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Ellis Ifiarrir Examiner Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited 16 Baytield Street Barrie Ontario Robb PublisherGeneral Manager Walls Editor Emeritus Henshaw Managing Editor 4The Barrie Examiner Saturday May I976 Report shows Barrie has some catchingup Its now in black and white Barries firstever Housing Policy Statement The reports 62 insightful pages culminate year of hard uphill work for small band of dedicated and concerned citizens the housing advisory commit The report is the committees most ambitious undertaking since it was formed just over year ago to advise council on ways to im prove the horrible local housing muddle Prepared by Rick Jones of the city planning staff the report isolates where the problems are and then suggests how city coun cil can cure the malady by taking fieater advantage of government using subsidy programs In the past council has either been reluctant or remiss in availing itself of the many provin cial and federal government programs that assist municipalities to provide af fordable houses The key word is affordable for Barrie has many empty newlybuilt houses at present But how many Barrie citizens can af ford $40333 the average 1975 price home at todays interest rates The study says whopping 20 per cent of the communitys residents earn less than $6000 Thats 2200 families who cant find decent clean ac commodation Thats 2200 husbands and wives and an untold number of children who undoubtedly suffer from nightmarish array of social problems because they are forced to live in cramped dingy near slum dwellings To afford an average priced house in this city takes an in come of $16000 or more annually How many more people are there in between the $6000 and $16000 income bracket in this city who would desperately like their own house instead of renting an apartment or townhouse that in most cases does not meet the needs of family with growing children If the city can somehow bring the average price of house here down to below $39000 man more people would be able to qua ify for government housing subsidy programs Thats the crux of the housing licy statement and that has en the goal of the city housing advisory committee And it must too be the goal of city council Barrie council has lot of cat ching up to do Most other municipalities with Barries growth rate have had housing policy statements on their books for years Even the small community of Penetanguishene at the north end of the county has been much more progressive when it comes to housing than Ontarios Most Progressive City Penetanguishene has had housing policy for two years It has landbanking for both residen tial and industrial purposes and squeezes every penny it can from both levels of government in housing assistance programs To see how successful that com munitys been in lowering the cost of housing one need only compare prices there and here COMMONS CAPSULE Light rain of leaked secrets has become downpouring From the Ottawa Bureau of Thomson News Service OTTAWA The light rain plain brown envelopes that ignited the Air Canada and Sky Shops affairs few mon ths ago has become down pour Disgruntled civil servants are feeding steady almost uninterupted dose of internal government memoes and documents to Opposition MPs and the media Their effect to the Liberal front bench assumes all the proportion of the ancient plagues of Egypt Nowadded to the judges affair Mirabel and the criminal charges against respected Liberalscomes the allegation that Prime Minister Trudeau interfered in RCMP investigations Mr Trudeau irritated by the leak of letter enned by senior security visor has denied suggesting guidelines for the investigation of high ranking civil service job can didates But that did not halt the op position probe aimed at skewering the PM with his Ellie Barrie Examiner 16 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario Telephone 7266537 Registration Number 0484 Second Class Mail Return tage guaranteed Da Sunda and Statutory Ho idays excepted Subscription rates daily by carrier 85 cents weekly $4420 yeargy Single copies 15 cents By ail Barrie $4420 yearly Simcoe County $3400 yearly Balance of Canada $3600 year National Advertising Offices 65 Queen St West Toronto $44710 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 Copyright in all original adver tisng and editorial material coated by its employees and regroduced in this news per yright Regis ration 203815register61 hm own recent words to the RC MP LLook do your duty do not want to interfere in any waylff The questioning had initially been directed at SolicitorGeneral Warren Allmand minister respon sible for the RCMP but because the letter from Gen Michael Dare involved him self Mr Trudeau offered to reply Mr Allmand was silent during the preliminary questions which perhaps prompted Elmer MacKa PCCentral Nova to as the PM just where he fit into thepicture Hes lookin after the hor ses an uni entified Tory chuckled Its the post office which de livers most of these un marked envelopes but postal officials are too busy with other affairs to make any at tempt to screen out leaked in formation Many of them are spending CANADAS STORY following attack By BOB BOWMAN On May 1813 Toronto York was shambles The Americans had landed at Sunnyside beach April 27 and defeated small British force in battle on what now is the Argo football stadium One of the casualties was the United States com manding officer General Pike after whom Pikes Peak was called During their stay in York from April 27 to Ma the Americans did goo deal of looting and burned down number of buildings in cluding the legislature There is story that some soldiers found the speakers wig in the legislature