Barrie Historical Newspaper Archive

Barrie Examiner, 23 Jun 1979, p. 1

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is lts+ story Canada Day party Get ready for the big birthda cake For the first time the city of Barrie holding his celebration for Canada be on July The birthday party will be bed at Centennial Park and will feature music by the Central Collegiate Band and fireworks display See the Today page Students visit Barrie Fourteen students from Canada and the US are visiting the Barrie area until Wednesday Theyve just completed train ing in Toronto as part of their work for Operation Mobilization religious organization The students leave for various destinations in Europe next week See story on the lifestyle page Watson gets going When the going gets tough Tom Watson gets going The leading moneywinner on the Professional Golfers Association cir cuit stormed into the Canadian Open lead Friday in wet and windy weather conditions Canvas here come Champion Larry Holmes in light trunks watches as challenger Mike Weaver goes down after punch in llthround of their World Boxing Council heavyweight cham pionship fight Friday in New Yorks Madison Square Garden Holmes won the fight when the referee stopped the bout in the l2thround Story on Page l3 AP Photo It was crushed glass PARIS Ont CP Ten children return ed to school Friday after they ate crushed glass they thought was candy Principal John Moskwa said they were taken to hospital only as precaution and that they had eaten only few grains of glass about the size of rock salt and used in hobbies Moskwa said one student had been given the glass and shared it with friends Memorial service held BARCLAY memoriai serVice was held at the municipal offices for Coun William Tip Tipple this morning Mr Tipple 65 died Monday afternoon at Royal Victoria Hospital of cancer He leaves his wife Lil and their son Gary In his fifth year as councillor Mr Tip ple had completed two terms of office Coun Tipple was very good coun cillor said Reeve William Gibbins He took his job very seriously and his judgments were fair He will be missed on council Nine convicted GLASGOW Scotland Reuter Nine Glasgow men convicted of planting bombs or of aiding Northern Ireland Protestant extremist group were sentenced Friday to terms ranging from 12 to 18 years in prison The men including four convicted of bom bing two Glasgow pubs were charged with acquiring guns ammunition and ex plosives for use in Britain and Northern Ireland Many of Northern Irelands one million Protestants are of Scottish ancestry Wants to be cheerleader MIAMI AP federal judge denied Miami Dolphins motion Friday to dismiss suit filed by male dancer who wants to be National Football League cheerleader However Judge William Hoeveler dismissed Glen Welts request for punitive damages against the Dolphins for threaten ing to take Well to court but refused to dismiss the basic part of thc suit hearing date has yet to be set for the suit in which Welt seeks $10000 for alleged sex discrimination Welt 29 filed the suit last June after the Dolphins refused to let him try out for their cheerlcading squad Welt contcnds that as dancer he was capable of performing as chccrlcader and that he had sex appeal The Dolphins said in their lllOilOIl to dismiss that they wanted modern and im prcssionistic female dancers to entertain their fans Welt earlier offered to drop thc sun in ex change for two scason tickets on the 50yard linc The Dolphins refused Wrong charge cited TORONTO CP 77 Two police officers who led an investigation into the murder of lawyer Bruce Lorenz shot to death in Toronto subway station last year have been charged with using false affidavit The Canadian Press erroneOUSly reported Thursday that SSgt Gerald Stevenson and SSgt Robert McLean had been charged with forgery MP fined $200 OTTAWA CP Peter Ittinuar the first Inuit elected to the House of Commons has been fined $200 after pleading guilty to possession of one gram of cocaine Ittinuar New Democratic MP for the Northwest Tenitories riding of hunatsiaq pleaded guilty to the charge Monday in pro vincial court and was fined Thursday He paid his fine immediately RCMP drug squad officers arrested him Come home to The Examiner call 7266539 for home delivery that left mortalgolfeis struggling to break even Watson is now seven under par For more see todays sport page She loves to dance Donna Grant is the only modern dance teacher in Barrie Shes just graduated from the University of Western Ontario and has returned to the city for the summer to teach at local dance school She talks about dance in an interview with Stephen Gauer on todays entertainment page Away from home Examiner columnist Traynor McFarlane takes tongueincheek look at the tedium of night away from home See Page index today Ithatylo mmlnmont window on the work sports canlcotv guide dosslflod 61 June after finding the drug in his posses sion as he and another man sat in car behind city restaurant The other man was not charged court official said the amount was so small he estimated street value of bet ween $l20 and $125 that there was no uestion of Ittinuar being charged with traf icking Legislature adjourns TORONTO CP The Ontario legislature ended its spring sitting without fanfare Friday Only 30 MPPs were seated while LtGov Pauline McGibbon gave assent to several housekeeping bills After the lieutenantgovernor left the legislature chambers Speaker Jack Stokes adjourned the house until Oct 11 In past years at the end of the