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22 Darren Milnes bubble in the bud Hydro delays building of transformer station Construction of $57million Ontario Hydro transformer station to serve the Barrie area has been put off one year to 1981 The Examiner has learned However Hydro officials plan to continue with scheduled studies and public consulta tion for selection of site for the station to be located somewhere in northern Barrie or the adjoining portion of Vespra Township The station will be needed to supplement the capacity of transformer station on Tif fin Street which had been expected to reach its capacity in 1980 Latest information however shows that the Tiffin Street station will be adequate until 1981 and Hydro officials have delayed com pletion date of the new station to avoid mak ing capital expenditures before necessary Meanwhile Hydro and provincial environ ment ministry personnel are working on selection of possible sites based on en vironmental engineering and financial con siderations and are expected to narrow the choice to three sites in August or September Comments on the sites will be requested from various interest groups and members of the public Hydro officials expect little opposition to the station because it will be lowprofile landscaped building causing little disruption and will serve local needs rather than faroff power users Officials tentatively hope to build the sta tion close to an existing 230000volt transmis sion line running from southwest to northeast through the study area Provincial police officers shot man in selfdefence BRACEBRIDGE Ont CP coroners jury cleared two provincial police officers Thursday in the shooting of shotgun wielding escaped convict who had threatened the wife of member of the legislature during robbery The jury ruled that constables Bruce Kruger 27 and James Murdoch 22 fired in selfdefence when they killed James William McGrath 52 on June 27 McGrath was shot near here following 10mile car chase just two hours after he robbed the Orillia home of Gordon Smith Progressive Conservative MPP for Simcoe East After an 18minute inquest the jurys single recommendation was that persons with criminal records like McGrath should not be confined in minimumsecurity institutions McGrath whose crimnal career began with convictions at 16 and included robbery breakins possession of stolen goods possession of stolen weapons escaping custody and uttering forged documents walked away from the minimumsecurity section of Joyceville penitentiary on May 28 the inquest was told Insp Thomas Lennon of the provincial police criminal investigation branch said McGrath was sentenced to five years in 1975 for armed robbery theft of an auto and being unlawfully at large The two policemen who shot McGrath testified that after Smiths stolen car crashed into tree during police chase McGrath got out of the car with sawedoff shotgun and began advancing toward Murdoch still behind the wheel of his cruiser less than 10 feet away Kruger said he pulled up second later jumped out with his service revolver and yelled Hold it when McGrath reached the front bumper of Murdochs cruiser Kruger said McGrath looked at him took another step toward Murdoch and appeared to be raisng his shotgun higher Saltsman breaks ranks on wiretapping proposals OTTAWA CP Max Saltsman broke ranks with his New Democratic Party colleagues Thursday to support government proposals to increase police wiretapping powers Saltsman who represents the Ontario riding of WaterlooCambridge said police have been hamstrung in their fight against crime and it is time for the country to make new tradeoff between police powers and indi vidual freedom Society cannot have unlimited freedom and still get the security it wants he said in the Commons Laws place too much em phasis on civil liberties We cant live in society believing the police and the courts are always wrong he said over jeers from some NDP and Progessive Conservative MP5 The Commons was debating amendments to justice legislation that would allow police The lots get smaller Would you believe singlefamily detached homes on lots with just 30 feet of road frontage Developer Jeff Madden Letitia Heights would and he hopes plan ning board will too Madden told planning board this week sales experience in the subdiViSion shows buyers do not object to small lots but do ob ject to having their home share common wall with another home His proposal would allow single homes on mfoot lots deSigned for semidetached units each home would have one wall on lot line but would not share that wall with neighbor Current city standards make 40 feet the minimum frontage for singlefamily homes For more details see todays Examiner Homes Page Real estate catalogue If your idea of real estate salesman is man or woman carrying around little black binders full of homes for sale youre in for chan These Barrie and District Real Estate Board is switching to weekly real estate catalogue along with computerized multi ie listing service All homes listed for sale in the Barrie area will be included in the catalo ue and special section Will hi hli tnewlistings xaminer reporter Sheila McGovern has the whole story from board preSident Hamid Davis on todays Homes Page New homes for Angus development proposal which could bring up to nofrili homes to Angus was presented to Essa Township CounCil this week The homes roposed by Alsat Construc tion Ltd would be built near the Pine River and would cost $45000 apiece Bruce Brown the firms planning consultant said possi to tap telephone lines for up to 60 days with court authorization and take up to three years to tell people their lines were bugged Currently police are limited to 30day tap and must give notice of taps within 90 days The government says the increases are needed to help police combat organized crime DEFEATS PROPOSALS In formal Commons vote the government majority defeated several Conservative and NDP amemdnemts that would have main tained the 90day notice law made evidence gleaned from unauthorized taps inadmissible in court and prevented lawyers telephones from being tapped Earlier John Rodriguez another Ontario New Democrat said the government is playing on fears of organized Cl line and en couraging people to