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HrP 3hr Barrie Examiner Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited 16 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario Robb PublisherGeneral Manager Walls Editor Emeritus Henshaw Managing Editor 4The Barrie Examiner Thursday March 25 1976 Easter Seals campaign help Back Fighter Back Fighter Thats the slogan for this years Easter Seals cam aign which started this week an continues for one month In Barrie the Kiwanis Club is sponsoring the mail campaign for Easter Seals and that includes the entire district for which the target is $11000 The establishment of the Ontario Crippled Childrens Centre in Toronto has meant that all children with physical disabilities can now take full advantage of the techni ques that have been developed to help them overcome their han dicaps Not too many years ago there were children who lived outside those areas where treatment had been established and there were also children in rural and remote areas of the province who required residential care of treatment cen tre or postsurgery care in hospital Unfortunately so many general hospitals were overcrowded that when surgery or other corrective procedures were completed they were unable to provide accommoda tion for postsurgery therapy Now extremely difficult cases are referred to the Ontario Crippled Childrens Centre from all parts of the province by the family doctor At the Centre their problems received the attention of leading medical dental and surgical specialists and they are able to re main when necessary for long term treatment and observation The Ontario Crippled Childrens Centre is really rehabilitation headquarters for thousands of children Every day busloads of children from Metro Toronto area are taken from their homes to the Centre for special programs and then back home The rehabilitation hospital part of the Centre is ac commodating other children who have been brought in from all over Ontario The Centre not only pro vides program of treatment but also has its own school from nursery classes and kindergarten right up to Grade 13 There is program of recreation that allows children to exert the energies known to all The recognition and assistance that is given to the Easter Seal cam paign makes it possible to send these children to this Centre and to provide the care that is so impor tant Kiwanian Jack Butler of Barrie is this years president of the Ontario Society For Crippled Children and Kiwanian Jim Greenhalgh is cam paign chairman for this district with the active assistance of all club members They ask you to Fighter Back DOWN MEMORY LANE 10 YEARS AGO Barrie Examiner March 25 1966 Prime Minister Lester Bowles Pear son firmly stating his intention to remain as Liberal leader as long as wanted received rousing ovation from Quebec party members and ex unded his views on the new fe eralism He acknowledged the French fact within federalism French Canadian nationalists were defeated on several resolu tions including removal of the Queen and representatives from Canadian government French be made an official language of On tario and New Brunswick was resolution that passed also that all provinces be given control over social security plans and right to collect taxes for these measures Heber Smith PC Simcoe North advocated retention of capital punishment under modified law He spoke on this debate in House of Commons Ross Nixon president Barrie Industrial Assistance Com pany presided at annual meeting and reviewed substantial achievements of past year which included bringing Chrysler Out board Canada to this city Cana dian Cancer Society began fund campaign in Barrie under chairman Jack Cain Woolworths held spr ing fashion review in downtown store with Wendy Hicks as commen tator At Barrie Curling Club unusual thing happened in schedule play Skip Gord Millers team of Ken Green Ken Callen and Wayne Hickling scored an eightender but still lost game to skip Vern Adams and his team of city engineer Gerry Tamblyn Shanty Bay fire chief George Sutton and John Thorne George Chuvalo Canadian heavyweight champion signed to fight Cassius Clay in Torontos Maple Leaf Gardens for world title Clay predicted he would win in 12 but said he would end it earlier if Chuvalo used dirty tac tics Mrs Gwen MacLaren wife of Alderman Jack MacLaren unanimous choice of judges as Citizen of the Year in Barrie and winner of William Wright Memorial Trophy for her work on behalf of Red Cross and YM YWCA William Stewart Ontario minister of agriculture addressed Kiwanis Club of Kempenfelt Bay City Council approved low rental housing under Ontario Housing Corp INTERPRETING THE NEWS Washington is alarmed about Cuban influence By KEVIN DOYLE bingly rapid spread of Cuban particularly vulnerable to WASHINGTON CP sense of alarm seems to be spreading in official Washington over what govern ment analysts view as distur Ehr Barrie Examiner 16 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario Telephone 7266537 Registration Number 0484 Second Class Mail Return tage guaranteed Dai Sunda and Statutory Ho idays excepted Subscription rates daily by carrier 85 cents weekly $4420 yearly Single copies 15 cents By Mail Barrie $4420 yearly Simcoe County $3400 yearly Balance of Canada $3600 year National Advertising Offices 65 Queen St West Toronto M44710 640 Cathcart St Mon treal Member of the Canadian