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Ellie Earth Examiner Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited 16 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario Robb PublisherGeneral Manager Walls Editor Emeritus Henshaw Managing Editor AThe Barrie Examiner Tuesda June 1976 After 12 years of funds as the rug been pulled Spending restraints are starting to hit close to home This week the three teachers at School for Retarded Children walked off the Sunny Park Nursery job in protest The school has not received the provincial ministry of community and social operating costs funds from services for although budget was inDecember Directors of the Barrie and District Association for the Men Retarded are to meet with ministry officials in Toronto on tally Wednesday It appears that all county health services organizations are feeling the crunch We hope the action dedicated teachers will bring home to the ministry the need for assistance Obviously seriously because stayed on the job in the face of take their jobs they they have uncertainty about funding and submitted this Surely shortstaffed by two Eighty per cent of the schools operating costs are provided by the ministry We hope the absence of money year is through an oversight and is not deliberate some money can be made available The government should not put by three IN UNITED STATES itself in the position of encourag ing youngsters parents and the association for retarded for the past 12 years and then pulling the plug the mentally How gag order in case is constitutional issue By KEVIN DOYLE WASHINGTON CP Dur ing night of terror in Ne braska last October 20 yearold farm laborer shot and bludgeoned to death six members of rural family sexually assaulted three of the dead including 10 yearold girl and threatened the whole neighborhood with rampage of death Less than day later Erwin Simants was arrested and charged with multiple murder He was later convicted and sen tenced to death In country where sporadic artbursts of spectacular vio lence are less than rarity it all should have ended there It didnt procedure used in the case has exploded before the United States Supreme Court as one of the most complex and poten tially significant constitutional issues in years It is rivalled mly by the courts current struggle to reach decision on whether the death penalty itself constitutional As result of Simants case the nine justices of the court mw have to deliberate on fundamental clash between two amendments of the US Constitution the first which guarantees freedom of the tress and the sixth which assures fair trail ISSUES ORDER It all began when Nebraska Circuit Court Judge Ronald Ruff issued gag order dur ing Simants preliminary hear ing limiting press radio and TV coverage of the event It was the 116th such restraint de cree handed down by the courts inUS history But it came at time of in creasing resentment among American editors and broad casters who believe the fre quency of gags is increasing and that the judicial restraints prevailing in England and Can ada may increasingly be ap plied in the United States Judge Ruff banned reporters disclosing anything about Sim ants or any evidence presented against him including con fession although he allowed the courtroom to remain open to the ublic ban was lifted only after Simants was committed to trial and jury chosen The con stitutionality of such an order now is under challenge In Canada the federal Crimi Ehr Barri Examiner 18 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario Telephone 7266537 Registration Number 0484 Second Class Mail Return tage guaranteed Da ySunda sand Statutory Ho idays excepted Subscription rates daily by carrier 85 cents weekly $4420 yeariby Single copies 15 cents By all Barrie $4420 yearly Simcoe County $3400 yearly Balance of Canada $3600 year ly National Advertising Offices 65 Queen St West Toronto M1710 040 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 claims ght in all original adver tis and editorial material defied by its employees and regroduced in this newspaper yright Registration Num 203815 register 61 17v MI nal Code automatically ex cludes from news reports any reference to admissions or con fessions given in evidence at preliminary hearing until the accused person is discharged or subsequent trial has ended However if the accused makes an admission or confession in the witness box at prelimi nary hearing in Canada it can bereported But under 1968 Criminal Code amendment reporting any evidence at preliminary hekring may be banned at the request of the accused until his discharge or after his trial SEEKS FAIRNESS Judge Ruff said his gag order was essential to ensure fair trial for Simants in the small town of Sutyerland where he was well knOWn What troubled him he said was frontpage story in the Omaha WorldHer ald describing Simants as hothead loner and drinker and an article in the North Platte Telegraph quoting Simants father as saying My son killed five or six people here Barrett Prettyman lawyer representing US news organ izations which have forced the issue to the Supreme Court contended that any judicial re porting ban is clear abridge ment of the First Amendment Prettyman saw disad vantages in the English system He cited the case of The Sunday Times of London US libraries lose millions to thieves NEW YORK AP The unauthorized borrowing or more plainly the theft of books from libraries in the United States amounts to more than $250million year gov ernment library and publishing sources say If only one cent of the nearly two bil ion volumes in US libraries is lost every year figure officials call conservative estimate replace ment cost comes to nearly 970million This is based on the Ameri can Library Associations esti mated average cost of $14 book which does not include the cost of handling each re placement Some examples of book losses Each year $135 million worth library materialsincluding 880000 booksare stolen from public libraries in New York City In Los Angeles the loss is more