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Santa takes it easy Santa laus was invited to the annual Christmas meeting Thursday of the Siincoe ounty Medical Secretaries at the Bayshore Motor Hotel He took few moments to catch his breath and relaxbeing his busy season and allbefore joining the party Examiner Photo City mall to go ahead but in reduced form The proposed Downtown Centre will go ahead early next year in somewhat reduc ed form with private financing Barrie ar chitect Millet Salter partner in the project said Thuisday He said the centres developers no longer plan to await partial provincial loan funding for the project under the housing ministrys downtown revitalization program The indoor mall to be built at the corner of Dunlop and High streets as an enlargement of the former Canadian Tire building will have about 25 specialty shops and is expected to be nearly completed by the end of March Salter said He said underground parking and addi tional land purchases for parking both dependent on provincial loan assistance have been dropped from the project Also dropped are 80 apartment units which had once been included in the proposal and heat pump system which Salter said would have conserved energy but would have been more expensive to install than conventional heating and air conditioning City council voted Nov 28 to request revitalization loan for the project move which pronokeu an outcry from planning Rome talks productive ROME Renter Canadian Defence Minister Barnett Jerome Danson flew home today after fiveday official visit and what he called very productive talks with Prime Minister iiulio Andreotti and Defence Minister Attilio ltuffini Danson told news conference the two countries reaffirmed the desire expressed by Andreotti during his recent visit to Canada to develop mutual cooperation on every level friday is for HOMES Plans to build Sam Cancilla owner of Cancilla Frun 20 plans to build sixunit apartment building on Rose Street opposite Barrie PP headquarters The lot adjacent to the Highway 400 nor thbound ramp from Bayfield Street is roughly triangular in shape ancillas architect Millet Salter told planning board Tuesday that his client plans threestorey building with two apartments on each floor and eight parking spaces Cancilla bought the lot from the Public Utilities Commission and wants to change the zoning from light density residential R2 to medium density multiplefamily residential RMII except for the location for the parking lot The proposal meets all RM3 regulations board and some aldermen because the re quest for funds was made before completion of the citys current $61000 core area revitalization study The request was allowed to stand following assurances from the province that other revitalization projects which might arise out of the study would also be considered for pro vincial funding with council having the right to choose either the Downtown entre or some other proposal as the citys main revitalization project following completion of the study However the study is not due to end until February and Salter said last week the Downtown Centre developers could not wait that long to decide what to do with their pro posal He said at that time the project might have to be cut back to seven or eight tenants or even to single tenant if the developers had to rely on conventional financing for the cen tre Such course would turn the proposal in to mere patchup paintaup approach to the existing building he said But he said lhursday he and his partners downtown merchant Harris Steele wholesaler lion Stewart and electrical cone tractor Jack Wallwin like Salter all of Bar rie have found it possible to go ahead with the retail portion of their plan IIllIillS the underground parking and the apartments No figures on overall cost or square footage were available Thursday proposed second phase of the Downtown Centre would have covered part of two blocks to the east of the former anadian lire pro pcrty required closing of parts of Toronto and Mary streets and included major department store The developers abandoned the second phase after details of the proposal were disclosed during the controversy over oun cils request for provincial funds for the first phase Homes with difference Surrey Place off Edgehill Drive Barrie overlooking Kempenfelt Bay used employees and students as models to demonstrate the unique flavor of the subdivision Story and photos on todays Ilonies Page Ex aminer Photo Surrey Place The new Surrey Place Iiomes makes it af Too little too late soy critics 75000 jobs with makework plans OTTAWA CP Government ministers estimated Thursday that two federal make work programs will create more than 75000 temporary jobs but unimpressed critics retorted the plans will be too little and too late to have any major impact on worsening unemployment this winter Treasury Board President Robert Andras filling in details of $150million direct job program announced Oct 20 