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so 355 The Titanic Examiner Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited 16 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario Robb PublisherGeneral Manager Walls Editor Emeritus Henshaw Managing EditOI 4The Barrie Examiner Tuesday June 29 1976 Apprehension in county over regional trend Whether Simcoe County will eventually adopt regional government system of admin istration continues to be lively topic in county circles Despite strong opposition on the ground that such step will in crease taxes and be liable to make local administration more remote from the people it should be serv ing various arguments have been presented from time to time in ef forts to persuade those concerned that it might be to their ad vantage review of papers of few years ago shows that advocates frequently argued that taxes would be lowered by eliminating duplication But the facts since have shown it just hasnt worked out the way socalled experts predicted Taxes in regional areas generally are substantially higher and it is questionable whether ef ficiency has been in any way im proved report which appeared in The Barrie Examiner on June 19 1969 of speech made to county coun cil by the present provincial treasurer Darcy McKeough may be of some current interest It began Assurance that Sim coe County wont be rushed into regional government without am ple time for democratic discus sion was given county council by the Ontario minister of municipal affairs Darcy McKeough The report added Ultimate aim will be to continue two tiered administration with the regional government replacing the county and including the twin cities of Barrie and Orillia Municipalities would be reduced from the present 33 to about 15 with much depending on local decisions and what was con sidered practical At the time preparations were under way for the provincial government to take over asses ment of property which was municipal function until 1970 There were questions about changes in length of terms for elected municipal councils most ly from one to two years and also about more government guide lines on munictpal planning basis of the provincial grant system and related concerns over centraliza tion The county council had placed itself on record earlier as oppos ing regional changes on the ground it would mean higher tax ation and weakening of powers at the local level These fears were reflected in the questions asked Since then considerable sums have been spent on task force studies into various aspects of ad ministration and needs of the Sim coe Georgian area Numerous public meetings were held al though most of them were sparse lyattended Despite periodical assurances otherwise there still seems to be considerable apprehension in county circles that decisions are not too far off about regional government trends County Councillors feel they have strong public support for their stand that the ultimate decisionmaking should be done at the county and municipal levels of administration DOWN MEMORY LANE 28 YEARS AGO IN TOWN June 29 1948 Barrie Examiner Justin McBride caught 27pound pike in Nottawasaga River just north of Angus Sylvia and Joan Fisher twin daughters of Mr and Mrs Allen Fisher won music scholarship awarded by Junior Leagues of Toronto and Hamilton John Gladstone Currie joined in Barrie legal practice by first cousin Donald who just concluded final year at Osgoode Hall The Currie family are prominent Scottish pioneers their grandfathers having come to Nottawasaga Twp around 1832 Strouds ball team behind pit ching of Johnny Snache beat Fen nells 98 in South Simcoe League Most of Stroud team were named Bowman The Kneeshaws and Todds were prominent for Fen nells Joe Cochrane Innisfil farmer named agent for Charles Henry Thornton Liberal can didate in next provincial election Ian Welsman elected to succeed Elliott Raynolds as president Bar rie East End Home and School Club He will have Hampton Fralick and Campbell Baikes as vices William Thompson KC of Penetanguishene named assistant to Crown Attorney Frank Hammond in Barrie Five candidates in Simcoe Centre for Ontario election Mahlon Beach Barrie Independent Jerome Charlebois Tiny Social Credit Charles Henry Innisfil Liberal John Lougheed Barrie CCF George Johnston Minesing PC Ralph Skinner purchased Barrie Taxi from Bill Stewart Gil Lloyd of CGE staff opened riding stable off Highway 27 Four fine young Barrie Collegiate athletes John Feltis Bill Craig Gerald Patterson and John Lak ing set new record for 440relay at Western Ontario track meet in London Osborne Colson of Washington already has 90 students signed up for inter national figure skating school in Barrie Arena during JulyAugust The school is being assisted by Chamber