and sent it to some congressmen in Washington as an example of British barbarity They thought it was seal The story may not be true ut the Americans did carry off the mace of the legislature It was returned by Franklin Rooseveltin 1934 at least part of their time hustling entries in post of fice lottery which offers the winner grand rize of trip to any place in anada that is served by the department The lottery drew bit of verbal abuse from Perrin Beatty PC Wellington GreyDufferinWaterloo who asked PostmasterGeneral bryce Mackasey what assurance he can give the House that the winning en trant will arrive at his desti nation without being lost or mutilated en route Not all the leaks are of serious nature There was one recent re rt to Toronto newspaper at claimed De fence Minister James Richardson had consulted Kentucky psychic on defence policy and the Lockheed Orion contract Mr Richardson denied the suggestion but from the back benches came another question Did you ask Mackenzie King There was another raid on York in July but the Americans stayed only one day Their purpose seems to have been to replenish their supplies of food The Americans missed an opportunity to win the war in Canada By capturin York they had driven we ge bet ween British forces in Upper Canada but they failed to ex ploit the advantage Instead of holding York they moved to the Niagara sector where they were defeated at Beaver Dam and Stoney Creek They had to withdraw from Niagara by the end of the year The British took revenge for the looting of York by at tacking Washington in 1814 and burning the capitol buildings OTHER MAY EVENTS Guess they dont want us to remember what the good life was PARLIAMENT HILL Couldnt the $50 for the Orion be better spent by government By STEWART MacLEOD Ottawa Bureau Thomson News Service Defence Minister James Richardson obviously following the example set by may kids is ignoring my vice And hes still in relen tless pursuit of those 18 Orion patrol planes that will cost us $1 billion Furthermore he is absolutely confident the deal will go through For most of us $1 billion is meaningless sum up there in the stratasphere but when we take it down to earth it adds up to $50 for every man woman and child in Canada And for that gigantic con tribution we will have 18 propellordriven airplanes patrolling our coastal waters Sure the planes will be equipped with the most ad vanced surveilliance gear ever devised Our military planners think they are the cats whiskers of warfare and Mr Richardson says most countries are envious of the deal we are making with the scandalplagued Lockheed Corporation The company now is trying to raise $300 million from Canadian banks because its borrowing rights have been severely restricted in the United States When this little technicality is cleared up some 2000 Canadians will benefit from contract work on the Orions airframe originally designed in the 19505 for the old Lockheed Electra REPLACING ARGUS And in three or four years the Orions each costing more than $57 million will be fanning through the airreplacing the aging Argus which cost about $8 millioneach The cost is staggering And while military oficials say the expenditure is necessary if we are to rotect our sovereignty an fulfill our NATO obli ations its still question whether we can afford this electronic luxury The same officials have argued that the best deterrent to war is fright ening retaliatory power yet no one suggests that Canada go out and buy in tercontinental missiles YOUR BUSINESS Prospects for mining look better as consumption of metals increases By VINCENT EGAN Business and Consumer Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service The pros cts for Canadas mining in ustry are begin ning to look little brighter after year that one prominent mining man describes as terrible Industrial consumption of base metals still is less than buoyant but its picking up as stockpiles are whittled down Last years slump in demand helped to push metal rices down sharplyjust Before the federal govern ment introduced its anti inflation guidelines putting freeze on corporate profit margins The antiinflation program hit the mining industry in another way as well The one year freeze on corporate dividends put chill on in vestor sentiment Mining companies must rely on shareho der capital in addition to other sources to finance projects offering in return the potential for higher earnings and capital appreciation said Ray Clarke vicepresident and general manager of the Kidd Creek operations of Texasgulf Inc at Timmins Ont Until the end of the dividend freezewhich is scheduled for October but could be postponed for political reasonstheres scant hope that the mining companies will be able to at tract the amount of risk capital they need for ex pansion RISKS REWARDS Mr Clarke who recently retired as president of the On tario Mining Association told the OMA annual meeting that the mining industry deserves higher return on its capital investment than other in dustries because its risks are higher Noting that the trend in metal prices was not con tributing to inflation he criticized the antiinflation guideline that restricts domestic price increases to one in any 90day period ex cept in the case of un precedented cost escalation Metal prices can be very THE WORLD TODAY Growing trend to noted in Canada By JOHN HARBRON Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service The growing resistance of the North American manin the street to the size and pur ses of government has dif erent roots in Canada and the United States We have not had Watergate The common theme however is the staggering size of bureaucracies and the 1620 Champlain sailed for increasing selfserving func Canada with