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Eating thems more fun Sue Clages 16 of Kitchener likes picking strawberries but eating them is more fun She was helping her parents pick at Westwind Farms Wellesley Owner Glen Culp who has 35 acres of berries this year says they are about 10 days ahead of schedule because of weather conditions Culp has 25 student pickers as well as pickyourown customers CP Photo Planning board May ask city to hire member to head study Barrie planning board is considering ask ing City council to hire planning board member as paid chairman of the core study committee which will supervise major revitalization study of Barries downtown core Under consideration for the post is board member Doug Skelton professional engineer Skelton or any chairman chosen would head committee made up of representatives of planning board council city planning staff and the public The committee is to oversee $0le There is no Mafia in Canada and if you say there is Ill have you hirl inside local 310 1317 27 lifestyle 19 20 21 entertainment 18 sports comlcs 32 classlfled 33 34 35 supplements Ball BuildAll pages Crazy Lee pages wednesday WOMElG Local nursery sold page 20 Talk on kindergarten in story on page 21 On losing weight method on page 21 Learning to compete HALIFAX TPJ world work mother to 30 children is retiring after 10 years Audrey Mason owner and operator of Tiny Tots Nursery on Hayfield Street has sold the nursery Shell be missed by the children say the staff And Mrs Mason says shell miss them too in her story on Kindergarten whats it all about Mothers of kindergartenage children are invited to bear talk about the expectations of kindergarten by Sharon Ilodgson June 27 at El am at odrington School as reported quickn easy way to lose weight is what everybody looks for Theres new way called proteinsparing modified fasting Modified fasting requires protein supple ment says Henry Margolis president of Iamieson and Co of Windsor manufac turer of the supplement He explains the The biggest lesson of Gladys Blennerbassetts early working life has been to learn to compete something she believes more women must learn to obtain higher and better paying positions in the feel that women will be able to take their places beside men in business when they become more competitive said the woman who as city clerk of Halifax super vises staff of four women and two men in large portion of the citys day today paper an estimated 350000 worth of work by an outside consultaant in the study which is scheduled to take about year In addition the committee would co ordinate the row of information concerning the project among planning board council and the public Planning board vicechairman Ken Byles who suggested hiring Skelton for the chair manship said at Tuesdays board meeting the amount of time and effort involved puts the work beyond volunteer job and Skeltons professional standing makes him the board member most qualified for the post Ald Janice Laking also board member said layman could be asked to serve as chairman for free but to ask professional to chair committee on professional basis as volunteer is probably not even ethical Mayor Ross Archer another board mem her said he cannot recall similar arrange ment in the past If Skelton is hired he said he should be paid at the same rate he charges in his business Skelton and Bytes both said they would not have the time to serve as volunteer chairlt man Skelton said he would be able to con sider it on paying basis No decision on the appointent was made Tuesday and the issue will come up for discussion at the boards next meeting June 28 Skelton also reaffirmed Tuesday previous statement that his firm will not bid for the consultants contract on the revitalization study despite assurances from city council members that he should not be disqualified from bidding He would not in any event be allowed to serve both as chairman paid or otherwise if his firm were retained as consultants The study for which $30000 has been budgeted this year is aimed at providing of ficial plan and zoning bylaw amendments to encourage revitalization of Barries downtown core It is intended to implement an official plan amendment enacted last year designating the core area as the heart of the city and Barries primary commercial retail recreational and administrative cen tre City planner Rick Jones said earlier this year the study will probably cost about 350000 altogether Tfi 31 About health foods Health food more and more people are buying it and eating it according to Phyllis Skinner of Hayfield Malls Eden Natural Foods who is shown measuring out some whole wheat flour for customer John Livingston of Sunseed Natural Foods Dunlop Street West says health foods arent fad Louis Unellctte agrees he lives on steady diet of health food But some nutritionists say health foods are fad and consumer rip off For complete report on health food what it is and what it is supposed to do for you see todays Lifestyle Page 1131b yearNo 139 Wednesday June 977 16° Per Copy Carder Home Dellvery 90 Weekly the examin serving barrie and simcoe