flwaoi ltm ghonvwn Jt4 wayswanqu EXAMINER TELEPHONES Circulation 7266539 Classified Advertising 7282414 All Other Departments 7266537 113th YearNo Candidate charged under Act By JOHN BRUCE Examiner Staff Reporter WASAGA BEACH Charges have been laid under the Municipal Elections Act against an unsuccessful candidate for Wasaga Beach town council Gunther Schweiger will appear in Elmvale court Feb 18 to answer charge that he allegedly tampered with election materials Dec Cpl Del Craike of the Wasaga Beach detachment of the On tario Provincial Police said this morning Mr Schweiger has been charged under section of the elections act which states that it is illegal for anyone other than an election official to open ballot box or tamper with ballots used in the election The investigation Cpl Craike said was initiated at the request of the crown attorney He said the charge was laid Dec 31 Mr Schweiger said Wednesday night he hasnt got the fain test idea of who initiated the action or what incident the charge stems from When he received his summons Tuesday afternoon Mr Sch weiger said he asked the officer who had laid the charges He said the officer told him it was the Province of Ontario through the Crown attorney Mr Schweiger said he thinks the charge stems from an in cident election day when he was escorted from poll by police after an argument with the deputy returning officer over seating arrangements for his scrutineers during the ballot count The deputy returning officer involved in that dispute was Wasaga Beach deputyclerk Dennis Wilson Mr Wilson said Wednesday night he does not know if the town has anything to do With the charge laid against Mr Schweiger Mr Schweiger said the lawyer representing the town at judiClal recount of votes in the mayoralty and deputyreeve contests asked the presiding judge to bar Mr Schweiger from the room during the recount but was turned down lown clerk Hon Haynor said this morning the only town in volvement With the charge against Mr Schweiger to his knowledge was the incident at the poll Dec if you call carrying out ones duties under the election act getting things started then guess we did he said However he said town offic1als did not pursue the matter after election day Cable backs down on December bill The tangled story of Barrie Cable TV Ltd rate increases got little more tangled Wednesday night Bob Alexander systems manager said Wednesday night subscribers who paid an extra 75cent charge for service in December Will get the 75 cents back He couldnt say how the money Will be returned whether by cash rebate or by credit on future bills The rate increase saga started in November when Barrie Cable TV said it was charging the extra 75 cents starting Dec to cover the cost of microwavelaCilities But the Canadian Radio televiSion Telecommunications Commission ltLH1Ct had not approved the rate increase The CBTL told Barrie Table it could not charge the extra 75 cents until the rate increase was approved On Dec 20 the rate increase was approved Barrie Cables stand was that the approval Dec 20 was effec tive Dec and the company told subscribers they would have to pay 56 not $525 for serVice in December But the tHlt said this morn ing in Ottawa that its deciSions are effective the day they are announced That means Barrie table could not charge 75 cents The company could though charge 25 cents for the period Dec 20 to Dec 31 Mr Alexander said Barrie Cables parent company lWC Communications Ltd Mis sissauga deCided Wednesday night not to charge subscribers the 75 cents Mr Alexander said the cable company is also complying with CHTC orders to carry more Canadian teleViSion chan nels Effective midnight Sunday he said number of channel changes Will be made The changes are CiCA Toronto channel 19 on cable channel CKVH Barrie channel on cable channel WBEN Buffalo channel on cable channel CBLT Toronto channel on cable channel CllY Toronto channel 70 on cable channel Local community chan ne18 on cable channel CliO Toronto channel on cable channel WKBW Buffalo channel on cable channel 10 CHCH Hamilton channel 11 on cable channel 11 CBLPi Toronto channel 25 on cable channel 12 and Global Toronto channel 22 on cable channel 13 Mr Alexander said subscribers can buy converters to get two more channels CHEX Peterborough channel 12 on 21 and WGBTV Buffalo Channel on 22 Student compensated for his injuries TORONTO itP Dean Na don 18 seriously injured in shooting at Brampton tenten nial high school May 29 1975 has been awarded 5958950 for pain and suffering by the Criminal InjlilltS tom pensation Boa rd Mr Nadon shot in the back was one of 13 students injured in the shooting Michael Slobo than of Brampton killed him self after killing fellow stu dent and teacher as well as iii Juringfheiii The board also announced Wednesday that two lroqums Pails women received com pensation from the board tor in Juries suffered when hit by sniper bullet June 1975 Muriel Watson was awarded $1618 while Janet turley was awarded $1128 As result of the shootings Melvin LePage was charged and convicted on numerous charges of attempted murder and sentenced to training school Kenneth Otonnor oi Capr eol Ont was given an award oi $2990 as result of knife woun ds he suffered in an argument during party in May 1975 Dianne Marie Skinner Widow of Reginald John Skinner of Sault Ste Marie was awarded $245 in connection With her husbands death during hunt ing trip in October 1975 man charged with criminal negli gence causing death and care less hunting in connection With Mr Skinners