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Bell strikers off Christmas tsmge 315135 $¥r$ sew451 VetW story Callers miss long distance feeling Discomania Ken Stackhouse and Debbie Lee are two Barrie members of the disco generation They tell us why as todays Lifestyle page reviews the Seventies Carlo Bartolacci the director of skiing at Medonte Mountain wants to start proracrng circuit in Ontario He hopes to kick things off with race at Medonte ear in the new year Ellie Guidolin who started with the Ice Capades when she was just 16 years old has lived in Barrie for the past 12 years After her retirement as skater Ellie taught figure skating at several clubs For more see Sports pages Changing trends On todays Lifestyle page we look at dominant themes and trends of the 705 It was big decade for women celebrating International Womens Year in 1977 and the 10 year anniversary of the womens movement In practical terms it meant women breaking out of traditional roles esneciallv in the work force index today lifestyle sports oomicstv guide classified First Christmas LauroAnn Amos age to months was all smiles as she celebrated her first Christmas with her daddy Charles Amos This was familiar scene at many Barrie households early Christmas morning Examiner Photo NDP meeting Jan It may be that quiet time of the year biit the New Democratic Party Simcoc South Riding Association has been busy with ar rangements for the upcoming federal elec tion The group announces that Jim Foulds MPP Port Arthur will be guest speaker at the Jan meeting to determine the party candidate for the election The meeting will be held at the Prince of Wales School on Bradford Street It is expected that laye Lamb and Paul lessenger will oppose each other though neither one has confirmed their intention to run just yet Aerial protest NEW YORK lAP 27vyeardld man upset about IVS hostages being held in Iran climbed to the top of ltockefellcr Cen tres 21metre Christmas tree early today and remained aloft for an hour and 20 minutes before he was led do by police Free the 50 George Young shouted after policemen helped him down from the thick Norway Spruce at 340 am is Alive Elevenyearold Darven Miller visits with his mother Darlene Minto and his stepfather Donald Minto at St Josephs Hospital Chippewa Falls The boy nearly drowned in Duncan Creek Dec l3 when he went through the ice but he is on the road to recovery now Ac cording to his doctors he had been under the cold water for about 30 minutes and was clinically dead when he arrived at the hospital APPhotol Thieves nab medals LONDON Ont CP At least 16 military medals with an estimated value of $40000 were stolen in breakin at Cana dian Forces Base London Museum during the weekend police said Tuesday Police said they were told the medals dated from the First and Second World Wars and included 21 Victoria Cross bearing the name of Lieut Gregg former federal labor minister who died last year Search called off THUNDER BAY nt 1P The active search has been called off for Piper Aztec aircraft which disappeared near the city Dec 14 while on medical mission from Sandy Lake spokesman for the search and rescue wing at Canadian Forces Base Trenton said Tuesday that military personnel and air craft involved for the last 10 days in the search just northwest of Thunder Bay returned home after Mondays effort prov ed fruitless The aircaft went down within sight of Thunder Bay Airport Hail peace accord SALISHIHY lAP Thousands of jubilant blacks broke down barbedwire topped fence today and greeted wildly the first group of officers from the Patriotic Front guerrilla alliance to fly home under the Rhodesian ceasefire accord They also smashed the windows of the bus carrying the officers in frenzy to reach them with hugs and kisses The 13man contingent flew in from Zanr bia to begin leading thousands of of their soldiers from bush hideouts to ceasefire assembly camps Police had closed the airport to all but passengers and reporters but about 80 black airport workers cheered wildly as Com mander Matcla Masiiku led his camou flaged sidearmcarrying men off the plane 50000 hear Pope VATICAN CITY iAPl Pope John Paul in his Christmas Day message reaffirmed the Roman Catholic Churchs opposition to abortion and urged society to respect the dignity of children Inder chilly and overcast skies crowd estimated by the Vatican at more than 50000 packed St Peters Square for the Popes traditional lrbi et lrbi to the city and the world blessing from the balcony of St Peters Basilica vveather Mostly cloudy with isolated tiurrres today and Thursday High today near Lows tonight to Highs Thursday zero to TORONTO The Christmas spirit just didnt have that longdistance feeling this year Bell Canadas 7500 operators in Ontario and Quebec threw overseas and operator handled service into chaos Christmas Day by walking off the job CALLERS MISSED spokesman for the operators union the Communication Workers of Canada said the operators will take the same action at New Years Company spokesman said onlv low percentage of calls got through Christmas Day although no specific figures were available Last year with operators on the job only 15 per cent of 139000 overseas calls placed through Metropolitan Toronto operators were completed Even on normal day only 20 per cent of operatorhandled overseas calls get through because circuits at