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Barrie Examiner, 20 Jul 1976, p. 4

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551 ifiarru Examiner Published by Gonodion Newspapers Company Limited to Bayfield Street barrio Ontario Robb PublisherGeneral Manager Walls Editor Emeritus Henshaw Managing Editor 4The Barrie Examiner Tuesday July 20 1976 Trudeau was right on Talwan lssue The Olympics are finally open The doomsayers who populate this country were sure Canada would get bad press at the start of the Olympics And they were right Canada did From the likes of The New York Times The Wall Street Journal and one or two of the English pennydreadfuls But it was Trudeau who caught the bad press not Drapeau as everyone expected Taiwan that wellknown bastion of freedom wished to enter the games as the Republic of China No way said the federal govern ment in rare display of instant recognition of reality Taiwan is not the Republic of China China What is usual is recognized by the Canadian govern ment as the Republic of China Terrible hissed the au Times suggesting US athletes get out of the games It was nineday wonder and it made for some nice editorials called Red and Re China gust NY But for once Trudeau was right Professional redbatters and fin dersofCommies in every closet wont agree It isnt The issue was not whether Taiwan could take part in the games the issue was whether Taiwan is the Republic of China or not And to castigate Canada for recognizing reality is little well unreal Guerrillas hoodlums threaten democracy By STEWART RUSSELL BOGOTA Renter Co lombias imperfect brand of de mocracy is being buffeted on all sides by forces ranging from Marxist guerrillas to gangsters Guerrillas are increasingly active in mountain and jungle areas north and southwest of Bogota Newspaper men who know these areas say the left ists control several small towns either by influence or physical presence Meanwhile gangsters defending lucrative drugand emeraldsmuggling rackets wage an undercover but perhaps even more damgerous campaign they were busy behind the scenes during local elections in April running can didates in town councils and provincial legislatures Of the 10million registered voters in those elections only 22 cent bothered to cast tteir allots Such apathy is exploited by the gangsters as well as some traditional politicians Given the low turnout in the April elections manipulation of some results by threats or lpay ment would not have been if cult The turnout becomes more significant when it is projected downward to suggest the num ber of people rticipating in an election in sort of small town which interests the ang sters town in diamon pro ducing or coastal area or one which is close to an obscure air strip BOYCOTTED BY LEFT The leftwing guerrillas bear part of the responsibilifi for the small voter turnout ey and their supporters urged boycott as sign of contempt for the system under which the traditional parties have helped one another to power and have constitutional agreement un der which they share non elective posts Manuel Bayona physician who is president of the National Opposition Union an alliance of Pa Moscowline Communists and dissident leftwing elements sees kind of victory in the hi abstention rate says his movement has no connection with the guerrillas Ours is legal democratic organization he said in an in terview We believe in the electoral way to wer But we do not condemn guerrillas He said the various groups in towns and in the countryside can be traced directly back to the liberalconservative civil war ofthe 19505 when hundreds of armed bands roamed the country But they have changed since those days becoming more Marxistoriented and ideolo callv defined whether they admirers of Fidel Castro Mos cowline communism or Chair man Mao Dr Bayona said Nobody kills for the liberals or the conservatives these days The country is becoming polarized on class lines Nobody seriously expects the guerrillas to try to come mar ching down from the mountains in the near future Not even the guerrillas want another civil war the last one took an estimated 3000001ives But in the southern city of Cali wellinformed journalist said guerrilla columns roam freely in threeneighboring de rtments and that their urban infrastructure is extremely wellorganized Another journalist Heman Unas of the Bogota daily El Es pectador reported The guerrilla domain has been expanding slowly but pro gressively in urban centres and the countryside to reach the sit uation in which various munici palities are directly under the control of extremist elements For many years the army has been clamoring for some in dications of social progress in these areas always with nega tive results Some time ago mil itary engineers sent out men to build roads bridges and schools but this work had to be suspended because funds were withdrawn is Hold it Government going into business despite promises