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OUTLOOK HaJton Hills OUTLOOK published each Saturday by the TON I Silt- KM Home Newspaper of I Ion A Division of Company Limited at IS Street Georgetown Ontario II Second Clan Mall Registered Number WRIT lis llrlan MacLeod Donna Kell PUBLISHER DonBrander sports Pa Tbeir Outlook MARK TING MacClllinry Caroline PRODUCTION Or NT Hastings Gilson Mary AD MANAGER Dan Taylor iSMrllpADVrllTISlV Turner needs changes Twoa Crowd Ottawa Stewart MacLeod Srvk One convolution for Liberal leader John is that tion campaign still has more than live weeks to Bo long enough fir dramatic changes Campaigns seldom end the way they begin and this too must Hive the Liberal loader some comfort Because not even the most en thusiastlc Liberal would suggest the first week was inspirational Some events such as Sir Turner a stumbling over the details of his day care policy were of his own doing or at least the doing of his aides It was bad enough that the leader could not deaf with the cost of his program but for other to be seen on national television ingovcr figure was inexcusable That s just nut done during clec lion campaigns And prior to the campaign Quebec Liberals should have sorted pirty has fallen it Just who would be running in the phico in popularity nil ihnaj That particular news from lived in Canada for the last five years In politics a defection is defection To give Mr Turner credit hi made the best of the situation I hope he Tory than hi was a Liberal hi said The Liberal leader also could without those from Keith the solid On MP who decided nit seek re election It was lough enough to low someone of Mr Pimers quality but what slung witi tin nasi of veteran MP lor his retirement it he said in effect was that the have a hope in Hades winning and he had no great desire to spend another four years In opposition I suppose you can believe In miracles hi said but I don see any Indication the country is going to entrust itself to the party Not great breakfast reading for John Turner It tended to lake the edge off his claim that he found ex and enthusiasm everywhere he went And if those enough there were the opinion polls Accuracy aside it obviously no fun launching a campaign when a pollster Is telling the country your dismal third province Now when all called star audi dales announce they are not going to run it they have spontaneously decided to abandon the parly in the ace of soaring Tory popularity Held and might well have been most discouraging poll ever hit the Liberals In terms of tun ng He tain I While things Improved si In Her polls during the the hock still When Mr Turner and his l risks than say Brian Mulroney The Ide i was to be open available ready in willing to on all subjects This is Intended to offer favorable contrast to the lightly con trolled campaign of the prime minister who according to those follow clever During his first week on cam trail Mr Turner did not need those assorted In fact lie should have insured decisions were made well the election was announced And Liberal campaign worker Drills Columbia should have seen to it that bigger crowds hand to greet the leader when In in the province on Thursday That one of the fundamentals in a successful campaign These glitches will no doubt be around him corrected but after the lessons of ly lhrouKhml the IBM campaign they should lhc have happened this lime shouting range and Mr did not entertain one unrehearsed However while Mr Turner and week those around him can be faulted for iinns some of the flubs he was also In can I hear you victim of other minor mlsf or whether this Is open tunes No one could have foreseen l0 dcbnt i that former Liberal Cabinet minister keeps the prime minister out Tony Abbott would suddenly an nounce that he had been converted for Mf to Toryism and his wish or nomination rasslng onair questions from the It matters not that Mr Abbot of jjberal riding associa a formidable In the Trudeau cabinet or that he has not With friends like this SNAFU by Bruce Seattle Which did you say happened first Haggert hits Your Business Diane Matey Thorn ion Snle picker again Last Jnnuary you may remembrr Peter up the stock pages The Globe and Mall and threw dirts at them coming up with a sample portfolio of he US and five stocks The lei was sec if slocks chosen at random would form those recommended by lop stock broker j fc firms In each of the three to date Peters tana dlan slock picks have outperformed those recommended by Inc pros and the Toronto Stock Exchanges compos I index When It comes to the American market though the analysts at Burns Fry Ltd are clearly the win Deri Burns portfolio has turned In a whom ping 43percenl gain since Dec with two of its picks more than doubling in price Peter are second showing generous price gains and outperforming the bow Jones Industrial average We re not recommending you go out and buy these stocks or any others we Just set out to teat a popular notion that the advice of professional analysts Is not always worth the paper It printed on For the sake of simplicity our sample assumes a shareholder has 100 shares of each company regardless of the price Gains in highpriced stocks more than offset losses in lowpriced ones and vice GAINERS AND LOSERS All In all the Canadian market has not done well this year rising a mere cent measured by the The market has been drag down by weak oil and gold price Three of our stocks have turn I lost December dart chosen In price since have two Midland and I a Thi biggest nil wis In Noma tin urn llin makes Christmas Midlands choices Noma has risen per cent since last Dec Two of Peters stocks in se cond Pennington the wear chain Union big chemical company with per cent plains Gold a choice turned in the worst performance per cent Second from bottom was I etcr A a maker of women clothing which tumbled per cent Measuring the total portfolio wins hands a percent gal Midland lost per cent and which lost 10pcrcm if it comes to the market it hard to beat Bums Pry Hums had the lap two performer- American Greetings the card maker soared 143 per cent MCI Communications the telecommunications carrier leaped US per cent Only one of Bums stocks fell Ryder Systems the truck leasing company down 11 per After Bums over all gain on Its portfolio Peter 16 per cent looks small In fact It a remarkable gain Richardson the other competitor we chose turned In a 14- per cent over all gain As we noted last quarter Peter lost one of his stock picks Pueblo which the company management bought back at a gain to him taking private A ruridown of the dartchosen Canadian portfolio Is as follows Algo A compared with on Dec Broulan Resources IS Green Forest Lumber S3 SO Pennington s stores 12 and Union Carbide IIS Peter s US portfolio comprises a computer software and database management company IS Fluor an engineering and heavy construction company 75 Schcring Plough the big drug company and Pacific Gas Electric 251 Election reflection PI Staff Comment Voters in Ontario on going ti be confused bunch m next With two one week the municipal election will be held Nov and the federal election week later on Nov will have to digest names and issues for two elections at the lime One can only expect that with high profile federal election and its accompanying issues like abortion and free trade the municipal dec will get lost In the shuffle It would a shame if that hap- There is no doubt that jour MP is an important person in the riding but so is jour local councillor While federal politics of society lis jour locil councillor who should come your rescue when then in a place be when doesn flow like its supposed to when lhc fence is high when lie local roads develop potholes capable of swallowing your car when rowdy parties become loo rowdy too often when trucks or cars continually speed through your ifcjiborhood when you need to redone i property for whnl it is youd like to do with it when don want the property across the street reioned and when you have questions about fire department and the llhrnrles lcal and Regional councillors share different responsibilities but result is the same they both have direct effect on your dailj And forget the hydro those people who make sure jour lights go on and of day yes you have to vole or them tool and school board trustees whose Job it is to make sun your children have a decent tton All these responsibilities and there are many more arc very Im portant to a bedroom community like Hills A good local or Regional will work hard to make sure There are other responsibilities heaped on local councillors shoulders You have council representation on the police com mission and on the Credit Valley Conservation Authority as well as many other boards and agencies throughout In the next four weeks you II see signs on front lawns asking you to vote Liberal PC for a mayor a councillor a hydro commissioner or a school board trustee They re all important But Just remember sooner or later you 11 likely need help of your ward councillor Despite the federal election or maybe even In spite of It hope Hills can bring out more than the traditional per cent of the