Barrie Examiner, 2 Aug 1977, p. 1

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Pair of pets at the dog show Rossi ISmonthold Yorkshire Terrier won best male dog in the class this weekend at the dog show held at Molsons Park Barrie Sponsored by the Barrie Kennel Club the show is the largest outdoor event in Canada with over 3000 entries Owners of the dog are Sue and Rick Shearn of Michigan Rick Jr holds Rossie for the camera Examiner Photo Murder charges follow shoeshine boys death TORONTO CP 12yearold shoeshine boy whose body was found on the roof of sex shop Monday died of asphyxia caused by drowning Metropolitan Toronto police say Police found the body of Manuel Jaques Made mistake aboutbody found nearby TORONTO CP Ontarios chief coroner has confirmed that authorities made mistake last April when they identified skeleton as that of Jason Rallo sevenyear old Hamilton boy The remains found near Barrie after an eightmonth police search were buried in Hamilton but exhumed last week after new evidence came to light They now are believed to be those of an Alberta boy tiveyeanold Jaime Shearer who disappeared after coming to Toronto with his mother in July 1976 Coroner Dr Beatty Cotnam said Sunday that the mistake was confirmed after tests by Dr Lester Luntz specialist in dental iden tification Dr otnam said that although the boys were nearly two years apart in age their teeth were remarkably similar An anatomy professor at the University of Toronto is awaiting an xray from Van couver where Jaime once had been in hospital for tests on his knees Best shots compete FB BOROEN Staff Sixteen of Great Britains best shots competed on weekend in the Ontario Rifle Association champion ships here The 16 men are the official team from great Britain and the trip to Canadian Forces Base Borden is sponsored by Bri tains National Rifle Association NRA This week the team will be competing in the Dominion of Canada Rifle Association Championships in Ottawa after team match today wit the Ontario Rifle Associ tion and an Armed Forces cadet team at CFB Borden There has always been close relation ship between Britains shooters and Cana dians says lord Swansea captain of the British team There is always Canadian team at Bisley he said The team captain is appointed by the Na tional Rifle Association The captain then picks histcam The tab for the teams tour IS picked up by the NRA and the British sports council All members of the British team are Bisley competitors Stories and photo Page Leafs lose at $00 It was combination of weak hitting and errors that did the Ivy Leafs in at the Sault Ste Marie Baseball Toumament on the weekend Ivy lost the opening game of the tourna ment 21 to Thunder Bay and then lost 51 decision to Michigan team in the consola tion round In the first game Ivy had the chances to win the game but just couldnt get the time ly hit to produce gameWinning rim but in the last game it was errors that proved to be the clubs downfall wrapped in green garbage bag on the roof of Charlies Angels bodyrub parlor on down town Yonge Streetonly 100 yards from where he was last seen Thursday Four menthree of them employees of the bodyrub parlor have been charged with fir st degree murder Manuel disappeared after being lured from the corner where he was shining shoes by man offering to pay $35 an hour to move photographic equipment Police said there were no bruises or out ward signs of physical abuse on the boys body However parts of the body have been sent to the Centre of Forensic Sciences for further analysis to determine whether the boy had been sexually abused GLARI DOOR Police guarded the front door of Charlies Angels on Monday mornin preventing onlookers from entering as etectives sur veyed the building Sgt Gerald Stevenson of the homicide squad said police smashed glass door to search the shop Manuels body was removed from the roof about 630 am by fire truck with crane and pod for carrying the body to prevent it from being disturbed before the autopsy it if is local lifestyle entertainment sports comics 12 classified 14 Jon Butler made the biggest splash of all at the Celebrity Superstars competition Monday part of the Kempenfest 77 celebrations Centennial Park Butler one of the sixmember team from The Ex aminer went for dunking during one of the events but came up grinning about it all Examiner Photos 113 ycarNo 17s Tuesday August 977 15° PolE05 Carflor Home serving Dollvory 90° Weekly 18 Page Hydro officials sent reeling by Sunday thunderstorm Port Hope man is dead and local and pro vince hydro officials are still calculating the damage from the fierce thunderstorm which hit the area late Sunday afternoon The storm accompanied by high winds and heavy lightning hit at pm Sunday and lasted about an hour Guy Cluff assistant superintendent with the Barrie Public Utilities Commission PUC said three major transmission lines each carrying 40000 volts or more were struck by lightning and numerous services were torn down by trees felled by the high winds Its pretty had to say what the total damage will be right now Cluff said this morning PUC