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Ehr ifiarrtr Examiner Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited 16 Bayfleld Street Barrie Ontario Robb PublisherGeneral Manager Walls Editor Emeritus Henshaw Managing Editor AThe Barrie Examiner Saturday June 12 1976 New hikes for hydro raise cost of living Although the prediction of an in crease from 30 to 34 per cent in electric rates again next year is not final it is understandable that it should cause growing concern The sharp rises in electic rates this year have played their art in the continued rise in cost living and inflation Increased demands practically all classes of cus tomers including municipal street lighting have made it necessary for the Ontario Hydro system to seek more new sources of power For most municipalities in this area rates this year have been in creased from 12 to 15 per cent and in few cases even more with the hikes pending for some others depending on local demand and circumstances The average household uses more electricity than few years ago due to more electrical appliances televisions home heating airconditioning and other such essentials Appeals have been made for householders to save all the power they can with the argument presented if every one saves little the total reduc tion could mean great deal Not too much emphasis has been given the importance of sav ing power at times so peak de mand use can be staggered This aspect is likely to receive more at tention in the future if other steps to curb demand are not effective enough In most municipalities there are more street lighting rateswhich are tax expense to ratepayers have been generally more sharply increased than domestic Because of the need to en courage industry to do as much as pOSSible to provide muchneeded Jobs moves to curb industrial use of power have to be very carefully considered Coming at time when latest consumer price index has shown further increase the discussion about another substantial hike in electricity next year was bound to stir concern Customers getting used to cop ing with this years increases could hardly be blamed for not welcoming the prospect of 30 to 34 per cent further rise next year The Ontario legislature select committee which made this prediction also mentioned that the wholesale power rate will have to be raised again in 1978 perhaps by 15 per cent and in suc ceeding years by lesser percen tages These projections may be realistic but are not final by any means The procedure is for the Ontario Hydro to make applica tion to the Ontario Energy board to justify demands Last year Hydro proposed an in crease of 297 per cent for 1976 but later reduced its request to 25 per cent in response to pressure Eventually the overall figure of 22 per cent was proposed by the select committee This dealt with wholesale rates with local rates varying according to cost condi tions DOWN MEMORY LANE 20 YEARS AGO IN TOWN Barrie Examiner June 12 1956 CGE announced large building ex pansion at Barrie plant Present factory was erected in late 1945 on part of old fair grounds about 59000 square feet Expansion will double present size Miss Rosemary Dudley public rela tions director for new Stayner Speedway addressed Rotary Club on benefits to Simcoe County of international motor race meets on site of Edenvale airport Dr John Anders formerly of Australia took over dental prac tice of late Dr Campbell Of 12 new industries located in Georgian Bay region four are for Barrie Canadylet Closures BIBLE THOUGHT This is the day which the Lord hath made we will rejoice and be glad in it Psalms 1824 Moldex Plastomer Charles Wilson Ltd Baxter Laboratories will erect 30000 square foot plant at Alliston Harold Forster elected president of Lions Club of Barrie Barrie planners should keep in mind necessary role which music must play in com munity Allen Fisher director of Barrie Collegiate Band told Kiwanis Club President Willard Kinzie of Chamber of Commerce redicts large population growth or Barrie in next decade pro bably reaching 30000 by 1967 Clifford Brown installed as presi dent of Kinsmen Club Wallace Kennedy elected president of Club 60 new club formed by Council for Blind You Will never relive today make it good one with Gods help 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 Elie Barrie Examiner 16 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario Telephone Registration Number 0484 Second Class Mail Return tage guaranteed Dai Sunda sand 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 Balance of Canada $3600 year yNational Advertising Offices 65 Queen St West Toronto M1710 640 Cathcart St Mon treal Member of the Canadian Press and Audit Bureau of Cir cuiations 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 toes news published therein Barrie Examiner claims Co yright in all original adver tisiiig and editorial material created by its employees and regroduced in this newspaper yright Registration Num r203815register61 Peter Sinclair alive and living in Barrie By SEAN FINALY City Editor The Examiner Peter Sinclair is alive and well and living in Barrie And street in Barrie will be named after him Last week The Examiner reported that several Barrie streets would hear the names of deceased mayors Included in the list of deceased mayors was Mr Sinclairs name Editor Emeritus Ken Walls describes Mr Sinclair as one of the best mayors Barrie has ever had And he was quick to let us know that Mr Sinclair was quite alive and quite well Probably the most embar rassing thing newspaper can do is say someone is dead when they are not It is embarrassing for the newspaper which can be ac cused of anticipating the news or just plain sloppiness And it is embarrassing for the person named and his or her relatives So how did this one happen Very simply The story came from city hall the planning depart ment specifically and more specifically Wayman Fair THE WORLD TODAY First in White House since the 