Barrie Historical Newspaper Archive

Barrie Examiner, 8 May 1979, p. 1

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inside story All about campaigns Follow the party leaders on their cam paign trails with preelection roundup on Page7today Wells movie worst ever The remake of The Shape of Things to Come based on an HG Wells science fiction novel is top contender for the worst sciencefiction movie ever made Barry Morse Jack Palance and Carol Lynley arent the only losers in this film the audience suffers too See todays Enter tainment Page Students learn outdoors When students at lnnisfil Central Public School learn about the outdoors they do it firsthand Story and photos on todays Lifestyle Page Jail incident probed The grievance hearing of Barrie jail guard is underway in Toronto The guard was disciplined late last year for an incident at the jail His lawyer Roger Oatley of Bar rie believes the conditions at the jail will play prominent role in the case Read about it on the Today page Reaction to development Barrie council isnt sure quite how to react to the new downtown development proposal that surfaced last week Jack Stollard has proposed to build major com mercial development downtown without funds from the province or the municipali ty What the aldermen had to say about this latest move is on the Today page index today lfleetyle entertalnment county page sports 10 comicsw gulde classified 1345 supplements Kmart pages Sears pages Towers pages Backyard moose gets its vitamins Conservation officers drag oneyearold bull moose to an awaiting transport cage after the animal was found wandering in Prince George BC backyard Monday The moose reportedly in poor physical condition was given vitamin shot and removed beyond thecity limits CP Photo Shroud theft foiled TURIN Italy AP Two teenagers were arrested during the weekend after they broke into Turin Cathedral in an at tempt to steal the Holy Shroud reputed to be the burial linen of Jesus Christ Police said Monday they believe the two youths were acting on orders from someone else to steal the shroud Cheaper wine the cry TORONTO Cpl About 25 persons demonstrated in front of the Ontario legislature on Monday protesting the re cent price increase of imported wines Revise Imported Wine Prices the group which organized the demonstration con tends government monopoly on selling alcohol is reaping profits from inflation which would be illegal in the private sector Some wine priccshave jumped 146 per cent because of the increases Window fights back WELLINGTON Reuterl It looked simple enough Throw brick through the window and scoop up the jewels Only it didnt work that way for New Zealand burglar foiled by window that fought back Police said the burglar tossed brick at the window but the brick bounced off and struck him on the head The dazed burglar wandered off to hospital leaving trail of blood Police called out the hounds to follow the trail and arrested the man in hospital 21 more executed TEHRAN iAPl The revolutionary courts of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini accelerated their purge of the shahs regime and sent 21 men to die before firing squads in Tehran at today Radio Tehran announced Those executed included two of Shah Mohammad Rcza Pahlavis former government ministers and general It was the largest number executed in one day since Khomeinis secret Islamic courts went to work in February and brought to 191 the total number of men put to death by Khomeiiiis firing squads Missing children sought TROlSRIVIERES Que CP Police are continuing the search for two children missing since last Wednesday and in vestigators say they are checking in formation they have received indicating the children still are alive Det Guy Dessereault of TroisRivieres police said Monday they are searching for Julie Pelleticr and her brother Michel who disappeared while playing behind neighbors house where their mother was visiting Rolland Pellctier the children tatner said last week he thought the two might have been kidnapped bexause police tracking dogs were able to follow the Corrie home to The Examiner call 7266539 for home deliyery childrens scent short way from the neighbors house until the trail ended at nearby road Pelletier said this made him suspect they got into car there TroisRivieres is 120 kilometres northeast of Montreal Board sponsors lectures Beginning Thursday the Simcoe County Board of Education is sponsoring Cur riculum 79 three days of workshops and lectures on education Talks by Roy Bonisteel host of CRCs Man Alive series and Dr Laurier LaPierre teacher writer newsman are scheduled for Thursday and Friday respec tivelv Seventeen workshops on various facets of education will be conducted including one on postsecondary education featuring Wayne Busch another on child abuse and third on declining enrolment Tickets for the conference being staged at Blue Mountain Resorts are available though John Frudeman principal of Stayiier Collegiate Budget left as is The library board will not have its 1979 budget reviewed Barrie general committee decided tc leave the budget as is despite deputation two weeks ago from representative of the board The representative asked for an addi tional$100000nthe budget If we go back to reconsidering the budget after budget time were in deep trouble Ald Alex Arthur told the commit tee If we do this other groups will come back and want their budgets reconsidered too find it regrettable but the budget was cut and thats it said Ald Arthur But Ald Ernie Rotman said it was the first time members of the library board had not been given chance to discuss its pro posals with the finance committee Ald Ross Stephens chairman of the com mittee said he would be willing