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30 was 1Tft27$tarot353s vmn use 3hr Earth iEx aminer Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited gt 16 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario Robb PublisherGeneral Manager Walls Editor Emeritus Henshaw Managing Editor rThe Barrie Examiner Thursday March 18 I976 Good business practice overdue in government The chamber is speaking out for the little guy The Greater Barrie Chamber of Commerce adopting more mili tant stance than in the old board of trade days has again blasted federal policy government Or should that be nonpolicy The chamber says the feds are adopting do as say not as do attitude about spending While business and labor have to antiinflation board restraints government merrily plans to have us part with more of accept our tax dollars Estimates are that federal spen ding will increase 16 to 19 per cent Why YEARS AGO Barrie Examiner March 18 1971 Jehovahs Witnesses numbering gathered over weekend in Central Collegiate for biennial circuit assembly Twin brothers Arthur and Herbert Chap pell born in Barrie 80 years ago were reunited for birthday party in Bell EwartJ Keith McRuer com pleted at Alliston 21 years as agricultural representative for South Simcoe He has always work ed in close cooperation with Stewart Page BarrieEx aminer spring fashion edition pants popularCanadian Cancer Society opened annual campaign in Barrie with target $30000 Jack Duval is chairmanKen Gillespie of Oro elected president Simcoe North Pro gessive Conservative Association In keynote address Wallace Nesbitt from Oxford County declared PCs oppose Liberal partys plans to destroy Canadian parliamentary system Dr Rynard also spoke to 200 riding members present more than 1500 revealed that hot Adjectives like senseless stupid and silly come to mind when one thinks of the way Pierre Trudeau and his Liberalsocialist gang are going about ruining the economy The chamber calls for reduced spending spending on sports culture and other nonessential giveaways and concentrate instead on grams designed to stimulate in dustrial employment Industry means employment Nonproductive giveaways in the eyes of the chamber are waste of public money In that vein the group plans waste watcher campaign to monitor waste and inefficiency at all levels of government Sound business practices are long overdue in government DOWN MEMORY LANE 50 YEARS AGO honafly were Dunlop County YOUR BUSINESS Are those controls really working now By VINCENT EGAN Business and Consumer Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service How well are antiinflation controls working now that they are in their sixth month By most of the yardsticks of economic performance Canada is in better shape than it was before the antiinflation program began Oct 14 Because of the inevitable reporting lag comparable figures are available only for the first three full months of the Ellie flame Examiner l6 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario Telephone 7266537 Registration Number 0484 Second Class Mail Return tage guaranteed Dai Sundays and 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published For the sake of space public interest and good taste The Examiner reserves the right to edit con dense or reject letter programNovember December and January The consumer price index moved up at an annual rate of 78 per cent in that period com pared with 119 per cent in the AugustOctober quarter Unemployment averaged 69 per cent of the labor force down from 71 per centalthough change in the statistical technique may have been factor Money supply cash in cir culation plus private bank deposits grew at an annual rate of 135 per cent vs 227 per cent in the preceding quarter Firstyear wage increases in major contract settlements averaged 143 per cent in the OctoberDecember period down from 169 per cent in JulySeptember and 186 per cent in AprilJune 1975 While the figures may make it appear that the antiinflation program is successand the government is of course pleas ed to take the credit some economists contend that the im provement has little or nothing to do with the governments in itiatives and the antiinflation boards influence Lets look at consumer prices Any relief has come chiefly from recent declines in prices of beef pork poultry fresh fruit fats and oils cereals and bakery ductsall exempt from the antiinflation controls But shortage appears to be pro Barrie Examiner March 18 1926 Frank Jackson Barries interna noted photographer pro duced specially posed picture of towns youngest curler Harry Milne Barrie and Allandale mer chants formed shoppers club to promote trade in town Board of Trade began membership drive headed by Andy Malcomson Board of Education will have den tist Dr Brereton as chair man Two lady trustees this Mrs Huxtable and Mrs Ord Bar rie native sons prominent in pro vincial hockey Clark North Bay Trappers Bud Fisher Grimsby Peach Kings Babe Bogardis Rangers year playoffs Buster Peterborough Louis Vair announced that his popular ice cream parlor on St for years would be clos ed having leased property to Dominion Stores for super marketDr William Little ap pointed jail surgeon for Simcoe developing in beef the biggest item in the typical familys spending on meat So prices may well accelerate again before long Some excessive wage in creases have been rolled back little by the AIB but it has sanctioned big pay increases in many cases Examples The Canadian Union of Postal Workers 1775percent boost upheld by the federal cabinet and 24percent increases for