si tav uWa mvgtg 11 11 42 oc 223 115th year No 204 Saturday Nov 17 1979 °° we 95 mm the examiner serving barrie and simcoe county where you live Sandycove Acres ome to the This is the first in special series of ar ticles by The Examiner on neighborhoods within Harries city limits and just outside its boundaries In this series to be published SatUrdays reporters NANCY FItilEROA and LORI OllIIN will take close look at what makes these vibrant neighborhoods tick the community groups the flavors and lifestyles and most importantly the people themselves v9 rat FIttLIIROA By NANCY llGllIRO Of The Examiner STROLI No matter what anyone thinks Sandycovc Acres is not just trailer park says those who affectionate ly call it home Nestled oii T100 acres of neatly manicured land one gets the immediate impression that those who live here eon sider themselves lucky This community offers unique lifestyle to senior citizens it was designed with them in mind As one resident said San dycove is the place to begin the rest of your life Sandycove on lnnisfil Townships tttli Linc three miles east of Stroiid is within easy walkingdistanct of Lake Slimw yet only minutes from Barnes shopping een tres churches and medical services And those are only some of the reasons why Sandycovers dont want to live anywhere else Theres never dull moment here says Eilleen White Since moving from Toronto seven years ago Irs White is busier than ever before She saw an advertisement for San dycove iii Toronto newspaper At first she was hesitant but after one visit she was sold She gave her $300 deposit even before telling her husband Once he saw Sandycovc Acres however he loved it as much as she did Residents own their homes but lease the COHEN land Each home has twocar paved parking lot and all streets are paved TeleVision hydro and telephone cables do not clutter the air They are all underground There is one indoor shopp ing mall two outdoor swimming pools horseshoe pits shuffleboard courts coin operated laundromat facilities and two recreation centres Land rental and maintenance fees are included in monthly park fee Maintenance includes snow removal Sandycove is comprised of 76s mobile home estates The most popular home the Argus has large master bedroom 14 ft by 11 ft With twopiece bath and walkin closet There is also threepiece main bathroom family room dining area living room fireplace and an additional bedroom Although its popular as you wind thiough striets with names such as Nature Trail Road Hickory Court and Weeping Willow Drive you notice that every home is different An array of Canadian flags fly on some lawns on others shrubs and rose bushes are wrapped like babies lll snowsuiLs on others lamps and signs of welcome abound But enough of the homes its the people at Sandycovc that make it See SAVIHTUVII Page it Yvonne left Cecile centre and Annette talk together after the funeral of their father Oliva Dionne who died Thursday The three sisters are the surviving Dionne quintuplets The man in the picture with the Dionne sisters is not identified CP Photo surviving quintuplets attend fathers funeral ORBEII tint WI The three surviv itig Dionne quintuplets stood shivering in the cold Friday during brief burial scrivce for their father However there was no indication their long cstrangemeiit from their family had ended They left town shortly after the ceremony heading for their separate homes around the Montreal suburb of St Bruno Que said Iherese their oldest sister Fifty or 60 relatives and family friends clustered around the tiny snowcovered graveyard Cecile Annette and Yvonne re mained composed throughout the halfhour service in French at Sacrc ocur church and the burial ceremonv inside story Experts musclingin hild care experts who muscle their iy in on parents have made the job of bringing tip childrcn more complicated that it should be So says Dr Benjamin Spock world renowned pediatrician whose advice has been used by millions of people over the years For the full story see todays Lifestyle page View of commencements ttttls at our secondary schools look at dow to World pagc today Low cant solve problem Siiiicoc County Crown Attorney John Mur eh Murphy told Georgian tollcgc students Friday people believe law is panacea but it is only means to an end Murphy appeared on panel to discuss child abuse during tthltty seminar tit Georgian For more on the seminar see the Today page index entertainment sports comicsv guide classiï¬ed 41 High school comniencciiicnts are over in Barrie for another year The always colorful and dignified ccrcises arc fall coinmenccmciit ceremonies through the photographers eye is offered on the Win Child abuse is Sttldl problem that can only be solved by social change says today window on world floatyka The two other qtiints died earlier Emilie when she was 10 and Marie in 1070 The quintuplets mother Elzire did not at tend the funeral for her husband She has been at home nearby under seda tion since her husbands death Thursday said Rev Adrian Koens who conducted the Roman atholic funeral service Mrs Dionne 71 is said to be in poor health partly debilitated by leg problem that goes back to the celebrated birth of the quintuplets in 19th tiliva Dionne patriarch of family of 13 chizlrcn lied at the age of 76 Doctors following the wishes of the family declined to give the cause of death Product boycott urged OTTAWA The 180000 members of the Public Service Alliance of Canada have been asked to boycott Radio Shack products in support of striking workers in Barrie In its weekly newsletter from its head quarters here members of the PSAC were told that Radio Shack employees have been on strike since Aug after negotiations broke down on their first collective agree mcnt Former leader fined REGINA tkl Dick tollver former Saskatchewan Progressive Conservative leader pleaded guilty in provincial court Friday to charges of possession of an unregistered restricted