sitting MPPs threw papers up in the air In these more sober times however re maining MPPs smiled shook hands and then began their summer recess of almost four months Kavaia gets 20 years CHICAGO AP Nikola Kavaja an airline hijacker who declared himself soldier in the cause of Serbian in dependence has been sentenced to 20 years in prison on bombing charges federal judge who said that the hijacker would kill people he considers his enemy imposed the sentence Friday Kavaja 45 and five comrades appeared before US District Judge Hubert Will for sentencing in the 1975 bombing of the subur ban home of the Yugoslav consul and plot to bomb two receptions commemorating the beginning of the Communist government of President Tito in Yugoslavia Kavaja could have been sentenced to maximum of 35 years and fined as much as $40000 He drew the longest sentence of the SIX The Serbian nationalist on Wednesday hi jacked plane en route from New York to Chicago The Boing 727 landed in Chicago where Kavaja later let 127 passengers and five crew members debark unharmed Late that night he forced three crew members to fly him to New York where he switched to Boeing 707 jet and was flown to Shannon Ireland There he surrendered to Irish authorities He was returned to the United States early Friday Building makes history AYLMER Ont CP Canadas first apartment building heated entirely by solar heat was officially opened Friday by On tario Housing Minister Claude Bennett The twostorey senior citizens home has 29 onebedroom units One of the main problems in using solar energy in Ontario is that less sunshine is available in the winter when it is needed most housing ministry spokesman said But the building in this community just west of St Thomas solves the problem by using an annual heatstorage system the spokesman said The system features huge underground insulatedconcrete tank holding about 200000 gallons of water Queen for moment Jane Reeves tries out replica of the Crown of England Friday with some help from security guard Jim Hannaford Copies of the crown jewels of England valued at about 540000 are being exhibited at Woodbine race track in Toronto CP Photo weather Mostly cloudy and cool today Brisk northwest winds Highs 14 to lo Lows overnight to Mainly sunny Sunday and continuing cool Highs lBto 20 1131 No 13 Millard 23 1010 the examiner 15PorCopv Cantor Horne 99 Weekly serving barrie and simcoe countygg as as Two more truckers injured as strike violence mounts Joe Borowski right background was taken in handcuffs from federal court Friday in Winnipeg after being sentenced to months in jail for contempt of court CP Photo Borowski iailed WINNIPEG CP Joe Borowski former New Democratic Party cabinet minister was sentenced Friday to 312 months in jail for contempt of court then taken away in handcuffs Borowski chairman of the Alliance Against Abortion was sentenced in federal court for not disclosing his financial assets for income tax purposes Before passing sentence Mr Justice Addy said Borowski is determined to make martyr of himself The federal government has judgment against Borowski for $21639 in back taxes which he has refused to pay as protest against abortion laws In court Mr Justice Addy repeatedly ask ed Borowski to stick to the charges but Borowski continued to read from transcripts of his speeches extracts from medical jour nals texts from American court cases and news stories When he began to quotepassages from Nazi war crime trials Mr Justice Addy cut him off All you are trying to do is create public furore by openly defying court order the judge said You seem to be bound to disobey court order and make martyr of yourself Not stolen from Borden Reports that outlaw motorcycle clubs may have antitank launchers and hand grenades stolen from Canadian Forces Base Borden are false CFB Borden spokesman said today In copyright story the Globe and Mail said today that biker intelligence sources fear open warfare between rival gangs who have stockpiled weapons stolen from Canadian Armed Forces Bases at Borden and Petawawa Harold Graham commissioner of the On tario Provincial Police said there could be an open war this summer between USbased Hells Angels and the Outlaws If they have the weapons they didnt get them from here said CFB Borden spokesman Capt Richard Shaftoc Its worth your life trying to get anything like that out of here Capt Shaftoe said all munitions at CFB Borden are carefully accounted for and if anything is missing fullscale investigation is conducted He said there hasnt been anything like that in the two years he has been at the base The two motorcycle clubs are competing for territorial superiority and for control over growing criminal network police spokesmen said WASHINGTON AP Millions of dollars of cropswere in danger and two more drivers were injured as independent truckers in the united States debated whether two Carter ad ministration proposals would ease the cost squeeze that has led to shutdown Rigs in eight states were hit with bullets and rocks Friday One driver was shot in the arm in Tennessee and another was in serious condition in Missouri after his trucks tires were shot out and his rig crashed The strike which started more than two weeks ago was called to protest high prices and dwindling supplies of diesel fuel the lack of uniform load regulations and the 88 kilometreanhour speed limit President Carter announced Friday he was suspending federal rule that gave farmers first claim on diesel fuel thus making more