The Windsor Star du lieu suivant : Windsor, Ontario, Canada • 3

I Windsor Star Friday, July 6, 1979 Star Alert John Fitzgerald Bureau Chief The intercom systems in the two apartment buildings I manage are not working very well. Tenants can't buzz guests in through two of the four security doors because the component in the intercom that controls the automatic entrance has a burnt-out tube. The doors won't automatically open and then relock. And a third tube is on its way out. These systems were manufactured by Kent Manufacturing Co.

and installed six or seven years ago. Kent has been promising to supply us with some spare tubes for more than a year but the tubes which cost about $60 each just never materialized. Since only tubes made to this manufacturer's specifications will work, the only other alternative seems to be to buy whole new intercoms but these cost more than $1,000 each. There are about 40 tenants altogether and I don't blame them for squabbling. I would too if I had to walk down three flights of stairs to let someone in.

R. Bellair, Tecumseh Rd. E. Your tenants should be able to eliminate unnecessary stair-climbing within a month. Although a remedial solution attempted in March failed, Kent Manufacturing Co.

told Star Alert it had made arrangements with a Chatham firm last week to make up those spare tubes. Delivery has been promised within the month. The main reason for the long delay, according to Kent, is a fire that destroyed what units were in stock. Kent said it didn't have time to make these units and had a hard time finding someone else to do the job. Last November, Forest Glade Tree Service came out to remove three tree stumps on our property.

Two were ground down, or so we thought, with a special machine. The third one had to be left. My neighbor's lawn and an orange blossom bush were damaged in the process. I was left with a mess of woodchips and chewed up grass. For the removal of the two stumps, the fee was $60.

Then, in April, when 1 started cutting the grass, I broke the lawnmower blade. One of the stumps hadn't been completely ground out. I phoned Forest Glade and the owner promised to pay us a visit in two weeks. This never happened and now there's a communication problem. We had planned to seed and plant two trees on the area where the stump is but soon it will be too late.

D. Zeray, Leamington. Forest Glade visited your home over two weeks ago and ground that stump to your complete satisfaction. The firm told us it would have had the problem fixed much sooner had it known about your dissatisfaction i in November when its machine was still in Leamington. An overload of work caused by April's ice storm made action on your problem impossible when you first called and then the tree service's grinder broke down.

Forest Glade said it warned you about possible damage to your neighbor's lawn in November and that it is standard policy to charge extra for removing wood chips because of the work involved. We are happy to report that you are no longer stumped by this knotty problem. We've been having trouble getting an interest cheque from Da Vinci Towers. When we signed a one-year lease for an apartment in April, 1978, we paid the last month's rent. According to the Landlord and Tenant Act, the landlord is supposed to pay six per cent interest a year on this amount.

This amounts to about $16. We called the landlord repeatedly over a two-month period and each time he told us our cheque was "in the That may well be but we have yet to receive our money. Even though the landlord says we can have it and that he has already sent it, it seems we require your help to actually get that cheque in our hands. N. Lucier.

Tecumseh E. Well there is no dispute about your entitlement to that money. Your landlord told us he attempted to send that cheque off to you before but apparently it got mailed to the wrong address. Since you still hadn't received your money by the time we contacted Da Vinci Towers we were told a stop payment would be ordered on the old cheque, which was sent in May, and a new one would be issued. Da Vinci guaranteed receipt of the new cheque by spending two dollars to have that $16.20 cheque registered.

It looks like that did the trick You have your money now. Ask The Star It's well known in our family that my mother was the first baby born in Colchester North "at the turn of the She has no birth certificate and this information has been passed down by word of mouth. I say that someone born at "the turn of the century" was born in 1900. She disagrees. She feels it means 1901.

L. Shepley, Bedford. You can't blame a person for trying to shave a year off their age but according to the people we quizzed, "the turn of the century" must have begun one second after midnight in 1900. An employee of the Registrar General's office in Toronto said he had never been asked to define that phrase in 34 years of employment. If your mother asked the registrar's office to conduct a delayed birth registration search the matter could very well be laid to rest for good.

For instance, a federal census was conducted throughout Canada in both 1901 and 1911 this could contain the information you seek. Mail your problems to Star Alert, The Windsor Star, N9A 4MS, or phone 255-5747 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday to Friday. Star Alert will make every reasonable effort to check out all complaints. However, it cannot guarantee to deal with them all nor can it acknowledge every inquiry.

