Barrie Historical Newspaper Archive

Barrie Examiner, 11 May 1979, p. 1

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172 Wrr s=MM f= Wwg YRUS EATON unusual capitalist Cyrus Eaton dead at 95 CLEVELAND AP Cyrus Eaton was the most unusual of capitalists During the Cold War he was called Communist or fool for advocating peaceful coexistence with the Soviet Union But on Thursday after Eaton died at the age of 95 President Carter credited him with starting the process that led to dctente Eaton died Wednesday at Acadia Farms his home in Northfield justoutside Cleveland Private funeral services will be held in his native Nova Scotia but the schedule had not been completed early to day Eaton native of Pugwash NS began poor but amassed $1 million by age 28 and $100 million by age 48 His empire crumbl ed in 1929 He built it anew Henry Ford ll calls it day DETROIT AP Moments after Henry Ford II banged the gavel to close his last meeting as head of the auto company that bears his name he already was wondering how he will spend his time Im going to miss it the 61yearold Ford said while lighting up cigar following the annual Ford Motor Co shareholders meeting Thursday Its been my whole life Philip Caldwell 59 who has been vice chairman and president of the No US automaker was picked to succeed Ford on Oct as the companys chief executive of ficer Caldwell becomes only the second man in 73 years whose name was not Ford to rise to the companys top job John Gray was presi dent of the company from 1903to 1906 In 1906 founder Henry Ford grandfather of Henry II was elevated to president from vice president inside story Labor problems surface Labor problems once again have come to the fore in Barrie Thursday workers at Plastomer Ltd went on strike to back demands for more money and other benefits Originally the unions negotiating committee accepted company proposal however union members rejected the com mittees recommendation In other labor news the secondary and elementary teachers of Simcoe County began bargain ing with the school board Read about both stories on the Today page Habs win dramatically The Montreal Canadiens earned berth in the Stanley Cup finals against the New York Rangers and shot at their fourth straight title by dum ing Boston Brums 54 in over time Thur ay The dramatic comeback win came in the seventh and deciding game of the bestofseven semifinal series For details see todays Sports Page to gain scholarships Ten music students from the Barrie area won scholarships at the recent Kiwanis music festival in Orillia The winners were announced Wednesday during the Festival of Stars concert See stay on the Entertain ment page index nody No 112 Friday May 11 1979 5° Per Copy Between Borden teachers board QQX 33 Carrier Home Delivery 90° Weekly the examiner serving barrie and simcoe county Review of ruling on pact ordered by Supreme Court Education is provincial responsibility but the federal government is prepared to argue otherwise in the case of school boards operating on National DefenCe bases Wednesday the Supreme Court of Ontario ordered judicial review of an Ontario Education Relations Commission ruling in favor of collective agreement reached bet ween teachers at Borden and the bases school board An agreement the federal government had overturned The provincial commission ruled that education is under the provinces jurisdiction and the federal government had no right to overrule the agreement National defence says defence bases are federal properties subject to federal laws departments On that basis national defence asked the Supreme Court of Ontario to review the provincial commissions decision The review will take place in the fall Last summer the teachers reached an agreement with the Base Borden School Board However when the agreement was sent to Ottawa national defence overturned it An appeal by the teachers to the Ontario Education Relations Commission was upheld and the commission maintained the contract was valid despite federal action When the base refused in the face of the commissions decision to honor the agee ment the teachers moved to have the school board prosecuted The judicial review will stall attempts at prosecuting the board until the case is heard The Supreme Court will decide whether the commission has the authority it has exercis ed The teachers argument is simply that they negotiated an agreement with the school board but some bureaucrat in Ottawa tried to make the board go back on its word said Pamela Sigurdson lawyer for the teachers She said the federal government contends the bases board is nothing more than an arm of national defence headquarters Peter Vita lawyer for the attorneygeneral of Canada agreed We dont believe this is the same kind of school board that is referred to in provincial legislation Bordens teachers are members of the On tario Secondary School Teachers Federa tion Cut in waterways hours irks Muskoka travel group By DENNIS LANTIIIER Of The Examiner The GreyBruce Huronia Muskoka Travel Association is protesting as strongly as possible the reduced hours of the Trent Severn waterway in Orillia New summer hours initiated by the federal government will close the waterway at pm rather than 830 pm as in the past Those hours remain in effect between June 23 and Sept Protests have been sent to the federal department of Indian and Northern Affairs says Boyd Robertson the associations direc tor and secretary treasurer The ministry says theres not enough boats going through Robertson told The Ex aminer Thursday We feel at least there should have