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Barrie Examiner, 23 May 1979, p. 1

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murmwW Joe llIlRRIl IRl Ill2l 1111in tlieilie falls llltll El BROADIHINT keeping secret El Salvador minister slain SAN SALVADOR AP member of the El Salvador cabinet was shot and killed to day police said The shooting occurred after 14 men women and children were killed by police Tuesday night as they tried to take food to militants occupying the Venezuelan embassy Police said Education Minister Carlos An tonio Herrera Rebollo was killed near his home shortly after leaving for his office Police did not immediately say who they thought was responsible for the killing The shootings Tuesday night marked the second time in two weeks President Carlos Humberto Romeros forces fired on demonstrators and raised the number killed by his military regime to at least 37 Associated Press correspondent Gordon Mott counted the bodies and said at least three were women and six appeared to be teen agers or younger The corpses were 1y mg on street corner half block from the embassy and short distance from the Sheraton Ilotel in the upperrclass nor thwestern district An undetermined number of demonstrators also were wounded Witnesses said the troops opened fire Tues day evening as separate groups of demonstrators marched peacefully toward the embassy from two directions carrying food to nine members of the Popular Revolu tionary Bloc who seized the embassy May 11 Presidential press spokesman Col Rafael Flores Lima said in telephone interview that police received fire from the militants and had to return it btit spokesmen for the bloc coalition of peasants students and workers pledged to nonwiolence said none of the demonstrators opened fire nt victory kiss Harry Greene unsuccessful Liberal candidate in WellingtonDufferin Simcoe kisses his wife Marg Tues day night Today the Examiner has complete election results and stories from all the ridings in Simcoe County See stories and photos on Page l5 Examiner Photo by Nancy Figueroa index election 79 Mooter entertainment sports classified upplemont food city km woolworths TWW Hy EINNY EALT The Canadian Press English Canada elected Conservative Joe Clark to comfortable minority in the hard fought federal election Tuesday and ended Pierre Elliott Trudeaus 11year rule Clark fell only six seats short of an absolute majority which means any one of the other three parties could give him enough support to control the Commons And although Clarks Conservatives won only two seats in predominantlyFrench Que bee he pledged Quebec will not feel isolated in Clark government Trudeaus passionate campaign theme of national unity did not catch fire in Western 15th year No 127 Wednesday May 23 979 in county By EXAMINER STAFF As Tories across the country celebrated four PC candidates in Simcoe County rejoiced also after riding to landslide victories on the coattails ofJoe Who Ron Stewart in Simcoe South Gus Mitges in GraySimcoe Perrin Beatty in WeIingtonDufferinSimcoe and Doug Lewis in Simcoe North all won easy races in their respective ridings Stewart hammered Ray Ramsay of the Liberals and Gaye Lamb of the New Democratic Party outdistancing them by more than 12000 votes He lost only 15 of the 267 polls in the riding and said people voted Conservative because they knew we cared In Simcoe North Lewis won by almost 8000 votes and said he had never doubted the out come Lewiss supporters were already well into their victory celebration by 900 pm Fayne Bullen the NDP candidate placed second in the race edging Walter Connell of the Liberals Bullen said he believed the polarization over leadership in the campaign caused people in his riding to vote either for Trudeau or against him and if they were against him they voted for Joe Clark Connell attributed Lewiss victory to his political organization and maintained that heritka vistas Here come the checpics Bomb kills woman baby TEL AVIV tAPt terrorist bomb kill ed woman and baby girl and injured 12 other persons in town outside Tel Aviv to day as hundreds of Israelis poured into nor thcrn Sinai to support settlers who vowed to fight rather than give their land back to Egypt The bomb exploded shortly after 10 am in front of store in Petah Tikvah 10 kilometres northeast of Tel Aviv Four of the 14 injured were in serious condition and two of them woman and an 18month old girl died in hospital authorities said Mans body found llKESBLRY int CPl The body of 19 yearold Alfred Ont man missing since May 17 was found early Tuesday by search party of friends and provincial police Police said Jocelyn Carriere was found hanging from tree near his hometown 72 kilometres east of Ottawa and that cor oners inquest will be held later this month lll Cornwall Ont Police said preliminary investigation indicated suicide but they would give no further details Carriere was last seen by friends he had met for drink in Calumet Que hotel May 17 He started for home at about 1030 pm but never arrived His parents found his