It reserves the right to be the sole judge of the inquiries to be pursued and cannot enter into discussion on the reasons for its choice. All complaints received must be signed and are subject to publication. are concerned (Continued monton and Regina worry about crime. Other cities follow Calgary, Hamilton, Vancouver, Thunder peg, London, Quebec, dsor, Victoria, Sudbury, St. Catharines, St.

Charlottetown. The survey says from Page One) lead the other cities in in this order: Halifax, Montreal, Saskatoon, Bay, Saint John, WinniOttawa-Hull, WinKitchener, Toronto, John's, Chicoutimi, Canadians appear ready to pay for some improvements areas. At the same time unresponsive to the idea sacrificing some services. It notes that in such as crime fighting there is of reducing effort and But even in such low ing more freeways, only spending cuts. "These results suggest Reopening conditions upset high priority areas such virtually no thought costs.

priority areas as build28 per cent called for in their priority those surveyed were of saving taxes by that an emotionally (Continued from Page Three) decision on this proposal." Tilbury-area former commercial fisherman He estimated that there are about 32 former Dime Jubenville suggested that anglers commercial Lake St. Clair fishermen who shouldn't have a monopoly on game fish. "All were forced to get other jobs when the ban natural resources should be made available to took effect in 1970. everybody in the province." "Who will decide which fishermen will get By allowing the commercial fishing industry back into the business here? And what about to catch mainly coarse fish in Lake St. Clair, the rest?" Drouillard asked.

"We need an- the anglers are getting a better deal, he said. swers to these questions before we make any "I don't think commercial fishermen are battle (Continued from Page One) decision, was running in every direction the day in tears of agony and depression," bles, Trustees tabled the boundary decision until this wrote in a letter to Nolan. spring. "Our community cries out for help in this Thursday's meeting was called only Wednesday after crisis." parents met privately with trustee Robert Dupuis to Ruggaber told trustees at the meeting discuss the offer. cover the cost were available immediately.

Cheers went up from the 30 parents waiting outside a Community spokesman Kit Lacasse said conference-room door after they were told of the deci- $17,000 had been raised in pledges since sion. Trustees discussed the offer privately after meet- and the remainder was confirmed from other ing with representatives of the parents. In an interview he said donations ranged The victory caps a two-year struggle by parents to cents donated by a student to private prevent disruptions at St. Gregory School and follows $1,000. several presentations made in recent weeks.

Several contributors had taken out private The parents have argued that significant new housing their names were being kept confidential, he developments occuring as a result of industrial expan- Trustee John Coggans, who has sion in Windsor will soon put a stress on schools in boundary change, said the leasing of Tecumseh, St. Clair Beach and along the north shore the parents would be "an abdication of of Lake St. Clair. by this board." The board's administration has argued that five "It leaves us open to other situations in empty classrooms at St. William must be filled before the county," he said.

portables can be approved. Dupuis said he could not see any problems Two classes at St. Gregory have been held in the leasing and added that by accepting the church hall since September because the school was are not forcing any burden on the rest filled beyond capacity. payers." By a decision of trustees, the board's administration Superintendent Ron Reddam said the submitted an application to the ministry of education would correct the situation for September in May arguing the need for portables and asking for board would have to deal with the matter approval of capital grants to cover the cost. year.

The ministry refused the application arguing there He suggested the leasing would not was sufficient room at schools to alleviate future boundary changes when more nearby overcrowding at St. Gregory, occurs. The refusal upset parents who argued the board had board business arrangements Seguin said leasing would purposely used outdated enrolment statistics to projworked out with superintendent ect future trends for St. William and St. Gregory Alphen.

will Van The portables be required to meet schools. cations covering fire and safety measures. Following last week's decision to proceed with the Lacasse told trustees the board was under boundary change, Clarence Ruggaber, chairman of tion to purchase the portables from the the parents' committee, appealed to trustee Brian are not required at St. Gregory in the future. Nolan to convince the board to reconsider.

