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Amin and family at conference Ugandas President Idi Amin foreground right leads his son Moses centre and wife Sarah left and delegates to the Organization of African Unity Ministers of Information conference in round of applause Wednesday Uganda was the host nation for the ministerial meeting AP Laserphoto SCBE comes to terms with county teachers The Simcoe County Board of Education has come to terms with its more than 2000 teachers Confirmation of the signing of new con tracts with the 1190 elementary school and 930 high school teachers was made at Wednesdays regular board meeting in the Education Centre on Ferris Lane The pacts are for one year retroactive to Sept and provide for increases in total compensation averaging six per cent for the elementary school teachers and 56 per cent for the secondary school teachers Total compensation includes basic salary rates responsibility allowances and employee benefits No changes were made in employee benefits over the previous con Annexation to be delayed TORONTO tStaff Barries annexation will not take effect until after next Jan if Innisfil Township is allowed to appeal the Oct 33 Ontario Municip Board OMB an nexation decision to the Ontario Court of Apr peal John Sopinka Innisfils annexation lawyer said today there is no way the township can get court date Jan the date set by the OMB for annexation to take effect tracts for either group the board clarified in written statement Negotiations for the contracts began in February The board received notice of final ratification by the elementary school teachers on Friday and of the high school teachers endorsement on Tuesday Despite the longevity of the negotiations the board emphasized in its statement that they had been conducted amicably Were it not for the limitations of the pro vincial legislation we would have settled on our own much earlier without any problem commented Trustee John McCullough member of the boards elementary contract negotiations committee Under the new terms salaries for elemen tary school teachers will range from $8600 to $26800 depending on the educators teaching category and experience High school teachers will receive from $12378 to $26887 For high school viceprincipals remunera tion will range from $30100 to $32210 and for principals from $34810 to $37520 The elementary principals salary schedule consists of three divisions for schools of 16 or more fulltime teachers for schools with eight to 15 and for schools of one to SCVH Aschool principals will receive from $30170 to $32830 Bschool principals from 529070 to $31700 Principals in division schools are paid the basic teacher salary rate plus responsibility allowance of $742 per fulLtirne teacher on the staff Their max imum salary is 330570 Courthouse artwork cost rapped by Liberal MPP TORONTO Staff Liberal MPP Wednesday took government services minister George McCague to task in the legislature over the ministrys decision to spend $40000 on artwork for the new Barrie courthouse Alf Stong member for York Centre asked McCague why the ministry would spend that much money on artwork when more judges and court facilities are needed to reduce the backlog of cases in Ontario courts McCaguc said it is government licy to set aside onehalf of one per cent of total cost of building for artwork created by local ar tists Artists have to live also the minister told Stong It would be sad state if we didnt have them In telephone interview this morning Stong said he is not against art but there are priorities As long as we delay trials at the same time as we spend $40000 on artwork then Im upset he said The $40000 would more than pay for another judge with enough left over to ap point another courtroom he said Stong said it is time for the government to get its priorities in line Turns matter over to ustice de artment RCMP Opening mail says Fox OTTAWA CP Minutes after Post masterGeneral Jean Jacques Blais assured the Commons on Wednesday that firstclass mail is inviolate SolicitorGeneral Francis Fox said the RCMP security service has been opening mail since 1954 It is against the law for anyone to intercept and open firstclass mail basically personal letters and Fox said he has turned the matter over to the justice department to decide whether charges are warranted Fox apparently learned of an RCMP operation codenamed Cathedral from CBC 113th year No 282 Thursday news report which said RCMP agents in the postal service turn over letters which are opened copied sealed and returned for delivery The solicitorgeneral said he had asked the RCMP repeatedl last June whether they were opemng mai The answer was no But in checking on the CBC report Wed nesday he was informed