death was ac quilted in provinCial court weather Doug Lakin above and Lynn Sinclair right were studies in concentration as they worked Wednesday after noon at Codrington Street school on an art proyect The The Barrie Examiner Barrie Ontario Canada Thursday January 1977 Grade students were asked to make snowmen using scissors paste pencils and colored paper See pictures Page3t Examiner Photos Metro home heating costs go higher TORONTO LPt The cost of heating Toronto home dur ing the last three months of 1976 has increased by 50 to 75 per cent from the Similar 1975 period Spokesmen for natural gas fuel Oil and electric power com panies said fuel price increases and cold weather caused the iii crease Honald Loughced Vicepresi dent for gas supply of ton sumers Gas Co oi Toronto said four price increases since October 1975 raised the cost of natural gas for residential con sumers to $245 from $170 per thousand cubic feet About 30 per cent more gas was requ1red to heat homes during 1976 because of cold Mr Lougheed esti mated meaning total cost in crease ot slightly more than 75 per cent spokesman for imperial Oil Ltd said the price of fuel Oil has increased to 469 cents gallon from 366 cents in Octo ber 1975 The cost increase for Summons for Anne ALPHEfON England IAPt Princess Anne has been scr ved With summons charging that she exceeded Britains 70 milesanhour speed limit on an expressway in Derbyshire in November police said today She was said to have been doing 90 The summons is returnable at Altrcton magistrates court Jan 21 which means that unless the princess asks for remand tier case will be heard then it the princess decides to plead not gunty to the speeding charge she would be expected to appear in person before the magistrates if she pleads gutlly there would be no need for her to appear personally and solicitor could represent her Anne has been stopped tWice before by police and warned for speeding The fact that on nei ther occasion was any charge made led to some public criti eism Maxmium penalty for speed ing is fiiieof 5170 The magistrates could dis quality the princess from driv ing for stated period and would also be compelled to en dorse her driving licence $9M system too complicated government has it replaced TORONTO ttPt The On tario government spent $9 mil lion on computer anaIySis sys tem for community colleges then replaced it when college administrators found the sys tem too complicated an offimal of the ministry of colleges and universities said Wednesday The computer has been re placed by less complicated system said Philip Adams as sistant deputy minister The computer cost the gov ernment an average of $2 mil lion QJl when it was being developed from 1971 to 1975 The new system costs 5375000 annually Operating as central infor mation bank for the provinces 22 community colleges the old system was deSIgned to satisfy their planning needs Mr Adams and Howat Noble executive coordinator of spe c1al protects in the ministry said the system did not work out for two reasons The colleges did not supply the computer With the amount of information if requ1red and the computer provided more information than colleges wanted it would give them 50 re ports when they only wanted one or two Mr Noble said Mr Adams said the computer laid the basts for badlyneeded system of planning and co ordination for community coheges He said the public should keep in mind that the ministry was exploring new waters when it tried out the system and sm ce then the ministry has im the larg proved its act Oil heating taking cold weather into account was about 565 per cent be estimated An Ontario Hydro spokesman said that about the same in crease occurred in electric heating bills due to 214per cent increase in the cost of power and the unusually cold weather since September Natural gas heating bills for an average home during the three months averaged about $163 fuel on bills about $188 and electric heating bills about $168 thespokcsmcn said The spokesmen for Con sumers Gas and imperial Oil said gas or ml bills can be trim med by 30 per cent il homes are insulated to meet standards required for electric heating CONCENTRATION AT SCHOOL PROJECT Knows of errors in OHIP list TORONTO tCPi Bud Ger ma chairman of the Ontario legislatures public accounts committee says he knows oi errors in list of 812 doctors who each billed the provinces health insurance plan for more than $100000 in the 197475 fiscal year Mr Germa NDP member for Sudbury said Wednesday he has noticed such things as in correct addresses on the list and thinks other committee members Will also find dis crepancies The committee was granted the right to examine the list for posSible overbillings last mon th lollowmg legal battle With the Ontario Medical Association which opposed the release oi names by the Ontario Health insurance Plan tOlllPt The names which the come mittec had voted to keep con tidential were leaked to the news media by Ed Ziemba NDP member for the Toronto riding of High ParkSwansea and published in Toronto news papers CAPSULE NE WS die in plane drama SYDNEY Australia riteutert young Briton sang hymns over the radio oi stolen plane before ramming it with throttles Wide open into hangar at Alice Springs central Australia kill ing himself and three airline workers in the building reliable sources said today Baseball player killed BAlON HOLGE La tAPt bike Miley 23 an infielder for California Angels was killed early today in tralfic accident Captive family released LONDON Renter Ethiopian guerrillas