Barrie Historical Newspaper Archive

Barrie Examiner, 10 Dec 1979, p. 1

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Vc¢ Wellknown archbishop dead Newlyinstalled Bishop of the Rochester NY Roman Catholic diocese Fulton Sheen blesses an unidentified inmate during Christmas Day visit to Monroe County Penitentiary in this I966 photo Sheen succumbed to heart disease at his home in New York Sunday night See story Page llAP Photo Georgian Iranian students support Khomeini action By IclSTliIt For The IIuiiiiiner Iranian students at Georgian College overwhelmiiigly support the Ayatollah Khoincinis sanction of the student takeover of the US embassy in Tehran The Ayatollah is right said Amir Mostaghinii an Iranian firstyear mechanical engineering student at Georgian The sliali should be sent back to Iran to stand trial for all his crimes When asked how he felt about the Shahs family Mostaghinii said You cant hold the children of corrupt man responsible for their fathers crimes wouldnt want any of them in power though Of the to Iranian students attending Georgian tollege six say they will return to train upon completing studies The other tour are not sure Mostaghiini says he will return to Iran but not until he has completed his course at Georgian The students are enrolled in variety of courses ranging from design arts to electronic engineering One student whose family lives in Tehran said he would rather not coin ment on the present situation in his country The yatollali has threatened to put the remaining 49 American hostages on trial as spies unless the shah is returned toIran One common complaint of the students inside story Colts edge Orillia The Barrie tolts continued their winning ways Saturday night in Orillia defeating the secondplace Terriers 87 Rick Bowman and Tim Claydeii led the olts attack The Internitxliate Flyers did not have as inucii luck as the Colts dropping SH dccir sion to the Orillia Terriers the same night The Montreal taiiadicns continued their plunge to NHL mediocrity losing 775 to the lowly Colorado Itockies Sunday night It is the first time ever the Rockies have beaten the tlabs For more see Sports pages People feature starts Today new feature begins on the itest lc page profiles of Barrie people by Examiner reporter Alison Merkel lo days feature is on Stella Muir local woman whose professions include school teaching and niotlierhotxl and now writing Muir has iust had her first book of poetry published Turn to the Lifestyle pagefor the story Christmas evacuation More Barrie residents than ever are flock ing out of tow ii for the Christmas season But arious travel agents hold different views on where the majority of persons are going For more see the Today page index today lifestyle entertainment sports comicsW guide classified against the shah IS that while he was in power he deposited Iranian money into his own personal bank account outside the countrv and he deviated from na tional religion of Islam The shah deposited $19 billion in cash in Swiss bank said Mostaghimi While the shah deviated from national religion the Ayatollah has made religion his unifying force within the country the students say US student at Georgian says Presi dent Carter has no choice but to back the shah because the would lose face if he didnt Paul Colella an American stu dent studying business administration commented The shah is no more guilty of committing crimes than the Ayatollah If the American hostages are tried as espionage agents and found guilty Islamic law calls for execution by firing squad When asked if he thought the US would use military force in Iran Colelia said The US will probably cut them off economically which would hurt them lot more As the situation continues more and more countries are choosing sides Egypt has officially offered the Shah political asylum Egypt is offering the shah asylum becatise the shah aided Egypt in its fight against Israel said Bijan Golsorkhi firstyear Iranian student studying civil engineering at Georgian Fire guts home THORNTON fire early Saturday completely gutted Thornton home causing about $3oooo damage Owners of the home Mr and Mrs Jim Roth escaped injury and are staying with son in Holly The fire is believed to have been caused by small stove lire officials say Director principal meet The director of the countys school board met Friday with the principal of Midland school who strapped two boys over the schools public address system but no details of the discussion will be released Simcoe County Board of Education direc tor Irving Harris said the boards policy on personnel matters prohibits disclosure of any action taken Harris has described the actions of Syward Baker of Regent Public School as inexcusable and said last week that the incident was being looked into Baker strapped the two boys suspected of stealing from classrooms over the PA system as warning to other students he said The school has been faced itli mounting discipline problems since September Baker said Harris findings and any disciplinary ac tion