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wafflw WWLLfihluwuhnnnuuu 15P opy has spread as far west as Alberta Mrs WHOMMVWWWOOKN Ashton believes hooking is an art not craft See story on todays entertainment page United Nations Day Students in Simcoe County are among the two million students in the province invited to take part in United Nations Day on Oct 24 According to the sponsors of the project its the largest project in development ever undertaken in Canada See story on the lifestvle page Herlihys problem Don McFadden veteran pitcher for Church Mobile Homes of the Barrie and District Senior Softball League tossed threehitter in the opening game of the Canadian International Fastball Tourna ment Friday in Owen Sound But Church serving barrie and simcoe county the Slmcoe Rescue Squad the squad two weeks ago for personal reasons In an interview on the Today pa Joice says his reSIgnation is not trite ed as critimsm of the uad and the misunderstandings differences of nion that prompted the resignation can worked out Buying gifts for dad mm Fathers Day the me sun lost the game 20 due mainly to problem day set 35 every ye to h°°r dads by the name of Kevin Herlihy For more across the country Buying gift for dad seetodayis Sports page often involves trip to the nearest mens wear store one local merchant says Fathers Day creates so much business he may nicknames it Little Christmas See story 11 ll on the Today Page entertainment Accomplished rug hooker window on thoworld Joan Ashton the new president of the 10 Barrie Art Club is highly accomplished oomlcadv gulde rug hooker whose reputation as teacher dindfled 1215 Singers girlfriend fund dead Singer Art Garfunkel poses with Laureen Bird in this recent but undated photo The 26yearold Laureen Bird was found dead Friday in an upper East Side Manhattan penthouse apartment the two shared The girls father said she may have attempted suicide because the singer would not marry her AP Photo OPP continue search Midland OPP continue their search today for the body of 17ltyearold boy believed drowned in Sturgeon Bay The boy Reginald Karalash of Wagners Bcach just east of Victoria Harbour went canoeing Sunday said an OPP spokesman Monday morning his vacant canoe was found east of Tanners Point in Sturgeon Bav Gulls attack baby SAULT STE MARIE Unt UP live weekold infant rested comfortably at home Friday after being attacked by seagulls in city park Marney Welbourne said she was riding in car through the park on Thursday when she saw several gulls picking at baby car ner She said the child had been left on top of picnic table while the mother was discar ding refuse in nearby container John llalucha and his wife of Wawa Ont saw the birds attack and rushed to chase them away Miss Welbourne said Betsy Alleway who was with Miss Welbourne said the child had cuts or punc turc marks near the left eye although the eye was not damaged Severed arm reattached TORONTO CP fiveyearold girl whose severed left arm was reattached in 17 hour operation Thursday can be reasonably confident she will regain its use doctors at the Hospital for Sick Children said Frday Brenda Huber of the Listowel Ont area near Stratford underwent surgery by six doctors who used special microscope to re connect dozens of nerves veins arteries and muscles It is too early to forecast what the out some will be but we are reasonably confi lent of good result said Dr Ronald Ziikcr head of the surgical team Brenda regained consciousness briefly late Thursday but immediatley was placed under sedation again Quick left Bill Rannelii ot London Ont takes poke at Laurie Mann of Prince George BC In training bout at the Canadian National boxing team training camp Friday at Cana dian Forces Base Borden Ex aminer Photo by Garry Forbes Holocaust called hoax TORONTO CP crowded public hearing attended by many who survived Nazi concentration camps was told Thurs day the holocaust was hoax John Ross Taylor president of the Western Guard Party said Nazi atrocities are mere fabrications Taylor is defending himself before threemember tribunal appointed by the Canadian Human Rights Commission The tribunal the first of its kind in Canada is responding to complaints from Toronto Jewish groups that telephone messages made by the party expose Jews to contempt and should therefore be banned under the Human Rights Act if it decides the recordings are in fact hate messages it may order the party to cease and desist using the tapes Toilet paper ripoff KITCHENER Ont CP council member says that Waterloo Region is being ripped off by the high cost of providing toilet paper for municipal workers Coun Les Rudrum complained that coun cil was considering bill of $3854 for toilet paper which he said was 40 per cent more than last year Council approved the expenditure after Coun Fred Kent reminded members that we all use it Socreds denied status OTTAWA CP Prime Minister Joe Clark has refused to grant the sixmember Social Credit caucus official party status in the House of Commons the Socreds say Such refusal deprives the Socreds of the right to research budget and deprives par ty leader Fabien Roy of the salary supple ment that goes to leaders of the opposition Liberals and New Democrats It also would mean the Socreds would be at disadvantage in allocation of time dur ing debates and question period since their members would be defined as independents There was no official announcement of Clarks refusal Friday but close associate of Roy said an aide to the prime minister had telephoned with the information during the day Executions in Ghana LONDON AP Ghanas deposed military ruler Gen Ignatius Acheampong and another former top general were ex ecuted by firing squad today said Radio Accra broadcast monitored here The BBC which monitored the Radio Ac cra