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112 Barrie Examiner Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited 16 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario Robb PublisherGeneral Manager Walls Editor Emeritus Henshaw Managing Editor 4The Barrie Examiner Wednesday June 16 1976 Justice delayed justice denied Robert Rowbotham has been in Barrie Jail since Nov 21 He has not been convicted of any crime He has not been sentenced to term of imprisonment by any court Chances are he will stay rie Jail until at least July Rowbotham was arrested on RCMP in Beeton on four charges of trafficking in nar Nov 21 by cotics ball hearing was held for Rowbotham Nov 24 Bail was denied On Dec Rowbotham was remanded in custody one week he was again remanded one week and Dec 19 was set as the date for On Dec preliminary hearing On Dec 12 Rowbotham was ain remanded one week and ta en by the RCMP to British Col umbia where he is facing charges of conspiring to import hashish When the preliminary hearing 19 Rowbotham claimed the courts action in hav ing him transported to BC had caused it to lose jurisdiction The preliminary was adjourned and began Dec new one started in April That preliminary hearing is still continuing On May 14 detention review hearing was held Rowbotham was ordered held in jail This week another round in the series of preliminary washeld The next date for the pre liminary hearing is July 19 DOWN MEM OLD HOME WEEK IN BARRIE 1953 For eight days Aug to Barrie celebrated its Town Centennial in Rowbotham in addition to the charges faced in Barrie and BC faces charges in Bram ton Those charges as the BC arges are in connection with conspiring to import hashish Rowbotham does not have in Bar criminal record He has never served jail term We respect the ri make decisions about those held in custody ght of courts to But we suggest while it may be legal to hold man in jail for eight months while deciding whether to commit Rowbotham for trial is no not closer today than it was Nov 21 It is not up to this newspaper to speculate on Rowbothams guilt or innocence or to try to deter mine whether he should or should go to trial That quite proper ly is for the court to decide Rowbotham has not been charged with violent crimes or crimes against property He is charged with what some lawyers judges and politicians call victimless crime It does not seem proper that man with no record should be held in jail for eight months awaiting decision preVious criminal on whether he should or should not denied has faced ended hearings standtrial Justice delayed is justice The lengthy wait Rowbotham and is facing should be Eight months is too long for an accused man to wait for decision on whether he will stand trial or ORY LANE Square dance and oldtyme fid dler competitions ball calf races gym show by farm boys sheep games dog demonstration grand roams sue all day and 322 iii 38T15fai5n3ikfsy sometimes all night This con Chamberofcommerce cindgs summary Of program Friday Aug Citizens and hlghhghts Visitors Day Sightseeing in Wednesday Au Grand dustrial tours visits to all schools Centennial Para began on in Barrie Medical luncheon at Kempenfelt Drive and ended at It was biggest arade in Barrie ete with bands floats clowns etc Also the Barrie Flyers Canadian championship junior hockey team in uniform minus skates Hilarious baseball game between Oldtymers from North and South Simcoe league Emms and Red Storey pit ched for North Herman Jennett and Ken Carleton of Beeton for South Tugofwar tourna ment also husky group of Barrie day pitted against Grahams team of horses At 830 pm in Barrie Arena Centennial concert featuring Barrie Col Fair Grounds most colorful history comp Hap of Ivy police legiate Band worlds trumpe from Mexico virtuoso Rafael Mendez Barries renowned pianist Reginald Godden and dancer Zena Cheevers and girls Thursday Aug Simcoe Coun ty Agricultural Day Farmers and Homemakers ar ranged program at Fair Grounds Junior hOSpital Gal native of Kenney greatest Years YOUR BUSINESS Oil industry meets needs better than crown firm By VINCENT EGAN Business and Consumer Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service That old socialist warcry to nationalize the oil industry has been sounded again by the na tional leader of the New Demo cratic Party Its one of those sterile slo gans that are so popular With liticians who know they wont called upon to translate them into action But consider what nation alized oil industry might be like As efficient as the post of fice Or more like the NDP autoinsurance scheme in British Columbia Perhaps the $20million heavywater lant at Glace Bay NS wou be the somal ist model Or maybe the Mani toba governments par ticipation in the Churchill Forest Industries scheme which enriched euro ean promoters in the tune in 392 million before it went into ivershi lefiemericarl British Dutch and French investors would be among the prime beneficieries of any nationalization of the Ca nadian oil industryassuming that the an NDP government would pay realistic price for the operations it expropriated Canadians on the other hand would be saddled with stag gerin burden of billions of dol lars debt to pay for the take overdollars that eould be nt far more sensibly in coun ess other ways including the development of new energy sources as alternatives to oil and gas RISKFREE EQUITY Successive overnments of Canada and the oilproduc ing provinces have managed very nicely to achieve most of the benefits of ownershipwith none of the riskswhile leavin the oil industry an element freedom to risk its time and money Those governments have de manded that producing oil and gas companies pay taxes and royalties that in certain cir cumstances can exceed the earnings from the operation being taxed Thats beating