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saturday it for BUSINESS Variety of items An area couple has opened new store in Barrie that grew out of their hobby of many vears The Royal Coach at 27 Mulcaster St has paintings antiques and variety of special gift items Helga and Robert Clark are even willing to have your painting appraised 13 May buy food stores TORONTO tCP Steinbergs Ltd of Montreal is negotiating to buy some of food stores owned by Oshawa Group Ltd of Toronto tiie companies have announced in joint statement Both companies said no agreement has been made and JJ Dessureait Steinbergs spokesman said no purchase offer has been made to Oshawa which operates 40 Food City stores in Ontario and had sales of $207 million last year Airline talks off MONTREAL CP Conciliation talks between Air Canada and its 2700 flight at tendants have broken off and the two sides are waiting to see what Labor Minister John Munro does next in the dispute Bernard Belanger negotiator for the Canadian Air Line Flight Attendants Friday that conciliation efforts in Ottawa came to an end with no agreement in sight Workihg conditions rather than money were the major stumbling blocks he noted But he declined to list the major unresolved irisues saying no strike vote has yet been eld Munro can opt for conciliation com missioner or conciliation board to study the issues and make nonbinding rec Third Wintario win TORONTO tCP Toronto man who won $10000 prizes in Wintario draws last April and November Friday claimed $100000 prize from Thursdays draw ilans Juschitz and his wife Aida and their three children John 26 Alex 26 and Aida shared five tickets for the draw JuSchifz said he plans to use the money to reopen variety and gift store Norma Taylor of Aurora Ont also claimed 8100000 prize in the draw Mrs Taylor said she planned to deposit tiie money in the batik before going home and breaking the news to her three boys Bryant crusade sued WESTPORT Comi AP childrens agency has sued Anita Bryants anti hoinosexuai crusade saying its use of the name Save Our Children Inc hurt the agencys tundraising efforts The agency Save the Children Inc based in Westport filed suit in federal court in Miami on Friday US District Judge William Hocvcler said he will hear the case July The suit asks for temporary restraining order and permanent injunction against the use of the name Save Our Children which Miss Bryant incorporated in February liaroid Lift icdale tiie agencys public af fairs coordinator said former regular con tri bttt ors have st oppcd doiiat iiig We estimate our loss at 844000 for the month of June he said This would have sponsored $29 children here and abroad for the year Littiedale said he has received many inquiries about how the two organizations are connected He said his agency is taking no stand on the crusade by Miss Bryant just on its name Plagued by slurs lORONlt iPi slurs have been plaguing the Hindu Prar tliaiia Samaj prayer society and its tem ple ill ioronto lhc slogan iaki lo Home was painted on the temple when society members went for prayer service last Sunday Hecr bottles had been broken on the tem ple steps in previous incidents obscene slogans had been scratched on the tempies doors and sign giving times of services had been ripped Kirpa Ram Sabliarwal general sccrctaiy of the soctef said Friday We dont come looking for problems we come to pray Sabliarwal said lliis is not an incident that can be forgot ten it seems organized this hooliganism New potentate Fred Morrison left of Detroit Mich just sworn in as the new imperial Poten tate of the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine of North America gets handshake from his predecessor Carlyle Brock of Erie Pcnii Friday in New York The group better known as the Shrine is holding their 101rd Imperial Council Session or convention in New York The Shriners run iii orthopedic hospitals and three burn centres free of costs to patients in the United States AP Photo For more on this unusual store see Page Association confirmed in an interview here incidents of racial At new store Bulls Corner in Cookstown is continuing the tradition of new businesses in the village being oriented to crafts anti anti ques Jean Bull shows off one of the crafts available For Jean Saunters report on the new store see todays business page Saunler Photo ommendations He could also appoint special mediator to try to find solution JAMES SNOW same distances Metric in September TORONTO tCPi Ontario will convert all highway signs from miles to metric distances beginning Septii James Snow minister of