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IRISH Roy HRS in concert lrish therapy The Irish Rovers fltllWICfl what they pro Illldfi good time during their recent show in Simcoc County For look at the show see David avanaghs revicw on Page It FR El St MBATI hattled cancer Sgombati dies at 58 TI ltt iNlii itli Fred Sgambati one of anadas best known sportscasters died early today of cancer after more than years personal battle with the disease Sgambati Sit had really been fighting cancer for three years as chairman for the Canadian Cancer Society Active in the sportscasting field for BC mil thcvery end Sgambati had been in the business since 1931 when he joined CKFH Radio in Toronto Ile joined CBC iti 1957 working in both radio and television and covering many national and international sports events Winner of 1976 ACTRA award as the best swrtscaster of the year Sgarnbati known to his friends as Scooter had an operation year ago for cancer of the liver but continued both his broadcasting and his work for the cancer society CANSTI the Canadian Save the Children Fund an lllltlllilllttlldltlfflllilltfl charitable organization created amedia award which will bear his name to be presented annually to the outstanding ana dian sportswriter or SpitlIStiisltl by the Canadian Iriteruniversity htletic Lnion ad the College Row directors No sex songs please TORONTO itlt Songs with references to sc and drugs have been banned from dances at Roman Catholic high school by the schools student council Council president Michael Guerriere said Thursday that the council recently ruled that rock bands that play at the school must agree to make no reference to either dmg use or seual activity in their per formances Hearing date set preliminary hearing for three men charged HIII possession of narcotic tor the purpose of trafficking following drug bust near Penetariguishene in September has been set for Jan 21 Steve Zwara Bil of Wasaga Beach and Peter Landsdoune 42 and Michael France 24 both of Toronto are scheduled to appear in provincial court in Scarborough Staff Sgt Norman Ilarve McKean of the RCMP in Toronto said today The date was set during court ap txaldlttt by the three men in provincial court in Toronto Thursday Sgt Harvey McKean said Zwara is cur rently out on bail of 573000 but Lansdowne and France are still in custody Lansdowne as turable to raise bail be sad hile France is on detention order The three men were charged Sept after members of the RCMP and Metro Toronto Police forces seized about $5 million worth of spmxi as well as chemicals capable oi producing another So million worth of the drug from shed behind cot rage on Champlain Road just north of Penetangmstiene xtra Come home to The Examiner Call 7266537 for home delivry Colts dropped The Barrie Colts suffered mean defeat Thursday at the hands of the leagues powerhouse the Streetsville Derbys For more on the Colts 91 defeat and what caus ed it see todays Sports page Unlucky and how Whoever said three wrongs dont make right certainly hit the nail on the head for the Kuiper family of London Ontario They had series of unlucky breaks three as matter of fact all arms See todays Lifestyle page for story and photo of this broken family Wonderland going up Wonderland $108 million theme project is already halfway finished near Maple Ont When completed Wonderland will be Canadas Disneyland of the North For more see the Today page index today 13 lifestyle entertainment 10 sports comicsw guide dassmed 1417 laboratory full of equipment used in the production of the drug was also seized The seizure following more than 13 mon ths of surveillance by the two forces was described as orie of the largest of its kind in Ontario Mob kills defendant SAO PAULO Brazil Reuter young man accused of murdering taxi driver was dragged from court and beaten to death by mob police said Thursday The incident occurred Wednesday in the nearby town of Matao when the youth 17 appeared before magistrate and 200 people burst in to the courtroom Police were unable to pre vent the mob from dragging him outside Divorce made easy LONDON Reuter The House of Lords ruled Thursday that Moslem divorce is valid under English law Moslem husband may divorce his wife simply by telling her three times formally that he is divorcing her The House of Lords Britains supreme court of appeal ended test case involving two Pakistani immigrants Sentenced to life DUBLIN Reuter Dublin judges sentenced Thomas McMahon 31 to life im prisonment today after finding him guilty of the murder of Earl Mountbatten of Burma The three judges in special anti guerrilla court without jury found se cond accused man Francis McGirl 24 not guilty of the murder Mountbatten uncle of the Queen was blown up in his private yacht Aug 27 while sailing off the coast of the Irish Republic Two of