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lnnisfil summer fair Things will be hopping in the Stroud Innisfil Community Centre Friday Its the official start of the Innisfill Op timist Clubs ninth annual summer fair The dancing starts at pm and carries on to am to the strains of group Radio The complete summer fair schedule can be found on Page 11 Second play to start Production number two in the fiveplay Gryphon Theatre summer season begins oneweek run at the Georgian College Theatre Monday Its Athol Fugards People Are Living There For more on the play see todays Leisure Page Alliston festival With the Bradford Salad Festival in full swing the Alliston Potato Festival is now less than month away Gerry Moon organizer of the Alliston fix ture out lines some of the things to expect at this years festival on todays Page 11 Like to slide Like to slide In Collingwood the question is not how much but how far The gigantic Blue Mountain Resort Sum mer slide will start providing extended downhill thrills Wednesday The Leisure Page tells you more about the new tourist attraction Fire destroys store WARMINISTER Firefighters from Moonstone Itubgy and Orillia helped local men fight sevenhour blaze early this mor ning which levelled Bobs Gerneral St ore fire department spokesman says the lire broke out near midnight Fire officials are still investigatingthe cause No one was in the store or the living quarters at the back of the building at the time of the fire he said Robert Hubbard store owner has at least partial insurance for the building he says Damage estimates have reached 100000 Boards band together 1lttNTO iP Ontarios large school boards have decided to band together to stop teachers in one area from trying to out do the contract gains won in another Doreen Thomas president of the Association of Large School Boards in tario said at news conference Wednesday the move does not indicate push for provincewide negotiations The large school boards plan to take in dividual stands to stop the leapfrogging in contracts RoSs Andrew president of the Ontario Teachers Federation said teachers try to catch up when salaries are seriously behind those in other areas But he said there is concern that if everybody goes into eap frogging when antiinflation board guidelines are removed there will be large increase in the cost of living During threeday conference the trustees voted unanimously to reject em ployee demands for catchup increases or for increases to compensate for rollbacks ordered by the ant iintlation board Tremor in Laurentians MONIRIIAL tCII An earth tremor shook towns in wide area across the Laurent ians nort of Montreal early today Quebec provincial police said the tremor caused some damage to buildings and threw at least one person from his bed at about 415 am but no one was reported injured The tremor was felt 95 miles north of Montreal at St Donat at loliette about 40 miles northeast of Montreal and at half dozen other Laurent iaii towns in between The scismological office at ollege Jean de Brcbeuf in Montreal said the tremor registered between it and 113 on the Richter scale strong enough to do minor damage to buildings The centre of the tremor was not known 000 PM Tom Cot Ships or planes ll il Defence Minister Bar iiey Daiisoii and Allan McKinnon Progressive onservativc defence critic are in almost total disagreement on how and when the next major military ess peiiditure should be made McKmnoii MP for Victoria says the government should change its spending priorities to concentrate more on new ships than on new planes Ile says government plans to acquire new fighter plane for more than $2 billion are questionable after rttetit deer sions by the hated States indicating man ncd bombers are on the way out He said in an interview Tuesday that the government does not know why it wants the new aircraft but that it does know it must replace aging navy destroyers Want reconstruction OTIAWA Pi Opposition Mls demanded program of economic recon structiun for the country Wednesday because of current high inflation and unem ployment rates The opposition attack came following ublication of Statistics Canada igures earlier in the day that showed 78 percent inflation rate in lune the largest 12month increase in consumer prices in year This followed the release of jobless figures on Tuesday that showed eight per cent of the work force unemployed total ofttHttt during June At the salad festival Rodney Windsor has trick or two in his skateboard bag and they earned him first prize in freestyle competition at the Brad ford Salad Festival Wednesday The salad festival is gearing for busy windup weekend which includes rock concert Friday night with Ian Thomas salad feast Saturday afternoon and childrens coni petitions Sunday afternoon Examiner Photo 5x as as Theyre pals