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ll Ellie Barrie Examiner Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited lb Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario Robb PublisherGeneral Manager Walls Editor Emeritus Henshaw Managing Editor 4The Barrie Examiner Saturday March 27 1976 County marking time While province reads Remember the SimcoeGeorgian Area Task Force And the report it coughed up and presented to the province some time ago Well it will not be forgotten So says an official of the ministry of treasury economics and in tergovernmental affairs Nosiree years The minister feels lot of time has been spent by lot of people on the report and it shouldnt be forgot ten said the official of the ministrys urban and regional plan ning division We hope the bureaucrat is right lot of time effort and money $250000 went into it the report will be presented to cabinet in the near futurein matter of months not datory If nothing else the planning con sultants who prepared it forced county municipalities to put their cards on the table Theoretically orderly growth will result after implementation of the document Conformity of official preservation of agricultural land are top only sligh cording to both the politicians who revised the report In the interest of orderly develop ment and sensible planning pro mpt government decision is man plans and items for the area ac planners and tly before it was presented to the minister Pressure upon these cornerstones grows with every week provmcral decision is delayed DOWN MEMORY LANE 10 YEARS AGO Barrie Examiner March 27 1966 One of many stately historic homes on south shore Kempenfelt Bay be demolished Sixacre Dunblaine immediately east Minets Point sold to Toronto developers will be subdivided to 10 Most recent former owner was Estate William and previously Blackstock family also of Toron to Barrie Community Concert Association began new season ing lots for cottages Cooper membership campaign by Mrs Donald Emery Mrs Ernest Bell and Mrs Robert Bentley Gerald Smith is campaign chair man with Mrs Gordon Leighton secretary Objective reached in less than week Hall of Collier United Church was site for recital by King Edward Ladies Choir directed by Mrs John Dobson and City Concert Band led by Alfred Ricci William te ceremonies Canadian Tampax Corp plans to build new warehouse at Barrie plant it was announced by Harry Kelley assistant GM Design is by Salter Allison At Ottawa Bell was Finance Minister Mitchell Sharp an lot which is He was Mrs Rodgers convened Chuvalo feet and of rave revi staff Vic CANADAS STORY Princess Louise suggested Regina By BOB BOWMAN Until 1883 Battlefore was the capital of Northwest Ter ritories It had certain amount of responsibility for the huge area extending from the YukonAlaska border to Labrador and from the Arctic Sea to the 49th parallel On Mar 27 it was decided to move the capital south to Pile OBones which was on the route of the Canadian Pacific Railway Pile OBones had been centre for buffalo hunters for many years Skeletons had been piled up like cordwood for shipment to Chicago where they were pro oessed for fertilizers and other purposes Of course Pile OBones was not suitable name for capital and Princess Louise wife of the governor general 112 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 lBalance of Canada $3600 year National Advertising Offices 65 Queen St West Toronto $41710 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 or republication of all news dispatches in this paper credited to it or The Associated Press or Renter and also the local news published therein The Barrie Examiner claims Copyright in all original adver tising and editorial material created by its employees and re roduced in this newspaper yright Registration Num r203815register61 suggested Regina the Latin word for queen An amusing mystery developed from the move from Battleford to Regina When Battleford became the capital of the Northwest Territories in 1870 huge table arrived there for the government offices It was said to be the table used by the Fathers of Confederation when they met at Charlot tetown in 1864 The people of Battleford were grateful to Prince Edward Island for hav ing made such gesture but when it was learned that the islanders still had their table 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 nounced hefty hikes in personal in come taxes designed to brake not break Canadas economic boom fuelling inflation Baron Guy Daufresne de la Chevaliere Belgian Ambassador to Canada ad dressed Canadian Club of Barrie introduced by President Ernest Burton Canadas Centen nial is just one year away and Bar rie planning committee set up Postmaster Tom Kerr is chairman with group of Mrs Robert Clifton Hugh Wallace Johnny and Charles Wilson About 15000 fight fans at Maple Leaf Gardens watched champion Cassius Clay easily beat George of Canada on decision Chuvalo suprised Examiner sports editor Rick Fraser by still being on winging after 15 rounds Central Collegiate Glee Clubs pro duction of Brigadoon received ew from Examiner music critic Muriel Leeper Andrea Day and John Kerr had lead roles Musical director was Mary Wase of tor Knoxs stage direction was singled out for praise and were very proud of it It is still an outstanding attraction in Charlottetown The mystery was solved years later when the origin of the table was traced to Quebec It was table used by the Fathers of Confederation of the Quebec Conference that follow ed the Charlottetown Con ference in l864 It had been shifted to Ottawa when the Parliament of Canada was moved from Quebec The table was practically forgotten and certainly was not valued as an historic object So it was sent to Battleford as just