Barrie Examiner, 7 Mar 1977, p. 1

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rushing water an air EXAMINER TELEPHONES Clttulntioii Classified Advei tismg All Other Depov tiiieiits 113th year No55 Few survivors Adley rugged miner who scrambled into packet deep inside the flooded mine dug the final part of his own escape tunnel on Sunday and walked unaided to freedom He rested in good health at nearby hospital Five miners remain unaccounted for and four are known dead Want to get the hell out of here Adley told rescuers on Sunday as he refused stret cher and walked about 1000 feet to waiting coal car that took him the remaining 4000 feet to the surface freed 726 6539 728724l4 726 6537 The bodies of Ralph Renninger 40 and Donald Shoffler 41 were discovered further down the upward slanting shaft where Adley had been trapped since midday Tuesday Their bodies were removed after Adley was in Bucharest say rescuers BLCHAREST Ali Res cuers searching crumbled ruins created by an earthquake are finding few survivors but the death toll is rising especially in the Romanian capital wiiere apartment houses collapsed Western diplomats estimated as many as 4000 persons may have perished in Bucharest Romanian people are not panicking TORONTO LPi The holocaust which hit Romania last Friday lid lot of damage but the Romanians are not pair icking and are exceedingly well behaved anadian Am bassador Jean lhibeault said in an interview from Bucharest on Sunday All IT Canadians in Pltll arest including 11 anadian Embassy staff are in good health and staying in the ania bassadors residence Thibeault said in the interview conducted from Toronto after LOlllllltt nications witii Romania were restored But we have flown the ana dian women and children out of Bucharest lhibeault said All other embassy per sonnel will remain Ihibeault said he and his wife had narrow escapc Friday when the earthquake struck They were dining with other ambassadors in residence and we managed to get out just in time OPP Corporal dies curling at Penetang Victim of heart attack while curling at Pcne tanguishcnc Cpl Deverdc Roy tSmokeyi Smith 60 of the Bar rie detachment of the OPP died suddenly on Saturday The onetime wellknown baseball pitcher who pitched for championship Barrie and Collingwood teams back in the midlt30s as well as stint in pro ball was playing in the Simcoe County curling bonspiel when he suffered his fatal seizure He was taken to Pcnctang General Hospital and was pronounced dead on arrival member of the Ontario Pro vincial Police for 28 years he moved to Barrie from Cochrane in Northern Ontario three years ago Previously he served with different detachments In his youth he acquired the nickname of Smokey because of his exceptional spccdball pit ching In 1935 he hurled oll ingwood to the intermediate BA championship and his vic tories included several close hurling duels with Penetangs Phil Marchildon who later join ed Philadelphia Athletics of the Americanleague Smith himself was signed by the Cleveland organization and pitched ball for swego and Rome farm clubs Before going to ollingwood he pitched season with Bar ries Georgian Bay league win ners He was born near Tweed nt Besides his widow Zella Ken nedy of ollingwood he is sur vived by three daughters Mrs James Virginiai Roodc of Willowdalc Mrs Wade tBev erleyi Johnson of Kingsville and Mrs Gene Diane Miller of Ottawa and two grandsons Jeffrey and Stephen Roodc Funeral service will be held from Trinity United fhurch Iollingwood on Tuesday after noon at Romanian officials said 58o per sons have been confirmed dead including Boo in Bucharest At least so people were killed aiid many injured in Bulgaria the Yugoslav news agency Tan jug quoted Bulgarian govern ment report as saying The re port said the late of another 73 people is unknown inc person was killed and more than loo were injured in Yugoslavia The quake which registered on the Richter scale was felt from Moscow to Rome Rescuers sifting roundthe clock through the mounds of rubble found four persons alive Sunday in the ruins of build ing near the ominunist party headquarters in Bucharest Radio Bucharest said rescue teams could also hear cries for help from subway construc tion site Hospitals throughout the city of million were jammed The official news agency and radio reported more than 0500 persons treated in Buciiarest hospitals and said mo were taken to hospital anadiaii mbassador Jean lliibeault said all IT anadians in Bucharest including 11 anadian lIiiibassy staff are in good health and living tem porarily in the ambassadors residence liiibeault spoke in long distance interview with The anadiaii lress conducted from Toronto Sunday after cominunications with Romania were restored But we have flown the ana diaii women and children out of tucharest lliibcaiilt said All other embassy personnel will remain lii lashington spokesman for the lS ltlftlfitlitllSilSlOI as sistance office said the Roma nian governiiirnt has asked for tS help and the tS govern ment will send medical assist ance He said the amount has not been decided Britain promised to send 31H ooo worth of drugs and medical supplies startingliiesday Most of the damage in Biicii artst 131 miles south of tlie quakcs epicentre screwed to be in Lloblock area near the heart of the city Jaws of life arrive in Barrie Members of Simcoc ouiitys Rescue Squad spent Satur day cxperiinciiting with Ilurst hydraulic jaws of life rescue tool delivered Saturday morning