have released unharmed British family of four held captive since last May in remote mountain province the foreign ollice announced to day Apower station for Cuba MOSCOW Heutert Comecon the East European trading group has announced plans to butld an atomicpower station in uba lass news agency said today Five burned alive PlEllJltSBLltU South Africa lieuterI ï¬ve more Africans have been burned alive in Witchcraft killings in villages near here since Tuesday police said today Probe of scandal sought TEL Al AP Demands for full investigation of the latest scandal to hit lsraels governing Labor party continued today despite Prime Minister Yitzhak itabins statement that his housing minister who committed suicide was ialscly accus ed ol emtxizzlemcnt Three hanged publicly DAMAStLS Renter Syria today publicly hanged three men convicted oi bombings in Damascus and Aleppo which kill ed an undetermined number of people last year Pravda assesses Canada MOSCOW tAP The propaganda mist is clearing in Canada and it is becoming evident that the rich are getting richer and the poor still poorer Pravda said today in New Year assessment Tanker search hopes dim BOSTON tAPt Searchers looked for debris and other Signs of shipwreck today as hopes dimmed that missmg Panama nian tanker carrying 3man crew and eight million gallons of 011 was still afloat Rapped on speculation PEKING tHeuteri An offic1al Chinese spokesman said to day that foreign press speculation about unrest in thinas pro vinces is totally groundless in recent weeks Chinese provin cial radio stations and newspapers have accused purged radical leaders of melting factionalism and Violence as part oi plot to grab power Mr Germa said one dis crcpancy was doctor who listed his billing address as Onaping liospital Onapiiig town about 25 miles north of Sudbury which does not have hospital The MP1 said he has no ev1 fence of wrongdomg in the case but wants the apparent error explained byOHlP Provmc1a Auditor Norman Scott who has Just begun his slutty of the billings said Wed nesday he Will ask for ex planations from OHlP oftiCIals if he discovers anything that seems suspicmus in the names addresses and types of prac tice Although the public accounts committee Will meet this mon th Mr Scott Will not have report on his investigation com pleted until February Other committee members interviewed Wednesday said they had not studied the list yet or were waiting for Mr Scott to complete his investigation Timmins strike ends llMMlNS Ont CPI Striking public works and recreation employees voted Wafnesday to return to work and accept the citys final offer ending 45vday contract dispute Members of Local 210 of the anadiaii Union of Public Ein ployccs ItiJPEt voted 80 to 69 in favor of accepting what City council had called its final con tract proposal lhrec ballots were spoiled Orval lurcottc CUPE na tional representative said seven of eight members on the employees negotiating team resigned alter the vote The ill Will and antagonism created by the Timmins muniCipal management in the way it forced an end to the current dispute Will be felt for years he said in statement hairless What happened to the January sales section The Tantra Examiner 15 Per Copy Carrier Home Delivery 85 Weekly Barrie ca WEATHER FORECAST 14 Pages this robbed Two men who took Barrie United Taxi cab at knifepoint late Wednesday night are the object of an areawide search today Orillia OPP are issuing com posite drawings of the two who threw cabdriver Bruce Barr 38 out of his car on County Road 11 in Cm after taking all but 87 of his money The car was later found aban doned two miles north of Orillia stuck in the snow on reforestation property road Mr Barr of Base Borden picked up the two at 815 pm at the Barrie bus station on Maple Avenue according to Barrie OPP The cab headed for 0m and Barr was suddenly stopped at knifepoint at 845 pm along county road 11 The two took 333 and left Mr Barr there with $7 The pair headed north toward rillia on County Road 11 Barrie OPP et Sgt Cain said the two are believed to be about 18 years old five footseven inches tall and bet ween 120 and 110Ibs One was last seen wearing blue jeans and brown coat while the other is said to have an lrisli or Scottish accent GM plans layoffs WINDSOR Ont CP Gen eral Motors of Canada Ltd an nounced Wednesday it Will lay oil workers at its trim plant here for four weeks beginning Januarylo Nick Hall company spokes man said 400 altemoon shift workers Will be laid off for two weeks and then Will return to work days while 400 day shift workers are off for two weeks Alix Sinkewtch preSident of Local 1973 United Auto Workers UAW said all affected em ployees have suffiCient seniority to be eligible for unemployment insurance benefits and supplementary benefits Substitute for coffee VANCOUVER CP Uni versny of British Columbia pro fessor says he has produced an inexpenSive synthetic beverage that looks tastes and smells like coffee However Dr Philip Town siey says research on the prOJQCl has stopped because the federal government turned down request for finanCial support Dr Townsley an industrial fermentation speCIalist in the univerSitys food seience department produced the syn thetic coffee four years ago but says about $80000 is needed to complete and perfect the technique Purim 2mm THIS is composite draw ing of one of two men being sought by Orillia OPP in con nection With the theft of Barrie TaXicab Wednesday night The man in the picture speaks With an irish or Scots accent say OPP Loto estimates pie