young wife 1642Maisonneuve Quebec to found Montreal tions of public servants who left are aid by the taxpayers is resistance to bloated government is clear and visible theme of the American presidential primaries It is no fluke that the leading Democratic and Republican candidates in the primaries have never had Washington experience Democrat Jimmy Carter is southern businessman moderate libera devout Christian whose deep suspicions of government are based on the mess revealed by Watergate Republican Ronald Reagan feels very much the same Lets look at the cost in other terms If the price acalates just bitas every government contract seems to dothe planes will cost half of what it takes to main taining the entire defence department for year And 78000 people are on that payroll They will cost onethird more than Canadas entire ex enditures on external reations in the current yearand this includes in 12month period They will cost three times as much as the government will spend to operate the Canadian Broad casting Corporation this year and more than three times the annual ex penditures of the entire RC MPforce The federal government owns 143 airports which han dle 33 million passengers year and the operating costs are only $184 million And we might also mention that the federal contribution to medical research is $49 million Another $29 million is spent on public health volatile changigg significan tly within peri of weeks or even days depending on the specific and general market conditions Mr Clarke said At the moment however the probability is that metal rices enerally will show gradua upturn especially in copper and iron ore The outlook is for steady price levels in zinc and nickel for the foreseeable future Should that situation change and world market rices start to recover shar ply in response to the economic upturn then Canadian metal output would be underpricedunless Ot tawa granted the industry an exemption from the anti inflation freeze LABOR SUPPLY One element of strength in the mining industrys current position is that for the first time in many years enough trained miners are available to rmit full operation ome manpower shortages ma exist at certain mines an in certain ecialized trades but general the sup conservatism and the States way about the size and motives of the Washington establishment But his reasons are based more on the traditional American con oern about creeping social ism Yet both men represent that vanished element purity the politician which the American primary voter ob viously feels can be recon stituted in these two con tenders ANEW BROOM Perhaps the chief reason is that untainted by Washington No one will argue that our military should have adequate equipment to carry out its functions And in the NATO scheme of things the primary function of Maritime Command is to protect the North American continent against Soviet submarines But the Americans have about 600 antisubmarine patrol lanes in service so the ad ition of 18 Canadian aircraft is unlikely to scare hell out of the Russians Anyway the Orions wont carryweapons Since we cant protect our selves against all war demerits anyway wouldnt it make more sense to con centrate on the sovereignt aspect with greater search and rescue capability and spend more time protecting our coastal fisheries Cheaper planes could still carry enough electronic equipment to take part in NATO exercises But guess its too late for that now just wish that my $50 was being spent in some other area Elly of labor seems to be in lance with the demand But mining executives have been increasingly concerned about the maintenance of labor peace now that big wage increases are subect to review by the AntiIn ation Board Although the A18 has been liberal in approving pay in creases of more than the nominal ceiling of 12 per cent year people in the industry complain that the bureaucrats are unaware of or insensitive to the historical relationships bet ween wage rates in one min ing area and another The one thing that could make the industry forget its roblems with the reaucrats and bring in vestors and their capital back into the market would be another major ore discovery Such finds are the result of hard work and little bit of luck The work is somewhat cur tailed this year because of high ex loration costs As or the luck who knows service he feels they can really make their promise come true of running cleaner and smaller federal bureaucracy Reagan is closer by far to the demagogic reaction in American history against the Washington liberals and do gooders He is in the tradition of the Joe Mc Carthys of the 505 and the Barry Goldwaters of the early 00s Mr Goldwater is critical of Ronald Reagans campaign style and public statements LETTERS TO EDIIR Car allowances anger taxpayer Dear Sir On the front Page of the Second Sectiono yesterdays Barrie Examiner there is an article quote Where money goes from city budget Here are some of the areas where city taxpayer money will be going to be spent this ar The city is budgeting $41280 for car allowances to all city hall departments and city council members At time when Ottawa and Queens Park are asking us to tighten our financial belts how in the world can our Barrie city council have the nerve to expect us the city taxpayer to pay bill like that This is totally outrageous and uncalled for It is far more than the economy of the city can stand It is going to cause lot of hardship to lot of people But then what does it mat ter as long as it doesnt affect the rivileged few at the to ladder at city ha Queens Park and the House Commons At time when tht or dinary Joe is ing ge along on fixedtrincome and still pay inflated prices on everyday necessities think this is outrageous Please think