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Barrie Examiner, 30 Jul 1977, p. 1

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Should create jobs New provincial legislation passed during the recent session should go far towards helping relieve unemployemnt while avording major government jobcreation spending in time of restraint says Simcoe Centre MPP George Taylor The Registration of Venture Investment Corporations Act provided ground rules under which venture investment firms can claim its risk capital as tax deduction thus stimulating investment in the private sector For the new Conservative MPPs views on the act see todays Examiner Business Page Abstain and save Nondrinkers can get cheaper automotive and home insurance under program of fered by local insurance company Mallory Insurance of Barrie offers total abastainers package which gives tee totallers 20 per cent break on insurance premiums The package sold by Mallory originates With the Burlingtonbased Total Abstainers Insurance Co Details are on todays Businss Page Summer rally ends By MURIEL JOHNSTONE The Canadian Press The buoyant summer rally came to an abrupt end on Canadian stock markets during the week as plunging New York in dexes read across the border The oronto market dropped almost 13 pomts Wednesday its sharpest decline sin Ce Nov16 the day after the Parti Quebecois Victory in the Quebec election The down ward spiral was in response to New Yorks sharpest dive in more than two years down 1975 to 88843 its lowest since Jan5 1976 MONIQUE BEGIN letter sent Duty rule protested GANANOQUE Ont CP The Thou sand Islands Association is protesting regulations that reauire summer residents from the United States to pay duty on recreation equipment they store in Canada during the of season In letter to Monique Begin federal revenue minister the association says the federal governments recent decision to en force regulations strictly will hurt tourist business in the community Association president Graham Armstrong of Bells Comers Ont said that to avoid paying duty the American cottagers would ave to take their boats motors trailers and other equipment home to the US each fall Armstrong said The association includes permanent and summer residents in the Thousand Islands area and is based in this community about 30 miles west of Brockville Its concerns are with the environment and provision of servicm to boaters and tourists Robert Seguin departmental assistant in national revenues customs and excise sec tion said in an interview Friday that the regulations apply only to equipment pur chased in the US Grenada PM visits OTTAWA CP Prime Minister EM Gairy of the tiny Caribbean Commonwealth country of Grenada paid an informal visit here Friday The prime minister leaves today for Lon don where he will be knighted by the Queen While here he saw Michel Dupuy head of the Canadian International Development Agency CIDA which has spent $48 million in the country population 110000 over the years He saw Prime Minister Trudeau briefly and had lunch with Ivan Head the prime ministers foreign affairs adviser Gairy is in charge of host of matters in his country including foreign affairs ddence tourismthe island is becoming increasingly popular with Cana diaminformation services home affairs development research and training natural resources and other matters Preventive birth KINGSTON Ont CPI Preventing bir ths of severely retarded childen is more likalvtohannenthankillingtbemsays Dr Rebat Wilson secretarygeneral of the Canadian Medical Association Dr Wilson was commenting on report by an Anglican Church of Canada study group which suggested that terminating the lives of severely retarded infants at birth should be considered He said in an interview Thursday that many new doctors would be sympathetic to the idea in the sense that the children wouldprobablybebetteroff But Idont think any doctor would like to be put in the position of making that kind of decision The re rt released this week said parents ould have the final decision of whether to terminate the life of infants lacking the least vestige of human behaviour and intellect Dr Wilson said the more likely route medicine would take would be to irn rove its knowledg of genetics the met for detecting mblems in early pregnancy and examination of parents deadline office June 13 1971 New fast food The man is Ray Demiray the food is frit ter burgersan original invention Demiray hopes to market as new fast food or heatandserve item Demiray Chieftain Crescent resident came up with the idea out of dissatisfaction with similar items currently available in supermarkets The fritter burger contains beef rice onions and secret combina tion of spices Reporter Pat Guergis talks to Demiray about his invention on todays Business Page Examiner Photo West Bank rights WASHINGTON AP US State Secretary Cyrus Vance about to begin an 11day Middle East peace mission says the topic of rights to the West Bank of the Jor dan River is an open question The future of the Israeliheld territory is one of the key issues Vance will explore with Arab and Israeli leaders next week The secretary leaves Sunday night for Alexandria Egypt He also will visit Lebanon Syria Jordan Saudi Arabia and Israel carrying what he callea American suggestions for setting up negotiations as well as settlement itself The trip is Vances second visit to the Middle East as part of the Carter ad ministrations effort to help arrange peace there N0 PAPER MONDAY The Examiner wont publish Monday Civic Holiday Publication will resume Tuesday Has new evidence CALGARY CP lawyer representing former Queens University law professor Keith Latta says he has found witness he hopes will clear Latta of 1971 murder con viction in the slaying of Edmonton travel agent Robert Neville Webster Macdonald said Thursday that he plans to present testimony by Gordon Reap of Edmonton along