county Page Calls for federal probe Bonejarring end to fhe long jump Karen Crane of Goodfcllow School Alcona Reach lands heavily in the pit after her long jump Tuesday during the area track and field cham pionships for elementary schools at Eastview Secondary School Iose McDonald Three branches represented Unions crack chartered banks TTAWA CP Unions cracked the chartered banks Tuesday when the Canada Labor Relations Board CLRB ruled they can organize workers branch by branch and certified the new Canadian Union of Bank Employees in three branches of the Bank of Nova Scot ia Bank of Nova Scotia employees in the On tario branches of Port Dover Simcoe and Jarvis now are officially represented by the union The CLItI sad it will resume bearings next month on bid by the Service Office and Retail Workers him of anada to represent workers at seven British olumbia branches of the anadian Imperial Bank of Commerce In landmark decision the board ruled branch is an appropriate bargaining unit and rejected submission by the Bank of oin merce that the only appropriate unit is Murder clues studied IIZSI GROVE kla AP Bloody footprints apparently left by large tennis shoes have been found on the wooden plat form of tent in which three young Girl Scouts were slain on the first night of cam pingtrip The platform has been flown to the state rime Bureau headquarters in Oklahoma City where exhaustive tests were being conducted on it and other pieces of evidence including red flashlight found near the girls bodies early Monday Fingerprints were lifted from the flashlight and from the skin of at least one of the girls sources close to the investiga tion said It wasnt known whether the prints were left by the killer or by someone else possibly invest igators The shoes that made the prints are much larger than any shoes the girls had left in the tent after donning bed clothes District Attorney Sid Wise said logic leads us to conclude the murderer is man stealthy physically agile man Investigators are reported to have found other evidence early Tuesday about 200 yards from the tent at amp Scott near here The heavily wooded camp area has been IOSCd off and police command post set up at the camp The bodies of Lori Lee Farmer and Doris Denise Mihier 10 both of Tulsa and Michelle luse of suburban Broken Ar row were found Monday morning about 120 yards from their tent Seeks weapons ban OTTAWA CP Justice Minister Ron Basford displayed an assortment of weapons Tuesday to support his argument that the cabinet shoild have the power to prohibit or restrict their use in Canada The weapons were in room across the hall from the ornrnons justice committee as it consrdered bill to give the cabinet such powers The proposed rnninal Code amendments would enable the cabinet to prohibit any weapon not commonly used for hunting or sporting purposes This is tricky little thing Basford said hefting flashlight that shoots darts crosscountry unit of all employees of the bank In lengthy report on the certification bid by the Service ffice and Retail Workers Union of Canada the CLRB said it would be extremely difficult for union to organizo chartered bank on countrywide basis To organize on national basis union of bank employees would have to start to solicit members in one area and then move outward to other areas the board said By the time it had encompassed the ex pansive territorial boundaries of Canada the employees in the primary locals would have become disillusioned and perhaps lost in terest in any expectation of achieving collec tive bargaining CONSTANT TRICAIMILL Because of the turnover of employees at the Commerce and in the industry union seeking to act as vehicle for bargaining It was made in the US to protect pe destrians against muggers Its also handy little weapon for holding up the corner grocery MORARJI DESAI big majorities Victories in India NEW DELHI AP Prime Minister Morarji Desais forces consolidated their hold on power today with sweeping victories in Indian state elections Desais Janata Peoples party won decisive majorities in six state assemblies and the Union territory of Delhi and was rolling toward large majority in powerful Uttar Pradesh state The Janata was also favored in Bihar state but early results were inconclusive to 400 young athletes representing the cream of five zones met for the final meet of the season Zone emerged with its fifth straight overall championship See Zone photo on Page Examiner Photo Randy Would be on constant treadmill of soliciting new employees and at the same time main taining the support of members while expan ding to new areas The Commerce one of Canadas 12 chartered banks told the board the bargain ing unit should include most of its 34000 workers in 1093 branch locations several data centres regional offices and head office The CLRB said the bank requested the massive single bargaining unit in the interest of administrative efficiency and also because in its view branch certification wouid create utter chaos contrary to the public in terest The board said the realistic appraisal is that both the bank and the union will have