ordinary office furniture with its legs cut down OTHER MARCH 27 EVENTS 1690French and Indians at tacked Salmon Falls Maine 1757French and Indians captured Fort Bull NY HMSFredericton NB was incorporated as celestial ci ty 1893First settlers left Toronto for QUAppelle Sask 1950Federal government transferred Niagara River water rights to Ontario 1953Canada presented United Nations with seven main doors for new building in New York THE PICK OF PUNCH 1976 Lou Angola Tlmu Welcomi aboard HauntziTours flight 666 ladies and gentlemen this ls your automatic pilot speaking THE WORLD TODAY Nigerias fine world example One OlllUO perhaps gentlemen is lost on bloody beach By JOHN HARBRON Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service Less than decade ago in 1969 the world marvelled at the healing of the wounds of bitter civil war in Nigeria through the reconciling actions of that countrys conquering central government toward break away Biafra The Nigerian president who had masterminded the war and fought Biafra Gen Yakubu Gowon was the same leader who bound up the wounds per mitted Biafrans to rejoin the public service of the larger Nigeria they had fought against In an African continent of brutalized leadership and much cruelty Nigeria Africas most populous single nation was set ting world example in na tional magnaminity Among the team which Gen Gowon used to bring warring Biafra back into the Nigerian federal fold was MajGen Bissala field commander against Biafra and Britishtrained like Gen Gowon few days ago Gen Bissala was executed heartlessly on bloody beach near the Nigerian capital of Lagos along with 29 coconspirators who tried to overthrow the government which succeeded that of Gen Gowon BLOODY EVENT The event was public one with thousands in attendance as the condemned were shot in to the sand in two groups of 15 Gen Gowon was himself overthrown by an earlier military coup last year and peacefully went into British ex ile where he now is completing doctoral degree at British university His going was unbelievably peaceful by the bloody Third World standards for the over PARLIAMENT HILL An uncomfortable sensation over the Lockheed Orion deal By STEWART MacIEOI Ottawa Bureau Thomson News Service You know that uncomfortable feeling you get over certain situations even when you cant grasp the whole picture Well its easy to get this un comfortable sensation over the governments apparent deter mination to buy 18 longrange patrol aircraft from the scan dalridden Lockheed Corpora tion Perhaps the government is absolutely right and that history will prove its wisdom but in the meantime there is this funny feeling Just to recap briefly The government particularly the defence department spent more than four years trying to decide on an aircraft to replace the elderly Argus which now patrols our coastal waters And early last year the four com petitors were reduced to twothe Lockheed Orion and modified Boeing 707 Finally last November Defence Minister James Richardson announced that after exhaustive comparisons decision had been reached The government would buy 18 Orions at total cost of $953 million or roughly $55 million plane And although these planes could be purchased for half the price in California this deal provided for Canadian in dustrial participation in some 200 of the planes at the Canadair plant in Montreal So there is obviously more in volved than the mere purchase of foreign planes SCANDALS HIT Meanwhile the scandals burst around the Lockheed Cor poration with revelations of huge bribery payoffs to foreign officials who might influence the purchase of Lockheed planes in other countries Dr Arthur Burns chairman of the US federal reserve board has said the corporation was expor ting corporate watergate with bribes totalling $244 million The company hit financial crisis and was saved only when the US government guaranteed $500 million worth of loans from 24 American banks But thats the limit of Lockheeds current borrowing power in the United States And since the firm still hasnt the financial footing to proceed with the Orions Defence Minister James Richardson has YOUR BUSINESS This move against foreigners throw of unwanted leaders Gen Gowon was attending the meetings of the Organization of African Unity in Addis Ababa when he was replaced at home by Gen Murtala Mohammed Gen Bissala who had worked for both of them was implicated in the murder of Gen Moham med in yet further coup to replace him in power His execution and that of 29 others in brutal public display of vengeance sadly reduces this most impressive of African na tions to the lot of her many smaller heartless brothers Nigeria with its surface array of Britishtrained soldiers judges civil servants and its federal government based on our own has nevertheless developed propensity for public executions The most recent example before the despatch of Gen Bissala were the public execu tions again in batchest of criminals tried for robbings said he is seeing whether Cana dian banks can be encouraged to lend $300 million to Lockheed This came after we have satisfied ourselves direct ly in conversations that the Lockheed Company made no payments or commissions to any Canadian The final contract has not been signed between the government and Lockheed and the deal could be cancelled The opposition has been pressing the government to do this The answer is no said Ex ternal Affairs Minister Allan MacEachen And later Mr Richardson said that we have begun negotiations which will lead to acontract The government is obviously determined to buy the Orion OTHERS SUITABLE This feeling of discomfort would not have developed if the Orion was the only suitable plane available But if it took the defence department four