Mountbattens family and boat boy also died when his yacht Shrimp explod in sheet of flame off the Irish coast at igo Tolks taking too long Contract negotiations between the county school board and its secondary school teachers have been fraught with in cidents and are taking too long to com plete says the chief negotiator for the teachers Debate over issues and the completion of fact finding report have prolonged the bargaining process but the two sides are close to settlement GwenAnne Walker told 200 teachers gathered Thursday in Barrie Walker said matter of principle is holding up settlement The provincial fact finders report made public Monday says the two sides had agreed on 798 per cent wage increase for teachers but were divided on whether the same figure should apply for principals and viceprincipals Hijacker ormed TOKYO AP man armed with bot tle opener and small plastic knife hijacked Japan Air Lines DClo jetliner today and diverted it to Narita International Airport near Tokyo He was overpowered by the crew after ordering that the plane be fuelled for flight to the Soviet Union The crew handed Kazumi Nomura over to Narita airport police after scuffle in the cockpit in which the pilot Toshiyuki Nishihiro 39 suffered minor injuries on his wrist JAL official said Hearing open to public lnnisfil Board of Police Commissioners have not yet determined whether hearing charging liinisfil Police Chief William Brown with discreditable conduct will be open to the public Wednesday following an ac uittal on charge of driving with excess ood alcohol level the commission charged him under the Police Act with discreditable conduct The hearing is scheduled for Jan at pm in the Innisfil municipal office in Barclay Deputy Chief Al Martin will continue to act as chief said Stewart Fisher commis sion chairman Kennedy and Caner are on the same side how come theyre fighting each other weather Periods of rain and drizzle ending Saturday afternoon Temperatures steady at If to i3 through Satur day Eedemfloniabecpprggched Teachers want class size ceiling By TERRY FIELD Of The Examiner Simcoe County secondary school teachers want their provincial federation to establish maximum ceiling on class sizes The decision came Thursday during the On tario Secondary School Teachers Federation District 27 Simcoe County annual meeting at the Army Navy Air Force Club The idea is to prevent boards from placrng more students than teacher can handle in one class The motion will be voted on again at the provincial level during the federations an nual meeting in March before the federation takes any action on it If accepted school boards would not be forced to accept the ceilv ing Pupil teacher ratios and the size of classrooms have been discussed extensively during contract talks between the Simcoe County Board of Education and its 2000 teachers LNREALISTR It seems unrealistic that teachers are forced to deal with classes of an unreasonable size Peggy Stevens teacher at Bradford High School told the 200 gathered for the meeting Without being specific about numbers she said teacher can accomplish more in reasonably sized class She also said the federation should study the issue carefully before establishing the ceiling 115th year No 269 Friday Nov 23 1979 Ag ainst ithe infidel The pupil teacher ratio for secondary schools is 17486 to one although classes themselves have more students than the ratio suggests The secondary school ratio includes the total number of teachers and para professionals librarians audiovisual techni cians divided into the total number of students However the paraprofessionals do not teach any students and some teachers such as those in special education may have smaller classes ceiling on class sizes could also IIsIIII in more job security because more teachers could be required The whole pupil teacher ratio question is clouded issue Irving Harris board director 20¢ Per Copy told The Examiner Thursday It ithe debatet assumes there is some kind of simple relationship between the ratio and efficiency in the schools The board uses the ratio as guideline in determining the number of teachers needed In their contract negotiations with the board the countys 1000 elementary teachers want the ratio they live with reduced from 222 to 1975 to one according to report prepared by provincial fact finder Chief negotiator Edna Parker said the teachers want lower ratio to ensure the number of students in any one class is kept to manageable level OPresident calls for teachers See page 13 greater mle for Carrier Home Delivery 95 Weekly the examiner serving home and simcoe county Khomeini calls on Moslems blacksto ioin struggle Two die in Vespra blaze house fire on Little Lake Sideroad in Vespra Township early this morn ing claimed the lives of man and woman as yet unidentified The fire was