teachers in Ontarios Dufferin Kent and Norfolk counties Granted those increases may be exceptional But in the first 160 contract settlemean ap proved by the AIB firstyear wage increases averaged about 14 per cent That doesnt indicate any disposition on the part of AIB to crack down on that particular source of inflationary pressure It may suggest instead that the chief reason for the ex istence of the AIB and of the controls program itself is to create certain psychological mood among Canadiansin other words to break peoples inflationary expectations Take wages for exam le The chronically high unemp oy ment rate the return to singlefigure inflation and resistance of employers feel ing the freeze on their profit margins have combined to dispell the idea that geometric progression in wage rates should be automatic HOWARD CALLAWAY Both controversy political expertise WASHINGTON AP Howard Bo Callaway brought both controversy and political expertise to President Fords campaign before being relieved as its manager at his own re quest during the weekend Callaway stepped down pen ding an investi ation into his involvement in expansion of Colorado ski resort Callaway 49 is wealthy textile heir who graduated from the US Military Academy in 1949 and served nearly two years as army secretary before being chosen last summer to head Fords campaign But his leadershi was ques tioned in the fal when his assistant Lee Nunn and chief fund raiser David Packard guit They said that the presi ents campaign was in trou ble because of tion and blam on Callaway During the months before he stepped down there were sug gestions that Callaway should be replaced because of cam paign problems particularly in Florida During that same period Ford expressed his con fidence in Callaway and press secretary Ron Nessen said the president felt his committee was doing very well WINS PRIMARY Stuart ncer who has suc ceeded Ca laway at least tem porarily was hired to replace Nunn Spencer brought in his or organiza the problems pro pOlNTE YOU IO LOOK NTOIIIESE ALLEGWONS OF lNIERiIRENCE MAY SUGGEST PARLIAMENT HILL Predictions of fall premature By STEWART MacLEOI OTTAWA Bureau Thomson News Service Prime Minister Trudeau may have committed an enormous political blunder in rejecting the resignation of Bud Drurybut opposition parties shouldnt be too quick to predict the pending doom of the Liberal government Assuming general election is two years away how many voters will still be talking about the socalled judges affair And with the government holding solid majority in the Commons there is little the combined opposition can do to force an earlier vote At the moment Parliament Hill is afire with more excite ment than any time since the Rivard scandals of the mid 1960s and politicians and com mentators are busy comparing the current case with the great pipeline debate of 1956 The Liberal government of Louis St Laurent fell one year after that debate But until there is some evidence that Mr Trudcaus res jection of the Drury resigna tion will send wave of in dignation across the country it is difficult to draw any com parisons Within the rarified atmosphere of Ottawa it is all too easy to mistakingly predict what will be national issue in the next election But until we hear back from fishermen in ComeByChancc Egypt and Soviet Union impossible has happened By JOHN IIARBRON Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service For years Egypt was satellite of the Soviet Union not in the sense of an occupied Eastern European country but because of her economic and military reliance on Moscow The EgyptianSoviet fricnd ship treaty originally signed by the late president Abdel Nasser and since maintained by the present President Anwar Sadat was the basis for Egyplt tian receipts of Soviet economic assistance and massive military aid Egypts defeat in the 1967 Six day war and her nearvictory in the 1973 Yom Kippur war revealed the extent to which her armed forces had been sup plied with thc latest Soviet military hardware Here was no Soviet pattern of associate William Roberts to help out in Florida where Ford won the Florida primary Callaway was Democrat until 1964 when he turned to the Republican party to hel carry Geor is for Barry Gol water He so ran for Congress that year and became the states first Republican congressman since the civil war Then he set his sights on becoming Georgias first Republican governor in hearly century and almost made it in 1966 He outpollcd Democrat Lester Maddox by 3039 votes But because of writein votes for other candidates neither Maddox nor Callaway had majority The decision went to the heavily Democratic state handing over obsolescent lines of MiG 155 and 175 to an Arab ally but of giving the latest SAM2 and missile units com letc with their complex ckup facilities And into Nasscrs air force went the latest in MiG 2ls join ed by the MiG 235 in the pre sent air force as well as small squadron of Russias lethal missilefiring motor torpedo boats Economically the greatest single entity raised up by the Russians was the Aswan dam the USSRs major in frastructure activity on the Third World It probably cost them about $1 billion to build and now operates with some unexpected and alarming changes to the ecology of the Nile River SOVIETCOMMITMENTS Some Egyptian exports chief ljegislature which picked Mad ox In 1968 he joined Richard Nixons presidential campaign and was the engineer of the socallcd southern strategy an effort to defeat Alabama Gov George Wallace in the South and lure conservative Democrats to the Republican party It