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wc Tired Danceathoners plod on Examiner Photo 80 weary students dance the night away By ALISON MERKEL of The Examiner Disco bop and heavy rock played through the night at lnnisdale Secondary School cholrs Danceathon This mom ing at eight oclock tthere were still about 60 students dancing Teacher Jim Leonard estimates the gross income from pledges may be as high as $1000 In addition there were about 150 ticketbuyers for dance that ended at midnight representing more than$200in profit Leonard was enthusiastic as weary dancers and chaperones headed home This is our first Danceathon and feel it has been great success The kids were very cooperative and we didnt have any big incidents The night was team effort with the 80 participants enjoying orange juice and Gatorade donated by the Collier St IGA and doughnuts sent as gift from Tim Hortons Parents visited throughout the night with replacement socks beveragss and other aids Students Chris Hadley Bob Jones and Rob Bowen worked all night in the cafeteria serving up hamburgers and french fries Another student Jim Fike served as disc jockey Jim had about 500 albums to choose from and as many singles Leonard said four students were stay ing to clean up and school authorities gave full cooperation The school board lent us the sound equipment and the students set it up he said The choir has additional fund raising projects in the works with sale of candles under way and spring dance planned The Fig Leaf Jam Band will tgive benefit performance for that af air Proceeds from these activities will be used to purchase sheet music and assist in the financing of band trips Leonard says We are thinking of go ing to see Richard Burton in musical next June The band would stay over night and have dinner together More prisoners get passes in face of strike threat Barrie Jail officials released more prisoners than usual on temporary absence passes this weekend and they may release more next week if guards strike says the jail superintendent Duncan McFarlane told The Examiner Friday 23 prisoners were released from Camp Hillsdale the jails minimum securi ty work camp north of here and two or three prisoners were released on passes from thejail He said that is about to 30 per cert higher than usual McFarlane said the threat of guard strike compelled jail administrators to release the extra prisoners All prisoners released were servmg sentences of less than 60 days and inside story Look at ski areas Examiner Sports Writer Cathy Heather has prepared comprehensive report on six ski resorts in the Barrie area The report is good guideline of what the six resorts have to offer skiers Three of the areas have new directors of skiing and all have made at least some Im provements on their establishments whether it be in facilities or personnel For Miss Heathers report see page 0t todays Examiner lnnisfil chops budget lnnisfil Township councillors spent Fri day chopping and rechopping their 1980 budget Council members sacrificed their propos ed paper shredder but decided to keep roadside alcohol tester and metric conver sion equipment For more on Innisfils third draft budget see page Santa advice This is the time of year when Santa Claus outfits become as popular as tinsel in stores and malls across North America Chicago Santa Claus coach tells prospective San tas to work on their Ho Ho Ho but never make passes at the kiddies mommiesSee todays Lifestyle page page 10 index todav lifestyle entertainment sports comicutv guide classified McFarlane described them as minor of fenders Most of them are in for impaired driv ing driving while suspended that kind of thing said McFarlane None of them is charged with serious offence If the jails 39 guards strike Monday the jail administration will release more prisoners on temporary absence to prevent problems which might result from the strike Its something can use if we run into problems said McFarlane If we need room and there are people in there with only few days left to serve cer tainly use temporary absence to get them out of there he said City hit by walkout MONTREAL CP The citys bus and subway system was idle today for the se cond time this week as 3700 drivers and operators staged another 24hour walkout Negotiations between the union and the Montreal transit commission have bogged down over work scheduling and paid travel time Todays work stoppage is the third 24 hour strike by the union since mid November The system was shut down Thursday Engine on way out FLINT Mich AP The beginning of the end came Friday for the Buick V38 engine The final Buick block was poured at the General Motors Corp Buick Division engine plant in Flint It was presented to the Alfred Sloan Museum in the city for permanent display About 40000 V8 blocks cast from the final mold will be machined and installed in Buick cars until April 1980 The engine is being discontinued in favor of smaller more fiielefficient engines Suffers minor injuries Utopia youth escaped with minor in juries after losing control of the pickup truck he was driving on Ardagh Road just south of Barrie early this morning said police The westbound vehicle driven by James Travis 16 struck hydro pole and the hydro meter on house before landing up side down in wooded area at about 1215 am The damage estimate was unaiailable this morning Storms hit search bid SCOTT BASE Antarctica tReuter Blinding snow storms today kept recovery teams from searching for bodies at the desolate Antarctic Site where an Air New Zealand DClo plowed into the side of mountain killing 257 persons The teams feared they will find only 115th year No 276 Saturday Dec 1979 20¢ Per Copy Carrier Home Delivery 95 Weekly the examiner Iranians claim hostage serving barrie and simcoe caunty admits being CIA agent TEHRAN AP Militant Iranian students claimed today that one of their American hostages identified as William Daugherty has confessed to being an agent of the US Central Intelligence Agency The militants and Irans revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini have threatened to put all 50 hostages at the US embassy on trial as spies if the United States does not hand over the deposed Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi Earlier today the students said three senior US diplomats detained at the Ira nian foreign ministry were the head of the spies and must be kept in Iran along with the hostages at the embassy compound DENIES STATEMENT Irans acting foreign minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh said Friday the three could leave the country But after the militants objected today he reversed himself deny ing he had ever said it The allegations about Daugherty were made at news conference before more than 100 foreign reporters admitted into the embassy compound Four of the militants produced what they Dies following highway crash William Dow personnel manager at the newlyopened HayesDana Ltd plant in Bar rie died Friday night in Toronto General Hospital following headon collision on Highway 27 last Saturday The 42yearold St Catharines man came to Barrie in January of this year as person nel manager for the two plants that opened here this year He had been employed at HayesDana in Thorold for 15 years Dow leaves behind wife and four children ages 12 tn 18 Mike Ostrowski Barrie plant manager says Dow was instrumental in forming new philosophy for better treatment of employees at the new plant He says Dow will be missed by all HayesDana employees Robert Carlson 28 of Barrie also died earlier this week as result of the collision Bell may drop call proposal OTTAWA CP Bell Canada said Fri day it is considering dropping its controver sial proposal to charge customers by the number length and distance of telephone calls within an exchange rather than by fix ed monthly bills In press release the telephone company said one of the reasons it wanted to study measured service was because it could pro duce lower monthly phone bills for low income subscribers But the company noted that the Cana dian Radiotelevision and Telecommunica tions Commisson accepted the position that twoparty service is an offering suitable for consideration as budget service onequarter of the bodies The rest either slid down deep crevasses or were buried in the snow on the slopes of Mount Erebus Funeral services held Services were held Friday for former Collier Street United Church minister Rev Ernest Lewis who died Wednesday at Stevenson Memorial Hospital in Alliston Husband to Louise Addison Rev Lewis is also survived by daughter Elizabeth Ann Lewis of Port Credit son Peter Lewis of Willowdale and brother Stephen Lewis of Guelph family service was held at the John Thomas Funeral Homein Alliston Cremation followed Memorial donations can be made to the Mission and Service Fund of the United Church Wall bad influence PEKING Reuter The Peking Daily says municipal authorities have apparent 1y decided to close the the Chinese capitals Democracy Wall because it is having an extremely bad influence on society The newspaper says the Peking Revolu tionary Committee decided Friday that the postercovered wall which has been focus for political statements during the last year was interfering with moderniza tion and should be dealt with Abortion bill blocked OTTAWA CP Two New Democrats blocked bill in the Commons on Friday that would have strengthened the law of abortion Margaret Mitchell of Vancouver East and Svend Robinson of Burnaby BC kept the debate on the bill going until the hour reserved for private members business expired and there was no time foravote Buffalo gets snow BUFFALO NY AP An intense and longlasting snow storm was expected to continue belting this area during the weekend after dumping as much as one metre of snow on some areas in two days said was secret message sent trom the embassy to the US state department in August concerning the arrival of Daugherty and second man Malcolm Kalp on SRF assignments Daugherty and Kalp are among the hostages who have been held at the embassy for the last month student leaders said The students did not appear to know what the initials signified and told questioning reporters ask the CIA But they said the document helps prove their insistence that the embassy was an espionage centre Daugherty has confessed he is CIA of ficer said student spokesman The students said Kalp had not yet been asked On another matter the students ignored US challenge to allow neutral observers to see all the hostages We assure the world and the American people of the safety com fort and health of the hostages said one The two young women and two men refus ed to confirm that all the hostages are still at the embassy There have been un confirmed reports that some have been moved elsewhere $9435 Of course it keeps runmn of the rails Its true to life mode Metro man sentenced One of two men charged in connection with the Aug 28 stabbing of Barrie cab driver was sentenced in provincial court Friday to jail term of two years less day plus probation Richard Dwayne Beckett 16 of Toronto was found guilty on charges of wounding kidnapping and robbery after Joseph McLaughlin Deluxe cab driver was forc ed to stop his cab at knifepoint on Highway 27 He was robbed then taken to field near Alliston where he was stripped and stabbed in the leg Coaccused Glenn