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Ellir Emir lxaminrr Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited lb Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario Robb PublisherGeneral Manager Walls Editor Emeritus Henshaw Managing Editor 4The Barrie Examiner Monday April 12 1976 Mrs Clifton deserves honors as the citizen Ethel Clifton truly deserves to be named Barries Citizen of the Year In fact if there was such an award as Citizen of the Century for Barrie we would not hesitate to nominate Ethel for it Take it from another citizen who has been around this community for almost 70 of those 100 years and knows the win ner of the William Wright Memorial Award personally Ethel is the eldest daughter of the late Mr and Mrs William Crossland 10 children in all And again if there was an award for Barries Family of the Cen tury the Crosslands would get it without much opposition Dr Alfred Crossland prominent surgeon is one of her brothers Her parents and others of the family have equally left their mark on Barrie Remember these awards are for service to the community above and beyond any personal remunerative or political reward The William Wright Trophy was established by Barrie branch of the Canadian Legion more than 20 Harris branch president and zone commander with the cooperation of the publisher of The Barrie Ex aminer There have been more than 20 winners none more deserv ing than the 1976 recipient We do not intend to detail the many community services in which Mrs Clifton has been involved The 1976 honor was based mainly on 1975 activities She has been nominated several times in the past but the judges deemed that another nominee was just bit more deserv ing for that particular year But knowing that Ethel would never cease her untiring efforts for the good of the community of Barrie dAinid her year would come and it Ethel is graduate pharmacist who in her working days was one of Barries leading merchants both with her father by herself and with her late husband Bob Clifton He was fine newspaperman both in editorial work and advertis ing promotion It has not been men tioned before but we would like to put it on record that his local writing was in this newspaper years ago The instigator was Alfred By DON OHEARN Queens Park Bureau Thomson News Service TORONTO There are holes to be picked in any budget and here are some in this years One we are still on tobog gan slide into debt The pace has slowed but the momentum is still frightening The amount of cash debt built up in this coming year will be down substantially But there is figure which knocks the corpuscles out of this This is that the increase of net debt as percentage of gross provincial product is con tinuing to rise Last year it was an estimated 78 per cent In the coming year it is forecast to be 81 per cent And on the question of debt and borrowing the government continues its annoying habit of Heartiest congratulations Ethel QUEENS PARK Toboggan slideto debt continues in new budget trying to con the public with words At various points in his budget speech Darcy McKeough emphasized that there would be no need for public borrowing in the coming year All this means us that the province probably wont have to float any public bond issues But there still will be need for borrowing more than $12 bil lion worth But the borrowing will be done from the Canada Pension Plan and various pro vincial pension plans JOBSWHERE Two there was no recognition of the unem ployment problem in the budget It was granted that in years time the rate would probably be the same as it is now THE WORLD TODAY Red China politics are incomprehensible By JOHN HARBRON Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service Nothing in foreign affairs ap pears so remote and so in comprehensible as the politics the Peoples Republic of Qiina What the political scientist calls orchestrations are con stantly taking place within the ruling hierarchy of the worlds most populous nation The endresult of success or failure of the moderates and Ellis Barrie Examiner 16 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario Telephone 7266537 Registration Number 0484 Second Class Mail Retum tage guaranteed Da Sundays and Statutory Ho idays excepted Subscription rates daily by carrier 85 cents weekly $1420 Single copies 15 cents ii Barrie $4420 yearly iSimcoe County $3400 yearly lBaiance of Canada $3600 year National Advertising Offices 66 Queen St West Toronto mt1710 640 Cathcart St Mon ueai Member of the Canadian Press and Audit Bureau of Cir wisdom The Canadian Press is ex clusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dis atches in this paper ited to it or The Associated iPress or Router and also the local news published therein The Barrie Examiner claims yright in all original adver and editorial material aeated by its employees and uoedinthisnewspaper oaright Registration 203815register61 the reactionaries within the Chinese Communist party are revealed to the outside in ways which do suggest orches trations We are witnessing this tabloid of Chinese public life in the sudden elevation of Hua Kuofeng to premier and first vicechairman of the Com munist party In sudden dismissal from this high office and his other ac tivities of power the premier designate Teng Hsiaoping is demoted literally to the party ranks Teng was paraded in China and in the West by those pur porting to know as the proper heir and successor to Chou En lai the modernist and supreme manager who died last January Within the last few days the world has been told of two con flicting kinds of demonstrations in Pekings broad and massive Iien Anmen Heavenly Peace Square WATCH POSTERS The first were sharp and ap parently open demonstrations against the wall poster and tress attack on Mr Teng re quiring