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The Windsor Star, Friday, June 18, 1971 5 mi mm mmr mm mmr mm mm mwm mm mw a mm mm mm M. JL HL0L0 iht it it 11 it it a a a it a a 'r mm mm mm mm mrm mm mm mw mm mm mm mm mm mm mm ma mmr r'S's ms mt usw ft Closing bylaw motion Monday A motion aimed at providing a solution to the controversial service station closing bylaw issue will be submitted to City Council Monday night by Aid. Thomas Toth. Aid. Toth, who previously announced his intentions of submitting a motion to make service station closing hours uniform in Windsor, said his new submission will be along the lines favored in a recent vote of station operators.

m. 1 ki Uv' life 7 IJ -If (See also Page 53) I By BILL HICKEY 1 SASKATOON Elected municipal officials went on record here Thursday to ask for immunity in city council similar to tnat enjoyed by members 01 tne federal and provin-. cial houses of parliament. Delegates to the 34th annual conference of the Canadian Association of Mayors and Municipalities voted in favor of a resolution asking for the legislative changes needed to grant them such immunity. Members of both senior level houses of parliament are R.

F. Gomme, Toronto, secretary; Mrs. Eleanor Whiteford, district director for the tri-county area; and Donald Klinck, Windsor, OHA president. FLOWER POWER The Ontario Horticultural Association is holding its 65th annual convention at the University of Windsor. Three OHA executives at the convention are, from left: Horticulturists meet here Arison, in his banquet speech, emphasized the importance of bridging the gaps between generations.

Earlier in the day, Dr. R. C. Quittenton, president of St. Clair College, addressed the association on youth and Jim St.

Marie, of Conestoga College, Kitchener, urged, in a lecture: "Let's communicate!" Today there was a speech by Clifford Drysdale, of Point Pelee National Park, on conserving for tomorrow and an address: Gleanings of the Future, by Prof. I. L. Nonnecke, of the University of Guelph. A new executive for the association was to be elected today, following a barbecue at noon at Jackson Park.

Six hundred horticulturalists from across Ontario are attending the 65th convention of the Ontairo Horticultural Association at the University of Windsor. Thursday night saw the major event of the two-day event a banquet in St. Denis Hall. Guest speaker was William Arison, of the University of Windsor. Provincial minister of lands and forests Rene Brunelle was scheduled to attend but was unable to at the last minute.

A. J. Herridge, director of resource products for the department of lands and forests, took his place. Conventioneers redstered Wednesday at the university for the event which has as its theme: Getting to know youth. Mr.

Truck drivers to compete Ever watch in amazement while a truck driver backs his huge tractor-trailer rig into a space the driver of a foreign car would hesitate to enter? You will have an opportunity Saturday to see some of the best drivers in the business compete with each other in a unique safe-driving contest. It is the "annual Windsor Regional Truck Road-E-O, which will be held on a parking area at the Gateway Plaza shopping centre on Dougall Rd. More than 30 professional truck drivers from Windsor, Chatham, Leamington and Sarnda will compete in this event. Winners of three classes will represent the Windsor area in the Ontario championships in September. Purpose of the Road-E-O, which is sponsored by the Transportation Safety Association of Ontario, is to give recognition to skillful drivers and to encourage them and their employers to take a greater interest in courtesy and safety on the road.

The contest entrants will be required to take a written examination before the practical driving phase of the event begins. Driving activities will begin at 9 a.m. and continue on into the afternoon. Awards will be made to the winners at a dinner at the Teutonia Club at 6.30 p.m. The three classes of competition include those for straight trucks; single-axle tractor with tandem-axle trailer and tandem axle tractor with tandem axle trailer.

Crossroads: Rejection to acceptance The operators voted in favor of a rotation system for opening and closing stations in Windsor. They favored station hours between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. daily with 20 per cent of stations remaining open every fifth week to 10 p.m. "In light of the overwhelming vote I intend to bring in a motion along the lines supported by the majority of the station operators," Aid.