that the security service had indeed opened firstclass mail He told reporters later that the operation dates back at least to 1954 and that inter ception ended in June 1976 The news came as surprise to Blais who had been giving the standard assuran ceheard for tyears from postmastergen eralsto MPs at it was strict licy not to allow firstltclass mail to be openetlJ Im not responsible for the RCMP blur ted Blais who evidently hadnt been fore warned by Fox The Fox admission added tampering with the mail to list of illegal activities the RC MP is accused of that now includes alleged arson theft and break and entry ovembor 10 1977 15° Per Copy Carrier Home Delivery 90 Weekly 28 Page the examiner serving barrie and simcoe county NDP Leader Ed Broadbent asked whether Fox has referred four additional cases of RC MP wrongdoing to royal commission on the subject under Mr Justice David Mc Donald Fox would say only that all alleged cases of wrongdoing are being referred to the commission McDonald would not comment Opposition Leader Joe Clark said it was inexcusable of Prime Minister Trudeau to not be present to answer questions about the mail interceptions Trudeau flew to Halifax on Wednesday for meeting with Premier Gerald Regan of Nova Scotia Barrie branch of CUPW +1 ui 7710 dollar ls falllngl The dollar ls falllngl nsnde local 15 lifestyle entertainment 14 leisure sports comics 23 classified 18 to 21 Sapplements Foley Furniture Similarities seen in attacks MISSISSAUGA Ont CP man who stabbed Toronto woman in the face throat and chest at parking lot in this city is believed to be the same person who fatally stabbed woman at Brampton shopping centre Peel regional police said Wednesday Inspector Chris OToole said that although the attacks were 25 kilometres apart police believe the same man may be responsible for both Hasnt cured cancer REGINA CP The drug Laetrile has parade through downtown Barrie Friday as the city honors Canadas war dead with the traditional Remembrance Day observance The parade organized by Royal Canadian As many as 200 marchers are expected to Legion Branch 147 will form at City Hall at 10 am and proceed down Mulcaster Street and along Dunlap Street to Memorial Square where 50 wreaths will be placed at the cenotaph during an 11 am service Mrs Beatrice Spearn 30 aroline St is this years Silver ross mother She will be placing wreath at the cenotaph dur ing the Remembrance Day services to commemorate those soldiers who died during the two world wars Mrs Spearn lost brother during the first world war and son during the second world war Examiner Photo Remembrance deadl over all county locals The parade will then return to City Hall by way of Dunlap Clapperton and Collier streets passing saluting station across Collier Street from the Post Office 30member group from Canadian Forces Base Borden local veterans groups and their womens auxiliaries and cadet organizations will march in the parade Earlier in the day the Army Navy and Air Force Veterans in Canada Branch 365 will hold its own service at the clubs cenotaph in Centennial Park Club members will meet at the cenotaph at am for the service before joining in the downtown parade CLOSED ALL DAY Banks will be closed all day most will be open until pm or later tonight along with li uor and beer stores the Post Office and 0t er federal and provincial offices courts and public separate and high schools There will be no mail delivery City Hall will close from 10 am to pm only and some downtown stores will close for various periods around the 11 am ser VICC Barrie Public Library stores in Georgian Mall and Bayfield Mall and Georgian Col lege will be open as usual City transit buses and Gray Coach buses will run normal schedules except that special city buses primarily serving schools other than Georgian College will be cancelled The Examiner will publish ll AM SERVICE The 11 am service at Memorial Square will be conducted Rev Kelvin Johnston of Stroud United urch padre of Legion Branch 147 Also scheduled to be on hand are Beatrice Spearn this years Silver Cross mother Mayor Ross Archer Simcoe Centre MPP George Ta lor LieutCol Andrews of Cana ian Forces Base Borden and Leighton Howard of Toronto vicechairman of the Legions provincial command parade 200 expected By RICHARD DUNSTAN Examiner Staff Reporter The Barrie local of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers has been given charge of CUPW locals across Simcoe Count Dan Westwood Barrie local president saidy today The move puts inside postal workers in total of 10 communities under the Barrie local and more than doubled its membership from 63 to about 130 Westwood said Westwood also said the union is in the pro oess of reinstating county locals which had been