Barrie Historical Newspaper Archive

Barrie Examiner, 21 Jun 1979, p. 7

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Two more states may join in truckers strike NEW YORK AP Truck drivers in Texas and Con necticut vowed to halt trucking in their states and North Carolina operators voted to park their rigs today as dairy farmers dumped milk and produce growers worried about getting their products to market President Carter was considering whether to lift an order assuring farmers all the diesel fuel they need to free ad ditional su plies for protesting truck operators Nationa Guard soldiers escorted gasoline tank trucks in Minnesota to replenish supplies at fuelhungry service stations One shooting incident was reported there and others were reported in Utah Pennsylvania and South Carolina driver was shot and killed in Alabama on Wednesday the first fatality linked to the violence riddled shutdown The FBI joined the investigation and Gov Fob James denounced the assailants as outlaws and coldblooded murderers $340000 in equipment lost stolen From The Ottawa Bureau Of The Examiner OTTAWA The defence department has reported that more than $340000 in weapons and equipment has been lost or stolen over the last two years Headquarters told the Ottawa bureau of the Examiner that armed forces bases and stations overseas and in Canada claimed that losses and thefts cost the department total of $35250 in 1977 and $394300 in 1978 Of that $181000 was recovered in 1977 and 3222300 was reclaimed last year Among the items missing are 51 weapons lost or stolen in 1977 and another 39 unaccounted for by late June 1978 They were stolen from inventories lost during training exercises or fires and lost or stolen during transit The type of weapons unaccounted for are Browning nine millimetre pistols Stirling nine millimetre submachine guns Lee Enfield 22 calibre rifles and drill purpose rifles Building permits total $6043M From the Ottawa Bureau Of Ilic E£IIIIII1I Value of building permits issued in Ontario in March was $2titttiltl00 Statistics anada reports That brings the value of building permits issued in the pro vincc for the first three months of the year 1036043 million Value of building permits issued in the first three months of 1078 was $011 million In March 3887 permits were issued for dwelling units of which 18171 were for single fainin units and 1916 for multi ple units Value of residential permits issued during the month was 013651000 of industrial permits $t104$ltl0i and of institu tional and governmental permits flit87000 Promise challenge may snowball EDMONTON li Dave McLelland wants to show Prime Minister Joe link it pays to keep your campaign promises ll Joe cuts off the 00000 civil servants in the next three years Ill pay him 10 cents head said the 42yearold Ed liiontonarca welder And the idea seems to be catching on Inc of Mchllands colleagues has promised to match him dime for dime Others will join in says llcleland who thinks 10 cents per civil servant head is prett cheap lark who is also Mchllands MP in the riding of Yellowhcad west of here will be getting the offer he cant nlusc delivered to him this week Court rules on day parole llAW til The Fed eral ourt of anada has rtilcd that when persons lay parole is revoked the person must serve the part of his sentence that remained when the day pa role was granted The judgment made public thlnesday means Norman Maclean wont get out of Pittsburgh Institution federal prison in Ontario until Nov Macliean had argued he should be released May 10 He was granted la parole beginning May 18 19715 It was revoked Nov 1077 lessthaii month after change in the Parole Act Macliean argued that the time he spent on the street he worked during the day and spent the nights In prison should have been computtsl as time sercd It wasnt and the result was that 19 days was added to his sentence Mr Justice lc iattanach of the Federal ourt said the 1977 change in the Parole ct just means dav parolces are to be treated the same as general parolees liithcrmorc tattanach said thee is no doubt that Parliament can change the rules ltl midstream lEASE buyback lease Making the most of 25 Celcius Flfteenyearold Joanne Carmichael shoots down the slide at Sunnyside Pool on Torontos lakefront Wednesday as the city basked in pleasant 25 degrees Celcius The sunny warm weather is expected to continue in the Toronto area for couple of days CP Photo Clark meets businessmen OTTAWA CP Prime Min ister Clark is calling in 10 of Canadas most powerful busi ness leaders for consultation before his participation in next weeks western economic sum mit meeting in Tokyo Announcement of Fridays private meeting was made on Wednesday as Clark dined with the ambassadors of the six other countries participating in the conference and then close