the receiving end are busy Bell spokesmen said Bell information officer Gordon Bleasdell 115m year No 296 Wednesday Dec 26 1979 20¢ Per Copy the examiner serving barrie and simcoe said Christmas was busy day for the 1150 management personel who filled in for operators The operators who have been without contract for more than year The 40 Barrie operators scheduled to work Christmas Day were off and replaced by 20 management employees Although the lines were busy Caroline Wise manager of operator services here says there were fewer calls than usual She attributes the decline to the extensive advertising by Bell in the face of the strike asking customers to dial direct Normally only 20 per cent of overseas calls from Barrie go through on Christmas Day because the system is not built to handle the overload Mrs Wise said This year the number of calls that were connected was slightly lower although the figures are not yet available She urges customers to dial direct or not call long distance at all until tomorrow when all operators are expected to be back on the job Carrier Home Delivery 95 Weekly Navy rescues 100 persons from sinking cruise ship By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Chilean navy rescued more than 100 persons including two Canadians from the Swedish cruise ship Lindblad Explorer which ran aground in Antarctica while film ing science fiction movie about the end of the world and skeleton crew remained aboard today waiting for salvage tugs to pull the vessel off reef There continued to be conflicting reports on the exact number of people aboard the Ex plorer when it ran aground about noon Mon day and how many were evacuated The ships radio operator said 70 passengers and 35 crew members were transferred in lifeboats to the Chilean naval vessel Piloto Pardo They were expected to reach Punta Arenas Chile about 1100 kilometres from the reef late today But Chilean LtCmdr Rodrigues Solar said in Punta Arenas that 108 passengers and 34 crew members had been evacuated The radio operator of the Lindblad Ex plorer told an Australian newspaper by radio telephone Tuesday that the ship still was firmly wedged on the uncharted reef but was in no immediate danger of sinking We are all safe and are keeping our fingers crossed that two salvage tugs will ar rive to help us get off the rocks he said We can do nothing but wait until they arrive to help us Chilean ships weoe standing by the 80 metre Explorer located 15 km north of Paradise Bay in the Palmer Peninsula about 250 km north of the US Palmer Coast Guard Station in Grahamland Antartica Norwegian and Russian tug boat were on route Christmasbaby arrives en route to hospital By STEPHEN NICHOLLS of The Examiner Dunlop Street woman received special gift Christmas Day sevenpound baby girl who arrived in an ambulance enroute to Royal Victoria Hospital Barrie ambulance attendants were called to Susan Denneys home to take her to the hospital but little Melanie Alissa surprised everyone and arrived sooner than expected It just came so fast said Mrs Denney It really surprised me Ambulance attendants Tom Winter 26 and Len Hollands 40 arrived at Mrs Denneys home at 1005 am When we got there we found the woman was on the couch and was in labor said Hollands As we were taking her through the apart ment to the ambulance she went into con tragtions and the baby presented itself he sai The contractions subsided and the at tendants decided to take her to the hospital RADIOED FOR HELP The baby started coming just as we arriv ed under the canopy at the emergency en trance said Hollands He said his partner Winter started helping Mrs Denney with the delivery while Hollands radioed for doctor and nurse By the time they got there however the babv was well on its way Mrs Denney praised the two attendants for their help They were really good said Mrs Denney But think he Winter was pretty nervous himself Winter in Tillsonburg today could not be reached by The Examiner Hollands said Winter has been Barrie ambulance atten dant for two years and this was his first baby delivery here Hollands said in his six years as an attendant he has only been called upon to deliver one baby Mrs Denney 19 and her husband Dwight moved to Barrie in May They have one other child 21month old boy named Robin FOUR BOYS The Denneys daughter was the only girl born in Barrie on Christmas Day this year The other four Christmas babies were boys The first to arrive in Barrie Tuesday was Corry Rudolph Pavlik Corry was born at 519 am to Mr and Mrs Rudy Pavlick 66 Fox Run Barrie Mr and Mrs Charles Hardy of 538 Cumberland St had son at 538 am and they named him Joseph Raymond Scott Timothy Adair was born at 805 am to Mr and Mrs Timothy Adair of 57 Jacobs Terrace Barrie and Mr and Mrs Jim Leonard of 37 Springliolme Road had Ray mond Joseph James at907 Pacific storm termed worst in decade By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Ski resort owners cheered the snow that fell on California mountains in what mete orologists called one of the worst storms on the US West Coast in decade But some homeowners glumly surveyed the damage after as much as metres of snow fell in three days Its been humdinger said Tom Fort of Plavada near the ski resort area of Soda waistséi is Fine feathered friends Hirakawa rare Siberian crane at the international Crane Foun dation near Baraboo has produc