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They worked Christmas Day Brenda Maloney dispatcher and Const Bernie Hunt of the Barrie City Police Department spent Christmas Day manning the phones expected today Christmas Day to be quiet and it isnt theres been lot of family disputes and few minor accidents Hunt said Story photos on Page Examiner Photo Heavy number of calls handled by Bell Canada Calls handled by Bell Canada Barrie Christmas Day were 500 more than expected says Evelyn Pcrdue assistant manager Our operators handled 23000 direct calls which come through the operator for one reason or another We have no way of totalling the calls which are dialed direct and do not require operator assistance The Barrie office put through 3700 overseas calls which Purdue says are dialed by the Barrie operators but whether or not they are completed is not known Additional calls such as persontoperson and collect totalled about 9500 Christmas Day These were operator assisted calls The number of calls was well up over 500 from what we had estimated The service to customers was good our operators handled it very well and that made more calls possi ble Perdue said Advertising by Bell in the past weeks ask ing people not to wait for Christmas Day to make that call home as well as the Saturday noon extension for discount prices is con sidered by Perdue to be the reason more calls could be handled When calls dont come all at once we can give customers better service Gas wells blowing wild in oil fields of Alberta By THE CANADIAN PRESS Seasoned roughnecks in the oil fields of cen tral Alberta say Red Adair has lived up to his daredevil reputation since he was called in last week to tame wild natural gas well The 2yearold Texan world famous for his dangerous specialty drove bulldozer to the fringe of roaring gas fire Saturday to tow drilling rig off the wellhead The well blowing wild since Dec about 130 kilo metres southwest of Edmonton had ignited earlier in the day It was the feat of superman said Condition of Don ail safety man working for Amoco Canada Petroleum Co Ltd owner of the well in the West Pembina field He could have been fried alive The area around the well was ablaze The heat was fan tastic Monday workers started work on an 800 metre pipe to pump water from the Pembina River to cool off the blazing well Plans were being made to plant and detonate dynamite charge near the well to snuff the fire by momentarily cutting off its oxygen supply Findings of commission said to be irrelevant TORONTO itPi The Ontario govern ment will be presented early next year with royal comiiiixsion report on conditions at Toronto Don jail but some politicians say its findings will be largely irrelevant because the old section of the jail will be closed by then Commission chairman Barry Shapiro county court judge said Sunday the report would probably be released in February All prisoners at the old jail have already been transferrmi to new correctional institutes The LOfllllllSSlOll was set up Oct 1974 by the provincial government to probe North beats South The North was no match for the South in the first ork Simcoe Minor Hockey League juvenile allstar game Monday at the Barrie Arena The South scored two unanswered goals in the third period to defeat the North 5K In players from the Allan Cook Jiiy eniles competed in the game nit age 84 Win for Stroud Prossers BP Peewees oi Stroud edged miton 3l Saturday in the York Simcoe Minor Hockey League The teams were tied 00 going into the se cond period with Sutton taking lead on Jim Riddells goal with 02 remaining to be played Ken Bland tied the game with 16 left in the period Don Brown scored the winning goal with left in the third period Scott Robertson put the game out of reach with goal with 39 seconds remaining in the game Stroud had two the five minor penalties in the game Ed Alexander played goal for Stroud Special guest TURONN CP Anatoli Tarasov the architect of hockey in the Soviet Lnion whose teams won rune consecutive world titles and three Olympic championships durzrtg the 19605 and early 1970s Will be special guest at the Hmkey Hall of Fame on Dev Tarasoy acmmpariied by former Na oi Hockey League president Clarence tanipfiel will be makmg his first visit to th hall since hzs induction in 1974 Harries tlus Eyers smred one of the goals for the North squad Story and photo ovumanywaqu Wflrmm allegations of brutality by socalled goon squad of guards at thejail It was also asked to look into the role and function of correctional officers at the jail and methods by which they are trained and recruited Liberal leader Stuart Smith said last week that many of the people involved in the original allegations are not now at the jail NDP leader Stephen Lewis said he was sur prised to learn the Don jail commission had not filed its report Obviously this is commission which makes no further sense he said Open to skiers Steve and Emily yitray of Barrie ski along one of the trails at Molsons Park The park is open for crosscountry skiers and the trails will be open all week Equip merit can be rented at the farmhouse I1 the park For up to the minute cross country and alpine snow conditions see to days Sports Page TWO men arrested by police Slayings patterned after strangler LOS ANGELES AP Two men have been arrested in connection with what police believe may be copycat slayin pat terned after those of the Hillside Stranégr Stephen DOrsey Devezin 40 was ked for investigation of murder Monday night in the death of 21yearold Carolyn Williams Lieut