years to reach decision the competing patrol aircraft must have had great deal to offer Its fair for the government to argue that the Orion deal is by far the most attractive for the Canadian aircraft industry is one that could backfire By VINCENT EGAN Business and Consumer Affalrs Analyst Thomson News Service The ownership of land is something that reaches all the way down to one of the deepest feelings in human beings So too does the question of nationalism and the place of the outsider in ones own coun try Put them together and theres potential for highly emotional clash of views Thats one likely outcome of the recent federal government proposal to transfer to the pro vinces the right to restrict foreign ownership of land The idea at first glance has strongly nationalistic appeal Why should foreigners own Canadian land anyway But turn the question around and it looks little different Thousands of eastern Cana dians own property in Florida British Columbians are major landowners in the state of Washington Quebeckers are prominent among the landed gentry of Vermont and New Iiampshire Are they threat to the United States Should they be driven out and their property confiscated If it were Castros Cuba the answer would be yes OWNERS RIGHTS In Canada and the US however people have by tradi tion stuck to the rules of the game The rules have always recognized the individual rights of the buyer and seller of pro perty to make their own deal in the open market without government interference That in turn has allowed countless Americans to find and beatings during acts of theft Lagos like all big African cities had had its share of crime and the breakdown of law and order The word went out that convicted thieves would be ex ecuted publicly The African statzs have good deal to say these days about morality most of it directed at the former colonial powers for the way they allegedly exploited and harshly treated them as former col onies FALSE CRITICISM It ill behooves these countries to criticize us for leaving them benign legacy What we left them is what they are abandon ing the rule of law humanitarianism and forgiveness They must relearn these Nigeria now included before public opinion in the West will ever take African governments seriously since it will create some 2000 jobs over five years But its also fair to ask whether the government should be encouraging Canadian banks to prop up scandalized American corporation with $300 million What if the US government after the presiden tal elections are over decides that Lockheed should be allows ed to go bellyup With all the foreign investigations going on over the bribery allegations there could be some embarrass ing diplomatic repercussions ahead Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands is even under in vestigation for allegedly ac cepting bribes from Lockheed The Orion may be the best patrol aircraft for Canada and the deal with Lockheed may of fer the best opportunity for Canadian industry But there must be other alternative sincluding buying planes off foreign assembly line at half the cost and investing the sav ings in such Canadian aircraft asthede Havilland Dash Like said perhaps the government with its much greater knowledge deserves the benefit of the doubt But there is still this feeling of discomfort relief from the summers heat and Canadians to escape the winters cold It has enabled the two na tionalities to become better acquainted for better or worse And it may have helped to preserve the natural environ ment by keeping property in the care of people who have sense of responsibility rather than letting it become public nuisance Governments do have the du ty to maintain balance bet ween public and private use of the land BOOK CORNER party every night With Royal Canadians Auld Acquaintance by Guy Lombardo Doubleday Canada Ltd 295 pages $995 Hollywood Mayfair and All That Jazz by Roy Fox Methuen Publications 250 pages$1350 The Bands Canadians Danc ed To by Helen McNamara and Jack Lomas Griffin House 118 pages $195 Reviewed by LYMAN POTTS Still wine Stradivarius violins and good music seem to have one quality in common They improve with age The music of the golden age of dance bands is captured in the unchanging grooves of countless records Yet with the passage of time and the decline of musical standards the music on those records does seem to be constantly improving The bigband era began to flower in the early 19305 It reached its peak and then faded rapidly after mid1942 when the American Federation of Musicians began its twoyear strike against the recording in dustry and World War II upset the careers of many leaders sidemen and entire orchestras Artie Shaw one of the most influential figures in popular music has described that decade as unique It will never return despite the frequent pronouncements that the big bands are due for revival THE SWEETEST MUSIC Guy Lombardo is one of the orchestra leaders to have bridged the years successfully as have Woody Herman Harry James Freddy Martin and Lawrence Welk His band the Royal Cana dians has never come back because it has never been away from its followers In his recently published autobiography Auld Acquain tance the 73yearold Lom bardo says that on the bandstand am having party every night Im working Taken altogether that would make many thousands of par ties It was just after World War in London Ont that the Lombardo brothersGuy on violin Carmen on saxophone and Lebert on trumpetstarted performing professionally The ItalianCanadian brothers with the singing talents of their father and isster first made their mark by concentrating on Scottish melodies for the predominantly Scottish audiences of southwestern Ontario Only after the Lombardos left