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Ellie literate 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 May 13 I976 City stays in dark ages With its housing policy It was close decision CounciI almost moved Barrie out of the dark ages of housing policy But as so many of us have come to expect matter was referred for study Not to the city development committee which had proposed it but to planning board Curious Planning board says council must formulate policy and routinely sends policy matters to crty develo ment committee What Al Perris develop ment committee had in mind this week was way to provide af fordable housing for low and mid dle income families in the city 188 policy Was it through Assisted Home Owner ship Program regulations The homes would be located in areas zoned for medium density Why did council not adopt the olitics Were mayor and six alder men afraidcf the menace of creeping soc1ahsm stantl Have they lost touch with the reaility of housing prices Ald George Harper pointed out council has been criticized con for not trying to provide affor able homes Council blew it again Maybe it is just as well the elec tion campaign started early Auto sales underestimated CN uses commodity train TORONTO CP Almost 1000 autos and trucks worth more than $5 million recently left for Winnipeg aboard what Canadian National Railways officials described as possibly the largest autocar train ever operated in North America The train 13 miles long was the largest autoliner thus far in new CNR operation to speed tran sportation of autos and trucks during the auto industrys peak periods The trains have been leaving Windsor Ont every day except Sunday for the last seven weeks and arriving in Winnipeg 44 hours later af ter stops at the auto industry manufacturing centres in southern Ontario Fletcher CNR manager of operations for the Grea Lakes region said that as far as he knows the trains are the first in Canada to carry only autos and trucks Generally trains carry variety of goods to specific destination commodity train such as the autoliner carries similar products from variety of manufacturers to variety of destinations he said in an in terview Commodity trains have been used in Western Canada to move potash and lumber GIVES REASON Mr Fletcher said CNR de cided to use commodity train for autos when manufacturers who had un derestimated auto sales sud denly had to transport many more vehicles than originally forecast This increased demand by the auto industry created shortage of railcars CNs job then he said was to find way to do more with its available railcar fleet The autoliner reduced the time taken for railcar to travel to Winnipeg from Windsor by 112 days Mr Fletcher said The improvement in the railcar cyclethe time for car to make return tripwas reduced about nine per cent which he said was equivalent to adding100 cars to CNs fleet of 800 railcars The improvement in ser QUEENS PARK Minority government is supersensitive By DON OHEARN Queens Park Bureau Thomson News Service TORONTO Minority gov ernment is supersensitive government or at least the one here is If any illustration of this is needed we have the incident of Bill This bill would have amen ded the Public Commercial Vehicles Act to try and get truckers operating without PCV licences off the road Through questionable leasing arrangements these truckers and ap parently there are good many of them have been able to avoid PCV licencing And freed from the controls and responsibilities that such licencing has they have been Elie iBarrtr Examiner 16 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario Telephone 72643537 Registration Number 0484 Second Class Mail Return stage guaranteed Dai Sundays and Statutory Holidays 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 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the PCV Act The Ontario Trucking Association presents case which blows the nonlicenced group sky high Over the years the Trucking Association it was formerly the Automotive Transportation Association ins been noteworthy par ticularly for its accuracy But this wouldnt have much bearing in the present minority situation The big thing is to stay out of trouble where possible FOREIGN STUDENTS The move by universities BIBLE THOUGHT If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath from doing thy pleasure on my holy day and call the sabbath delight the holy of the Lord honorable and shalt honor him not doing thine own ways nor finding thine own pleasure nor speaking thine own words Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord and will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it Isaiah 581314 This simply says that the Lord expects some specific time of us and there is reward for giving it and rejection if we dont Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and Him only shalt thou serve vice was achieved without any capital outlay he said adding that railcars cost about $35000 each CNR has significantly im proved its share of automotive transport revenue in the last two years he said It hopes the autoliner will result in the railway gaining more auto industry business from its com petitors CP Rail and truckingcompanies CNRs objective is to gain good percentage of the market during an industrys peak periods and hold that percentage during slower times The auto industry provides good revenue to tran sportation companies One railcar carrying 14 or 15 