regairmen hit the streets at about pm Sun ay he said and most of the men didnt get back in until 330am Monday Ted Johnson spokesman for Ontario Hydro said the storm caused numerous dif ficulties throughout the areas of Simcoe County served by the provincial utility CHAYFM and CKBB were knocked off the air for about an hour during the storm Johnson said and one Hydro crew was tied up for two hours trying to free two men who were trapped in their car by live power lines on Shanty Bay Road The director David Johnson 147 Penetang St Barrie has been charged with careless driving Thorah Island in Lake Simcoe was without hydro service for 20 hours he said after lightning knocked connection for the sub marine cable which serves the island Johnson said hydro managed to get five twoman crews out to repair storm damage Sunday afternoon Part of the delay in restor ing wer in some areas was due to the dif fic ty in rounding up workers on holiday weekend he added Those who came into work put in long hours Johnson said One crew went from pm Sunday to 11 pm Monday he said while the line foreman who took calls from customers who had lost their power was on the telephone from 5pm to am The storm could have caused thousands of Homeowners dollars damage to the artwork on display at the Huronia Festival of the Arts show at Centennial Park Sunday afternoon However Bob Hollywood general manager of the Barrie and District Chamber of Com merce said advance warning of the storm gave exhibitors time to get their art work under cover before the storm hit Holywood said the warning was broadcast over loudspeakers on van at the show and organizers went through the park warning ar tists of the storm approach Otherwise he said the storm had relative ly little effect on Sundays Kempenfest ac tivities The Barrie Kennel Clubs annual dog show at Molsons Park was the scene of the only death attributed to the storm William Smith 53 of Port Hope was runn ing for cover from the storm when he suffered heart attack He was pronounced dead at Royal Victoria HoSpital The dog show was delayed for about an hour Sundays activities at the 12th Annual Old Time Power Show in bokstown were scuttl ed by the storm according to Neil Chubb Thornton furniture distributor who had an ex hibit at the show Chubb said at least one small booth was flattened by the high winds which struck the fairgrounds while the roofs of two others were blown in Such fantastic amount of rain fell dur ing the storm said Chubb that he had lift up first one side of his booth and then the other to let the water run off It was move he regretted The legs of rcfcctory table were under eight inches of water he said The rest of the days activities at the show were cancelled following the show he said There wasnt much activity at all after the rain he said but there had been good turnout up until then However Chubb said the rain didnt put damper on Mondays activities The Ontario Rifle Association holding its provincial diampionships at Base Borden was forced to postpone one match until Mon day might not get federal insulation grant TORONTO CP Owners of older Ontario homes who upgrade their insulation this fall might miss out on $350 federal grant as result of disagreement between the Ontario and federal governments The Ontario government has said it cannot meet at least two of Ottawas five conditions by Sept the deadline set by Ottawa Charles Smith federal assistant deputy minister of energ mines and resources said the government has not considered whether homeowners will be able to claim the grants retroactively because it assumes Ontario will be able to meet the deadline However Ian Rowe executive director of Ontarios energy conservation youp in the provincial ministry of energy says one of the conditionsa prohibition on bulk metering for gas and electricity in new semidetached homes and apartment buildingsis almost impossible to meet even after the Sept deadline Expensive oil VALDEZ Alaska AP The super tanker Arco Juneau pushed smoothly and powerfully through Alaskas Prince Wil liam Sound today carrying the first load of Prudhoe Bay oil en route to Washington State Its cargo is 843000 barrels of Alaskan crudea drop in the nine billionbarrel bucket that forms the North Slope petro leum pool No more expensive oil has ridden aboard the Arco Juneau At $77 billion to build the 800mile transAlaska pipeline $4 billion to develop the Prudhoe fields and hundreds of millions more in other expenses this first payoff shipment to the lower 48 states cost more than $300 gallon The 883foot 120000ton Arco Juneau cast off from the Valdez terminal of the pipeline at 655 pm local timefour years after the Alyeska Pipeline Service Co predicted it would have oil out of Alaska by Aug 1977 Back to the bells WASHINGTON AP The US Navy announced Monday it is returning the traditional uniform of bellbottomed trousers and white caps to its lower enlisted ranks The decision follows findings of an official poll earlier this year that the relativel new uniform of coats white shirts blac ties and peaked caps is highly unpopular among sailors