placed in trusteeship by national union officials in most cases for failing to stay off work until the end of the sixweek 1975 postal strike Workers in locals under trusteeship pay union dues but lose membership privileges Westwood said reinstatement should be com pleted by Christmas Communities which now come under the Barrie local are Orillia Midland Penetanguishene Collingwood Canadian Forces Base Borden Alliston and Bradford in Simcoe Count plus Orangeville in Duf ferin County Keswick in York Region Keswick Borden and Bradford were part of the Barrie local before the current reorganization Westwood said the Barrie local was chosen by the CUPW national executive board to head the expanded local because most Barrie workers stayed out until the end the 1975 strike Were really the only local in the area that was left in good standin he said He said the new local wi hold new elec tions in January and will probably be renam ed at that time to reflect its new size Westwood said the new arrangement will make the union more efficient and will pre vent postal officials from using different policies in dealing with workers at different offices Overpass open for traffic The new Third Line overpass across Highway 11 in Cm Township opened for traf fic Wednesday Another overpass at the townshi Fifth Line is expected to open next week weather permits paving to be completed said spokesman for the Ontario Ministry of Transportation and Communications $3M ransom asked VIENNA Reuter Kidnappers have Neda is never improved or cured cancer says Dr demanded ransom of about 50 million Peter Walden director of the Alan Blair schiilings $3 million for the safe return of Memorial Clinic the cancer treatment Message to lobless leading Austrian clothing manufacturer division of Pasqmi Hospital HALIFAX CP canada 781000 seized early todaypolice sources said He said in an interview that during the unemployed were told by Prime Minister Walter Michael Palmers 74 owner of chain of underwear shops was snatched from his car as he drove through Vienna and was bundled into another vehicle the sources said last 18 months about dozen patients who were seen at the clinic have gone to Mexico to get Laetrile The drug derivative of apricot and Trudeau Wednesday not to lose hope In an interview broadcast by the Atlantic Television Network in the Maritime provin ces Trudeau agreed that unemployment is New Horizons grant The advisory board of Parkview Centre for Seniors in Barrie has been awarded $8541 in New Horizons grant to renovate furnish and equip space for crafts instruc tion The grant was announced by Health and Welfare Minister Monique Begin along with one of $3786 awarded to the Creedan Valley Nursing Home in Creemore to ex pand their social and recreational ac tivities Parkviews advisory board plans to use the grant to equip quarters for arts and crafts carpentry woodworking and games Yuletide concert The King Edward Choir Sings at Christmas the choirs annual Yuletide concert will be held Dec at Central Collegiate The concert has sold out for the last four years Organizers say tickets at $250 each should be bought early Tickets are available at Jack Webb Clothing on Bradford Street Johns Barber Shop at the corner of Tiffin Street and Essa Road or by calling Ruth Murray during the day at 7289782 During the evening call Sharon Bray 7264666 or Marina DeSouza 72643664 Endangered species NEW YORK CP Canadian State Secretary John Roberts told United States ublishing executives Wednesday that Freedom of cultural expression in Canada is threatened by the deep penetration of American books films records radio and TV The endangered species in the Canadian market is the Canadian freedom of ex pression Roberts said in an address to the annual meeting of the Audit Bureau of Cir culations bend and twist Theres some give in the boards at the Barrie Arena during the Saturday sessions of the Knights of Columbus Minor Hockey League The ice surface is divided to allow the younger players ice time Examiner Photo Houseleague hockey The Legion Minor Hockey League and that of the Knights of Columbus are the two houseleague hockey operations in Barrie Both operations noted decrease in enrol ment this season The Legion Minor Hockey League reported drop of some 200 players this season with up to 20 to 30 fewer players in the Knights of Columbus operation The high cost of outfitting young player is one factor parents have to consider when sending their sons or daughters to the rinks It could cost over $200 to outfit the average eight year old from head to foot in top quality equipment Story and photo on Page 13 peach pits lima beans and other sources does not harmfatients biit it doesnt help Dr Walden sai Patients who think Laetrile