in the sky QUEBEC CP Finance Minister Jacques Parizeau has described as pie in the sky estimates of $300 million to $350 million in revenues from Loto Canada to help pay off the $1 billion Olympic def iCit He was commenting Wednes day on release of revenue fig ures for the first of the 13 Loto Canada draws which might re sult in revenues of not more than $185 million for the Olym pics by the time the lottery ends in 1979 Lottery olfiCIals in Ottawa say it is still possmle that an average of 75 million $10 tick ets Will be sold in future draws and describe the first draw as phenomenal success de spite the tact that 15 million tickets remained unsold Proceeds from the Dec draw to the Olympic in stallations board Quebec agency totalled $1422 million Former Quebec finance min ister Raymond Garneau an nounced in his spring budget that he expected revenues of $350 million from the federal lotteryan extensmn of the successful Olympic lottery Jean Chretien federal treas ury board pre51dent said at the time that $300 million was more realistic figure RlVAl EMERGES if revenues do not increase in future draws the total revenue from the 13 drawsto be held four times yearWill total $18485 million short of both es timates More than SlX million Loto Canada tickets were sold for the first draw and the corpo ration is hoping to sell seven million tickets for the second draw in Regina March 13 The Prov1nc1al lottery 10ml venture of the Ontario and Western Canada lotteries is the main competition for Late Canada Like LotoCanada it offers $1million prizes but PrOVinCial tickets sell for $5 each About 43 per cent of revenues from both the Prov1nc1al and LotoCanada lotteries are re turned in the form of prizes while about 40 per cent goes to profits if all tickets are sold However it is in the dis tribution of profits that the two lotteries are very different Liberating of phone books good idea council head TOBONTO tCPt Lynne Gordon head of the Ontario Status of Women Councn says liberating phone books by list ing Wives along With their hus bands would be good idea But Bell Canada spokesman said Tuesday the move might cost Bell up 10515 million in On tario alone The New York Telephone Co bowmg to pressure from womens groups said recently it Will list husbands and Wives together in the next phone book at an extra processmg charge of 25 cents month The company had charged Wives or anyone else who wan ted second listing in the books $1 month but women argued that this was dis criminatory The Bell spokesman said Wives or other family mem bers are charged 50 cents month for separate listings in Ontario TO REMOVE RADIATION But it the idea catches on it could mean publishing two edi tons of the book in Metropolitan lorontikone for names from to and the other for to The New York plan calls for listing the two names on one line Whenever possmle such as Jones Bob and Mary orJones Mary and Bob it does not mat ter which way The Bell spokesman said there would be problem With long namcsfitting on oneiine separate listingforthe Wife and husband would be even worse he said Just think of the extra paper wed have to use And you cant get the Toronto book much bigger Without gomg to two volumes BeSides we think women should use only their initials in the phone books he said Us ing their names Just attracts cranks and obscene calls Censorship on news NlCOSlA AP Censorship was imposed as of Wednesday on news dispatches sent out of Lebanon by foreign reporters Censorship of publications in Side Lebanon began Monday Outgomg dispatches cleared by the censors Wednesday and today indicated that only re ports from the Lebanese Chris tians and the Syrians would be allowed to be sent abroad These dispatches contained no information from the Palestin ians or the leftist Lebanese Moslems The maXimum punishment for Violation of censorship regu lations is five years imprison ment Village to get watertreatmen plant TOBONTO CP The On tario env1ronment ministry is to begin work immediately on the installation of 350000 watertreatment plant in the Village of Serpent River about 100 miles east of Sault Ste Marie it was announced Wed nesday The ministry said in state ment the plant Will reduce the amount of radiation in Village drinking water to the provinCIal standard of three picocuries perlitre Now the water is con taminated With radium 226 at level of about SIX picocuries per litre above the provinCial stan dard but Within the federal standard of 10 picocuries per litre The ministry also said EnVi ronment Minister George Kerr Housing Minister John Rhodes and John Lane Progresswe Conservative member of the legislature for Algoma Manitouiin are to Visa th rea today With ministry offim The statement said ministry staff have been working for the last year on the best method of removmg radiation from the water something which cannot be handled by conventional methods Because the federal and pro thClal standards are different the ministry also said it Will re View its radiation standards in cooperation With health minis try and federal government of heiais With View to possmly setting new limits Mr Kerr said in the state ment that responSible medical authorities indicate there is no immediate hazard to the health of reSidents drinking the con taminated water However he was concerned about the long term effects of its consumption The minister also said that because of the two standards used to measure radium con tamination his ministry is con ferring With federal health offi Cials to see Whethe new cri term are required