for Cleveland in the early 19205 did they hit upon the formula that brought them their un matched success SECRET OF SUCCESS Lombardo gives an imperious Cleveland club owner Louis Bleet the credit for creating the Lombardo style that was to be so widely imitated in later years It was at Bleets repeated in sistence that the Royal Cana dians departed from the loud frantic JAZZY style used by bands of that era and developed softer sound characterized by smooth sax ophones and muted brassthat allowed patrons to converse comfortably And it was Bleet who inspired lombardo to run several tunes together in medleyanother successful Lombardo trademark laterbecause peo ple had complained about be ing kept waiting to hear their requests which until then had been played in the normal full threeminute orchestration Throughout his autobiography Lombardo is generous in giving credit to those who contributed to his success and just as insistent in recounting his own contribution to thel success of Lawrence Welk Freddy Martin Russ Morgan and other band leaders DISCOVERED BY FOX Roy Fox just year older than Guy Lombardo but retired since 1953 is another bigname orchestra leader who is proud of his discoveries as re counted in his evocative autobiography Hollywood Mayfair And All That Jazz In the Hollywood of the 19205 Fox met hopeful young blonde named Harlean Carpenter helped her select the profes sional name of Jean Harlow and started her on her way to becoming Hollywoods first ma jor sex symbol 0f greater musical im portance was his discovery of Al Bowlly one of the greatest vocalists who ever sang with band It happened soon after Rox went to England in 1930 to succeed the celebrated Hal Kemp at Londons Cafe de Paris Bowlly South African had come to England by way of jobs in Singapore Calcutta and Berlin but had been reduced to singing in the streetsbusking as the British call itfor rowds in theatre queues Fox remained in England performing with increasing popular success But in 1938 he had recurrence of the pleurisy that had sidelined himalmost permanently in 1931 The outbreak of the war found him en route to England from Australia where he had been making comeback He was forced instead to return to the United States After the war he passed up the opportunity to lead the band at Montreal hotel with nightly coasttocoast broad cast and returned to England instead But by then the British danceband era was fading fast and Roy Fox never regain ed his previous eminence His memoirs however vividly recall an exciting era CANADAS BANDS Canada has produced sur prising number of successful dance bands quite apart from Guy Lombardo and the Royal Canadians The Bands Canadians Danc ed To tells the storyall too brieflyof dozens of Canadian orchestras illustrated with some vintage pictures of those geat bands of the past Those pictures alone are wor th the current price of $195 reduced from $1095 when the book was first published in 1973 Although the authors have gone to great lengths to show what the various Canadian bands looked like they have un fortunately ignored the even more important question of what the bands sounded like Its pleasant enough to read the capsule career histories of leaders such as Mart Kenney Frank Bogart and Moxie Whitneybut the younger reader who has never heard their bands in performance or on record will have no idea of the kind of music they produc ed after reading the book That shortcoming aside it is valuable record of part of Canadian history that richly deserves to be remembered Mr Potts heads the Canadian Talent Library which he found ed in 1962 to record Canadian musicians Ihomson News Service INTERPRETING THE NEWS Reagan supporters can smile now By BRUCE LEVETT WASHINGTON CP The young Reagan supporter out on coffee break grinned widely and asked Do you think Ron nie should offer Ford the vicepresidency Ronald Reagan had just whipped President Gerald Ford in the North Carolina primary and for the first time sup porters of the former Califor nia governor had something to grin about Not even Reagans most ar dent acolyte would suggest that this victoryas stunning and unexpected as it washas turned things around in the race for the Republican presidential nomination Ford still is the heavy favorite but North Carolina may change the face of the Reagan campaign He went in to this primary stating he would be satisfied with good close second and claiming at every appearance that he would stay in the race to the BIBLE THOUGH was eyes to the blind and feet was to the lame Job 2915 Happy will be the people whose goal in life is to please God and help others Ye shall in no wise lose your reward end Some Ford aides have been calling for Reagan to step out in the interests of party unity Others patronizingly have suggested Ford might offer Reagan the post of running mate in the November elec tions Ford himself has virtually dismissed Reagan publicly forgiving him for statements made in the heat of battle and suggesting that his opponent really isnt bad fellow Indications are that from now on Regan will be less apologetic and embarrassed about four straight losses to Ford and will hit hard to main tain momentum Managers on both sides are making fresh assessments Reagans group is asking itself What did we do right in North Carolina while Ford cam paigners are asking Where did we go wrong Political columnists and pro fessional observers also are taking another look into the crystal ball Jack Germond writing in the WaShington Star sums it up This is the kind of day when political reporters think about selfimmolation It isnt an at tractive idea but neither is ex plaining time and again how no one tumbled to what was happening in North Carolina In fact there is no explanation