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Mayor Ross Archer and Kempenfest chairman ShirleyJean Lokun officially launched Kempenfest Monday with flagraising ceremony at entennial Park Both are attired ac cording to the mayors proclamation declaring the current week sport shirt week Actual Keinpenfesl activities begin Friday The Kempenfest Tshirt worn by Mrs Lokun was specially made for the photo and cannot be purchased but she says such shirts may be massproduced in future years Examiner Photo Its sportshirt week for third Kempenfest pull of the rope and away we go Mayor Ross Archer and Kempenfest chairs man ShirleyJean Lokun raised the official Kempenfest flag designed made and donated by Joan LeBoeuf on behalf of the Barrie Art Club at Centennial Park Mon day to get the sixth annual Kempenfest celebration underway Organized activities wont start until Satur day but in the meantime its sport shirt week made official by the mayors proclamation and residents are expected to throw away their tics and other dressy clothes for the week Kempenfest events start Saturday at to am with crossbay swim from Minets Point to Government Dock and the opening of the seventh annual Huronia Festival of the Arts and crafts The Barrie fighters skiathon for muscular dysti pny goes at noon the Ys Mens beer garden opens at the same hour and from then on theres no looking back until dusk Monday her highlights include WillllTlilll kite flying and wind surfing displays Saturday and Sunday at Centen nial rlhc Blue Sky lheatre featuring everything from stage comedy and senior citizen choral performances to rock bands and gymnastics at Centennial from pm todusk all three days bewildering variety of waterborne competitions for all age groups including the great water walk on 60 feet of inner tubes underwater chariot races for scuba divers 27mile race from Barrie to rillia in sixman voyageur canoes flat water canoe races water ski slalom races and laser class and challenge cup sailing races Various locat ions sailpast at pm Saturday at Centen nial Park superstars Competition featuring aminer staff members and other celebrities in series of events beginning Monday at pm at Centennial the 22nd annual Rotary Club chicken barbecue from noon toepm Monday at St Vincent Park $1000 cash draw at pm Monday at Kempenfelt Park Organizers are expecting at least 25000 spectators each day at Kempenfest an in crease over the estimated 2atlay tur nout of last year We wont quit with separation Quebec PO workers assure CUPW HALIFAX CF Quebec postal workers said Monday they would not pull out of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers CUPW if Quebec separated from the rest of Canada From trade union poim of view there August 30 meeting MIlHUltST IStaff Simcoc County coun cil will hold its first meeting since June on Tuesday August 30 it was announced from the county office Warden Allan Glassford who is reeve of Tecumseth approved the change in meeting date as required by county rules The clerk Gordon Watson is away on vacation in the Hawaiian Islands Picnic for elderly MllllllltSl Staff More than 2000 are expected to attend the annual senior citizens picnic at Springwater park here on Wednesday August 10 The picnic is the highlight of the senior cit izens summer program sponsored by the Simcoe ounty recreation service Reeve Charles ltawson of Tay township is chair man of the committee in charge Day camp programs TOTIENIIAM Staff Second day camp program of the Tot tenham recreation committee is scheduled to open at the Not tawasaga conservation area here on Mon day August 15 Mrs Montgomery is again the contact representative Daily events will be held during week days until Friday August 26 Similar classes are planned during the same dates at Cookstown fairgrounds by the ookstown recreation commit tee Liberals to meet COLDWATER Staff The Simcoe East Young Liberal Assoeiation will meet at the Lions Riverside Centre on Main Street here on Wednesday evening August when new members will be registered Ralph Mac donald is president of the association and nominations will be received for new of ficers should not be any territorial boundaries Clement Morel director of the unions Quebec region told delegates to the CUPW national policy convention Big plowing match delegation from Simcoe County will be attending the inteniational plowing match to Joyceville in Frontenac ounty September 27 to October seeking ideas for the 1981 competitions to be held in this area Reeve Lloyd Iridhani above of Sun nidale who was 1973 warden was chair man of the committee when the last inter national plowing event was held in this county in 1967 For more details in coming match turn to page Leacock Festival RILLIA Staff Fourth annual Leacock Festival of Humor starring Dave Broadfoot will open at the Opera House here on Thursday July 28 at 830 pm for four night run The threeday Rotary Mariposa funfest will be held in Couchiching park this coming Saturday Sunday and Monday featuring parades sports and entertain ment The 1976 Leacock award for Humor which included $1500 Hudsons Bay Company cash prize was presented to Ray Guy native of Newfoundland at banquet at the Sundial Motor Inn His book That Far Greater Bay was chosen as the mast humorous of the year by Canadian writer bythe Leacock associates 113th year No 172 Tueoday July 26 1977 Per Copy Carrier Home Dollvory 90° Weekly Page the examiner serving barrie and simcoe county Not preparing for election Essex board wont build high school WINDSOR nt CP The Essex County board of education has decided not to partici pate in the building of Frenchlanguage high school in the county Councils action Monday means the Ontario government will build the school on its own The board voted 12 to to ignore provincial legislation passed July 11 giving the board 30 days to pick site and plan construction If the board fails to act within the time period the bill allows the government to take over the project which has been under discussion by the board for eight years Trustee Aurele Beneteau chairman of the Frenchlanguage advisory committee was silent throughout the meeting However in an interview later he said wonder what people will think of the mentality of these people here tonight They have shown that they dont want anything