Brutus St Bernard enjoys warm cozy and odd rcltionship He and the two kittens partially hidden yet perched con teiitedly on his back spend most of their time on the back porch of owner Barbara palinskis farmhouse south of Ed monton CP Photo Loeb will not sell MONTREAL CP Bertram Loeb says his stock in Loeb Ltd the giant Ottawa based food distribution company he used to run is not for sale to Provigo Inc Montrealbased Provigo announced Wed nesday it has negotiated sharepurchase agreement with George Weston Ltd of Toronto that will give it 47percent control over Loeb making it one of Canadas largest food distribution companies But Loeb who holds 638000 shares or 141 per cent said in an interview Im going to hold on to it as Ive said before His former company supplies more than 1100 independentlyoperated IGA super markets franchised by it across Canada and in partsof the United States Neutron warheads WASHINGTON tAP The United States Congress has given President Carter authority to go ahead with development of controversial neutron warheads but is retaining the power to veto any effort to put the weapons into production After nine hours of frequently emotional debate Wednesday night the Senate rejec ted 58 to 38a move headed by Senator Mark Hatfield RepOre to remove funds for the weapon contained in public works ap propriations bill The bill now goes to IIouseSeiiate con ference committee which must decide whether to leave in limitation allowing Congress to reverse presidential decision to produce the warheads designed for use by NATO forces in western Europe Carter has said he will decide next month whether to order product ion of the warheads which kill more by highlycon centrated radiation than the explosive power of more traditional nuclear weapons Saccharin not banned WASHINGTON tAP The LLS Senate human resources committee voted 114 Wednesday to approve an 18month sus7 pension of any ban of the artificial sweet ner satharin despite senators warning if is making serious mistake In approving suspension of the ban sought by the Food and Drug Ad ministration tFIA the committee noted studies linking sacchariii to bladder cancer in laboratory animals It voted to require all products containing saccharin to bear the following label Warning This product contains sac charin which causes cancer in animals lse of this product may increase your risk of developing cancer CBC postponed special TORONTO onehour CBC special on Ugandan President Idi Amin which was postponed out of concern for the safety of Canadian reporter detained in Uganda is to be shown next Monday The CBC postponed the program titled Idi AminyPortait of Killer last Monday Toronto Star reporter Gerald lifting kept in Ugandan prison for almost three weeks was released this week and arrived in England on Wednesday The special Newsmagazinc program will be shown at 10pm EDT on July 18 Former Ugandan health minister Henry Kyemba is interviewed on it and tells of the atrocities committed by Ugandan President Idi Amin gt Hot and humid through Friday evening when there will be good chance of thunderstomi in this area Low tonight 17 high tomorrow near 30 business history of occasional trouble of this type It comes around in cycles It is bad scene but not iuiique to San Quentin Children in Essa Township should be skating in their own arena by November Essa Reeve Charles Pridham signed con tract Wednesday with Symcon builders for $343614 for completion of Essa Township Arena 113th yearNo 18 New York Funding for the project will come from $75000 Community Centres Grant about $160000 from Wintario and $150000 from the Angus Lions Club which has agreed to raise the money by October 1978 Completion date is set for Nov 1977 Prldham said This will give us an operational arena with no frills Wintario has agreed to provide $160000 because it has recognized the work and material purchased in excess of $120000 which the former arena board had already put into the project 5° Per Copy Carder Home Dell Weekly serving barrie and simcoe county Essa arena could open by November Reeve Pridham said he would like to give credit due to those who were involved in fund raising in the past and to thank the former arena board for their efforts He also urged township residents to support the Lions Club in its fundraising efforts 20 Pages the examiner all but closed after massive blackout NEW YORK AP New York City was virtually closed today footers went to work and the biggest city in the US was paralyzed by massive lightningtriggered blackout Dawn brought the first light in hours for the 10 million residents who endured the hot summer night without power It was long humid night during which police said 2000 persons were arrested for looting and 78 police officers were reported injured including one who was shot Mayor Abraham Beame