r i r r r ~; FOR STAI3BING-INCIDENT Tripp receives 7-'year sentence A .21-year-oid Whitby man oudgilt of attempted mur- der in June has been sentenced kto seven! years and three months inpenitèntiary. Jaines Tripp as found 1uit of - stabbing Roger Côwper 15% times on the night of May 6 in ?Cowper's Harrison Crt. home. Judge Ricard Byers heard at the trial in itby district court j~that Tripplxad ben high on alcohol and cocaine at the time of the stabbing. Trip toid the court he had not wantes' to kill Cowper, he just wanted to hurt him enough 50 the -46-year-old insurance execu- tive would leave hum alone. Cowper had testified" that he had awakened.during the early morning hours of May 6 to find Triýp in'his bedroom. lhe two struggled at which point Tripp pulled a knife and stabbed owper. The most seri- ous injury -to Cowper was a severing of a nerve in his right *wrist that. required microsurgery at Oshawa General Hospital. . When police arriveci' at th e scene they told the court they found Tri p p walking around out- side the* house asking- police, to shoot hum. TOn can't disallow -sehool use By Mike Johnston While the Town of Whitby has informed the Durhamn separate school board that it does not think Whitby's industrial area is appropriate for a school use, it cannot disallow the use because of a zoning technicality. SEE PAGE 35 Baby'*bird-sitting IAN and Vanessa Maxwell with two survivors out of the four baby birds, believed to be cedar waxwings, found outside thefr Whitby home. See page 14. P» re ro.photp Burt has 30- yearlabor of love wt B By Trudie Zavadovie He works hard. He plays hard. Brooklin resident Bob Burt, thele behind CBC Radio's Tresh Air' prograin, loves life and lives it to the fullest. "Every producer is a frustrated host ," say Burt. Admittedly, bis love affair with the magical world- of entertaininent camne long before he began bis now near. 30-year, labor of love with the OBO. "I inherited my love of motion pictures froin my grandfather,» says Burt. «"in the gay who used to put on shows. I used to set up the basement as a movie theatre and, »show* movies to the local kids. I wanted everytbing to be just so. «Since I didn't have the money for automatic curtains, I bad to promise my brother great things to open and close the drapes. Burt wanted the illusion of automatic curtains, so bis brother was weii tucke'd away. 'TMe idea is tbat no one would know. They(tbe curtains) couldn't Jerk, tbey had to flow smootbly. Sometimes mybrother would be tucked away for bours, depending on the length of the movi es. It is that creativity, commnit- ment to excellence, love for bis craft -and for bis audience that' bas made Burt successful. The young Ryerson graduate started off as an engineer doing sound effects in radio draina. He worked with such radio greats as Elwood Glover, Bruce Smith, Max Ferguson, Whitby's AI Mait- laxid, J. Fank illis, Obris Wg gins and Barry Morse. Wig "In those days radio drama was- live", satys Burt. "It was a real pressure cooker. "A lot of producers bad no sympathy -- no room for breakdowns.- 1 was aiways afraid of wrecking a soene. "One time I bad just finisbed a long broadcast and it was time for the news. I desperateiy bad to go to washroomn so. I snuck out wbile Walter Boles read the news. «Boles had this habit of-cough- ing. He would turn bis mike off w hile couabed. Well be forgot to turn bis m'ike back on so while be was reading the news the audience was getting no sound. I was found out -- I shouldn't have- ieft niy post. "In 1967 I traveiled witb the radio encrjr'eers' department and did the 'Tatoo. It was the over- timne I made that, year that bougbt this proferty.~ He speaks of tbe magnificent 10 acres just outside Brooklin he now lives on with bis wife Ruth- and three children, Karen, 18, Jeif, 14, and Robert, 8. I1968 Burt went into produc- tion. He wouid do everything -- sports, TV, radio. 6'l prefer radio. It's coser. You, your hosts and technicians make or break theshw~ Burt helped OBO recognize «that the north reaiiy did exist." He wouid broadcast from places like Kapuskasing, Thunder, Bay, SEE PAGE 20. Robinson at Gae in Ireland Sec page 20 Anglican dioces e l5Oth anniversary SSe page 32, r.r~ j. BOB BURT and son Robert head over bridge leading tô the, nature trail on the Burt property.