twice before you do it city of Barrie What will it be next year $60000 The year after $178000 Why cant you help to pay some of it yourselves Yours truly Taxpayer Sucker 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 BOOK CORNER What childrens books tell about peOple How The Kookaburra Got His Laugh by Aviva Leighton McClelland and Stewart $495 28 pages She Shoots She Scores by Heather KellerhalsStewart The Womens Press 95 cents paper 54 pages Shantymen of Cache Lake by Bill Freeman James borrimer $995 hardcover $395 paper 166 pages Growing Green Thumb by Lorraine Surcouf Greey de Pencier $395 paper 80 pages Reviewed by JANET LUNN If you want to know something about people good place to look is in the books they give their children In Canada we mostly give our children books that teach or preach It has been that way since Amelia Francess Howard Gibbons Illustrated Comic Alphabet written in 1859 and it is so in Heather Kellerhals Stewarts 1975 She Shoots She Scores Of the five books presented for review in this column oneGrowing Green Thumb is straight in struction She Shoots She Scores is feminist preaching Shantymen of Cache Lake is about the labor movement in the Ottawa Valley lumber camps at the turn of the century How the Kookaburra Got His Laugh is amoraltale We publish on the average 50 or 60 books year for children in Canada as com pared to the several thousand in the rest of the English language world Most are either straightforward non fiction or are stories used chiefly to get across history lesson or moral precept We are not nation of story tellers LAUGHING BIRD Even Aviva Leightons big bright picture book How The Kookaburra Got His Laugh is more in keeping with the moral fables of Aesop or La Fontaine than say the more truly imaginative stories of Beatrix Potter Rudyard Kipling or Maurice Sendak The story begins The Kookaburra is the only bird in the world who really laughs and goes on to tell that it was notalways so There was time when this marvelous and outrageous bird who lived in those days far from Australia was in his own mind neither beautiful nor clever So he decided to behave like the owl in order to gain the respect he felt was his due When no one took him seriously he was grived and he left home He went even tually to Australia where he tdout his shingle as wise But when he opened his mouth to dispense wisdom to the collection of strange animals who had assembled beneath his tree all that came out of his hoarse throat was hoo hoo hoo ha ha ha ml To his astonishment everyone in his new world thought his laughter won And the Lord shall guide thee continually and satisfy thy soul in drought and make fat thy bones and thou shalt be like watered garden and like spring of water whose waters fail not Isaiah 5811 God guides us through the in spiration of His word the inner impression of His presence and through circumstances that He has created or allowed The Holy Spirit will guide you into all truth Let Him derful wisdom and he has been known as king of the bush ever since Mrs Leighton wife of Man treal poet Irving Leighton was born in Australia and ob viously likes her kookaburra While her story is thin its pleasant and Robert Smiths cartoonish pictures are bright and simple The be whatyouare moral is very clear Ages four to seven KIDDY POWER She Shoots She Scores is part of paper series the Womens Press is publishing priced so that children can af ord to buy them This one is 95 cents An 11yearold girl Hilary Lachapelle who gets to be the only girl on the hockey team is the heroine of this one While the writing is awk ward and the plot not v33 important this tale of sp winning through is handled comfortably and without any false sentimentalit Illustrations are photographs by Carol Gordon and the author Ages nine to 11 In his tale of the Shantymen in the Ottawa Valle lumber camps at the turn the cen tury Bill Freeman has also chosen to use fiction Angus Bains has died at the Shanty at Cache Lake real lake now inside Algonquin Pr ovincial Park There is no pension for his widow and her five children so John aged 14 and Meg 13 hire on as cooks assistants at the camp in or der to help feed the family As soon as they arrive they find themselves smack in the middle of struggle between the lumbermen and the com panya struggle in which they learn their father was murdered by the foreman The struggle gains momen tum and in proper melodramatic style the lum bermen win their fight and the murderer dies horrible and fitting death The story is neither lively nor imaginative but the sub ject is fascinating Fur thermore the passages set ting forth the roblems and background of eshantymen are forceful and convincing Mr Freeman should writing about the reallie heroes of the movement Ages 10 to 12 BACK TO NATURE The best book on this list is Growing Green Thumb In fact this charming lucid book is the bestIknow on this subject for children Ms Surcouf sets forth her material in lo ical and chronological or er begin ning with ideas for winter as in pots narcissi in pie gates and ending with put ting the summer garden in or der for next spring In between she offers all sorts of useful information such as Stepbystep in struction in making compost corn husk dolls and desserts gathering dy ugs and toads to keep the pests away if you build toad house and feed him live in sects hell stay with you forever and planning small garden Her stated aim is to lead not push children into the pleasures of gardening and if book can do that Growing Green Thumb just might be the one Printed on good stron paper with drawings and diagrams in twocolor water color the book is joy Age eightand up Juliet Lunn is an Ontario author and critic specialising in books for children 1homson News Service