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He plays the tuba Tony McQuade music student at North Collegiate plays the tuba during performance given by the Concert Band Thursday night at Georgian College in Barrie Graduating students of the band were honored as was Sharon Sib thorpe for her contributions as director Examiner Photo by Peter Hsu of Tuesdays election results What do yo Decided to kick habit permanently By LORI COHEN Of The Examiner selfadmitted heroin addict said Thursday he was not selling heroin to an RCMP undercover officer last December but dividing purchase already made when he was arrested and cha rged with trafficking in heroin James Mete 32 testified he went to the Holiday Inn the evening of Dec 18 with twothirds of an ounce of heroin to give to man he knew only as Frank who later identified himself as Const Nino Sonsini member of the RCMP drug squad from Toronto Mete was testifying during the second day of his trial in county court in Barrie Mete said he did not expect to receive money that ni he thought the $1700 he was asking for the drugs ght would be paid by the man who initially arranged for Frank and Mete to meet was buying and the other guy was buying he said wasnt trafficking Mete said that on the same day he decided it was time to kick his drug habit permanently and went as far as seeing doctor and getting prescription for other substitute drugs He said he had also become involved with the Salvation Army and was cutting hair for it on voluntary basis Things were going good he said He said he had earlier purchased an ounce of heroin using onethird for himself and wanted to get rid of the rest of the drug as soon as possible SCARED HE WAS WEAK was scared was going to dip into it he said was scared was weak He also told federal crown attorney Palmer he had to get rid of the heroin because it was not his and keeping it could have placed him in danger In his opening address to the jury defence lawyer Bill McKenzie said he expected the evidence to prove that as 17year heroin addict Mete was not responsible for his ac tions since his ability to choose not to deal in heroin was im Recommends settlement in dispute with Jennings it appears that Barrie general committee is about to reach agreement with developer Ed Jennings over $1400 sum he allegedly owes the city General committee recom mended Wednesday to enter in to an agreement with Jennings who owns property on the block bounded by Owen Worsley Clapperton and McDonald Streets The city claims Jennings owes it money for maintenance work performed by the city under authority of the property standards act Jennings said earlier he would be prepared to pay the ci ty about $640 the price he had received from contracters for doing the work Rick Bates director of plann ing and development recom mended the city accept the $640 and drop threatened court ac tion provided Jennings clean up the block and maintain it Otherwise Bates said the ci ty could proceed with demolishing the building HEATED DISCUSSION The matter drew heated discussion among council members during the course of debate Ald Bill Knowles was not Police auction scheduled enthused about the ad ministrative recommendation Were saying that if Mr Jenn ings shows good faith well ap prove the plan he said But good faith is not word to use for Mr Jennings in this matter Theres been no good faith at all Ald Fred Ruemper said the deal seems to give everything away The alderman said the developer has some apologists on council so that he thinks he can do what he wants Ald Ernie Rotman was just as skeptical about the deal Jennings knew he was suppos ed to do the work but he didnt go ahead and do it said the alderman The alderman said Jennings would likely delay construction of the multimillion dollar Kempenfelt Place proposal un til Jennings can sell the land to somebody else Ossie Rowe city solicitor said Jemiings was trying to peddle his Kempenfelt Place project But Ald Dorian Parker supporter of the Bates motion said the city should drop its plans to pursue Jennings for the money She said the money was peanuts compared to what would eventually be on the block Ossie Rowe told the commit tee the city couldnt hope to recover its lost funds without first withdrawing its intentions to proceed with court action for Saturday morning City police will try to empty their stores of recovered stolen or lost property at their annual auction Saturday morning More than 140 items in cluding 65 bicycles will be placed for sale to the highest bidders in the paved area behind police headquarters startingat9am charm bracelet fishing gear tools hair dryer sleeping bag wallet sunglasses hunting knives clothing soft drink cooler calculator CB antenna strobe light fire extinguisher travel bag curling iron sports bag wrist watch headphones and hooks lnsp Ralph Berry said Thursday many of the bicycles record serial numbers and ac curate bicycle descriptions cause problems