to do with the French language or the rights of the French minority Trustee Jean Ashton said the political football now was back in the Wellss hands and the board would have to wait to see what he does Previously the board voted four times against building the scth even though legislation provides that the province pay 95 per cent of the estimated $41million Cost When the bill was passed Wells said it will take at least 18 months to build the schOol and it Would not be Occupied before September l979 Trustee Harold Sanger who introduced the motion said he was in favor of new school that would be bilingual Metric bill is amended OTTAWA CP The government bowed to pressure from Western farmers and MP5 Monday amending its metric conversion bill so that grain producers can keep using the acre as their official unit of land measurement The Commons erupted with cheers from Conservative MPs as Len Marchand minister responsible for the bill announced the change Western MPs in all parties had argued against controversial proposed change to substitute the metric hectare for the acre The metric conversion bill one of the main stumbling blocks to summer adjournment for the Commons was then given final reading without much debate However though the government backed down one Conservative spokesman was still bitter Bill Kempling PCHaltonWentworth said officials of the governments metric commission had tried to mislead the minister the Commons committee and Parliament into believing that famiers wan ted the change when in fact they did not He called for shakeup of the commission Day is charged TORONTO CP Equestrian James Day is scheduled to appear in provincial court Aug 15 in Milton Ont after the Ontario Humane Society charged him with unlawfully causing unnecessary injury to gorse at SamSon Farms Ltd in Homby nt Day general manager at SamSon Far ms north of Oakville nt was member of the Canadian equestrian team which won ggold medal at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico ity Conviction under the charge carries maximum penalty of $500 fine or six mon ths in jailor both humane society official said the charge was laid following complaint Vandalism the issue TORONTO CP steering committee has been pointed by the Youth Services Network of Metropolitan Toronto to deal with the cause and prevention of vandalism Mrs Patricia MacKay chairman of the committee said Metropolitan Toronto must be encouraged to institute uniform specific documentation of vandalism She said politicians are concerned about publicizing vandalism but the Committee feels an increasing public awareness is essential if preventive programs are to sue ceed The Globe and Mail says damage to municipal property that school boards and municipal councils must repair or replace costs taxpayers more than $2 million year Kept champagne pact COBOURG Ont CP soyearold bottle of French champagne is on its way to war museum in Ha ifax to fulfil pact made by four Cobourg scldiers during the First World War JS Hinman Son of LtCol fied Hin man said his father and three other soldiers bought the champagne on Armistice Day Nov 11 1918 and agreed it would be kept by the last survivor of the group Hinman said before his father died in December he asked that the bottle and scrapbook of the soldiers artillery unit be delivered to the war museum MIKE FORGRAVE first and second Forgrave tops in hurdles Mike Forgrave recent graduate of Barrie North finished first in one event and second in another at the Ontario Senior Track and Field Championships in Ottawa on the weekend Forgrave won the 40Hneter hurdles in time of 524 seconds and finsihed second in the 400 meters with time of 4782 seconds off his personal best The time in the 400 meter hurdies was my best this year he said Im very happy with the results of the meet Forgrave said he used the meet as warm up to the Canada Games in Newfoundland Aug 71019 Apartments meeting topic public meeting on proposed walkup apartment building on Sanford Street will be held tonight at at City Hall The meeting is sponSOred by city planning boa rd The developer Bob Birrell hopes to build threestorey 21unit building on the east side of the street between Brock and John next door to similar walkup at 111 Sanford The board will listen to public comments on the proposal and will make recommenda tion to city council Also on the boards agenda are discussion of problems with the citys C5 local commer cial zoning study of zoning on Essa Road and review of minutes of the core study committee which is preparing to supervise $61000 revitalization study of the citys core area JOHN DIElENBAKER transfusion Condition stable OTTAWA CP Former prime minister John Diefenbaker was reported in stable condition and making satisfactory progress tinday after another blood transfusion Mon ay An aide to the 81yearold former Progressive Conservative leader said that Diefenbaker has cancelled plans to go to PrinceAlbert Sask in August He has represented Prince Albert in the Commons stnce1953 The blood transfusion Monday was the second given Diefenbaker since he entered Civ1c Hospital here Saturday suffering from internal bleeding apparently stemming from First World War injury Diefenbaker wasprime minister between June 1957 and April 1963 By JOHN BRUCE Examiner Staff Reporter Local Liberals are not rushing to prepare for federal election in September following an hourlong meeting Monday morning with two members of the Federal party hierarchy Were not preparing for an election in September said Ray Ramsay president of the newlyformed Simcoe South Liberal Association after local party officials met with Tony Abbott federal minister of con sumer and corporate affairs and Senator Royce Fri th Ramsay said election financing was discussed but the two senior Liberals gave no indication of when the election call will come He said the discussion centred around closer liaison between the national party association and Simcoe South Liberals new election financing laws and variety of issues including national unity unemployment and inflation That federal election does not appear to be in the offing comes as good news to local Liberals We just had an election in Ontario and our people worked hard Ramsay said Were not urging anyone to have an election before next spring Though