Bentley wonts Levesque turned out of office By RICHARD lNSTAN Examiner Staff Reporter Former Barrie mayor Bob Bentley wants the Supreme Court of Canada to turn Quebec Premier Rene Levesque out of office And hes looking for 10000 or more Cana dians from Newfoundland to British Col umbia tojoin in his little peoples crusade Bentley now rent review officer for Simcoe County and Muskoka District took an adver tisement in The Examiner this week seeking support for class action suit to ask the Supreme Court to make Levesque show cause why he should not be removed form office He said Friday he hopes ripple effect of advertising and publicity will bring names in from across Canadaincluding QuebeC where he says he is convinced numerous residents agree with his view that Levesque is abusing his office Id like to see about 10000 people involved and id like to see them from all provinces he said He said he has had no legal advice on the campaign but hopes to attract constitu tional expert to join in the battle He said there is no precedent to guide the court in deciding whether it can hear the proposed sun How do they say no if Ive got that weight of Canadian names behind me he asked IYiday He has set July 1978 target dateCanada llay 7for launching the suit Bentley the author of series of articles entitled The Canada Love Includes Quebec and longtime critic of Levesque says he supports Levesques right to work for separa tion But he said Levesque has no right to take such stand as premier of Canadian pro yince especially where separatists are in the minority ATTACKING THE OFFICE it really isnt attacking the man its at tacking the misuse of office he said Friday just want to make an honest hero out of him Bentley said aiiy attempt by Ottawa or by other provincial governments to unseat Levesque will make him bigger hero in Quebecers eyes but campaign by the lit tle people of this country is likely to get more friendly reception in Quebec Bentley is suggesting donation of 50 cents from each supporter to help pay advertising legal and mailing costs He says he will ac cept larger amounts but no more than $25 from any one donor and will be open to an audit of funds BOB BENTLEY little peoples crusade He said Friday he has had several phone calls of support but had not yet been to the post officehe is using general delivery Barrie as the campaigns mailing ad dressto check on written responses He also said he had not checked with his superiors in the provincial rent review pro gram before launching his campaign but ex pects no complaints from them He said he is contract employee with the province not civil servant Bentley 48yearold Toronto native came to Barrie in 1961 and served as mayor in 1908 and 1969 He also served term as alderman former Liberal he says he now belongs to no political party He worked in the insurance business for 24 years and was also employed in public and governmental relations at the former Formosa Spring vnow Molsoiisi Brewery here Remembrance ceremonies at CFB Borden Sgt Rick Quesnol of Canadian Forces Base Borden plays the Last Post Friday at the bascs Remembrance Day ceremonies About 11000 officers and men took part in the ceremony which base officials said was one of the largest parades held at FB Borden since World War ll Examiner Photo saturday is for BUSINESS Simcoe County residents probably wont be forced to resort to working by the light of match this year according to Ontario Hydro officials Examiner Photo If the lights go out Matches and cigarette lighters will be the only illumination for some Barrie residents if the lights go out this winter power demands peak according to survey by The Examiner number of Barrie businesses and in dustries have emergency sources of light but others will be left in the dark and few will be able to continue business Ontario Hydro officials say they doubt blackouts will be necessary this winter despite warnings by the Barrie Public Utilities Toiniiiission thcrc may be during peak demand Blackouts will be roblem in the future they warn if people ont harness their ex travagant use of electricity For more see todays Business Page Antiinflotion soles Reitmans Canada Ltd of Montreal and Elks Stores Ltd of Toronto both of which have local stores are among 67 companies whose compliance plans for disposing of revenue deemed excessive by the Anti lnflation Board have been approved The board announced that Reitmans in troduced an antiinflation sale cutting 20 per cent from its ladies winter coat prices at some 500 stores across Canada The company generaged 9674000 excess revenue in the fiscal year ending in January 1977 Elks is holding similar sale at its outlines in Ontario and Quebec to return 3174000 in excess revenue to the marketplace The price reductions involve wide range of mens clothing items in cluding suits leather coats dress pants and shirts No stock reports There is no weekly report from the Toron to Stock Exchange in todays Examiner computer breakdown at the Toronto Stock Exchange on Friday slowed trading in what was the busiest week since early June 1909 Closing daily and weekly quotations were unavailable but weekly turnover totalled 243 million shares The dolllar value $171 million was the greatest since week in midJuly of this year The average weekly turnover for the market in the first half of this year was about 10million shares with value of about $100 million Airline growth seen TORONTO CP An airline executive has predicted moderate growth in general with return to profits for the industry as whole in 1978 Thomas Spalding chairman of the Air Transport Association of Canada said in an interview the association has forecast financial turnaround for the industry in 1977 following two moneylosing years in 1970 and 1975 Overall loss last year was $158 million when total revenues topped $2 billion for the firsttime 113th year No 284 Saturday November 12 1977 15° Per Copy Carrier Home