Yearlong hearing ends Rowbotham must stand trial on drug charge Robert Rowbothams year long preliminary hearing into diarch of trafficking hashish ended Tuesday with the deci sion of Barrie judge to com mit him for trial Judge Don Inch said there is enough evidence on charges relating to an incident Sept 1975 to warrant trial Rowbotham 26 of Beeton and codefendant John Mepstead will face judge and jury in the next available coun ty court sittings says crown at torney John Burgar They are alleged to have sold 46 vials of hashish worth $3440 to an RCMP undercover officer Sept 1975 Plowing matches planned The East Simcoe Plowing Match will be held Thursday at 10 am It will take place at the farm of Francis Shanahan lo cated just north of Craighurst sandwich lunch will be served and all interested plowmen and spectators are in vited to attend The Simcoe Centre Plowing Match will be held Saturday It will take place on farm located in espra lownship lot 18 one behind the Baymart Plaza Barrie The farm is own ed by Ilon Giffcn Directors appointed The Greater Barrie Chamber of Commerce board of directors appointed three members to oneyear terms after taking of fice Tuesday Named were Maj Taylor of anadian Forces Base Borden Greg llenn of the Barrie Jaycees and Doug Cherry chairman of next years Barrie Winter ar nival Members elected or re elected to threeyear terms are Ed Harper immediate past president chamber treasurer Don oulson Examiner pub lisher Elio Agostini and Mar shall ireen Barrie lawyer both appointed oneyear members prior to their elec tion and new board members Steve Brown and John Butcher New President Dave Blcnkarn 39yearold president of Allan ook Ltd roatl contractors is the new president of the Greater Chamber of Com nIerce chamber director for the past four years Hlenkarn has been first vice president for the past 18 months and second vice president for the preceding year He was also winter car nival chairman in 1073 and lint Examiner llIotoJ Advisory committee to meet The citizens advisory com mittee for Barries core area revitalization study will meet tonight at7pmatfitylfal The meeting will be joint session with the core study committee which is overseeing the$6t000revitalizationstudy Consultants working on the sevcnrmonth study will make preliminary report on findings during the sludys first eight weeks Research by consultants dur ing this time has included land use analysis visual analysis of the core area market study and social cconomic investigation OFA meeting at Midhurst Simcoe ounty area at the lllitllll of Agriculture OFA will meet at the Midhurst Community Hall Fri day atttptn Individual service members for the three regions Within the county will be electing direc tors Barrie Defense counsel Ansis Seminov acting for both men in the absence of Rowbothams lawyer told Judge Inch Burgar and investigating RCMP of ficers failed to produce enough evidence and continuity to im plicate the two 0N AGAIN OFF AGAIN During the onagain offagain preliminary hearing RCMP of ficers under crosscxam ination revealed vials Rowbotham is alleged to have sold did not have his finger prints on them The only set of fingerprints was that of the undercover of ficer Constable Bruce Calnan Crown testimony also reveal ed there were gaps in sur veillance of Rowbothams alleged transactions with undercover RCMP officers Constable Douglas Wadstein said under crossexamination that as surveillance officer he had never seen Constable Calnan with Rowbotham and said Calnan disappeared from View before arriving at the Rowbotham farm BREACHES IN PROCEDURE Rowbothams lawyer Moishe Reiter spent much of the preliminary hearing question ing repeated breaches of under cover procedures Constable Wadstein said under Reiters crossexam ination that he did not search Constable Calnan before he made alleged transactions with Rowbotham and Mepstead There was also testimony that special transmitters planted in headlight of Calnans car and in cast on his arm malfunctioned Tapes produced through hidden recorder in female undercover officers purse dur ing one alleged transaction were too garbled to understand all the conversations Constable Wadstein testified Despite such testimony Judge Inch said he was satisfied there was evidence of conspiracy between Rowbotham and Mepstead to traffic hashish Sept 1975 During Tuesdays prelim inary hearing four other possi ble charges against the two co defendants were raised by Judge Inch but the men werent arraigned on them after Burgar consulted with ad visers for half an hour The possible charges involv ed one of trafficking marijuana July 22 against Rowbotham one of trafficking marijuana Aug against Mepstead and one of trafficking hashish Aug 21 All the alleged transactions occurred in 1975 After Burgar asked the court to withdraw the three possible charges Rowbotham asked Judge lnch if anything protects him from having the charges raised at later date Judge lnch said the crown could 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revenues Oro asks OMB Oro Township asked the On tario Municipal Board 0MB Tuesday to order Barrie to pay its costs of participating in the 11month hearing on the citys annexation proposals Township solicitor David White said it was irresponsi ble on the part of the city to have subjected Oro to this hear mg Township clerk Henry Neufeld said last week that Oro has spent about $40000 on the hearing to date Barrie announced on the se cond day of the hearing last year that it would not present evidence in support of its proposal to annex 2100 acres of roland But because of the complex ity of the citys stand ro had to stay in White said lllE to order city 410 pay costs We have been subjected to needless hearing and it is com pletely unfair to ask the people of Oro to pay for the mistakes of the citys planner he said However James McCallum Barries annexation counsel said the city is opposed to pay ing Oros costs because he reached an agreement with the township prior to dropping its request for Oros land ros motion for costs is in violation of that agreement McCallum said but he added that he wanted to check his notes of the negotiations with the township before answering the motion formally ros request will be discuss ed after Simcoe County presents its case against the ci tys annexation proposal today To lose that assessment would amount to permanent financial impairment of the township Onyschuk said Barrie would gain only 48 per cent more commercial assess ment by annexing the strip he said Loss of the assessment would force the township to go cap in hand to Queens Park to ask for financial help in the first ear after annexation he said ecause the province gives grants to annexation losers only after the first fiscal year after annexation Businesses in the commercial area would face 60 per cent hike in their taxes when they come under Barries jurisdic tion Onyschuk said Vespra Township is also op posed to the citys request to annex land around Little Lake he said The 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