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Charged in P0 heist Richard LaBelle 26 right of Verdun Que is escorted into Ottawas police station by Staff Sergeant Daniel McFawl Thursday where he was charged with break enter and theft in connection with $35 million robbery at Ot tawas main postal station LaBelle was arrested in Montreal when he step ped off an Eastern Airlines flight from Miami Fla Wednesday CP Photo Group toapproach minister on French school situation By TERRY FIELD Of The Examiner LAFONTAINE Simcoes French Language Advisory Committee has yet to receive reply to letter sent to Ontarios minister of education and will wait no longer The committee decided Thursday during meeting at Lafontaine to ask Dr Bette Stephenson to intercede in the stalled negotiations with the Simcoe County Board of Education over separate French language high school for Penetanguishenes French community The first letter outlined the desire of the committee to have distinct school built and asked the minister for an opportunity to meet with her on the matter While Dr Stephensons reply has not reach ed chairman Dr Germain Gauthier spokesman for the ministry told The Ex aminer Thursday letter has been sent Dr Stephenson will not meet with the committee the spokesman said Dr Stephensons position is simply that she wants the local parties to come to an understanding on the issue with as little in terference from the ministry as possible The minister did say in the letter that ministry officials will be made available to discuss the issue Simcoes board favors construction of an annex to the existing high school in Penetanguishcne that would house French students COMMITTED TO NEW BUILDING The French language committee is com mitted to the erectiqn of new building on different site If the French community is to retain its culture and avoid assimilation the new building is must committee members say friday for business Canadian profits up MONTREAL Cl Canadian corporate profits lept by 49 per cent in the first quarter of 1979 to $156 billion from $104 billion for the same period last year says Canadian Dow Jones suney of 153 com panies This was the strongest gain since 53per cent rise in the second quarter of 1974 but far below record 73percent jump in the fourth quarter of 1973 The latest increase was the 12th quarterly advance after six consecutive quarters of reduced earnings But the gain was gen erally greater than anticipated by economists and analysts and many say 1979 earnings may have already peaked Nesbitt Thomson Bongard Inc says the value of the Canadian dollar higher wages and salary expenses and higher interest costs will still affect earnings adversely While these cost pressures have already begun they have not shown up yet in year overyear comparisons but second quarter Richardson Securities of Canada notes the relative health of the US economy could influence the performance of an adas export trade the major sector of the Canadian economy Montrealers angry MONTREAL CP Leading Montreal businessmen have reacted angrily to Pierre de Bane that the federal government could use its buying power to force com panies to stay in Quebec Sam Hughes president of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce said Thursday the ministers su estion was inappropriate and unaccepta le De Banes department spends about $3 billion year and more than $500 million of that in Quebec The minister confirmed Thursday he has met with company presidents in an effort to stop the flow of companies from the province ould by the suggestion by Supply and Services Minister The committees six members from the French community voted in favor of asking the minister to legislate new school into ex istence or order the Simcoe board to Wild one Simcoes board owns piece of property in Penetanguishene and the province has pledg ed $2 million toward the construction of French language instructional unit in 1980 The money is there said committee member Roland Desroches Moneys not the problem there is some other problem Several members of the committee said further talks with the school board would be futile In recent motion the board reaffirm edits stance on the issue and again offered to build an annex personally dont want to have anything to do with the board until the ministry legislates the building of the school said Basile Dorian another committee member John McCullough board trustee for Midland and chairman of the boards com mittee on the issue has said he is frustrated by the French language committees stand He said the board had compromised in offering an annex and at one point he thought the French language committee had agreed He said he was surprised to find that they had not report by the Ontario languages commis sion supported the recommendation but the school board has balked at building new Separate building because the number of students is not sufficient according to several trustees Gauthier said the committee would like to see school opened by 1980 but acknowledged that it would probably be some time before the issue is finally decided For French school Victor Dupuis right was the spokesman for group of French speaking high school students from Penetanguishene which demonstrated its support for separate French facility for the area during meeting of the French Language Advisory Com mittee Thursday at Lafontaine Story page l3 Weather records fall