sighted at am Investigating officers have not as yet determined the cause of the fire or the total damage Examiner Photo Airport cost within Borries capabilities By DENNIS LANTHIER Of The Examiner The costs for establishment of regional airport is well within Barries capabilities Barrie Mayor Ross Archer said today And the city of Orillia will present detail ed report to its committee Monday so that council can decide whether or not to join Bar rie in funding for new airport The developments come as result of an airport advisory committee session held Thursday atBarrie city hall detailed report outlining site selection and costs were presented to the committee The details though are being kept con fidential until the matter is presented to Bar rie council Dec said the mayor Site selection will remain secret for while because of land speculation and resulting high costs which could come with it hp said Man given life sentence CALGARY CPi Keith Leroy Stone 33 of Wasaga Beach Ont was sentenced to life imprisonment Thursday for stabbing and beating his brother to death and another 10 years for clubbing his wife to death Court of Queens Bench was told that Stone was so stunned to find his estranged wife Brenda 23 living with his brother Douglas 33 last December that he beat the two with an electric guitar and then stabbed his brother An allmale jury found Stone guilty on charge of seconddegree murder in DouglaSs death and of manslaughter in Brendas death He was originally charged with firstdegree murder for killing his brother and second degree murder for killing his wife At the time of the Dec 27 1978 murders Stone was out on bail on charge of rape in Ontario and was in Calgary to visit his wife and children for Christmas court was told God didnt deal Stone very good deck defence counsel Chris Evans said While the airport would be expensive original estimate few months back placed the cost at $2 millionl it would be within what had been anticipated the mayor said It would be easier to fund it if Orillia was in on the action as well but Barrie could go it alone if it had to said the mayor Orillia Mayor David MacDonald said today any comment from him before the committee has seen the report would be inap propriate Thursday was the first time his contingent had seen the report and council will have to study it There may be some time involved before any commitment one way or the other is made on it Mayor MacDonald told The Ex aminer Aid Fred Ruemper committee member says he is in favor of the airport after seeing the report Thursday think we can afford it we will have to afford it he said One of the arguments to do with annexation is that the city is growing said Ald Ruemper To do that an industrial strategy is needed and an airport would stimulate in dustrial growth he said Some existing businesses which have located here regardless have strongly recommended the need for an airport Ald Ruemper said The ministry of transportation and com munications will fund the project to the tune of80 per cent Mayor Archer said Timing of the matter is unknown at this point Mayor Archer said That will depend on how quickly council deals with it he said Approval could come before the Christmas brea though he said Then applications to the provrncral government recervrng options on the land and zoning changes would have to be incorporated he said There are bound to be objections by residents in the affected area too meaning an eventual Ontario Municipal Board OMBi hearing be said Oro and Vespra Townships have been con templated by the committee in possible srte locations Many observers favor ro Township because of its closer proximity to Orillia TEHRAN AP Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini stepped up his attacks on the United States on Thursday calling on all Moslems and American blacks to join us in this struggle between the infidel and Islam Khomeini also welcomed the wave of anti Americanism in Pakistan and urged the Pakistani army to rise against the oppres sion inflicted on their brothers in Iran Carter summoned his top foreign policy ad visers to Camp David today to plan new tac ties for gaining the release of 49 Americans still held as hostages in the US embassy in Tehran The embassy was taken over by Ira nian militants Nov They have since freed 13 Americans all either blacks or women Admiral Ahmed Madani the Iranian Navy commander said he has placed his forces on full alert after President arter ordch the carrier Kitty Hawk and five escort ships to sail from the Philippines into the Indian Ocean They will join the carrier Midway nov crusing about 995 kilometres l600 rnilesi south of Iran Pentagon spokesman said the Iranian navy consists of surface force of three destroyers and eight frigates THREATENS HOSTAGES Khomeini in statement broadcast by the