than $1million year loss of $450000 was recor ded during recent year at the Brooklyn Public Library JOSSES HEAVY At the Richard Bland Collete library in Petersburg WVa losses consume more than third of the bookpurchase budget Ten cent of the Shaker high sc 00 library collection in Albany NY disappeared in each of three recent years nearly 3000 books worth more than $30000 The twin economic ressures of inflation and dget cuts which currently affect US libraries make ap rent the seriousness of book oases says Robert Wedgeworth ALAs execitive director The cost of missing book must also be measured in other ways Whats the value of sto len volume that is out of print How do you value the dis appointment of shutin who has been waiting for book mly to be told that the book is lost And whats the value of missing book to student who needs it to prepare for an up coming exam which has been prevented by court order from publishing the full story of the thalidomide tragedy while legal action still is outstanding After 14 years he said the entire story is only partially told Journalists and their lawyers are worried that there is growing presumption among judges that previous reporting and public knowledge of case automatically impairs the trial impartiality promised by the Sixth Amendment They are asking the court to take clear stand on the issue LAWYERS ALARMED Lawyers including Pretty rnan express alarm that what may be developing is system like that in Canada or England where an editor can be held in contempt for an allegedly prej udicial comment even in the ab sence of restraint order Lawyers for the press have argued strongly that judges have other remedies to correct unfairness such as warnings to the press and changing the lo cation of trial They also contend that recent experience shows jurors to be independent and not easily in fluenced by publicity The jress lawyers say in recent years there has been con siderable number of cases Where defendants were acquit ted despite an atmosphere of highly unfavorable reportin These include John Mitc ell and Maurice Stans of Watergate fame Angela Davis radical Marxist and for mer treasury secretary John Connally In arguments to the court the tress lawyers yave argued that had gag orders been used dur ing court proceedings involving the Watergate breakin the full story would never have come mt ©1976 Youll feel better once this captain thing is settled PARLIAMENT HILL Only an incurable Optimist can expect concrete results By STEWART MacIFOI Ottawa Bureau Thomson News Service was fully prepared to ignore this mammoth Habitat confer ence in Vancouveron the grounds that at least it wouldnt harm anyonebut now am not so sure these grounds are valid just read that the CBC is planning 15 television specials the 12day conference not to mention 10 hours of live cov rage on FM radio and two daily programs on AM radio Are they trying to drive us crazy its great idea for the United Nations to bring to gether representatives of 140 countries to talk about the prob lems of human settlement Heaven knows there are enough poblems to solve But you won der just how much will be ac complished by 5000 delegates most of whom cant make any commitments on behalf of their governmentsas they swap philosophical papers on the need for better living condi tions in the name of Canadas na tional pride the conference has YOUR BUSINESS Our competitive edge affects trade defici By VINCENT EGAN Business and Consumer Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service The proposal to lengthen the minimum eligibility period for unemployment insurance to 12 weeks from eight has brought heavy criticism upon Finance Minister Donald Macdonald from within his own party and even from cabinet colleague Mr Macdonalds defence of the budget proposal is that theres only so much money to be spent on the unemployed and it would be better in the long run to devote bigger share of it to the task of gading the employable skil the jobless One of the reasons for Can adas hi unemployment and low pr uctivity rates is that not enough of the jobless have the skills needed to fill the va cant jobs that are going beg ng Its possible then that the greater good lies in providing more encouragement to unem ploymentbenefit recipients to invest part of their otherwise unoccupied time in training that would im rove their skillsand there ore their job pportunities EQUAL PAY Labor productivity in Can adathat is output per hour of workhas always been below United States productivity as measured national averages In certain industries Cana dian productivity may be higher than US but those cases are the exceptions According to the Economic Council of Canadas estimates productivity in Canadian manufacturing was 27 per cent lower than in the US in 1963 By 1972 the up was 22 per cent The asis of US statistics on productivity has recently been revised and current comparisons are less certain The difference in produc tivity used to be reflected fairly directly in wage rates In the early 19605 for example Cana dian wages were 26 per cent lower than those in comparable US jobs on average Since then however Cana dian wages have risen rapidly and have closed the gapal though productivity here re mains well below the US aver age THE TRADE GAP Looking ahead the CD Howe Research Institute of Montreal suggests that the cur rent economic recovery in the 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 ublic interest and good taste he Examiner reserves the right to edit con dense or reject letter been turned into an ex travagant spectacle The cost hosting the meeting will be more than $14 million And when you add the untold millions bent spent by visiting delegationsas many as 25000 people could be involvedyou tend to wonder whether the money would be better spent on solving some human settlement poblcms in troubled country suppose we shouldnt be too cynical about these things and rhaps this meeting will help some groundwork for future international cooperation But when you get that many people