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Page 3 The Windsor Star Wednesday, June 10, 1981 rl 14 mi Ml Waws Aldermen beat drum for arena "How many can afford to go to that Renaissance Centre (in Detroit)," one delag te asked. McCurdy said the complex would be accessible to everyone, and questions on taxes and what the complex would contain would be included in the feasibility study. CONTINUEDon Page4 Labor told not to talk withCBC Windsor union members are being asked not to talk to CBC reporters and to boycott companies advertising on BET (Channel 9). Tuesday, The Windsor and District Labor Council promised support for the National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians (NABET), in its third week of a strike againstCBC. Locally, the strike involves about 70 employees and the CBC's English and Lrench television and radio operations.

Many local unions have already been refusing to talk to CBC reporters at the urging of Canadian Labor Congress President Dennis McDermott. A CBE radio reporter was told he could not coverthe labor council's meeting. Local NABET representatives attended the meeting to ask for the boy cotts and the council agreed to urge all affiliated unions to comply. Jim Bouchat, president of NABET Local 75 (CBET Television), told council delegates the CBC's 2,100 technicians across Canada ar on strike for job security and to maintain their jobs. BET wants assurances CBC technicians will be given priority for jobs before freelance workersare hired.

The CBC wants to contract production work to independent and non-union Aldermen Elizabeth Kishkon and Howard McCurdy are out on the hustings again, this time time looking for money. The two are out to raise funds for a study on the feasibility of a new arena-complex for downtown Windsor. Tuesday they received the moral support of the Windsor and District Labor Council. The council also plans to donate 1 00. A little more than a week ago.

City Council voted down the study. That prompted Bill Beagan, a major catalyst in the push for a new arena, to start his own fund raising for the study. The study is estimated to cost about $50,000, ofwhich Wintario would pay half. By Monday Beagan had raised about through private donations, and one of the aldermen who had opposed the study served notice to raise the issue again at next Mondays meeting. A special task force, comprising Kishkon.

McCurdy and members of the city's development commission, has set out to raise the remaining 5 1 3,000 before that meeting. Kishkon told labor council delegates the task forces issue may not seem important to them in the face of the high unemployment the council has been grappling with over the past two years. But the project is important to yours and yourchildren's future," she said. McCurdy said that during tough economic periods, Windsor has often failed to prepare for the return of better times. The project, which might include an 8.000-seat area and science and technology centre, would help revitalize downtown, he said.

McCurdy said a healthy downtow is a vital component to attract new industries. While a clear majority of the labor council's 50 delegates supported the project, there was someopposition. One delegate said the city should settle its labor disputes with its bus drivers and city hall workers before aldermen should expect labor support. Kishkon pointed out she and McCurdy had attempted to get the city more inv olved in the negotiations, but were opposed. Delegates also wanted to know if the project would significantly raise taxes; and wanted assurances that any complex built would be economically accessible to average working people.

Photo by WALTER JACKSON martins so he attached TV aerials and wire birds to his martin house. It worked. Fournier has at least one colony of martins already and expects there'll be more soon. flies north from its winter migration home, looking for a house where there is plenty of open space and lots of mosquitoes. Fournier thought he would try a little decoration to lure the PAUL'S MARTIN HOUSE -Paul Fournier's way of attracting purple martins to 4385 Wyandotte St.

isn't exactly what Mother Nature had planned. Normally, a purple martin scout Starts drilling for oil Ontario to pan for black gold By John Coleman Rowan also said the province expects to gel exploration Tune in for new ON-TV drama The saga of Pay Television and The Pirates switched channels this week, tuning Ontario and Michigan courts intothe melodrama. After a series of charges and counter-charges, both Detroits biggest pay television company and a Windsor distributor of a decoder to unscramble the company's picture have obtained court injunctions. Bud Baker co-owner of Video Gallery said the dsor decoder distributor got a Canadian court order this Week ordering agents of National Subscription TV to stop interfering with customers entering the Wyandotte Street West store. Two process-servers representing the pay-tv company were outside the store last week questioning customers who got out of cars with Michigan licence plates.

Meanwhile. ON-TVs Detroit manager Pat Kerich said he expects a Michigan court injunction to be signed today, ordering an end to Video Gallerys sales to U.S. customers. ON-TV has signed up subscribers who watch first-run movies on Channel 20 for S22.50 a month but Kerich is angry about the Canadian-made decoders finding their way into American hands. Kerich claims considerable" losses have been run up the company losing business to what he calls the pirate decoders.