The more formal uniform became com pulsory two years after the then chief of naval operations mo Zumwalt ordered transition to it in 1971 with the aim of enhan cing morale and presenting the concept of one navy New sterilizer QUEBEC CP The Quebec Centre for Industrial Research 33 it has developed new apparatus whic can be used to sterilize women while reducing the chance of stoperativecomplications equipment passes an electric current throu the fallopian tube area to cautenze thetu He says the province has asked com mittee of local utility companies to report to Ontario Hydro by early October on the im pact of eliminating all bulk metering for elec tricity But we dont think it is advisable for some housing units such as those operated by On tario Housing Corp for senior citizens to be acquired to pay their own individual electric il ALSO BLOCK The second stumbling block to meeting tawas conditions has to do with proposed changes in Ontarios building code to meet new energy conservation standards set by the National Research Council Ottawa wants the standards implemented by the end of this year as condition to giving residents in any province taxable grants to upgrade insulation in other homes ddline Robert Violante above 20 of Brooklyn NY recovering Monday from bullet wound In the head gave New York police description of his attacker but was not told he was victim of Son of Sam the citys dreaded 44calibcr killer AP Photo Son of Sam again NEW YORK Router Another young woman with everything to live for has died at the hands of the psychopathic killer calling himself Son of Sam who has terrorized New York for just more than year Stacy Moskowitz 20yearold woman from Brooklyn died Monday night in Kings County Hos italthe sixth person and fifth woman to killed by the mystery killer who blasts his victim with Altcalibre pistol She and her boyfriend Robert Violante also 20 were shot from behind as they sat in car on Brooklyn lovers lane during their first date Miss Moskowitz was hit by two bullets one in the head and the other in the neck while Violante was hit once Doctors at the hospital say he will live But that single bullet blew out his right eye and left him 90 per cent blind in his left eye The latest attacks by the killer came only two days after the first anniversary of his first killing to last Sunday the 44calibrc killer con ined his attacks to the Bronx and Queens But because of police patrols in those areas he moved his terror to new area Gasguzzling cars WASHINGTON AP congressional spokesman says the Carter administration will not oppose legislation to ban the sale of gasguzzling cars in 1980 even though the provision was not part of the presidents energy package The US Senate energy committee ap proved the proposal Monday voting to require at least IGrnileagallon per formance from every 1980model car sold in the United States and backing up the re uirement with $10000 fine for each car at does not meet the standard The Senate committee acted as the House of Representatives began debate on an energy bill Soweto killings JOHANNESBURG Router Tough lice measures in Soweto where three lacks have died in four days seem certain to harden attitudes in the explosive South African ghetto police spokesman said one black youth was killed and one injured when police opened fire with shotguns at close range against stonethrowing youths attacking police patrol Monday night Big defence bill WASHINGTON AP Congressmen ap proved $109billion defence bill Monday and forced new House of Representatives vote on President Carters decision to kill the strategic bomber plane Leaders said they believe the House will reverse its earlier approval of $15 billion for the plane and agree with Carter and the US Senate to eliminate the money and halt production If the House does not agree new House Senatc representatives will confer to find some compromise More Toyota exports TOKYO Reuter Japans Toyota Motor Company said today it planned to in crease its export target for this year by 11 per cent following good sales in the United States The annotuiccment that it plans to revise its target to 13 million vehicles from 12 million for the calendar year comes at time when Japan faces mounting criticism of its export drive and massive trade sur plus US steel worried DULUTH Minn AP The US steel market might be flooded with foreign steel because ore stockpiles will be exhausted if the strike by Midwestern iron ore workers lasts beyond our months industry analysts say Anytmdy whos got steel to be delivered in the short run is going to get it and get it on time but if this thing goes on for awhile the longterm effect will be devastating said one analyst in Pit tsburgh If our mills are forced to shut down for lack of ore im rts will flood us because the whole worl steel industry is flat on its face and theyre just looking for market Cloudy with isloated showers is the forecast for the Barrie area Wednesday bow tonight should be near 10 degrees High expected tomorrow will be near 25 iner arrie and simcoe county

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