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Eat your heart out John Travolta Ross Hiltz does the Disco step further on water or so it seems during summer revelries at Centennial Park Wednesday Examiner Photo by Peter Hsu Joanie Hiltz holds her breath as she and her comradeinarms Lorri Lowe jump into Kempenfelt Bay Wednesday while whooping It up at Centennial Park The pier there attracts number of youngsters who enjoy diving Ex aminer Photos by Peter Hsu inside story CAS threatens cuts The local hildrens Aid Society will begin cutting services if the provincial government and area municipalities conr tinuc to cut back on grants Don Jackson society director said the increasing tinanv cial restraints are causing problems within the agency and something will eventually have to giie Iiiad lerry Fields story on the Today Page Ravin appears here ltavin sixmember band from Toronto makes its first Barrie appearance Saturday at the tth annual Grass Roots concert at lolsons Park The band formed in 1978 is starting to attract attention toi its uniuuc blend Jan rock and Latin music See story on todays Entertainment Page Toronto comes up even loronto came up excn on the scoreboard The Blue Jays snapped seven game los ing streak but the Ritzant felt the fury of Philadelphia and lost Locally liariie Merchants edged ire of Harrie ltotary Huroiis Peewee lacrosse team came up victorious in their first play game Seestories and pictures on to day Sports Pages index today lifestyle entertainment background page sports cornicew guide classified Boy dies in fall TORONTO CP fouryearold boy died Wednesday after falling from ninth floor balcony where he was playing with his brother and friend Police said Christopher Goodwin was dead on arrival at hospital He had climbed on folding chair on the balcony in an Ontario Housing Corp apartment in Etobicoke borough of Metropolitan Toronto Vifins allowance battle LONDON Ont tCP An unemployed single father with two children has won his battle to receive mothers allowanc0 benefits from the ministry of community and social services Donald Taylor of London will receive payments of $320 month retroactive to last June An orderincouncil was issued by the government to allow him to receive the money Earlier his requests for benefits were turned down because the ministry felt he was employable Taylor quit his job to be fulltime parent to his children Donnie and Bonnie after his wife left him seveal years ago He said medical problems restrict the type of work he can do Mudd name cleared SAGINAW Mich AP It took 114 years six presidents and several generations but the besmirched Mudd family name has finally been given an offi cial vote of confidence President Carter issued letter Wed nesday absolving Dr Samuel Mudd from any role in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln That made the doctors 79yearold grandson happy man His grandfathers troubles had inspired the phrase His name is mad Im ecstatic said Dr Richard Mudd of Saginaw The night of April 1865 assassin John Wilkes Booth broke his leg in leap from the Ford Theatre box hlt he fired the shot that killed Lincoln Booth made his way to Mudds home in 115th your No 176 Thursday July 28 1979 In Barrie Orillia 15° Par Copy Carrier Home Dollyory 95° Weekly the examiner serving borrie andim¢¢ecouniv Lowrental accommodation By STEPHEN NICIIOIJS Of The Examiner Lowrental houses and apartments in Bar rie will be offered to Vietnamese refugees as part of nationwide program by the Central Mortgage and Housing Corp announced Wednesday The crown corporation has set aside for the refugees about 3000 empty apartments and houses 10 to 25 of them in Barrie and 10 to 25 in Orillia Elmer MacKay minister responsible for the corporation said the CMHCowned dwell ings will be rented to the refugees at $200 month The rent will cover realty taxes and the agencys administration costs he said St Clair Trainor manager of the Barrie CMHC office said today the rent includes heat light and water tees Although the special rate is intended to ap ply for maximum of six months ex tenuating circumstances may dictate longer period said Trainor CMHC owns 60 homes in Barrie 30 of which are available In Orillia the corporation has 50 homes 40 available Most are threebedroom condominiums The others also threebedroom are detached homes Available CMHC units in Barrie include units in condominium projects on Adelaide Street Donald Street Rose Street Bernick Drive and Ferris Lane said Trainor Refugees may also be offered accommoda tion in other housing units he said Many of the homes previous owners defaulted on mortgages said Trainor About 1000 of the homes are in the Mon treal area In Ontario there are 300 in Toron to 500 in Mississauga 200 in Oshawa 300 in Hamilton and 100 in the Ottawa region Van couver has 100 homes made available The rest are sprinkled through 18 other com munities MaiKay said the homing is intended as temporary accommodation Im not con templating longterm subsidizing of people who come herebut when people come to new country are looking for jobs and trying to integrate into their new communities its useful if they dont have to worry about get ting roof over their heads said MacKay Once they are in position to afford better housing most of them may move out But few of them may decide that they would like chance to continue renting or even buy the dwellings he said Trainer said he has received no details about the procedures involved in providing the housing to the refugees Moves inflation Crosbie puts axe to commission OTTAWA CP Finance Minister John Crosbie put the axe to the Liberalcreated Na tional Commission on Inflation Wednesday saying more than shortterm solutions are needed to solve the problem of inflation Crosbie who had few kind words for the commission while in Opposition said it had been created five months earlier by the Lets hear you Carter to US WASHINGTON AP President Carter telling US citizens your voice must bi heard if the Senate is to pass his tax or windfall oil profits Without it he says Wf cannot reach our energy goals At news conference Wednesday night Carter predicted massive struggle to gut the windfall profits tax bill in the Senate after noting it already has passed the Houst of Representatives It was Carters first news conference her since May 29 and he appeared forceful throughout His upper lip twitched briefly however when he was asked whether he has thought about taking himself out of the 1980 presidential race have considered all the options he reported and my decision will be announc ed later on this year Maryland about 50 kilometres south of Washington where the doctor set his leg It wasnt until the doctor went to town to get his mail that he learned of the as sassination the grandson said He reported to soldiers that two suspicious men were at his house the night before