The nia chiiie is the first of its kind the squad has and costs $8000 It can take the top off car in eight minutes Here it deiiioiistrates ability to lift steering wheel away from driver Examiner Photo Adley told us the other men were there said one mining official Renninger and Shoffler worked in the same crew with Adley He saw them go down when the water broke Rescuers searched unsuccessfully for sign of life from the five remaining men en tombed inside the Kocher Co coal mine them alive were very slim said Jack utack regional manager for the federal Mining Enforcement and Safety Administration But we have not Chances of findin given up hope causin Ten men were trapped beneath 40tHoot Big Lick Mountain when water crashed through shaft ceiling battering support timbers and roof falls Two odies were recovered earlier Adley 37yearold father of two escaped to the top of 93footlong pushed debris 68 feet up the slant Adley told us he saw the water and started running said the mining official Then he had to swim He turned and yelled to the chute Water others Get up the side Hurry They tried to outrun it They didnt make it The Barrie Examiner Barrie Ontario Canada Monday March 71977 Troy and Mandy Stinson ten tatively touch the head of bear rug Saturday one of the Learning about Eskimo life features of lIskiino life on display in the childrens sec tion of the Barrie Public Library hildren looked at Skill art amt tested Cs can see light down there Adley told rescuers as they chipped through seam of hard coal and quartz to reach him ght belonged to Ren ninger It had been ripped from his body but was still glowing when rescue teams bored The batterypowered li through the chamber It took rescuers 108 hours to finish Adleys tunnel Shutack said minerals in the last seven feet of the tunnel were harder than the edges of hell More than 122 hours after he entered the shoulder width escape ssssmMiner waited five days knowing friends dead TOWER CITY Pa AP Ronald Adley waited five days for rescuers to save him from flooded coal mine knowing all the while that two of his friends lay dead in the same underground chamber He had seen them swallowed by torrent of 50foot He sat up emotional mine Adley covered with grimy coal dust Ultra Titanic Examiner 15 Per Copy Carrier Home Delivery 85 Weekly kiiiio food during the after noon Examiner lhotol Carter starts to look abroad Mid East peace first goa WASHINGTON AP llav ing found people in the United States worried about taxes and health care President arter is turning to foreign affairs lsraeli Prime Minister Yit zhak Rabin arrived in Washing ton on Sunday and was due at the White House today for dis cussions with the president arter also plans talks in the coming weeks with Arab lead crs iii renewed effort to en courage all parties in the Mid dle East to reach peaceful set tleiiient of their differences Rabin struck conciliatory iioteoii his arrival lsrael he said will do its utmost to help advance the cause of peace whatever the endeavor what ever meaningful fiaiiiework for negotiations arter was ex pected to piisli for an early leiieva peace conference arter spent Sunday attend mg communion service at the First Baptist liurcli dedicating hildrens Hospital National Medical entre and outlining 25pcr cent increase he is proposing in the govern nieiils payment of the cost of identifying children who need Iiealthcare lillNilIl REVISED llic healthcare proposal which the president described at the dedication as response to deteriorating preventive lltitllllrtillt standards was part of the revisions in the fiscal 1978 budget he sent to ongress last month in those revisions be pro posed improving Medicaid by establishing new program to screen all children from lowin Parti Quebecois psychiatrist gets his turn with language act QUEBEC UP Liberal psychiatrist prescribed Bill 22 as cure for language woes in N74 but larti Quebecois psy chiatrist will suggest new therapy sometime during the legislature session which begins luesday faniille Laurin psychiatrist and cultural development minister hasnt breathed word in public about the con tents of the bit he will table to replace Quebecs controversial Official Language Act Bill 22 The act piloted through the national assembly by former education minister Francois Clouticr also psychiatrist has been source of bitter do hate and public discontent from the outset especially in Mon treal schools Recent leaks to the news media indicate that the most stunning change planned is constitutional manoeuvre that will neutralize section 12 of the Britiin North America Act which provides for bilingualism in the legislature and in the courts under Quebecs control The procedure involves using another part of the RNA Act section 92 which authorizes provinces to amend their con stitutions except as regards the office of lieutenantgover nor In the touchy area of educa tion news leaks again indicate that all immigrants will be di rected to Frenchlanguage schools Only children whose father or mother attended Eng lish language primary school in Tanada will be allowed to re ceive Englishlanguage educalt tion MAKE EXCEPTION An exception would be made for children who already have brothers or sisters cnrolcd in Englishlanguage schools This would fulfil Parti QueL becois promises to eliminate the dos ised tests ad ininisterei under the present Do Rabm guess You want more boardsl law come families for medical problems and when necessary to provide followup treat ment