19608 By JOHN lIAitBRON Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service It may be premature but cer tainly not inappropriate to speculate at this time that Governor Jimmy Carter will be the next president of the United States If he has the same success at the nominating convention next month and at the polls as he has had during the primaries he is destined to be the first Democrat in the White House Time to clean national houses By JOHN HARBRON Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service It is difficult perhaps impos sible to pass jud ment on major world can erence you have not attended which is the case with this columnist and the large Habitat Conference of the United Nations just over in Vancouver Actually there were two Van couver conferences dealing with human habitation the of ficial one mounted and largely funded by the United Nations and an unofficial one called Habitat Forum where most of the real action took place My excuse in passing judg ment after all is that every thing am hearing reading and seeing from my conferees in the media who were there sounds like conference helped plan and organize less than year ago This was the annual Cou chiching Conference of the Ca nadian Institute on Public Af fairs summer event now for over 40 years and which in Au gust 1975 dealt with the theme Canada and the Third World We did not have our prime minister gnattering on about passionate love between the worlds peoples at Couchiching nor his wife Mar aret leading 112mile walk on ehalf of clean water for the world because she was fed up with too much talk But we did have the same talk the same rhetoric the strong antagonisms also ex pressed by delegates of the de veloping world against the still all weraribbean ambassador in ttawa it all sounds like an echo of our own smaller event of last year at which this par ticular diplomat brilliant orator was also outspoken in his views of our country as magnet for many of his people because of job opportunities and far less strenuous way of life My poisonal feeling on Habi tats closing and bearing in mind our own smaller effort old colonial era when the year ago is that the onus for essential changes of attitude governmental direction and proper allocation of resources for housing now is more on the poor countries than on us This is perhaps the same kind of sweeping value judgment about them which they now make about our portion of spaceship earth In terms of human resources alone many socalled devel oping countries have larger po tential than others Ni eria has larger bettertrain bureau cracy for implementation than say the Gabon or Ni er ln donesia has more an larger human resources than say Bur ma Brazil more than Nica ragua From these elites large and small dynamic and lazy come the delegates to global confer ences like Habitat or the just completed United Nations Con ference on Trade and Develop ment UNCTAD in Nairobi Kenya BAD GOVERNMENTS They are the ones who sound off about the selfishness and in difference of the rich nations like Canada Yet global sur vey of bureaucratic systems of the Third World and the largely authoritarian regimes for whom they work and who sustain them would indicate mass disarray in governments immense corruption and self interest as displayed in the developed world Some of the most backward African states during the recent UN Law of the Sea Conference in New York demanded copies of all the technical working pa rs even though they do not ave the resources at home to implement many of the meas ures about sea law they clam ored to have changed in their favor In regard to their lack of ad ministrative skills Third World representatives at in ternational conferences con stantly refer back to the bad European empires left them impoverished in this regard The present Zaire long ago the Belgian Congo became in dependent in 1960 with the smallest handful of doctors lawyers and economists all trained in Belgium Since then Zaire has pros pered beyond the estimates of many in the West beneficiary over the 15 years since inde pendence of aid loans and dc velopmental funds Zaire should be in better po sition to solve the chronic prob lems of housing pure water food supplies than she claims to be the same being true with some of her more advanced Af rican brother states like Kenya Tanzania and the Ivory Coast The plague of the developing World along with population explosion poverty and ideological requirement of con stantly emphasizing de colonialization is massive corruption It exists on grand scale unabated in nations like Nigeria or Bangladesh it mainly comes to light in the rich countries when their relief supplies rot on dock or reach starving populace too slowly ornot at all IIABITATS PURPOSE Habitat was meant to bring to our consciences and our hearts the plight of world largely badl housed and meeting of min of attending nations to start meeting the crisis But Habitat should have re minded the Third World that other houses need cleaning up along the way These include the corru re gimes lazy officials an sys tems who hide their in efficiency and callousncss by attacking the rich world which has already been generous when aid and technical assist ance have been requested and delivered to the poor nations smcethc1960s brief 16 months have passed since Mr Carter emerged with much disdain suspicion and even indifference from Plains Ga and rela tively unpublicizcd governors role The fact he was southerner was clearly against him The Republicans and many Demo crats remembered the heavy Texan accent and what ap peared to be the crudities of Johnson of the period 1964 to 1968 when he was president Playing ball with calf head By GRAHAM STEWART MAZARlSHARIF Afghani stan Reutcr On the wind swcpt plains of northern Afgha nistan horsemen do battle over beheaded call in traditional rt which historians think is rowback to the days of Mongol Conqueror Genghis Khan The sport is buzkashi It is