said the plan will produce between 26000 and 28500 jobs of bet ween five and six months in duration And Finance Minister Jean Chretien said 113th your No 294 Friday December 977 15° For Copy Home Dollvory 90° Weekly $100million program that would award tax credits to companies which produce jobs should generate another 50000 vacancies The $150million plan termed the federal labor intensive program FLIP by govern ment officials will continue until Sept 30 1978 Andras said The FLIP program would provide variety of jobs such as maintenance repair and small construction work snow removal brush clearing clerical work mapping and surveying Fifteen government departments are involved Andras said employees would be paid at something on the lower side of local wage rates and hiring would be done through Canada Manpower centres The tax credit program is to operate through the rivate sector Chretien told the Commons wever that legislation im plementing the plan is not yet ready and will not come before the Commons until after Parliaments Christmas break ending Jan 23 The announcements prompted criticism from opposition MPs who said the plans serving barrie and simcoe county would have minimal effect on unemploy ment which is at its worst level since 1940 Statistics Canada reported recently that Novembers seasonallyadjusted jobless rate was 84 per cent and the actual number of unemployed was 840000 Unemployment generally worsens in the months from December to March and this winter is ex pected to be no exception James McGrath PCSt Johns East said in an interview the government did not recognize the potential for social unrest in ris ing unemployment Page the examiner Towerlights on halthour before crash inquest told 25 per cent of letters received praise RCMP TORONTO CP spokesman for the McDonald royal commission into the RCMP says that about 25 per cent of the 100 letters received by the commission since the inquiry began praise of the federal security force Supt John McKendry one of two directors of investigation for the commission declined to discuss specific contents of the letters ex cept to say he was surprised at the volume of correspondence Actually expected larger response said McKendry 28year veteran of the tario Provincial Police 89 careful of them They 90 children for breakfast IIISIde local INoctylo ontortalnmont homes sports 10 comics 18 classified 14 17 Insurance rates From Toronto Bureau Of The Examiner Going to driving school does produce cheaper car insurance rates but only with some insurance companies consumer and commercial relations minister Larry Grossman said here He was responding to question from MPP George Taylor PCSimcoe Centre during consideration of the budget for Grossmans ministry In some cases the reduction is as much as 44 per cent the minister said But he suggested that before anyone takes course ey should find out which in surance companies if any accept the par ticular driving schools results Puptrailer tests From Toronto Bureau Of The Examiner puptrailer accident on Highway 400 near Barrie four years ago prompted the government to research and monitor those kind of multiple units transportation and communications minister James Snow said in Toronto He was commenting during committee Were getting lot of letters that are not complaints at all but are rather quite com plimentary of the RCMP The commission under Mr Justice David McDonald of Alberta Supreme Court last week began its investigation into allegations of RCMP wrongdoing and examination of how the force is publicly accountable McKendry said his SlXanllXil in vestigation team has acted on some of the let ters The team conducted interviews last week in Quebec and Alberta and two in vestigators will be in Toronto next week to in terview complainants We are investigating just about every let ter unless it doesnt fall into the terms of reference of the commission McKendry said If someone has an axe to grind with say the PP that falls outside our jurisdication and we wont investigate it Huge diamond found in raid VANCOUVER lIi huge diamond was found in secret panel in the wall of Van couverarea house when the RCMP recovered jewels worth $23 in series of raids this week Superintendent Bob Mullock in charge of RCMP commercial crime section which carried out the raids said the highquality diamond worth thousands of dollars was among the gems found Very few of us could afford to buy one like it he said Thursday adding that the dia mond is as big as dime It is not known who the gem belongs to special gemologist has been brought in to help trace the owner Prosecutor John Hall said police believe the valuables may have been stolen in Fran cc or may be part of goods stolen in the $25 million robbery of the Vancouver Safety Deposit Vault in January By JOHN BRUCE Examiner Staff Reporter The warning lights on CKVRs 3048 metre 1000 foot transmission tower were on about 30 minutes before twinengine airplane crashed into it Sept The