North Bay Nugget from North Bay, Ontario, Canada • 2

THE NUGGET TUESDAY MARCH siege ends 18 1986 peacefully I CMA defends Ontario TORONTO Mint of On- tice and how much thev can earn 41 mu tk TORONTO (CP) Most of tice and how much they can earn sents 41000 doctors the I doctors rirfarmina th determine the worried this bill is just the first step in pushing us out Into the desert and the loss of our freedom as doctors" association president Dr William Vail told reporters Although Premier David Peterson has said his government bring in further regulations oa the medical profession once the ban becomes law Vail said he assured by such statements The association which repre- across countiy contended in its brief that extra billing poses no major threat to health care system but the and actions to ban the practice do The legislation would do nothing Vail told the committee to aid the serious shortage of chronic care facilities the problem of poorly staffed and equipped rural hospitals and the ever-growing waiting lists for hospital admission is factors such as these not extra billing that are posing a major threat to said the Newmarket Ont surgeon who charges above the health plan fee schedule Vail urged the Peterson government to wait until two axxnpiation-sponsored legal challenges to 17000 doctors oppose the Liberal proposed ban on extra billing because they fear it would be the first of many steps aimed at bureaucratic control" over the profession the Canadian Medical Association said Monday In a brief to a legislative committee studying the government bill the association said it fears the Liberals may later try to control where doctors can set up prac Court upholds TORONTO (CP) Public bodies sometimes must hold private discussions an Ontario divisional court said ruling that a committee in the regional municipality of Ha-milton-Wentworth did not exceed its jurisdiction by holding a secret meeting committee is not a decision-making said Mr Justice Richard Trainor in a written judgment released Monday is confined to making recommendations to council and is not required by statute to hold its meetings in Southam Inc owner of the Hamilton Spectator had argued that the exclusion of the public from the meeting contravened the Charter of Rights guarantee to of thought belief opinion and expression including freedom of the press and other media of But Trainor noted that the decision to hold the secret meeting was not made arbitrarily or hastily but place following a resolution made in public well in Doctor speaks out Housing balks at By ROSE SIMONE Nugget City Hall Reporter A total of $3 million worth of housing development might be stalled if North Bay City Council insists on getting all the special upfront road money asking tar from a subdivision developer council members were told Monday night Ernest aimer of Monarch Management Corporation in Toronto which owns the Oakdale Highlands Subdivision land on Nancy Dr north of McKeown Ave told council a' special $950 fee the City is asking for on each of the 39 residential units to be developed is making the land Right now the company has an offer from a North Bay developer who wants to build 39 single and semi-detached homes in the area but this deal might not go through if council insists this extra fee has to be paid he said The City has on its back burners a plan to extend McKeown Ave out to Airport Rd Although this has been an proposal for years the City like us to pay for 50 per cent of the cost of building that new road instead of improving the existing said Mr Balmer This means paying an extra $950 per residential unit on top of the regular charge of $200 per unit according to Mr Balmer He said the development of McKeown Ave is distance down the if it happens at all Meanwhile the extra charge would make the land sale compared to other subdivisions where this charge apply Mr Balmer said it would make the developed residential units more expensive to put on the market It would increase the land costs by $1000 and cause the price of TORONTO (CP) A doctor at Dr' Hairy abortion clinic has shed her anonymity and called for abortions to be covered by the Ontario Health Insurance Plan Dr Nikki Colodny came forward as a major spokesman for proabortion forces on Monday a day after a nurse at the downtown Toronto clinic faced chanting protestors outside her home like people to know a new doctor at the clinic and what that said Colodny 37 not just Morgen taler is spending most of his time in Montreal while awaiting an appeal of his 1984 acquittal in Ontario on charges of conspiracy to procure a miscarriage Born in the United States Colod-k ny ran a family practice in Toronto where she said a stream of frustrated and angry women reported waiting up to nine weeks to obtain abortions in Toronto hospitals constitutionality of the federal Canada Health Act and the legality of the provincial lation under the Charter of and Freedoms are dealt tpe courts- Peterson dismissed that suggestion view is