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Elite Etienne Examinrr Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited 16 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario Robb PublisherGeneral Manager Walls Editor Emeritus Henshaw Managing Editor 4The Barrie Examiner Friday March 26 1976 THUMBS UP To Stewart Fisher of the Simcoe Board of Education for asking the question no one else has County had the nerve to ask Will Aid Perri be able to be both full time teacher and mayor of Barrie To city council for increasing the number of polls for the next civic election To the friends of Peter Bolduc for trying to get Innisfil council to allow him to carry on his automotive repair business To United Steelworker minor peewees for advancing to the On tario Minor Hockey Association finals after stopping Kingston To planning board for setting stiff tions To Bill condominium conversion regula Straughan who faced with dismal provincial grant schedule resolved to keep paring away at the school board budget To the people of Barrie who sent in almost station To Judy Johns UCW for organizing chocolate Easter egg decorating 800 replies to The Ex aminer and consumer associations survey about Frenchlanguage French of Elmvale St scheme to raise funds for the mis sions in Nakina northern Ontario To Ken Holt instructor at Barrie Minor Lacrosse Association clinics for steering youngsters away iron the violent image of the sport THUMBS DOWN The entire cost of an overexpen diture of $70000 on the Thornton Arena To Innisfil council for sending the request of Peter Bolducs friends to committee for study To Ron Lowe of the Association of University Teachers who says university teachers should form unions for job protection Com petent teachers should have little to worry about To the county board of education for deciding to spent up to $3000 for budget reports it may never need Canadian Looks like the board is pouring more tax dollars into the trustees association from which it plans to obtain the reports To Ainley prepared Innisfils official plan for ignoring separate schools Innisfil is and Associates who not WASPonly community DOWN MEMORY LANE 25 YEARS AGO Barrie Examiner March 26 1951 New St Josephs Auditorium on Mulcaster St officially opened by His Eminence James Cardinal McGuigan Archbishop of Toronto Buster Walton 16 recently in vested Kings Scout selected to at tend 7th World Boy Scout Jam boree in Austria Aug 313Town Council set tax rate at 76 highest in Mayor Mar jorie Hamilton explained it was not unrealistic in view of general rising costs Alderman Heber Smith of history Her Worship fered lone dissenting voice in ed by renaming prefering YOUR BUSINESS What to look for in summer camp By VINCENT EGAN Business and Consumer Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service With summer only few months away this is the season when many parents must choose childrens camp It might be an easy choice if the decision was based solely on the advertising material show ing beautiful location and lots of friendly smiling faces In real life the choice is more complicated involving good many questionsto which the answers may not come easily it would be ideal if parent could visit several camps first see how they are run and then make decision among them Since summer camps are operated only in the summer however parents must dig lit tle harder in the search for quality and value The first decision concerns the type of camp thats accep table to pa rent and child Costs are lowest at camps operated by churches social organi7a ions and the like They are higher at prixate camps and Eh Burro Examiner 16 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario Telephone 7266537 Registration Number 0484 Second Class Mail Return tage guaranteed Dai Sundays 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 8641710 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 Router and also the local news published therein The Barrie Examiner claima Co yright in all original adver tisihg and editorial material created by its employees and roduced in this news apor oggright Roglii ration Num r203815regliiterm WWWflWWWé higher still at specialized camps such as those that bear the name of professional athlete and offer some instruc tion in sports CONTRACT DETAILS To avoid the unpleasant sur prise of extras on your in voice try to establish precise ly what is covered by the fee you pay and that the contract is specific about it if you are contracting for the entire summer period try to re tain the right to cancel and ob tain refund at say the halfway point in case things have not worked outvor at any point in the season for serious reason And if you are depositing money in the camps canteen fund for your child be sure to specify the limits on your childs withdrawal and obtain the camps assurance that they will be enforced and that any unused money will be returned at the end Make it point to find out if the camp carries insurance pro tection in the event of ac cidents and if it does how ex tensive the insurance is Its good idea to consult your own insurance agent to see if addi tional coverage might be need ed by your child In the interview with the camp director the parent should not have to ask all the questions good director should be just as interested in seeking information about the wildernessBylaw passed to pro hibit smoking Arena Radio FM system approv Barries volunteer brigade first in OntarioSome residents of Davis St