The revision proposed $4th million in new money for child health under the Medicaid program The number of eligible cliil drcii would be incresed from about 12 million to about 14 mil lion arters budget revision said Now in the sixth week of his presidency he tried an extraor diiiary means on Saturday to reach out to the American people and discover what they are thinking For two hours arter fielded telephone calls and answered questions on program broadcast by CBS Ra dio din stepped into the sunlight His wife Anna Mae joined him in the back of an ambulance that whisked him to Pottsvilie Hospital They were little emotional for while said ambulance attendant Robert Zerbe and they another and kissing Zerbe said couldnt take his blood pressure because he was too Adley was in good condition in the in tensivecare unit His two children visited him Sunday night were hugging one Marc Lalonde Spiro Agnew TORONTO CP Premier William Davis Sunday issued sharp rebuke to federal Health Minister Marc Lalonde saying the minister was far off base when he criticized Ontarios ef forts in the field of bilingual ism Lalonde made the comments in speech to conference or ganized by the Canadian In stitute accusing the provinces especially Ontario of dragging their feet in their commitment to bilingualism The premier attacked Lalon de for what he called tragically shortsighted intent by man who is rapidlv assuming the Sprio Agnew role at time when that sort of hat chet work can serve only the ex tremists on both sides of the tender language question Davis called the ministers remarks an unwarranted ill advised and unwelcomed in trusion into the affairs of the province The rights enjoyed by all citizens of Ontario within pro vincial jurisdiction are mat ter of principle Davis said Davis said there are 400 Fren ch secondary and elementary schools in the province and 11 postsecondary facilities He British police in Oll strike by Arab guerrillas in the towns central square crowding TORONTO CP two day conference on the future of Confederation ended Saturday with calls for renewed efforts by English speaking Canadians to build federalist majority among Canadas five million fran cophones Duff Roblin former premier of Manitoba said national unity may be preserved with renegotiath constitution to accommodate Quebecs specific demands and with countrywide effort to rcknit emotional bonds with Quebeceis Ian Macdonald president of York University in Toron to said the Ontario govern ment should organize con forence on national unity which would bring together is French and English Cana dians from all walks of life to reopen lines of com munication withdrawing its sponsorship championship at the end of the company will also end Curling Association said he sion but thanked Stewart be explored to ensure that championship will continue ture CAPSULE NE WS LONDON Reuter Representatives of Britains police forces in militant mood because of government rejection of their demands for higher pay had talks today with Prime Minister James Callaghan Callaghan made no new pay of fer and the chairman of the police federation James Jar dine left the meeting saying police were in an angry mood The federation decided last week to press for the repeal of law that denies police the right to strike The police who say their hourly pay is less than that of garbage collectors are demanding an extra $10 week The government says this would breach its policy of wage restraint In some areas of Britain police have been leaving the force and finding jobs elsewhere because they say Israeli troops clash with Arabs RAMALLAH Occupied West Bank Reuter Israeli troops hurled tear gas grenades today to break up demonstration by hundreds of Arab youths backing hunger Palestinian flags and singing nationalist songs gathered in soldiers and Arab merchants who had to close their shops military sources said Israeli forces broke up the demonstra tion and detained dozens of demonstrators the sources said There were no casualties but the windows of two passing Israeli cars were smashed Meanwhile more than 100 con victs serving sentences on security charges at Jenin prison on the West Bank joined the hunger strike started by 450 prisoners at Ashkelon jail to protest alleged prison over Roblin calls for new constitution Macdonald Tobacco drops curling MONTREAL CP Macdonald Tobacco Inc is nounced Sunday David Stewart vicechairman of the board told news conference that rising costs of transporta tion and hotels forced the decision At his time and date the Canadian Ladies Curling Association championship Stewart added David Smith president of the particular we are appreciative of the twoyear notice of termination during which time every available avenue will says premier MARC LALONDE new Spiro cited statistics to show that 17 per cent of programs on the provinces educationaltelevisi on network are in French and that the government is making progress in making court facilities available in French angry mood the money is not enough to live Israeli jails Students carrying and hurled stones at Israeli ski DUFF ROBLIN rekiiit bonds of the Canadian mens curling the 197879 season it was an ts association with the Lassie Canadian regretted the companys deci for their cooperation In the Canadian mens curling Smith said He addedthat the association cannot handle the sponsorship of the event on its own especially not under present CA dues struc Hy

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