that there is not a court problem at all and that it is constitutional" he told reporters Meanwhile Conservative Leader1 Larry Grossman said he expects more doctors will charge fees or special charges if extra billing is banned A Toronto doctor has already told his patients he wants to charge them an annual fee of $50 and $75 tor families to renew prescriptions and for other services because he be able to extrabill developer special fee each housing unit to go up by about $1500 he said economic facts today are to pay $1000 a lot more than anybody else in town makes those lots economically said Mr Balmer Mr Balmer said the development of 39 lots equals $3 million worth of material and labor for Noth Bay which would be lost if this development go ahead Not being able to go ahead with the development will also have a negative effect on the attempts to solve an apartment shortage he said we proceed on a reasonable basis not going to be able to come down Champlain St and develop multiple unit said Mr Balmer considerable demand now for 10 to 20 unit apartment buildings but a considerable shortage of properly zoned land he said Aid Don King argued the com- ahas already developed two-of its property without having to have a proper plan of sub- -divison which would have required paying for a collector road you went to the total package only paying $300 a said Aid King not really being that harsh on Mr Balmer reminded the aider-man this road requirement exist when the land was bought Also- talking about building an entirely new road that the municipality have money for and there demand If the province agrees' to pay 50 per cent of the road cost and the remaining amount were split between the city and the developer the extra charge would come to about $200 per residential unit instead of $950 That be so bad according to Mr Balmer Council referred the matter to city administrator Morley Daiter for a report i buy movies from film distributors that the Odeon Cineplex chain of theatres never dealt with distributors such as Warner which is distributing The Color-Purple The Gateway theatre will be owned by Toronto businessman Norman Stern who has created a' new company Ontario Cinema Inc to acquire the Odeon along with six other theatres in Ontario Mr partner is another Toronto businessman Peter Sank who owns the Champlain theatres) The new owner is considering re) novations to the Odeon Mr Smith 1 1 Temiskaming) and two officials -from the Farm Credit Corporation on hand to explain the budget and answer questions A panel of three farmers and two agricultural money management people will direct questions at the rsrnment representatives before meeting is opened to questions from the farmers attending which guarantees people the right to vote However Judge John Scollin did not give the prisoners the means to exercise that right saying it was up to the legislature to deal with the issue Liberal Leader Sharon Carstairs trying to get her party back into the legislature where it had a seat since 1981 received last-minute help from federal Liberal Party president Iona Campagnolo on Monday Carstairs is involved in a tight three-wav race in the south Winnipeg riding of River Heights and stands the best chance of any Liberal candidate of giving the party a toehold in the legislature In 1981 the NDP under Pawley took 34 seats in the 57-seat legislature with Tories winning the remaining 23 Deaths and defections altered standings at dissolution to 32 New Democrats 22 Conservatives two Independents and one vacancy ST THOMAS Ont (CP) A truck driver was charged with several weapons offences Monday after a 22-hour siege that neighbors said began after he returned from -a week-long road trip to find his house up for sale Ron Smith 47 of St Thomas faces several charges including possession of a weapon dangerous to the public peace and two counts of unregistered firearms 24 Deaths HOOVER Al Laurie Suddenly at St Joseph's Hospital Sunday March 16 19M Al Hoover beloved husband of Judy Willett In his 35th year Loving fattier of Christopher and dear brother of Brian Hoover of Peterborough Dave Hoover of Ralston Alberta and Mrs Carol Harfcas of Toronto Predeceased by his parents Mr and Mrs George Hoover Mr Hoover was a military policeman at CFB North Bay Friends and relatives may pay their respects at the McGuintv Funeral Home today from 2 to and 7 to 10 pm Funeral service will be held at Christ the King Chapel' CFB North Bay Wednesday at 10:30 am Cre- matlon to follow YOUNG Gilbert Joseph Burks Falls Hospital March 17 1986 Gilbert Young In his 69th year Dear father to Roger Jeff Joe and Lynn (Mrs Robert Plche) of Powassen Gloria MacCorkindale and Jennifer Braham Toronto He was married to the former Jean Humphrey Sadly missed by six grandchildren and his sisters Amelia Hummel Sarnia Clara Eckford North Bay Frances Eckensviller end Lorette McKenzie Powassan Rita Eckensviller Kitchener and Irma Dominico Willowdale He was predeceased by his parents and two brothers John