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canalday is for BUSINESS Union ratifies contract Newlyunionized workers at Jim Walter Building Products Ltd of Barrie have ratified the terms of first collective agree ment The agreement provides for pay increases of 11 to 61 cents an hour in the first year and 35 to 49 cents an hour in the second year of twoyear pact The workers are members of Local of the United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers Union The new contract provides for costof living allowance capped at five cents an hour in the second year an additional paid plant holiday for total of 11 group in surance benefits including lllP coverage and Blue Ctoss extended health care fully paid by the company and union member ship as condition of employment says the union in news release AMC workers accept BRAMPTON nt tCPt About 13K workers at American Motors Canada Ltd have accepted oneycar contract giving them pay raises of 45 to six per cent llargrave said the increases are smaller than those gained by workeis at Ford General Motors and Chrysler but added we had to go easy on them because lets face it theyre not selling many cars The CS company reported Stdmillion loss in 1976 Another turns sour OTTAWA CPt Another indicator of the state of the economy tunied tip sour this week as Statistics Canada reported that economic production dropped during July by twotenths of one per cent from Jutic levels The decline as measured by the agencys real domestic product was especially marked in goatsproducing industries in dea 100 blocks arrested JttltANNESBtHG tAPt Riot police arrested nearly to blacks in disturtvincc in Soweto early today after whitc au thonties refused to let buses take them to the funeral of black leader Steve Biko senior police officer said police tired shots over the head of HIM mourners when they stormed and stoned police vehicles stationed outside hall where they were to boanl the buses witness said the crowd inside the hall panickéxl when it teamed police had con verged outside There were about 500 iii side the hall and more outside Everyone scattered and ran the witness said The disturbance followed lastminute refusal by the local road transpittation board to issue permits to five blackowned bus companies hired to take mourners to Bikos funeral Sunday in King Williams Town 560 kilometres titnt milest from here The board issues permits needed by bus companies to travel outside their normal routes and areas Death poison picked LNTSVILLII Tex Pt Stae prison officials have decided to use sodium thiopental as the poison to be injected into prisoners who have been sentenced to death prison spokesman said several other poisons were considered but it was decided sodium thiopental was the most effective and humane He said the pubtilt causes llll conSciousness 111 seconds and death in min at es The Texas legislature voted last August to use an injected poison to execute prisoners instead of the electric chair which had liftll used in the state since 15434 The first execution by poison believed to be the first in the tnitcd States is scheduled for the middle of next month There now are HS prisoners in death rows in Texas prisons Dictatorship would work ltiNltiN hit tCl The executive vicepresident of the Council for Canadian tnity says Quebec Premier Rene Icvesqne ls deliberately using psychological warfare against English Canada lohii Fisher said Friday that levesquc is rying to make English Canadians angry enough at Hench Canadians to say let them go we dont need them He told the Womens Canadian lub that English Canadians should continue to show fairness and understanding towards Quebec rtSlflflllS and should help to create solutions to the unity problem Fisher said the planned Quebec referen dum on separatism could easily be rigged in the larti Qucbiicoiss favor He said Levesque would have to establish dictatorship to make separate Quebec government work Wants pot out of code tillILlH Ulll Clt Federal ttpr position Leader Joe Clark says possession of marijuana should he removed troin the Criminal Code Speaking at iuclph high school the Conservative leader would not rule out the possibility of llittllJllitllti being sold in govcr timcnt stores is alcohol is now His suggestion in reply to question brought bursts of applause from the Butt slutltttistillllftlitl Sextuplets doing well ltlllth Netherlands APt Hospital officials said today the sixday old Dutch scxtiiplets are doing well and have re spondid satisfactorily to treatment for yellow Jaundicc an ailment commoi to newborn infants spokcsmaii at tiiiversity Hospital lltlo said the the treatment