available to the 100000 independent truckers MOVE LAUDED William Hill head of the Independent Truckers Unity Coalition said the move was step in the right direction because the haulers need priority over the farmers Farmers expressed disappointment Our payday comes just once year and thats right now when the wheat is being harvested said John Junior Armstrong head of the Kansas Farm Bureau Diesel fuel needs to be available to farmers And some truckers also were unimpressed havent had any trouble getting fuel said David Thompson of Fairfield Conn That isnt the problem its the price In another move the Federal Highway Ad ministration asked governors of eight states and the District of Columbia to consider tem porarily lifting the legal limits on the weight of trucks Most states already allow 80000 pound loads but the holdouts have formed bar against coasttocoast travel with the bigger loads adding to costs truckers say LIMITS RAISED Connecticut and Missouri raised their limits to 80000 pounds on Friday and of fiCials in Maryland and Mississippi said they were considering the action Illinois Gov James Thompson declined and officials in Indiana and Arkansas said the legislatures would be reluctant to approve such move Invasion tries beaten Somozas guard claims MANAGUA AP President Anastasio Somozas national guard said it beat back two attempted rebel invasions from Costa Rica as Nicaraguan government troops battered their way into guerrillaheld slum districts on the eastern edge of Managua As fighting continued Friday the Organiza tion of American States meeting in Washington to debate the bloody Nicaraguan civil war appeared to reach consensus that $0th Naturally the first thing ou need is truck going in direction you wish to go Somoza must step aside if peace is to be achieved in the country his family has ruled for 42 years In Managua national guard spokesman Col Aquiles Aranda Escobar told reporters two convoys of international Communist mercenaries attempted to enter Nicaragua from Costa Rica to reinforce positions held by guerrillas of the Sandinista National Libera tion Front CONVOYS HIT HARD He said both convoys were shattered by ar tillery and heavy mortar fire from national guard outposts north of Sandinista positions along the southern border with Costa Rica The report could not be independently con firmed The spokesman said government soldiers stopped the invaders less than five kilometres inside Nicaraguan territory One convoy of 16 vehicles included four tractor trailers loaded with ammunition and food Aranda Escobar said The second was string of 20 vehicles and in both cases the few that managed to penetrate Nicaraguan ter ritory were destroyed by artillery he said He said no shells were fired into Costa Rica and Nicaraguan aircraft did not violate Costa Rican airspace VEHICLES STRAFEI But Associated Press correspondent Gor don Mott reporting from the Costa Rican side of the border said Nicaraguan air force jet straffed convoy of private vehicles four kilometres inside Costa Rica He said none of the vehicles was hit Walks to freedom Followed by his wife Marlon Jeremy Thorpe former leader of Britains Liberof Party smiles and waves to 30st outside Londons Old Bailey Court Friday after he was found not guilty on charges of conspiracy murder and incitement to murder The lury found Thorpe and three other defendants not guilty after 52 hours of deliberation AP Photo Two Midland men Garrold Diver front and Neil Gerow third from front are accompanied by On tario Provincial Police officers at Toronto International airport Fri day after they returned from Fort Lauderdale Fla The men are wanted in connection with the stabbing death of l4yearold girl CP Photo Midland two remanded The two Midland men charged with the first degree murder of I4yearold Penetangushene girl were remanded in custody to June 28 by justice of the peace Friday Neil Albert Gerow and Garrold Diver both 19 are in Barrie Jail and are schedul ed to appear in Penetanguishenc provin cial court on that date The two men were returned to Ontario from Fort Lauderdale Fla wher they were arrested on local charges June 14 Those charges were dropped by Florida authorities to allow the men to return to Canada to face the murder charges Gerow and Diver are charged with murdering Elizabeth Whelan The girl was beaten stabbed and run over by car about six kilometres northeast of Midland May clarify embassy move OTTAWA CP With Arab and busmess pressure growing Prime Minister Clark is expected to make another statement today on the governments controversial plan to move the Canadian embassy in Israel to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv An aide to Clark said the prime ministers office will likely issue statement clarifying the Conservative governments position late today after meetings with Aral and Israeli ambassadors She did not elaborate Meanwhile businessmen urged Clark Fri day to pull back from the Jerusalem decision And Arab ambassadors and Israeli Amlt bassador Mordechai Shalev outlined their positions to Opposition Leader Pierre Trudeau The Arabs have bitterly condemned the embassy move they consider Israeli con trol over Jerusalem illegal They have threatened retaliation if Canada goes ahead with the move and this has alarmed businessmen who fear loss of important con tracts John Bulman president of the Canadian Manufacturers Association CMA said he recommended to Clark that the move not proceed

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