Barrie wins annexation the exa Old Firehall worthy of deï¬gnaï¬on TORONTO The Conservation Review Board has ruled that Barries controversial Collier Street fireball is worthy of designation as historically and architecturally valuable building under the Heritage Act But the final decision on such designation will rest with city council The decision by board vicepresident George Downard follows an Aug 25 hearing made necessary by the fact that number of city residents objected to councils decision to designate the building The fireball restoration project has suf fered reversals at council since the original decision to designate and the city presented no evidence in support of the designation at the hearing The irehall had been scheduled for restora tion as an arts centre but council voted down proposed firstphase contract in August and this week agreed to call for proposals from private investors for use of the building Mayor Ross Archer said today he doubts council will decide on the Hertiage Act designation until proposals if any are received and reviewed in early December Ceasefire talks seen BRIGHTON England Reuteri British Foreign Secretary David Owen said today he hopes to get Rhodesia ceasefire negotiations started within weeks He told delegates at the Labor partys an nual conference here free Zimbabwe Rhodesia in 1978 is within our grasp We will stand firm in the fight for change and it will be peaceful change he said Despite his appeal that diplomacy be given chance to bring about change in southern Africa the conference voted for resolution calling on the British government to give material and moral support to freedom fighters in Zimbabwe wiles vfp Oh mum its Herod Hes decided to secede from mel inside local lifestyle entertainment 12 leisure sports comics 15 classified 17 18 19 LEISURE Group plays here Maple Sugar group of traditional folk musicians will be at Georgian College Theatre Oct 29 attl pm The group specializing in Music for the Love of Canada is being brought in by The Georgian Foundation for the Performing Arts The Maple Sugar group features Graham and Eleanor Townsend champion North American fiddlers Maurice Bolyer King of the Banjo and folksingers Dorothy Hogan and James Gordon Tickets for the concert are $450 reserved and can be purchased from the Foundation office Box 454 103 Dunlop St Barrie 72194613 Georgian College Music World Georgian Mall and Rudy Meeks MUSIC Store Orillia Weekend campout Barrie Boomerangs will be holding campout this weekend at Molsons Park in Barrie The cam out which is for members only will inclu the sharing of Thanksgiving dinner The Boomerangs are club of camping families from the Barrie area who camp together from early spring to late fall shar ing their experiences Anyone wishing more information on the club and its activities may phone the presidents Doris and Harold Hyne 7268107 Second Barrie concert Tickets are selling quickly for Ivan Rebroffs second Barrie concert at Georgian College Theatre Oct 26 at 830 Reserved tickets for the GermanRussian singer are $9 and $5 and are available at the office of the Georgian Foundation for the Performing Arts 113th yearNo 232Thuredey October 1977 ILL NEW DELHI tReuter court of government petition challenging the release of former prime minister Indira Gandhi from police custody has been postpon ed to Friday from today government lawyer says Lawyer SN Kaicker told reporters today he had decided to postpone presentation of the writ in Delhi High Court until Friday Not dull game If you think bingo is dull slowmoving game gradually sinking into obscurity then turti to page 11 You may be in for surprise One visit to any bingo hall will prove the game has never enjoyed such popularity Examiner Photo Hairs back again NEW YORK AP Hair the musical that made lot of headlines few years ago is on Broadway again now mostly quaint though noisy curio wanted to see it again is producer Michael Butlers explanation of why he has brought the production back to the Biltmorc Theatre where it closed five years ago after an impressive run of 1750 performances During its period of primal bloom Hair ran into all sorts of censorship problems as duplicate versions went on tour displaying such novelties as dimlylit frontal nudity political profanities and the possible delights of pot Such matters by now scarcely twitch an eyebrow and that is basic problem for the production that opened Wednesday ni ht after rotracted preview weeks of fee to boxof iceaction What was young daring and theatrically strange adds up to the excitement of visit to museum full of bvgonc fads Presentation in 15° Per Copy Cerrler Home Delivery 90° Weekly miner serving barrie and simcoe county Lï¬f BLUE LINE SHOWS BARRIES NEW BOUNDARIES Dotted black line is citys original proposal Petition challenges Gandhi release because he wanted to seek the solicitor generals advice about the act ion The writ claims that magistrate was not empowered to unconditionally release Mrs Gandhi after she was held for 10 hours on two charges of alleged corniption while in office wave of proGandhi demonstrations has swept the country since she was arrested Monday accompanied by editorials in many Wins Nobel Prize STOCKHOLM Reuter The 1977 Nobel Prize for literature was today awarded to Spanish poet Vicente Aleixandrc The Swedish Academy awarded the prize to Aleixandrc 79 for creative poetic etic