for police when trying to locate the bicycles if lost or stolen In summer four to six bicycles are reported stolen each day he said Police make every effort to return recovered bikes to their owners but it is often dif fllo examiner Friday May 25 1979 13 paired Admitted addict denies trafficking You dont control heroin it controls you he said After voir dire trial in which experts on heroin addiction and its effects on persons lifestyle testified Judge Clare ruled the defence was not defence under law and could not be presented to the jury Had the defence been accepted it would have been the first time addiction was used as defence against traffick ing in Ontario ADDRESS JURY After examination and cross examination Mete asked Judge Clare if he could address the jury After consulting with his lawyer it was decided Mete would not speak Mete testified that the statement he signed at the RCMP headquarters after his arrest was voluntary but did not con tain great deal of what he said Today Dr Robert MacPherson the physician Mete testif ed he went to see the day of the arrest was to be on the witness stand at 10 am when the trial continued Sex education underway for Catholic pupils The Simcoe County Roman Catholic Separate School Board is making haste slowly in the sex education field its director told The Examiner Wednesday Bill Bolger said sex education is being taught in separate schools to greater degree than in years past Des Carroll the boards superintendent of curriculum said many parents who have children in catholic schools are asking that sex education pro gram be implemented and they have support from some prin cipals We have nothing written down covering sex education as program but we have told our people of the ministrys policy guidelines Bolger said Ontarios ministry of educa tion suggests children at the primary level should aquire some basic understanding of his or her physical and emo tional nature and beginto develop personal value system That statement covers the need for students to be taught reproduction and develop ap propriate understandings in 1979 ference Thursday town country Creemore man iniured John Wyns Creemore was taken to Royal Victoria Hospital late Thursday after the car he was driving left the highway near Lyle and struck hydro pole His injuries are believed to be minor Allistons OPP detachment is conducting an investigation Carnival suffers deficit The Barrie winter carnival has suffered $4000 shortfall Bob Hollywood Greater Barrie Chamber of Commerce general manager revoalcd the shortfall at press con Its not really that bad when you consider we had two regarding sexuality The guidelines also include the phrase at an appropriate developmental level Bolger said that proviso is an important one Its matter of reading the needs of developing child and speaking to those needs as they are expressed by the child he said He said the board is given the leeway to decide when and to what degree children are taught about human sexuality think we have said to our teachers there are op portunities for them to teach the facts concerning the in teraction of human beings both sexually and socially he said Bolger said the board because it includes instruction on religion in its program is fulfilling the ministrys guidelines concerning values The separate school board operates 26 schools in the coun ty The majority of them cover kindergarten through grade eight but several include in struction through grade 10 Otheritems to be SoldinClude are in good condition ficult to find the owners he Oboggani tire 311d WhEEI Careless owners who do not said deifizgtf bllgezsfiggltifiepfilviidlgfscadiligmkgfnhili committee Surgeon thought John Dunn wasnt overly Mary DaViSI found the Mark anacres ll am Sm ems for Sale satufday willbe meeting to discuss plans on how to make up the short Trudeau would get back in as convinced Clark was going to election exciting and stayed Prlsed Clark got that haVe eliminated Since fall 11980 prime minister bat lmhglad make good prime minister up and watched the whole thing hfais reaglgy ZZSZEEO Eggfiléielifir 59521 1822 lehaveseent eli thin on television 35 0r am glad Clark got in 2K£5h0md give him somehing normally dont TFUdeaU waSthePeStonhem mdalfs PreSIdent to address Chamber hes gm lot of good people If he is no good we can br do all and was hoping he would Police must auction off these Roy Elms preside of the Ontario Chamber of Com behind him He has promised cut backs in taxes and more job oppor tunities while Trudeau was selling people down the drain ing him down The French issue was Trudeaus downfall He push ed it on the English speaking people more than he should have was happy the Conser vatives got in Clark is not as learned as Trudeau but think he will doa good job Well just have to wait and see get in He knows what is go ing on The way the economy is going is basically the fault of the people of Canada everybody wants higher wages Court