and Ed Young Family will receive visitors at Paul Funeral Home Powassan Wednesday 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 pm Prayers 8 pm Service in the chapel Thursday at 11 am Interment St Joseph's Cemetery Powassan Donations to the Canadian Cancer1 Society will be gratefully acknowledged MITCHELL Franklin Louis "Frank" At Civic Hospital Monday March 17th 1986 Franklin Louis "Frank" Mitchell beloved husband of Kathleen McCau-sland In his 75th year Beloved father of James end his wife Sheile and Michael and Ganinna Dubois all of North Bay Lovingly remembered by his grandchildren John and Erin Dear brother of Mrs Doris Kennedy of Toronto Dear brother-in-law of Reverend JG McCau-sland SSJE also of North Bay Predeceased by his brother Howard Resting at the Martyn Funeral Home Wednesday 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 pm Funeral services from St Brice's Anglican Church on Thursday March 20th at 11 am Spring interment St John's Anglican Cemetery If desired donations to St Brice's Anglican Church Fund will be gratefully acknowledged as expres- slons of sympathy LAURIN Mrs Mona (Resident of At west Nipissing General Hospital Sturgeon Falls on Sunday March 16 1986 In her 66th year Dearly loved wife of Medore Dearly loved mother of Mrs Raymonds Gagnon of Verner Marcel Gaston and Denis all of Pickering Michel of Oshawa Luc of Ottawa Mrs Harry Merkel (Lise) of Kitchener -Loved by nine grendchildran and one great-grandchild Dearly loved sister of Mrs Rita Lachapelle of Sudbury Edna and Mrs Luclen Denomme (Lily) both of Windsor Lomer of Mississauga Predeceased by her parents Abraham Charette and Alphonsine Daoust a brother off re and sisters Jacqueline and Evelyne Resting gt Salon Funer-aire Nipissing Funeral Home 2 Racette Street Verner today from 7 to 10 pm on Wednesday 2 to 5 and 7 to 10 pm Funeral Mass will be celebrated at St Jean Baptiste Church on Thursday March 20 1986 at pm Interment at St Jean Baptiste Cemetery Verner For further information or transportation call 594-2321 CORBEIL Andre At Toronto Sunday March 16 1986 Andy Cor bell beloved husband of Sue Turcotte in his 37th year Loving father of Nicole Jocelyn and Theodore Dear son of Eva Cor-beil of North Bay and the late Louis Corbell Dear brother of (Lizette) Jerry Andreyechen of North Bay (Zella) Michael Gardiner of Petawawa and (Anne) Terry (Chip) Frlcker of Redbridge Predeceased by one brother Theodore Prior to his Illness Mr Corbell was employed by Bavarian Meat Products as a truck driver He was involved with the North Bay Militia for fourteen years during which time he served one year with the United Net Ions posted in Egypt and Germany He was a member of the Royal Canadian Legion Branches 445 25 and 225 Mr Corbell was a member of the Northern Men's Dart League a former President and member of the Algonquin Nipissing Men's Dart League an executive member of the Meadow-side Dart League and also played darts tar a number of years at the Algonquin Mixed Dart League Family receiving friends at the McGuintv Funeral Home today 7 to 10 pm Wednesday 2 to 5 and 7 to 10 pm Funeral Mass will be celebrated at St Vincent de Paul Church Thursday at 11 am Donations to the Cancer Society or Kidney Foundation would be greatly appreciated ST GEORGE Omer (Resident of At West Nipissing General Hospital Sturgeon Falls on Monday March 17 1986 In his 72nd year Beloved hus band of Clorlda La pierre Dearly loved father df Alcida Andre Mrs Andre Giroux (Marguerite) Mrs Camille Plante (Elyse) Gregolre Mrs Jeanne D'Arc Aubertln Mrs Jacques Brosseau (Colette) all of Verner Mrs Gilles St Amour (Colombo) Mrs Aural Bazfnet (Reina) Mrs Roger Audette (Diane) Mrs Maurice Audet (Gisele) and Leonide all of Sudbury Mrs Bruce Lad-chaster (Lorraine) of Vancouver BC Roger and Mrs Roger Rivet (Lucie) both of Sturgeon Falls Loved by fifty-three grandchildren and twenty-five great-grandchildren Dearly loved brother of Emile and Cereasse both of La-vigne Gabriel of St Charles Vlateur of Markstay Mrs Orient St Amour (Emll-lana) of Verner Mrs Rene Ducharme of Sturgeon Falls Predbceased by his parents Gideon St Goorge and Matilda Courchesne a daughter Lauretta and sisters Rosalia and Fablola Resting at Salon Funeralre Nipissing Funeral Home 2 Racette Street Verner today from 7 to 10 pm and on Wednesday from 2 to 5 and 7 to 10 pm Funeral Mass will be celebrated on Thursday March 20 1906 at Notre Dame de la Visitation Church Lavlone at 10:30 am Interment at Notre Dame de la Visitation Cemetery Lavlgne For further information or transportation to the funeral home call 594-2321 rr GmlicLd tm unu mm 1m womi men Sympathy Bouquets Free Delivery To Hospitals and Funeral Homes Nipissing Plaza 478-6065 After Hour 752-2 120 Deputy police Chief Wayne How-' ard told a news conference the man left the home and surrendered peacefully late Monday morning A woman was in the home with him for part of the time but left Sunday afternoon Police seized two rifles a 12-gauge shotgun a navy colt revolver