TORONTO OPi April which began with heavy snowfall and ended in disastrous floods saw five Ontario weather records broken the weather office says For Copy cantor Houn Dollvory VA if Noddy serving barrie and simcoe county Thatcher takes reins in UK as Callaghan admits defeat LONDON CPJ Conservative leader Margaret Thatcher became Britains first woman prime minister today and is the only woman in the world to lead national govern ment The cool mother of twins smashing five years of Labor power was summoned by the Queen to form the new government as business and investors celebrated by pushing the pound up and sparking roaring stock market trade Labor chief James Callaghan 67 waited all night for sign of change in the British general election but told the Queen today he was beaten even before all the returns were in for the 735seat Com mons All signs pointed to possible 40seat majority for the grocers daughter who scored triumphantly in her first national campaign shattering Labor defences and demoralizing fringe parties Kidnap suspect turns self in AKRON Ohio AP One of the two men wanted in connection with the kidnapslaying of Cleveland businessman Julius Kravitz has turned himself in to the Akron police Detective Sgt Joe Bosco said John File 26 of Cleveland telephoned Akron policeman Richard Reese at home early today and told him he wanted to meet him Reese agreed to meet File at school at am At the meeting File turned himself in He was being held today at the Akron jail second man being sought Michael Levine 35 of Lyndhurst was still at large Warrants filed against the two men in Shaker Heights charge them with kidnapping and aggravated murder in the slaying of Kravitz and the wounding of his wife Police believe it was Levine who fired upon Julius and Georgene Kravitz in the back seat of Kravitzs car hours after the couple was kidnapped Tuesday from their Shaker Heights apartment Schools staff ratify contract Simcoe Countys public schools secretaries and technicians voted Thursday 12532 to ac cept an agreement reached by its bargaining committee and the Simcoe County Board of Education two weeks ago The board accepted the pact pending the outcome of Thursdays vote during its regular Wednesday session April 25 The pact calls for 10 and one half per cent increase six per cent from Jan to June 30 and per cent from July to Dec 31 Local 330 includes primarily secretaries office assistants technicians and three ar tists who work out of the boards visual aids branch In 1978 the members received 58 per cent increase across the board The settlement was the second in several weeks for the board with county personnel Public schools support staff agreed to con tract after short strike at the beginning of April Toronto recorded its largest total snowfall since records began in 1840 376 cen timetres to break the old mark of 328 cen timetres set in 1857 Hamilton with 51 centimetres of snow and Sault Ste Marie with 52 centimetres both set snowfall records for the month of April Total precipitation in Sudbury 177 millimetres and Hamilton 139 millimetres also were records Awarded contract From The Ottawa Bureau Of The Examiner OTTAWA federal contract worth $10292 has been awarded to Radio Shack of Barrie to provide the health and welfare department with data processing equip ment the department of supply and services announced Monday It was one of 288 unclassified contracts worth 310000 or more that were awarded by the department to Canadian companies dur ing the week ended April 20 Total value of the contracts amounted to $36718009 Runs amok kills five PARIS AP 37yearold patient ran amok in ward of large suburban mental hospital early today killing five men and wounding three others by slitting their throats with pocket knife officials said Bernard Balland director of the hospital at NeuillysurMarne said Ahmed Lafsaoui had been admitted at am on referral from central Paris hospital doctor found he showed no signs of disturbance and put him in the 10bed ward No hours later Balland said Lafsaoui ran wild slashing with pocket knife he had apparently concealed during the rou tine search of new patients He was brought under control by night nurses in the building with the help of other personnel The hospital has 1600 patients in 17 different divisions and has 1200 male and female nurses deadline She vowed to restrain unruly unions lower taxes and swing the country away from the welfare state which the Labor administration had religiously pursued We have got everything we asked for said the jubilant 53yearold Tory dubbed The Iron Maiden by the ltuSsians on hearing she also would strengthen Britains defences With 594 constituencies reporting Con servatives had clear majority of 319 against 261 for Labor 10 for Liberals and four for other parties SEPARATISTS IIIT Scottish Nationalists pledged to build separate state for Scotland were shattered They retained only two of their 11 seats Despite the dramatic change Callaghan was cheered by about 1000 spectators as he left 10 Downing Street for the audience with the Queen He smiled and waved to the crowd but it appeared likely this would be his last national campaign and his last chance to govern Successor to Sir Harold Wilson in 1976 Callaghan gained great popularity as he steered Britain away from heavy inflation by restraining wage increases But the unions finally rebelled staging winter strikes to gain