to talk to the committee but he wouldnt offer any falsehopes But Ald Dorian Parker said the talks would be an exerCise in futility Trudeau the Tory MONTREAL iCP= Pierre Trudeau Progressive Conservative candidate in the Montrealarea riding of LavaldesRapides says he feels his name maybe handicap in his race with Communications Minister Jeanne Sauve People may make an association with the prime minister he says weather Mostly sunny and warm today and Wednesday Cooler near the Great Lakes Gusty southerly winds today Highs both days 22 to 25 Overnight lows l0 to 12 After tour of Harrisburg plant Fateof nuclear power WASHINGTON AP The fate of nuclear power in the United States hangs in doubt says the chairman of House of Represen tatives energy subcommittee after tour of the disabled Three Mile Island power plant in Pennsylvania Representative Morris Udall Dem Ariz made that assessment Monday after he and 14 other House members toured the site of the most serious nuclear reactor accident in the US You get inside one of these things and you realize how enormously complex and com plicated they are Udall said Maybe the technology is so complex its beyond the abilityof even wellintentioned people to control Udall said his subcommittee will hold at least four months of hearings on nuclear issues raised by the March 28 accident at the central Pennsylvania power plant By next fall he said the full House interior com 115th year No 09 Tuesday May 979 Barrie aldermen ask Miller for city commission probe By DENNIS LANTIIIER Of The Examiner Six Barrie aldermen have asked Ontario Treasurer Frank Miller for an inquiry into possible conflict of interest on the Barrie police commission The aldermen plan to submit the letter to ay Aldermen Alex Arthur Dorian Parker Ross Stevens Bill Knowles Fred Ruemper and Mills have signed the letter while Ald Meg ODonal said Mills is also in support of it Mills letter came following information received from Ossie Rowe city solicitor that the city could not ask for an inquiry under the Municipal Act He said it did not come under that jurisdic tion because the commission is provincially appointed body Rowe said however that onethird of coun cil or 50 ratepayers could send letters asking for hearing Rowe also told council the deputy solicitor general was familiar with the case and could hand down decision before the treasurer dealt with it The letter asks for an investigation into possible conflict of interest between Eldon Greer commission chairman and an alarm company he owns stock in Georgian Protection Services Ltd the company in question has about 100 alarms set up at the Barrie police station The letter also asks for an investigation in to closed meetings in Barrie and pOSSible monopoly by the alarm company Mills said earlier and repeated Monday that Greer should resign from the commis sion rather than force the city to go through hearing Mills said he intended to personally hand deliver the document to the treasurer today He told The Examiner last week he was bitter at some members of council for their reaction to his inquiry motion He said he doubts hell ever run again for public office in Barrie Seven prisoners escape in riot GUELPH Ont CP Seven prisoners were on the loose today following riot in volving more than 180 prisoners at the Guelph correctional centre Lyndon Nelms deputy regional director for Treaty points OKd by powers WASHINGTON AP The United States and the Soviet Union reached agreement Monday on key provisions of strategic nuclear weapons treaty to be signed at sum mit meeting next month administration sources said today With that goal met US and Russian negotiators are expected to decide by the end of the week exactly when and where Presi dent Carter and Russian President Leonid Brezhnev will hold their longdelayed meeting to sign the arms limitation treaty and perhaps conclude other USSoviet Union agreements The treaty to run through 1985 if ratified by the Senate will place ceilings on the total number of US and Russian strategic weapons that this is your first offence Ill give ou time to pack abag fore your execution the Ontario ministry of correctional services said today the escape of the seven prisoners was not discovered until the Buthour distur bance ended shortly after am ministry spokesman said the seven escaped through smashed barred window in firstfloor dormitory while efforts to con trol the riot were being made in two cell blocks on the second floor Nelms said preliminary estimate showed damages of almost $50000 from number of fires and breakage of everything within reach of prisoners in the riot Two dormitory areas were declared uninhabitable Guelph police and ministry officials were investigating today The riot may have been sparked by six prisoners being disciplined at dinner time Monday for showing signs of being under the influence of drugs But Nelms said the possibility of the riot being used as diver sion tactic is not being ruled out The correctional centres tactical squad as well as firefighters provincial police and Guelph and Waterloo officers were involved in the disturbance which broke out about 1030 Monday night Nelms said the riot was restricted to the three areas in the prisons east end with the rest of the prison remaining uninvolved Chinese attend college show delegation from the Peoples Republic of China will attend craft show featuring work by third year students at Georgian College Thursday The group of craftsmen is the first of its kind to visit Canada Ontario is one of seven provinces thc delegation will see during its three week stay Organized by the Canadian Craft Council under the sponsorship of the department of external affairs the visit is the result of trip to