writing which with roots in the tradi tions of Spanish lyric verse and in modern currents illuminates mans condition in the cosmos and in presentday society Duchess loses baby LONDON Reuter The Duchess of Kent has suffered miscarriage her husband the Duke told reporters Wed nesday night Shes lost the baby be said as he left Londons King Edward VII hospital where his wife had been under observation The Duchess who at 44 was the oldest member of the Royal Family in nearly 200 years to become pregnant was taken to hospital Tuesday after complications developed in her fourmonth pregnancy Painted dog fined NEWMARKET Ont CP Dmytro Frolak 47 of Keswick Ont was fined $100 and costs or 10 days in jail when he ap peared in provincial court Wednesday for ainting neighbors dog orange and white Fast New Years Day Frolak had pleaded not guilty to charge of causing un necessary suffering to dog Robert Chectham of Kcswick testified that his col lie was sick for three months after its face was painted orange and its body in white stripes Wont hear appeal OTTAWA The Supreme Court of Canada refused Wednesday to hear the ap peal of Barries Greg Marshall convicted last year of keeping bawdy house Marshall had wanted to appeal an Ontario Appeal Court decision which said massage given by body rub parlor patron to female employee was illicit sexual behavior This behavior was enough to consider the premises common bawdy house said the court leading Indian newspapers saying the lanata party government had badly bungled The governments reputation suffered further blow when the High Court rcgistry returned the petition Wednesday saying it was technically defective The magistrate who freed Mrs Gandhi rule ed that there was no reason to belicvc the no cusat ions against her were wellfoundcd Gets most of the land it asked for from OMB By JOHN BRUCE AND RICHARD DUNSTAN Examiner Staff Reporters The Ontario Municipal Board has given Barrie about 15000 acres of Innisfil and Vespra Townships including the highway 2627 commercial strip as of Jan 1978 The annexation falls short of the 20000 acres applied for by the city and leaves out Stroud and large surrounding area the Lit tle Lake area and 2100 acres of Oro Township All were included in the citys an nexation application The decision is subject to possible appeal to the provincial cabinet if 10 per cent of voters in the annexed areas of either township or 10 per cent of Barrie voters ask for cabinet review within 28 days The cabinet could either confirm the board decision or order another hearing The decision given Wednesday by two member OMB panel comes two weeks after the final day of 49day hearing spread over nearly 11 months The hearing and related expenses have already cost the city Innisfil Vespra Oro and Simcoe County more than $670000 with more bills to come Not included in the figure are expenses to number of major developers represented at the hearing The city got about 10000 of the 13500 acres it asked for from Innisfil as well as another 4000 not asked for The city will get 1100 out of 4600 asked for from Vespra and nothingat all from Oro Here is what will be added to Barrie Jan The communities of Painswick Minets Point Tollendal and St Pauls to the southeast of the city All of Innisfil Township between the Essa Township border and the Canadian National Railway tracks east of Highway 400 as far south as point halfway between Innisfils Ninth and 10th lines About 400 acres north of Highway 90 in what is now Vespra Township bounded by the highway the current city boundary and the gas pipeline which runs south through the area About250 acres on both sides of Anne Street north of the existing city About 400 acres making up the Highway 2627 commercial area including Georgian Mall KMart Plaza Towers Plaza and other stores along the highway Barrie Mayor Ross Archer declined detail ed comment today until he had time to study the decision but said it appeared to be decision we could live with He said he was happy to get needed in dustrial land but regretted the citys failure to annex Little Lake where the city owns 295acre park which will remain in Vespra Land lost by Vespra includes commercial Vespra Township will lose about 1100 acres to Barrie Jan including the Highway 2627 commercial strip which the township claims accounts for about 50 per cent of its tax revenue The Ontario Municipal Board 10MB in its decision released today awarded the Vespra acreage in three blocks In awarding the commcrical strip to Bar ric the OMB said the commercial develop mciit outside the city boundaries should never have been allowed and was in poor planning The board dismissed the argument that Vespra would suffer permanent financial impairment if it lost the commercial assess mcnt saying it would be the absolute height of folly to permit Vespras financial future to determine the boundaries for city of 123tt0 people by 2011 About 400 acres immediately west of the present city limits bounded by Highway 90 on the south and the midlot line of Lot 21 Con cession will become part of Barrie Another 300 acres were granted along the citys present northern boundary from Sun nidale Road on the east to the midlot line of Lot 20 Concession along with 400 acres in the commercial strip area The city applied for an additional 3115 acres of Vespra land around Little Lake and stretching west to the limit of the commercial area but the OMB