The Toronto Star from Toronto, Ontario, Canada • 2

Second class mail regtstratxm number 1131 A2 film Banned winter returns reamer Obituary iona have Gruener Woman survives of Corrections In your Sunday Star Between 25 35? a testing time Court case? More bounce for the buck 1 tV The Toronto Star to in that time of year again Hie NHL playoffs begin on Tuesday arid hockey writer rank Orr takes a hard look at the 12 teams involved: Their strengths their weaknesses their chances Read how he rates them in the Sunday Sports section tor and and will 3 mo 6 moi lyn Outride Conode $6800 $13100 $25000 major Canadian corporation Every one from the ROMP to computer con sultants agree that in for a flurry of computer perpetrated crime unless somebody starts developing a security system DESPERATELY LONELY life of Alec Nicol is' desolate world of TV and cigarettes in a bachelor apartment eight years after an automobile accident 'ft power plant and moved immedi ately up to the work camp on the Bruce peninsula was just too said his mother Mary Nicol of Stouff ville made that big jump far too fast straight from those years in nursing homes to the rough outside life in a work After 11 weeks he left the job and went on indefinite sick leave High yesterday14 3 4 3 Th Star a member of the Ontario Press Counca 151 Slater St Suite 708 KIP 5H3 phone (613) 235 3847 Continued from page 1 Mr Justice William Malo ney To be granted or ap peal the crown must prove Maloney erred in his ad dress But Morton said it may be months before the ap peal can be sheduled be cause a transcript of the 7 week long trial must be prepared Police have not found Gruener to serve him with a notice of appeal but Woods is still in jail and has been told as have law yers for both men The 12 year old shoe shine boy was drowned in a sink last July 29 after a night of homosexual at tack and torture in a shabby apartment above a Yonge St body rub parlor Saul David Betesh 27 and Robert Wayne Kribs 29 were found guilty of first degree murder and on Mar 22 were jailed for life Before the 11 member jury retired to consider the The Ontario Censor Board has totally rejected Pretty Baby a major Paramount movie about a 12 year old girl who lives in a 1917 New Orleans brothel This is the first time in recent emory that the board has rejected a key Hollywood movie in total rathe than just demanding several scenes be cut because of raw language or sexual scenes talking about The annual Toronto Super 8 ilm estival will take place at Harbourfront next weekend April 14 through 16 and not this weekend as reported in The Star yesterday The Star regrets the error Theft report quoted survey In a Star story April 5 Bob Casper director of se curity for Loblaws Ltd said 70 per cent of all busi ness thefts are by employ ecs Casper was citing infor mation from a survey of I several retail companies which showed employees a re responsible for be tween 66 and 75 per cent of dollar loss through theft Loblaws did not take Victoria Edmonton Calgary Regina ilm festival will be held next weekend photo by Bob Olsen left him partially paralized All that remains of a happy family life with a wife and three children be fore the accident are their treasured photographs mwiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiniininiiiiiniiiiiiwnniiiiniiiiiiniiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiHniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimuiiiiu Rickaby said at the time he would recommend tnat the verdict on Gruener be appealed When he left the Univer sity Ave courthouse on March 10 a free man Gruener said he had no immediate plans for the future but might go some friends rankfurt Homocide detectives volved in the grisly con troversial case were shocked when Gruener left the courtroom free case Judge Maloney told them during a five hour address to find Woods guilty of second degree murder a to acquit Gruener Prosecutor rank Arm strong later argued angrily that Maloney should re in struct them saying not a thing your lordship can do to correct the damage1 done in the case of Werner He told the judge he had far beyond your right to give an and had put the jury in an impossible Maloney had said he was prepared to re in struct the jury but never did Midway through the Supreme Court trial Wayne Kribs pleaded guilty to first degree mur der Both Armstrong and York Crown Attorney Peter Rickaby as well as policemen appeared disap pointed by charge to the jury and 0 sor board chief Don Sims said yesterday this case the whole theme of the picture I think that reasonable and open to Paramount officials had no comment but an ap peal is planned Pretty Baby directed by Louis Malle stars 12 year old movie newcomer Brooke Shields who has been a profession al model since the age of 2 The picture opened earlier this week in New York to rave notices and a record breaking box office wrote New York Times film critic Vincent Canby neither about child prosti tution nor is it pornograph LOOK AT LIE The movie he said is almost incredibly a ic autumnally beautiful movie that looks at 1 i in a Storyville whorehouse with the unsurprised curiosity and boredom of a child never known anything Its final scene involves the girl losing her virgini ty Ontario censors screened the movie 10 days ago and this week six of them including Sims met local Paramount offi cials to deliver their ver dict only rejected seven films last year yet our friends in British Colum bia (that censor board) rejected said Sims want to say more that would add fuel to the