The Ottawa Journal from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada • Page 67

The small rural municipality of Wakefield East is having trouble convincing the federal government to approve its road construction project under the Local Initiatives Program. Last year, Mayor Richard Thibault was told there was no money left in LIP coffers and, this year, he was told his program was not With 50 per cent of the municipality's 1,000 inhabitants unem ployed during the winter, Mayor Thtbault had looked to LIP for help. This The closing of the Perley Bridge caused long detours for truckers normally using the Hawkesbury route. 3 HEATHER SAUNDERS, 17, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Mac Saunders of Inkerman is Winchester's 1973 carnival queen. She is a student at North Dun-das District High School. "We planned to build a road to area lakes where summer camps could be built," Mr. Thibault said today. "There are 1,400 summer camps inside our boundaries and the Quebec government has already sold lots on shores of lakes that are not yet accessible by car." Mr.

Thibault tried to see Man power Minister Robert Andras Wednesday but he was out. He left his message with the minister's secretary and expects a call any day. the program signs off the air at 10.20, anything can happen and often does. Don, as he frequently reminds his listeners, came from Tren ton, Ont. seven years ago.

His radio experience? Absolutely nil. In fact, when he took over the Sound Off show two years ago, he was scared to death of a microphone and the first weeks were sheer agony he even lost a few pounds. But he has been a real estate salesman, a policeman, boss of a moving company or two, and now has formed his own company' to offer commercial and domestic cleaning and maintenance services. He says it is because so much of this work takes place at night that he has time in daylight hours to be a regional representative for the Rotary Club, pres says By DAVE BRAY L'ORIGNAL A Hawkesbury man, facing 65 charges ot then and possession of stolen goods, Tuesday told a county court judge here that he purchased machine guns, rifles, pistols, and ammunition he is alleged to have stolen from a local munitions dealer. John St.

Amour, 27, testifying his own defence, told Judge Omer Chartrand that weapons seized in a raid on his home last summer had been purchased from X-L Explosives Ltd. for his own use. SMITHS FALLS (Special) -The water bill in Smiths Falls is going up 25 per cent beginning April 1. The increase is 75 cents a month, or a $2.25 increase for a three-month billing period. Village job-hungry Wakefield East blocked in bid to get LIP grant He wants to know why his project was turned down when so many similar ones in Pontiac County were accepted.

The project would have cost the federal government $64,000 and the municipality $29,000. "The program was approved by the Quebec government and we have already spent some money to get it started," Mr. Thibault said. The road building project would have supplied jobs for 30 of Wakefield East's unemployed. Problems hit brigade in Almonte ALMONTE (Special) The Almonte volunteer fire brigade is plagued by problems, larly absenteeism, and having to deal with four different kinds of fire hydrants in their area.

Council was told at a meetinc Tuesday night the 14-member brigade which celebrates its 100th anniversary this year is Deing attected Dy the increasing trend towards out-of-town hnti. days. Council praised the existing brigade for its service and said a draft bylaw would be introduced to lay down conditions of service for force. Average age of the force is 53. ident of the Pembroke Chamber of Commerce, and also host Sound Off.

He has gradually made his radio show a very intimate thing between himself and his" listeners. Almost everyone who calls in calls him "Don," and one young female voice among the frequent callers has decided that they are some sort of cousins, although Don can't figure out how that is. But it makes her happy and so he doesn't dispute it. Her calls are often the highlight of the program. Almost invariably she will come on the line to admit that she missed the first part because she had to look after her kids, and then asks, "Don, what is your subject today?" Once she was told that the topic was VD and the last question had In fact, the house had also been obtained from his former employer, Thomas Higginson, president of the X-L Explosives he said.

Property adjoining the house included storage facilities and powder magazines used by the company, the court was told. Ontario Provincial Police offi cers confiscated some 37 wea pons and a quantity of bullets, shells, cartridges, and gun powder in two raids carried out last July and August. "Mr. Higginson told police Water bill hike in Smiths Falls The present three-month bill is $9. The hike is due to increased cost of chemicals and other materials for maintenance of the system together with projected capital projects, according to" a water commission spokesman.

Compared with Perth, Carle-ton Place and Arnprior, the Smiths Falls water rate is still the lowest. The last increase for water services in Smiths Falls was April 1, 1971. Microfilm this side only Second Clou Moll Registered Number 0541. FIRST EDITION Wednesday, March 7, 1973 The Ottawa Journal Murder trial opens Rolphton accused pleads not guilty PEMBROKE (Staff) The blood of a 10-year-old eirl mur dered near Rolphton Oct. 26 be longed to a grouping found only 16 per cent of the world's population, it was revealed Tuesday at the jury trial of Gary James Hay, 18, of Rolphton.

Charged with non-capital murder in the death of Heather Lynn Barnett of Rolph Township, Hay pleaded not guilty Tuesday before Mr. Justice O'Leary at the spring assizes of the Ontario Supreme Court. Dietre Von Gemmingen'of the Ontario entre of Forensic Science who compared the blood of the murder victim with that found on several items submitted as evidence was one of 10 witnesses called by Crown Prosecutor John Mulcahy to give evidence Tuesday. One of rtloDdaired5Xhibils rock found near the girl's body. Mr.

Von Gemmingon said the girl's blood and that on the rock were of the same type. OPP Const. Eldon Humphries told of finding the body in a clearing, not far from the home of the girl's father at 8 a.m., Oct. 27. She disappeared after leaving a Rolphton store the previous afternoon.