initiated will be reported to the board confidentially he told The Eamiiier today Painswick home burns The kitchen living room and almost the entire front section of house on Highland Crescent Painswick as destroyed by fire Saturday evening The home residence of the Contois fami ly was vacant at the time of the fire said Innisfil Fire Chief Doug Rose today The fire took almost three hours to Control and is believed to have started in the base ment Official cause however has not yet been listed and the fire remains under investiga tion said Chief Rose 1151h year No 283 Monday Dec 10 1979 Ke roblem financial one 20¢ Per Copy the examiner sewing barriecnd Simcoe QQVUW Carrier Home Delivery 95 Weekly Unable to suppOrt fulltime By TERRY FIELD Of The Examiner Sir Wilfrid Laurier University is unable to support fulltime university program in Simcoe County its president said today study conducted to determine whether the school could develop program here was submitted Friday following several months of work The key pr0blcm is financial one Dr Neale Tayler mm The Examiner Others in clude the difficulty in establishing local administration hiring lecturers and the uncertainty regarding the number of poten tial students in the county The best we could have done was break even but lot of variables could affect our calculations he said Dr Tayler said full time program would cost some $75000 per year The university has operated parttime program in the county for 16 years He said the university would examine the fulltime program question again in four or fiveyears George Cooper chairman of committee of elementary teachers studying education in the county said the universitys decision was disappointing but blame rests with the ministry of colleges and universities The existing grant structure does not award schools which grow beyond certain point which means WLU would have to fund the Simcoe County program from ex isting grants he said The committee he chairs is planning to submit brief to the ministry in the new year outlining the perceived need for university program and requesting funding postsecondary planning report commis sioned by the committee said fewer students graduated from the countys high schools on per capita basis attend universitv than students in most counties in Ontario The report done by Dr David Coates of York University also concluded that there are not enough prospective students to justify the creation of program Its nowin situation he told The Ex aminer in an earlier interview Along with the education committee an Orillia based group has been since 1967 at tempting to establish university here The Simcoe College Foundation has land on Highway 11 and some funds but again says its chairman Sue Muleahy the provin cial grant system has prevented it from get ting school going bulletin Radio Shack will appeal an Ontario Labor Relations Board decision handed down last week accusing the company of bargaining in bad faith company vicepresident Jerry ol ella told The Examiner today Late last week Colella said the companys lawyers were stu dying the labor board decision to see if Radio Shack had an appeal case That was confirm ed today when Colclla said the appeal will be launched Festival has problem STRATFORD Ont CF Hicks president of the Stratford Festival Founda tion said Saturday the financial situation facing the festival is critical and next year may be its last Guerrilla killed LUSAKA Zambia Reuteri Zimbabwe Rhodesian planes killed one guerrilla and injured another Sunday in raid on camp of Joshua Nkomos Zimbabwe African Peoples Union forces in Zambia Zambian government spokesman said today Little damage was caused to the camp at Chinyainyu about 60 kilometres east of Lusaka he said 10 feared dead PRINCE RUPERT BC tCPi Ten per sons are feared dead after Canadian Forces helicopter crew found missing 10 metre fishboat Sunday washed ashore at Tree Point on the rugged Alaskan coast about 75 kilometres north of here RCMP and coast guard spokesman said the crew found three bodies on board the heavilydamaged gillnetter Salinta reported missing Friday Seven of those aboard were children aged three to 14 Names of those found were not released Die in stolen plane CLAREMONT Ont Cpl Two youths were killed when stolen light aircraft they were flying hit tree and crashed in field about four kilometres southwest of here Saturday police said The plane singleengined Cessa 150 was stolen Fridav night from Markham airport about eight kilometres from the crash site police said The two youths had not been identified Claremont isjust northeast of Toronto Real trees banned KITCHENER Ont tCPi Kitchener Cl ty council has banned natural Christmas trees from schools church halls and pubs says an official from the citys fire depart ment Eric Hunter of the fire prevention office also says the city is discouraging trees in apartment buildings because there is real danger of fire He said artificial trees should be used in public places and fines up to $1000 may be levied against persons breaking