suggested city residents stay home until the emergency is resolved It will not be possible to operate normal day he said Steyeii Zijacz negotiated pylons with relative ease Wednesday afternoon to place second in category of boys aged 11 to II in skateboard competition held in Bradford during the weeklong salad festival Examiner Photo Skateboard competition part of salad festival BRADFORD Bradford church parking lot was the scene of skateboard competi tion Wednesday afternoon complete with win tiers losers and skimied knees Approximately 35 Bradford area young sters took part in the meet organized by the Bradford Kinsmen as part of the Bradford Salad Festival being held all through the week The youngsters competed in time races runoffs and freestyle hotvdogging during the twohour event They went down slope sitting standing and falling off their skateboards Skinned knees bruises and bumps on the head were tended to by St John Ambulance crew on hand Mark Leone won the top honor for senior boys in the competition after close runoff competition with Rodney Windsor who finished second Prison workers not surprised SAN QIENIIN Calif AP The cold st one walls of San Quentin state prison once again have witnessed racial bloodshed and death Prison officials say they are not really surprised Its happened before these tragedies of inmates being killed in blackwhitc gang ac tvit ics said Jerry Eiiomoto state conec tioiis director after San Quentin suffered through its most violent day in five years It is an unfortunate reality of the prison he said San Quentin has Prison officials on Wednesday still were trying to piece together details of two separate battles Tuesdin in which three prisoners died and five were wounded No visitors were allowed in the prison Wednesday and convicts were confined to their cells indefinitely in an effort to ease the tense at mosphere Rick Kaiiyo placed tho Robin Ewart edged Annette Thomas out for top spot in senior girls aft er repeated runoffs down the slope lary Woodcock Sano Iamiero and Steven Zijacz placed first second and third in comlt petition for boys aged 11 to lit while Fanny allievagas led in the girls category She was followed by athy Kent and Lori McKnight Luke Leone was the winner in boys eight to 10class while arlos Leone finished second Windsor who was sponsored by Mc Donalds placed first in freestyle competi tion aft er going down the stretch of the slope on his skateboard in handstand position He also piloted his skateboard up the slope in series of complicated turns Trophies were presented to the winners during Wednesday nights street dance held at the municipal parking lot at lohn and Moore Streets inside local lifestyle ontortalnment sports 14 comics 16 danslfled 17 18 19 By about am EDT wer was restored to about 650000 of Consoli ated Edisons 28 mil lion customers But in the heart of the city there was barely trickle of electricity Beame declared state of emergency and called for an investigation We cannot tolerate in this age of modern technology power system that can shut down the nations largest city he said Traffic was extremely light as residents and workers apparently heeded Beames request to stay home Cabs and buses were operating although no traffic signals worked Police directed traffic only at major in tersections At others drivers un characteristically edged through Banks state office buildings and 0ffTrack Betting offices were closed So were summer schools and gas station pumps Water was cut off in many of the citys larger buildings as electric pumps failed The subways were useless most commuter railroads motionless Wall Street was shut down the stock market out of business for the duration Elevators were immobilized Hun dreds of hotel residents slept in the lobbies rather than mount staircases to their rooms on upper floors Beame said there will be no subway or rail service until 2l hours after power is fully re stored Consolidated Edison officials could not estimate when that would be Beame urged New Yorkers not to drive their cars either Leave them where they are he said The mayor said only people in jobs essen tial to health and safety should report to work Hottest night of Summer and city became jungle NEW YORK CP 0n the hottest night of the summer New York City became jungle without lights Wednesday crimping the lifestyle of more than eight million people Without electricity New York dies quickly and the second blackout here in nearly 12 years began to do just that Coming out of Lincoln Tunnel into Times Square from brightlylit New Jersey was shock even for one who had been through the 13hour blackout in 1965 The New Jersey cabbie doing the driving armed himself with an eightshot 25calibre revolver can hit mouse at 40 feet he said as he drove to New York His lead weighted leather gloves were at