Toth said. He said his motion will be designed to make closing hours uniform across the city. Council will not debate the motion until its session on June 28. The motion is expected to be opposed by a group of station operators who favor 24-hour-a-day operations. This unrestricted closing legislation only affects stations in Ward 7, formerly Sandwich East Township and Ward 8, formerly Sandwich West Township.

Stations in the former town of Riverside are currently governed by a closing bylaw. The plebiscite taken in which the operators favored the rotating system with extended hours for 20 per cent every five weeks, is considered to be a compromise to the existing legislation. Archer gets life in slaying CHATHAM Gerald Thomas Archer, 39, of Chatham, was. sentenced to life imprisonment Thursday after a 12-man jury found him guilty of non-capital murder. Archer was charged with killing Belva Russell, 57, a chambermaid at a Chatham hotel, who was living at 43 Adelaide Chatham, at the time of the murder.

The verdict came after four days of testimony in which Archer denied being in the apartment when the woman was killed. He admitted being there several days prior to January 23, the day the partially-nude body was found by her common-law husband Reginald Earl Allan Tomlinson, 58, now of 28 Richmond Chatham. Two fingerprints found on a door and piece of glass in the woman's apartment, were identified by Chatham police detective Jim Boyle as being Archer's. Archer said he went to the woman's apartment several days before her murder to take her a bottle of liquor. She was sick with the flu, he said.

The jury deliberated for 3V2 hours before entering their guilty verdict Mr. Justice Honohue said he agreed with the verdict and told the accused the life sentence was mandatory. "I have no other choice but to sentence you to life imprisonment" The trial ended with Archer saying loudly to his wife as he was being led from the courtroom, "That's only strike one." The significance of the statement is not known. immune from prosecution or civil action for what they say i within the House. They are, however, liable to censure from their fellow members if they are judged to have acted irresponsibly.

Delegates to the federation meetings here deleted from the resolution. They approved a clause that would have asked for removal of immunity privilege for senior government elected officials if such immunity was not granted to municipal officials. The privilege of immunity caused a furor in Ontario last fall when New Democratic Party member Dr. Morton Shulman levied charges of Mafia and organized crime connections against several persons. He was accused by some members of the Ontario legislature at that time of violating his privileges but the issue went no further.

Chatham Mayor Garnet Newkirk called the immunity request irresponsible. He said he could not favor a resolution that might cause council members to be less cautious about what they say. Delegates to the conference also favored a resolution that will change the name of the federation to the Federation Canadian Municipalities. The name change was suggested because of the fact the regional government form of local government has evolved and because it is desireable that the name be such that its initials are the same in French and English. The federation will recommend to the federal government as well that accommodation be found across Canada for young people who wish 'to travel economically' through the country this year.

Delegates amended the resolution to call for some type of 'moderated cost' to the young people for use of the accommodation. The conference ended up treating 67 resolutions and those approved by the delegated will be prsented to the federal cabinet in a meeting with federation officials later this year. Newkirk wins post on board SASKATOON Chatham Mayor Garnet Newkirk was elected to the board of directors of the Canadian Federation of Mayors and Municipalities, Thursday. Mayor Newkirk who is also an executive of the Ontario Association of Mayors and Reeves was named to the 52-member board during closing sessions of the federation's 34th annual conference here. New president of the CFMM is Marcel D'Amour mayor of Hull, Quebec.

Mayor d' Amour in a brief address to the delegates after the election was announced added his voice to the many that have been raised during the past four days calling for tri-level consultation among governments Mayor d' Amour said he was "darned fed up" with senior level government officials who were paying only "lip service" to the idea of consultation of programs with municipal bodies. He said he had real hope that the first of such consultative conferences could be held within the year and he called for further co-operation and unity of the "two cultures" of Canada. young people could be helped, but in what ways they could be best helped." Mr. Short said that in discussions with government officials, Mr. Bullied's concepts are "going to be tried in other efforts to deal with social problems.