the new ci ty bylaw Dressed in traditional attire these members of the St Giles Church Choir of Barrie sing Christmas carols at the Victorian Christmas open house held at Simcoe County Penetan election toni Just an oldefashioned Christmas Museum Sunday large number of people turned out to the event held to show us how the festive season was celebrated years ago Photo by Greg Selkirk program here WLU resii Poll could split francophones There is slight chance tonights election in Penetanguishene of community represen tatives to the countys French Language Ad visory Committee could divide the tram cophone community estimated to be some 7000 Whether the undetermined portion of the French community which wants French secondary school of its own is represented on the newly elected committee the drive to have school established will continue says Basile Dorion head of an independent French school board operating in town It would be better if the committee represented our pointofview he told The Examiner today If committee that doesnt represent our pointofview is elected different type of school crisis will start Those favoring the school would be pitched against the portion of the French community which is against separate school being built Dorion said We would still fight our case legally the committee would be the voice of the French community but realistically the pro vince would have to deal with us 10 MAY RIN However he added as many as to sup porters of the secondary school proposal have said they may run Several of the six members of the committee who resigned in October may ruti for election once again he said The election at Ieneianguishene Secon dary School beginning at pm will be pro ceeded by nominations Voting is confined to Frenchspeaking ratepayers of Simcoe ouns ty and virtually too per cent of the countys francophone population lives in the Penetangiiishene area Dorian and others had hoped the resigna tions from the committee would mean its per manent death While no provision is made in extra Reach tentative accord Teachers at 22 community colleges in cluding Georgian College in Barrie and the provincial government have reached ten tative agreement calling for seven per cent increase in the first year of twoyear contract for teachers Negotiations will reopen sometime in the new year to set wage increase for the se cond year of the pact which is retroactive to Aug 31 of this year Wages were the only outstanding issue when the two sides and mediator sat down for twoday session in Toronto Thursday The agreement was reached late Friday Theitiiititi teachers membt rs of the tin tario Public Service Employees Union voted down an earlier offer from the council of regents the governing body of the col leges calling for per cent increase in vear one and in year two They wanted in per cent in year one and eight per cent plus costofliving in year Which one for president Presidential candidates Donald Badgley left RNY and John Haag right indCal show some of the variety in convention Saturday at Atlantas Presidential Kookie Candidate Convention Up to 25 candidates were ex pected to appear at the convention in the background as Uncle Sam 15 Kevin Joyner and as Keystone Cap is Frank Richards security man for candidate Nick Belluso who organized the event AP Photo Come home to The Examiner Cilll 7266539 for home delivery the Education Act fora mass resignation the ministr of education decided the hourl tiillfi stage efections to breathe life back into the committee Under the act the county school fit an is advised by the French language ttiltlliillitt on matters pertaining to the ttllltiiliill of francophones Board director Irving Harris says inn hav ing the committee has slowed action on ministry proposal to create French irziiii school in the existing high school The minischool is to have its own staff and assume portion of the building ltlll their in favor of separate school have lain iii the plan unworkable Since the demise of the French language committee the independent school lImttl Operating French secondary school mi of building on Main St has become llil ital voice of the proschool people two While having the option to bargain separately next year for new wage llL is attractive the pact itself is very oi dinary said Doug laukroger piisirlci1 it the Georgian ollcgc local Its the lowest we could possiiii cept he told The Examiner today The teachers bargaining lillllllv be recommending irceptaiice Vll membership votes on the deal on or January Gaukroger said govttr spokesman said the regents would ratify the pact later this tlil In vote which followed Jiftillll November teachers decided not to hack demands what It sags here that the poor ah is down to his last 100 million bucks vveather Mainly cloudy today with increas ing southeasterly winds Highs to remaining steady overnight Cloudy Tuesday with few Jnny periods and lanEOSifig southwesterly winds Chancfir shower later in the day ler Tuesday with highs near plus

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