the socialists at their own gameand without re uiring any in vestment public money whatever nic at St Rt Hon Louis St Laurent Prime Minister Barrie Collegiate Institute in its 110th year Grand Centennial Ball at Barrie Arena sponsored by Kiwanis Club Music by Mart Speaker Dr famous Canadian surgeon Barrie Centennial ic Vincent Park Spea er Reunion of students and his Western Gentlemen Admission one dollar per person Saturday Aug Programs all all over town Youth Ni Fair Grounds Judging of Jaycees beardgrowing contest Sunday Aug Farewell Day Decoration ceremonies at Barrie cemeteries denominational service at Barrie Arena arranged by Association most memorable and stirring week in Barrie history Barrie Ex aminer published special sou venir edition 100 Pages for 100 ght at Religious inter Ministerial Which ended the Now there are indications that the federal and provincial ggvernments realize they may in danger of killing the goose that lays the golden egg Ottawa announced proposed new federal land regulations May 19 to establish fiscal and landtenure rules for all federal land While ensuring substan tial flow of taxes and royalties to the federal treasury they nevertheless provide stronger incentives to exploration on our frontierswhere costs are as tronomic and risks high Albertas top civil servant in the energy and naturalre sources department has con ceded that taxes are so high that the restrict the contin ued an new ap lication of more so isticate and more costly en aneed recovery tech niques Both the federal and Alberta positions now seem to be recogv nizing that oil and gas explor ation isnt matter of routine Its task that demands some human skills and de ee of determination that can hard to find People with those qualities are in demand everywhere in the oil world WELL DETENTE is cream WOQKINGTHE assess WOULD were seerw iN FOQiilE NEXWYEAES Al IIID Lcitsi Is government heading for move to build the wrong oil pipeline OTTAWA CP Some MPs and publicinterest groups fear the government is heading full tilt for multibilliondollar de cision on the wron pipeline The National nergy Board is wading through mounds of evidence on two com ting ap plications for pipe ine along the Mackenzie River across Al berta and from there to market But no official study is being given what some consider more attractive alternativea more easterly line from the barren Arctic islands through Manitoba or Quebec to markets in the central provinces The board hopes to finish its Mackenzie hearings by the end of this year It cant deal with an Arctic islands line until formal application is filed and that isnt expected until early next yeartoo late for con sideration at the same time as the other northern proposals Publicinterest groups ap pearing recently before Com mons committees said they find it difficult to understand why all northern pipelines arent being considered together sentiment echoed by some MPs RESERVES GREATER They argue that less than four trillion cubic feet of proven natural gas reserves have been found so far in the Mackenzie delta but reserves in the Arctic Islands already amount to 15 trillion Despite the criticism from public interest groups Energy Minister Alastair Gillespie re jects suggestions that the cur rent hearings be deiayed until the Polar line can be considered as an alternative Its important that the Na tional Energy Board proceed as filhr Barri Examinri 16 Bayiield Street Barrie Ontario Telephone 7266537 Registration Number 0484 Second Class Mail Return tage guaranteed Dai Sundays and Statutory Ho idays malde Subscription rates daily by carrier 85 cents weekly $4420 yeaiily Single copies 15 cents By all Barrie $4420 yearly Simcoe County $3400 yearly lBalance of Canada $3600 year National Advertising Offices 65 Queen St West Toronto 9641710 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 tising and editorial material Icreated by its employees and reproduced in this newspaper Co yright Registration 203815 register 61 iNum expeditiously as possible on these Mackenzie Valley appli cations he says adding that government cant make policy on the basis of possible appli cations within the next ew years Conceivabiy however gov ernment could encoura the Polar Gas consortium com panies to move up its filing date since it is part of the group through both PetroCanada Ot tawas oil company and Pan arctic Oils Ltd 45percenl owned by the federal govern ment Officials of Polar Gas say they dont want to file for per mission to build pipeline until it finds enough gas to make it profitablean estimated 20 to 30 trillion cubic feet depending on size of the line NEEDED URGENTLY With predictions of possible shortages within five to seven years industry spokesmen say northem pipeline is needed as soon as possible and the best prospect is the Mackenzie delta Canadian Arctic Gas Pipeline Ltd says in its application that the deltas output can be car ried now in pi eline that also would move Aaskan gas to US markets Adding on estimated Alaskan reserves of 25 trillion cubic feet provides enough gas to finance the line the company says Foothills Pipeline Ltd of Cal gary also has filed an appli cation to the board for Can adaonly pipeline from the delta but agrees current proven reserves there are not sufficient for pipeline lt banks on the hope that addi tional VOIUmes will be found within the next few years Whichever pipeline is chosen is billed as the largest project ever Undertaken by private en terprise Foothills says its pipeline Would cost just over $4 billion Arctic Gas $75 billion and Po lar $45 to $75 billion depend ing on size The magnitude of the in vestment the groups say ar gues for careful consideration of all the alternatives before any decision is taken Chairman Andrew Thompson of the Canadian Arctic Re sources