peculiar to Afghanistan and part of its national heritage The chapandaz master players of Buzkashi are to days national sports heroes Literally translated buzkashi means goatdragging But the headless carcass of calf is used instead of goat because it is heavier and tougher To the uninitiated buzkashi is something akin to ru by foot ball except that it is ayed on horseback The riders fight for possession of the calf the same way rugby players grapple for the ball The object is to carry the calf certain distance and drop it in scoring circle for goal It makes polo look like game for novices said Brit ish tourist REQUIRES COURAGE Buzkashi is certainly not game for the fainthearted The risk of being trampled deters all but expert horsemen Io lean out of the saddle amid throng of rearing snorting horses and flailing whips to grab the calf from the ground requires skill courage and strength Once rider gets hold of the calf which can weigh up to 150 pounds he sets off at furious gallop to round flag at the other end of the ground before dropping the carcass in the scoring circle His teammates endeavor to shield him all the way while op posing players try to snatch the calf away or prevent him reaching the circle weather the city planning director Mr Sinclairs name headed list of five mayors after whom streets will be named Mr Sinclair was mayor in 19451946 Mr Fairweather presen ting the names to te city development committee said all were deceased Reporter Peter Depodesta took Mr Fairweather at his word and bingo The Ex aminer said man was dead when he wasnt The Examiner now has list of the mayors of Barrie and the list clearly indicates who is dead and who is alive The northern liberals had dominated the Democratic par ty since the late president Ken ned and among whom were in clu ed the party hopefuls for president this time remember Mr Carters fir st statements for press and TV about entering the rimaries for Ezesidential candidate one of ut dozen hopefuls which indeed he was in early 1975 and very low on the list PRIMARIESWIIIRIMINI What happened of course es pecially in the 15 weeks since the New Hampshire primary has been whirlwind of style and success unprecedented in the history of American pri maries While the incumbent Republi can president will go down to the wire battling an opponent within the same party or the nomination Jimmy Carter is very likely to take the nomi nation for the Democrats on the first ballot That means the rest of the convention could be kind of love in Democrats happy in unity they would not have had in decades light years away from their fractious nominating convention of 1968 in Miami Fla Do you remember the role of the hi pics the radical left the kids mm the extreme Demo cratic political factions who roame around that con vention This time round the millions of Americans who have voted in the Democratic primaries in dicate the national trend to con servatism All the leading liberal pri mary candidates were beaten The senator who tried three times to make it to president Hubert Humphrey the darling of the Democratic left has con ceded Carters victories in the primaries Whoever wins in November in the US will introduce con servative administrationRea gan possibly to the right even of the Nixon years Ford and Car ter whoever might win func tioning as moderate con servative FOREIGN POLICY Carter has said little about foreign licy issues compared to Repu lican Ronald Reagan who has managed to make flash points from his indiscreet re marks over the Panama Canal and Rhodesia Carters foreign policy ad viser who also wrote position pers for the late president enned is distinguished Harvar University professor of overnment with the un ictable name of Zbigniew rzeczinski Better than Kissinger Who can tell No one really while everythin for Carter and his yetun nown team depends on next month and the big Democratic nom inating convention READER FORUM Thanks of Cancer society for successful campaign DearSir statement is due pos sibly overdue on the pro gress of the Cancer societys spring campaign for funds In word it has been highly successful The fund is well over its ob jective of $50000 and as returns continue to come in there is reason to expect that it will surpass $60000 This amount does not come from the city of Barrie alone It may not be generally understood that the Barrie unit of the society comprises an area bounded by Shanty Bay Guthrie Craighurst Midhurst Minesing Angus Alliston TottenhamBeeton and ChurchillLefroy the estimated population of the area being over 85000 Thus $60000 is not too high an ex pectation However one must hasten to acknowledge the generous response to the appeal Organizers such as team cap tains and canvassers have all contributed their services willingly and have worked hard Donors almost without exception have received them raciously and have given reely Now the reac tion of those participating in the campaign can only be sense of gratification Experience has shown that statement of final returns must wait until late summer as some returns such as donations from com any head offices from em oyee groups and from bene it ac tivities continue to come in At this time though would like to extend my personal thanks to the workers all volunteers who helped to make the campaign suc cess The fi with cancer is long an gruelling one but almost every day comes word of some new achievement by the researchers One of this years cam paign slogans is You are making the difference How true BILL BELL Campaign Chairman She likes the editorial mayors remarks unworthy DearSir Congratulations on your June editorial Remarks Out of Context or footinthe mouth She wants to sue Aid Perri What for the truth Ever since she has been in office her misquoted excuse is standard joke If anyone should make public apology it is the mayor What Ald Perri said was not libel but the truth Her remarks about the townhouse subdivision was certainly unworthy