turn in their privacy to obtain support for tougher wiretaps Checking old buildings Marion Bailey 22ycarold Barrie native and University of Toronto graduate casts fond eye on one of Barries historic buildings Miss Bailey is studying Barries old buildings this summer on an Ex perience 77 grant from the Ontario Ministry of Culture and Recreation work ing with the city recreation department and the newlyformed local architectural conservation advisory committee Shes run across some odd factsbadminton was once played at City Hall and the city had to ignore few literary insults to Canada to accept library grant from the USbased Carnegie Foundation See Page Examiner Photo ble flood dan ers which got similar pro posal turned own in 1973 have been solved He said the firm would probably market 20 homes year until the project is com pleted For more details see John Bruces story on todays Examiner Homes Page response Now control becomes allimportant 11 3th year No 163 Frlday July 15 1977 The Angus lad is in difficulty 15° Per Copy Carrier Home Delivery 90° Weekly 20 Pages the examiner serving barrie and simcoe county Irrerities in Olympics Thats gum not egg on his face amin phatosby PaiGuergis inquiry called into the costs QUEBEC CP Almost year after the opening of the 1976 Montreal Summer Olym pics the Parti Quebecois government released report highlighting irregularities in contracts for work on Olympic facilities Barrie Day tremendous Tremendous is the word used to describe the initial response to Barrie Day The Examiner has received some 250 orders for tickets to the Aug 28 baseball game between the Toronto Blue Jays and Oakland Athleticsall in period of three days after the tickets first went on sale The Examiner 16 Bayfield St will be open to noon Saturday to help meet the demand for tickets Several groups have purchased Tickets are $750 each which includes bus transportation to and from Exhibition Stadium as well as admission to the game and to the Canadian National Exhibition Tickets are also available at $6 each for anyone wanting to go the to the game on their own All proceeds from the game will be donated to the Barrie and District United Appeal The Examiner has received the support of city council and the Greater Barrie Chamber of Commerce in its sponsorship of Barrie Day Little spending seen OTTAWA CP Worried about their jobs and inflation consumers are expected to keep tight lid on their spending plans for at least the next six months the Con ference Board in Canada says The privatelyfinanced research group released its quarterly survey of consumer buying intentions Thursday commenting that consumers seem especially pessimistic about jobs The outlook for the next SIX months has deteriorated substantially the board sur vey suggests Consumers expressed pessimism regarding the employment outlook and inflationary expectations as well as the outlook for economic conditions in general and their own financial position in particular Independence moratorium QUEBEC CP The Union Nationale party called for threeyear moratorium on the issue of independence Thursday in motion blaming the Quebec government for the provinces economic uncertainty The government easily defeated the motion in the national assembly by vote of 46 to 21 UN leader Rodrigue Biron presented plan which he said would return stable economic climate to the province Both the Liberals and the Parti Quebecois criticized the UN plan which called for threeyear moratorium on the issue of in dependence and modifications to Bill 101 the language legislation Rain rained out THUNDER BAY Ont CP $100XO rainmaking experiment north of this city ended Thursday with poor results because rain interfered with experiments Project manager Alex Chisholm scien tist with the federal Atmospheric En vironment Service said rainfall in the area since the project began June 20 was about 25 per cent above averagebut not because of the project Chisholm said he and others working on the project had planned to perform 10 ex periments but were able to do onl seven Project workers seeded only our clouds because they would not touch any rain clouds he said The report by Quebecs auditorgeneral was tabled in the national assembly Thur sday shortly after Premier Rene Levesque revealed details of public inquiry into the costs of the Games The inquiry to be conducted by three man commission headed by Mr Justice Albert Malouf of Quebec Superior Court was asked to establish the reasons behind and assign responsibilty for the spiralling costs Levesque told news conference Montreal Mayor Jean Drapeau said in 1972 the Olympics would cost $120 million and would be financed by sales of tickets and commemorative stamps and coins No August mall unless manager is found There will be no downtown mall in August unless the Downtown improvement Board is successful in finding manager for the event by the end of the day The board established today as the deadline during its meeting Thursday at the Chamber of Commerce office The type of manager being sought would ideally be retired businessman who could take charge of the advance and cleanup operations for threeday mail as well as be at the scene throughout the event He would be paid flat sum by the DiB for his efforts Members of the board agreed Thursday that unless the manager could be hired by to day an August mall would be out of the ques tion The dates proposed Aug 25 to 27 coin cide with the Barrie Fair manager is considered necessary because of the workload and organizational responsibilities that the mall entails We as individual members do not have the time explained chairman Garry McCluskey All is not lost if the board cannot come up with definite reply today from some of the candidates proposed McCluskey said efforts would then turn toward setting up mall in September dea Barely cool enough Twoyearold Dickie Secove had the right idea to beat the unbareable summer heat After streaking around Toronto park with his mom ingrid 26 he was per suaded to get respectable again with the promise of ride on the swings Photo Judge RCMP boss OTTAWA CP Prime Minister Trudeau has appointed an Ontario county court judge who once headed an in vestigation into the RCMP as top public ser vant in the de artment in charge of the