Committee says government should look at wider range of options in cluding the Arctic islands where social and en vironmental impact on the sparsely populated land Would be less than in the Mackenzie Valley Liberal MP Paul McRae who is concerned about total energy spending of $180 billion in 15 years adds his voice to those calling for delay Its impossible to decide on the Mackenzie line without looking at the alternatives he says Douglas former na tional NDP leader and now his partys energy critic supports that position but fears it may be too lae to change the govem ments stand GOING THROUGH MOTIONS have feeling the board is just going through ritual dan ce and that the decision has already been taken hope those fears wont be borne out by the events TransCanada PipeLines Ltd member of the Arctic Gas group as well as project manager for Polar says the Mackenzie line should be built first followed in two years by an Arctic islands route It opposes construction of the Polar line first saying that would force the US to find al ternate means of transporting Alaskan supplies If that happened enough gas would have to be found to jus tify Mackenzie line on its own and that might be delayed since exploration would be dis couraged the company says The industry people also re THE WORLD TODAY USSR cant meet ject suggestions of Ylineei ther carrying delta gas east across the Arctic to join Polar line or carrying Arctic gas the other way to join main line down the Mackenzie Either way they say the gas would be moving over thou sands of miles of barren land without coming any closer to market That would make it more expensive But the publicinterest groups are not convinced Bob Page past chairman of the Com mittee for an independent Can ada says there should be closer study to decide which northern pipeline comes first It may turn out that we are building the wrong system for Canadas needs consumer demand By JOIIN HARHRON Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service Almost 60 years after the out break of the Bolshevik Revolu tion in 1917 which was sup posed to bring new age to the Russian maninthestreet the Soviet consumer still relies on specialty stores in distant capi talistic countries for some of the basic necessities of life One of these stores called Ukrainske Knyha in Toronto serves the large Russian and Ukrainian communities in Can ada and from which are ship ped tens of thousands of dollars of inexpensive dresses sweat ers shoes cosmetics blankets and coats to relatives in the So viet Union Yes folks the country which brou ht you Sputnik the worl largest fleet of fishing ships supersonic jet and will soon put on display in Montreal some of the worlds top ath letes still cant meet all the basic creature needs of its own citizens Sixty years of the Marxist utopia and thousands of Soviet citizens still go without basic clothing cleaning and walking needs unless these stores Ship ped such goods from the nasty capitalistic countries which do produce them PUNITIVE TAXES Now you wont believe but the Soviet government is about to charge between 200and 400 percent import tax on such goods coing into the USSR rom foreign relatives of its citizens The reason To stop once and for all growing black market in these consumer items from the ca italistic West which the late mrad Krushchev was to bury For those who still believe Marxist societies know how to deliver creature comforts both the need for these stores in the capitalistic countries and the Soviet Union need to order im rt taxes to stop black mar ets are roof enough of their failureto 050 Compare the East German Consumer with the West Ger man one the Czech with the Austrian the Polish one with the neighboring Swedish man inthestreet and in every in stance the nonMarxist society has done much better job of meeting consumer needs The Soviet failure to do so is all the more depressing since it was supposed to set the good example for the latter arrivals among Europes Marxist states But the ongoing food and clothing parcel export business shows how dismally it has failed to do so after seven dec ades of the revolution Indeed the changes only take place in the Marxist world when it bormws Western prod ucts marketing methods and sales technicians One reason Communist Hun gary is positively buoyant and affluent compared to the USSR is because its regime has wisely permitted Western products styles and influences into country which was never inherently Marxist and never will be In the USSR that coun trys largest massproduced car is not Russian but an Italian car courtesy of Fiats hu Togliatti car plant on the ban of the Volga And even that company has had troubles selling enough of their Sovietbuilt Fiats to Rus sian customers to make it peoples car though it has already managed to do much earlier in another European nation through its very profitable Spanish car plants REVOLUTION FOR WHOM Comg back to those clothing stores in the West sup lying the Russian consumer Soviet government which has not been able to manufacture and dis tribute enough of these items lans to stop Western outlets rom doing so through punitive import taxes Who said the Russian Revolution was for people QUEENS PARK Little boldness from minority By DON OHEARN Queens Park Bureau Thomson News Service TORONTO Minority gov ernment really haSnt been working well here There are those including the writer who believe that rom time to time minority govem ment can be good Due to its insecurity the ad ministration in power should be very much on its toes and also use more imagination Particularly some boldness should be expected from it and measures that ordinarily wouldnt be looked for from government securely in power There has been little such bol dness shown by the Davis gov ernment With the exception of