was ultimately success with South Carolina Ten nessee Florida Virginia and North Carolina voting for Nix on Callawa served three years as an in antry lieutenant in Korea and was granted an ear ly honorable dichargc in 1952 to return home when his father wasill apple pickers in Pcnticton and bus drivers in Kirkland Lake who really knows There are not that many voters in official Ottawa SHOULD BE ISSUE This is not to suggest the re jccted resignation should not be an issue Mr Trudeau even stunned many of his own sup porters by arbitrarily decided that Mr Drury should stay in the cabinet despite the fact he made representations to judge on behalf of cabinet col league Andre uellet Although Mr Drury did not do anything technically illegal Chief Justice Jules Deschencs of the Quebec Superior Court referred to the ministers ac tion asgravc ly cotton were committed in turn to the Soviet and Sovietbbc market often at times when basic Egyptian ex ports could have found higher selling prices in the West And now the impossible has happened President Sadat has asked the Egyptian Congress to terminate the longstanding friendship treaty with the USSR Sadats Egypt could be on the receiving line for American air craft and weapons if the strong prolsrael lobby in Congress doesnt block the move The residual effects of Kiss ingers several personal visits to Sadat the first being made in 1973 have had their obvious affects But it should be noted these were made at time when the Egyptian president has already motivated himself to be gc nuinc pcacemakcr in the Mid dlc East The Egyptian success in the Yom Kippur war undoubtedly encouraged him and convinced the Israelis who now knew the Egy tians would fight tank batte to standstill in the desert which they failed to do in 1967 Moreover the long long years of Nasserstyle interna tional diplomacy in the Middle East the staggering burden on poor nation of paying for the most advanced Russian weapons have beggared the Egyptian economy The country is gasping for pause The basic promises of the revolution of 1952 which overthrew corrupt monarchy have not been met Rural Egypt appears to be no further ahead than it was before the Nasserist revolution Mr Drury took the only course open to him He stood in the Commons apologized for what he had done and announc ed that he had tendered his resignation And the personal tributes from opposition leaders were still ringing in his car when Mr Trudeau rose and announced he was rejecting the resignation It was an incredible per formance just cant believe it said one loyal ministerial aide as he left the Commons and announced he was going on monumental binge The resignation should have been accepted While fcw peo ple would question Mr Drurys basic integrity and everyone would agree with Mr Trudeau when he talked of the ministers long and valued service to Canada the fact is he acted with impropriety in ap roaching judge about case fore him Can you imagine what might happen to truck driver if he approached judge on behalf of buddy No Mr Trudeau there cant be one standard for the influen tial and another standard for the noninfluential at least not in just society COULD BE TEMPORARY The least the prime minister should have done was to accept the resignation and if he felt it necessary he could reappoint Mr Drury to cabinet at later date It will be recalled that On tario Premier William Davis accepted the resignation of former provincial treasurer Darcy McKeough in 1972 after the minister was questioned about certain land transac tions Mr McKeough was reappointed t0 the cabinet within year and tccre was scarcely an opposition mur mur The principle had been upheld But while there appears to be nearunanimous opinion that Mr Trudeau did not do the right thing the question re mains what can the opposi tion do to keep the issue alive until the next election Its going to be exceedingly difficult There can be boycotts filibusters and general parliamentary obstruction but only for matter of weeks Otherwise regardless of the issue involved there will be certain backlash against holding up parliamentary business Opposition parties would be placed in the position of having to justify their actions And without overwhelming public support filibustcring tactics would fizzle really dont think he Mr Trudeau will be able to slip away from this one says Con servative Leader Joe Clark Well see but two years is long time to maintain an issue And if Mr Drury now up pronching i4 is not cun didatc in the next election how many people will care about his brief resignation It will be interesting to wait ch LETTERS TO EDITOR Property owners made the villains Dear Sir have before me the article headed One developer happy with planning board from the March 10 Barrie Examiner This article refers to the cir culation of George Davies Sunnidale Woods Develo ment plan to various city epart ments This is the second plan for this property which has been submitted to the planning board by this developer In it rezoning change is requested so that townhouses can be built The fact that 100 percent of the ratepayers whose property is near this proposed desecra tion is opposed to the change of zoning and the building of townhouses on this land ap pears to have made little im pacton planning board cannot see how the developer can honestly feel that the building of townhouses in small deep ravine is the best possible use of the land can only presume that hemeans he will make the most profit from this form of development The original proposal for this property was not fought against by