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Swimmers hit halfway mark in campaign The YMYWCA swimathon is two days old and already over half way to its $5000 goal Tuesday SIX members of the ladies swim class spent one hour in the pol and raised $431 From to pm 15 swim mers went back and forth to come up with another $1300 Monday members of the news media and the Neptune SWlm Club raised $1352 The total for the two days stands at just under $3100 With three moredays of swimming to go Funds raised through the swimathon will go to the the NeptuneSwim Club and the Canadian Amateur Swimming Assomation Miracle service March 26 Rev 81 Prankard host of the television program The Master Touch will conduet miracle service March 26 at 730pm at Barrie Central Collegiate Mr Prankards healing ministry began when he was pastor of small church in the Ottawa valley Reports began to spread that people who attended services at his church were miraculously healed of physical problems and soon Mr Prankard had to move to larger quarters to ac commodate the crowds Later he formed the Bill Prankard Evangelistic Associa tion to handle mail and speaking invitations from other Cities and three years ago founded The Masters Touch on which he interviews people who have been healed Block Parents meeting planned King Edward public school will hold block parents meeting March 28 at 730 pm at the school Constable Gary Logan of the Barrie City Police will outline the pro gram Screening clinics on next week Children born in 1972 are eligible to attend kindergarten in September The Simcoe County Health Unit is sponsoring preschool screening clinics March 21 to 25 and parents should call 7209300 extension 236 for an appointment Formal registration will be held at King Edward School May Field naturalists plan trip The Brereton Field Naturalists will hold field trip in the Orillia area Saturday to look for birds Leader will be Dr Bill Zufelt 13264402 The trip will begin at Barries Centen nial Park at 745 am and Orilliaarea residents may join up at 830 at Country Fair Plaza in Orillia First of four seminars Friday Barries Bahai community will hold the first of four seminars Friday at pm in the thirdfloor community room at Municipal Savings and Loan Owen St Themes for the seminars are prejudice equality of men and women courtesy and education Named director of Chamber Elio Agostiiii publisher of the Examiner has been ap pointed director of the Greater Barrie Chamber of Coni merce Agostini will be filling the position vacated by former publisher Robb who is now publisher of the Midland Free Press Chamber plans new award The Greater Barrie Chamber of Commerce plans to in troduce new award presented to people who contribute to the physical and economic development of the city Bill McCullough public relations chairman said the new award would go to businessman who takes risk to improve Barrie particularly the downtown core We wouldnt want to restrict it to bricks and mortar he said but the award would most likely go to people contributing to physical change such as building renovation Chief at Block Parents meeting Barrie city police Chief Earl Snider will be on hand at block parents meeting being held tonight at at Steele Street Public School The meeting will include presentation by Constable Gary Logan and block parent cards will be handed out Bill 139 topic for IAPA Bill 139 an act involving employees health and safety is the topic for discussion at meeting of the Barrie section of the industrial Accident Prevention Association iAPAJ March 22 Guest speakers at the meeting will be Arthur gladstonc and Ross Elliott Gladstone was secretary to the Royal Commission on Health and Safety in the Mines and is now on the lAlAs staff as research specialist in the resource and development department He assisted the lAPA in its presentation to the lcgislativc committee hearing public presentations on Bill 130 Elliott is assistant general managerof the IAPA Hospitality hour at the meeting to be held at thi Holiday Inn in Barrie will be 6pm with dinner at Open House starts Friday Open house in celebration of Georgian Colleges 10th an niversary is being held Friday and Saturday at all three campuses Barrie Orillia and Owen Sound Hours in Barrie are 930 am to pm Friday and 10 am to pm Saturday Virtually all departments have organized displays and events for the open house Among the activities are fashion show Friday at pm tickets $2 in advance and $250 at the doori and Georgian versus the public chess tournament in Room 221 of the business building There will be activities of interest to all members of the family says Georgian information services officer Joan Carter Second fire levels cottage Fire broke out for second time at cottage on Lake Sim coe between Concessions 13 and 14 Monday says Oro fire Chief Robert Thorne Chief Thorne said today firefighters were back