of mayor own property in the area Am proud of the neighbor hood The houses are well kept by responsible owners Yours truly MRS KIRKLAND Mayor says editorial insulted her electorate Dear Sir Your editorial of June 1976 accusing me of having conception of the city limited to certain select group was insulting not only to me but to the people of this city To set the record straight served all the people of Ward for seven years as an alder man and have served all the ple of the city of almost our years as mayor Throughout that time have tried to assist many in dividuals from all walks of life and groups of all kinds In doing so never asked them their politics or their social position only their pro blems or their needs as they related to the city and did my best to help them believe my record will at test to this will continue to be of ser QUEENS PARK Demanded public access then closed meeting By DON OHEARN Queens Park Bureau Thomson News Service TORONTO Which foot is theshoeon Here we often get some strangely contrary positions when selfinterest becomes in volved as in life You can find member or members ardently protesting for some point or other but then when this particular point happens to involve them per sonally hastily seeing there is another side of the question recent graphic instance in volved the new select com mittee on the hi hway trans portation of otherwise nown as the PCV committee Pull public access to informa tion has been rather warm question at this session Even Conservative members have favored more access while the opposition grou have been indi nantintheir mands that fairs should be opened up So what happened at the PCV committee The members held their or ganization committee and it was decided that it should be closed to the public with the Liberals on the committee agreeing with the Con servatives Both lack of firm principle and lack of knowledge were re flected in this decision GRASP LOST Lack of principle in that clos ing committee is very much the same as closing the house itself as committees are di rect emanation of the house Of course the house can be closed only under the most ex treme circumstances And clos ing committee by the same members who had been de manding freedom of informa tion made their demands look frivolous Then there was lack of knowl edge in that apparently behind the thinking of most of the members was that this was only an or anizational meeting and there ore was not impor tant But if they had been more ex perienced or more thoughtful they would have known that or ganizational meetings can be the most important that any CANADAS STORY Selkirks big land deal cost his life fortune By BOB BOWMAN One of the biggest land estate deals in history was arranged June 12 1811 when Lord Sel kirk leased 116000 square miles from the Hudsons Bay Com pany The rent was nominal 10 shillings year but Selkirk had to buy controlling interest in the company Eventually the deal cost him his life and large part of his fortune Selkirk was Scottish Lord whose ambition was to help poor people in Britain by set tling them on profitable farms in Canada His first settlement was in Prince Edward Island in 1803 and was fairly successful Descendants of the first settlers are still there The second was at Baldoon near presentday Chatham Ont but it was failure The settlers said that the land was no good for agriculture but to day it is one of the best com growing areas in Canada Selkirk had read Alexander Mackenzies account of his trips across Canada and decided that the Red River THE PICK OF PUNC Grow damn you grow vice to all the people of this ci ty will also be happy to at tend if can any meeting of any group who wish to invite me either to participate in discussion on municipal is sues or to bring he citys greetings as have always done Yours very truly MRS DORIAN PARKER Mayor committee holds At these meetings they set the course of inquiry they will follow what particular points they will be going into and generally just what they will cover and how they will go aboutit This of course can be of strong value to anyone with direct interest in the field they are studying And to the gen eral public the meetings can be important because they bring out just why the committee is inquiring into the particular points it decides on This of course can have bearing on its subsequent decisions As an example some years ago there was committee here on highway safety At its first meeting the members showed they were really interested in only one thingspeeding on the highways They already were convinced that this was the main factor in highway safety And subsequently they brought down report which really wasnt report on high way safety but report on the impact of speeding on the high ways area was the most promising location He began working on the plan in 1802 but did not achieve his goal until 1811 His grant included large part of presentday Manitoba Min nesota and North Dakotafive times bigger than Scotland The first Red River settlers sailed from Scotland in 1811 but had to spend the winter at York Factory Hudson Bay They ar rived at the junction of the Red and Assiniboine rivers in Au gust 1812 and built Fort Douglasthe beginning of Win nipeg and the gradual settle ment of the Prairies Selkirks settlers suffered great hardships and were con stantly attacked by men of the Northwest Company who feared that agricu ture would ruin the west for hunting and furtrapping which of course eventua ly happened OTHER JUNE 12 EVENTS wooHenry Kelsey left Hud son Bay to explore the West rhoHudsons Bay Com ny gave Radissons widow £6 allowing his death 17i4British troops captured Placentia Nfld moteFire in Quebec theatre took 46 lives ismFirst Congress of Fren ch Language was held at Quebec 1927imperial Privy Council dismissed appeal by Roman Catholic separate schools in On tario ismPrime Minister Mac millan of Britain addressed joint session of Parliament at Ottawa rrféfi 11