weapon and dangerous use of weapon He was fined $250 on each charge ourt was told Collver who was replaced as party leader by Grant ltcviuc at convention last weekend fired two shots icdncsday from revolver into the air from the balcony of his residence He was Illltttlltl at the time First woman president LA IAS AI Bolivias first woman president begins the tough task of governing 1i bankrupt country today following night if revcliy by citizens celebrating the lowiifall of military dictator Lidia tiucilcr Slryearold accountant says her most difficult job is getting the country out of difficult economic problems that have created political instability We have fought during these last few lays for deiiitxracy and we regained it said Mrs lueilcr who is veteran of more than 30 years in Congress and president of the legislature during the current session Fund over top TORONTO The tintario division of the Canadian Cancer society has gone over the top in its 15W fundraisuig cam paign collecting $910453 it was an nounced Friday at the diviSions annual meeting The figure was 93percenf higher than the amount Itlt in 1th and lpercent Mississauga lives again as residents head home MISSISSAUGA Ont tCPt From thriving metropolis to ghost town and back in six days Thats the story of this affluent city which experienced the terrifying threat of being engulfed by deadly gas following chemical train derailment just before midnight week ago When Ontario AttorneyGeneral Roy McMurtry announced late Friday that the last 33000 evacuees could return to their homes because danger from the gas had evaporated it marked an end to the largest and undoubtedly the bestorganized evacua tion in Canadian history And 220000 people took the first solid steps toward picking up the pieces of their inter rupted lives For the first time since Sunday residents of Canadas ninthlargest city containing tracts of pricey homes and lush golf courses were back in familiar surroundings They and 3000 people from adjacent Oakville fled with what they could grab Sun day after 24 rail cars 19 of them containing chemicals left the tracks Some burst into flames and exploded but fortunately the only one containing chlorine merely ruptured Had it exploded it would have released its deadly cargo into the atmosphere threaten ing the lives of anyone who inhaled its fumes Even more fortunate was the fact that while the threat of death hung in the air no one was injured in the sixday drama Khomeini order When the CP Rail train jumped the tracks in mixed industrialresidential area burn ing propane cars lay within few metres of the chlorine tanker Peel Regional Police said the heat from the fires could turn the liquid chlorine into poisonous gas which would leak through 90centimetre hole in the top of the chlorine car and threaten lives Police consulted chemical experts provin cial government officials the Red Cross and hospitals and decided to implement plan formulated six years ago in case of disaster at nearby Toronto International Airport The evacuation began early Sunday and as the day wore on boundaries expanded as windborne chlorine fumes were carried to progressively wider areas Evacuation centres were rapidly set up in schools shopping malls and at huge trade centre Private homes outside the danger zone became refuge for thousands of unex pected guests mostly friends and relatives although some people opened their homes to strangers Today with only insignificant traces of chlorine gas anywhere in the area the once deserted streets are alive with people and cars The crews attempting to avoid disaster worked against what sometimes seemed like insurmountable odds Friday they found the key when they boldly employed unique method of removing dangerous chlorineand air vapor and liquid chlorine from the disabl ed tanker Iranians to release TEHRAN CP Iranian revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini today ordered the release of women and blacks among 70 hostages held at the US Embassy here the official radio reported Khomeini instructed the foreign ministry to make arrangements for the immediate release of such hostages and their departure for the United States It was believed there are six or seven US women in the embassy and severalblack marines among the estimated 62 Americans and eight nonAmericans held in the mission by Moslem students since Nov in have funny feeling that Jane is running out of causes more than the objective of $9 million The divisions board of directors agreed to give $16 million during the next two years to the National Cancer Institute of Canada for clinical research in Ontario In addition $15 million will go the in stitute for breastcancer screening project to be undertaken with the provincial and federal governments Bethune remembered MONTREAL CPI The memory of Dr Norman Bethune better known and more revered in China than in his own country was revived here Friday on the 40th an niversary of his death Actor Donald Sutherland who played the Canadian doctor in television drama and Dr Wendell Macleod Bethunes old col league at the Royal Victoria Hospital were among those who attended conference on Bethune at McGill University Bethune died in China Nov 12 1939 of in fections contracted during surgery on Chinese troops wounded fighting the Japaiiese He became hero of the Chinese revolution Ice gets blame Sh pery roads are blamed for 12 minor acci cuts in the Barrie area today Provincial police report that between 630 and am they were called to nine tender benders Most were on Highway 400 but others 00 curred on Highways 26 and 27 and County Road 28 Barrie City Police were called to three minor accidents No injuries or serious vehicle damages were reported in the accidents say police Kills self at tomb VATICAN CITY tAPt Mondasio Doria 50 of Chioggia near Venice killed himself with pistol shot Friday in front of the tomb of Pope John XXIII in the grotto of St