announcement said Acheampong and Gen Uteka were shot to death at military firing range 60 kilometres outside the Ghanaian capital of Accra after they were convicted by military court set up by the countrys new military regime Acheampong was overthrown in July 1978 coup led by fellow general Fred Akuffo who was ousted June in coup headed by junior air force officer Flt Lt Jerry Rawlings The executions are the first reported by the new regime whose revolutionary court started hearings Friday into allegations of corniption by previous administrations weather Partly cloudy today with isolated thunderstorms developing high 26 to 30 low overnight ii to Partly cloudy Sunday high 24 to 27 OTTAWA CP The federal government will eliminate roughly 20000 jobs from the public payroll in the next three years through the privatization or disbanding of corporations owned by the Crown Treasury Board President Sinclair Stevens said Fri da Another 40000 jobs will be reduced through attrition of the regular public serVice and nonrenewal of some jobs now held by employees under contract Stevens said PetroCanada the Crown owned oil company is on the list of corpora tions to be sold to the private sector But he refused to name other corporations to be sold or disbanded Stevens said once Crown corporations are taken over by private interests the fate of the employees is in the hands of the new owners Stevens said he sought to reassure leaders of the Public Service Alliance of Canada PSAC Friday that reduction in the overall size of the public service will be done to avmd any type of bruising within the public ser Vice But PSAC president Andy Stewart said his concerns were not allayed by the meeting with Stevens FREEZE IMPOSED Stevens has imposed twomonth hiring TORONTO CP The family of an il literate man cut off his thumb after he died preserved it in formaldehyde and used the thumbprint for years to cash his pension che ques an association of private investigators sa The macabre swindle was uncovered dur ing routinepensioner investigation outlined in brief to royal commission Thursday by the Association of Investigators and Guard Agencies of Ontario And there were other bizarre cases presented to the commission headed by Mr Justice Horce Krever which is probing the confidentiality of health records in Ontario One involved college students who took out insurance policies on nonexistent people and falsified death certificates Many thousands of dollars were involved freeze while the new Conservative govern ment decides where spending can be reduced Stewart said he sought but didnt receive commitment Friday that there also would be freeze on layoffs slated by the previous Liberal government while the review is carried out Stewart said at news conference the pro posed reduction in the public service will ob viously mean reduced services to the public The reduction could have harmful impact in the shortrun on delivery of Canada Pen sion Plan cheques the basic old age security payments and unemployment insurance chelt ques The department of supply and services which sends out the cheques is operating at maximum efficiency now If the staff is cut productivity is bound to drop Stewart said Stevens said Fridays meeting covered wide range of topics and he has agreed to another meeting with the 170X0membcr PSAC for more specific talks in two weeks The union has expressed concern about the Conservative proposal to decentralizc the government by moving employees of some departments to other areas of the country and the governments continued ability to provide services in both official languages after the public service is reduced Family used thumb to cash pension cheques but this amateur effort was rather easily detected through routineinvestigation pro cedures the association said The association cited these and other cases in the brief which defended the role of privatesecurity firms in checking insurance claim frauds Although it has been estimated that perhaps one or two per cent of claims submit ted are fraudulent the amount of dollars paid out by insurers still indicates that claims speculation or outright fraud is multimilliondollar business in Canada to day the brief says The association which lists 43 member companies in its brief says it favors strict licensing requirements including written examination for everyone who works as private investigator in the province Carter Brezhnev at work as Austrian summit opens VlENNA Austria AP US President Carter and Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev got down to business today spelling out their oftenconflicting world views at the opening of the first EastWest summit conference in almost five years The two leaders began their first round of talks at the US Embassy The ailing Brezhnev 72 stumbled and was grabbed by aides as he entered his Soviet made Zil limousine for the short drive from the Soviet Embassy As the three days of talks got under way the US and Soviet presidents were in agree ment on at least one issue they should have met soonerand should get together more often The talks opened with an exchange of ver bal statements outlining oftenconflicting positions on global regional and bilateral issues Carter and Brezhnev exchanged brief pleasantries Friday in formal call on Austrias president and shared box at firstnight performance of the Austrian state opera Carter and Brezhnev met for their first time in the splendor of the imperial Habsburg palace before paying ceremonial call on Austrian President Rudolf Kirchschlaeger During their brief meeting Carter expressed regret that they had not met sooner Brezhnev agreed and said their next meeting should not be so long delayed Plane with supplies shot down on mercy flight for Red Cross MANAGUA AP Gunfire riddled C01 ombian air force plane