told killing was an accident TORONTO CP Two Bar rie 0iit residents on trial for seconddegree murder in the stabbing death of lSyearold boy told police nine months after the incident that they didnt mean to do it DefSgt Robert McCausland of York Regional Police testi fied lhursday that when asked about ti incident Gwendolyn Judith Wilson 20 said Okay Ill tell you about it but it Forester cadets wasnt murder it was an acci dent Her coaccused Brian Gerald Laurier 21 was quoted as tell ing another officer remem ber the day oh man re member that day guess it was murder thats what they call it wanted to go and see his the victims parents but he was dead What good would it do Both Laurier and Ms Wilson ox onored have pleaded not guilty to mur dering Billy Hughes during drug transaction in Toronto field Dec i977 McCausland was reading statements to an Ontario Su preme Court jury that he said the accused had made to police after ninemonth investiga tion The statements said the two defendants picked up Hughes with Allen Barker then 16 to Among the Grey and Simcoe Foresters cadets honored Thursday night were LCLP Barry Eamonn best tr cadet CLP Christ AshordSmith best ir NCO Cadet Charles Matetich be st dressed cadet Capt Schuett commander and Sgt Chard best cadet The awards were part of the sixth annual in spection at the Barrie Armoury Examiner Photo negotiate some kind of drug transaction and drove to deserted field at the suggestion of one of the youths Ms Wilsons statement said the Laurier stabbing Hughes was an accident He didnt mean to do it He was going to poke the other guy Barker but couldnt reach He only meant to poke the seat but the kid Hughes got in the way her statement read wish was dead Ill never forget his face just staring at me After the youths were pulled from the car the two accused drove off and threw the blood ied knife away somewhere near Sutton Laurier said in his statement that he had met one of the boys in pool hall where he was looking for marijuana and ar ranged to meet both youths later They were supposed to bring eight ounces and they only had two and told the little kid Hughes how much money had and figured this was ri poff Lauriers statement read knew something was funny had the knife in my hand thought they might have gun said Okay whats going on here The blond guy nudged the kid who got stabbed Thats when the kid who lunged at me got stabbed Right to this day wouldnt believe the knife went through his coat McCausland read didnt go out to kill any body Look thats the way it all happened Ive cried many nights since that happened He moved forward just as turned around and Im no murderer Laurier was quoted Court was told that after Lau rier gave his statement on Oct 1978 it was shown to Ms Wil son who said she never thought he would have admitted it by labor council The Barrie and District Labor Council came out in favor of retaining OHIP and opposed to the large number of doctors opting out of the medicare system at its mon thly meeting Thursday resolution urging the pro vincial government to retain universal medicare system and require all doctors to par ticipate in OHIP was passed and will be presented to Dennis Timbrell provincial health minister The resolution states the medicare profession is opting out of OHIP in increasing numbers putting the future of medicare in danger It asks the provincial govern ment to negotiate with doctors for reasonable and fair fee increases to require all doctors to participate in OHIP and abide by its fee schedule and ensure that deterrent and user fees are not charged for medical and hospital services Jim Applegate says the coun cil sympathizes somewhat with thedoctors They arent completely within their rights with the rates they charge but the raises they were given were peanuts he said The resolution also states that the provincial government was opposed to medicare system from the start and is doing nothing to stop its possiv bleelimination The people have the right to legislateprovisions of health care including the setting of fees and conditions for doc tors the resolution states It adds that the labor move ment did not fight for half century for medicare to have it abolished Contract deceptive says CLC official Incos recent contract offer to the United Steelworkers of America Local 7500 in Sud bury was not as good as the media made it sound Ron Drew Canadian Labor Con gress representative for nor Barrie man heads flyers The Ontario Group of the Royal Canadian Air Force Association has elected Bar rie man as its head for the next twoyears George Wood public rela tions officer with the Canada Employment Centre in Barrie was named president of the group at its annual convention in Toronto over the Victoria Day weekend His appointment effective Aug Wood 56 is former group vicepresident and has been member of the Ontario group executive for the past six years native of Winnipeg Wood began 30year career with