been study made billets You ARE HERE vfi ks Beer up Monday TORONTO CP Ontario beer drinkers will pay an average of seven per cent more for their favorite brew Monday on top of the recentlyannounced provincial tax increase of 10 cents on case of 24 The new price of 24 beers at Brewers Retail outlets will be $770 plus deposit Including the 10cent tax increase the old price was $720 In news release Thursday Brewers Retail blamed higher production costs for the increase Other increases are for six bottles $223 from $213 12 bottles $415 from $385 and 18 bottles $6 from $558 The prices do not include deposit which remains five cents bottle The last price increase was in April 1978 Live rooster mailed KITCHENER Ont CP The post office has successfully delivered live rooster to Fergus 20 kilometres south of here but has lost for the second con secutive year 500 bulletins from an area golf club The fullgrown rooster was found pecking happily among the mail at the Elora Ont post office tag around its neck had an address and sufficient postage on it Clarence McCallum Fergus post master said that although post office guidelines do not permit delivery of livestock the rooster was delivered because there was no return address on the tag Strikers still angry SUDBURY Ont CP Members of Local 6500 of the United Steelworkers of America have again voiced their dis pleasure with tentative contract agreement reached with Inco Metals Co At the unions second membership meeting on Thursday about 1000 workers of the 11700member local heckled their 15 man bargaining committee that agreed to the tentative settlement last Sunday Many of the workers incurred large debts during the strike now in its eighth month and seek higher wage settlement better shift premiums and revised pension settlement There was no chOice given no discussion about the hours he said We were told about it at the beginning of April and it was just done Robertson said the early closing hours would effectively stop any weekend use of the system by Torontonians They cannot arrive from Toronto Friday night and make any progress by pm said Robertson He said many tourists would prefer to be able to utilize the extra two hours of daylight for boat movement The association is also protesting closing of the locks at 430 pm from Sept to Oct 10 It penalizes persons who take September holidays said Robertson It also penalizes the fishing season in Georgian Bay in September by making boaters come back in around pm said Robertson For years the association has tried to get the closing hours extended but to no avail Robertson said There is also some indication said Robert son that an earlier opening time would be more accommodating and permit earlier travel days bulletin Barrie police said today they have captured one of seven prisoners who escaped from the Guelph Reforinatory May during riot Shawn Lamb 19 former Barrie resident was arrested about 10 am by PC Greg Bullock after an offduty policeman provided tip Lamb was serving 18 months for break and entering and will be transported to Guelph to day said police Fivc prisoners who escaped are still at large Empty buildings costly TORONTO CP Two empty Ontario Hydro buildings in downtown Toronto are costing electricity users $425000 year says an official of the utility Harold Kennedy vicepresident of supply and services said in an interview that the sum covers taxes and maintenance for the old Ontario Hydro headquarters and five storey building beside it The 16storey former head office is un dergoing $5million renovation but Kennedy said prospective renters dont seem to be interested Two purchase ten ders were rejected when it was offered for sale in 1976 The older building has been vacant since 1970 Sowetol sentenced KEMPTON PARK South Africa AP South African court gave suspended sentences today to seven of the 11 students convicted of sedition in the socalled Soweto11 trial The other four drew prison terms ranging from two to four years Sechaba Da Montsitsi 23 the former chairman of the Soweto Student Representative Council received the stiffest punishment an eightyear term But Judge Hendriu Van Dyk suspended four years of his sentence The 11 students 10 men and woman ranging in age from 18 to 23 were found guilty April 30 of sedition for their roles in organizing and leading the black riots which ripped through the black township of Soweto in 1976 Floods head north WINNIPEG CP The crest of the Red River continued its slow northward pro gress today after turning much of the southern Manitoba farm land into shallow lake The floodswollen river which has caused an undetermined amount of damage through the valley posed no danger to Win nipeg which is protected by floodway While Winnipeggers were thankful for the multimilliondollar system built to pre vent recurrence of the major 1950 flood others were not so fortunate Soldiers civilians flee Cambodia Nearly 4000 Cambodian civilians and soldiers marched into Khaw Lon north of Trad in Thailand Thursday Part of the group of civilians came in on nine elephants The soldiers still loyal to the ousted Pol Pot regime escaped into Thailand to avoid the heavy fighting with Vietnamese troops on the other side AP Photo Dangers at some hospitals Warned years ago about xrays TORONTO CP Ontario was warned at least 10 years ago that patients taking xrays at some hospitals are exposed to high radia tion levels but no action has been taken says the president of the Ontario Society of Radiological Technologists Gail Moffatt said Thursday in Kitchener Ont that the society did not