which involved ex posing the four girls and two boys to beam of white electric light has been discon tinued The infants are continunig to receive constant aiid vigilant care and everything is going well the spokesman said The stXltiplit were born Sunday to 277 year old Corrie NIJSSfll wife of lttltllktl weather few showers today High near Heavy rain overnight and low around 12 few showers Sunday with high near 13 New Ford dealer Barries new Ford dealer Gary iliaiii says good service will spare him the fate of his predecessor iraiidview Ford lrahain Ford Sales Ltd opens its doors Monday with the full line of Ford cars and trucks used cats and complete car maintenance facilities See todays Business Page Examiner Photot which production fell by ninetenths of one per cent roin June Production among service industries remained relatively unchanged from month earlier Earlier this week Statistics Canada figures showed that industrial production alone which excludes agriculture trade finance and real estate services and gover nment spending tell by 11 per cent The July figures followed llllttllltllll period ending in lunc in which real overall output of the economy fell by an annual rate of per cent prompting fears of recession Saying goodbye King tillfltilllll of ltclgiuiii and Quebec Ireiiiicr Hciic Lensnuc time word together as they leave helicopter it Quebec ity airpon lriday before the King and Queen Fabiola Itll for New fouiidland tll lhoto Catastrophy predicted lttltt tNTt report by coalition of citizens groups says lllt iisc of nuclear reactors 111 Canada to create power might ha vc catastrophic results The report presented at news cone fercnce Friday by thc llltlrltt Coalition for Nuclear ltcstxuisibility says an accident in volving nuclearpowered generators such as the andu reactor could cause widespread and lasting ontamination Large quantities of human made radioactive materials are accutiiuliitiiig at evenincreasing rates the rcpor say Most of this material is in human made Containers on the earths surface and much of it 1S separated from the ciiiironmcnt by only few feet of water and locked door Anne and Mark move liIXN AP Princess Anne and for husband Royal Army tapt Mark Phillips are moving to an apartment at Buckingham Palace about two months llfltilt the birth of their first child published reports says They say Anne 27 wants to be close to her mother for the arrival of her baby ex pected lll midNovember The baby will be the first grandchild ot the Queen who ltvis at the palace in the heart of London Prince Charles and his brothers Andrew and Edward were born at the palace Anne was born at Clarence House royal man sioi nearby Anne and her husband have been living in their own home near Saiidhurst the royal military academy lit miles southwest of London where Phillips was an instructor He now works at the defence ministry Ill london The princess and Phillips have not yet lived at titittolillx lalk the mansion in tiloucestcishirc that was bought for them by the Qllllll last summer Huildcrs still llt renov ating it Guerillas to continue Mt itiAlllSHl lteutcr Somali guerrillas itltl today they will continue their war in southeastern Ethiopia until government troops are driven hack to within loo kilometres too milest of Addis Ababa Abdallah llassan Mohamed secretary general of the Western Somali Liberation Front tWSLFt told news conference the old city of Harar is the next guerrilla target WSLF gucri illis fighting to separate the ttgaden desert region froin Ethiopia are backed by the Somali government Hut Somalia denies using its tll forces lll the war Somali government official iti Home said Tuesday the Front was preparing for ceasefire talks However the WS1F secretary general said today No there will be no talks tiiitil we have liberated all our territory still tin der the Ethiopian ttllilllftllSls pending statement draws criticism MARC LALN1E among callers Msxi OIIAWA tCP Robert Andras treasury board president provoked barrage of com plaints from some cabinet colleagues union leaders provincial governments and con stituents by saying this week the government will have to clamp down on spending Earlier this week Andras discussed with reporters number of possible alternatives the government might look at to help reduce its costs Family allowances and public ser vice pcnsions were among programs men tioned But Andras said Widay in an interview that while no programwith the exclusion of payments on the public debtis safe from the eye of government costcutters no decision has been made yet whether to select family allowances as target in the coming year There is no decision