statement by Bob Hebden CKVR employee Thursday during the second day of the coroners inquest into the crash meant the end of an agreement between lawyers for all parties represented at the inquest John Alexander inquest counsel said the lawyers at the inquest had agreed the lights were off at the time of the crash and he would introduce evidence during the inquest to pro ve the point Barrie coroner John Hicks Wednesday refused to allow argument on whether or not the lights were on because of Alexanders statement But after Hebdens statement the lawyers discussed the issue particularly whether or not the light sensor which turned the lights on as daylight subsided was working at the time of the crash The Beechcraft Baron piloted by Armand Hollinsworth 41 of Mississauga and carrying four senior executives of Falconbridge Nickel Mines Ltd crashed into the tower in light rain and fogkilling allfive men Also killed in the crash were John Mather 56 of Toronto Gordon Allen 61 of Falconbridge Roy Cleland 49 Onaping Falls and Kenneth Dunn 56 of Toronto flight precaution advisory due to bad weather conditions in southern Ontario was issued by the Toronto weather office five hours before twinengine airplane crashed into television station KVHs transmission tower Sept Gordon Gee Ontarios chief meteorologist told the coroners inquest into the crash this morning the bad weather was caused by weather front moving slowly northeast through the area between the Toronto and Muskoka weather stations Rain showers fog and 600 1200 feet cloud ceilings extended in the area in 25mile band around the front he said At 630 pm the airplane owned by Falcon bridge Nickel Mines Ltd of Toronto hit the 30480 metre tower killing the pilot and four senior company executives Gee said the weather information was available to all pilots in southern Ontario through the aeradio weather service at Toronto International Airport deadflnef The thrill of if all last home of Na Amin could vote here TORONTO CP President Idi Amin of Uganda automatically would have vote in municipal and provincial elections in On tario if he chose to emigrate An answer tabled in the legislature Thur sday lists Uganda among the countries con sidered as homelands of British subjects who are allowed to vote in provincial and munici al elections In dition to the major Commonwealth countries the list for municipal elections contains such exotic names as Pitcairn Island in the South Pacific St Helena the poleon in exile and the Republic of Ireland which left the Com monwealth in 1948 Citizens of South Africa which has been out of the Commonwealth since 1961 also are listed as British subjects for the pur poses of voting in Ontario elections Kidnappers convicted OAKLAND Calif AP The three men Hebden who lives next to the CKVR sta tion said he noticed the lights were on at pm the day of the crash as he walked home for dinner However he said he could see onl about 600 feet of the 1000foot tower an therefore could not say if all the towers war ning lights were working When Alexander said he had not heard anyone say the lights were on Hebden said they were activated by light sensor located on the roof of small building next to the tower If the lights went off before 630 the time of the crash its because it got bright enough to turn them off he said Under crossexamination by lawyer William Sommerville representing Falcon bridge Hebden said the sensor was about 12 feet off the ground About half an hour after he got home Hebden said he heard plane approaching He couldnt see anything from his sunporch so he went outside to scan the sky for the plane COLORLESS BLUR He said that as he looked across the sk colorless blur caught his eye just be ore the plane crashed into the tower Hebden said he started to run to the televi sion station but his wife stopped him As he stood beside his house the tower fell over dragging smaller tower onto the station roof he said After telling his wife to call the police and fire department Hebden said he ran over to the station He told the inquest that when he went out side to look for the plane he could see about mile along the ground and it was fairly bright Hebden said part of his job at CKVR was to check the warning lights on the tower to make sure they werent burnt out The lights are usually changed once year he said but he had not checked them in six montls Charles Batchelor Department of Transport DOT air crash investigator who worked on the crash said another CKVR employee whose name he couldnt remember told him the day after the crash that the warning lights were on about 10 minutes before the plane hit the tower Batchelor said he tested the light sensor but the results were too inconsistent to determine if it turned the lights on because of the weather on the day of the crash He did not however examine the warning lights to find out if they had been on because based on most eye witness accounts he was satisfied the warning lights were