vehicles to Edmonton from Toronto brings in revenue of $3000 or about $200 vehicle CNR will eliminate use of the autoliner when auto in dustry volume drops off but will resume operation during the industrys fall peak or anytime demand exceeds railcar supply Mr Fletcher said minister Harry Parrott to in crease the fees for foreign students in our universities and colleges is long overdue University education is one of the best bargains in the province It costs $5000 year to edu cate an undergraduate and for this he pays $580 It is all right to so highly subsidize Ontario students and students from other provinces good number of Ontario students go to univer sity in other provinces but there is no reason why the Americans and Englishmen should get such support As it is they will be paying less than third of their education cost even under the new fees And United States univer sities uprate Canadian students who use them And remembering back it was not so long ago that the universities were jammed and it was difficult to get into them particularly the professional schools and still student places were being oc cupied by foreign students 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 HOSPITAL EXPANDS OTTAWA CP Ottawa General Hospital will start construction this fall of $61 million building in the east end of the city The new hospital will have 450 beds compared with 544 in the present hospital near Parliament Hill It also will have cancer clinic Con struction is expected to take three years Another latenight Reagan movie PARLIAMENT HILL What the experts are saying about Macdonalds first budget By STEWART MacLEOD Ottawa Bureau Thomson News Service In order to offer some in telligent insights into the for thcoming federal budget Ive been carefully reading the predictions of the financial pundits Its always useful to do this when you know nothing about the subject Bad news expected was one of the headlines that caught my eye after Finance Minister Donald Macdonald announced that he would be tabling his first budget on May 25 Tax cuts ofany significant size are out said another columnist after studying all the apparent options open to the big finance minister Look for changes in the price and wage controls pro yam said still another Oil prices to rise was an other prediction threw all these comments in to prove that read more than one column If you steal ideas from only one its known as plagiarism If you steal from two its known as research Anyway from all of my reading research have been unable to find one prediction of good news for taxpayers The general view is that any tax cuts would be meaningless TARIFF UTS Naturally there will be some tarriff reductions be cause it has become Can adian tradition for finance ministers to reduce these charges providing they ap ply to products that are sel dom imported So we can watch for tariff reductions on things like Himalayan han dicrafts Portuguese par tridge meat and Saudi Arabian wheelchairs Apart from this the outlook appears bleak vanother Canadian prebudget tradition Drinkers and smokers may well face excise tax increases predicts Montreal economist In view of virtually every budget since Confederation it doesnt take much courage togooutonthatlimb This same economist also iredicts the budget will con tain new incentives to save money perhaps placing higher limit on the amount INTERPRETING THE NEWS Has France overreacted to Schmidt By ROD URRIE LONDON CP The rela tionship between France and West Germany has weathered many ups and downs since the Second World War but recent flash of French illfeeling is causing some concern in NATO cir cles and within the European Economic Community EEC The furore is blamed in France on West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and comes at time when Eu ropeans generally are un settled over the thrusts of communism in politics and the buildup of Warsaw pact military strength Schmidt caused the latest outburst among French politicians and editorial YOUR BUSINESS Avoiding pitfalls in condominiums By VINCENTEGAN Business and Consumer Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service Condominium living isnt new but its popularity has been growing so rapidly in some parts of Canada that po tential purchasers may be confuse about their rights and obligations The term condominium refers to the type of property ownership It can appy to any form of construction although townhouses and highrise apartments are the most common The essence of con dominium ownership is that each unit belongs to the in dividual owner while the common property such as lobby corridor and delevators in the case of an apartment building belong to all coowncrs To help steer condominium purchasers through some of the most common difficulties of settling into such development Ontarios Ministry of Consumer and Commercial Relations has ust published oklct Living In Cons dominium that helps clarify key points in typical agreements and in the On tario Condominium Act Condominium purchasers are strongly urged to take the trouble to read the documents that must by law be given to them the condominium declaration and bylaws par ts of the description the management and insurance trust agreement budget statement details of re creatvonal amenities The declaration and bylaws will tell you for example how much freedom you have in decorating your unit You would probably be permitted to decorate the interior as you wish