Press and Audit Bureau of Cir culations The Canadian Press is ex clusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches in this paper credited to it or The Associated Press or Reuter and also the local news published therein The Barrie Examiner claims Co yright in all original adver tis ng and editorial material created by its employees and reproduced in this newspaper Co yright Registration Num r203815 register 61 influence throughout the Carib bean region The concern has reached such pitch in fact that in re cent weeks officials have begun raising the possibility in private discussions of Com munist bloc of countries developing in the area under the general leadership of Cuban Premier Fidel Castro It is extremely difficult to gauge the strength of official claims that Castros brand of communism is becoming in creasingly attractive to leaders of the Caribbean states But it seems highly unlikely Castro is contemplating any sort of military action in the Caribbean akin to Cubas ag gressive role in southern Africa Nevertheless analysts point to Jamaica as one prime exam ple of developments they find worrisome in the general area They say that last month alone 50 Cuban construction workers were sent to Jamaica as art of foreign aid project and that the total will rise in the next few months to roughly 600 Recently Dudley Thompson Jamaicas foreign minister hailed Castro as one of the greatest men in our lifetime At almost the same time Presi dent Ford was branding the Cuban leader an international outlaw because his troops were supportin proCommunist forces in southern African country of Angola INSTABILITY FEARED American officials say that political instability in Jamaica which has led to sporadic out breaks of violence makes it subversion and they add that should it gradually become satellite of Cuba it would pro vide an invaluable naval base for Cubas ally the Soviet Union Thompson however debunks all such speculation He says the number of Cubans in Jamaica is still far below the 350 or so Western aid officers there including 150 Americans Whether Cubas influence is actually growing among its Caribbean neighbors it now seems clear that its relations with the area as whole are definitely improving decade ago Cuba was ostracized by the Caribbean countries Today however only Haiti remeains openly hostile to Castro An in Guyana on the north coast of South America Cuban advisersthe exact number is unknownrecently began ar riving ostensibly to help with fishing and other agricultural proects ere have been published reports here and elsewhere that Jamaican and Guyanese police now are being trained in Cuba But this has been hotly denied by the governments involved Cuban relations with Bar bados are also on the upswing with Barbados providing an air base for period last year to accommodate aircraft ferrying troops from Cuba to take part in the Angolan civil war EXPERTS HELPED North Korean agricultural experts were sent to Albania to help with the planting of the rice crop in 1962 CAVEAT EMPTOR Pierre will be long time bringing home the bacon By LEONARD NOBLE Now some of the fuss and furor has died down over the topic of alleged interference of judges by cabinet ministers far greater potential catastrophe lies in store for Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and that is the br inging home of the British North American Act can just hear Margaret call ing over the upstairs bannister rail as he leaves home for work in the morning Pierre darl ing if youre not going to be too late at the office would you mind bringing home quart of WWWwFnvfiiovvmmcay mm PARLIAMENT HILL milk two unds of Shopsys corned bee and loaf of rye bread Im having the Israeli ambassador dropping in for lunch tomorrow By the way Pierre would you also bring home the British North America Act like they say you are going to do in the newspapers Id really like to seeit What are we going to do with it when we get it To which Pierre would reply as he moves swiftly through the door Yes dear All kidding aside how is Pierre ever going to get the What bugged these two officers was not in the RCMPs report By STEWART MacLEOI Ottawa Bureau Thomson News Service Since there were no girlie magazines lying around settl ed down in front of the fireplace the other night with book about morale problems within the Royal Canadian Mounted Police In terms of relaxed entertain ment this would normally be on par with Nigerian telephone directory but it just happened that had spent long social evening with two veteran RCMP officers They had been chatting in formally about things that bugged them in the force so it actually was an interesting ex ercise to see what formal inlt quiry had to say on the subject And the most interesting aspect of all was that the biggest worry facing these two Moun ties was not even part of the formal report Well get to their concerns later In the meantime its worth noting that the inquiry established in 1974 to deal with surfacing morale problems in the force resulted in 220page report containing 135 recom mendations The study was headed by County Court Judge che Marin and during the course of the inquiry submissions were heard from 2500 members of the public and the RCMP The commissioners also travelled to the United States and Europe to talk with other police forces and governments There is no doubt about the depth of the study Perhaps