to do anything about family allowances or any other specific pro gram Andras said Us ob sb3v bUL tie added that no government program is absolutely sacrosarict CONCERN EXPRESSED Andras said after his comments about cost cutting had come to light that some cabinet colleagues called him to express concern He added that some provincial welfare officials meeting in Alberta had also called to clarify his remarks Among the many callers was Marc Lalon de former federal health and welfare minister who had sponsored legislation earlier in 1973 to triple family allowances and index them fully to the cost of living In his talk with reporters Andras had discussed the possibility of reducing or eliminating the indexing of social programs such as family allowances and public service pensions as moneysaving measures In 1976 oneyear moratorium on indexing of family allowances saved the government $220 million we 13th yearNo ZZZSaturday September 24 97 15° Per Copy Carrier Home Delivery 90° Week the examiner serving barrie and simcoe county ROBERT ANDRAS no decision 20 Pages even per cent pay hike Two men arrested in gun incident Left police hold gun on one of two Long Island NY incii ilnilll iri day in laiihattaiis lttxkcfcller enter after they allegedly brandislicd Jt calibci sciiiiaiitoiiiatic rifle in nearby coffee shop The other but ransom MHNlHlIAl provincial police spokesman rcftiscd to comment on reports to day that there has been an unsuccessful at tempt to deliver ransom to the kidnappers of credit union ciiiploytc Charles Marion The reports said two intermediaries in the Air fares may go up TttltttNlU ttlt laiidc Taylor president of Air Canada says that Canadian air travellers may be faced with large fare in creases next year because of airline losses resulting from an air traffic controllers go slow campaign Taylor said 111 aii interview Friday the fac tics at Toronto International Airport cost the airline $2 million in extra fuel Slttoxttli in ad ditional operating costs and net loss of $9 million iii business in August Air traffic ttllllollmS as group are mature seriousmindcd people who carry heavy responsibility Taylor said However the few iii Toronto who cont time to perpetuate their grievance against the federal government by abusing the general public are acting irresponsibly Steve Howe spokesman for British All ways said We dont have figures to show yet what we have lost but we know it is Stllr staiitial amount suspect has hands on car while guarded by police At right police remove weapon allegedly used iii the incident Men identified as Thomas Scully and John Moore were charged with menacing and possession of deadly weapons tP lliotot Kidnap victim still being held may be paid tonght case both journalists went to village near Sherbrooke Que Friday night with two Slill cases of money and waited for Marions ab ductors to pick tip the ransom However the reports in La lressc and Journal dc Montreal said the two men returr tied to Sherbrookc aftcr the kidnappers failed to show up The internmliarics were lfltll lifted as feltvision personality Normand Maltais and crime reporter laudc Poiricr Journal flt Montreal said the in termcdiarics were carrying Silootlto ransom for the kidnappers Absolutely no comment said plttVlll cial police spokesman in Sherbrtxikc when asked to verify or deny reports of the at tempted dropoff The reports came as authorities received another comiiitiniquc frotn the kidnappers who were told to except reply tonight In an announcement broadcast on local radio station unlike recent messages which were telecast the credit union told the kid nappers We will get in touch with you in the same way tomorrow Saturday at 845pm The message indicates the kidnappers left communique for officials of the aissc Populaire de Sherbrookc Est after they lear ned from televised broadcast lhursday that autliorit ics had accepted their terms That foursecond message was repeated early Friday The authorities inform us that everything now is to their satisfaction and we await your final instructions The televised messages have been read by Normand Maltais one of the two couriers ex pected to deliver the ransom money if and when the two sides can come to an agree ment Andre Dugas the provincial police officer who has been heading the investigation since Marion was abducted seven weeks ago arrived at the radio station shortly before lYiday nights broadcast WITHDIHCW FROM CASE Police had informed reporters earlier this week that they had officially withdrawn from the case to comply with one of the kid nappers demands Earlier this week the kidnappers threatened to hehead Marion if