official Radio Tehran warned that the students would blow up the embassy and kill the hostages if the US attempts to rescue them by force an idea already dismissed as too risky by US officials Khomeini said he read in newspaper that all the people of Pakistan are reported to have risen against America This is good news for our oppressed peo ple for they realize they are not alone Moslems must become single hand Moslem mob sucked the embassy in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad on Wednesday The attack was fuelled by rumor that the US was behind the takeover of Islams holiest shrine the Grand Mosque of Mecca in Saudi Arabia The Saudi govern ment has since blamed the mosque attack on religious fanatics of looters TEIIRAN Router Foreign Minister Abolhassan BaniSadr announced today that Iran will not pay its foreign debts estimated by the Central Bank of Iran at morethan $15 billion Speaking at Teheran University Bani Sadr said the bank had told him Thursday that Irans foreign debts originally estimated at $800 million now exceeded Slsbillion We will not pay these debts which were borrowed by looters he said BaniSadrs whose speech was broad cast lmsst live on the official Voice of the Islamic Revolution Radio said Irans banking and economic system would be changed to serve the Islamic revolution CUPW president Parrot reports to Ottawa ail TORONTO CP The president of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers spent the first of what could be 90 days in jail Thursday for defying federal legislation which ordered striking pOStal workers to return to work in October 1978 JeanClaude Parrot reported to an Ottawa jail after the Ontario Court of Appeal unanimously upheld the conviction Paul Cavalluzzo one of Parrots lawyers said he will try to appeal the judgment before the Supreme Court of Canada and will bring bail application before an Ontario Supreme Court judge today to have Parrot released pending hearing Parrot was convicted in April and sentenc ed to three months in prison as result of the incident The postal workers union wrthout con tract since June 30 1977 began legal strike Oct 16 1978 Parliaments backtowork order was effective Oct 19 and Parrot called an end to the strike six days later PARROT SlRRIINlHIREI Parrot surrendered Thursday as soon as thgec appeal court judges who had reserved decision on the appeal announced their deci sron Taken in by family Socolled wild dog finds home The wild dog of Alcona Beach has been saved The dog which likely would have been destroyed has been adopted by Muskokaarea family Sharon Worth who cared for the dog at the Ontario Humane Socrety on Patterson Road said she was happy to report that home was found for the dog The dog Siberian Husky who some Alcona Beach residents claimed killed 133 chickens and four turkeys was awaiting its fate at the Ontario Humane Society The dogs owner Sharon Roach of Toronto gave permrssron to have the dog killed She said she could not look after the dog and left it with her mother in Alcona Beach Her mother how ever was also unable to care for the dog Many people however wanted the dog saved saying it could not have kliiffl the The appeal court rejected the argument by Parrots lawyers that the union leader had acted as soon as possible in ordering his workers to return to work The lawyers had argued that Parrot would have created chaos among the postal workers if he had acted according to the letter of the law which declared the strike illegal and ordered the workers to return The court also rejected an argument by Parrots lawyers that the union leaders in dictment was illegal because it was preferred by the attorneygeneral of Canada rather than provincial attorneygcneral Cavalluzm questioned whether Parliament acted properly in making violation of its backtowork legislation the Postal Ser vices Continuation Act an offence under the Triminaltfode NATIONAL PROBLEM The Court of Appeal said The final deci sron to prosecute should fall to the attorney general of Canada when the federal Crown is seeking to enforce competent federal legisla tion dealing with national problem which has arisen contemporaneously throughout the country chickens and turkeys Roy Bridge lnnisfil bylaw enforcement officer repeatedly said the dog did not kill the animals The dog is friendly and most certainly not vrcrous he said Blythe Black livestock evaluator also said the dog could not have killed the animals Many people called the society about adopting the animal after story about it appeared in Wednesdays edition of The Examiner said Ms Worth Thursday the dog who was very preg nant when taken to the society had five pups two hite ones and three dark ones Ms Worth is glad that her hopes that someone would adopt the animal materialiwi Im happy she said That is very nice dog Div mosh71 My on