the most notable recommendation concerned the establishment of federal police ombudsman who would hear public complaints about THE PICK OF PUNCH now up hitto the Iefttlrats it British North American Act or the BNA Act as it is commonly referred to home without fur ther action by the British parliament NOT CONSTITUTION Without meaning to give anyone history lesson think it might be best to have look and see what the BNA Act real ly means can tell you in nutshell what it does not mean and that is it is not our Canadian con stitution nor did it originally confer total self government The BNA Act was passed by the British House of Commons in it 311$ the RCMPAAat least press release from the solicitor generals department said it was the most important sug gestion But so far as internal morale is concerned most of the recommendations dealt with more humane system of discipline MILITARY DISCIPLINE The commission found that the military system of discipline has changed little since the force was established back in 187 There should be less punitive mentality says the report The three major recommen dations for improving morale in this area were To repeal the regulation which allows an RCMP member to be jailed on the authority of commission ed officer to repeal another rule which forces an RCMP member to make statement when accused of noncriminal offence to permit an RCMP member pcaring in service court to represented by civilian counsel There were other recommen dations dealing with pensions transfers promotions and grievance rocedures And no doubt all these things affect morale The commission should have all the answers considering the qualification of its members Judge Marin was with the Law Reform Commission of BIBLE THOI IGHI For where two or three are gathered together In my name there am in the midst of them Matthew 1820 Careful that you dont make little of few believers gathered unless you want to take the respsonsibility of coun ting the presence of the Saviour as nothing and was proclaimed on July lst 1867 As matter of fact the act only covered four colonies in 1867 namely Ontario Quebec New Brunswick and Nova Scotia and basically it was the legal apparatus for Canada making its own laws with the authority divided bet ween the federal and the pro vincial parliaments It is interesting to note that the British parliament was per mitted to disallow legislation passed by the Dominion parlia ment and to amend the BNA Act if it thought it necessary to doso In 1949 when to all intents WW TORONTO SUM Canada Robin Boume is an assistant deputy minister in the solicitorgcncrals department Ross Wimmer is Regina lawyer Insp DK Wilson heads the RCMPs commercial fraud section and he is also lawyer and Sgt Robert Potvin was chosen by the men in the force And since this highly qualificd group heard from 2500 people and considered the matter for two years it seems stupid for an individual of limited intelligence to challenge the findings par ticularly when research was limited to conversations with couple of Mounties Yet still wonder whether the inquiry got to the bottom of the morale problem and par ticularly whether due regard was given to the fierce pride most RCMP men have in the traditions of the force BIGGER WORRIES These two officers mention ed are experienced and reasonable men and they said that their greatest worryand they claim to reflect the views of many colleaguesis that the federal government may force the RCMP out of the provinces and turn it into smaller FBItype operation The RCMP now is the provin cial police force in every pro Vince except Ontario and Quebec which have their own forces And previously Ottawa has contributed 60 per cent of the cost with the provinces pay ing the other 40 per cent And even under this formula former British Columbia premier Dave Barrett was seriously considering the feasibility of establishing pro vincial police force Now Ottawa is starting to negotiate new contracts with the provinces and the federal government wants the formula reversed so it contributes only 40per cent and purposes Canada became soverign in its own right when it applied for and was given the right to amend the BNA Act it was left with an unworkable formula for bringing home the BNA Act to Canada WHY THE QUALMS Since up to 1949 we had no qualms in using the Privy Council as our court of last resort why is it in 1976 we have such qualms in requesting the parliament of Westminster to turn over the last vestige of control that the British parlia ment has over the British Nor th America Act and which it would be only too happy to give to Canada just to get rid of the problem Until the politicians luck courage to ask for it ere wi be countless federalprovincial meetings designed to consider the ways and means of ex tricatin the BNA Act from Englan all of which willl fail while Canada continues to go down the drain because it needs certain amendments and refinements to the BNA Act in order for the government to operate efficiently Until that time Pierre will be long time in bringing home the bacon LETTERS TO EDITOR Essa taxpayer disgruntled Dear Sir would like to express myself as parent taxpayer and citizen of Essa Township in regard to Essa Township coun cils action or lack of action in the past years In reading the daily newspaper we hear where great number of communities townships lawning bowling groups just about anybody