Delivery 90° Wookly 48 Page the examiner serving borrie and Simcoe county Seasons first snowfall hits oreo highway traffic Appeol goes out to kidnappers of businessman VIENNA AP deadline for ransom payment of $31 million to kidnappers of Austrian businessman Walter Palmers pass ed today with no word on his condition or the status of the negotiations Palmers 74 majority stockholder of lingerie chain was abducted Wednesday night near his villa in fashionable district of Vienna The kidnappers left note in his car demanding payment for his release Manfred Wilhelm Palniers soninltlaw ap pealed to the kidnappers over Austrian radio Friday night asking them to establish contact as soon as possible Police have announced news blackout iii the case and would not say if any ar rangements for payment of the ransom had been made in his radio appeal Wilhelm said the fami ly had not been able to comply with the demands fully which was believed to mean relatives had been unable to provide the various currencies and banknote denomina tions required by the note Wilhelm assured the kidnappers he had not sought the help of police and urged them to take the money we have collected and release Palmers Palmers who suffers from heart ailment has financial interest in number of Austrian companies His liiigcric chain gross ed about $411 million last year No explosives in these shells MONTREAL itl The vicepresident o1 Spacc ltcsearch orp AQucbec said llldi1 his firm has shipped artillery shells thiough the port of Saint John but not to whiti fortcs lll ltliodcsia William Friend said the hltiililtiillxtSCti tiriii regularly ships 155iiiin shclls to its long range tcst sites 111 Barbados and Antigua but the shells contain no cxplosivcs lhc com pany has bccii carrying out tcsts ill the arib bean for 15 vcars he added Pension plon charges go up OllAA CPI Maxnnum employee con ributions to the Canada Pension Plan will ise to $16920 in 1978 from $13120 this year he rcvcnue department said Friday Selfcmploywl contributors will pay max mum $3118 40 up from $30240 Thc premium is based on 18 per cent of thc naxnnum contributor earnings for the year $9400 Maximum jxiisionablc earnings for the year are 910400 and the basic cxcinption 1551000 The level of benefits in 1978 is expected to 00 announced later by the health and welfare depart ment Buss for Charles Gilda Larbey 16 of Perth Australia grabs Prince harles for surprise kiss as he walks through crowd of female ad mirers in Perth Australia in Wednesday he was the target of model in Adelaide The Prince has attracted socrcs of women known as Charlies groupies during his tour of Australia AP Laserphoto Replaces Mokorios NlCOSlA AP Bishop Chrysostomos of Paphos was elected today to replace the late Archbishop Makarios as head of the Greek Orthodox Church in Cyprus The Styyearold prelate the only can didate was elected unanimously by 60 church and lay leaders Chrysostoinos was favored by Makarios to succeed him The two were longtime friends Skiers cheered and motorists groaned late Friday as the first snowfall of the winter hit Bar rie just in time to make the evening drive home from work hazardous adventure Sandra Byers 11 of 111 Oren Blvd was up early Saturday morning clearing the snow off her parents car before joining the first snowball fight of the winter in her neighborhood Ex aminer Photo What we need is good war lest we forget inside local lifestyle entertainment business sports comics 24 classified 17 to 22 Supplements Towers 24 page Nun gets damages MONTREAL tCP nun who was blown off her feet by the exhaust of jet at lstanbul Airport in 1971 was awarded $22339 damages Friday by Quebec Superior Court Yvonne Desrosiers 66 nurse and former director of Granbys Shefford General Hospital suffered concussion and other injuries after being blown to the ground Mr Justice Marcel Belleville held Lufthan sa Airlines responsible Housing cost raise WOODSTOCK Ont tCt increased labor and material costs particularly for lumber and insulation will raise housing costs 10 to 15 per cent in Canada in 1978 and make existing unsold houses bargain says Bill locherty Ontario chairman of the Housing and Urban Development Associa tion of Canada He said costs for lumber and insulation in particular are expected to rise Gets police guord ltiltONlti tCP Rita Bayer of Toron to stabbed iii the parking lot of shopping centre in nearby Mississauga on Tuesday was placed under 24sh0ur police protection Friday after her release from hospital Police said they believe the 39yearold woman will be able to identify her assailant Police said Mrs Bayer appears to have been attacked by man who sabotaged her car and then volunteerd to help her start it She was stabbed in the face neck breast and thigh with what police believe to be screwdriver The attack has been linked with the fatal stabbing last May of Glenna Fox in another suburban Metropolitan Toronto plaza ln Lebanon attack BElltUT titeuter Lebanese residents said lsraeli gunners opened up Friday night on number of villages in southern Lebanon where about 80 persons are reported to have died in lsraeli air raids in the last three days deadï¬ne Donor heart stops beating CAPE TOWN Reuter donor heart put in South African man by transplant ioneer Dr Christiaan Barnard has stopped beating and will be removed leaving the man to rely on his muchimproved original heart Announcing this Friday night Dr Barnard said the mans own heart has improved remarkably since the second heart was im planted three months ago in piggyback operation The donor heart unaccountably stopped beating last Thursday Dr Barnard said re jection of the alien tissuethe usual cause of transplant failuredid not seem to be the reason this time and extensive tests will be made on the donor heart to discover why it stopped Meanwhile the patient JJA Van Rooyen is no longer experiencing trouble with his own heart Dr Barnard said The piggyback operation was