transportation and com mttnicat ions amiounced Friday Replacement of existing speed signs with kilometre distances will take about two weeks Snow said in statement Ontarios l300tltmile provincial highway net work contains 42000 signs Kilometres will replace miles on distance signs kilometres per hour will replace miles per hour on speedJimit signs and metres will replace yards and feet on ad VlSOly signs he said Snow said that Ontario drivers will soon discover that actual speed limits havent changed that distances between towns and cities are the same that driving times havent changed iust the method of measurement will change For example 40 kilometres per hour replaces 25 miles per hour 50 kilometres per hour replaces 30 miles per hour 80 kilometres per hour replaces 30 miles per hour and 100 kilometres per hour replaces 60 miles per hour Adoption of the metric system brings Ontario in line with all major countries out side of Nort America he said Snow said motorists should have few problems adjusting to metric signs adding that countries such as Australia and New Zealand have changed to the metric system in recent years with few problems to motorists Canadian among slain LOS ANGELES AP The body of Canadian man was one of three identified Friday in the grisly trash bag mass mur der investigation The Orange County sheriffs office in San ta Ana said body found last October near San Juan apistraiio was that of Mark Att drcw Orach 20 of Ottawa The imperial ounty coroners office identified two bodies found near Calexico as those of John Dcmchick ill of ingicwood and Kenneth iiugcne Httciiaiian 17 of Lawndaic Deiiichicks remains were found in February 1971 and Buchanans in April 1976 David Hill 34 anti Patrick Kearney 37 were arraigned last week on charges they shot and dismembered Arturo Marquez 24 of Oxnard and John Laniay 17 of El Segundo last March Officials have said the two men have co operated by providing information about unsolved crimes which became known as the trash bag killings because bodies of many of the victims so far identified were found dismembered and nude in plastic trash bags along southern California high wavs woothor in the Barrie area the forecast is for sunny weather today with isolated showers Sunny Sunday Highs both days 23 to 26 Cooler near Georgian Bay Overnight lows 11 to 15 Drama at Kuwait airport 40 on iet held hostage by terrorists KUWAIT AP Nine terrorists armed with grenades and guns and demanding freedom for 300 prisoners in Arab jails held nearly 40 persons hostage in Kuwait Airlines jet at the airport here today Kuwait radio said the hijackers identified as Palestinians ordered the plane refuelled to fly them to an undisclosed destination Kuwait officials were negotiating with the hijackers but army commandos were near by The Boeing 707 was seized Friday night on flight from Beirut Lebanon to Kuwait Egypts Middle East news agency said the 13th yearNo 158 Saturday July 1977 hijackers demanded the release of 300 per sons from prisons in various Arab countries Mohammed Abdu of South Yemen one of six Arabstate ambassadors to Kuwait sum moned to the airport by the hijackers said the groups demands concerned intemai matters in the Palestinian guerrilla movement which he did not specify Beirut airport sources said 55 persons42 Arab and three British passengers and crew of 10 including seven Britons were aboard the plane when it was commandeered about 40 minutes out of Kuwait The sources said several passengers boar Copy Carrler Home Dcllvory 90° Weekly ded at Beirut without security check after two men posing as secret police caused commotion at the departure gate Kuwait radio said eight hostages were released during the night at the request of In terior MinisterSheik Saad alAbdallah as Sabah The radio also said the hijackers rejected the sheiks offer of safe conduct in return for freeing the remaining hostages It said one of those still held was Kuwaits ambassador to Beirut Abdulhamid alBuaijan An information ministry official said negotiators were trying to arrange deal un serving via der which hostages would be released the hijackers flown across the Arabian Peninsula to South Yemen and the plane returned to Kuwait Airport sources said the hijackers leader identified himself as Abu Thaerfather of the revolutiona code name indicating he was member of the Al Fatah guerrilla wing of the Palestine Liberation Organization PLO But Kuwait officials said PLO chief Yasser Arafat sent several cables to Kuwait from his Beirut headquarters condemning the hijack and PLO spokesman said We cant say they belong