is receiving Wintario grants for arenas sports programs etc Innisfil Township on open ing of the Stroud complex an nounced that grant of some $180000 was available just awaiting signature When we had the OMB hearing in Angus couple of months ago for an arena built in Angus not one of our township representatives spoke in favor of same one spoke against it week or so ago store owneroperator namely AM of Angus had an appointment with Essa Township council to see if he could operate his business on Sunday because of tourist trade which would giaialify him to stay open on Sun He was asking for permission to open on Sunday but again the answer was flat no For the ast year group of citizens Angus have been working to try and get day care centre in Angus and the Margaret Street school would have been logical site understand this building could have been purchased by the township for $1 from the school board but this was not completed so provincial grant of some $50000 was lost also have another small matter of which am supposed to be one of the offenders and its in relation to statement of claim etc regarding the previous arena board All this is costing the tax payer quite lot of dollars and would like to have my day in court and save the taxpayer some money have heard that our township representatives are having large number of special meetings and this will add to the tax bill We dont hear of much ac complished with all these meetings remain disgruntled Essa taxpayer ED LeCLAIR Why do cabs take that space Dear Sir Almost every paper lately carries reports of shortage of parking space in downtown Barrie Why when local bylaws state that offstreet parking must be available do taxi cabs occupy up to 12 parking spaces on Clap perton Street and also on Maple Avenue south of Dunlop Street although not to such ex tent Also why is dangerous THE WORLD TODAY Why the Orion needed by Canada By JOHN HARBRON Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service It now is time that Prime Minister Trudeau give priority to the problems of his shy and quiet Defence Minister James Richardson and the new crisrs facing that department in ap proved equipment replace ment Mr Richardson who had much difficulty at the beginn ing of his portfolio grasping hold of complex and somewhat paranoiac depart ment finally won cabinet ap proval for new aircraft and tanks The order for 18 Lockheed Orion longrange patrol arr craft with most sophisticated package of aerial surveillance electronic equipment represents $950 million outlay If spent it would be the largest single defence expen diture since the Second World War taking that record away from the navy whose very ex pensive antisubmarine war fare ships have held that record up to now Part of the Lockheed Com pany deal was that this now very hard ressed company would suppy the initial $200 million to start designing and building the new line of Orions The company says it doesnt have the funds and Mr Richardson has only about $50 million to play with in his own department WE WANT YOUR OPINION Letters submitted for publication must be original copies signed by the writer Please include your street ad dress and phone number although they will not be published Letters which can not be authenticated by phone cannot be published For the sake of space public interest and good taste The Examiner reserves the right to edit con dense or reject letter situation that causes accidents allowed to continue Parked vehicles on west side of Clapperton immediately south of Collier Street do not allow traffic eastbound on Col lier to proceed from stop sign at Clapperton safely Truck parked day and night against bylaws again on Dunlop St West in front of No261 Why GOODFELLOW Getting cabinet approval of this important military hard ware purchase for his depart ment has been Mr Richard sons major coup as defence minister He is understandably determined to see it go through And he should now have sup port from cabinet and prime minister whose priorities almost never ever include our armed forces Unfortunately the full im plications of needing the 18 Lockheed Orions are not understood by the public and one suspects not by everyone in the Liberal caucus or Trudeau cabinet We are not just buying 18 very costly machines to replace 33 Argus in constant service now for almost 20 years but an aircraft whose configuration will be used by Lockheed to meet other major foreign orders including those from the United States Its possible that as many as 150 modified Orions to meet the growing complexities of con tinental and ocean surveillance could be built if the Canadian order sticks and Lockheed survives the cor porate crises of its own mak ing The major part of the pro blem of lackofidentity with the Orion is refusal by Parlia ment and public alike to ac cept the major threat to our sovereignty and our fishing in dustries from the Soviet naval and commercial presences in the North Atlantic Soviet fishing fleets increas ing in size and fishgathering fitential have been roaming yond our narrow territorial water limits for 15 years We think we know about them and their activities But in addition there are the mounting Soviet naval ac tivities off our coasts revealed publiclyin detail few weeks ago by ViceAdmiral Douglas Boyle for CBCTV public af fairs program The new Orions will be used to police and report on these massrve movements