severely damaged car in roadside ditch the next morning There was no trace of anyone being injured the cars windshield was intact and the keys were missing Stock market reacts TORONTO lCPI The Toronto stock market reacting to the election of minori ty Progressive Conservative government was up sharply in moderate early trading Wednesday InterCity Gas was up at $13 Daon Development at $12 Imperial Oil at 82773 Bank of Montreal Sceptre Resources at $7 Brascan was down at $225 so Mines seven cents at $205 encx Ltd two cents at $2 and TransCanada Resources one cent at $259 at 32 and Canada and his administration was toppled in dramatically tense election The result left Fabien Roy and his rump of six Quebec Social Crediters with the potential to give Clark bare majority of 142 seats in the Commons Roy said during the campaign he would back the party that won the most seats But he also publicly rejected any deal with the Conservatives that would see Socreds enter Clark cabinet 136 TORIES The vote count barring any reversals in recounts put standings in the 282seat Commons at Conservatives 136 Liberals 114 New Democrats 26 Social Credit Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau was the Agcrieatest Prime Minister Canada has ever Beatty was one of the few Conservative candidates in the area surprised by the size of his victory He polled 25861 votes of the 42145 cast ac cording to unofficial figures Harry Greene Liberal candidate was ex pected to do well in the voting as 32 per cent of the riding was represented by Liberal Ross Milne in the last parliament Greene won only six of the 244 polls It was the governments record more so than anything else Beatty said that helped him win In GreySimcoe Dr Mitges retained his seat by defeating Liberal Jack Morgan by almost twotoone in votes Dr Mitges led from the moment the polls closed and although it was close for the first few minutes he never looked back He lost only six polls to Morgan In the 1974 general election Dr Mitges won with only 2700 vote plurality and was pleasantly surprised to win by such large margin this time Bill Proud of the New Democrats was distant third in the riding with only 5575 votes and the Libertarian Bill Shannon polled 295 votes 126 more than Bruce Arnold of the Social Credit party Morgan blamed his loss on the anti govern ment antiTrudeau mood of the electorate and said the Liberals lack of support for Trudeau hurt them He said he was not disheartened by the loss Results of the election are SIMCOE SOLTH Stewart 25456 Ramsay 12686 Lamb 8617 SIMCOE NORTH Lewis 19206 Bullen 11271 Connell 11247 iR EYSIMCOE Mitch 20901 Morgan 77 11191 Proud 5575 Shannon 77 295 Arnold 169 WELIINGTONDLFFERINSIMCOE Beatty 25861 Greene 11322 Koechlin 4951 Charge dropped EXETER Ont CPJ An assault charge was dropped in provincial court Tuesday against OPP Constable Wilmott of Milton Out in connection with an incident on the picket line at strikebound Fleck Manufacturing Ltd last year Frank Crosswell of Windsor said Wilmott was not the officer he claimed assaulted him during the 162day strike Wilmott was one of six Ontario Provincial Police officers charged with assault during the period The others were Constables Guyitt and Moynes both of Brant ford Cox of Milton and Hine of Burlington and Cpl Hendrick of Brantford The trial of the other men continues Charged in fraud LOS ANGELES AP The FBI has described an alleged $28million computer fraud involving two Canadian citizens as kind of Stanley Rifkin plot FBI special agent Herbert Clough said Thesday that Barry Berenbaum 49year old salesman from Vancouver was arrested Monday in Los Angeles and charged with plotting to transfer the money between the Bank of Nova Scotia and the Crocker Na tional Bank in Los Angeles In Vancouver the RCMP arrested Marguerite Louise Baxter 32yearold parttime employee of the Canadian bank Its similar to kind of Stanley Rifkin plot said FBI spokesman John Morrison Station fires four TORONTO CPi CKEY Radio has fired three reporters and news editor to reduce reporting and concentrate on popular music President Douglas Trowell said the sta tion is trying to introduce nofrills radio He said CKEY is facing increasing competition from FM stations and has to narrow its ap peal and focus 011 popular music He said the station still has one fulltime reporter to cover police and court stories and other staff members report parttime Audiences are telling us they dont want many voice reports he said They want pleasant and popular music without they hyrxractivity 5° Par Copy the examiner Standing at dissolution in the smaller 264 seat Commons was Conservatives 98 Liberals 133 NDP 17 Social Credit inde pendent vacant The hoarsevoiced Clark with his wife Maureen McTeer at his side raised his hands in victory salute and thanked voters for giving new team of Canadians chance The Albertaborn Clark immediately ex pressed concern about his partys weak showing in Quebec and speaking in French from platform at Spruce Grove Alta promised that strong and eminent Quebecers will be