publicize the hazards of xray radiation becaUse it did not want to frighten patients who might refuse rays necessary for diagnosis Health Minister Dennis Tiinbrell told the legislature that although study has shown that Ontario residents are exposed to ex cessive radiation from xray equipment no sensible person should ever refuse an xray Timbrell facing bombardment of ques tions from opposition members said he wanted to point out that the study had funding from his ministry which also was assisting more detailed report over the next three years extra Four found slain BEDFORD NY AP The slayings of four persons including former US undersecretary of state at two neighboring estates had authorities searching door to door in this affluent New York City suburb for other possible victims Were just hoping we wont find any more bodies said policeman Joseph Fuchs dont know whats happening here said neighbor of Charles Frankel who served as undersecretary of state for educa tional and cultural affairs from 1965 to 1907 Weve had robberies before but no ones ever been hurt The bodies of Frankel 61 and his wife Helen were found Thursday afternoon in the bedroom of their home one block from Me At the solar troiJgh Lunch time brings break for office workers in midtown New York as they take advantage and soak up few sun rays for their faces using cardboard reflectors Thursday Temperatures were expected to reach into the 90s br Inging thousands of New Yorkers out of the winter and into the summer AP Photo Cuts maiority Dave Barrett above leader of the BC New Democratic Party and Premier Bill Bennett won re election to their seats in Thursdays BC election Bennetts Social Credit Party won the election but with reduced malarity See story Page CP Photo Leftists set buses afire SAN SALVADOR AP El Salvadors military government saidleftis1 guerrillas burned six persons to death in buses as thousands turned out for the funeral of 17 antigovcrnment demonstrators Government spokesman Col Rafael Flores Lima said guerrillas of the Popular Liberae tion Forces shot up two buses near Arcateo village 86 kilometres north of San Salvador and set them afire Thursday He said four passengers and two drivers burned to death The Popular Liberation Forces is one of three underground leftist armies fighting guerrilla war against President Carlos Humberto Romeros military regime More than 15000 persons turned out for the funeral of the demonstrators cut down by police bullets Tuesday as they rallied outside San Salvadors cathedral in support of anti government militants occupying the cathedral and the Costa Rican and French embassies Pleads guilty to fraud count 71yearold Toronto man pleaded guilty in Simcoe ounty ourt Thursday to defrauding the Canada Trust Company of $11571l6 Sept Clifford French was remanded out of custody to May 31 when he will be sentenced French admitted to defrauding the trust company with partner Molly Peters 44 also of Toronto Miss Peters pleaded guilty to her part in the fraud and was sentenced to nine months in jail and 18 months probation in Barrie provincial court Feb Miss Peters stole an insurance death benefit cheque mailed to Barrie woman last August The cheque was nude out to Ottalie Carlson for the amount of $157116 Miss Peters and French took the ch ue to the Canada Trust Company 91 Dunlop Sept and made arrangements to deposit it in an account there Miss Peters told trust company officials she was Ottalic Carlson and French vouched for her The manager agreed to cash the cheque if it was deposited in an account there and no withdrawals made until it cleared Miss Peters agreed and endorsed the cheque in Mrs Carlsons name The two opened joint account and were given $500 cash advance few days later they withdrew $4000 and Sept 25 withdrew the remaining $7071 When the forgery was discovered French was arrested Oct 27 in Toronto and Miss Peters was arrested there Oct 29 Police recovered $7117 Judge Clare ordered French to report weekly to Toronto parole unit until his sentencing May 31 the Corydon Sperry estate where earlier in the day Christopher Sperry 21 and H2 yearold Nettie MacCormack his governess were found dead bound and gagged in separate upstairs bedrooms police sa id Sperry and Miss Maciormack who had been with the Spci ry family for two genera tions were found early Thursday by maid London strike over LONDON nt Union and City of ficials signed nnnmrmidun of zgrmrnent Thursday officially ending 22day strike by 923 civn workers Outside workers nod to men will go back to work at 1201 am Sunday and inside workers will return at 830 am Monday Before Signing the agreement union of ficials asked the city for letter absolving members of liability for damage to equip men while supervisors were in charge dur ingthestrikc This is real example of the mistrust that extsts between both sides mediator Romain Verlmyin said He said the signing was also delayed while union and city negotiators dwided when the workers should return to their jobs Trespassing and the law lRNI fl ln rt upanw to com plaints by farmer and hiking groups tario has prupOsll new trespassing regula tions that would nldkt it casrer to collect compensation for dinnagi caused by trespasser Under the proposah judge would be empowered to make an or der for compensa tion for property damaged by convicted trespasser weather Variable cloudiness with chance of thunderstorms later today Highs 20 to 24 Overnight lows to l3 Mostly cloudy with occasional showers and thunderstorms Saturday Highs 20

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