of Commerce and Town Councn ALBERTAS OIL SANDS neat energy nestegg but getting it is tough EDMONTON CP There an an estimated 900 billion barrels of oil in Albertas oil Eh ifiarrir Examinrr 16 Hayfield Street Barrie Ontario Telephone 72643537 Registration Number 0484 Second Class Mail Return 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put plans for oilsands development into mothballs In the light of present eco nomic conditions its quite within the realm of possibility that new oilsands mining proj ects could falter Kenneth Heddon president of Great Ca nadian Oil Sands Ltd GCOS told shareholders meeting GCOS has been operating the only commercial plant in the oil sands since 1968 and has lost more than $79 million in the process second plant is being con structed at cost of more than $2 billion by Syncrude Canada Ltd But soaring costs have prom pted Shell Canada Ltd of Toronto Petrofina Canada Ltd of Montreal and Home Oil Ltd of Calgary to delay oilsands projects GOVERNMENT GLOOMY The federal government in report on energy tabled in the Commons April 27 was gloomy about oilsands development It is clear that barring ma jor technolo ical advances fu ture oilsan plants would ap pear to be only marginally at tractive at current in ternational oil prices even with the special fiscal concessions that have been made in the case of the Syncrude project the report said The concessions became nec essary when Atlantic Richfield Canada Ltd one of the original Syncrude partners withdrew from the project in late 1974 The federal Alberta and On tario governments took up 15 wand ivepercent interests to save the project William Richards president of Dome Petroleum Ltd of Cal gary said doubt that the country could stand the political and economic trauma associated with the salvaging of an oil sands project every two years Shell Canada appears to be next in line to build an oilsands plant but says financing is major hurdle Shell estimates the next plant will cost about $3 billion and says it cannot be fi nanced by single company 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 By FRANK MACKEY QUEBEC fli Aftcr drop ping stcadily since 1957 Que becs birthrate has levelled off but that is cold comfort to those worried that the French fact may soon be drowned in the Englishspeaking mainstream of Canada Even if the birlhratc in creases slightly the major con cern remains that the French speaking population is growing at slower pace than the Eng lishspeaking majority in an ada says statistician with thc population rcgistcr of thc Quc bcc department of ocial af fairs The birthratc held at 142 bir ths per thousand residents in 1973 and 1974 after dropping steadily to 140 in 1972 from 297 in 1957 Quebecs birthratc lowest in Canada sincc 1968 has often been cited by political author ities here to support the governments posttion In thc constitution debate and other legislative areas athat Qucbcc must have guarantees for the survival of French culture GROWTH AFFIXTIII Premier Robert Bourassa told business symposium in May Public opinion is rightly disturbed by the evolution of our society in an AngloSaxon environment by the suddcn and exceptional drop in the bir thratc by difficulties en countered in the assimilation CANADAS STORY The first test of Parliament By BOB BOWMAN There was turmotl in Canada especially in Montreal June 29 1849 The signing of thc Rcbc lion Losses Bill in April was bit terlfl resented by many Eng ishspcaking Canadians and some Montreal newspapers wcrc supporting movement to join the United States Actually Britain did not ap prove the Rebellion Losses iii and neither did Lord Elgin who signed it The passing of the bill by Canadas Parliament was the first test of responsible gov ernment recently granted by Britain The antiBritish feeling was magnified by economic depres sion Britain had embarked on policy of free trade that elimi nated preferences on imports from Canada Flour mills and some other exporters were forced to close down and cause unem ployment The Tories held convention in Kingston that led to the drawing up of manifesto urg ing that Canada join the US It was signed by 325 people many of them prominent in business and politics One was Ab bott who became primc minis ter of Canada in 1891 when Sir John Macdonald died He said later that he had signed the WAKE ME WHEN HE COMES UP WITH AN IMPROVED TAXPAYING PLAN Quebecs birth rate has levelled off theyre worried about French fact immigrants and the status of French in the working world to point where Quebecs social climate has been disrupted In economic terms alone we know that lasting language tensions cost us dearly in terms of growth and dcvclopmcnt Out of that conccrn grew the Liberal slogan of cultural sov ereignty with demands