but be forbidden to do anything that would change the appearance of the buildingsextericr If on havea et check the con ominium elcaration or bylaws carefully to see whether you may keep it Remember that con dominium ownership doesnt convey all the privileges of home ownership Because of the nature of condominium any authorized person has the right to enter your unit at any reasonable time to correct conditions that may lead to damage to the property REPAIR OSTS Owners are required to share the cost of repairs to common elements of the property But if an individual owner or the owners 99 you can set aside each year in registered retirement savings plans Most of us are unable to ap proach the present limit of $4000 One expert writes that Mr Macdonalds elbow room in the field of taxation is pain fully limited He rules out any significant tax cuts and adds that significant in creases are not likely either But well all be contending with higher oil prices which may goup by $2 barrel before the end ofMay When he announced his budget date the finance minister said there will be some changes in the govern ments price and wage con trols program But he wouldntgointodetails However two financial writers have predicted that some form of incentive for productivity will be built into the program There is ac tually disincentive at the moment since companies can pass along increased production costs to con sumers Someone else suggested the government may allow com writers with outspoken com ments in magazine in terview His remarks seemed to many West Germans to be quite mild and politicians in Bonn are said to be puzzled by the French reaction Among other things he said he would not welcome Com munists in government in in Rome or Paris or children guests tenants or pet should be the cause of damage to common ele ments then that unitowner mustpay Normally the owner is re sponsible for repairs to any thing within the four walls of his or her unit So if ap pliances are provided ask about their guarantees and warranties and whether you are responsible for parts and labor charges Each unitowner is requires to pay monthly maintenance costs One of the inesca able facts of condominium iving is that those costs tend to rise with the passage of time Even if you are dissatisfied with the quality of main tenance being provided you arent entitled to withhold the monthly payment If you did the corporation might go to court obtain lien on your unit and sell it Problems about main tenance and the like are best dealt with by the con dominiums board of direc tors The board is made of unitowners elected by vote ofall of their coowners Directors are responsible for managing the con dominium properly and its business affairs usually by supervising the actions of the paid property manager panies to retain more profits provided they are reinvested in new productive capacity Its all beyond me anyway What is within grasp however is the fact that none of the experts are predicting tax cuts And another significant as pect of the May 25th budget is that Mr Macdonald will be placing his first personal stamp on the finances of the country The last budget on June 23 was the work of John Turner who quit the cabinet few months later without leaving full explanation in his wake There was some immediate speculation that Mr Turner now Toronto lawyer was unhappy because his colleagues wouldnt support stronger and more un popular financial measures Mr Macdonalds budget could finally lay this theory to rest since he is regarded within the finance de partment as much tougher individual than Mr Turner And many expect his budget to reflect this Thats what the experts say elsewhere He also implied me would need microscope to find Communists in West Germany Schmidts willingness to give freely of advice and opinions galled the French this time because of the up surge of the new com munism independent of Moscow in France and in Italy The French reacted similarly to warnings by US State Secretary Henry Kissinger about Communists coming to power in Europe After recent meeting with French President Valery Giscard dEstaing Kissinger made no further mention of thisconcern French Prime Minister Jacques Chirac said in the National Assembly that he was astonishedand use this word for diplomatic reasons by Schmidts com ments key rt in the current coolin of of West German Ifienc relations observers say is their traditional rivalrysfor eminence in Western Europe RELATIONS COOL Observers say the once warm relationship between Schmidt and Giscard dEstaing dating from their days as finance ministers has cooled of late Part of the trouble pehaps is the political tensrons at play in France these days Giscard dEstaing believes public utterances on the Com munists threat in Europe do more harm than good and he deeply resented the remarks of Schmidt and Kissinger But other observers put it down mainly to French jeal ousy They note Giscard dEstaings recent statement that it is important France keep forces equivalent in size to those of the West German army And because the French economy weakens wheile the West German economy con tinues to grow West Ger manys political influence is bound to increase in Europe Will the US reinforce China By JOHN HARBRON Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service In international affairs these days nothing should surprise you not even news stories sounding suspiciously like leaks that the United States might