Heather Barnett, whose parents are separated, lived with her mother. The day she dis appeared, Heather and her seven-year-old sister Patricia were visiting their father, Albert Barnett, an Ontario Hydro operator at the Rolphton generating plant. One of seven children in the Barnett family, Heather had been given a dollar "so she could give the other kids 25 cents each," her father said. "She laft to get the dollar changed," he testified, describing her departure for the Rolph ton Farm Market. "I didjiot see her again, alive." The proprietor of the general store testified that the girl spent IS cents and then left alone "about 4:30" p.m.

Hay was arrested Oct. 30 after the investigation had been taken over by OPP Inspector W. B. Perrin, Criminal Investigation Branch, who was to testify today. Hay is being defended by Thomas Stone of Renfrew.

is Sound Off DON SUTHERLAND been on gonorrhea. "Oh," she said brightly. "I had an aunt who had the diarrhea bad." Don has learned to parry and cut off the drunk, the troublemaker, the political cobra. Listeners often hear the voices of the lonely who merely need someone, to listen, and will call in to say, "Would that person who is in a wheel chaif," (or "who watches the birds from her please call me at On the other hand, a talk show gives people with an axe to grind a free access to many ears. There are several who call daily, but rather than becoming a nuisance, they add a unique comic relief.

The audience hangs on with bated breath how is Mrs. going to switch this topic around to communism? How will get in a which items to seize," St. Amour testified. The ammunition had been purchased for private use while other items were to be used to reload spent cartridges. Boxes of cartridges were said to have been purchased from Mr.

Higginson shortly before the accused left his employ. "Mr. Higginson still had mer chandise in the buildings of the property and we had to move some personal effects when we moved in," he said. Other items seized belonged to a business associate, he added. The accused told the court he had formed his own company prior to leaving X-L with the intention of operating a mail-order arms business.

"I owned about 150 weapons at the time of the seizure and reloaded my own ammunition," he said. Most of the weapons had been obtained from manufacturers or private sources through X-L Ex plosives and had been transferred to his name upon arrival of the shipment, he explained. He had also traded parts of his personal collection for wea pons X-L stock, he said. Still others were purchased directly from suppliers and shipped through X-L to him! "That was to simplify proce- and eliminate paper work," he told the court. Mr.

Higginson had been aware of his practices, he said, (Journal Photo by Montaigne) Hot-line host can handle callers until laryngitis-strikes 1 By BILL MONTAIGNE PEMBROKE (Special) The best-known voice on radio station CHOV here doesn't belong to any regular member of the staff. Just after 9 a.m. Monday-to-Saturday local businessman Don Sutherland carrys his 210 pounds up the stairs to the radio studios to be ready to announce at 9.13: "I'm Don Sutherland; and this is Sound And from that moment until Span re-opened at Hawkesbury HAWKESBURY (Special) The Perley inter-provincial bridge here has been re-opened to all traffic. The bridge was closed Tues day while a brace which had given way causing an eight- inch gap between the first and second spans on the Hawkesbury side was repaired. ine onage nau wen ciuseu iu Almonte to polls April 9 ALMONTE (Special) A new mayoralty election will 'be held Monday, April 9 in Almonte, At a special meeting Tuesday night the town council accepted "with regret" resignation of recently-elected Mayor E.

Hall Farnham, who is leaving the post for health reasons. Council agreed, unanimously, to call an election. Nominations will be accepted from March IS to 19 with the final qualifying date March 20. In addition, an election for a seat on the Lanark County board of education left vacant through the death of Mur ray Comba will be held on the same date. trucks and heavy vehicles since the gap was discovered Sunday night.

The 45-year-old bridge is the only route across the Ottawa River for -about 60 miles each way. About 60 per cent of traffic us ing the bridge is heavy trucks. An average of ISO loads of pulp-wood for the Canadian Inter national Paper mill in -Hawk esbury crosses the bridge-each day. dig for anti-abortion when we are talking about Opportunities for Youth? (She does via the pamphlets issued to teens:) All this while Don Sutherland tries to say calmly that his caller is introducing several topics at once, and could we perhaps go back to the first question. But the list of phone-fans widens with each broadcast, and he has to keep repeating the ground rules.

So much so that he ended up recently with laryngitis, was out-talked by many regulars to the great delight of the listeners. "I have to go for a commercial," breathed Don and almost unheard as a caller held forth about a book she had read recently that was required reading for everyone. "And it only costs SI. 50 all about these government grants Guns bought, not stolen Hawkesbury accused and knew he was ordering wea pons for personal use through the company. Earlier testimony had in dicated Mr.

Higginson rarely gave receipts to employees who made purchases from the company, unless specifically re quested. Robert Hollister, a former employee of the company, said he had often bought material from the firm without receiving an invoice. The trial continues. Bids called for water treatment SMITHS FALLS (Special) Tenders have been called for in stallation of water supply chlo-rinators at Rideau Regional Hospital School here. The project, which will cost around $40,000, should take two months to complete once a contract is awarded, the provincial government said today.

Because the hospital is more than 6,000 feet from the town's water supply it is necessary to rechlorinate the water at the school to ensure it is safe. I -) 11 FORT COULONGE CARNIVAL PRINCESSES FORT COULONGE Six local girls are chasing the Fort Coulonge Carnival crown, to be awarded next Saturday night They are; from left to right, Guy-Lalne Lavlgne, Barbara Herault, Dianne Bertrand, Jo-Anne Belleau, Giselle Mousseau, and Rachet Denault. The carnival, which starts Thursday and ends Sunday, features dances, sporting events and a $500 draw. CAFIM'S on Rideau St. inn-T npT I it, XMmm Winning i Combination i fezSfiJL ilr'Jli our polyester Ws'V-i'JHii tweed jacket oVess 'A'HUtOv combines white XT'JOrJriJlVB sleeveless WTflfSiJ turlleneck bodice, f.

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