entertainment is something the amateur theatre group does very well The show covers music from classic favorites like Sentimental Journey to the latest disco hits See review on todays Entertainment page Of human rights Todays Lifestyle page features storieson two prominent Canadians concerned with basic human rights of people in other parts of the world Dr Robert McClure noted missionarysurgeon in the Third World isned Barrhfs Trnuty Church vhne Judith Brocklehurst member of Amnesty International spoke to the Universrty Womens Club Series evened up The Pittsburgh Pirates evened the World Series at one game defeating the Baltimore Orioles 32 last night Reserve catcher Man ny Sanguillen knocked in the winning run with single in the ninth inning The Barrie Colts put an end to their two game losing streak tying Orillia 55 In Junior action at Dunlop Street Arena last night The Colts came back from threegoal deficit to earn the draw See Sports pages index today 13 Ilfutylo entertainment 10 sports comicsw guide classified 1418 Students from LEcole Secondaire de la Huronie establish ed recently to demonstrate their demand for separate Frenchonly school in Penetanguishene system he said One of the governments present mmno2usm Ocuznm the examiner rrie and simcoe County first tasks is simply to review the pension system Grafftey until this week the minister of state for social programs said priority in the review will be proposals to amend the spouses allowance program and implement other pension protection for women reminder of their protest to the Ontario legislature Thurs day from the visitors gallery CP Photo Stephenson reminded of school TORONTO Just in case Ontarios education minister forgot about the French of Penetanguishene during the past few days delegation went to Toron to Thursday to remind her of their presence says the coordinator of the campaign to have French school established The idea was to demonstrateto Stephenson Education Minister Dr Bette Stephenson that were still here and that her solution to the problem is no solution at all Raymond Desrochers told The Ex aminer today Wearing Tshirts with the appropriate letters on the back students from the community operated Lecole secondaire de la Huronie stood in the visitors gallery of the legislature at Queens Park arrang ed themselves accordingly and spelled out PENETANG twice They stood protesting Dr Stephensons suggestion that they return to the existing high school and selfcontained and ad impractical ministrated French minischool for several minutes before security people asked them to sit On the floor Dr Stephenson was asked severa questions by both the Liberal and New Democratic parties concerning the issue Both parties have voiced support for the fight being waged by the French com munity for its own school The minister in answer reiterated her belief that declining enrolment makes it to build another school Fire forces hospital evacuation BUCKINGHAM Que CPi disaster plan and previous evacuation drills paid off Thursday when fire forced the evacuation of 100 patients from the local hospital Within an hour of the first alarm all pa tients at the 115bed St Michael Hospital had been evacuated safely stream of ambulance sped seriously ill patients to hospitals in Ottawa and Hull 31 kilometres west of here while hospital staff police and townsfolk moved other patients to temporary wards in nearby halls and schools Princess to visit OTTAWA CPi Princess Anne will visit Kingston Toronto Owen Sound and Ottawa during sixday visit to Ontario in November Her first public function on Nov 13 the day after she arrives in Canada will be to inspect guard of honor from the lst Canadian Signal Regiment at Kingston She will also tour the base and attend formal dinner On Nov 14 she will fly to Toronto and in her capacity as world president of the Canadian Save the Children Fund attend the Canadian College Bowl kickoff and dinner No fraud problem TORONTO CPi Turning back odometers on used cars has reached epidemic proportions and could be costing Canadian consumers hundreds of millions of dollars says Ontario Consumer Affairs Minister Frank Drea Unscrupulous car dealers are turning back the mileage and so are individual drivers who lease cars Drea told an Ontario legislature committee Wednesday Its the No consumer fraud problem Officers walked plank TOENDER Denmark iAPi Two of ficials of the Danish Seamens lnion were sentenced to 60 days in prison Thursday for forcing the captain and first mate of Germanowned ferry to walk the plank over the ships side into 10 metres of water The officials were convicted of assault and endangering the lives of the two officers Six seamen who took part in the July action received 30 days suspended sen tences Laundry his undoing BELLEVILLE Ont tCPi City police got their man and his laundry Wed nesday when they discovered someone drying more than clothes In local laun dromat Police said Thursday man harvesting Fire department director Armand Laflamme said the fire apparently started basement kitchen and spread through the ventilation system to the roof of the four storey building The fire was stopped there by concrete firewall but smoke and water damage was extensive throughout the building One fire official estimated the damage at $500000 There were however moments of frenzy Lucille Pelletier 24 had just entered the final stage of labor when hosnital staff smell marijuana from nearby field decided use laundromat dryer to take the moisture from pillowcase full of the weed But when he decided to sample the harvest other laundromat patrons became annoyed and called police who seized the man and pound of marijuana Police said man whose name was not released had been charged with possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking pound of marijuana sells for between $700 and $1100 depending on the quality Named commissioner OTTAWA tCPt Mrs Jean Wadds former Conservative MP and friend of Prime Minisrer Clark will succeed Paul Martin as high commissioner to Britain Clark told reporters today Mrs Wadds Toronto resident is woman of very considerable diplomatic and political abilities She has had long association with me over the years and will be able to maintain the Canadian tradition of maintaining direct and close links between the high commission in Britain and the prime minis ter Clark said They want males TORONTO tCPi Prenatal procedures identifying childs sex in the womb have resulted in some parents asking for an abortion because the child was not male Montreal doctor says Dr David Roy director of the Centre for Bioethics at the Clinical Research Institute said the New England Journal of Medicine has reported 10 to 15 documented cases of parents requesting the abortion of female fetuses Roy told family studies conference at Seneca College that the new procedure identifying the sex of fetus is used to de termine prenatal defects It is kind of odd we have those choices being made when we have just come to realize that women have the same level of intelligence thinking and competitiveness as men We are coming to point of serious