appointed to his cabinet Trudeau smiled through his disapr pointment in Ottawa and gracefullv conceded Carrier Home Delivery 95° Weekly serving barrie andsimcoe county tPCS hammer opposition ridings ends Pierres lyear reign defeat to Clark shortly after the last polls closed in northwestern Canada As for me think will be pretty good leader of the Opposition said Trudeau who signalled that Clark will have to fight for the survival of his minority government Mr Clark will know his duty and that will be take it that he will want to seek the con fidence of Parliament in good time 1979 1974 P9 136 95 Lib 114 141 ND 26 16 SC 11 Other Total 332 264 Ron Stewart Progressive Conservative candidate for Simcoe South kisses supporter when informed of victory at their campaign headquarters in Bar rie Tuesday night Examiner Photo by Peter Hsu Mystery blast kills two Firemen gather around the remains of van in Hamilton Ont Tuesday night which disintegrated when blown apart by bomb killing two persons yet not identified CP Wirephoto JOE CLARK comfortable minority Iectoral map split The electoral map of Canada is divided to day between Quebec that went massively Liberal and most of the rest of lht country which voted Progressive Conservative in Tuesdays general election The partisan polarization of the country comes only months before Quebecers are ex pected to vote in referendum on whether they want to separate from Canada Pierre de Bellefeuille member of Quebec Premier Rene Levesques independence minded government said Trudeaus defeat would improve chances of pro independence results in provincial ref eren dum expected late this year or early next Robert Bourassa former Liberal premier of Quebec said prime ministerelect Joe Clark must try to get adequate representa tion from Quebec presumably by adding some senators or in future election because the future of Canada will be at stake But federal politicians of all political stripes were quick to play down the idea of FrenchEnglish split Said Clark after his narrow victory Quebeccrs even if they didnt vote for us voted massively for federalism by electing Liberals Two granted execution appeals STARKE Fla AP John Spcnkelinks life was spared early today only hours before the 30yearold murderer was to die in Floridas electric chair Federal judges in Atlanta and Washington granted separate ap peals for stay of execution Less than 12 hours before on Tuesday afternoon Spenkelinks Death Row compar nion Willie Jasper Darden also was granted stay of execution when federal judge agreed to hear his appeal The executions would have been the first in the United States since Utah firing squad shot Gary Mark Gilmore more than two years ago Gilmore had refused to pursue court apr peals and these would have been the first ex ecutions of prisoners against their will in the United States since 1967 Spenkelink was to have been executed at am Darden at But minutes after midnight in Atlanta Judge Ellbert Tuttle of the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals issued his stay on an appeal which former US attorney general Ramsey Clark had helped seek Tuttle said he would set hearing date today STAY GRANTED few minutes later Justice Thurgood Mar shall of the US Supreme Court granted Spenkelinks lawyers another stay of execu tion after two other Supreme Court justices had turned them down The high court is to take further action Thursday UK papers comment LONDON CP Goodbye Pierre hello Joe is the way the London Standard sums up the Canadian election Trudeau toppled is the headline on The Evening News Because of the time difference between Britain and Canadian points the large nior ning newspapers went to bed today with lit tle mention of Canadas general election The two evening tabloids however devoted most of their front pages to the event The News in secondary headline stated Canadas premier ousted after 11 years by Honest Joe aged 39 In its story from Toronto The News said Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau was ousted by virtual unknown today while his wife Margaret went discodancing in New York lnterference claim WELLAND Ont tCP New Democratic Party campaign manager my Niagara Regional Police interfered with the political process Tuesday by prohibiting NDP canvassers from handing out election literature at plant gate Mike Grimaldi campaign manager for NDP candidate Robert Wright in Welland riding said the incident could affect the out come of the vote He said police were called to the gates ll Atlas Steels Co Ltd and told eanvassers they could not hand out leaflets on election day Grimaldi said police were acting on complaint from political party the reins ed to identify JeanMarc Hamel chief returning oi ficer said political parties are allow11 to distribute election literature the day of the election but cannot advertise lweather Cloudy with isolated showers and easterly winds today Highs l4 to to Variable cloudiness overnight and Thursday Lows overnight to Highs Thursday l2 to l5

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