Since tne inception of Crossroads, 92 young people who had been part of the drug scene received therapy, the report said, more than 90 per cent of whom have now "returned to the society from which they originally copped out." Financially, Cross roads future appears assured, Mr. Short said, and the program will be sound within the, next three months in terms of government committment. apparent that Windsor's greatest contribution to the general problem of drug use and abuse would be by way of establishment of a network of facilities to deal with the various phases of the problem." If such a network were established, he said, federal authorities have told him it would be a "first in Canada, since no other community is making a concerted effort of this nature to come to grips with the problem." The report also paid tribute to George Bullied, former executive director of Crossroads Farm. "By living a life of deprivation and during a time of much ridicule and castigation, he was able to hold on to his beliefs not only that these accomp'ishments Crossroads has had were due, in no small part, to the direction and assistance of the Addiction and Research Foundation and the encouragement and advice of the Civic Drug Committee. In an interview following the meeting, Mr.

Short said that "what has happened in Windsor, particularly with Crossroads, has been tremendously vitalizing. "The community is much more aware of the whole drug problem now, and this city is far and away ahead of other cities of the same size in trying to deal with it," he said. In his report, Mr. Short said that after discussions with a number of people related to the drug scene in positions of responsibility, it has "become By BRUCE BLACKADAR Crossroads Human Growth Corporation the innovative drug rehabilitation program whose history has been dotted with misunderstanding, con-fusion, and muffled enthusiasm issued its first annual report Thursday and optimism was its central theme. A statement released by Lew Short, Crossroads president, said essentially the first year's operations saw the program come from "rejection to acceptance." The rejection was difficult to understand at the time, Mr.

Short's report said, but "on reflection, no one who has ever brought a social ill to light has ever proven to be very popular in his own time." The report added that any 11 calls answered by firemen The Windsor Fire Department responded to 11 calls between 10 a.m. Thursday and 10 a.m. today, bringing the total number of runs this year to 1,593. Runs Thursday included two in-service house-to-house inspection tours at 10 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.

on Church Street, Dougall Avenue, Westcott Road, Glidden Avenue, Arthur Road and Dandurand Avenue. THURSDAY 11:45 a.m. An unattended pot boiled dry in the apartment of Sharron Sullivan, 340 Partington causing minor smoke damage to the kitchen. 1:16 p.m. A Blue Bird Catering truck caught fire at the rear of 1970 Division Rd.

The cause of the fire, which caused extensive damage to the truck, is unknown, but foul play is not suspected. 2:37 p.m. The fire department received a call to come to the aid of a boat in distress in the Detroit River in front of the LeGoyeau Apartments on Riverside Drive East. The situation was rectified before the firefighers arrived. 2:46 p.m.

No damage resulted from a rubbish fire at the rear of 1974 Ellrose Ave. which was caused by children playing with matches. 4:10 p.m. Workers in the Forest Glade subdivision, south of Tecumseh Road East, near Lauzon Road, were informed that the rubbish fire on the construction site was contravening Windsor bylaw 79. 5:03 p.m.

The refrigerator at 241 Pierre Ave. was removed from the kitchen and placed outside by Windsor firefighters when refrigerant fumes were detected. 6:54 p.m. The fire department dispatched its boat to recover a body which was reported to be in the area of the Holiday Inn on Riverside Drive West. The body was later located in the area of the Ambassador Bridge and was secured and turned over to the Windsor Police Department.

9:34 p.m. An automobile fire in the garage at the residence of Walter Safneck, 1277 Felix Ave. caused extensive damage to the front seat of the car. The fire is believed to have been caused by a cigarette. 11:32 p.m.