with other new evidence at an Alberta Court of Appeal hearing in October Neville was found slain in his Edmonton Latta 48 did not testify at his murder trial but has spent most of the six years sin ce trying to find evidence to prove an un known third party was responsible for the crime Antiwhalina action VANCOUVER CP The Greenpeace Foundation antiwhaling ship James Bay caught up with an 11ship Russian whaling fleet Friday in heavy seas 700 miles south west of Los Angeles Greenpeace spokes man Bob Hunter said in news release Hunter who is in San Francisco said the weather has prevented launching rubber boats to harass the whalers However Greenpeace spokesman Rod Marining said in Vancouver that bad weather also is pre venting any whaling activity Hunter said the Ohana Kai the James Bays partner vessel in the expedition left Honolulu Thursday after several delays and was steaming as fast as possible to join the James Bav Still searching Artists sketch of Son of Sam also known as the Mcaliber killer uniden tified killer of five persons in the New York area over the last year lies in basket in the 109th Precinct in Queens NY Fri day The precinct was set up as head quarters for 44member special homicide task force In Its search for the killer who shot his first victim one year ago Friday AP Photo Sunday clouding over in the afternoon in the Bame area Chance of showers by evening Lows tonight it to 16 Highs Sunday 25 to 29 yonr No 175 Saturday July 30 977 15° Per Copy Carrier HanoDollvory 90° Vlookly the exam serving barrie and simcoe county of Ci oliday Page mrred by accidents Surfing on wheels Organizers of the Georgian Bay ld Time Power Show are hoping the weekend weather wont be as wet as Lucin Gaudette 15 found it Friday in Barrie Lucin found the perfect wave for his skateborrd during the rainfall Friday in Barrie The Georgian Bay Power Show is being held today Sunday and Monday at Cookstown Admission is $l50 for adults and 50 cents for children Examiner Photo by Rolf Kraikert Food concession rights issue has been settled looming conflict over food concession rights at Centennial Park during Kempenfest has been settled without bloodshed Tom Adams holder of concession rights at the park for the summer said fiiday he is satisfied with arrangements made for four service club concessions scheduled to operate in the park during the threeday event Adams contract with the city says no other concession similar to his may be allowed in the park without his permission Adams blamed breakdown in communica tions for problem in getting answers to questions he had about the service club con cessions Theres not going to be any problem he said Its something thats blown up out of proportiona phrase almost identical to that used by city recreation director Gary Stoner in telephone interview with The Ex aminer Friday Stoner officially on vacation met with Adams hiday and Adams said he is satisfied that the other concessions will be located in such wa as to be no threat whatsoever to his own iness He said he would like to hve been consulted earlier about the other concessions and wanted answers to his questions earlier in the week but said he never intended to take legal action or disrupt Kempenfest Its going to draw that much more business he said No one could corner the whole food market Adams who is paying the city $500 for one years concession rights said he has changed his menu somewhat to add to the variety of foods available at Kempenfest Stoner said the wording of the contract will probably be changed next year to provide for events like Kempenfest but ShirleyJean Lokun Kempenfest chairman said fiiday she is convinced court would not have inter preted Adams contract as protecting him against nonprofit concessions She said the Kempenfest concessions are the same as last year and the event has had no problems in the past with private conces sionaires already at the park She said the event will keep residents in town for the threeday weekend and add heavily to business at the park Everybody will have financial success including Mr Adams she said Ihe Barrie Kiwanis Club and its womens auxiliary the Kempenfelt Bay Kiwanis Club and the Barrie Lions Club are operating food concessions at the park this weekend while the Barrie Ys Mens Club is running beer garden Civic Holiday weekend has been marred so far by bad weather and numerous traffic ac cidents Rainsoaked highways combined with heavy traffic has resulted in two fatalities numerous injuries and thousands of dollars in damage in Simcoe County Ontario Provincial Police at Alliston report an accident between CP Rail track motor and truck Friday at 1215 pm John Jones of Tottenham received lacerations to his face and arms after the motor car which he was operating struck truck crossing the tracks on the third line of Tecumseth eaa of County Road 10 Driver of the truck Irene Gorrie of RR4 Tottenham was not injured Damage has been estimated at $600 In Orillia Township car burst into flames with nineyearold child trapped by her seat belt in the back seat Four vehicles were involved in the acci dent which occurred on Highway 11 at the se cond concession of Orillia Township at 620 pm Friday transport trailer driven by Jack Field Gravenhurst was unable to stop and plowed into the back of car operated by Melville Curtis of Bailieboro near Hamilton Three Curtis children were in the back seat at the time and nineyearold Chardel received burns to her shoulder hair and knee when the seat belt she was wearing trapped her in the car She was admitted to Soldiers Memorial Hospital in Orillia Correy Curtis 11 received cut hand Chanda Curtis bruised tead and Mrs Phyllis Curtis 38 was treated for burns and cuts and released The childrens father was treated for burns No damage estimate has been set as yet chain reaction resulted when the Curtis car struck the one in front of it driven by William Smith