object to in seats of Barrie fire it Shanty Bay Road Ridge RoadBarrie Flyers easy winners in OHA Junior playoff over Gait Black Hawks Jerry Toppazzini and Jimmy Mor rison were workhorses for Hap Emms locals Some ardent fans were saying Barrie would be No in Canada this year child and honest enough to tell you if your child is not likely to fit into that particular camp You should not necessarily be impressed with claims about the great length of time the camp has been in operation The important thing is the period that its current owners and directors have had it Ask how many counsellors the camp employs One rule of thumb holds that there ought to be one for every five children under the age of seven one for every six campers between the ages of seven and nine and one for every eight older children Inquire too about the staff assigned to food preparation Some camps may even have an outside contractor supplying cafeteriastyle meals Health care is of prime con cern to parents The camp may not have its own medical professionals on the site but in that case it should have definite arrangement with nearby resident doctors and nurses to come when needed Parents must do their part by informing the camp staff about their childrens medical histories and problems After gathering the informa tion you need on these points and others the camps ac tivites sanitary facilities sleeping arrangements and so onits important to obtain as many contacts as possible among former campers and counsellors Looks like grandpa fights like tiger WOODSTOCK Ont CP Bill Underwood looks like anyones grandfather ro tund bespectacled with wisp greyl hairs and barely five eetta But in Woodstock highschool gymnasium the Biyearold originator of Defendo stood five feet taller than the husky assailant he had just put flat on his back in an effortless demonstration of his selfwlcfcncc techni ques Mr Underwood said his in terest in selfdefence began early in the Merscysitlc area of Liverpool where he grew in Wllii always tou it little guy My brother use to set up fights for me dont remember ever losing fight They always pick on you when youre small but always held my own grew up in the toughest place in the world with the Live Irish where you had to fig to stay alive In 1907 while selling pro grams at vaudeVilie theatre Mr Underwood wat ched jujitsu great Yukio Tani and escape artist Harry Houdini and began to devclo his own methods of sel defence based on minimum physical effort CAMETOCANAIA After coming to Canada at the age of 14 Mr Underwood continued to work on his techniques during the First World War They saved his skin more than once he said and he escaped capture following the first poison gas attack at Ypres THE WORLD IDDAY Shah blames west for inflation then fuels it By JOHN HARBRON Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service Irans Shah Mohammed Riza Pahlevi has been lecturing the Western industrial nations recently about the effects of their high inflation and bad economic planning on his developing country What he referred to was the burden carried by countries like his own who must buy so much of their technology from Europe Japan and North America importing the high cost of it in doing so While he was saying this the selfsame opinionated shah was doing rather good jab of fann ing the fuels of inflation in Iran by spending billions on ar maments and fancy technology The seemingly unlimited funds for doing this were com ing from Irans oil at the much higher price the West has had to pay for it since the fall of 1973 The shahs inventories of im ports have been staggering close to 1000 British heavy tanks and small squadron of Americanbuilt Spruanceclass destroyers plus missiles fast to boats small arms all int military sector In the industrial sectors the PARLIAMENT HILL More government gobbledeygook shahs technocrats have been buying steelmill equipment truckmaking lants whole light industry ants manage ment expertise trucks and cars by the thousands Washington Post published huge report on the staggering chaos at Irans docks where many of these goods are piling up as more and more ships ar rive to deliver more and more imports BAD PLANNER It is another example of the substantial bad planning which is endemic in Third World societies made more serious in Iran because of the resources it on the best city in Canada By STEWART MatLEO Ottawa Bureau Thomson News Service The federal governmcnts ur ban affairs department has taken its first timid step toward trying to determine which Canadian city has the best quality of life And 83 pages later it con cludes that the scarch for universal measure that sum marizes the quality of life in urban areas is not likely to be successful In other words the govern ment has no way of determin ing the best city in which to live This first effort is not even ixirticularly good reading somewhat stuffy document thats filled with such bureaucratic phrases as redundancy among the urban indicators the rotated factor matrix indicators with loading factors and something about computer graphics But its an interesting excr cisc if for no other reason than it seems to prove that no amount of expertise can tell you where you should live What the department did do was to take the 1971 statistics and concentrate on 22 Canadian cities comparing 32 factors af fccting the economic social cultural and physical life in these placcs It tells you all sorts of thingsrreexccptthc best place to live ILLEGITIMATE HIRTIIS