at the scene Monday after fighting flames Sunday night While the rillia OPP said Monday morning the building was not completely destroyed the second flitfiCVCiiCd the cottage Randy Brooks and his wife were living in the cot tage at the time of the first blaze and escaped unharmed Chief Thornc said today he is involved in an investigation of the incident handled by Hawkcstonc firefighters and said he wont comment on the fire until the investigation is completed Stayner girl sought in Barrie Barrie city police are looking for Stayner girl Stayner OPP think may be in the Barrie area The girl has been missing since early Friday morning Police said today Julic Edith Howbotham 15 was last seen at her home at am wearing orange slacks and peachcolored top She is five feet seven inches and 136 lbs with shoulder length brown hair and brown eyes Police say dcscribtion of the tall slim girl includes the fact she is usually smiling and has good teeth Six cottages flooded at Wasaga WASAGA BEACH The Nottawasaga River spilled its banks in the Oxbow area of Wasaga Beach Sunday flooding about six cottages Sid Taylor works superintendent said this morning the water has receded He said the flooding occurred in an area of the town that floods nearly every spring The water caused no pro blems for his department Choir featured in concert concert featuring segment choir of the Canadian Festivals of Male Voice Praise will be held Sunday at pm at the HiWay Pentecostal Church on Annc Street in Barrie The choir began in Canada in 190 after starting in Scotland and now involves the United Kingdom Australia New Zealand and Canada It involves movement of intcrdcnominational borii again men who spread the Gospel through the media of male voice singing The Canadian group involves singers from Hamilton Toronto and Orillia Wen flaw mime at in Gfllllitlul Elected first woman president of CAS Jean iradwcll of Allistoii is the first woman president of the Simcoe County Chil drens Aid Society Mrs lradwcll past vice presidciit and secretary of the society was elected Tuesday to succeed Dr Alex Bolechowsky of 0m Station The Town of ollingwootL the first municipality north of Toronto to begin Chil drens Aid Society sent special greetings by way of plaque In her term as presi dent of the CAS Mrs Grad well will be seeing lot of Snoopy permanent resi dent of the CAS offices in Midhurst Examiner Photo Prevention the aim of firefighters course Firefighters can do more than douse flanics says Norm Atkins fire services officer for the Ontario Fire Marshals of fice The main objective is to be firefighter he told more than 30 Simcoe County firefigh ters at the opening of fire prevention school in Barrie Tuesday night Youll always be that But Im trying to take you little beyond that to point where you can ut ilize your time as firefighter more fully Atkins says the traditional role of firefighter has change ed The changing trend is to try and get everyone involved in fiicprcvcntioii hesaid Tuesday night was the first in series of scssions which run until April 15 for Simcoe County firefighters The fire picvcii tion training program run by the Fire Marshals otficc in cludcs tlircc Saturday courses The course is similar to Ollt taught at the Ontario Firc tol lcgc iii Gravcnliiirst says At kins but he said were only going to scratch the surface He said firefighters will look at prcvcntioii problems and said he wants permanent and parttime men alikc to get in tercstcd in prevention Fire prevention can be ap plied to paid and volunteer or parttinic men he said The job is the same and the fires can be just as bad Prevention is needed because fires are getting worse he said We are still losing more people to private residence fires he said REAIII PROBLEMS Atkins says fires will always create problems By the 10 all of us rctirc there will still be problems he said If nothing else changcs in society will make us change He said new and different products are presenting dif ficulticsinfighting soincfircs Barrie planning board has given its up roval to plan to build semit ctachcd homes on townhouse lots in the Letitia Heights subdivision The trick lies in the fact that what will look like semis from the ground up will be connected underground to mch the citys definition of street townhouses as continuous row of not less than five nor more than eight attached dwelling units The benefit to the developer Chapelton Homes lies in allow ing the firm to build what amount to 21 semis 42 dwelling units on the smallcr lots allow ed by the city for townhouses The benefit to the city staff planncr Hick Jones said in report to the board lies in the greater architectural variety Thank goodness breathing apparatus he said or most of us will be dead after the first six months Atkins says the main concern is to prevent fires from star ting The second is to prevent as much loss from fire in terms