police and military re spouse The second only few days later heralded by the sounds of traditional drums and horns was an even larger demonstra tion hailing the choice of Mr Hua relatively unknown even inChina Again the police and troops of the pervasive Peoples Revolu tionary Army were called out to man the square even in the small hours of the morning to make sure the demonstration took the appropriate course How or why Mr Hua re placed Mr Teng we will never know as surely as we do not know conclusively how the de from the Barrie Examiner The only hope that can be seen even reading between the lines of the budget is that there will be an increase in produc tion which will provide employ ment And the treasury experts are so mixed up on this point that there certainly is little room for hope Thus at one point they say that the prospects for increase in our exports is encouraging Then in another section they say export is cause for con cern There are other holes but the only further one that will be mentioned here is resorting again to the long habit of trying to freshen up old dogs One of the few proud boats in the budget is that legislation will be introduced to create Venture investment Corpo rations structive cultural revolution beganin 1966 Nor will the press and others in China ever be told There are no such things as ministerial press conferences for these events One way if you are Peking resident is to go to the wall posters and see who is under at tack or about to be attacked And who decides on the wall poster attack as the opener in high level changes Who indeed In this instance the rumor is that Mac Tse tungs wife Madame Ching considered radical in the vast party bureaucracy wan ted radical in office to suc ceed her 81yearold husband Presumably Mao must have concurred which again leads to other speculations that he too would like to see China return to some of the basic precepts of the revolution as new phe nomenon But again everything we read and are permitted to see is so typically Chinese Selfcleans ing is an inherent element in Chinese communism and in cludes senior leaders as well as rankandfile and the inevitable directional cadres WATCH CROWDS T00 The comings and goings of huge crowds are the most vis ible sign to the outsider of major event recall the haste with which the very large air port crowd organized to greet Prime Minister Trudeau in Oc tober 1973 evaporated from the tarmac as soon as that or chestrated event was over While we waited for our buses the hordes of troops an army band brightlycostumed youngsters and their banners had driven off in their buses outofsight like cloud on summer horizon The setpiece had been dis solved as quickly as it was created PARLIAMENT HILL Conservative ecstasy unhidden over Gallup polling statistics By STEWART MacIEOD Ottawa Bureau Thomson News Service The Conservatives are unable to hide their ecstasy over the latest public opinion polls which puts them nine per centage points ahead of the Lib eralsbut its still long road to the next general election When Conservative Leader Joe Clark rose in the Commons after hearing about the poll he made the unsolicited remark that want to gallop right alongan obvious reference to the Gallop results He was grinning from ear to ear Members of his staff were busy at mimeographing ma chines churning out extra copies of the poll which in dicated the Conservatives now are favored by 43 per cent of the voters while only 34 per cent support the Liberals Tory MPs were passing around news stories of the poll paus wonly long enough to slap each other on the back But its far too soon to trans late the poll results into votes The survey was taken imme diately after the Conservative leadership convention with its three days of national television coverage And fresh new leader is bound to make an immediate impact on public opinion The big question is whether he can maintain this popularity HAPPENED BEFORE immediately after Robert Stanfield was chosen party leader in 1967 the public opin ion polls showed that Con servative popularity soared in the same proportions In fact the figures were identical43 per cent for the Tories and 34 per cent for the Grits And at that time party offi cials were gleefully predicting victory in the next election But in subsequent polls the Conservative popularity began dipping and six months after peaking the Liberals choose Pierre Elliot Trudeau as their leader Suddenly popular sup BIBLE THOUGHT That their hearts might be comforted being knit together in love and unto all riches of the full assurance of un derstanding to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God and of the Father and of Christ In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge Colossians 223 There is no problem without an answer Our problem is that we look for it in wrong places Earnestly look to the Lord and He will give direction Sometimes you may not see it at the time as the answer but this has nothing to do with it Man seeth not as God seeth port was reversed and we all know what happened in the 1968 election The prime minister appeared typically unconcerned when Mr Clark made his remark about galloping along do not mind if the leader of the op position continues to gallop along so long as he and his parv ty continue to lose elections Mr Trudeau shouldnt be too confident that this will happen because there are some dif ficult economic problems to solve before the government can rest easy But he is probably right in not becoming alarmed over this particular poll if the Conservative popularity is maintained over the next year or so then he will have reasons to push the panic button And this is largely in the hands of Joe Clark So far it is too early to judge how he new leader is shaping up He assumed the leadership with