supply arms to the Peoples Republic of China What these stories and vague Washingtonbased rumors are saying is that the worlds largest capitalistic power is thinking of sup plying the worlds most populous Communist nation with new weaponry The rationale is simple mough even if the news story itself is not President Fords adminis tration watching the decay of detente and worried about the continuous Soviet arms build up is thinking of reinforcing Communist Chinas armed forces as counterweight to Russian military power Of course the Communist Russians and Chinese have been at each others throats for years since the early 1960s in fact with much earlier punditry about the possibility of major Sino Sovietwar What better way to restrain the Russians other than the uss military increases than to help bolster the Chinese against the same Russian military threat SKILLS NOW IN CHINA In more practical vein the Chinese certainly have an entree to American technological skills in areas where these have been made available to Chinese com mercial state agencies The Chinese state airline now flies 10 modern Boeing 707 jets on its expanding European and Asian com mercial services with Chinese airline pilots now skilled in the flying of 7075 and ground crews with their overhaul and maintenance And the Chinese Civil Airline Administration CANADAS STORY St John River and economics By BOB BOWMAN Despite pollution and power developments the St John River in New Brunswick is still one of the most beautiful in Canada It is now used almost exclusively by pleasure boats but was originally highly com petitive commercial route The United Empire Loyalists who settled along the banks of the river were enterprisin peo le John Ward who ande at Saint John in 1783 was one of them He obtained an exclusive charter for 10 years to cperate steamship service between Saint John and Fred ericton William Peters decided to compete by operating ship with real horse power not steam He built paddle wheeler 100 feet long with large circular platform on the deck In the centre of the lat form was capstan mm which 12 bars projected Qeters hitched horses to the bars and shouted giddyup The horses then began trot ting around the platform like merrygoround and generated enough power to drive the paddlewheel It was great idea but Ward learned how to sabotage it When the horses began trotting he engaged peo le to shout whoa and the orseswouldstop Peters tried to overcome this by stuffing rags into the horses ears so they could not bear but the rags kegtedrop ping out Finalljy he came too discourage to continue and took his horseboat to Grand Lake where it became CAAC was organized in the late 505 on the model of Aeroflot the ramilitary Soviet state air ine This also means it is an adjunct of the Communist Chinese Air For ce Therefore the early tran sfer of aviation technology flying experience and ground overhaul of American military aircraft to Chinese needs would not take as long as otherwise anticipated Though the Peoples Republic of China has the worlds largest army of foot soldiers even greater than the Red Army of the USSR it is woefully under mechanized Scenarios played out in the military academies of the West and undoubtedly in the Soviet Armys crack Frunze Academy in Moscow suggest that Sovret armor moving out Soviet Asia could sweep over much of north China in matter of weeks These days both the Ameri cans and the West Germans are looking for new markets for their tank technology and presumably the Communist Chinese would favorably view sharing American heavy armor expertise At the same time the anonymous but aware senior military chiefs in Peking have spent more than decade adapting Soviet military technology to their needs NO MORE WEAPONS The bitter SinoSoviet ideological quarrels of them mid60$ resulted in the Russian withdrawal from China in terms of supplying her with Russian weapons Accordingly China has be come not only an adapter of Soviet skills in the operation the tactical MiG jet but now builds and even exports Chinese version of still basically Russian military aircraft Adapting to American mili tary equipment would come easily to China SOVIET hotel for lumberjacks Competition on the St John Rive above Fredericton led to the invention of the com pound steam engine The inventor was Benjamin Franklin Tibbets young Fredericton watchmaker who enjoyed watching the ships but felt that the steam that poured from their fun nels could be utilized to ad vantage He studied engineering in the United States and returned to Fredericton where he designed the worlds first compound steam engine He was ridiculed of course but his ship qas the fastest and most economical on the river His compound steam engine revolutionized navigation throughout the world OTHER MAY EVENTS 1604 Champlain arrived at Port Mouton NS 1724Royal edict authorized stone wall to be built around Montreal 1744 British post at Canso was destroyed by French from Louisburg 1788British fur traders Meares and Douglas arrived at NootkaBC 1834 Steamer Enterprise made trip from Bytown 0t tawa to Kingston via Rideau Canalsystem lassCanadian troops de feated Riels rebels at Batoche 1912Lottery was held for valuable land at Edmonton 19197 Winnipeg general strike began 1950Red River flood that caused $27million damage reached height at Winnipeg THE PICK OF PUNCH lid willlililljlg ti lllllllllitilillti it Int Nice to see you have couple of workers on the board