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my TEHRAN AP Iran stepped up military activities today after Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini exhorted his followers to mobilize tofight the Satanic power of the United Staten laratroopcrs in full battle dress were seen at Tehrans Mchraoad Airport which is also major air force base embarking on Hercules transport aircraft for an unknown dcst irration Newspapers reported that the Iranian navy started litltfplfl operatiorn 11 the Persian Gulf The commanders of the army the navy and the air form all said that their forcet are on alert ready to defend Iran with the last dropof their blood The ground forces commander iden tified only as tier Fallahi was quoted in the Islamic Republic newspaper as sayingI he has ordered the air space over the holy city of Qum ltiti kllttlrltlit south of Tehran is the permanent residence ot Khomeini Irans religious and political leader Outside the Erriliassy in Tehran where 49 IS hostages ari fltldlllttl the revolutionary guards and militant students guarding the compound started distributing weapons training pamphlets to hudreds of demonstrators who gathered outside the gates DENIES NII The war chcr and exjxctatioris of iin rninent military intervention reached such plith that the gowinor of ltushcr province issued an official denial through the Paris news agency stating that rumors about the landing of marines in the pro vincc are untrue bulletin WASHINGTON tAlt IIS senator said today President Carter considers the honor of the lnittd States rriorc important than the American hostages being held by Iranian student militants at the IZS enilt bassy in Tehran The president made it clear that the honor comes before the lives of the hostages Senator lleiinett Johnston tllem lat said after breakfast meeting with the president lran mobilizes forces on alert Busher is in the southeastern corner of Iran next to Pakistan with its shoreline along the Arabian Sea Last week the CS government announced that units of its Pacific fleet had set sail for this area The Bustier governor Ahmed Moudaresi Zadeti told Pars that Iranian naval radar units are on constant alert Khomeini find in speech broadcast Monday by Tehran Radio An Islamic country ought to tie military one DART BOARD Stick Hola In The Ayatollah Anger against Iran has led to brisk sales of this dartboard featuring the Ayatollah Khomeini The 20 by 24 inch item distributed by Bonita California firm called Up Your image were selling for S3 AP Photo Another Liberal victory in Quebec byelection MONTHICAI It chalked up another byelcction victory Mori day as Hebert Marx mcrwhclmcd Iarti Qucbccois candidate Itavul Levine 233111 Provincial Liberals votes to 791 in the riding ofliArcy Mttiee Marx 47yearold professor in constitu tional law at Universite de Montreal drew almost 97 per cent of the votes cast in the predominantly Englishspcaking riding Ive never heard of winning by too much Marx joked with supporters when his stagger ing margin of vctory became apparent think this will go into the Guinness Book of World Records as the greatest sweep in the democratic world outside of course of the Soviet lnion dont think its dangerous at all for members of the Jewish community to vote massively for one party Marx said referr ing to the predominantly Jewish makeup of the riding Levine 31 an aide to Economic Develop ment Minister Bernard Landry captured some polls along the east side of the riding where an increasing nuziilier ot trancophones have been settling in recent years Meter permits could rise to l50peryear in Barrie By DENNIS INTllIElt Of The Examiner Parking metcr permits will cost $150 per year in Barrie in 1080 it general committee recommendation reached Monday is passed by council The permits allow holders to park in metered spaces year round without putting money in the meter The fee has remained at $100 since about 1071 city engineer Ray Allen told council Administration had recommended that it be doubled to $200 Ald Jim Shirley recommcndtxl the $50 in crease saying the $100 proposal was exhor bitant TERMEI lSEFlI The permits are useful though and pro mote the downtown area because it facilitates trade the alderman said 3100 bike would be hi one all at once inside story City placing ads The Barrie city clerk has been authorized to begin advertising in local newspapers whenever Vernons Directories Ltd come back to town The ad will say the enumera tion is not being conducted by the city but private company For more see the Today page Donor clinic begins 24 ollicr St in Barrie is flowing in blood The Red Cross is staging twoday blood clinic at that location It began Monday and continues today Examiner photographer Peter Roberts dropped by the clinic Mon day to get visual look at proceedings For lively photos see the Today pa gc Blue Jay honored The Toronto Blue Jays Alfredo Griffin was named cowinncr of the Rookie of the Year Award in the American League Mon day Griffin is the first Blue Jay to win major award and it is expected he will get big pay raise from the tea The Seattle Seahawks behind the strong left arm of uarterback Jim Zorn crushed the New or Jets 30 in the Monday night NFL garrie For more see Sports page index 13 14 15 pages pages agreed Ald Alex Arthur But thats the pro blcm of not looking at it each year he add ed The proposed raising of rates is com parable to the proposed bike for dumping sludge at the sanitary landfill site said Ald Ross Stephens Theres nothing wrong with the idea but raising it all at once is hard to digest he said When