representing countless in terests and working under an agenda that includes just about every problem known to man only an incurable optimist would predict concrete results Theyll be talking about hous ing about pollution about the most effective use of natural re sources about the risk of war about urban renewal about ur ban violenceAIyou name it And how are Communist and pitalist countries going to agree on resolutions calling for the public ownership of land US is likely to lead to two fa vorable developments stronger cyclical im rovement in productivity as mpacity utilization improves more moderate increase in labor and material costs re fleeting the slower rise in wages and prices in the US The combination of these two trends could still put Cana dian firms at greater com petitive disadvanta than the existing data Woul suggest the Howe researchers warn And that brings the story back to the finance minister In his recent bud et ch Mr Macdonald spo Canadas record deficit of $51billion on foreign trade last ear dete rioration of $16 illion from 1974 He was optimistic about re covery in exports but cautioned that their recovery could be adversely affected by our reduced competitive edge Translated that that if Canadian goods too expensive because of k1e high costs of producing them we will sell still fewer of them and go still deeper into debt Wage costs of course are mly one part of the final cost of any product But in todays highly com petitive markets any price dis advantage is significant KEEP FIT WISELY LONDON CPOna oster announcing youth clu talk entitled Do boys need more exercise than girls someone has added What better ex acise is there Theyll probably all agree that pollution is bad thing and war will be roundly denounced but no solutions are going to anergc from congregation of this magnitude of course well be able to rimsage our national ego by re minding everyone that Canada is hosting the biggesl United Nations conference in history But am not sure it will im pess people who now are for ced to live in grass huts incidentally up until auster ity struck the government had planned to spend $100 million on demonstration projects in volving human settlement And thousands of delegates would have travelled from coast to coast to learn how we have solveour roblems But un er the restraints pro gram charity begins at home MANY TROUBLES From the beginning the Habitat conference was beset by troubles The organizing secretarial here had bigger turnover than the Toronto Argonauts the mayor of Van couver didnt want the meeting and for time the Canadian government would have been CANADAS STORY War at sea also crucial By BOB BOWMAN During the American Revolu tionary War and the War of 1812 when the United States tried to rapture Canada most of the at tention was on the land battles Nevertheless the war at sea was also crucial and American seamanship surprised the British As mentioned in one of these stories recently the battle of PutIn Bay on Lake Erie nearly won the War of 1812 for the Americans Paradoxically the fighting the Great Lakes was usually between fleets whereas the most spectacular battles on the Atlantic were between in dividual ships One of them took place June 1813 HMS Shannon was patrolling the coast between Nova Scotia and New England and learned that the US warship Chesapeake was in Boston where it had completed refit Captain Broke of HMS Shannon sent message to Captain Lawrence of US Chesapeake As the Chesapeake appears now ready for sea request you will do me the favor to meet the Shannon with her and try the fortune of our respective flags Choose your terms but letus meet Lawrence one of the best American sea captains ac cepted the challenge imme diately The challenge became known to the people of Boston who ut out in small boats to watc thefight Chesapeake had heavier guns than Shannon so Broke decided relieved if the whole monstrous event just disappeared But now that its on were of ficially ecstatic The eyes of the world will be on Canada as one representative after another calls for great coo ration more spending the developed countries and more international understanding in tackling the problems of human settlement Well hear that the rich nations of the world can no longer go on ignoring the needs the poor that the poor na tions of the world must develop greater technology that newly dcveloped countries must share their fortunes with their un fortunate brothers And it will all be true But think how much more effective it would be if 100 heads of state meet in some really under developed country and com mitted their governments to new international project on luman settlement That would focus more attention on the troblem than all the glossy pho tographers produced by the Ca nadian government for this cur rent spectacle It would also make better television programs to manoeuvre close and get his men on board He was wealth man and had an expert crew cause he shared his prizes with them They would sail anywhere with him The battle began at 555 in the afternoon Broke kept most if his men below decks until Shannon clamped landing hooks on Chesa ake Then his men scramble on board the American ship and handto hand fighting began It was all over in 15 minutes Shannon lost 83 men killed or wounded while total American casualties were 143 including Captain Lawrence who was killed His dying words are fa mous in the US Navy Dont give up the ship Shannon towed Chesapeake into Halifax few days later where there was great rejoic mg OTHER JUNE EVENTS soBritain returned forts including Detroit to US r797Upper Canada legisla ture met at York for the first time 1831Sir James Ross dis covered position of north mag netic pole 1860First post office was es tablished at Thunder Bay 1876Royal Military College pened at Kingston 1882Winnipeg installed gas lighting 1909GovGen Earl Grey donated Grey Cup to football 1912Central Railway station opened at Ottawa 1927Li uor stores opened in Ontario ter being dry since 1921 THE WORLD TODAY 11 hours day of Olympic TV