to Fatah or not 24 Page French in Queb airspace ets cautious OK in report Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau bites into an eightfoot pizza Friday during campaignstyle visit to city park to speak to crowd of about 1000 Trudeau was met by numerous protesters but was ap plauded when he told one that people from 87 countries chose to live in Canada Photo PM visits Cowboy Jacks friends VANOtER tCii Prime Ministei lrudeau leaves behind protesters pizzas and an eightioot egg roll today travelling to amrose Alta for twohour visit with friends of his newest cabinet miiiist erVJCowboy Jack llorner of Crowfoot Its his first political trip to Alberta since i974 and follows by two months Horncrs defection from the Progressive Conservative party Officials said iliursday they considered the visit to the lZ000person fanning community 60 miles southwest of Edmonton un predictable But they conceded it could be no less predictable than the day Trudeau spent in Vancouver where lie spent the third anni versary of his July it 1074 election tongue lashing prison rights protester cutting and serving sevenfoot pizza and listening to crowd shout We want an election we want Pierre At least six die in storms PARIS AP Two days of torrential rains hail storms and flash floods have devastasted southwest fiance and parts of Switzerland Officials said five persons have been killed and at least 11 are missing and presumed drowned The heavy rains were continuing today Officials said the rainfall in some areas was the heaviest in at least 12 years Exten sive damage to crops was reported from hail vaiss officials said Belgian woman teacher on an outing with group of children drowned Friday in flooding river in the Fribourg region Six of the children also were swept away but managed to reach safe ground In the aiais region of Switzerland 25 yearold man was killed by lightning Three other Swiss were killed Thursday when their car plunged into rampaging river in the Bernese Oberland Telephone links between some regions of western Switzerland and France were disrup ted by landslides Thc administrator of iances Gers depart ment tregioni declared an emergency Friday afternoon and army reinforcements were sent to the area to help rescue work At isleEnDodon the body of young boy was found and search continued for man woman and two other children swept away when floods overtook campsite Near Auch firefighter disappeared while trying to reach children clinging to trees who were later rescued car with at least two oc cupants plunged into the Gers River when bridge collapsed at PoanaintPierre Rescue work was complicated because many valley toads were cut Trudeau opened the dayithc last of threeday visit to the Vancouver areaan nouncing major federaiprovinciai devel opment program and telling his weekly news conference that his government plans to establish tougher controls over Crown cor porations Then he hopped aboard socailed sea Nine injured in collision Nine people were taken to hospitals in Bar ric and Orillia Friday afternoon after being involved in twovehicle collision at lligiiway 93 and County Road 22 Police say the accident occurred near pm when van hit car broadside in the in terscct ion at Craighurst Murray Biison 30 of Rciifrew was driving the 1972 Fargo van Bilson and four of his children ranging in age from 15 to four were taken to Royal ic toria Hospital in Barrie along with James Bonnetf driver of the car that was hit and Bonnetts passenger ireg Lucas All suffered minor injuries and some were retained in hospital say police Bonnett of 110 John Street in Barrie suffered broken le Sloan Bilson 33 and her son Mark were taken to Soldiers Memorial Hospital in Orillia where they are listed in satisfactory condition Bilson has been charged with failing to stor at stop Slgll police said busatter buying 35cent ticket and vaulting the turnstiiefor ride across Van couver harbor At the other end he ran into crowd of about 800 many of them protesting proposed construction of new grain terminalsthey would block the view the signs saidothers opposed to nuclear reactor sales and one up set with British Columbias prison system ACTIVISI DEMANDS VOIC As he mounted stage to address the crowd the prison rights activistwwhite haired Betsy from behind unfurled massive banner and demanded to speak At this the crowd began to sing Canada and chant We want Pierre Lisle woman found slain HEISEKER Alta CPI RCMP said iri day that 26yearold man has been charged with firstdegree murder in the death of Cathy Lee Coilinger 18 of Lisle Ont Police said Murray John Hedberg