In the U.S., the pay television company has protective rights to the signal but copycat decoders are legal in Canada. Baker said Video Gallery is ignoring the pay TVs court efforts to block U.S. customers because lawyers have told him Michigan courts dont have jurisdiction over Canada. He added that it would be contrary to Ontarios Human Rights Code if the store discriminated and refused to sell decoders to Americans. CONTINULDon Page4 One trip to altar 2 many WOODSTOCK, Ont.

A Woodstock man, maTried illegally to a Windsor woman, was sentenced Tuesday to nine months in jail for biga-myand fraud. Frederick Maltby. 55, met Rita Perkins, then 56, through a lonely hearts club in Windsor in early 1979. The couple was married the following August. Maltby convinced the woman to sell her Hall Avenue home and place $27,000 in a joint bank account.

Maltby pleaded guilty in Oxford County court to the two charges and another charge of defrauding a Col-lingwood, Ont. woman. Crown Attorney Fred Por-tertold thecourt Maltby used Perkins' money to purchase a mobile home, a car, and to rent an apartment in Toronto. Maltby, already married and living on a disability pension, told the woman he was in the import-export business. He wasacon man, Porter told the court.

He conned two females in a gullible position. "This is almost a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde syndrome," Porter said about Maltby, who had no previous criminal record. County Court Judge Chester Misener said the actions appeared out of character for Maltby and added: I'd be absolutely stunned if he ever had another conflict with the law.

Before sentencing, Maltby told the court: Im very sorry for what has happened. The court was told Perkins has since recovered some of the money by selling the items Maltby purchased although the value was not determined. I i rights to oil and natural gas for 29.1 million hectares (72 million acres) of Hudson Bay within the next month. Rowan said 5100 million will likely be required in Hudson Bay an area he called "one of the primary areas for gas and oil." Drilling isn't set to start until next year, and The energy board expects two other firms to be involved. They will be named later.

If oil or natural gas are found in the Ontario drilling, it will come under provincial jurisdiction and the profits shared ith theothertwopartners. "This has ramifications for all Canadians because any thing we can do to increase the supply of domestic oil is good," Row an said. Rowan said southwestern Ontario is not one of the better "geological opportunities" for oil, but he feels the ells should at least be pumping out oil in the range of "thousands of barrels a day. Part of the optimism for southwestern Ontario is based on oil finds in Michigan. The Ontario drilling sites are located in thesaniegeological basin.

SturToronlo Bureau TORONTO Move over Alberta the Ontario government is about to start drilling for oil in southw estern Ontario. Although the government isnt releasing all the details yet. it confirmed uesday three ells could be started th is summer. We are just delighted any time we find oil in the province. said Malcolm Rowan, president of the Ontario Energy Board.

"We dont expect a find that youd consider large by western Canadian standards, but we dont really know for sure until drilling starts. The energy board, a prov incial Crow corporation, is undertaking the drilling as part of a joint venture with the federal government's PelroCanada and privately-owned Canada Cities Service. Rowan said initial costs of the project will be about SI million. Drilling sites haven't been disclosed, but exploration rights cover about 20.200 hectares (50,000 acres). Some drilling is under way for oil and natural gas in the Oil Springs and Bothwell areas.

Oil as first discov ered in Canada at Oil Springs, a small tow near Petrolia. Still no engine plant deal Photo by STAR STAFF Honor guard carries out Constable McGhee's casket Police pay last respects to their fallen comrade possible projects his department has been working on to revive the plant. In 1978, the Chrysler engine plant employed about 2,400. But demand for the 360-cubic inch, V-8 engine produced there slumped. In March, 1980, Chrysler announced it was closing the plant indefinitely, laying off the 330 men still on thejob.

Speculation that Perkins plant for diesel engine production. "It would be nice to say a decision is imminent, but I don't think that's the case, Gray said. A lot of work has to be done." Gray said he is working to get "something concluded as quickly as but "it may be some months yet." Gray added the Perkins deal is only one of several Industry Minister Herb Gray wishes he could announce some deal that would re-open Chrysler Canada's idled Windsor engine plant buthecan't. Gray confirmed Tuesday discussions are taking place between Chrysler and Perkins Engines Inc. Perkins, a British subsidiary of Massey-Ferguson is reported to be considering leasing the DREE funds for Windsor termed pork barrelling Star Ottawa Bureau taking part in the special S350-million would use the plant for diesel engine production began more than a year ago and surfaced again each time Perkins officials visited the plant.