ed no fertile eggs thus far by her mate Wolf background so lCF scientists have obtained new potential mate in hopes of bol stering the endangered species APPhoto Springs who was still without electricity Tuesday night after more than 27 hours By late Tuesday two men had died and at least 35 persons were missing at sea in the fierce storm that moved in from the Pacific early Sunday smashing the West Coast from San Francisco to Canada with galeforce winds torrential rains and heavy snows The Japanese ore carrier Lee Wang zin overturned in high seas off the coast of British Columbia on Tuesday and search for the 30 persons reported aboard was suspended due to bad weather MUCH SNOW FALLS Norden in the Sierra mountains near Donner Summit had 12 metres of snow since midSunday Mike Ekern meteorologist for the National Weather Service said Tuesday Thats quite bit of snow Thats phenomenal Queen praises peace efforts LONDON tReuter The Queen in her Christmas message paid tribute to Com monwealth leaders forlaying the basis of the Rhodesia peace settlement signed in London last week The Christmas message was sent to Rhodesia for the first time since former prime minister Ian Smiths unilateral declaration of independence from Britain in 1965 At summit in Lusaka Zambia in August leaders of the 39 Commonwealth countries agreed to Britishconvened conference to end Rhodesias 14syear independence dispute In her message the Queen said the Lusaka summit which she attended demonstrated the great value of personal contact and the desire of all leaders to settle their differences in the friendly spirit of family gathering Much of the Queens message was devoted to the subject of the International Year of the Child The Rt Rev Thomas Gumbleton right Catholic auxiliary bishop from Detroit and Cardinal Etienne Duval archbishop of Algiers are meeting today with lranian religious leaders Topic of discussion will be the plight ofAmerican hostages in iron AP Photo US clergymen to meet Iranian religious leaders TEHRAN AP Three US clergymen met for more than two hours with Foreign Minister Sadcgh Ghotbzadeh today follow ing an emotional Christmas services they held for the US Embassy hostages that raised questions as to whether 43 or 50 are being detained But the clergymen slipped out back door of the foreign ministry eluding reporters Their spokesman Warren Day said they had been told they would meet with Iranian religious leaders this afternoon but that details of that session and the meeting with Ghotbzadeh were not immediately available Day also said the US clergymen were scheduled to give interviews tonight with each of the three major US networks They want to do something with television as way of communicating visually to the triostages families as soon as possible he said without elaborating In addition the embassy hostages the clergymen met with three US citizens held separately at the foreign ministry since the embassy was taken over 53 days ago Charge dAffaires Bruce Laingen Michael Howland and Victor Tomseth and reported they found them in good health Revs William Sloane Coffin Thomas Gumbleton and William Howard met for five hours early Tuesday with separate groups of hostages at the embassy praying singing carols and talking about football There were tears in their eyes there were tears in our eyes Coffin said Howard said he met 21 of the captives Coffin 16 and Gumbleton six including two women hostages Elizabeth Ann Swift 39 of Washington DC and Kathryn Koob 41 of Jessup Iowa Gumbleton who was joined in conducting services by the Frenchborn Algerian ar chbishop Etienne Cardinal Duval said the woman captives were in good spirits Coffin said the students who seized the hostages Nov in bid to get President Carter to send the shah back to Iran told them the 43 captives they met represented the sum total Carter sends message of hape to hostages CAMP DAVID Md AP President Carter who has stayed close to Washington for Christmas because of the Iranian crisis has sent message to the families of 18 Citizens being held captive in Iran saving we will prevail This is difficult time for you perhaps the most difficult time that you and your family have ever experienced the president said in telegram But he told the families that their stead hava fastness and support during efforts to get the hostages freed have been an inspiration to all of us who are making every possible effort to achieve the safe return of your loved ones The telegram was sent on Saturday and made public Tuesday by White House of ficials Carter also told the families he is convinced the rightness of our position and the strength of our determination assure that we will prevail Carter who usually returns to his hometown of Plains Ga for Christmas spent quiet holiday with wife Rosalynn and daughter Amy at the Camp David presidential retreat in Marylands Catoctin Mountains Barrie man 22 dies in crash 22yearold Barrie man was killed in traffic aCCident early Monday morning in Pompano Beach Fla Barrie city police say they were notified by Florida authorities that David James Woods was struck down on city street about 230 am Barrie police spokesman said Woods is believed to have been riding small cart when the accrdent happened Police said the driver of the other vehicle left the accident scene Woods was working in Florida as groom at race track said police