ted himself with James Gillies his economic adviser to discuss Canadas role Clark has consulted Pierre Trudeau former Liberal prime minister who attended the pre vious conferences and who was preparing for this one until de feated in the May 22 election Executives attending Fridays meeting include Peter Gordon chairman of Stelco Jean de Grandpre chairman of Bell Canada Rowland Frazee president of the Royal Bank of Canada Ian Barclay chair man of British Columbia Forest Products PHEONIX SJ Dr Coupe For Month Barrie DriveaCur 43 Essa Rd Barrie 7266474 OFF Shorts and Swimsuits FOREMOSTHV FASHION 34 ouutor St is 7282240 IIP Ill 2M 50 SE 74 KINGSTON Ont CPI No aluminum companies with smelters in New York state are dumping almost ton of fluor ide waste day into the St Lawrence River and tributary near Cornwall Island The WhigStandard has teamed that one of the com panies violates state regulations that limit its dumping into the international waterway The Reynolds Metals Co smelter one kilometre down stream from the island dis charges 1800 pounds of fluoride fumes into the air each day and hundreds of pounds of fluoride wastes into the St Lawrence The Aluminum Company of America Alcoa discharges more than twice as much fluor ide as Reynolds into the Grass violating New River York 7265333 uquun ha figs Victoria Wood is back in Barrie With all new all brick 1979 single family Classics With price value and quality £9 youll think youre libraries smchOOLs Phone Almost ton per day Waste being dumped in river state regulations in the process The Grass empties into the St Lawrence about eight kilo metres away Cornwall Island directly south of the city of Cornwall is part of the St Regis Indian re serve situated on chain of islands in the St Lawrence at the OntarioQuebec border State law requires the com panies to report river dumping statistics one day each month state environmental official said the companies report the figures on an honor system al though the environmental agency does spot checks once or twice year No officials Canadian American provincial or state monitor river fluoride levels downstream from the smelters both in the Massena NY area 7261322 examiner lhundayJuno 21 1010 The New York state depart ment of environmental con servation however reported that Reynolds dumped the fol lowing amounts of fluoride into the river right at the plant dur ing 24hour period in May 431 pounds of fluoride mixed in 36 million US gallons of water concentration of 145 parts per million James Scott senior official with the waterpollution control division of Environment Can ada said fluoride concentra tion of 85 parts per million kills rainbow trout And 15 parts per million impairs the hatching of trout eggs In April Reynolds dumped 522 pounds during 24 hours In March it dumped 774 pounds in cooperation with since 1904 area I25 DUNLOP ST Iltllllllll Mini 18 ft master bedrooms ALL CLAY BRICK EXTEDIORS ogrand foyers patio walkouts ocoloured bath fixtures colonial mahogany interior trim roughin central dreaming So act now and avoid the stampede Choose from bedrooms or 23 it family rooms 021 ft gourmet kitchens roughin central vacuum main floor laundry centres and bathsen suite most 50 x110 fully sodded lots 01 or car garages standard separate livingdining rooms the classnest exterior destgns 95 for the money youve ever seen But dont wait At these low pre construction prices well be sold TWOYEAR WARRANTY OTICON HEARING AIDS This is limited time offer from June 1th to June 23rd If you are considering hearing aid now is the time Over quarter century of continuous service to the hard of hearing in the Barrie 34 models to choose from SIMCOE HEARING AID CENTRE by omitmm 726 71 main floor mud rooms as per model type out in days Probably hours breakfast rooms To Ioronto Take Hwy 400 north to Hwy 2627 Bayfield St north to Cundles Rd1urnlett on Cundles to Lillian Crescent and right on Lillian to sales centre SALES CENTRE OPEN Sat and Sun 10 AM to PM Mon to Thurs 12 noon to PM Closed Friday Phone 7371437 Barrie 8835666 Toronto WDcvetopment Corporation Wsmmmmdqmmym during the monitoring period Those concentrations were mixed with about the same amount of water as in May Reynolds official at the companys head uarters in Vir ginia initially enied to The WhigStandard that Reynolds dumps into the river He called The WhigStandard later say ing he was wrong but that the Reynolds dumping is within state and federal limits The New York state environ mental department allows dumping in the river but sets maximum fluoride limits for Reynolds and Alcoa It has au thorized Reynolds to dump an average of 710 pounds of fluor ide day with maximum oneday limit of 1063 pounds The Harrington From $61250 with car garage Adm CIivflitol

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