of Calgary was Scheduled to appear in Calgary icourt Monday An RCMP spokesman said the victims body was found 10 miles northeast of Calgary carlier Friday and that police were attcmp ting to locate the womans travelling compa iiion Lee Ann Sayer 18 of Everet Ont Wood of Vancouver came up OTTAWA CP federal inquiry has tried to solve an emotional national con troversy by concluding that there is nothing inherently dangerous in bilingual air traffic control The cominissions report tabled in the Commons Friday follows dispute which Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau once called the gravest crisis to hit Canada since con script ion issue of the Second World War The three justices on the commission recommend limited increases in the use of French in Quebec airspaceaimmediately prompting critics to say an even greater ex pa nsioii of French is necessary The Gens dc iAir group representing Frenchspeaking pilots and air traffic con trollers was disappointed that bilingual ser vices were extended to only St Hubert busy airport near Montreal which handles mainly small private aircraft The other Montrealarea airports of Mirabel Dorvai and St Jean would be per mitted to use French in groundtoair commu nication with planes using visual flight rules VFR but those planes could not land or take off if the pilots spoke only French DEAL WITH 185115 The report did not iiiciude any recom mendations for the larger more sophisticated aircraft which use instrument flight rules tiFRi second report will deal with that issue Progressive Conservative Leader Joe Clark joined spokesmen for the other federal par ties in welcoming the report btit noted the report does not go very far The controversy erupted last summer when lingiishijiaking pilots aiitl air traffic c0n troiicrs staged sporadic waikotits to pmtest what they claimed were safety hazards in the expanded use of two languages at Quebec air ports The commissions report attempted to rcfttle the alleged dangers after several weeks of hearings and study of the use of two languages in the airspace of 83 countries iwo languages are currently used at several small Quebec airports The com mission said that it discovered no history of accidents or incidents related to the use of two languages in air traffic control ACCEPTS REPORT The Canadian Air Traffic Control Asstxiation which had opposed bilingual air traffic control said in statement it reluc tantly accepted the recommendations of the commission This is Radio Ug Hero is the news local lifester entertainment 10 business 13 14 sports comics 17 dasslfled 18 23 Area f0ur heading for Holland by trimaran via Georgian Bay Jerry Heutink ot Barrie is on his way to visit his native homeland of Holland Normally such trip would not be con sidered unusual but licutinks voyage is year ago the 56yearold founder and former owner of Jerrys Radio and TV saw his lifelong dream come true when he com pleted building Triiiitun il 47foot boat Last week Heutink his 22yearold son Harry and two friends set sail in Georgian Bay They are heading for Holland Heutinks wife Hefty said the foursome are currently making their way to the StLawrence and hope to be in Halifax by the end of the month From iialifax they will cross the Atlantic to the west coast of Holland Trillium II is trimaranwith the hull in the middle and two floats on either side in an earlier interview Heutink explained the concept of the boat is not new Polyne sians made them 4000 years ago The 15ton boat took Heutink six years and 3121000 to build It sleeps 14 and has dining living and kitchen areas ileutink is an experienced sailor He was trained in navigation in Holland during World War ii and was commander of the Barrie Canadian Power Squadron for eight years He taught navigation by stars radio and coastal navigation Theres certain freedom in sailing Heutink said earlier Youre herded onto anti off bus or train Yotire tourist But when you sail youre traveller Mrs Heutink said while the group hopes to reach ilalifax by the end of the month they were held back few days in Tobermory because of fog and still have to make their way through the heavy traffic and locks on the inland waterways its not like driving car she explained and the foursome are trying to stick to using the sail Once Heutink clears the Port of Toronto he should have his radio licence and will begin nightly contact with Bill Campbell of Barrie Campbell said he has strong radio setup and will be able to maintain contact with Trillium it all the way to Holland lieutink will have special call number and will check in nightly at