REAL IGURE It is thought that most of the seven refused in Ontario were hard core pornographic efforts or those with excessive vio lence The central character is bom in a brothel grows up watch ing its daily life and is loved by a photographer The role of the photogra pher is based on a real life figure Ernest Bellocq whose portraits of New Or leans prostitutes of that day now are recognized as works of art Director Malle might come here to present his case to the censor board at the appeal shooting Merlin James 3 7 Bromsgrove Rd Missis sauga is in satisfactory (Condition in Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospi tal after the removal of iwo bullets from her chest Peel regional police said jhe woman was shot in the parking lot of her town house development after a domestic dispute Police have issued an arrest warrant for at tempted murder for rederick Pompey 42 of iBromsgrove Rd Continued from page 1 his forehead He dresses in casual slacks and sports coats in neutral tones been going to the dentist once a week while having some work done on my teeth but aside from that I just stay he told a rare visitor to his tiny bachelor apartment Overflowing ashtrays testify to the long hours spent smoking and watching televi sion A strip of one wall is adorned al most floor to ceiling with the only decoration in the room sad re minders of the life Nicol would now be living if the accident had never happened He points proudly to pictures of his two daughters now 13 and 14 years old and his son left behind as a three month old infant now an 8 year old boy Three official looking documents taped up with the pictures are certificates qualifying him as a steamfitter after five years of study and apprenticeship starting when he was 16 big problem is he confided know anyone who can come over and have a cup of coffee with Painful contrast It is a painful contrast to the days before the accident when he was always surrounded by his co workers a wide circle of friends and the wife and three children he loved so much loved those kids so deeply I would have done anything for he said remembering family holidays in lorida and the got the job at the Bruce nuclear barn he built behind the house where he kept ponies to please the children they even use my added Nicol wistfully The accident took place eb 18 1370 a date burned immutably on brain The elderly driver of the other car seemingly blinded by the bright sunlight turned sud denly in front of car There was a loud crash and Chicago Buffalo New York City Tampa Miami happy and comfortable way of life was gone forever Nicol a left handed man was badly paralyzed down his left side and still recovered the full use of his left arm Over the years he has made the difficult adjust ment of changing from left to right handedness move my arm or my leg or he recalled had a long physiotherapy program before I could do anything I crawl ed for three months and it took me a year to learn how to The brain damage resulting from the accident also made the brain operation necessary Nicol was in the hospital for a year then a series of nursing homes for almost seven years a dreary and difficult life for a young man Meanwhile outside the hospitals and nursing homes and outside control other changes were happening in his life He had $100 000 settled on him as a result of the accident and a trust was set up with this money and his insurance and pension money He now re ceives $750 a month from the trust He and his wife were divorced and she married a cousin of his sold the house and moved away with the children By the time a psychiatrist examined Nicol at a nursing home last year and said there was no need for him to live in nursing homes any longer there was nothing for him to come home to He lived with relatives briefly and applied right away for a job in his old trade of steamfitting He middle of the night and think about all the things that have happened to me all lost Last week I started to get Nicol talks often on the phone to his mother: he has no one else to talk to so he sometimes calls her several times a day She worries about him the she admitted have just got to go bet ter than they are he said But he discovered that his wife had complete custody of the chil dren and he even have any kind of visiting rights It was a terrible blow and he was shocked by how totally he was barred from any contact with his own children even allowed to go to their school and talk to them for five minutes he explained Nicol hired a lawyer who took the matter to court for him told the judge all about my hs said and he was awarded visit ing rights His former wife said he could only see the children once a month at her home 1 Three months ago their first brief reunion took place an incred ible moment for Nicol who had last seen a baby son in a crib and two little 5 and 6 year old daughters teenaged girls walked into their house and kissed me I said are and they told me your said Nicol wondering ly He was also delighted to see his son inancially Nicol is managing but not flush His trust pays him $750 a month he pays $300 a month towards the car and his rent is $200 That leaves him a monthly $250 for food telephone and other bills personal expenses and spe cial things such as gifts for his children sleep as well as I used he said wake tip in the Township of Bexley not involved A news story March 18 indicated incorrectly that the clerk of the township in which Coboconk is situ ated was charged with fraud and breach of trust As reported later in the story