of lives and property He says he would like fire departments in Simcoe County to begin street inspections Fire prevention inspections arc now icing done by the ma jority of fulltime firefighters he said Even voluntccr brigades can promote prcvcntion he said using Sliclburiie as an example He said the Shclburnc departv mcnt puts its new fire truck out on the street and attracted crowds and handed out in formation material in addition to putting on regular inspcc VOHM AlKlNS prcciitioii for tions Atkins says were suc cessful Whitby and Pickering have used students to inspect houses he said He said while there were some refusals most residents let students inspect their homes and all were done with ina summer Fire prevention can include building plan approvals by local fire chiefs says Atkins In some municipalities approval is required bylaw he says Highrise buildings are par ticular problem when looking at plans says Atkins He said pressure points can build in tall building and make it doubly difficult to fight fire he said This is the sixth fire preven tion course Atkins has taken part in Courses began among fire departments in 1974 Its the first time Barrie has been the host for the course Barrie firc Chief Jack McAllistcr said at the opening ceremonies Tuesday night Bar ric has worked for some time to get the course held here George Mcaguc thf DufferinSimcoc represented the provincial government in the ceremonies and said fire prcvcntioii is an important part of firefighting There were more ircs over the last year rovincerwidc than the year be ore he said and it shows there is more need for fire prevention of ficcis Ald Janice Laking represented Mayor Hoss Ar chcr Eastview student wins mention An Eastvicw Secondary School student has been given honorable mention for his entry in the 10th Annual Creative Writing Contest sponsored by the Canada lcriiiancnt Trust lain Benton of 340 odrington St was an Ontario winner for his work Blackstone at Large in the Canadawide con test which involves some 2000 students Semidetached homes for townhouse lots and proposal will permit in comparison with conventional townhousing along with slight reduction in density since the developer could have put 44 conventional townhouse unitsonthc roperty The boardap roved the pro posal Tuesday reservations If it looks like dog and barks like dog its dog ac ting board chairman Ken Byles said during the discussion wonder whether we shouldnt be altering the standards for seinidetached housing be cause thats in effect what it is But other board members said such change in standards would open the door to unaccep table proposals ut not without Oatlcy declines vote on his planning pay Planning board approved its 1077 budget Tuesday but not before one member declared conflict of interest rather than vote on his own honorarium Roger Oatlcy lawyer scrv ing the first year of his term on the board said he questioned the propriety of the boards ap proving its own honoraria $25 per member per meeting un changed from last year He withstood the jokes of his fellow members and rctrcatcd smiling to seat among the spectators while the vote was taken Does this mean we dont have to pay him Ald Janice Laking asked You can endorse your che quc over to me now Roger member Lorne Power said af ter atlcy returned to the table No lm the only one entitled to an honorarium now Oatlcy grinned back The budget which must be approved by city council is $7000 the same as last years budgeted figure but above the $5 78 actually spent last year The budget covcis honoraria subscriptions memberships travelling and conferences Current standards specify minimum lot frontage of 30 feet per dWelling unit Townhouses require only 20 feet though the Chapclton proposal provides minimum frontage of 23 feet DOESNT FIT Jones also noted in his report that city solicitor Rowe does not believe the Chapclton proposal fits the townhouse definition arguing that coir tinuous row implies units at tached above ground by com mon wall would hate to see development of beneficial character rejected because of the definition Jones told the board Board member Roger Oatlcy himself lawyer noted that Rowes job is to take the most conservative position possible in order to keep the city out of trouble rather than to be in novative But Oatlcy said the likelihood of legal difficulties for the city over the proposal is extremely slight The boards motion of ap proval contains statement that the proposed underground connection does indeed meet the townhouse dcfinit ion The connecting foundation trick has been used in other municipalities In Bolton part of the Town of Caledon developer was allowed two years ago to put up single family dwellings which qualifi as semidetached homes ecause of underground connections thus taking ad vantage of smaller lot sizes allowed for scmidetachcd units By SUE ROUTLIFFE Examiner Staff