will cure them are clinging to something thats myth he said He said more people are looking for cure because certain kinds of cancer which are hard to treat are increasing They want something thats cureall Were making great strides in treating can cer but there is no cureall Honesty benefits charity KINGSTON Ont CP Two charitable organizations will rofit from the actions of Kingston boy turned over wallet containing $130 to police two weeks ago Paul Lorlnan 13 received this week let ter from the owner of the wallet Dr Sam Frankling of Mississauga Ont which said the money would be sent to two organizations that help young opleCom ssion and Interschool ristian Fel owship The letter also included $25 cheque for Lorman Marchand quite ill OIlAWA CP lawyer for Senator Jean Marchand told the Provincial Court Wednesday his client was quite ill and unable to appear to face charges of failing to provide sample of his breath Marchand was charged last month with impaired driving and refusing to take breath analysis in neighboring Gloucester Townshi His case was put forward to Nov 16 Mar and was to arrive in Ottawa Wed nesda to be placed under the care of Dr Fitzgi bon Details of his illness were not im mediater available very serious human problem but ad ded that those without jobs should not lose hope in the future of the country Canadians shouldnt find it beyond themselves to discover the technology to practise the restraint to show the creative enterprise which would continue making Canada one of the most prosperous and desirable places in the world He said the message he is trying to get across to the country is that business must become more competitive to survive in world markets Higher prices for world oil meant that Canadians have less to spend on other things If Canadians want to retend the are not poorer want to preten that theys ould be wealthy as before and have the standard of living increasing at the same rate they will cause inflation and they will not be come richer they will become poorer Wont probe prices TORONTO CP Premier William Davis refused Wednesday to set up an inquiry into high coffee prices su esting Egople drink more milk as an atemate verage Replying in the legislature to New Democrat Mel Swart WellandThorold the premier said he is not indifferent to the problem but declined to call for an in uiry Probably lot of us would be heal ier if we substituted portion of the coffee we drink with milk Davis said Swart and Ed Philip NDP Toronto Etobicoke have been waging twoman battle over coffee prices recent Fare hike seen OTTAWA CP Most air fares between Canada and the US are expected to in crease by five per cent in midNovember Hes number ll Ninetyoneyearoid Anna Morin of Sault Ste Marie heads five generations that in cludes eight children 45 grandchildren 11 greatgrandchildren and 24 great greatgrandchildren Posing with his great grandmother is recentlyborn Adam Morin son of Mr and Mrs Leo Morin of the Sault Hes number 111 CP Photo due to the devaluation of the Canadian dollar federal official said Wednesday The increases are expected to cover Air Canada CP Air and all USbased assenger airlines such as American Air ines Eastern Airlines and Allegheny Airlines spokesman for the Canadian transport commission said All have filed ap lications for increases which will automatically take affect unless an objection is lodged With the commission the official said in telephone interview details of the kidnapping saying human life is at stake Carnival blitz Singers and the Eastview Concert Choir will conduct citywide doortodoor blitz next Tuesday selling draw tickets for the 1W8 Barrie Winter Carnival $6000 in commissions for travel costs uniforms and other performing expenses will go to pay the costs of the Feb 1819 car police Spokesman refused to give any The sources said ransom note was found in Palmers car after it was stopped It was not immediatel clear whether the kidnapping had any po itical motive But the sources said the police were treating it as criminal and not politival case About members of the Eastview The two groups hope to raise total of The rest of the revenue from the $2 tickets nival which has no admission charge First prize is $1000 in cash second prize is week or two in St Petersburg Fla and six weekends for two in Toronto will be given out in preliminary draws beginning Dec Rock through window Joyriders caused an estimated $150 damage early this morning at Radio Shack on Ba view Avenue throwing rock through display wi ow from passing car says police Sgt Bob Thompson of the Barrie city police says no arrests have been made in connection with the incident weather Continuing windy and cold with flurries Fri day Lows overnight zero to Highs Friday to