"I know it's been rough," he said simply "Our community, wounded deeply by the board's trustees. GM offers Car market stays rough; plaintiffs $200 deal domestic sales off 26.2% CHICAGO (AP) Owners of 1977 Oldsmobiles with Chevrolet engines will be asked by General Motors Co. whether they will accept $200 cash and an extended warranty to drop out of a class-action suit against the auto manufacturing giant. A U.S. District Court judge on Thursday approved a GM request to find out whether some 67,000 new-car owners who unknowingly got switched engines would accept the out-ofcourt settlement.

Letters to owners will be mailed out during the next three to four weeks to help GM determine which persons want to take the offer or continue the suit through the courts. Judge Frank J. McGarr approved the GM request. The decision followed a 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling last February that rejected a multimilliondollar settlement previously approved by McGarr.

The appeals court said consumers could not be forced to accept the settlement. The court said McGarr had exceeded his authority in approving the proposal and ordered new hearings to reach a fair settlement. The case stems from a 1977 suit by attorneys general in 47 states, including Illinois. G.M petitioned McGarr last March to allow the company to contact the individual owners to give them an opportunity to accept or reject the proposal. The offer would give car owners a $200 cash settlement and a three-year or mechanical insurance warranty on the switched engine.

The settlement offer affects 66,782 persons who signed purchase orders for Oldsmobiles by April 10, 1977. By Bill Shields Star Business Editor Fanned by the continuing energy shortage and double diget inflation, sales of North American-built cars in the United States plummeted 26.2 per cent in June, marking the fourth consecutive month for a market decline. While June spelled double trouble for domestic automakers with the only bright spot being the growing demand for smaller, fuel-efficient cars, sales of foreign imports in the U.S. continued to soar by capturing a 22.2- per-cent share of the market. In Canada, the domestic market remained buoyant in June mainly on the strength a strong showing by General Motors which established record car sales for the fifth consecutive month.

There was some softening in the Canadian market last month as Chrysler Canada Ltd. and Ford of Canada reported a sales decline over a year ago. The Canadian market for North American-built cars is up 6.2 per cent from the record-shattering pace last year. Unlike the energy conscious American consumers, Canadian buyers are not turning to the smaller domestic or foreign imports. In fact, import sales in Canada are off almost four per cent in the first half of 1979 and large cars continue to capture better than 25 per cent of the market.

However, the slumping U.S. market has a direct impact on the Canadian automotive industry as approximately 80 per cent of Canada's production, either finished vehicles or components, is exported to the U.S. Uncertainty continues to cloud the U.S. market because of the energy shortage and spiralling inflation. While domestic automakers are running short in supply of smaller vehicles there are still huge inventories of larger cars with some firms having U.S.

to flex muscle in oil-rich Mideast? WASHINGTON (AP) Defence Secretary Harold Brown said Thursday the United States is considering an increased military presence in the Indian Ocean Persian Gulf area. Brown said U.S. military activity in that region during the last six months amounts to "a series of signals that we want to co-operate with our friends in that area. We clearly are leaning toward an increase in our security presence" in the sensitive, oilproducing region. District death LEATHERDALE, Bessie, 93, of Harwich Township.

Funeral Saturday, 1:30 p.m. (Stephen- -Alexander, Chatham), based taxpayers revolt, though much discussed in the media, is unlikely at this time." After answering a wide variety of questions, Victorians showed themselves most satisfied with their city. Te others followed in this order: St. Catharines, Ottawa-Hull, London, Saskatoon, Kitchener, Charlottetown, Quebec, Toronto, Halifax, Vancouver, St. John's, Chicoutimi, Calgary, Thunder Bay, Winnipeg, Edmonton, Sudbury, Hamilton, Montreal, Windsor, Regina, Saint John.

looking for we'll be doing catfish, while able to make cial season May." The fishermen at the Tilbury the proposal. following Ruggaber moment of that funds to more than the weekend sources. from 58 contributions of loans and added. supported the portables from responsibility other areas of with the parents' offer of the tax- portables but that the again next preclude any overcrowding have to be John board specifi- no obligaparents if they in thanking well over a 100-day supply and industry-wide there is an average 60-day supply of these vehicles. Also fueling the growing U.S.

uncertainty is the most recent report of The Conference Board, an independent group which measures the nation's economic future. The board has found consumer confidence in the U.S. is at its lowest point in more than four years. The board's findings show Americans cutting retail spending because of the energy crunch and rising inflation. It feels this trend will continue for the remainder of 1979.