and ammunition from the house Howard said police just waited it out but they were concerned about how long they could keep neighbors Howard said the man finally gave up the negotiators convinced him it was the only way out" The man barricaded himself in his house at 1:30 pm Sunday Police said he had fired shots although not at any officers or civilians and had threatened blow up his Neighbor Barry Westman said at 4 pm Sunday a heavy-set man left the residence pulled down a for sale sign threw it into a gully running alongside the property then went back in the house seem at all concerned about what was going said Westman Police said they were told by family members that a family dispute had caused a hostage-taking But police added the man's common-law wife said she been held hostage but was in the house on her own volition trying to convince her husband to leave The couple has two children aged 12 and 17 but their whereabouts during the standoff were not disclosed Eight camouflaged members of the Ontario Provincial Police tactical rescue unit and 10 city police officers evacuated a number of families in the immediate vicinity of the house Sunday afternoon and prevented several hundred residents of nearby high-rise apartments from entering or leaving their homes Man charged KINGSTON Ont (CP) A Kingston man has been charged with two counts of second -degree murder following the shooting deaths Saturday of a man and a woman Wayne Edward Wilson 4l has been charged with the death of his wife Hariott Joan Wilson 49 and Frank John Holmes 45 of Parham mnth of Kingston Police were called to the Wilson apartment Saturday evening after a man who lives upstairs heard gunshots r-y-' jr Weather RECREATION Recreatiaa Weather Bulletin for Lake Nipissing: Weather: Rain or wet snow developing this afternoon Windy with rain tonight Wednesday rain changing to snow windy and turning colder Temperature: High today 4 low tonight near 1 high Wednesday 2 Winds: From the southeast at 30 km-h becoming northerly at 30 km-h Wednesday Wind Chill: Low wind chill factor giving an equivalent temperature of near 2 Visibility: 10 miles or 16 kilometres Ice Thickness: No recent reports available Remarks: With the end of commercial ice fishing ice thickness and condition reports are no longer available Mild weather and rain may pose significant travel problems on the lake Use caution LONG RANGE Partly sunny skies over the forecast regions this morning will quickly disappear as an early spring storm over the American midwest moves towards Ontario today Considerable rain is expected in central and southern districts and snow in the noth Strong northerly winds will bring sunshine and comer air to all regions Wednesday through Friday Milder weather will return on the weekend Outlook: Thursday: Sunny windy and cold High -5 Low -15 Friday -and Saturday: Sunny and cold Highs near -8 Lows near -16 Funeral Arthur Poudrier Funeral Mass for the late Arthur Poudrier was con-celebrated by Reverend Lucien Nourry and Reverend Francois Blais at St Vincent de Paul Church Saturday at 11 am Interment St Cemetery Pallbearers were: Marc Noi-seux Mark La rush Paul Bourdon Pierre Chayer Tony and Paul Bis-sonnette Mr Poudrier died at St Hospital North Bay Thursday March 13 1986 in his 78th year Loving husband of the late Glaphyra Noiseux dear brother of Geraldine Ainsley of Toronto and Maurice of Hearst and brother-in-law of Leo and Rhea Tremblay and Robert and Juliette Noiseux Also survived by nieces and nephews: Mark and Franc ine Larush Marc and Michelle Noiseux both of North Bay and Judith Noiseux of Pennsylvania secret meeting Mr Justice Robert Reid noted in dissent that it is unknown what went on at the meeting stance is that it was a workshop Therefore it was not a meeting at all I am not comfortable with the fact that the committee seeks to avoid its own bylaw by calling a meeting a work Southam had argued that under the bylaws the matters discussed were not among those that could be held in dosed session When the meeting was held on Sept 26 1963 a reporter for The Spectator and a lawyer for Southam were asked to leave because the gathering was simply an informal discussion During the meeting the lawyer for Southam entered and served the region with an application for Judicial review The committee reused the request to adjourn During the Morgen taler trial she joined the Ontario Coalition for Abortion Clinics then decided to work at clinic a way of challenging the The coalition will recommend to a committee of the Ontario legislature on Thursday that abortions at the Morgentaler clinic be covered by the health insurance plan Women who go to the clinic can bill OHIP through billing number for pregnancy tests and mandatory general checkups But the abortion procedure which costs $250 is not covered Colodny also wants the Liberal government to finance abortion clinics including the Morgentaler facility Colodny said she decided to speak out before -aa anti-abortion group staged a