By JOHN HARBRON Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service Canada is hosting two inter national events this ring and summer the Unite Nations Habitat Conference just begun in Vancouver and of course the Montreal Olympics in July We will rea hear and see robably good deal more about both than we want to The Canadian Broadcasting Cor poration has huge com mitments to cover both The Olympics will get 11 hours day on the CBC re peat eleven solid hours of CBC pogramming every day of that event whether you as tax paying supporter of the CBC give damn about sports or not Habitat will be thrown at us less noticeably though its sheer size as the largest UN confer mce ever mounted and content the housing of the worlds peo ples are impressive enough In spite of this excessive pro grammiéidg as well as what the pint ia will produce most Canadians will remain un touched by either massive event As it becomes clearer every month we are moving in exorably into long era of re straint most of us will do what we have always done enjoy the emerging Canadian summer in our own way and say to hell with the rest of the world ENJOYING OURSELVES In way we have been doing that as people since 1945 Our economic boom which took off in 1950 and lasted with some se vere but temporary slumps un til the crisis in oil prices in late 1973 had become fixed wayoflife It would never go away we said and the good things it pro duced in profusion would multi riy Two and three car families mw go to summer home QUEENS PARK His reaction was refreshing By DON OHEARN Queens Park Bureau Thomson News Service TORONTO Darcy McKeoughs reaction to this years federal budget was re freshing On number of points the treasurer agreed with Ottawa And in those areas where he disagreed he was quite re strained He didnt put on the boxing gloves as treasurers here have done for years now with the federal government Rather he was conciliatory and where he was doubtful he was optimistically hopeful that things would work out well in the end N0 ROCKS If this signals less reliance on the adversary system it is wel come Historically in Canadian and Ontario politics we have fol lowed this system It has been good guys and bad guys with each side hurling rocks at each other In times when public affairs were simpler this probably was good enough approach But today when everything is so complex such dogfighting BIBLE THOUGHT And they came unto John and said unto him Rabbi he that was with thee beyond Jor hn to whom thou barest wit mass behold the same bap tizeth and all men come to IimJohn3m Only in eternity will we know inw many souls have been lost to spiritual jealousy and human judgment When was the last time we prayed for anther Church or DenominationI lets do it now Father bless everyone everywhere and in every church and fellowship who exalt Jesus and loves rmnkiind In His name Amen as opposed to the oldfashioned summer cottage Complete with indoor plumb ing the black and white TV set moved from town to make way for the big color one at home the summer place had become yearround place longago If you dont believe me go and look at the companies of fering to build those summer homes Their opulence is city living moved north or south or in whatever direction you have second place All of which brings me back to Habitat since homes in most of the nations represented are so poor the Canadian refab summer home woul be palace by comparison The Third World poor through their Habitat represen tatives see us replete with resources many of which we use for vulgar selfindulgence in desperately needy world As for the Olympics that bash tells us something else about the massive misalloca tion of resources and it is re lated to Habitats theme This may be the last time any national society except per haps the Soviet or the Commu nist Chinese can afford the staggering luxury of funding the facilities for the Olympic Games The province of Quebec and the city of Montreal where no new public housing was built until 1970 must find over $1 bil lion to pay for this colossal sports event Im sure many of the dele gates to Habitat are wondering about the way the industrial west and especially at this point in time the Canadians squan der their resources Not able to build enough ade quate houses for their own people in rich rich country they pour it out on an Olympic infrastructure largely confuses issues and in turn confuses the public As well of course it is largely destructive rather than constructive And today con structive and cooperative thinking and planning are ur gent necessities Fiery con frontation except in selective instances is retrograde PROVINCE BETTER This said on comparing the fiscal policies of Ottawa and the province one would say that htario is getting the better fiscal administration today Restraint here is real It could go further perhaps much further but when weighed against what one can really ex pect out of government it is im ressive In contrast while the federal government pays lip services to restraint it does not aim so high and on its record there have to be reservations about its actual results the seeing will be the believing One of the best testimonials cf the fiscal sincerity of the gwernment here was the ap pointment year ago of the On tario Special Program Review and particularly the naming of the former federal Auditor General Maxwell Henderson as member of the review group Including Mr Henderson re nowned for his acuteness and his frankness was assurance that this review was no political gesture And the consequent re port of the group was con firmation of this The report was outstanding Relevant to this point of fiscal responsibility there was recent quote from Mr Hender son At the time Premier Davis asked me to undertake this work had distinct reserva tions Nevertheless felt he demonstrated great courage by exposing his governments spending intentions to review of this kind Considering the source could politician ask for better tes timonial bet my mother gets lot more alimony than your mother