MPP DaveCooke(NDP Windsor-Riverside) has been questioning provincial industry minister Larry Grossman about the possible Perkins dealsince lastspring. Cooke said Tuesday he has constantly pursued the issue, but all he has confirmed through statements in the legislature and private conversations with Grossman is that the deal is a realistic possibility." Cooke said he is optimistic knowing the issue is still being discussed, adding "I think eventually it just may happen." frank La Sorda, president of UAW Local 444, which represents Chrysler's production workers, said he has his fingers crossed hoping the plant will be reactivated. La Sorda said he was aware of the meetings and the visits to the plant by Perkins officials, and he is optimistic knowing the talks are continuing. Starting the plant up again would take some time, he said, but "it would certainly be the shot in the arm we need." Employment levels at Chrysler's Windsor operations have improved with the recent recall of a second shift at the car assembly plant, but there are still about 2,300 workers on indefinite layoff. to buses waiting to transport them to the burial.

More than 100 automobiles, including a half-dozen police cars, took part in the funeral procession. Escorted by police motorcycles, the procession wound its way to Greenlaw Memorial Cemetery in Oldcastle, for McGhee's burial. Constable McGhee, whose late father was a police sergeant and brother is a detective with the Windsor police, died in a single-car crash on Highway 401 near Til-buryearly Saturday morning. The crash occurred about 3 a.m. as Constable McGhee was returning home from a planning session for a RCMP basebjll tournament in London.

He was the only occupant in the car. An autopsy revealed he died from a torn heart artery sustained in the accident. It is not known what caused Constable McGhee's car to leave the road and roll over several times. Chatham coroner Dr. T.

E. McPherson said Tuesday there will not be an inquest. Survived by his wife Ruth-Ann, daughter Dawn. II, and son Robert, 6. McGhee joined the Windsor force as a cadet in June 1965.

He became a constable in December of that year and served as a motorcycle pa-1 trolman in the traffic division. He joined the narcotics squad from the Special Investigation Division in May, 1980 and was an active member of the Windsor Police Association. By CiaranGanley Star Staff Reporter If there was ever any question that Constable William McGhee was a popular and respected police officer, it was dispelled at his funeral Tuesday. Morethan 250 persons, includingofficers from nearly every police force in the county, members of the legal profession, family members and friends, paid tribute to the 15-year Windsor Police department veteran. The 35-year-old father of two was buried with full police honors, including an honor guard and 100 uniformed-officer procession.

Lead by the Windsor Police Pipe Band, the officers filed single column into the Walter D. Kelly Funeral Home on Wyandotte St. East, where the funeral service was held. About 100 mourners were forced to wait outside the overcrowded funeral home during the service, which also attracted a throng of onlookers from nearby homes and businesses. Following the service, the officers filed out single column and then stood three abreast as Constable McGhee's casket was placed in the hearst and a dirge was played on the bagpipes.

After the casket was placed in the hearst. the procession of officers, which included RCMP officers in full color dress, marched two blocks south on Windermere Avenue Industrial-Labor Adjustment Program (ILAP) announced in January. Windsor was one of four Canadian cities with severe unemployment problems chosen in mid-March to participate in the initial phase of ILAP. Dozens of Canadian municipalities campaigned to take part in that program. There would likely be heated political opposition to any move to have the Windsor area qualify for both schemes.

"It's a question of whether cabinet wants to open up that very big door about areas that have in the past been considered prosperous." He said Windsors current economic problems are "hopefully short-term" and the city is normally regarded as prosperous compared to DREE zones like the Maritimes and NorthernOntario. Marshall said the government could give the Windsor area a special DREE designation to qualify it forindustrial incentives. The three other cities involved in the first phase of ILAP, Sydney, N.S., Sept-Isles and Sorrel, got a double whammy" because they werealreudy in DRELzones. OTTAWA A senior federal official says making Windsor eligible for Department of Regional Economic Expansion (DRLL) funds would be purely a political decision. "We could get a DRLL program running quickly in the Windsor area if somebody wanted us to do that, Ron Marshall, DREEs assistant deputy minister forOntario said Tuesday in an interview.

That's a question for cabinet ministers to decide." If cabinet wants to designate Windsor as a DREE zone there is a legal base for doing it. Marshallsaid. "It wouldn't violate any acts but maybe it would violate some people's thinking about areasthat arein need." His comments add clout to Windsor Mayor Bert Weeks' argument that political lobbying could make the city and suburban municipalities eligible for DREE industrial incentive grants. However, External Affairs Minister Mark MacGuigan warned Monday that Windsor vont be designated under DRLL while it's I A.