invented by Dr Barnard who has performed 18 since November 1974 Thirteen of the patients are still alive GIVES HEART REST The donor heart is stitched into the chest alongside the patients own heart and serves as booster taking work away from the diseased heart and perhaps allowing it to mend People sit outstde their damaged homes Friday night in the wake of an explosion of thirty tons of dynamite aboard parked freight train Authorities said the blast ldlled at least 48 people and injured 1280 others In addition some 9500 buildings were destroyed or damaged in the explo sion 48 die in blast SEOUL AP Rescue workers dug through the rubble of about 9500 buildings today looking for more victims in the explo sion of 30 tons of dynamite aboard parked freight train that killed at least 48 persons The blast on Friday which offiCials said was South Koreas worst ever in peacetime injured 1280 and destroyed or damaged nearly 40 per cent of the city of lri south of Seoul Authorities estimated that 10000 of lris 120000 residents were homeless and that at least $10 million worth of property was Barries first snowfall of the season created slippery road conditions and kept area lice busy with rash of accidents Friday nigh Four unidentified people were taken to Bar ries Royal Victoria Hospital near pm with injuries suffered in the worst accident of the mght on Highway 27 near Midhurst spokesman for the Barrie detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police says the four were involved in twovehicle accident on Highway 27 in snowy conditions Members of the Simcoe Rescue Squad freed one of the four from the wreckage of one car in four minutes says spokesman Gary Joice It was matter of taking the side of the door off so the woman could be eased onto fractureboard he said late Friday night Police are not releasing the names of the four although the kesman said all come from the Toronto an Mississauga area Total damage is estimated at $3000 New York woman suffered bump on the had in an accident police say was caused by snowy conditions Sharon Frailey of Niagara Falls was in twovehicle accident with Howard Pogue of Barrie near pm on Highway 27 south 35a CKVRTV Total damage is estimated at In other accidents Friday night Sudbury man escaped injury when he lost control of his car on Highway 400 southbound near the Thonrton cutoff near pm say the Barrie OPP Damage estimates to his 1977 Ford are $1200 An Angus man was involved in single vehicle accident on Sunnidale Raod near 745 pm in snowy conditions and escaped injury although his 1976 Austin sustained $900 damage Barrie city police report there were several minor accidents overnight with no serious in uuries or damage Power was lost in the Peel and Grove Street area from 914 pm until after 11 pm after pole was knocked down in the area says ci ty police spokesman The snowfall caused relatively few pro blems in centres around Barrie say police spokesmen Stayner OPP reported only one minor acci dent despite slippery road conditions while lnnisfil police say there were no accidents in their area overnight OPP detachments in Wasaga Beach and Midland reporter no problems while police in Bradford say they covered two minor ac cidents in snowfall lighter than the one in Barrie spokesman for the Ontario ministry of transportation and communications says sanders were sent out on provincial highways at em to prevent slippery conditions He said there were no real problems on the roads Friday night although traffic was slow during the snowfall on Highway 400 in the Barrie area As always happens after the first snowfall local garages and service centres were swamped by motorists who had neglected to have their vehicles winterized ahead of time Dan Craddock assistant service manager of the Canadian Tire Auto service Centre said that business had picked up Thursday in the wake of weather warnings of snow in creased Friday and peaked this morning By 10 am the centre was booked through to pm Most of the work involves the in stallation of snow tires although the other aspects of winter preparation also account for goodly share Craddock said damaged The city 190 kilometres about 120 miles from here is rail hub for southwestern Korea Police said the cause of the explosion was under investigation Witnesses said the blast which left crater 60 feet deep oc curred few minutes after man ran from freight car about pm screaming Fire fire CAUSED BY FLAMES Police said the man who was assigned by the Korea Explosives Co of inchon to oversee its dynamite shipment told them he saw flames in the ceiling of freight car carrying the explosive and other chemicals The car had stopped at the Iri railway sta tion on its way to Kwangju 100 kilometres 60 miles south where the dynamite was to be sold to mining and construction com panies All hospitals and clinics in Iri were filled with victims and many casualties were sent to nearby towns for treatment officials said About 300 doctors and 1000 soldiers were dispatched to the stricken city to assist in rescue operations The army and Korean Red Cross set up medical relief sta tions in the city Coach to resign 0R0 Al McLean the coach of the Oro 77s Junior Hockey Club announced this morning that he is resigning from the coaching position The 77s have not gotten off to good start in the initial season They have record of one win and six losses and McLean feels he could be partially to blame Thin just havent been going well he said boys just dont seem to be work ing for me sol figured Id give someone else chance to see what he can do dont know that Im the problem but it might help if resign the boys just wont listen to me he added replacement for McLean has not been announced weather Windy and cold with occasional snowflur ries today Brisk winds will bring few snowsqualls in the snowbelt areas With to centimetres accumulation Highs to Lows overni to Sunday sunny with cloudy peri Highs Sunday to