perfect timingjust as the government was reeling over the judges affair which led to the cabinet resignation of Con sumer Affairs Minister Andre Ouellet No opposition leader could have asked for greater opportunity The general concensus is that Mr Clark performed well in the circumstances consistently getting under the skin of the prime minister with his pep pery questions But it was New Democratic Leader Ed Broad bent who upstaged every op position member throughout that dcbate It was probably Mr Broadbents finest per formance in Parliament But comparisons are unfair Mr Broadbent is more ex perienced and since Mr Clark had to lead off the questioning the NDP leader had the ground work laid for him Also Mr Clark was thrown into this issue before he had an opportunity to restructure his shadow cabinet and assign critics to specific as signments in the last few weeks while the 36yearold Conservative leader has worked into the night reorganizing his caucus and his own office he has not made any massive impact in the Commons This is more likely to happen after the Eas ter recess when younger faces appear on the Tory front ben ches and the Conservatives begin projecting the image of fresh new team if Mr Clark succeeds the opinion polls might just con tinue to show high Con servative popularity But in the meantime we can take this lat rst poll for what its worth precious little MSW Descendants prominent By BOB BOWMAN There were rebellions in lower and Upper Canada in 1837 and 1838 fomented by Louis Joseph Papineau and William Lyon Mackenzie Their descendants were also to play prominent parts in Canadian affairs Henry Bourassa Fren dispeaking nationalist leader from 1900 to 1935 was gran dson of Papineau William Lyon Mackenzie King prime minister for 22 years was grandson of Mackenzie The Lower Canada Rebellion resulted in heavy loss of life and property The Upper Can ada Rebellion was crushed in few days with little loss However the aftermath of the Upper Canada revolt was almost as serious as that of Lower Canada Many people who supported Mackenzie politically but had taken no part in the rebellion were so persecuted by their Tory neigh bors and officials that they were forced to emigrate to the United States Historian Thomas Raddali says it was the United Empire Loyalist migration of 1783 in reverse There were some hangings Two notable victims were Sam uel Lount and Peter Mathews who were executed April 12 1838 when Mackenzie was in the US Lount was blacksmith at Holland Landing and had made many of the pikes with which Mackenzies followers were an med Mathews son of UEL fam ily lived at Pickering He had commanded party that seized mail coach and burned houses along the Don River in Toronto Mackenzie was deeply upset when he learned that they had been hanged When he returned to Canada in 1849 after being granted an amnesty he had their bodies moved to NeCf opolis where he was buried later When Lount and Mathews were hanged there were nine others in jail at Hamilton wait ing similar fate One of them died in jail and the others were pardoned OTHER APR 12 EVENTS 1776Thomas Frobisher was instructed to build Fort Church ill Hudson Bay 1820Earl of Dalhousie be came governor of Canada 1832Lower Canada granted equal rights to people of Jewish faith lassFive railways were amalgamated to form Grand Trunk 18610pening of US Civil War had important repercus sions in Canada 1867Britain authorized loan to Canada to build HalifaxSt Lawrence Railway lamMontreal merchants formed Canada Shipping Com pany ismWomen in Ontario were granted the right to vote COMMONS CAPSULE Shades of Old West on Parliament Hill From The Ottawa Bureau Of Thomson News Service OTTAWA Shades of the Old West with the gunfighters shooting it out on the main street Opposition Leader Joe Clark was itching for an electroal Ishowdown with Pierre IYudeaus ruling Liberals after Gallup poll this week showed the Progressive Conservatives have surged past the Liberals in popular support for the first time in almost nine years Mr Speaker want to gal lup right along Mr Clark de clared as he siarted off the oral question period Wednesday in the Commons do not mind if the leader of the opposition continues to gallop along so long as he and his party continue to lose elec tions Mr Trudeau replied That is fine Why dont you call the bye lection Tory jibed in refer ence to the governments delay in calling vote to fill the Ot tawaCarleton seat vacated in February by former finance minister John Turner little testy today in quired another opposition MP The PM picked up the theme later Twice while standing he turned toward the opposition and imitated quick draw art ist pointing two fingers across the floor of the Commons Mr Clark was quick to capi talize on verbal error in an otherinstance should like to ask the pres ident of the Privy Councilex cuse me should have said the president of the Treasury Board he said catching his mistake am not sure to whom ought to apologize he quip ped An excellent example of the art of partisan performance was given by Revenue Minister Bud Cullen LSarniaLam bton Bill Jarvis PCPerthWil mot complained that 2000 copies of the booklet How Your Tax Dollar ls Spent were sent to Listowel high school which has less than 1100 students imagine the department listented to the honorable meme bers exaggerations and thought there was bigger high school in Listowel Mr Cullen retorted However Gordon Fair weather PCFundyRoyal took some wind out of Mr Cul lens sails by reporting six car tons of the booklet were sent to high school in his riding which has only 80 students The minister replied that he hopes the students do the same thingsee that the pamphlets are distributed to avoid waste of the taxpayers moneyas would the students in his riding Brollier can qou spare dime