protest Sunday out side the home of nurse Jane Berry They chanted that and handed anti-abortion pamphlets to neighbors head and so do the service station owners and managers he said I decide to cut my price by half-a-cent a litre and not approved by head office I am the one who pays for Mr Serre said Gasoline was selling for 504 cents a litre today in Verner at the Shell station Mr Serre had any orders to lower my said Marcel Savage owner of the Petro-Canada service station in Sturgeon Falls get my prices from my district rep what to set my prices at have no control over my prices" He said' all the service stations in the town are selling gasoline at about the same price wish I could lower them but I Mr Savage said Spokesmen from the head office and other service stations in the Sturgeon Falls area were not available for comment today the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation the forerunner of the NDP He died after being in a coma for about 10 days Meanwhile the Filmon campaign bus made a final swing through some ridings in Winnipeg they hope will be the key to a victory that even Tory strategists concede will be thin at best The Tory leader still enthusiastic five weeks after the election was called was still running from door-to-door to greet voters with his how are you Gary He continued to scoff at public opinion polls predicting an NDP win saying they do not take into account the close races in swing ridings such as Riel and St James in Winnipeg where only a handful of votes at each poll can mean victory or defeat confident we are going to win a majority of the swing seats" said Filmon That confidence was echoed by a Gasoline prices high in Sturgeon Odeon Theatre sold North Bay has lost its last chain-owned movie theatre with the sale of the downtown Odeon Theatre to a private operator for an undisclosed (nice Effective Friday when the deal is expected to close all three city theatres will be independently owned says Kevin Smith manager of the Cinemas Champlain twin theatres located at North Bay Mall The Odeon will be renamed Gateway Cinema said Mr Smith whose Champlain theatres are owned by a partner of the new owner of the Odeon The sale could result in higher grade movies Mr Smith said because the independent owners will By PJ WILSON Nugget Business Reporter STURGEON FALLS There seems to be a discrepancy between gasoline prices in the West Nipissing -area jnd North Bay Although prices in North Bay have been lowered to the 482 to 486 cents a litre level for regular gasoline they are still at the 503 cents a litre level here according to a spokesman for Petro-Canada And nobody seems to know why price wait said Gerry Serre owner of Fuels in Verner His bulk fuel plant serves the Sturgeon Falls Verner and Warren areas selling regular at 485 down from 504 last But he said his instruction to lower the price was received from the head office in Toronto while service station prices are set from Ottawa He has no control over prices at service stations he said sell at prices as dictated by Budget to be discussed Pawley favored in today's Manitoba vote EARLTON (Special) Farmers from Temiskaming and Cochrane will be able to hear first hand what the federal budget contains for agriculture A special meeting has been organized by the Temiskaming Federation of Agriculture for the Alouette Hall here Wednesday at 8 pm with MP John A MacDougall (PC- party worker who said you believe you're going to win then you have a One group of Manitobans who won't be joining the more than 684000 Manitobans casting their ballots today are 250 prisoners at Stony Mountain Penitentiary noth of Winnipeg The prisoners' lost their bid to vote in the election after the Manitoba Court of Appeal ruled Monday that they will not get a special polling station at the medium-security federal prison Prism officials also rejected the idea of allowing the convicts out on day passes so they could vote citing a lack of time to process the 250 passes of prisoners who indicated they would like to cast ballots Last week a Manitoba Court of Bench judge struck down a section of the Manitoba Election Act that makes prisoners ineligible to vote saying it contravened the Charter of Rights and Freedoms WINNIPEG (CP) The death of Premier Howard father on Monday cast a shadow over Manitoba election as Canada's only provincial New Democratic Party government sought a second term in office Pawley spent a quiet day with his family while Progressive Conservative Leader Gary Filmon took a break from his campaign to express his condolences to the Pawley family The 51-year-old premier was in the middle of a visit with workers at the main gate of the CN Rail yards in Winnipeg when he received the news that his father 82-year-old Russell Pawley was near death Pawley who learned about politics at his knee while growing up near Brampton Ont rushed to hospital and was at his side when he died at about 1 pm CST Russell Pawley had a lifelong interest in politics and once ran for.