the rent review legislation last fall the overnments program has essentially conservative If it hadnt had Roy Mc Murtry as attorney general it might have hardly made the headlines at all It has not been impressive HOLDS BACK The climate of the day would be one reason for this Economy and restraint are the order that is called for all over the world and such cli mate does not encourage bol dness which usually involves spending Then there is the political condition The ovemment lost out in last alls election CANADAS STORY June uncertain for Canada in 64 By BOB BOWMAN June 1864 was month of critical uncertainty for Canada It seemed that the union of Lower and Upper Canada then called Canada East and Canada West might collapse There had been two general elections and three governments in two years On Junel4 the TacheMacdo nald government was defeated by two votes and another elec tion appeared to be necessary Perhaps the colony would not stand for it It was then that Reform Liberal leader George Brown saved the situation by agreeing to join coalition government with the Conservatives and Macdonald whom he disliked intensely This was the step that led to Confederation three years later That story is well known but there was an amusing back ground that is hardly known at all Although the future of Canada was so uncertain the members of Parliament held big party on the night of une16 It had been planned in advance of course but social life in Quebec was almost as im portant as political life and INTERPRETING THE NEWS US monitors talks between Soviets Cuba By BRUCE stsrr WASHINGTON CP The United States in the process of completing its own nuclear co operation agreement with Iran is monitoring progress of sim ilar negotiations between the Soviet Union and Cuba sign of this concern is evi dent as House of Representa tives subcommittee calls on the US state department to pro vide report on Cuban ac tivities in the nuclear field and an assessment of possible plans by Cuba to develop nuclear weapons subcommittee spokesman says he expects such report to be developed by the state de partment from intelligence sources The US has no di rect diplomatic connection with Cuba Dante Fascell Dem Fla head of the international politi cal and military affairs sub committee says he knows of no evidence to suggest that Cuba now has or would seek to acquire nuclear weapons However he asked the state department to make efforts to encourage the Soviet Union to subject any sales of nuclear materials to stringent and veri fiable safeguards to prevent any diversion of nuclear mate rials by Cuba to weaponsde velopment program THE PICK OF PUNCH through dropping off in its traditional support And it apparently has deeded that this vote is more likely to be won back through con servatism rather than in novation and that therefore it should play it lowkey Then there is the fact of the opposition where neither party really wants an election now and as result there are no strong pressures for new steps The opposition has been mainly criticizing what the gov ernment has been doing rather than stressing what it feels should be done It is an essentially negative house DREW BOLD There is no comparison at all with 194345 our last ex perience with minority govem ment Then the Conservatives un der George Drew had come into power from the opposition ben ches and they were determined to show what an aggessive government could do The result was that they brought in list of new steps which have been the foundation of Tory strength ever since This was good government But the Davis government as the most recent of ion line of Tory administrations inds it self left with little innotative el bow room and in fact often trapped by mistakes of the past there was no thought of post ponement All the leaders were there The party was held at cer Wood the residence the governorgeneral on Montreal Road outside the city The ball room was decorated with ever greens wreaths and flowers The veranda was swathed in 180 yards of white muslin to keep out the mosquitoes Dancing to the music of military band continued until the small hours of the morning The custom was that only men took part in the last dance It was an acrobatic affair per haps the precursor to the jitter bug in which the dancers com peted to see who could leap the highest George Etienne Car tier was the winner distinc tion he held many times OTHER JUNE 16 EVENTS 1659Bishop Laval arrived at Quebec 1755British force captured Fort Beausejour now in New Brunswick 1890Newfoundland con tracted for railway from Pla centia to Halls Bay 1891JJ Abbott became prime minister following death of Sir John Macdonald The matter of safeguards cause for concern at the best of times became critical after In dia exploded nuclear device developed from Canadian atomic aid Canada recently cut off all such aid to India The political demand for safeguards has delayed com letion of nuclear agreement tween the US and Iran Irans ambitious royam is aimed at preparing or the time when its oil wells begin to run dry The shahs government wants nuclear power to meet as much of the countrys electrical needs as possible Iran is reportedly prepared to spend $276 billion by 1994 to in stall 23000 megawatts of atomic generating capacity The US expects to win up to onehalf the contracts Speculation in Washington is that safe ards compromise is being wor ed out giving Iran assurances that there will be no cutoff in nuclear fuel sup lies it seeks while giving the its the assurances it demands that peaceful technology will not be turned toward the production of weapons Meanwhile France and West Germany have signed letters of intent for multibilliondollar deals with Iran These agree ments are reported to include fuelreprocessing facilities like Ngug He thinks big