though Richard Mudd said Union soldiers found boat at the home with Booths name in it and Samuel Mudd Confederate sympathizer was convicted as an accomplice He was sentenced to life in prison and served four years before President Andrew Johnson granted pardon and ordered his release after the doctor aided prisoners during yellow fever outbreak But the family contended that pardon implied guilt and fought to have Samuel Mudds name cleared He was never exonerated and really he isnt yet said Richard Mudd All we can get is personal declaration that President Carter considers him innocent but thats enough for me Billed for charity FORT ERIE Ont CP Fort Erie man and wife who gave permission for their dead sons kidney to be used in transplant operation at Buffalo hospital were billed $1700 fortheir charity Officials at Buffalo General Hospital have admitted the billing is mistake and have promised letter of apology But this is small solace to Albert Eden and his wife We were really upset Eden said It was bad enough losing our son without all this grief heaped on us too Their son Gary was knocked from his bicycle by car June and later died in the Buffalo hospital week after they au thorized the kidney donation the Edens received bill in the mail Coffeemaker warning TORONTO CP Owners of Proctor Silex automatic drip coffee makers made before December 1976 should stop using the machines immediately because of possible fire hazard the Canadian Stair dards Association saidWedpesday There have been 13 reports of tires in the machines during the last few months an Liberal government to pretend it was doing something abdut inflation You cant beat inflation overnight he told news conference He said the govern ment was planning longer term measures to deal with the problem but would not say what they might be beyond reiterating Pro gressive Conservative plans to cut govern ment spending Parliament has been called for Oct and Crosbic says he plans his first budget shortly after that He is to review the economy today and is expected to fleshout claims that the former Liberal government left the country in financial mess Inflation is 89 per cent on an annual basis and economists say higher energy and food prices suggest little relief for at least year Former finance minister Jean Chretien who set up the inflation agency in March with powers to open company books said the move indicated the Conservatives dont care about inflation The commission was the fifth monitoring agency set up by the Liberals in 10 years and Chretien said it was intended to encourage business and labor to act responsibly by publicizing unusual price or wage increases Stanley Knowles New Democratic Party House leader whose party was critical of the commissions lack of rollback powers said he was not unhappy to see it disbanded But he said Crosbies failure to provide an alter native to deal with rising prices meant it was just nice little show association spokesman said Investigations by ProctorSilex show that most of the fires were caused by improper servicing or tampering with the electrical system The coffee makers were manufactured and sold exclusively in Canada bearing fit eing offered to refgee is we Fs Boston Police Deputy Superintendent is led by comrades after being shot Wednesday in Bostons Jamaica Plain section where he tried to talk David Sundstrom into freeing hostages he was holding in apartment building background Boston Globe photo by Bill Curtis More Photos on Page l2 AP Photo Police officer wounded in Boston apartment siege BOSTON AP 36yearold janitor described as troubled and loner faces charges that he shot Bostons deputy police superintendent in the chest while holding his own family hostage authorities said David Sundstrom surrendered quietly Wednesday after gunfirepunctuated stan Has an one looked into the possibi ity of selling these boat people new boats ProctonSilex label and the associations mark Owners of coffee makers that have been serviced repaired or had the bottom plate removed at any time should return the base unit to ProctorSilex ReaInspection Centre PO Box 2100 Picton Ont KOK 2T0 Yes Sir Er US Navdl Academy senior Sandy Erwin drills rookies during an Informal exercise at the Annapolis Md base For the first time in the academys I34 year history women are in command alongside men AP Photo Cane home to The Examiner Fall 7266537for home delivery doff at his home in the Jamaica Plain sec tion He was to be arraigned today on charge of assault with intent to murder police said Sundstrom also faces firearms charges in connection with an incident the day before at City Hall officials said Police said Deputy Supt Edward Connol ly 59 was shot as he talked to Sundstrom though door spokesman at Faulkner Hospital said Connolly who oversees the citys uniformed police was in fair condition after undergo ing surgery for liver damage On Tuesday police said Sundstrom an evening janitor at municipal building in Jamaica Plain was called to City Hall for reprimand While there police say he ran through the building assaulted one employee waved pistol and threw cinder block No one was hurt Authorities said when police went to Sundstroms apartment Wednesday to ar rest him on firearms charge he took his family hostage Scores of police armed with shotguns and automatic weapons converged on the threestorey house cordoned off the area Offers free surgery TORONTO CP An American eye surgeon has offered his services free to Toronto man blinded year ago by freak reaction to combination of penicillin and aspirin Dr James Aquavella of Rochester NY made the offer after hearing 29yearold Martin Ramsey would need to go to the US for an operation and the Ontario Health Insurance Plan would pick up only part of his expenses Doctors and nurses at Scarborough Centenary Hospital in Toronto report several offers of help after newspapers stories appeared about Ramseys financial troubles Technicians off iob MONTREAL CP Fewer than 1400 of Bell Canadas 15700 installers and techni cians were on the job in Quebec and Ontario on Wednesday as lockouts rotating strikes and acts of vandalism continued to plague service to subscribers of the 7000 Ontario and 5000 Quebec technicians who didnt work most were locked out by management PLO chief shot CANNES France AP The Palestine Liberation Organization PLO accused Israel of the attempted murder of its military operations chief but Western diplomats in Paris said the shooting on the Riviera may be the start of new round of fighting between rival PLO factions or leaders There was no comment from Israel The condition of the victim 43yearold Zuhair Mohsen was described as hopeless He was shot in the head and was reported in coma in Nice hospital following an operation to remove the bullet weather Mostly cloudy today Sunny Friday with cloudy periods Highs both days 24 to 26 Lows overnight 13 to 15