his side Going into Times lightsexcept from flares flashli entering another world Thousands of people milled around the streets of Times Square staying close to the darkened buildings The sin strip of porno shops and massage parlors the theatre mar quees touting xrated pictures and the rest of the seedy picture were mercifully hidden by the darkness But the peo cabbie Im glad Ive got my gun he said When darkness hit the steel shutters and iron fences provided security for some of New Yorks stores However other stores were not Square even in locked taxi with an armed driver when there are no ghts and emergency lights in few buildingsis like ple were there That scared the so fortune and police reported looting in sev eral areas with nearly 1500 persons arrested TRAFFIC CRAWLS Thousands of cars moved slowly without traffic lights aided only by police and civil ians with flashlights Around the area there was an occasional light in some of the tall buildings which had emergency generators The Associated Press kept some emergen cy news services going in its darkened building with backup system after most of its computers went out with the power failure The Canadian Press bureau was lit by four candles and only telephone provided link to supply available information Unlike the 1965 blackout which came during crisp November weather this one bit during heat wave and temperatures near 32 degees Celsius It also came at the height of the evenings theatre business and losses probably will run into millions of dollars as theatregoers seek refunds for incomplete performances The National Ballet of Canada on the second night of its New York season at the Metropolitan Opera House was victim of the power failure The company which received critical ac claim for its opening performance of La Fille Mal Gardee Tuesday night couldnt complete the second performance of the comic ballet Wednesday night Darkened Manhattan skyline seen from Brooklyn Remember the blackout that cut power in 7965 By THE CANADIAN PRESS On Nov 1965 millions of people in southeastern Ontario and the eastern United States ate cold dinners in the dark while utilities crews worked to correct massive electrical power failure The blackout was traced to the failure at 516 p1ii of protective relay at Sir Adam Beck No generating station in Queenston Ont few miles down the river from Niagara alls In onetwentieth of second 16million kilowatts surged through sophisticated power grid established 10 years earlier to ensure electricity in an emergency spreading the blackout throughout the 80000 squaremile area The frequency surge occurred during the peak energy demand period and was so high it could not be recorded by Ontario Hydro monitoring equipment Communications were snarled and industry disru ed Com muters jammed city streets su ways and trollies In Ontario the blackout lasted from five minutes to two hours in the Toronto Hamilton Brockville Smiths Falls Perth Prescott and Cornwall areas In some US centres it took up to 12 hours to restore power STRAN 015 IN SUBWAYS In New York City between 850I0 and 1000000 people were in the subways when they stopped Transit officials said 250000 people were stranded between stations for as long as three hours About 2000 persons remained in the subway cars until power was restored to hours later Thousands of homebound commuters stayed overnight in hotels cars railway stations or apartment lobbies Times Square went dark and the curtains stayed down on Broadway but at Carnegie Hall famed pianist Vladimir Horowitz oom leted an invitation rehearsal before several undred people with the aid of flashlight held by an attendant Television service was disrupted although most radio stations remained on the air for those who had bat terypowered radios In many cities hundreds of people leaving apartment and office buildings were trapped in elevators Hospitals reverted to their own emergency power systems STREETS CLOGGED In Toronto transit workers led pasengers through subway tunnels to stations and the street The power cut left 670 streetcars and 130 trolly coaches lined up in clogged down town streets About 200000 people had been using the transit system Many homebound workers simply did as their counterparts in other major centres and visited nearby bars to enjoy drink by can dlelight Lights flickered at Toronto International Airport as an emergency generating stem too over and operations continual but flights to Kennedy and LaGuardia airports in New York City were cancelled In Oshawa Ont citizens drove their cars to the citys airport to light the runway for D03 returning from Detroit with General Motors of Canada executives Not all the affected cities were dark In Brockville Ont milliondollar fire which swept an entire city block cast its glow until full power was restored at 830 pm