Peters BaSlllCa Vatican observers said this was the first suicide in memory in the bastlica The tombs of Pope John who died in June 1963 and most other popes are in the crypt of the basilica co Up to now the embassy captors have refus ed to release anyone until the United States extradites Shah Mohammad Pahlavi to Iran to stand trial as war criminal The shah is being treated for cancer at New York hospital and the United States has refused to extradite him The radio said the rest of the hostages must remain at the occupied embassy until the ex tradition of the shah to Iran GET N0 ESPECT The statement from the Iranian revolu tionary leader reiterated that the US em bassy in Tehran had been nest of spies Those inside do not deserve political respect he said The ayatollah dismissed what he termed threats against Iran as worthless and said that military action would be unwise as would an economic blockade of Iran The statement said the decision was been taken because women enjoy respect under the tenets of Islam and because blacks in the United States are deprived and oppressed The students holding the hostages earlier warned the United States not to let the shah go anywhere but Iran student leader said on Irianian television Friday night that the plight of the hostages would worsen if the shah eludes them Unconfirmed press reports have said the shah might leave soon for Mexico or Egypt The student spokesman repeated that there will be no negotiations about the release of the hostages until the US agrees to send the shah back to Iran for trial extr Chlorine leaks OAKLAND Calif tAPt chlorine gas cloud from railway tank car sent 20 per sons fo hospitals and shut down 16 kilometre stretch of highway before drifting out over the San Francisco Bay and dispers ing Thousands of commuters were driving to ynwvu $5 Training for emergencies Underneath those massive suits are George McGonnigal left and Barry Williams both Barrie firefighters They are training in the use of the new acidmaster emergency suits specifically designed to withstand ex posure to severe chemical reactions The suits enable the wearer to clean up chemical spills or leaks Examiner Photo Will suit times Date set for first PC budget OTTAWA CPI Promising budget that suits the times Finance Minister John Crosbie announced Friday the Progressive Conservative government will bring down its first budget Dec 11 Crosbie said he could not wait any longer even though next years oil prices are still missing We will have to work on the assumption that what we are suggesting Ion oil price in creasesi will be the one carried out he said in the Commons This week the government failed to reach agreement with Alberta to increase oil prices next year by $4 to $450 barrel Another major element in the govern ments budget plans mortgage interest deductibility scheme for propertv owners work Friday morning when the accident mu curred at Clorox plant in the southern part of the city Seven persons including three workmen at the plant and snmc commuters were treated for effects of the gas and 13 others complained of breathing problems officials said Most of the victims had been released from hospitals by Friday afternoon Ship fire bottle continues Turkish Coast Guard fire boats attempt to control blaze aboard the Romanian oil tanker lndependento Friday after the ship collided with Greek freighter early Thursday Other coast guard vessels were trying to control sevenmile oil spill threatening residential and tourist areas in lstonbuls old sector AP Photo Come hie The Examir Call 7266537 for home delivery will be introduced in the Commons next week said Yrosbie He told oppomtion critics that if they stall its passage before the Christmas recess 38 million householders will miss out on $575 million worth of tax credits they would other wise get in the coming year Lnder the governments proposal homeowners would be able to make their first mortgage interest deduction against 1979 iii come Despite the mortgage interest program which potentially adds to the governments deficit Irosbie said he expects the deficit will be less than the $129 billion forecast this fiscal year by the previous Liberal govern ment Arson riot suspected BEAVERTON tSpeciali Ontario Fire Marshal officials say arson was not the cause of $250000 fire that swept through downtown Beavcrton Thursday The blaze destroyed four businesses and left several people homeless but officials said fire could have spread further if not for use of an aerial ladder truck from Orillias fire department Fire started bout 1045 pm on the north side of Simcoe Street By the time four Beaverton Fire Department trucks arrived winds had spread the fire along the main street Fire crews from Cannington and nearby Sunderland were called in to assist and about 11 30 Beaverton fire officials re quested tirillias aerial ladder truck Orillia firefighters poured water down on to the burning buildings to prevent fire from spreading provincial potice spokesman said work by aerial truck crews kept fire from spreading to businesses on the south side of Simcoe Street trillias firefighters stayed on the scene until 530 am Friday The fire was ex tinguished by midmorning tusinesses destroyed in the fire included Hartimers 5cent toSf Store NixonBrowne Insurance AE LePage Real Estate office and beauty salon lhursdays fire was the second major blau this year in downtown Beaverton Earlier this year Mavis Restaurant burn ed Meony gets $1 l0000 WASHINGTON tAP Hes been Presi dent George Meany for so long AFLle leaders were not about to strip the title away from their retiring chief So theyre making him President Emeritus George Meany and giving him $110tXJOayear penSion for life weather It will remain cloudy for most of the day today with temperatures above the freezing point High winds will stay with us most of to day Sunday temperatures will rise slightly It will be mainly sunny Sunday dawn