China by Canadian crafts groupin1 77 The Chinese arrived at Vancouver May While in Ontario the delegation will visit Gravenhurst the birth place of Dr Norman Bethune the Canadian physician who brcaniv national hero to the Chinese through his work during that countrys revolution Between Canada Mexico Oiltechnology deal cost $5 billion OTTAWA CPI Mexico has agreed to sell Canada up to 100000 barrels of oil day for at least 10 years in return for an extensive package of Canadian industrial technology it was announced Monday Energy Minister Alastair Gillespie flanked by Mexican Ambassador Barrios Gomez told news conference the deal will cost at least $5 billion at current world or prices Canada hoped to recoup that amount through package of industrial benefits including the possible sale of Candu nuclear reactor Mextco is to begin shipments of small amounts of Oil late this year or early in 1980 and has guaranteed at least 50000 barrels day by 1981 Gomez said that barring complications 100000 barrels day should be available by the end of 1981 Gillespie said PetroCanada the Crown owned 011 company will purchase the Oil and is negotiating its resale to Eastern Canadian refineries It will be the first Ilmt multinational Oil companies have been forced to obtain supplies from PetroCanada SHOWS ADVANTAGES Gillespie stressed the security of supply the agreement will provide to importdependen Eastern Canada reducing dependence on imports from politicallyunstable Middle East producers Canada imported about 500 000 barrels of 5c Per Copy lo mittee which has jurisdiction over most nuclear issues will begin voting on legisla tion affecting the fate of nuclear energy During Mondays tour the congressmen were told by controlroom supervisor that federal inspectors should have known about hydrogen explosion in the damaged reactor two days before it was reported to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission NRC Jim Floyd told the congressmen NRC in spectors were in the control room when the Members of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers stage demonstration outside the Ontario Supreme Court at Ottawa Monday in support of their president JeanClaude Parrot Parrot was making court appearance for sentencing after being found guilty of defying Parliamentary backto work order during last falls postal strike CP Photo Parrots jail term sparks labor anger OTTAWA lCPi With the loud ap plause of labor supporters ringing in his ears postal union leader JeanClaude Parrot was led out of the Ontario Supreme Court on Monday to start threemonth jail term for defying Parliaments back towork order last fall The jail term plus 18 months of probation sparked angry rumblings from the labor movement Dennis McDermott preSident of the 2i millionmember Canadian Labor Congress quickly issued statement cautioning trade unionists against over reacting Lawyers for the Canadian Ifnion ol Postal Workers have filed an appeal against Parrots conviction and sentence But for now he remains in the Ottawa arlcton regional detention centre mediumsccurity institution Hti duty postal workers across the country held demonstrations of support Monday for Parrot and Ottawa postal worker Mark iiillaby summed up the Oil day last year from all sources prior to the Iranian revolution The new arrangement means Venezuela and Mexico will supply Canada with about 60 per cent of its import requrremcnts Mexico now is producing about 70000 barrels day and hopes to increase that figure to 25 Uillllfll barrel day b1 the end of l981 The Energy Jooperation Agreement Signed Fnday in MeXico City Calls for an immediate 18month study on the feaSibility of introducing Candu nuclear reactor to the Mexrcan energy stem The Mexman government has been in terested in the Candu program for several Carrier Home Delivery 90c Weekly the examiner serving barrie and simcoe county CABINET FRE doubt explosion occurred on the first day of the accident March 28 Metropolitan Edison which runs the power plant did not officially notify the NRC of the explosion the first sure sign that nuclear fuel inside the reactor had been damaged until March 30 Victor Gilinsky commission member on the tour insisted that commission officials knew nothing about the explosion until March 30 wet mood of many after the sentencc was passed When morale is low produc tivity sinks to nothing wouldnt mail any letters if were you HINTS AT SLOWIXHVN Robert Andstein president of the Halifax local hinted at slowrlovi but there were no official calls from thn union for work disruptions Chief Justice Gregory Evans of lrw Ontario Supreme Court called Parrot defiancc of the backtowork orrlr reprehensible arrogant lnsolcnt and contemptuous No one is above the law and if Iiitiara is allowed to go unpunishcd it could lead to anarchy without laws and rcspvct for them we go back to thc lav of the jungle where might was right the chef justice said Parrot was found guilty last month of defying the backtowork order The union went on legal strike Oct 16 the order took effect Oct 19 and Parrot ordered tin 23000 members to end the strike Oct 25 years and is likely to purchase reactor as part of the package In addition Canadian technology Jvlll he used to develop the Mexican uranium in dustry and sales of Western Canadian metallurgical coal will be increased bg up to time million tonnes in the first five yrars of the agreement second Industrial looperation Agreement Signed in March calls for ex panded industrial trade through number of joint ventures MeXican officials have identified agriculture shipbuilding and steel as top priorities Canadian content in an industrial trade package could total 82 billOIl

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