Petawawa which in turn struck car driven by Kevin Hartwell of Orillia Only the Curtis family wereinjured An Angus youth Robert Horne 18 of RR Angus was thrown off motorcycle and killed at 1230 am Saturday Dane Pickering Huntsville driving Hon da was killed in an accident which occurred on Highway 11 north of Severn Bridge An accident which occurred at Angus on Highway 90 in front of the Sunnidale Burger Bar sent Lil Weissgram Sunnidale to hospital in Barrie with cuts to her face Damage in the accident is estimated at $7000 Driver of the other car Renaud Gendron of St Noel Quebec sustained an injured right hand three car accident resulted in about $5000 damage on Highway 90 at the ninth conces sion of Essa vehicle operated by Allie Deviney Barrie was in collision with car operated by Anita Kepfres Cambridge and one driven by Mar shall Conrad of Angus Deviney Conrad and passenger in the Deviney car were taken to hospital Constable Diamond of the Barrie OPP detachment termed Friday night as ab soluter phenomenal Will follow course set by predecessor Parrot HALIFAX CP It is too early to predict whether the postal workers will strike to back contract demands but the strike mandate is there if we need it Jean Claude Parrot new president of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers CUPW said Friday Parrot said he will follow the militant cour se set by Joe Davidson who stepped down af ter three years as president of the 22000 member union Davidsons final message as the postal workers ended their fiveday national con vention was sock it to them boys Parrot and his new executive board have been given authority to call national strike if settlement is not reached with the govern ment However Parrot former vicepresident of the union and seasoned negotiator said CUPW will try to resolve the problems at the bargaining table Whats happening here on holiday weekend TODAY To dusk Huronia Festival of the Arts and Crafts To 11 pm Ys Men Beer Garden To dusk Blue Sky Theatre 130 pm Kite Flying and Wind Surfing Displays Great Water Walk 3pm Sail Past power and sail in review SUNDAY Centennial Park 10 am to dusk Art Festival continues 1pm to dusk Blue Sky Theatre 1pm Wind Surfing Displays Kite Flying Exhibition Great Water Walk pm Underwater Chariot Race pm Art Festival Awards Presentation MONDAY Centennial Park 10 3m to dusk Art By Vl PARSONS OTTAWA CP Prime Minister Trudeau offered business and labor conditional early end to wageandprice controls Friday but representatives of the two key economic decisionmaking groups asked for another two to three weeks to respond to the govem ments proposal During titshour meeting Trudeau and other cabinet ministers discussed with labor and business representatives three possible early dates for an end to the program next Oct 14 the second anniversary of controls next Jan 2and Oct 141978 Legislation implementing the controls is due to expire Dec 31 1978 But Trudeau told news conference that in return for an early end to the program labor and business would have to agree tn three conditions The conditions are An agreement from both sides to set up consultative forum with government and other interests after controls end to discuss future directions for the economy An agreement for the setting up of monitoring agency which would not have authority to roll back excessive price and pay raises but which could question and publicize exceptional increases and Some commitment to voluntary restraint which would have the effect of creating pressure for reduced inflation Rather than responding immediately the labor and business spokesmen headed by Joe Morris president of the Canadian Labor Congress and AJ de Grandpre president of Bell Canada asked for two to three weeks to talk over the federal proposals with their con stituencies Morris said meeting of the heads of the 115 unions affiliated with the CLC would be held De Grandpre speaking for the Business Council on National Issueswhich includes the Canadian Manufacturers Association and the hamber of Commercesaid he would begin consultation with business leaders next week Festival continues 12 noon to 11 pm Ys Mens Beer Garden 12 noon Voyageur canoes start for race to Orillia 1pm to dusk Blue Sky Theatre 30 pm Fla water canoe races pm Super stars competitions Kempenfelt Park 10 am Water ski slalom races 1pm Laser Sailing Race pm Challenge Cup Sailing Race pm $1000 cash draw St Vincent Park Noon to pm Rotary Club Chicken Barbecue ALI WEEKEND Old Time Power Show at Cookstown Barrie Kennel Club AllBreed Dog Show at Molsons Park Conditional early end to controls offered by PM The request for more time will set back an expected announcement of the date for de control finance Minister Donald Macdonald said earlier this month that date would probably be announced in the first week of August After the meeting Macdonald said he hoped to be able to annotmoe date before Sept 15 PREPARED TO SET DATE Trudeau said if business and labor representatives could give positive respon se to the government proposals the govem ment would be prepared to indicate date There would have to be substantive agreement on the three conditions He said next Oct 14 as decontrol date would be very soon but still possibility and the beginning of January was another possibility But Trudeau added that he would not want to create any expectations until some agree ment is reached Morris said he wanted clarification of some points in government paper presented to the meeting before he met with leaders of the af filiated unions There was no mention in the paper of any specific wage limit he said Asked if he thought the leaders of affiliates would accept the conditions Morris said only that he had to check his mandate from the unions from time to time inside local 12 15 llfutylo munnon Main weekly stock 1o comics 21 classified 2327

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