off Baby Penny dies Baby Penny whose first year of life was spent in an isolated germfree enclosure because she was born without natural lm munltles died Thursday Known only as Baby Penny because her parents wanted anonymity she was in October She is RMIt regulations require parking at the rear of the building but Cancilla plans to put parking spaces at the front of the building Because of the roughly triangular shape of the lot with the apex fronting on Rose Street the building must go at the rear of the lot with parking at the front Salter said The proposal was sent to zoning commit tee for recommendation Most motorists spent last week cursing the snow that fell on the city of Brantford 0nt but by this week many found it joy giving them their first chance to dust off snowshoes skis and sleds Kevin Cullen and Ron Smith 17 put their nerves and their toboggan to the test on snowy hill Thursday CP Photo accused in the Chowchilla schoolbus kid napping probably will spend the rest of their lives in prison because three schoolgirls agedlo and 12 told judge they suffered fainting spells nosebleeds and stomach up sets while held captive The defendantsJames Schoenfeld 26 gichard Schoenfeld 23 and Fred Woods were convicted Thursday of kidnapping with bodily harm under tough law that calls fora ife sentence with no parole Superior Court Judge Leo Dee an decided IL ed Re 02258 without jury hgulingft 13 pf AN AAPThirt twopatients oung captives su fe Liquor out at OYO early today when fire yswe through harm irectly linked to the July 1976 or TORONTO CP No employees of Philip ines mental hospital olding more 11881 liquor outlets whether permanent part than ree times the number of patients it Describing the kidna pings as an ordeal time or temporary will be laid off because was designed for officials said Of terror Deegan sai it was the testimony of reduced store hours Larry Grossman Some of the victims were so indifferent 01 some of the children that convinced him minister of consumer and commercial rela they lay in the burning ward while others bodily injury had occurred tions said Thursday fou off rescuers tryin to get them out The defendants admitted kidnap ing the Grossman told the legislature thdt store sai Dr Jaime Castan director of the youngsters and school bus driverE Ray at examination of his ministrys budget Runways at Centralia airport are used for testing he said They are repaved sprayed with water to make it like slippery highway and then skid tests are done with antijackknifing devices to see if design improvements can make them safer Research seems to show pup trailers are no more dangerous than any other vechicle he said but they seem to attract more publicity fordable for firsttime buyers to purchase homes The prices of the Surrey Homes range from $37900 to $39000 Florian Pavlik advertising manager for Surrey Homes says the three selling features of the new homes are low prices picturesque site and communityoriented pro ram Surrey Homes are located in nor thwest Barrie off Edgehill Road and all of them overlook Kempenfelt Bay Most of the homes in the subdivision are made up of bungalows and twostorey com plexes The lot sizes are 40 110 and are sold on firstcome firstserve basis Surrey Homes boasts another special feature Most building companies dont live at the job site once the homes are com leted but we have customer service buil ing on the site at Surrey Place says Zev Weinberg project sales manager of the new shown at the age of 13 months at Universi ty Hospital Tucson Arizona AP Photo Liver damage warning TORONTO CP Men who drink 30 beers week or women who drink 15 may be damaging their livers says guide published by the Canadian Foundation for Diseases of the Liver The guide says that in Canada 75 per cent of liver cirrhosis is caused by the excessive use of alcohol although it is still not known exactl how alcohol damages the liver Cirrhosis of the liver the final stage of liver disease was the most rapidly in creasing cause of death in Canada weather Mainly cloudy today Saturda occasional Reduced rate HRANTFORD Ont CP Ontario Housing Minister John Rhodes said recently that Canada needs an independent lending rate of eight or nine per cent on mortgage loans Rhodes addressing the annual meeting of the Brantford Progressive Conservative Association said reduced lending rate would be fair in relation to current market conditions 32 patients killed people are holding back on buying houses subdivision hours and consumer usage of outlets have National Mental Hospital gunpoint and holding them captive in rain and gusty easterly winds eveloping in because of existing high interest rates he For the Story on surrey place see todays been reviewed by the Ontario Liquor Con Castaneda reported that six of the potion buried moving van but denied five charges theaftemoon Highs both days to Lows said Homes page trol Board ts were treated for minor smoke inhalation of kidnap with bodily harm tonight to