Reporter 19yearold Pene tanguishenc man charged with seconddegree murder has been found not guilty by reason of in sanity jury of eight women and four men says Ronald But tineau was insane when he strangled Emily Beatrice Dorsey last April The verdict came Tuesday afternoon in Supreme Court of Ontario hearing in Barrie After testimony from three psychiatrists and one psy chologist Mr Justice Keith told the jury the case was almost unique in that But tineaus confession to the murder was admitted Monday asevidence On the balance of prob abilities he was insane and you should bring in verdict of not guilty he said after all four medical witnesses testified Buttineau suffered from early stages of schizoid condition Buttineau has been returned to Oak Ridges maximum se curity allmale hospital at the Penetanguishene Mental Health Centre He will remain there said Mr Justice Keith until experts say it is safe to release him The Su reme Court justice called 0a Ridges one of the The Barrie Examiner Wednesday March 16 1977 1E Plea of insanity few places where Buttineau could be held in maximum se curity and could still be given some opportunity for help Kingston Penetentiary is no place for man like this he said Buttineau admitted to police he was caught by Mrs Dorsey his 69yearold neighbor when he was prowling through her house in search of money and alcohol Confronted by her when he tried to run down the stairs from his secondfloor hiding space Buttineau said he grabb ed the woman by the throat and held on until her arms went limp Response to ads pleases Simcoe Centre PC candidate George Taylor Progressive Conservative candidate for Simcoe Centre riding says hes pleased with the response to re cent party advertisements for new members The advertisements ap peared in the Examiner in Fibruary inviting readers to join the Ontario PCs They were part of provintewide membership drive The party also bought radio airtime Taylor said there were about 25 area responses to the ads in his view satisfactory number since the people who do it are very positive The party has 1300 members on its current list for the riding he added The newspaper ads consisted of an informal application for party membership which readers could fill out Some very generous vol unteering of work or time was one of the direct results of the campaign he said adding that responses came from all parts of the riding The advertisements that ap peared in The Examiner were paid for by the local organiza tion while the radio time was bought by the provincial party The provincial body has not yet indicated if it will use the same method next year Accor ding to Taylor response was sufficient that the Simcoe Cen tre organization might consider doing it again even if on its own accepted by jury He then placed pillow and set of bathroom scales over her face after stuffing her mouth with her underpants She was sexually assaulted although Buttineau denies do ing it in his statement to police Dr Peter Rowsell private psychiatrist testifying for the Crown said Buttineaus acts in the murder reveal his sexual frustrations in addition to other problems He testified Buttineau would know his hands were around the womans neck and would know he was strangling her But his awareness of the physical act appears to be completely cut off from feeling he said Dr Rowsell said Buttineaus sexual assault of the dead woman was his first sexual experience and said he suf fered from hangup about women Dr Rowsell who interviewed Buttineau for Crown attorney Jim Murphy while Buttineau was at the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry last September said Butineau is shy and withdrawn two indications of the start of schizoid personali Ly Buttineau undoubtedly has severe personality disorder 1e said He said Buttineaus descrip tion of the murder carries no emotion and said his face is mask despite the appearance of tears in his eyes at one point arrie today Special ceremonies at Legion meeting noni ll Tuesday nights general meeting of Branch 147 Legion had special ceremonies iii cluding presentation of public speaking awards the mayor and chief of police with honorary memberships and burning the Legions second mortgage ABOVE Police Chief Earl Snider is presented with his membership by membership chairman Charlie Lawson left while Mayor Ross Archer receives his pin from branch president Bob Duncan LEFT President of the Ladies Auxiliary Mrs Robert Burke assistists Bob Duncan in the burning the second mortgage of $822262 Most of the money was raised by the auxiliary from banquets BOTTOM Bert Rae presented awards for the Legion public speaking contest From left Marla Bentley Allaiidalc Heights $20 for poetry Corrie Adams Minesing Central 510 for literary essay Karel Tomes Allaiidale Heights 510 for second in poetry and Danielle Park Mincsiiig Cen tral $20 for literature Ex aiiiiiier Photo Luv ury