the man charged is clerk of the United Town ships of Laxton Longford and Digby not of Bexley Township as the story sug gested The Star regrets the error Sewer diggers find live bombs NOVA GORCIA Yugo slavia (AP) Workers jiigging new roads and sewers found 58 live aerial bombs some of them dat ing to World War I a spokesman for this city on the Italian border said iyesierday HOME THE TORONTO STAR Sat April 8 1978 How fit are you? it enough to real ly enjoy life this summer? The Sun day Star begins a three part fitness series tomorrow with a test that wall show you where your weak points are If between the ages of 25 and 35 in the dec when you age more than at any other time of your life fnn 19 Uk Jk vz VVM AP phete 12 YEAR OLD BROOKE SHIELDS Star of Pretty Baby a hit in New York Car crash wasn't his fault but cost is family health Tennis anyone? Price Watch exam ines five brands of tennis balls and tells you how to get more bounce for your buck City magazine Who said: going to stab me in the back I wanna be And who said am a man of sound Why it was loveable former mayor Allan Lamport who celebrated his 75th birthday this week In The City magazine John Robert Colombo presents A Lampy Sampler Mee 31 publisher iona Mee publisher of Quill and Quire a trade paper for the book publish ing industry died yester day of cancer in St Mi hospital She was 31 'Miss Mee of Huntley St held degrees from Sir Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Brit i Columbia She was born near Hamilton She went to work for Greey de Pencier Books imrnediately upon leaving university and was managing editor of a trade magazine called Building Development While visiting London she walked into the offices of Penguin Books and land ed a job as assistant to the editor a post she held for 18 months She returned to Canada' to become editor of Quill and Quire when Michael de Pencier purchased it in 1971 She was both editor and publisher from 1974 until 1977 when the dual job be came too much for her and she retained the publisher job while turning over edi torship to Susan Walker She had been ill for the past seven months but was in hospital for only a few days The funeral service will be private Miss Mee is survived by her parents James and Jessie Mee of Oakville a sister Valerie who lives at home and a brother Peter of London Eng land Mrs Walker said she de Pencier and two others are setting up a iona Mee Literary und for the awarding of annual prizes for writing Miss Mee had been ill for seven months but was in hospital for only a few days The funeral service will be private Winnipeg Thunder Bay Saurt Ste Marie Sudbury Muskoxa Windsor London Ottawa Montreal Sami jonn Halifax St zJonn's US POINTS 6 5 6 18 26 VI acquittal appealed STAR HWE NUMBERS ORDER DESKS I Home Defcvery 367 4500 Street Serie 367 2 1U 728 51 17 RECEIVABLE 367 2050 Advertising Dttay 367 2233 Wont Ach 368 3611 NEWSROOM 367 2357 VSTAR PROBE 367 2345 DEPARTMENTS 4 Check directory Siring 1 er co mom twitchboord 367 2000 computer crime If taken a computer pro gramming course at a community college you have enough knowledge to rin off millions of dollars from a One Yenge St Torente Ont M5E 1E6 'STAR SMGUE PURCHASE PRKg to ridays 15 Satardayt 40 Sunday Star 30 rHOMEDHIVERY 5 125 per week Mon to Sun Motor route delivery 25c more per week MAI SUBSCRIPTIONS (Payable in odvonee No mail wbcriptom ta Toronto Canada S26OO $4850 $70 00 other rate 367 2133 TORONTO ORECAST Mostly sunny today but colder high 4C 40 ac cording to Environment Canada Low tonight 2C 28 Sunday clouding up windy and continued cool high 5C 41 TORONTO CALENDAR Sunrise 547 acn Sunset 653 Dm High yesteraay 8 at 2 pm Low yesterday 1 at 1 am Hiori since 1841 was 23 in 1871 Low since 1841 was 10 in 1972 A year ago high 1 low 9 Mean yesterday 4 1 Delow normalMoon new rises 607 a Visible planets evening VenusMtif Mercury Jupiter Saturn ONTARIO OUTLOOK Northwest winds will blow cooler air over the province today with maxi mum temperatures of IOC (50) in the Windsor area and only 7C (44) else where Lots of sunshine today clouding up but much milder on Sunday OTHER PROVINCES British Columbia mainly cloudy on coast sunny in interior Alcerta mainly sunny windy Saskatchewan mainly cloudy Manitoba cloudy In south some rain Quebec mainly cloudy some wet snow or flurries Maritimes cloudy a few flurries wewiouna lanu pariiy viuuuy US WEATHER AAacT nt (J 8 wilt tunny to partly cloudy skies except a Tew Tiuri iea in pai ui nxann: 1 New Hampshire Great Lakes 1 New England temperatures be cool mild elsewhere OVERSEAS Temperatures in Celsius noon yes terday Greenwich Mean Time: Aber deen 7 cloudy Amsterdam 9 cloudy Athens 19 cloudy Birming ham cloudy Copenhagen 7 partly cloudy Dublin 7 cloudy Geneva 8 clear Lisbon 13 cloudy London 9 cloudy Madrid 12 cloudy Moscow 2 cloudy Nice 17 cloudy Oslo 10 partly cloudy Paris 9 clear Rome 13 rain Stockholm 8 partly cloudy Tel Aviv 24 clear Vienna 9 clear Warsaw 6 cloudy i RESORT AREAS Yesterday's highs (Celsius): Aca pulco 31 clear Antigua 26 partly cloudy Barbados 30 partly cloudy Bermuda 26 cloudy Ha vana 28 partly cloudy Kingston 31 pertly cloudy Mexico City 27 haze Nassau 27 partly cloudy San Juan 29 partly cloudy St Kitts 29 partly cloudy Trinidad 32 partly cloudy 019 SU TEMPERATURES (Ceslus) Low in night 2 2 Thrpp Tfennis Bans 31 it B's HSi Hn omw miB' I Ml I 1 1 mu A lCL I jmH a mas skwjH 1 VW 1 il I 1 1 1 1 I i mi A 'awEL T2 171 1 11 girl 12 BHBMHBBnS' UHIglqWte JW I I i ''BMBuwmau waawsawB a Hl I1H 1 ahi 4 The Toronto Star mV fcv.