regression to falling away of civilization ed heavy smoke outside the delivery room She was rushed to Hull hospital where seconds after arriving she gave birth to healthy daughter eight pound one ounce Melanie It really was so close so close They had to stop the ambulance twice because they thought was going to deliver en route didnt want to so held on even though it was hard delivered my firstborn two contractions after got into the hospital serving ba menace nt ByDOUGLON OTTAWA CP Prime Minister Joe Clark promised Thursday to discuss the routing of proposed Alaskan oil pipeline when US President Jimmy Carter makes his first official visit here Nov 910 The first visit by US president in seven years was announced in the Commons by Clark Energy and environmental issues are likely to dominate the bilateral talks Clark also said he would consider asking Carter to extend the deadline for selecting ore of several competing US and Canadian applications to move Alaskan oil south to the lower 48 states But in Washington US officials doubted the president would agree to the delay be cause of the importance of moving the oil particularly to the Midwest states Carter is to recommend to Congress by Dec which proposal he favors There are signs of growing support for an allAmerican The topic of annexation is one that has been talked about written about and spoken of so often that am sure everyone including myself is sick and tired of hearing about it Thats how Reeve William Gibbins began his speech about annexation Thursday with the Barrie Rotary Club The Reeves statement was fair enough said Bert Cook Although the Reeve had nothing new and different to discuss he said must say that am pleased that you are interested enough in this issue to ask me to talk to you today The Reeve reiterated his statements that Barries application for annexation was ten large and was not supported by proper plann ing and engineering concepts Barries annexation line was one that seem ed to satisfy the majority of large land owners in lnnisfil Township The same land owners that were told by lnnisfil only six months earlier that their land was not gorng to be developed and would remain Over four years TORONTO CP General Motors of Canada Ltd announced Thursday it will spend $2 billion over four years on new plant operations that will create more than 3300 jobs in the Ontario cities of Windsor and St Catharines Company president Alan Smith said about $15 billion will go toward new front wheel drive automatic transmission plant at Windsor which will double production and triple its work force to 3800 from 1200 The secondlargest project conversion of the engine plant to build V6 engines and new transmission casting plant at St Catharines will mean an additional 700 jobs The Windsor and St Catharines projects will be completed for the 1982 model year Smith told news conference extra Peace talks in disarray LONDON Reuter The Zimbabwe Rhodesian peace talks adjourned in disarlt ray Thursday without date being set for further meeting between the three parties the Patriotic Front guerrillas the biracial government Muzorewa and Britain of Prime Minister Abel Ambassadors son slain The conference was adjourned when guer rilla leaders Robert Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo again refused to accept Britains formula for new constitution for Zim babwe Rhodesia British Foreign Secretary Lord Carr ington chairman of the conference said at the end of the 90minute session that he had no alternative but to call an adjournment The bodyof Achmed Benler 28yearold son of the Turkish ambassador to the Netherlands lies slumped In his car after he was shot by lone uniden tified gunman in the centre of The Hague Friday morning After the shooting the car careened through an intersection and crashed into parked cars AP Photo Cantor Horn Mary 95 Weekly here route using tankers Canadian proposals The front runner in the US is the northern tier proposal that would move oil south by tanker along Canadas West Coast to Port Angeles Wash from where it would be piped 2400 kilometres inland SUPPORTS FOOTHILLS Clarks government supports an allland route proposed by Foothills Oil Pipe Line Ltd of Calgary to pipe Alaskan oil through the Yukon British Columbia and Alberta to the lower 48 states Foothills proposes to use the same Alaska Highway corridor planned for the joint CanadaUS natural gas pipeline over competing The Canadian announcement of support last month followed an earlier request from the US to state Canadas preference Canada says its objective is to minimize the risk of environmental damage on the West Coast from oil tanker traffic Reeve sickand tired of annexation as topic agricultural he said Bob Hollywood general manager of the Barrie Chamber of Commerce said however the annexation issue is not boring to him Although he said he did not feel competent to agree with Reeve Gibbins statement that the application for annexation made by the City of Barrie was too large and was not sup ported by proper planning and engineering concepts Hollywood said the Reeve gave fair statement of Innisfils position The Reeve also reiterated statements tha Barries populaton would never reach the proposed population growth figure of 125000 am sure that there is nobody in this room that will ever live to see the day when Barrie reaches the population of 100000 people he said He said he couldnt understand why Barrie would want to go six or seven miles south in to lnnisfil when there is land within one mile of Dunlop Street that they dont appear in terested in GM to spend $2 billion on plants But General Motors expects to lay off more than 1700 workers in Windsor and St Catharines for three months next year while the facilities are being changed and updated to accommodate the added production HELPS AUTO TRADE Smith said the program will have favorable $350million impact on Canadas auto trade with the United States where most of the new products will be exported Those benefiting from the General Motors program include hundreds of suppliers who will receive more orders companies that retool machinery to meet demands of the new program and the construction industry Smileys Door worth $37M BAHRAIN Reuter King Khalid of Saudi Arabia is to unveil gate covered with 396 pounds of gold and worth $37 million at Islams holy city of Mecca the official Emirates News Agency said Thursday The 15 Arab names for God are engraved on the 482centimetrethick teak wood door of the new Gate of Mecca which replaces the goldandsilver entrance built 63 years ago The door is about three metres high and about two metres wide Fire damages home Barrie firefighters were called to home at Robin Court this morning to extinguish fire in an upper floor bedroom The ire destroyed the interior of the room and caused smoke and water damage to the rest of the house He was workaholic and tookonednnk toomany weather Windy and colder many with showers Cold gusty winds with flur ries overnight and Saturday Heavy snowsqualls in some localities with chance of thunderstorm High to day Low overnight near freezing High Saturday