For instance its fascinating to lcarn that Regina has the highest illcgitimatc birth rate in Canada 177 per 1000 births Halifax has the next highest with 1344 and then the rate INTERPRETING THE NEWS Labors leadership contest has an air of exclusivity RyJOlINIIAY LONDON II Labor might bc the party of the British working man but its current leadership contest looks strikingly like an election in an exclusive gcnllcmcns club Unlike Canadian political THE PICK OF PUNCH parties where party workers from across the country can vote only the MP5 of the British Labor party will be choosing their next Icadcrwthe man to succeed Harold Wilson as primc minister One result is that candidates always tend to come from the declines through all the cities to Hamilton with only 555 But the question the depart ment cant answer is how this affects the quality of life Is it measure of promiscuity Does it mean that in some places more teenagers are on the pill What happens after the children are born The department acknowledges that even the definition of illegimatc varies bit from province to province Another statistics indicates that Winnipeg might be the best place for drinkers That city has 2335 square feet of space per 100 population where alcoholic beverages are Served At the low end right behind 0t tawa is Saint John NB with 582 square feet But how this affects the quali same club being MPs themselves All five candidates in the present race are ministers They are James Callaghan foreign office Denis Healey exchequer Michael Foot employment Home Secretary Roy Jenkins and Anthony Benn energy RULES FAVOR MPS In theory nothing would pre vent somebody else running for the leadership But in prac tice election rules virtually guarantee that only MP5 of long service get crack at the top job Only six days elapsed bet ween Wilsons retirement an nouncement last week and the closing of nominations this week That gives decisive ad vantage to people already well known among MPs There is no time to develop momentum for someone from outside the Com mons The five Labor candidates average quartercentury in the Commons Hl Nor of men sought we glory neither of you nor yet at other when we might have been hur densome as the apostles of Christ Thessalonians 26 How much good has been lost because we have been governed by who gets the glory What soever ye do do all to the glory of God has to spend abroad The ef fects of all this on country determined to bring about in decade what it took the in dustrial West century to achieve can be guessed at The shah and his overzealous technocrats arent telling us It is his fiscal managers under his personal direction who have given the game away by their actions Massive cutbacks in the abovelisted expenditures have resulted in the anticipated creation of about $2 billion in surplus revenue Critics of the shahs hotbouse approach to growth say much of this doesnt repre ty of life presumably depends on whether youre drinking person And also they might put tables closer together in SaintJohn Incidentally the report lists these drinking establishments under social opportunities There are dandy statistics on cultural homogeneity and if can ever figure out what they mean Ill pass them along Another comparative chart that doesnt impress me shows the voter turnout for civic elec tionsranging from high of 586 per cent in St Johns Nfld to low of 323 per cent in Kitchener Ont Voter turnout says the report is one measure of the state of civil participation It also talks about how it reflects the momentousness of deci sions Perhaps it also reflects on some crummy campaigns MOST HOSPITAL BEDS Just for the record you might be interested to know that Lon don Ont has the most hospital beds per 1000 popula tion448 St Johns and Thunder Bay have 98 St CatharinesNiagara has 54 and Sudbury has 53 But Sudbury fares well in statistics on missing person sonly 16 per 10000 popula tion London leads in this category with 109 Thunder Bay ha595andStJohns 31 And Regina leads all the other cities with reported criminal offences1243 per 10000 population Going down the scale Thunder Bay has 900 St Johns 828 St Catharines Niagara 678 Sudbury 547 and Montreal 456 But even the report acknowledges that the figures can be grossly misleading low figure can mean that the crime rate is actually low or that residents have so lit tle confidence in their police force that they do not bother reporting minor crime or that what one community re orts diligently such as so iciting by prostitutes another community does not see as crime worth reporting or that the police do not bother recording all the crimes reported Similar arguments could be made for the other statistics in this book described by its authors as first foray so to speak Actuall was much more intereste in how much the book cost to produce but couldnt find out It seems it was spinoff from other studies and exact cost calcula tions are impossible But we hope subse uent books on the subject wil be more readable said one of ficial That foray too will be first sent fiscal responsibility but withholding of payments in the tens of millions of dollars and his realization that many of his huge plans cannot be met Whatever the reason the Shah of Iran has just engaged in the same rush to growth which has helped to bring about inflation in the West the same crisis he criticized us for in itiating There hasnt been much finger pointing in our direction from Teheran in the last little while Shah Riza Pahlevi has