authorities did not agree to give them threehour grace period between the delivery of the ransom and Marion release lit subsequent broadcast reply Officials told the kidnappers they would concede to the delay if six photographs of Marion recor ding of his voice and letter bearing his signature repeated seven times was offered as proof that he is alive package containing the requested proof was found in this community 150 kilometres Illiiiiilcs east of Montreal late Wednesday Less than 24 hours later bmadcaster Maltais told the abductors the authorities were satisfied and indicated he and his unidcnt if ied companion were ready to deliver the ransom as soon as they received direc tions Marion was kidnapped Aug by two hooded armed men who broke into his cot tage at Stoke 23 kilometres 13 milcst north east of here where he was staying with his secretary She was tied to toilet bowl in small shed behind the cottage and remained there for 18 hours before being discovered by Marions wife OFA members choose area directors More than loo members of the Simcoe County region of the Ontario Federation of grictiltiirc ttlFAt met in Midlitust Friday night to choose new county directors for the MFA mid delegates to the MFA annual con vention lton Jones of Vasey will represent North Simcoe on the MFA board of directors lord Atkinson of Crown Hill will represent Centre Sinicoe faniicrs on the board and South 51111 coc will be represented by Norm Hamilton of Bradford Three farmers from each region of the county will attend the FA annual convention to beheld in Hamilton Nov 28 29 and 30 Jim Langmaii and May Johnson of 0m lownship and Fraser tlacltonald of Mara Township wil represent North Simcoe Centre Simcoe region farmers will be represented by Dale Taylor and Jim Stetd of Nottawasaga Township and Hon Coutts of espra lownship rid Walsh of Adjala Tow nship Bob Burton of West iwillimbury Township and Lloyd Campbell of Essa Township will represent South Simcoe farmers Bob Cowan secretary of the Si mcoe County Federation of Agriculture said today that the federations annual meeting will beheld Nov 10 at the Minesing community Hall at 630 pm William Newman Agriculture and speaker he said lownship representatives for the county lfilftutlmlS board of directors will be chosen at the meeting ow an said Minister of be the guest Ontario bond will for Canadian servicemen OTTAWA CP Pay increases for thousands of Canadian servicemen were an nounced Friday by Defence Minister Barney Danson Danson said in news release that effective Oct servicemen up to the rank of lieutenantcolonel will get pay raises averag ing seven per cent Colonels are to get pay increases averaging about five per cent retroactive to April this year one year after their previous increase Brigadiergenerals and higher ranks received pay increases in April more than year after their last raise Danson said that pay rates for members of the armed forces reserves will be adjusted to correspond with increases approved for regular forces servicemen The increases are within limits set by the antiinflation board and are comparable to raises granted to similar groups in the federal public service the minister said Increases vary with trade skills and classifications For example private with one years service will receive $675 monthly up from $625 colonel with two years ex perience at that level will receive $2770 month up from $25m Police hurt in near riot BRANTFUHD nt Pt Several police officers received minor injuries early today as they battled to control near riot in the citys downtown area Police said rocks and bottles were thrown as the officers tried to disperse crowd of about 200and break up numerous fist fights Ten persons were arrested on charges of ob structing police creating disturbance and assaulting police police spokesman said the trouble started with fight outside pub which attracted large number of onlookers The crowd con tinued growing and more fights broke out un til the street was blocked with cars and people The spokesman said that during the scuf fles rocks bottles and womans purse were thrown at the officers Another crack about Joe Clark Diefenbaker speaking on the future of Canada to gathering of 500 members of the Association of Canadian Clubs received standing ovation when he finished Stanfield who replaced Diefenbaker as Conservative leader to years ago said in written statement released in Ottawa on Thursday that he hopes Diefenbaker will stop attacking party leader Joe Clark What did they talk about before the SIX Day War inside local lifestyle entertainment business 11 sports 13 14 comics 20 classified 15 18 17 18 19 Chu rch