an interest in avoiding chaos and will develop common collective agreement covering similar working conditions and work classifications in the branches line Preelection bombings MADRID AP Separate bombings in jured three persons and damaged com muter rail lines today just before polling places opened for Spains first free election in 41 years The injuries occurred in Seville when bomb found in window of the justice ministry building went off as police guard was taking it out Two small explosions along rail lines in the northern Basque coun try were blamed on Basque nationalists try ing to disrupt the voting Long lines formed when the polls opened and officials predicted 80 per cent of the 23 million voters would turn out Saccharin Usage risk OTTAWA CP confidential study by the National Cancer Institute of Canada in dicates that men who use artificial sweeteners face greater risk than others of developing bladder cancer says Health Minister Marc Lalonde In brief they have found an increased risk of the order of 16 for artificial sweetener use Lalonde told the Senate health committee Tuesday at meeting discussing the federal ban on the sugar substitutc saccharin Chickens organized OTiAWA CP The cabinet has ap proved establishment of national chicken broiler marketing agency the third such federal body set up to market farm pro ducts ricultnre Minister Eugene Whelan ma the announcement Tuesday in news release before leaving today to attend the World Food Council meetings in the Philip pines The announcement held up for weeks because of opposition by some cabinet ministers to farm marketing boards comes at time of growing consumer unrest with the boards and with food prices generally Showery weather is forecast for the Barrie area Thursday bow toni to 12 Thurs day mainly cloudy with ew showers High 21 to 23 into organized crime OTTAWA CP Everybody in Parliament seemed to be investigating something Tuesday following CBC television documentary on organized crime Commons debate today was to focus on New Democratic Party motion by Stuart Leggatt New Westminster calling for federal inquiry Meanwhile Immigration Minister Bud Cullen had called an investigation into CBC allegations about five former Hong Kong policemen the CBC said fled to Canada to avoid an inquiry into corruption on the Hong Kong force The documentary suggested that the police men may have had official support in staying in Canada despite efforts by Hong Kong to get at least one of them back SolicitorGeneral Francis Fox described one of the five as valuable member of the RCMP and suggested that allegations about him came from the Vancouver underworld The CBC documentary said the policemen were known in Hong Kong for making minor arrests while taking bribes from major drug traffickers and were gaining similar rep uation in the Chinese community in Canada Canada EXPECTS EXPLANATION Progressive Conservative Leader Joe Clark said he wants full explanation from John Reynolds PCwBurnabyDelta Richmond of Reynolds alleged association with Mafia types in Vancouver who an undercover agent said on the CBC wanted information about pipeline route from the Vancouver MP am getting to the bottom of the problem in my party Clark said want the govern ment to get to the bottom of the problem in the country Reynolds was alleged to have received $200 from criminals to support Claude Wagners campaign for the Conservative party leader ship last year Wagner lost narrowly to Clark Wagner irked by film clip of him in the documentary called the program savage smear and urged Commons Speaker James Jerome to demand an apology from the CBC Jerome said he would rule on the matter within few days Leggatt called the Wagner footage an un fair smear against someone with solid reputation for fighting organized crime Meanwhile Fox and Justice Minister Ron Basford urged passage of new wiretap provi sions to give police ammunition to fight organized crime Basford said every police force in the country has sought the changes since the wiretap law was enacted in 1974 WOULD NOT HELP Opposition Alis who have indicated they will oppose the new provisions said present wiretap laws would not have covered anything raised by the CBC mere improvement in police technology isnt going to stop organized crime Clark said Fox responsible for the RCMP said televised crime inquiries might be sen sational but they do more harm than good How many prosecutions resulted from the Quebec crime probe Fox asked Only one that know of And many investigations were destroyed The Quebec crime inquiry resulted in prosecution of Willie Obront for sale of bad meat in widespread Montreal racket said to reach into ntario It also put Mafia leaders Vic Cotroni and Paolo Violi in jail for refusing to testify before the inquiry and threw bright light on Montreals burgetming un derworld Building tall Elevenyearolds Andrew Williams left Peter Yip and Wendell Marcial right climb atop some stacked tires that are part of an adventure playground near the Toronto waterfront Hundreds of children have been working half day week to help construct the playground CI Photo