city council earlier increased its parking meter rate it failed to follow suit for the permits at the same timc This is an at tempt to equalize that action city engineer Ray Allen told the committee In related move the committee recom mended an increase in the price of taxi stand permits from $100 to $2th per vear There are just two stands in Barrie one on tlapperton Strict and the other on Maple Street This pintSized italion greyhound found pot in the large irish wolfhound at the obedience trials held at the James Street Armoury in Hamilton Ont CP Photo Asks rents fairness OTTAWA Defence Minister Allan McKinnon says he has asked the defence department to dexclop fairer way of handling rents for armed forces housing an issue which has stirred widespread discon tcn 11 the military Mchmnon ickriowimigei Monday that 57 sernccnici talgarj haw applet to rectntly lcayc the forces becaux announcml rent iicescs BLT he was not MW RVH deficit less than expected By TERRY FIELD Of The Examiner The deficit in spending expected this year by Royal Victoria Hospital will not be as ex treme as initially thought says the chairman ofthe hospital board Earlier this year hospital officials had said the deficit for 1979 would be 3377000 but John Cockburn said Monday the figure will be substantially lower at the end of the fiscal year March 31 Hospital administrator Donald Cameron said the exact figure will not be known until March but he added its not big problem anymore MET DEMANDS Royal Victoria has met all the demands made by Ontarios ministry of health to make it eligible for grant to cover the deficit Cockburn told The Examiner following meeting of the hospital board Monday He said the hospitals request for additional funds will be formally made within few weeks but the ministry will not act until the 115 Year No 272 Tuesday Nov 27 1979 actual deficit is known he said During Mondays sessmn the board voted in favor of conducting $240 study into the deficiencies in the hospitals facilities The last hospital expansion took place in 1968 and officials say additional space is re quired to account for growth in the area We have some very seriogs concerns about our emergency care intensive care and Coronary care nckbiim said We havent the room to juggle these things around and create additional space 20¢ Per Copy OlTLINE NEEDS The study will outline Royal Victorias needs for the next 10 years Cameron said gt As part of ministry guidelines on spending the hospital board will also undertake latein 19m or early in 1981 an extensive study of its overall operation in an attempt to ensureall money coming from the province is being well spent The study will be conducted by Ontario Medical Association staff in conjunction with hospital personnel Cockburn said Carrier Home Delivery 95 Weekly the examner serving barrie and Simcoe Chan es ur entl needed Crombie Ottawa to protect pensions from effects of infl TORONTO CP The federal govern ment intends to protect pensions from being eroded by inflation Health Minister David Crombie said Monday Speaking to the Association of Pension Management Crombie also said the govern ment would like to see the mandatory retire ment age of 65 removed and pensions ad ministered differently to allow for mobility in the work force so that people wont be penalized for leaving job The needs of women will be examined Crombie said because their jobs are inter rupted more often by such things as child rearing and their employment tends to be concentrated in areas of relatively low pen sion coverage and wages Although Crombie did pot indicate when changes would be introduced he said protec tion against inflation and allowance for mobility were urgently needed He added that legislation protecting allowances given pensioners widows under 65 will be introduced in this session of Parlia ment Crombies comments come on the heels of report from the Economic Council of Canada which said Monday that an income above the poverty line should be available to all retired Canadians PREDICTS NO ISSUE Old people their pensions and societys at titude toward them will be the No issue in the next decade Crombie said It may be hard to imagine elections being fought on pensions but thats what just hap pened in Sweden he added Little pr0perty damage in county wind storm By STEPHEN NICHOLLS Of The Examiner High winds gusting up to 55 kmhr broke branches and toppled trees in Simcoe County Monday but little property damage was reported t3yearold Barrie woman was taken to hospital about after pine tree toppled Teddy and Joan Kennedy are back together aware of such applications at other Cana dian bases He said in the Commons he expects report in the next two days on better way of charging rents for married quarters on Canadian Forces bases Fitness trial starts fitness trial began Monday in Ontario Supreme Court in Barrie to determine if man charged in the 1976 murder of five yearold child is mentally fit to stand trial Richard Ray Carter 34 is charged with the murder of Jaime Triston Shearer whose skeleton was found in Springwater Park The accused was found unfit for trial on May 19 1978 but on June 29 of this year Carter was determined fit for trial On Monday Dr Peter Roswell an Oakvilte psychiatrist gave testimony at the fitness trial held before jury panel Dr Roswell had interviews with the ac cused on April 14 1978 and May 19 of the same year The fitnesstrialcontinuestoday Conflict case delayr It could be six months before the case into the Barrie Police Commission is heard says Brian Johnston legal counsel to the Ontario Police Commissron