A fire in a waste paper container in a washroom at Daal Specialties 2133 Ambassador Drive, reslted in no damage to the premises. The fire is believed to have been caused by a carelessly discarded cigarette. FRIDAY No fire calls registered as of 10 a.m. today. Man 'fair' after mishap AMHERSTBURG A River Canard man is in fair condition at Grace Hospital in Windsor following a single-car accident on Highway 18 at Middle Side Road at 1:30 a.m.

today. Patrick Meloche, 28, RR 2, River Canard, suffered head cuts and injuries to his left arm, after his 1966 Ford car struck an abutment. Damage to the car was estimated at $600 by investigating OPP Constable Richard Singer. The Amherstburg, Anderdon and Maiden Volunteer Ambulance Service took the injured man to hospital. Safe-cracking attempt fails An attempted safe-cracking took place overnight at Walkerville Secondary School.

Police said there was no sign of forced entry, but attempts had been made to punch a hole in the east wall of the school's walk-in vault. The vault was not entered. jm St. Clair 'revving up' for 2nd clean-air race iii. rf v0 By WALT McCALL St.

Clair College's "clean-air car" will soon be off on its second trans-continental journey. The school's propane-powered Dodge Dart, which crossed the United States in the Great Clean-Air Car Race of 1970, has been entered in the British Columbia Centennial Rally which begins in Ottawa June 23. St. Clair's four-man team will leave for Ottawa and pre-rally briefings Sunday. Close to 50 cars have been entered in the B.C.

rally which is scheduled to end in Victoria on Dominion Day. Modestly billed by its operators as "the cleanest car in Canada," the propane gas-powered Dart is the only institutional entry in the contest. It is also the only "ecology" contestant. The St. Clair College entry will be driven by second year business administration student, Mike Felip, and Dennis Lewis of the school's physics department.

Following them in the backup car will be Jerry Ducharme, head of Si. Clair's auto mechanics department, and another St. Clair instructor, Robert Scadden. The trans-Canada rally will be nearly 1,200 miles longer than the 1970 rally which took about 40 cars from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus at Cambridge, 3,600 miles to the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. The contest was held to demonstrate the practicality of antipollution auto engines.

A Wayne State University entry from Detroit won. The St. Clair College car was one of the 33 entries that finished the transcontinental run. "We hope to make a good showing," Mr. Ducharme said, "but we are going to face problems.

"For instance, because the rally route is secret we won't know where the stops are so we can't make arrangements to make it to a propane gas refuelling location in each place we will pass through. But we'll cross that bridge when -we come to it," he said. The white '70 Dart can cruise about 500 miles with its two trunk-mounted propane tanks topped off. The car has not been modified since last year, except for the addition of rally equipment like driving lamps and a metal plate to protect the engine oil pan on rough roads. The car has been repainted.

Its hood is trimmed with two rally stripes in the school colors- Its engine is a standard type V-8 which has been modified to burn liquid propane gas instead of gasoline. Loot varied in overnight break-ins Traffic toll Items taken in a break-in at the residence of William Berloth, 3676 Dougall included two sets of sterling silver, a silver clock, two onyx vases, a brass candleabra, two watches, a movie camera and a man's ring. A bredroom was ransakced and $200 stolen from a suit coat in a break-in at the home of Leonard Rock, 812 Marentette Ave. As Linda Bondy entered her residence at 407 Parent Ave. early this morning a man ran from the building with her purse containing personal papers.

Days since last fatality: 12. From 8 a.m. Thursday to 8 a.m. today. Injuries: 6.

Accidents: 25. Fatalities this year, 5, compared to 4 for the same period last year. Total injured this year: 482. Accidents: 3,910 compared to 3,711 for the same period last year. Property damage: $6,485.

Total to date: $1,512,881. READY TO GO From left, checking the drivers; Jerry Ducharme, head of the school's dual fuel tanks in St. Clair College's propane- auto mechanics department and Dennis Lewis, powered entry in the British Columbia who will share the driving chores on the trans- nial Rally, are Michael Felip, one of the team continental journey..