that Qucbcc control language im migration and communications within its boundarics It has led to such things as Bill 22 Quebecs Official Languagc Act aimed at mak ing French the priority languagc and to legal and political dispute with Ottawa concerning jurisdiction over cable tclcvision in the pro vmcc OTHERS FACTORS APPLY But insistence on the birth ratc is misleading thcr statis tical toys in the dcmographcrs kitbaga death rates fertility rates migratory balanccsr en tcr into play Statistics Canada estimates for Jan1 1976 set Quebecs population at about 622 million or 271 per cent of the Canadian total That is about two per cent lower than it was 35 years ago Projections made by the same group two years ago in dicatcd that Qucbccs popu lation will drop further to be tween 225 and 246 per cent by the year 2001 Moreover of Qucbccs popu momcnt of manifesto in pctulcncc Macdonald was just begin ning his career in politics but he played leading part in chang ing the movement for annexa tion to thc 118 to one called the British America Lcaguc Its oh jectivcs were to retain the coir nection with Britain to con fcdcratc the British North American colonies and to de vclop national commercial policy It was an important step towards Confederation OTHER JUNE 29 EVENTS l742Joseph La France he gan trip from Lake Winnipeg to Hudson Ba 1845R0iiert Campbell dis covered Yukon River Fire at St Johns Nfld dc stroyed 1300 homes 1850C0al was discovered at Nanaimo BC lfltytvftailway accident at St Helaire Que killed 90 people 1871BNA Act of 1871 gave Canada right to establish new provinces and alter boundaries lainStreetcars began oper ating in Ottawa 192rCanada House London was opened by King George 19269Arthur Meighen became prime minister 1954Prime Minister Win ston Churchill and Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden visited Ottawa lation almost 20 per cent is of mother tongue other than Fren ch Between 1966 and 1971 Que becs population increased 13 per cent the 1971 federal cen sus showed ln Ontario it shot up 107 per cent in Alberta 112 per cent and in British olum bia 166 per cent Natural growth births minus deathsstood at 68 per thousand in the province in 1973 the lowest rate in Canada In 1974 Quebec advanced to sccondlast place at 70 ahead of BC SHORT OI REPLACEMENT While it is estimated that Qucbec needs an average of 22 children per family to assure the replacement of gener ation the 1971 census showed an average of 19 Immigration which traditionally helped bolster the Englishspeaking population here is seen in new light today Unprecedented efforts are made to attract French speaking immigrants or to in tegratc others into the French majority Slower population growth and fewcr children spell change in Quebec society but the experts are not of one mind as to what the future will bring Somc population scientists foresee the end of the youth By JAMES HUSSEY Correspondent ST JOHNS Nfld CP Newfoundlands community consolidation program which helps homeowners in rural areas to relocate will end Mar ch 31 1977 Rural Development Minister John Lundrigan says the fed eralprovincial resettlement program which was brought under the control of the federal fisheries department in 1965 was scheduled to end this year but was extended In 167 the peak year for the program there were 900 appli cations for resettlement Last year the number had dropped to 74 When the program began there were 1300 settlements throughout the province Now there are 900 and thousands of men women and children have been relocated from islands in Bonavista Placentia Fortune and Hermitage bays The program is being phased out because you cant ave rural development de partment on the one hand and resettlement program on the other Mr Lundrigan said However another program will have to be found for people needing assistance in moving to larger growth areas He said the major concern in moving people to other areas is the employment situation and the standard of living The rogram has had lot of benefits but today it isnt ser ving the same asedal purpose In future the department will concentrate on helping people its charac noise and the culture with teristics of speed cult of the car Less will be spent in family allowances but more will go for medical services and pension payments some say The cur rent level of contributions to the Quebec Pension Plan is ex pected to yield multibillion dollar deficit early in the next century and study committee is seeking better method of financing the plan RADICALISM MAY WANE the broad social scene some social scientists foresee toning down of radicalism and more emphasis on efficiency and caution In the political scales Quebec would lose weight in the federal government and civil service demographers say the