the property owners who are now affected by the building townhouses It was our understanding that he was building circle of quality houses on the tableland behind us which we could in no way argue against TRIED TO BUY Some years ago my husband and attempted to purchase the valley ourselves to protect our own property and the valley The owner would not sell the ravine only and the entire piece of property was too expensive for us to buy However we had the assurance of the city that with the zoning then R1 and later changed to R2 smaller lots we had nothing to fearit would remain as single family detached house building sites We of course have now discovered how naive we were to believe that and that further we are some form of social de viants not to applaud this pro ject In your article one member of the planning board states that the townhouse proposal will have less traffic impact on Shirley Ave than single family would have had Some survey must have been taken that shows townhouse owners have fewer cars than people in single family houses or perhaps in the winter they will all be stuck in the valley CANADA STORY Riel rebellion delayed takeover By BOB BOWMAN Canada was supposed to take over the area known as Ruperts Land from the Hudsons Bay Company on Dec 1869 It comprised huge area in cluding large parts of Alberta Saskatchewan Manitoba On tarion and Quebec The defini tion was any area from which rivers flowed into Hudson Bay King Charles II and Prince Rupert had no idea how large it was when they granted the charter to the REC in 1670 In August 1869 Louis Riel stepped into the picture and led the Red River uprising that delayed the takeover until July 1870 Owing to slowness of com munications it was almost December before Sir John Macdonald realized that the takeover would have to be postponed and emissaries sent to Red River to negotiate with Riel Two delegates were sent of ficially Very Reverend Grand Vicar Thibault and Colonel Charles dc Salaberry Macdonald also played trump card when he asked Donald Smith of the Hud sons Bay Company to go to Red River on company business Smith was well pro vided with cash to distribute where it might do the most good Without depreciating the work of Mr Thibault and Col onel de Salaberry it was Smith who conducted the cloak and dagger intrigues that led to Riel putting his terms on paper for Ottawa to consider impacting on no one but each other He also states that the townhouse proposal saves the ravine suppose that pav ing wooded ravine would preserve it in some way One other planning board member whose own backyard has recently been protected by the purchase by the city of worthless land behind it was quoted in an Examiner article on Oct 16 as saying he sup ported the concept of good single family housing in the downtown area We would appreciate his showing the same concern for our properties When we wished to improve our own house by adding to it our assesment was raised Town housing anywhere lowers the value of surrounding pro perty Should these townhouses be built will our tax bills go down MADE THE VILLAINS When Mr Davies purchased the property he knew it was zoned R2 and yet the property owners are being made the villains in the drama by asking that this zoning not be changed Although the original development for some 45 houses on approximately 1212 acres the developer is now putting 42 units of housing on acres The rest of the land is being given to the city as parkland This is not the gift it seems The buyers of the townhouses will absorb the total cost of the land and the city will maintain land which the Ontario Munici al Board has said can not be eveloped anyway It would appear that Mr Davies has made an unwise purchase of land for develop ment and we all in effect are going to pay for his mistake do not think it is unreasonable of the property owner to want the area zoning to remain R2 We the city already have Bayfield Street on our hands Do we have to make the rest of the city match it by leveling and paving everything Progress is not necessarily the crowding of buildings onto every available piece of land Progress can be the preserva tion of what little natural beauty we have left Saving the old fireball is worthwhile ef fort saving wooded ravine from bulldozers is an eqqually valuable exercise Yours truly JEAN LEMMON Shirley Avenue He was able to leave Red River for Ottawa on March 18 While there Smith Lord Strathcona took part in number of critical intrigues that meant life or death for those taking part He tried to save Thomas Scott from being executed but failed On the other hand crippled Dr Schultz leader of the Canadian party managed to escape to Duluth by dog sled Years later he became lieute nant governor of Manitoba Smith may have played part inhis escape The intrigues and their developments are reminiscent of recent evidence that has become known about the ac tivities of the CIA in the United States OTHER MARCH 18 EVENTS 1615 Bylot and Baffin sail ed from England to explore Arctic 1836 First steamer on Pacific the Beaver owned by HBC arrived at Fort Van couver BIBLE THOUGHT The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge but fools despise wisdom and in struction Proverbs 17 This says something to the so called intellectual who has completely ignored the main stream of real science and com mon sense and has branched off in pursuit of knowledge without God THE PICK OF PUNCH 1976 Los Angola tunic Its the ultimate rip off hes just picked up five year iovcruuuut riscurcli itliili into the part ripolls play in lovcrumcul cpciuliluri