national lice orce The prime minister announced that Judge Rene Marin 41 of Ottawa will become deputy solicitorgeneral Oct replacing Roger Tasse who becomes deputy justice minister But the total price tag for the Games reached $15 billion and left Quebec and Mon treal taxpayers paying off $1billion deficit Mr Justice Malouf called the sphinx in legal circles because of his coolness and pa tience on the bench is perhaps best known for his 1973 injunction blocking work on Quebecs flagship hydroelectric power project in James Bay The two other commissioners most probably an accountant and an engineer will be chosen in consultation with Mr Justice Malouf Levesque said The premier did not rule out the possibility 42m There another all company on the phone requesting numbered account inside local lifestyka entertainment homes sports comics classified to that former premier Robert Bourassa would be called as witness The newlyreleased report by Auditor General Gerald Larose documents irregularities in three construction contracts for the facilities and comes on the heels of Quebec Treasury Board report calling for thorough study of several contracts Laroses report says there were abuses even after the provincial government took over responsibility for Olympic facilities and decreed that all contracts for more than $1 million be specially approved Government auditors found this safeguard mechanism was circumvented by contractors who simply asked for several increases of less than $1 million Bernard Lamarre head of the consulting engineering firm in charge of overseeing Olymic construction told the auditors his company was prevented from doing its job The first year Lamarre said the project was completely controlled by Roger Taillibert the French architect who designed the stadiumpool faculty and Velodrome In the second year Lamarres company was backed against the wall by unions suppliers and contractors The auditorgenerals report says that company which won the contract for parking lot with bid of $3678000 ended up receiving $9728000 for the work because of additional claims Moreover the contract was not signed until Nov 24 1976 almost six months after the Gameseven though the bid was accepted in March 1975 The company Formes du Quebec Stationnement Viaua joint venture of Les Formes du Quebec Construction Ltd and Sabrice Ltdmade $5634000 profit on the job Sabrices share of the profit was $2154000 an amount which the report says was out of proportion with services rendered Dube and Dube Ltd an electrical con tractor made successful bid of $795000 for electrical work in the stadium and parking lot but changes and additions to the contract more than tripled costs to $3309000 The company increased its profits 57 per cent between 1975 and 1976 the report says The report quotes company vice president who said the firm was paid $630000 to install temporary electrical system which under normal conditions would have cost $300000 dline Armed forces increase OTTAWA CP The cabinet has ap proved an increase of 000 in the armed forces over period of years sources close to the government said Thursday The increase long sought by the chief of defence staff and backed by Defence Minister Barney Danson will bring the size of the army navy and air force to about 83000 That was the size of the forces three years ago when austerity forced drastic defence cuts and will be the first increase since the Second World War The sources said Danson is expected to announce the acceptance of the increase by cabinet today Gen Dextraze chief of defence staff asked for 5000 more troops in January to in part make up for the diffi culties the forces have in eeping about 1500 persons on peacekeeping duties in Cyprus and the Middle East Dextraze asked that the troops be developed gradually over period of three years and estimated the final cost for the in crease could be $70 million year The defence budget this year is about $38 billion Massive Ford recall DETROIT AP The US En vironmental Protection Agency has ordered Ford Motor Co to recall 220000 of its 1975 model cars for allegedly emitting too much nitrogen oxide in violation of US anti pollution standards Involved in the Ford recall are 1975mode1 Torinos Elites Granadas Cougars Mon te os Monarchs and Rancheros with 351 cu icinch V8 engines carrying designation Those engines all were built in Canada Tony Fredo public relations officer for the Ford Motor Co of Canada Ltd Oak ville Ont said the company is trying to determine whether the cars exceed Canadian emission standards which are dif ferent from those in the US Not planning election OTTAWA CP Prime Minister Trudeau repeated Thursday that he is not planning fall federal election although he refused to rule out the possibility of one Im still waiting to make up my mind he said at his weekly news conference If find enough good reasons Ill call an elec tion The last general election was in July 1974 The government can go until 1979 before calling another election although that is unlikely Trudeau joked Thursday about facelift in time for an election after he showed up for his weekly news conference with ban dages on both sides of his nose But an aide to the prime minister said later he had been treated for face in fection brought on by fatigue and some den tal work carried out last week during visit to Vancouver May form own company PETERBOROUGH Ont CP About 100 Outboard Marine Corp Workers have decided to try and form their own company following an announcement by Outboard Marine close its chain saw manufac turing plant spokesman for the workers said Thur sday that nine directors from among the workers were elected at meeting Wed nesday and each worker donated $10 toward the $700 cost of incorporating the com any About 450 employees of Outboard arine which manufacturers Pioneer chain saws will lose their jobs if they fail to form their own company or Outboard Marine is not bought by another company Now thats bargain KITCHENER Ont CP The owner of discount furniture store got bargain Thursday when Provincial Judge Donald MacMillan could not find copy of the On tario Holiday Closing Retil Busingss Act showers and occasional thunderstorms overnight Clearing Saturday Low tonight 17 high Saturday near 30 Not as humid tomorrow