Don Foster said Thomas Davis 24 who police described as friend of Devezin had been booked on the same charge earlier Miss Williamss seminaked body was discovered Saturday morning in parking lot in Los Angeless Wilshire district The body at invearold Paula Gwen Ward had been 1131 your No 302 TMV December 27 1917 found hours earlier few miles away in Pasa dena near the Rose Bowl Police Lieut Dan Cooke said the two slain women had been seen together Friday and that whoever killed one probably killed the other However because Miss Wards body was found in another jurisdiction Cooke said Los dAngeles police cannot book anyone for her eath MAY BE JUST COPY Based on the evidence of the way the mur ders were committed its altogether possible 15° For Copy Carrier Home that whoever did it tried to make similar hype of killing to the Hillside Strangler mur ers Cooke said Copycat killings are not too unusual when there is this type of pub licity in the case But Pasadena police were not convinced Monday night that the death of Miss Ward was copy of the work of the Hillside Strangler We havent been able to prove it one way or the other Pasadena Sgt Ben Hethering ton said Were keeping an open mind on it Los Angeles police said they arrested Davis ollvory 90° Weekly 54 Page and Devezin after an employee of the Cloud Motel in the Wilshire area took down the car licence number of man he saw car ing woman out of room wrapped in bla et Police said they traced the car staked it out and arrested Davis Sunday night when he got into it Devezin was arrested Monday morning in an apartment Police said Debra Husband who identified herself as friend of Miss Ward told them Miss Ward had planned to meet man at the Cloud Motel Friday night and asked that police be called if she was not heard from within an hour the examner serving barrie and simcoe county Palestinian Arab question By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Egy tian President Anwar Sadat was quot today as saying Israel under the leadership of Prime Minister Menahem Begin has not yet made the tough decisions or concessions needed to bring about Middle East peace The two leaders held Christmas Day meeting in Ismailia Egypt and came away still divided over the future of Palestinian Arabs living on the Israelioccupied West Bank of the Jordan River and Gaza Strip No Israel has not yet taken the difficult decision Sadat was quoted by Egyptian newspapers as saying Begin may of the view that he has made concessions but see that he has not Begin proposed selfnile for the 11 million Palestinian Arabs living on the West Bank and Gaza Strip with continued Israeli keeps Sadat and egin art WW MMIInMyI Insrde lool 35 12 mumlnrnont 090m 91011 comlca 17 duolflod 1516 upplonnnts Scorn pogo Woolworth 12W KMn pogo Can bend fingers TOKYO AP Harriet Rosenberg 3+ yearold mother of two who has been in coma for almost year shows small first signs she may regain consciousness through new bloodcirculating therapy started last week her husband said today Doctors told me there have been small improvements Ted Rosenberg 38 of East Monroe said in telephone interview First her finger muscles softened Now you can baid her fingers which we couldnt do Doctors also told him his wife now blinks her left and riyit eyelids to an equal degree and that she can swallow saliva althoayi unconsciotsly Rosenberg said She could doneither before thethera yhesaid Doctors said the hoodcirculating therapy is stepbystep procedure especially to patient or her age Rosenberg said Teenagers killed BLIND RIVER Ont iCPi Four Sault Ste Marie teenagers were killed Friday when the car in which they were riding col lided with pickup truck 32 kilometres east Blind River Police said Darryl Scott Cowley 19 Allan George Inksta 15 Marcel Syrette 14 and Warren Visconti 13 were pruwunc ed dead on the scene The driver of the truck and passenger were admitted to hospital for observation but were discharged Calls were delayed TORONTO tCPI Bell Canada say over seas telephone calls from Ontario were delayed between two and six hours during the Christmas weekend because of heavy demand from penalis calling friends and relatives Mel James Bell Canadas information director for Ontario said Sunday the longest delaysfrom three to six hairs occurred with calls to Britain Delays in placing calls to Italy and Ger many vaned from two to four hours James said Bell had full team of 1230 tors working ova the holiday to ban the extra calls military presence Sadat held out for creation of an independent Palestinian state and com plete Israeli withdrawal In Jerusalem the Israeli prime minister briefed his cabth on the Ismailia summit and met with US Ambassador Samuel Lewis to report on the talks and current status of the peacemaking effort The semiofficial Egyptian newspaper Al Ahram reported that the talks did produce agreement on Israeli withdrawal from the oc cupied Sinai Peninsula Israeli troops still control more than in per cent of the 52 squarekilometre 200xrsquaremilei Egyp tian desert peninsula The newspaper said Israel wanted to an nounce the EgyptianIsraeli accord publicly but Sadat refused saying the talks were aimed not at reaching private agreement but comprehensive settlement In Moscow the Soviet Communist party newspaper Pravda called the SadatBegin talks failure and said the only way to achieve an overall Middle East settlement is for all parties and their allies to operate The newspaper claimed the Israeli prime minister presented warmedover peace pro posals All gestures by Cairo were