said no The OMB said that in view of the en vironmental sensitivity of the area we think the Little area should remain within the Township of Vespra to enable the Not tawasaga Valley Conservation Authority to exercise more effective control and eventual ly to assume ownership so as to manage the entire area as unit and so establish an in dependent authority over the Minesing Swamp and environs Barrie applied to annex the land saying it bought the land from the government to create public park The purchase price was $1 Innisfil keeps Stroud but loses 13850 acres Innisfil Township will lose 13850 acres of land to Barrie but keep Stroud according to the iitario Municipal Board OMB decision to the citys annexation proposal The citys original proposal called for 13500 acres of Innisfil land However by leaving out Stroud and extending Barries proposed southern boundary west to the Essa Township border the city picks up about 400 additional acres In Innisfil Township the new city boun darics run south from Kempenfelt Bay along Hewitts Creek to the middle of the 11th Coo cession west along the centre of the 11th Con cession to the easterly limit of Lot 12 south along the boundary line of Lots 12 and 13 to the centre of Concession 10 west to the east limit of the CNR right of way south to the centre of Concession west to the Essa Township boundary and north to the norther ly limit of the township The OMB left Stroud out of the new city citing vigorous community life the townships investments in fireball and com munity centre and the existing commercial area The additional 3850 acres awarded to the city by extending the proposed southern deadline ii Leader slain Seamus Costello ltt leader of the Marxist Irist Republican Socialist Party was shot dead In Dublin street Wednesday as he stepped from his car AP Photo When notified of the decision today Mar shall ex ressed disappointment was looking orward to eing heard by the SupremeCourt Those asthma SprCIyS TORONTO CP Drugs in spray fortn for asthma sufferers are not dangerous if used properly Hamilton lung specialist says Dr Michael Newhousc of the McMastcr Regional Respiratory Unit told meeting of the Ontario chapter 01 the College of Family Physicians on Tuesday that inhalers are beneficial for people with asthma but like any other medication they should not be overused Dr McCourtie of London Ont told the meeting Monday that at least nine people known to be using bronchodilator spray have suffered fatal heart attacks The two doctors said there is no con clusive evidence to show link between use of the spray and heart attacks Fire damages home Damages are estimated at $8000 to $10000 in house fire this morning at 109 HenrySt Barrie firefighters were called to the building at 11 am and were on the scene about two hours Occupants of the apartments Evelyn Messer and Fred and May Parrey were not injured The residence is owned by Stephanie Rupprccht The fire originated in the attic fire department spokesman said $19100 to date As of Wednesday the Barrie and District United Appeal had collected $19100 of its $205000 goal Rock singer ailing TORONTO tCP Ronnie Hawkins 42 was reported in satisfactory condition after suffering heartattack Wednesday almost fulfilling his recentfrophecy that he would be the next rockan roll singer to die after Elvis Presley Hawkins was taken from north Toronto hotel where he was performing to hospital in nearby Newmarket Ont Friends and record company associates said that on Aug 17 the day after Presley died Hawkins told them he believed he would be next Hawkins who is married and has three children was to have played at the hotel un til Saturday when he intended to take rest boundary to Essa Township limits was in cluded for administrative reasons the OMB said Innisfil Township would have problem servicing the area known as the panhao dle the lmard said particularly in pro viding snow removal road maintenance and fire protection Annexation now should not hinder farming operations in the area the board said However the board also said that without the servicing problems it probably would have left the panhandle out of the new city because it lies within the Nottawasaga River watershed an area the board wants to pro tect from development Development tin the panhandle should be given low priority the board said Reeve William Gibbiiis said this morning he isshocked at the boards decision Our main argument was the preservation of farmland and the board has taken no ac count of that at all he said Township council will meet with its planner Jerry Jordan and annexation lawyer John Sopinka next week to study the decision and consider its response he said Slopscotch Making splash in her schoolyard world of sport is Grade student Mirella Zap pone of Lethbridgc Alta Rainy weather couldnt stop play students probably deciding soggy hopscotch is better than no hopscotch at all Photo in Springhurst Ark where his mother Flora suffered heart attack two weeks ago New law for dollar MONTREAL CP The Canadian dollar dropped more than half cent below its ning rate against the 115 dollar Wed nes to close at 9206 US cents This represents new eightyear low and loss of one cent in relation to its American counterpart since close of trading Friday weather Mostly windy and cool Friday in Simcoe County few showers and westerly winds gusting to 50 kmph Lows tonight to Highs Friday toll