the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1942 and was wartime instruc tor in telecommunications will be them Ontario said Thursday Speaking at meeting of the Barrie and District Labor Council Drew said the workers only appeared to be getting $350 an hour raise over three years starting with $110 in crease the first year He said 74 cents of $110 is the cost of living allowance workers earned while on strike therefore only 36 cents is new money in the first year Drew noted the settlement would have taken effect upon the date of ratification with no retroactive pay except $200 backtowork bonus Workers feel theyve gone this far and are not gomg back to work for $350 over three years Drew said Steelworkers in Manitoba were made the same offer and they didnt even strike Bill Hassett representative for the United Steelworkers Local 6547 at Hill Refrigeration in Barrie said he did not feel prolonging the strike for retroactive pay was valid lts unreasonable to carry on strike to recoup what youve lost he said You work toward the next con tract goods because they have run out of storage space at head quarters Rented storage space outside headquarters costs $30 to $35 square foot he said The sale will last no more than two hours said Insp Berry Stollar bid criticized Jack Stollar rezoning ap plication for land located near Bayfield Street has been refer red back to planning board by Barrie general committee The application which came before planning board last week requested land on the fr inge of the city limits be rezon ed to allow for commercial use But almost all members of planning board said such move would hinder the city in its attempts to revitalize the downtown core Various members of the board also attacked Stollar for not turning up at the session Rick Bates director of plann ing and development board The board has recommended it reject the Stollar proposal Guard ships on display The Parry Sound district of the Canadian Coast Guard will hold an open house June aboard coast guard vessels moored in Owen Sound Harbor The open house from 10 am to pm will be held in con junction with Canadas annual Cost Guard Day Vessels displayed will include icebreaker 008 Alex ander Henry the patrol cutter the CGS Rapid the Great Lakes patrol cutter CG Spune and the latest in shore rescue unit 17 craft Other equipment including buoys and radio equipment us ed for communications between ships lighthouse and shore bases will be demonstrated Also displayed will be the Parry Sound based coast guard helicopter said it Stollar is now prepared to make deputation before planning Thursday per cent said 22 of Commerce board ofdirectors meeting red to Ottawa merce will be guest speaker at Greater Barrie Chamber of Commerce dinner meeting The meeting will be held next June 27 it was announced Opening set for June Innisdale Secondary Schools doors opened last fall but the offiCial opening will take place June Representatives of the Simcoe County Board of Education Will be among the officials who will be in attendance The ceremony begins at pm Police budget approved BARCLAY Following review of the revised 1979 In nisfil Police budget council has approved the budget The township however enough money to enable an across the board increase of 61 is only prepared to provide Recognizing the total package will cost seven per cent additional funds for salary increases will have to be obtain ed from other areas within the approved budget Police Chief Bill Brown said he could not comment on the budget Im rather in difficult position to comment until after the budget has been discussed by the commission he The commission is scheduled to discuss the budget June Appointed to chamber Colonel Jim Wright of Canadian Forces Base Borden has been appointed to the Greater Barrie Chamber The appointment was made Thursday at chamber He replaces Major Charles Taylor who has been transfer Woman honored for excellence Barrie woman was among 90 honored for academic exlt cellence by Russell Sage College Troy New York during college convocation May Carol Maw earned departmental honors in psychology Maw also won the Freihofcr ward as outstanding psychology student Expenses increased 85 The Simcoe County Board of Education during regular students series of meetings per cent over year ago common board practice 39 324 CW1 may session Wednesday confirmed the agreements for transpor tation made with local bus operators who carry Simcoes An ad hoc committee on transporation reached an agree ment with the Simcoe County School Bus Association agent for 12 companies serving the board after Opera tors The cost of the board for the service has increased by 85 Meetings changed During July and August the Simcoe County Board of Education will meet once each month on the second Wednesday instead of the usual twice The boards standing committees comprised of trustees will not meet during the two months Limiting the number of meetings during the summer is