home front some see return of the conservative na tionalism that was in vogue be fore the rise of the separatist movement in the late 19505 Others see the coming of an urgent and definite choice be tween separation and assimila tion by the Englishspeaking majority An urban planner raised the prospect of faster depopulation of rural areas as population growth becomes too weak to sustain rural services and busi nesscs stimulate development within their communities Some fishermen who moved from Placentia Bay islands to settlements near the now closcd ComeByChance oil refinery return to their former homes each summer to fish Premier Frank Moores says if these people want to ma the move permanent his admin istration will provide necessary aid However government is not interested in resettling commu nities on large scale as was done in the 605 and early 705 under the then premier Joseph Smallwood he says Newfoundlanders have been on the move for centuries to dif ferent parts of the island and some to many arts of the world Long be ore central ization became planned ation people changed eir residence as matter of free choice When the pul and paper in dustry created new towns of Grand Falls and Corner Brook and minerals made large in land community out of Bu chans people moved to those areas from the offshore islands small coves and harbors along the coastline They flowed into St Johns by the thousands and swelled the capitals population from less than 40000 to more than three times that figure today Along the Burin Peninsula whole island communities moved to mainland settlements after the tidal wave of 1929 and during the depression period of thc30s OLYMPIC PREVIEW Pentathlon star has no illusions By IAN MacLAINE The Canadian Press When Diane Jones performs at the Olympic Games in Mon treal she has no miscon ceptions about who her most severe critics will be The statuesque Saskatoon na tive one of Canadas top hopes for an Olympic medal has seen what can happen to potentially worldclass athletes who fail to llive up to what is expected of tthem in major competition It bothers me because Ive seen what it has done to people like swimmer Elaine Tanner like pentathloner Debbie Van Kiekebelt in 1972 at the Munich Olympics think its very unfair for human being to have to handle that type of thing The 25yearold ntathlon specialist who has ten the best in the world this year isnt kidding herself that shell blank all those pressures from her mind when it comes down to the actual event PEOPLE OWN YOU The real reason we partici pate is or ourselves obviously but what happens when we get into an Olympic Games repre senting our country Suddenly people own you You are Diane Jones of Canada and youd bet ter do good or youll embarrass us Community consolidationizraz on its way out in Nfld Kiekebelt both teenagers could cope with at major com petitions And they retired pre maturely Diane wants to take more academic approach to the Games Hopefully Ill feet per sonally satisfied because Ive done my best mat havent let down the Canadian people But if let that get to me thats what happened to Deb bie At 18 it was so much pressure for girl who was not mature mentally People tend to put you on pedestal Im really just nor mal human being who can have bad day We lost high jumper Debbie Brill for two years for the same reason Sud denly Debbie decided she loved the sport and came back But its hard to handle just the same PLANS TO CONTINUE Unlike some Games athletes who have said they will retire after the Olympics Jones has no immediate plans to quit She has job lined up teach ing physical education at Uni versity of Saskatchewan and says she will continue to 1978 and the Commonwealth Games at Edmonton But Im not looking ahead to 1980 she says of the respects of herturnin out for anada at the Moscow ames There are other things want to do John former Canadian track star John Kon Koni howski her fiance wants to be come little more established in football with Edmonton Es kimos of the Canadian Football League He doesnt know where football is going to take him but he wants to settle somewhere Track has been really good to me but dont want it to be my total life feel very nar rowminded Its scary when you cant go somewhere and talk about something other than sport or just track and field ===== BIBLE THOUGHT Howbeit when he the Spirit of truth is come he will guide you into all truth for he shall not speak of himself but what soever he shall hear that shall he speak and he will shew you things to come He shall glorify me for he shall receive of mine and shall shew it unto you John 16 13 14 Careful that we dont hang up on the Holy Spirit He has very important message from Higaven for us along with many gt ts THE PICK OF PUNCH Ill take this one