JohrLston told The Examiner today he would approach the divisional Supreme Court at Toronto in an attempt to put the case on anemergency 1151 The normal time span for the case to be heard though would be six months he said The Ontario Police Commission inquiry was adjourned Oct 15 pending Supreme Court ruling on whether the commission was the right group to handle conflict of in terest charges Gets royal treatment Environment Minister John Fraser gets royal treatment from his department Whenever he arrives at the Environment Canada offices in Hull the commissionaires commandeer an elevator and take him up to his seventhle office The commissionaires have even been known to order people out of an elevator to ensure that Fraser rides alone and fell onto her car on Sunnidale Road Tina Chitty was shaken up but uninjured said city police today Her car sustained $1200 damage DOWNS LINES That tree took down power lines and knock ed out electricity to about 1500 residents said Bill Elson of Barries public utilities commis sron The arks department said residents report broken tree limbs at 98 Blake Street and the corner of Blake and Rodney Streets Tree branches were also reported down on Highway 12 between Orillia and Coldwater and on County Road 30 near Elmvale Elmvale OPP said car sustained minor damage when it collided with the fallen tree on County Road 30 Innisfil Police said small tree was toppled on Fern Road in the Bell Ewart area Small branches were reported down throughout the county GUSTING WINDS CKBBs weather station recorded wind gusts up to 55 kmhr Monday evening Gord Bastion newscaster told The Examiner the stations instruments measured wind speed this morning at 25 kmhr Weather forecasters expect rain and snow tonight with periods of snow Wednesday High temperatures today should be five to seven degrees falling to zero to three degrees overnight Fire reveals ve ation ritable zoo Firemen Jim Daling left and Ron Joyce examine live boo constrictor following an apartment fire Monday in Dartmouth NS in which two boa constrictors died Neighbors bagged two snakes which escaped during the melee Also in apartment were cages of rabbits mice and rats Man at centre is friend ofsnakes owner CP Photo Increasingly says Pilkey Police used as strikebreakers TORONTO Pt Cliff Pilkey president of the Ontario Federation of Labor says employers are increasingly using police as strikebreakers just as they used private security firms few decades ago In speech for delivery today at the federa tions fourday convention Pilkey said predictable sixvstage strikebreaking pattern has developed First strike leaders are identified to police by company managers Second police escort ironstriking workers through picket lines Third charges such as public mischief and obstruction are laid Fourth arrested strikers are given the choice of remaining in jail until date for trial has been set or signing an agreement not to picket or to participate in strike activities Dramatic rescue An unidentified Windsor woman is pulled from the Detroit River Monday photo left in dramatic rescue after she lumped ilt Without explana tion Four city police officers and several bystanders were needed to haul the woman trom the water in the photo on the right Sgt Robert Boycott clings to life preserver after helping the woman out of the 38F water Both were treated in hospital for exposure CP Photo Come home to The Examiner Call 7266537 for home delivery upon release Fifth after picket lines have been thinned trial dates for three or four months later are set Sixth most of the charges are withdrawn or dismissed when the trial occurs It is sad truth that the police have assumed the role played half Century ago by private securit companies Pilkey said He compa the Ontario Provincial Police force to Pinkertons private security firm which became known several decades ago for strikebreaking work PAY TO BE HARASSED To add insult to injury the very workers arrested harassed and intimidated by the police are subsidizing the companys strike breaking efforts through their own tax dollars System for disabled OKd new transit system for the physically disabled has been approved by Barrie City council The new system incorporating one bus service is expected to begin operation in Januaryand run atleast three years It is expected to benefit over 300 physicallydisabled persons in Barrie Last week the citys general committee recommended the action approved by council Monday Charged in 78 slaying Provincial police have charged 42year old man with the 1978 murder of year old Collingwood woman Barry James Stevens formerly of Wasaga Beach is in custody said Cpl Wes Prosser of Barrie OPP but no date has been set for his court appearance Stevens is charged with the first degree murder of Gwendolyn Fletcher who was reported missing after she disappeared en route from Colingwood to Sudbury June 20 Her decomposed body was found near Elmvale Oct 171978 Whistling may be out The Canadian Transport Commission will be requested to requrre Canadian Na tional to discontinue train whistling on the main line through Barrie Barrie general committee recommended the action at meeting Monday bylaw was earlier prepared banning the whistling pending the placing of signals on the Mulcaster Street crossing said Ben Straughan city clerk Its been major hassle for 15 years which is finally being resolved said Mayor Ross Archer weather Mostly cloudy today Periods of rain and snow tonight Wednesday periods of snow Highs today to Laws overnight zero to Temperatures on Wednesday foll ing to by midafternoon