as it landed at Managuas airport on mercy flight with 10 tons of supplies for the Nicaraguan Red Cross and heavy fighting between national guards and antigovemment rebels swirled for an hour around the US Embassy in the capital Correction headline on the front page of Fridays Ex aminer Lack of harbor boat irresponsible Arthur was incorrect The name of Aid Bill Knowles not Mr Ar thur should have appeared in the headline 426 Before you leave Er Tell me again what was it we agreed to do No US personnel were injured during Fri day nights hounlong firefight near the cin bassy between President Anastasio Somozas national guard and Sandinista guerrillas bat tling to oust him The Colombian air force plane drew ground fire Friday on its landing approach to Managua airport and came in spewing fuel from gasoline tank punctured by bullet crew member who took bullet in the leg was the only reported casualty on the C130 transport that also carried 18 foreign reporters REPAIRING PLANE About 70 Colombians who were waiting to be evacuated from this wartorn capital were forced to spend the night in the airport as mechanics working behind cordon oi na tional guards tried to repair the plane The pilot was unable to get the control tower to answer said Mexican reporter Pedro Talavera The gunfire came from machineguns as we passed over the Las Americas neighborhood of Managua He said Nicaraguan air force officers at the airport told him the gunfire came from guerillas but the report could not be confirm ed Search resumes for Barrie woman The search resumes today for Elaine Col lie of RR Barrie missing since canoe trip Thursday The body of the missing womans compa nion Helen Elizabeth Main 52 of Innisfil Township was found Thursday at about 830 pm near their overturned canoe off Bear Point near the east end of Kempenfelt Bay The two women were reported late in retm ning from canoe trip on the lake about 30 pm Thursday Up up and away The students of Oakley Park Public School Barrie launched heliumfilled balloon Friday and attached packet of letters for the students of the school closest to where it lands Brent Frith left David Targett and Louis Fontalne held on for the countdown provided by several hundred cheering schoolmates Examiner Photo by Terry Fields Ford looking at design of suspect transmissions OAKVILLE Ont CP Ford Motor Co is experimenting with design changes in two types of automatic transmissions while government officials look into complaints that some transmissions have unexpectedly jumped into reverse gear company spokesman says The transmission malfunctions may have been factors in two deaths in Ontario in the last year when drivers were run over by their vehicles Meanwhile in Detroit on Friday Ford recalled 223000 cars and trucks including its entire car production for four weeks in February and March to correct potential brake defects Niagara Falls woman was killed last fall when her car which was running at the time backed over her And in March Peterborough man died when his pickup truck which had been shut off apparently slipped out of the park posi iion into reverse and rolled down his driveway crushing him against another vehi cle coronersjury later ruled that his death was caused by malfunction in the transmis SlOfl Ford spokcman said Thursday the com panys design refinements were considered Youth in iail after car chase One Hamilton youth is in Barrie jail and Orillia OPP are searching for two other youths following high speed chase in Cm Township Friday The chase began at about 930 am Friday when the vehicle the youths were driving was spotted speeding north bound on Highway 11 The chase ended on Concession 12 near Bass Lake when the vehicle became stuck in swamp The youths fled on foot One youth David Burgess of Hamilton was spotted at about 315 pm He was charg ed with possession ofstolen property and will appear in court Monday for bail hearing Although the canine unit was called in Fri day from Barrie police are still searching for the other youths They are believed to be still in the area said an OPP spokesman long before US agency began investigating complaints in late 1977 The refinements which would be in corporated in 1980 models if adopted involve changes to both transmission and gear shift levers REVlSlNG SHAPE Charles Gumushian government rela tions associate for Ford at Dearbom Mich said the company is revising the shape of part that fits between the park and reverse positions in the gearship linkage Transport Canada testers examining the Peterborough mans pickup had trouble changing the lever between park and reverse Gumushian said Ford officials have been unable to cause transmission to jump into reverse gear even by slamming the vehicles if the lever is properly placed in park He said the Ford transmissions have been in use in American and Canadian cars for about 10 years with no design fault pin pointed Parrott denies accusations TORONTO CP Environment Minister Harry Parrott repeated Friday that he would not ban the use of the weed killer 24D in schoolyards He also denied published report that he accused parents of allowing their children to go near Sprayers in order to have pictures taken said it has been reported to me that peo ple had presented their children for photographic purposes close to the Sprayers Parrott told the legislature At no time did make any accusations Parrott told reporters outside the legislature that he has no evidence to support the allegations reported to him but he said he will make statement when ministry in vestigation is complete Robert Nixon BrantOxfordNorfolk and Michael Cassidy leader of the New Democrats both argued in the legislature that the chemical should be banned But Parrott said independent testing across the country indicated that 24D was safe if usederoperly