viewed in Tel Aviv as sign of weakness and readiness to make considerable concessions Are you richer by million TORONTO ltCP1 Three tickets each were th 31 million were drawn Monday in the Pro vincial lottery draw The winning numbers were 2598521 5036781 and 3104572 No tickets each worth 8100000 were also drawn The winning tickets were 2067119 and 4357466 There was more than $6 million in prize money for total of about 24000 prizes Fifty bonus tickets each worth 820000 were also drawn The winning bonus numbers were 603856 5508814 4339171 1815611 3033306 3187737 mm 2465489 1611783 4505680 4134118 £33274 1817676 $62389 5058821 5619949 4814785 QUICBS 3271459 6131149 5225714 $13899 19257 1919150 4324330 5333412 Illa177 WHY 1468384 6132240 2152827 1253734 462188 1612355 5709874 2340491 6301616 48630445 1346071 4115900 1639960 5868279 4801725 5995379 3090115 6374217 issue273 and 1443272 Mal Charles Chaplin worldfamous comedian and filmmaker died Sunday at his home in Cortier Switzerland AP Laserpbotoi Chaplin buried CORSIERSLRVEVEY Switzerland rReutai Charlie Chaplin the bowler hatted screen tramp who brought laughter to millions was buried today in cemetery overlooking Lake Geneva and the Alps Only his widow Oona his children and other membas of the family and hmsehold attended the private graveside ceremony Rainfallandmistshrmdedmelakeand 51mm pats during the burial of the Britishborn comedian who died early on Christmasmorningatthea eof88 About 30 mourners ed under um brellas as two British clergyman read prayers Nonfamily mlookers mainly reporters and pintographers were kept behind metal barriers around the burral plot silver hearse carried the body of Sir Charles Olaplin on his last yourney the 13 kilometre tmemilev drive from the is room mansion where he died Israels Prime Minister Menahem Begin left and Egypts President Anwar Sadat shake hands as they leave the press conference in lsmailia Egypt Monday after their talks Both indicated their hopes were high AP Laserphoto Christmas Day fire destroys mobile home Donations are being taken for an Essa Township family of five who lost everything they owned in fire Christmas Day Mike and Lynn Pellctier and their three children were in Montreal Sunday spending Christmas with relatives when the fire broke out in their mobile home at 10 15 pm Damage is estimated at 830000 in the fire fought by three Essa firetrucks and volunteer firemen one in Santa Claus suit Firefighters were recalled to the scene at 20 am Monday when high winds fanned the fire into action again Pierre Pigeon neighbor of the family deadline Worthwhile present IAIRFIELD Conn tAP The Christ mas present Billy Bulakites gave his paren 35 Sunday may have saved their lives Mon av Bulakites volunteer firefighter in near by Weston gave Mr and Mrs Eugene Bulakites smoke detector for Christmas The device still under the Christmas tree with all the familys other presents went off while the Bulakites two of their children and houseguest were upstairs sleeping The five were awakened by the alarm and fled the house safely It the smoke detector was on the box it came in said Famreld Fire Chief David Russell The fire apparently broke out in the cellar and flames were shooting out windows and up the walls of the first floor kitchen of the Bulakites Cape Codstyle home when firefighters arrived Russell said He estimated smoke and fire damage at $3101 to $251110 9000 claims filed NEW YORK More than 901 claims totalling 30 million have been filed against the city in the aftermath of last summers blackout Comptroller Harnson Goldin said Monday Goldin has ackmwledged the claims most of which result from looting and fires However he is not expected to act on them until the Citys corporation counsel issues an opinion on the Citys liabilityah opinion expected to say that the City is not liable Largest among the claim is one for $2 million filed by the Dominion Insurance Co Ltd British corporation in behalf of number of its insured The insurancx company said the City failed to provide adequate police or fire protection and said the my directed its security forces to desist from protection of its ClllZéfLE property The sur also Cites the Citys deciszon not to seek help from the national guard or state police to stop the looting says donations from pencils to garbage bags will be accepted as the family had nothingleft The children are Michael who takes size four to five JoAnne takes size seven and Julie 10 takes $128 10 Mrs Pelletier wears srze 1416 clothes while her husband wears large size clothing Donations will be taken at number four site in Shamrock Place off the fourth line of Essa or by phoning 4241970 Pigeon says the response so far has been good Dies in hospital Former Peruvian President Juan elascu Alvarado above died Saturday in the military hospital where he had been con fined for the past 11 days hospital Spokesman raid Vellum was 67 The hospital did not immediately give the cause of death AP Laserphoto Extortion ring ST ATHAItINPLS Int 5P Charges have been laid in connection with an ex tonion ring operating in the Chinese mm munitics of St atharines and Toronto police said Saturday At least three persons were in the Niagara Regional Detention Centre as result of ex tortion charge laid in the last two weeks said police and warrant were issued for the arrest of other persons on charges of ex tortion and obstructing justice weather Cloudy and continurng cold clearing later today Increasing cloudiness nedreaday and not qurte so cold High JAay Low 12 High wriesday near vrw