big wage boosts buckling Callaghans inflation policy He claimed his party could best handle the unions but the electorate turned away at tracted by the prospects of woman leader who wanted to end creeping socialism If it hadnt been for Womens Lib wed still have man as Prime Minister inside today lifestyle entertainment business page sports 78 oornIcstv guide 12 classlfied 141 simplements Canadian Tire pages Letitia Heights pages Panorama pages Vote to keep teachers TORONTO CP The Toronto board of education voted today not to lay off 113 ele mentary school teachers despite Education Minister Bette Stephensons refusal of provincial money to save the jobs The 15to5 vote came after hour meeting during which more than 50 parents groups urged trustees to reject the layoff recommendation from board ad ministrators and to put more pressure on the province for money To save the jobs which work out to the equivalent of 108 fulltime positions the board will pick up the $18million cost It will have to cut other expenses to pay for about half the positions Charged in collision 62yearold area man has been charged with failing to yield after the pickup truck he was drivmg collided With City police cruiser early Wednesday morning Police said Peter Wish RR Harrie was charged after the truck southbound on Mulcaster Street collided with the cruiser westbound on Collier just west of city hall The cruiser driven by Constable John Terstege 31 had $3500 damage Wishs truck had $400 damage Both drivers suf fered minor injuries Cuts red tape TORONTO CPI Proposals to cut red tape and allow developers to get on with the job of building will be introduced in June Premier William Davis said Thursday In speech to the Urban Development Institute Davis said Housing Minister Claude Bennett would be tabling paper in the legislature proposing changes in the present planning act These proposals will trust resolve many of the problems that you have complained about in the past Davis told his audience Comb home to The Examiner Call 7266539 for The Thatcher family show united front Thursday as they visit Conser vative Party committee room in suburban Finchley here to watch the pro gress of voting in the British General election Mrs Margaret Thatcher is the new Prime Minster of Britain With her is her husband Denis and their twin son and daughter Mark and Carol AP Photo Detectors worn by Hydro men didnt show radiation overdose TORONTO C1 ltadiation detectors worn by two Ontario Hydro workers last Saturday did not show that they had received overdoses Hydro spokesmen told legislature committee Thursday Senior officials told the select committee on Hydro affairs that the dosimeters worn by the men registered levels of four and 45 reins both below the limit of five rems set by the Atomic Energy Control Board rem is unit used to measure radiation More sophisticated testing of the men showed one man had received eight rems and the other 55 while removing damaged fuel bundle from reactor at Bruce generating do Electrified cat officer Brookes tries to calm Sam after the cat went for stroll through the King William Street hydro sub station and stepped on wire that shook Sam with l4000 volts and Cecil Animal control knocked out power through the downtown core area of Hamilton Ont CP Photo orne delivery station about 145 kilometres north of LondonOnt Donald Watson Hydros manager of health physics told the committee that radiation doses of under 25 reins do not cause im mediate detectable health effects Lorne McConnell Hydros vicepresident of operations described Saturdays incident as loss of control accident and said the staff involved should have prevented it ASKED ABOUT REPORTS The committee also questioned the Hydro officials about accident report documents anonymously given to Liberal MPP Eddie Sargent Vdnessa loses out MANCHESTER England AP Oscar winning actreSs Vanessa Redgrave polled only 225 votes in Manchesters Moss Side riding in her bid to win seat in Britains House of Commons and paid for the privi ege Her defeat cost her £50 $360 the deposit candidates must put down as evidence of their bona fides and lose if they poll less than oneeighth of the total vote in the ridings they contest The fiery movie star and leftwing ac tivist running on Workers Revolutionary party WRP ticket trailed last in four way contest Labor candidate George Morton polled 17765 votes to win by 4531 vote margin New trespassing rules TORONTO CP Ontario plans tough new trespassing regulations primarily to aid farmers and also to protect them from unjustified lawsuits The Canadian Press haslearned Sources indicated the maximum fine for trespassing could be raised to $1000 from $100 The Ontario Federation of Agriculture OFA complained in brief submitted to cabinet Wednesday that more protection is needed against trespassers and the liability burden inflicted on farmers at present is unfair Thursday government source said the province plans to make it easier for an occu pier to collect compensation for damage caused by trespasser and would empower judge to make an order for compensation for damage inflicted on property by convicted trespasser statement is expected on the matter from AttorneyGeneral Roy McMurtry in the legislature next week and legislation is exejected this fall government source sai weather Sunny with cloudy periods today and Saturday Overnight lows to Highs today to Highs Saturday to