he said the election call is still the prime ministers prerogative Ramsay said Orders inquest in babys death TORONTO CP Ontario Chief Coroner Cotnam has overruled Collingwood Ont coroner and ordered an inquest into the death of sevenweekold baby girl who died after police refused to take her to hospital As far as Im concerned there are just too many questions going unanswered Dr Cot nam said Monday There are rumors allegations and conflicting stories flying all over Collingwood and only an inquest will bring out the truth Terry Patton 21 the childs father said that on July 12 he sent Beatrice Caines 20 the woman with whom he lives across the street to the police station to request ride to the hospital less than mile away Collingwood is about 25 miles northwest of BarrieOnt Patton said police told the woman they did not run taxi service and the child died later while on the wav to hOSDital in taxi Peaceful end to occupation SYDNEY NS CP group of 18 demonstrators vacated the Canada Man power office here at am EDT today en ding their second peaceful occupation of federal building Gerald Yetman of North Sydney co in September area Liberals he hoped Trudeau would not call an election simply on the basis of favorable public opi nion polls He said the results of last months provin cial election is an excellent example of the dangers of going to the electorate to take ad vantage of apparent popularity before the governments mandate ex ires Ramsay said he woul prefer to see the prime minister call an election on specific issue such as the economy or national unity These are things that the prime minister might want to have discussed in an election campaign to gain consensus he added New federal laws on election campaign financing should have major effect on the next federal campaign Ramsay predicted The new law requires that the bulk of can didates campaign funds be raised locally The maximum amount canadidate can Spend is determined by formula based on the number of voters in the constituency and its physical size Ramsay said he thinks the Simcoe South candidate will be allowed to spend about $26000 on his campaign The new law Ramsay said is designed to prevent rich candidates from buying seat in Parliament and reducing the impact of large campaign donations on the outcome of the voting It means wealthy man cant go out and spend 380000 he said and party cant go to big sugar daddy or corporation anymore and say Howd you like to finance the cam paign The new law also has real teeth in it Ramsay said noting that election results can be voided and byelection called if the sac cessful candidate violates the financing law Such candidate would also be baned from seeking federal office for seven years from the date of conviction he added hairless Alu lt My God Theyre using the new B1 arrowsl inside chairman of the Cape Scotia Federation of Labor Living longer WASHINGTON AP Todays girl babies can expect to live to 81 and boys to almost 72 nearly three years longer than expected before because fewer people are dying of heart attacks the US Census Bureau says In report released Monday on population projections for the US the Cen sus Bureau said the death rate of adults over 35 declined much more ra idly bet ween 1973 and 1975 than it did uring the previous decade The decline was due largely to reduction in deaths from major cardiovascular diseases sue as heart attacks the report savs US ban on drug WASHINGTON AP US Health Secretary Joseph Califano announced Mon day he is banning phenformin drug used by an estimated 250000 diabetics because the government has determined it con stitutes an imminent hazard to the public health For the first time in the history of the health department Califano on the advice of Commissioner Donald Kennedy of the Food and Drug Administration invoked the imminent hazard provision to remove drug summarily from the market without years of hearings appeals and red tape Phenformin has long been associated with rare but deadly side effect known as lactic acidosis About farm problems GUELPH Ont CP Federal govem ment policies are little help in solving Canadas agricultural pro ems says James Mayne vicepresident of the National Farmers Union Mayne told the unions annual meeting Monday that hitormiss approaches will keep farmers at the short end of the stick as producers Breton committee of concern for the unemployed said third oc cupation is planned and the committee will continue acts of civil disobedience until it gets word from Ottawa that senior federal of ficials will meet with the committee to discuss Cape Bretons unemployment prob lem Yetman is also president of the Nova local lifester entertainment county Arrested in slaying MONTREAL CP 28yearold man has been arrested in connection with the weekend slaying of woman whose dis membered body was found in garbage bags at three different northend locations police said Monday The victim was identified as Rollande Martel 33 of Verdun The first discovery of parts of the body was made l4yearold boy in the lane behind his me on St Denis Street on Saturday Two hours after police started combing the area for other parts of the body an eightyearold boy discovered the womans head about 100 feet from where the arms and legs were found piece of paper in the bag which had an address written on it led olice to Verdun address where they foun the victims torso in shed man living at that address was arrested Police have established no motive for the slaying which was the 58th this year in the Montreal area Wants cleanup action TORONTO CP Mayor David hombie has asked Ontario Premier William Davis for speedy answer to the citys request for licensing powers to clean up the yawning cesspool of Yonge Street In letter sent to the premier Friday Crombie said the citys concerns were being lumped togther in an administrative review of municipal authority to license chestnut vendors The province earlier began reView of munici licensing powers In May it refuse to give special consideration to the citys uest for additional licensmg powers an in June refused to give the city authority to seek injunctions to stop unlicen sed pinball parlors and sex shops Wednesday in the Barrie area will be sunny and little warmer with highs of 22 to 25 Lows tonight will be to 12 318 1213 15 18 17