been in his counting house and not counting up as much money as he thought he had In addition his personal representatives at OPEC Organization of Petroleum Exporting Coun tries have been instructed to hold the line on oil prices SHAH HAS TO LISTEN The big Western oil users are talking back and the shah realizes as do the Venezuelans and Persian Gulf states that his oil resources are not limitless Reality has come to the Ira nian Imperial Palace as it did earlier to the White House 10 Downing Street and other such decisionamking venues Iran has been learning some hard lessons lately all of them familiar to us already LETTERS TO EDITOR Doggerel Dear Sir Doggerel so to speak Today as the sun did shine walk downtown did suit me fine As looked up into the sky so blue stepped right into some doggydo With the rotting papers Broken bottles and garbage too Must we also tolerate The doggydo The Downtown Improvement Board Wants project or two May suggest How to CleanUp Doggydo The recent visit of Irving Layton Has given me the inspiration To turn to you In desperation Thumbs up to you For saying Thumbs down On doggydo Yours truly Walking Carefully Baby seals Dear Sir BABY SEALS was born in the cold Atlantic land of ice and snow My mother taught me how to swim while the winter winds did blow We stayed close as we could together our fur kept us warm you know The storms raged around us and love made us grow We lived on fish from the ocean and travelled miles at sea Isaw the great whale and shark at distrance They paid no attention to me We owed no man living and the land we lived on was free At dawn on February mor ning saw vessel out at sea crawled to the top of an ice 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 CANADAS STORY Trading rivalry close to war By BOB BOWMAN King Charles II and Prince Rupert organized The Gentlemen Adventures of England Trading into Hudsons Bay in 1670 They were given exclusive trading rights in any part of North America and had rivers flowing into Hudson Bay The effect was that the Hud sons Bay Company au it became known practically owned what is now the west of Canada to the Rockies King Charles and Prince Rupert did not realize this in 1670 It was not until 1690 that Henry Kelsey got as far west as Portage la Prairie Anthony Henday was the first non Indian to see the Rockies in 1754 At first the Hudsons Bay Company did not try to establish trading posts in this huge area It depended on the Indians to bring their furs to Hudson Bay This was done by paddling down the North and South Saskatchewan Rivers across Lake Winnipeg then down the Nelson River to York Factory The Indians worked out their own system of relay ing the furs along the route There were plenty of mid dlemen even in those days It wasnt long before more aggressive furtraders began workin in the HBC area especialy after 1780 when smallpox epidemic drove the Indians into the woods They would not bring their furs into civilization so the traders had to go to them The North West Company was formed in 1784 and its men ned furtrading routes all it way to the Pacific coast They included some of Canadas most daring ex plorers Mackenzie Fraser Thomson and others The NorWesters were tough Their motto was When you are pile and fear came over me men in dark clothes came walking towards our families Our little ones didnt know danger and stayed innocently One man grabbed my brother and beat him on the head He turned him over quickly and cut him open till he was dead They gathered up the young ones and killed them one by one They beat and chased the mothers who tried to protect their young When everything was over and all the men were gone slid from the hill down to my mothers side The sight made us feel so helpless and angry we cried That night we gathered together and dived into the sea We swam for days and days it seemed like eternity No one can ever find us to kill our pups again We are Gods creatures born to live in the cold We cannot be conquered we will live to grow old Next year when the men came to kill them They found nothing but ice and snow They returned to their ships in fury Where did all the Seals Go KELLY NELSON Age 12 Barrie with wolves howl Their rivalry with the Hudsons Bay Company almost became civil war until it was realized that they were ruining each other financially So they amalgamated Mar 26 1821 under the HUDSONs Bay Com pany name so they could re tain the advantages held under its original charter OTHER mar 26 EVENTS 1616Bylow and Baffin sail ed from England to search for North West Passage i789Pictou academy was created by Nova Scotia stature tauParliament opened in Ottawa but Louis Riel was not allowed to take his seat in the House of Commons lassNorthwest Rebellion began ys NWMP and Metis clashed at Duck Lake nunBob Edwards published Wetaskiwin Free Lance 1910C Hamilton flew from Vancouver to New Westminster 1921Famous Nova Scotian schooner Blucnose was laun ched at Lunenburg linoLiberals won general election following challenge by Mitchell Hepburn Liberal premier of Ontario 1956Prime Minister St Laurent conferred with Presi dent Eisenhower of US and President Cortines of Mexico at White Sulphur Springs libelSnowstorm caused state of emergengy in Prince Edward Island FOUND IN CANADA TORONTO CP When Al exander Grant new director of the National Ballet visits Eng land he takes some English muffins for Sir Frederick Ash ton director of Britains Royal Ballet Why Mr Grant said that he cant get them in Eng land