Inmate charged in 2 murders a job in the sanitation end. All is cleaning up the surplus of the anglers get the pickerel. have a God-given right to be a living and as it is, the commerwill only run from September to are planning a closed meeting Arena Tuesday night to discuss Tiger fan's assailant described DETROIT (AP) A description of suspect in the slaying of a 29-year-old St. Clair Shores man stabbed to death after attending a Detroit Tigers game has been released by Detroit police. Officers said Thursday: witness who read newspaper accounts of the Monday night slaying of Timothy Parrish near Tiger Stadium gave police the description.

The witness described the assailant as a white male, about 25 years of age, around 6 feet tall, weighing 165 to 175 pounds, and possibly of Middle Eastern or Mexican origin. The description also noted the assailant had straight, black, collar-length hair, a FuManchu mustache and a thin face. Witnesses said the man may have been injured, because they saw him limping, police said. The Detroit ballclub said Thursday it had made a reward commitment for the arrest and conviction of the slayer. Another reward was offered Wednesday by the Boatworks Lounge, with whose softball team the victim had played.

Windsor exchange rates The following rates for normal transactions were quoted today at Windsor banks for the U.S. dollar and pound sterling: Buying pound sterling at 2.54 and selling at 2.64; Buying U.S. cheques at 1 1605 and selling cheques at 1.1705; Buying cash at 1.1600 and selling cash at 1.1710. LONDON, Ont. (CP) -A man from the Strathroy, area who was tried in Sarnia two years ago and found not guilty of murder by reason of insanity in the 1976 death of a London girl, was charged Thursday with two counts of first-degree murder and with attempted murder, rape and strangulation.

Christian Herbert Harold Magee, 31, formerly of Cairngorm, who is a patient at the Mental Health Centre in Penetanguishene, appeared before a justice of the peace in London and charges were laid. He is charged with firstdegree murder in the March 2, 1974, death of Judith Ann Barksey, 19, of Strathroy, about 30 kilometres west of London. She was found near the Strathroy CNR station with her throat slashed. He is also charged with first-degree murder in the Oct. 20, 1975, death of Louise Patricia Jenner, 19, of Mount Brydges, Ont.

She was found inside her home with her throat slashed. Magee is charged with rape and strangulation in the June 20. 1975, attack of a 20-yearold Strathroy woman in Strathroy. He is charged with attempted murder, rape and strangulation to assist rape in the Nov. 3, 1975, attack of a 14- year-old Guelph, girl in Caradoc Township, near Mount Brydges.

She was found conscious but hysterical in a ditch. Murray Peer of Ontario Provincial Police said the charges were a result of investigation by Strathroy and provincial police. Magee was found not guilty of murder by reason of insanity at his Ontario Supreme Court trial in Sarnia in October, 1977. He was accused of killing Susan Lynne Scholes, 15, of London. Her stabbed and strangled body was found in a field near a forest on June 15, 1976.

Prices paid to producers CHATHAM Prices paid today to area producers: GRAIN CHATHAM Wheat $73.87, soybeans $319.30, corn $138.70. TILBURY Wheat $73.87, soybeans $356.05, corn $138.70. ESSEX Wheat $73.87, soybeans $319.30, corn $138.60. KERWOOD Corn $138.80. ILDERTON Wheat $73.87, soybeans $313.80, corn $138.60.

SARNIA Wheat $73.87, soybeans $319.30, corn $131.70. EGGS Unwashed, ungraded eggs from the farm in 50-case lots and over: Grade A extra large .80, Grade A large .77, Grade A medium .70, Grade A small .45, Grade A peewee .12, Grade .45, Grade .30, Cracks .30. Our STARS ATTRACTION Fun Bark Windsor's New "'LIVE" FARM STEAM RAILROAD 9009 Howard Ave. 3 Mi. South Hwy.

(519) 734-1227 Noting the current oil crisis, Brown said it is "very much" a national security problem, which also threatens U.S. allies in Western Europe and the Far East. However, he said, in the present crisis growing out of reduced supplies from the Persian Gulf and steadily increasing prices, "the military leverage that can be brought to bear is very small indeed." Administration sources have said the main recommendations call for an increase of one or two destroyers in the small, permanent U.S. Mideast force which normally totals three ships; more frequent cruises by major U.S. Navy task forces probably four rather than three a year.

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