Darryl Verville 26 of Toronto is awaiting trial Beckett was also found guilty of break enter and theft in connection with an inci dent at house on Kempenfelt Drive Defence lawyer Bill Mackenzie said he plans to appeal the sentence handed down by Judge Donald Inch and will go to the Ontario Court of Appeals to ask for im mediate bail for Beckett pending the ap pea Annies seen it all inCIUding Sasquatch NELSON HOUSE Man CP Annie Moose whos seen it all including sasquatch in her 112 years has no 52 magic formula for longevity God has given me this lifetime to fulfil she says guess only He can fig say why Ive lived so long But she adds that her long life in the wilds of the northern Manitoba bush could have something to do with the way she has adjusted to hardships enjoyed living kept away from alcohol and look ed after her husband and children Ive always been oneman woman and that means lot says the tiny silkyhaired greatgrandmother who is known simply as Annie Annie whose husband Joe Moose died about to years ago had 18 children but only three sons and two daughters are still living Many years ago at place called Devils Narrows her family had set up camp and Annie was gathering spruce boughs huge horriblelooking Wetego devilperson in the Cree Indian language came out of the bush and headed for the children That was the on ly Wetego ever saw It was bigger than the biggest man It had terrible looking face District OPP superintendent says Fighting l980 crime with 72 police force By STEPHEN NICHOLLS of The Examiner Provincial police in this area are fighting 193 crimc with 31972 police force And they are losing that fight says Barrie District OPP Supt Roy Burkett Crime rises population grows and traffic increases yearly but the 400man district force has not added man in eight years There is no way we can keep pace Supt Burkett told The Examiner Our obligatory duties have increased by 20 per cent since Jan 1979 We dont have the manpower to keep up The result local OPP have become response force running from call to call without time for crime prevention programs or extensive criminal investigations The toll is harder on the policemen Supt Burkett said his men are overwork ed tired and discouraged Many suffer fatigue and stress Many more experience marital difficulties because of demands resulting from short staffed policing Several men have had to resign because ofnervous disorders stemming from their work Supt Burkett says Barrie District is On tarios busiest OPP district but it is the worst off in terms of manpower District has 360 police officers and 40 civilian employees to cover an area in cluding Simcoe and Dufferin Counties and Muskoka District Different anyay Santa has drafted some new help this year to deliver toys to the children of the world Tina the elephant The pair put in an early visit at downtown Vancouver mall Friday Santa wouldnt say how the 22 ton animal got on with the other members of his reindeer team but he didnt anticipate any landing problems come Christmas CP Photo Come home to The Examiner Call 7566537for home delivery Barrie District has more men than any other OPP district but it is badly understaf fed for the work it must handle said Supt Burkett Its the vacation areas that cause us pro blems he said Summer brings heavy traf fic and high rates of disturbances and drug offences But in recent years winter crime has in creased drastically he said With winter tourism theres lot more traffic and more people around in winter lot of people are using their cottage all year long now And we have more breakins in cottages now than ever before Criminals can get into areas which used to be inaccessible by using snowmobiles We sometimes have to take men off highway patrol and put them on to snowmobiles Wasaga Beach is problem centre during summer months because of the great influx of vacationers Compared to other districts Barrie is swamped he said Downsview is big district in terms of manpower but all they handle primarily is traffic and its steady flow of trafic that is essentially the same all the time Mount Forest to the west and Peter borough to the east handle the same kinds of things we do but they dont have as many problems as we do he said OFor more see Officers overworked page Noted actress dies LONDON CP Joyce Grenfell who created the character of spinsterish upperclass Englishwoman whom she made popular in 40year career which included 17 films died Friday of cancer She was 69 Her films included The Galloping Major Laughter in Paradise The Bells of St Trinians and Pickwick Papers Her autobiography Joyce Grenfell Requests the Pleasurewas bestsellerin1976 French gasoline $27l PARIS AP The decline of the US dollar on the world market has tempered the latest gasoline increase in France The economics ministry said Friday the price for high grade gasoline will increase to $291 gallon and that of regular to $271 starting Dec an overall 15percent in crease this year Snow squalls forecast TORONTO CP Some squalls can be expected in snowbelt regions of Ontario this weekend the Toronto weather office said Friday night The weather office expected the squalls to taper off by Sunday Flurries were ex pected elsewhere in the province Bloodletting ritual BAHRAIN CP Frenzied masses of Shiite Moslems in Bahrain whipped themselves with metal chains and leather thongs Friday in climax to three da bloodletting religious rituals ys 0f weather Mainly cloudy and cold with flur ries today and tonight local snowsqualls developing near Lake Huron and Georgian Bay giving ac cumulations up to 30 cms Brisk northwesterly winds High today to low tonight l2 to Sunday variable cloudiness few flurries high to