to contrary MANILA AP Despite re ted assurances of backing or private enterprise the Phil ippines overnment is using its martial aw powers to go into business for itself and its offi cials promise more government intervention in the future Insurance Commissioner Gregoria CruzArnaldo recen tly said the government will go into the liability businsss if private firms cannot meet societys needs The new trade under secretary Vicente Valdepenas Jr said the government is ready to intervene in an effort to make the market system wor if private business fails Valdepenas has suggested the regime go into the soap busi ness and operate private schools and hospitals to keep prices down and ensure service Since President Ferdinand Marcos imposed martial law in 1972 the government has star ted bus company in Manila rural airline and an aerospace co ration gone into the oil refining and distributing business monopolized the ship ping of oil imports bought stevedoring firm gained con trol of major fertilizer firm and the Manila Electric Co taken over coconut oil and sugar mills gone heavily into the hotel business and nationalized the export of sugar Language problem for British MDs tackled With Manual of English LONDON Reuter Few doctors English or otherwise would know which end to treat of patient who complains that he is going doolally imagine then how such complaint must strike hyst cian newly arrived from ndia Africa or the Far East trying to practise medicine in Britain What would he prescribe for woman with pain in her top part For man who has but ton on For child with the col lywobbles Joy Parkinson senior lec turer in the department of Eng lish as foreign language at Londons Southwark College has come to the rescue with her newly published Manual of English For The Overseas Doc tor Doctors would learn that the woman is complaining of pain in her breast the man is de marcate Tin Barri Examinrr 16 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario Telephonem Registration Number om Second Class Mail Return tage guaranteed DaiySunda sand StatutoryH idays excepted Subscription rates daily by carrier 85 cents weekly $4420 arty Single copies 15 cents Mail Barrie $441 yearly Simcoe County $3400 yearly Balance of Canada $300 year iy National Advertising Offices Queen St West Toronto 541710 640 Cathcnrt St Mon neat Member of the Canadian Press and Audit Bureau of Cir culations The Canadian Press is ex clusively entitled to the me for republication of all new dis tches in this paper ited to it or The Associated Press or Router and also the local news published tliuein The Barrie Examiner claims Copyright in all original adve tising and editorial material coated by its employees and ucedinthisnewspspc yright Registration 15 resistant WWW pressed the child has diarrhea and anyone going doolally is going mad The manual represents an ap proach to language problem that has to troubled the Brit ish National enlth Service FILL VACANCIES Complaints of low pay and high paperwork in the cradle tograve health service have prompted many Britishborn doctors to emigrate or try to get some private practice Forei born doctors are tak ing up stack to such an ex tent that the service could not survive without them The de partment of health estimates there are 20500 such doc ors in Britain re ting 35 per cent of all hospital doctors and in some areas 80 per cent of junior hospital doctors the workhorses of the system in mid1W5 the General Medi cal Council began requiring certain categories of overseas born doctors to pass test of both English and medical proficiency before receiving temporary registration Of the first 68 to take the test only 27 The council says its statistics show the doctors who fail do so mainly on their medical profi ciency But the Overseas Doctors Association says language is the main problem and languagetraining courses for foreign doctors are offered by everyone from university departments to little old ladies who once taught in schools COVERS WIDE FIELD Miss Parkinsons paperback covers wide field from an ex lanation of the National ealth Service to sample examinationroom con versation with woman whose brotherinlaw has just knocked her down with an iron pole it explains how hospitals are organized how to compose let ters from thankyou notes to rofessional references and ow Britons talk to one another and their doctors Sections on slan and idiom may make the oreignborn doctor chuck it all and go home The book lists 24 ways to say somebody is pregnant 32 syno nyms for drunk and 53 ways to describe variations of mad ness Miss Parkinson puts asterisks besides words she feels should not be used in olite society Thus while asts be described as buffers arle chestnuts obes padps an top part only an top part pass muster for polite usage Workers turning rocky island into new home for old temple AGlLKA lSLAND ypt Renter Eyptian or are busy turnin this sun scorched roc isand in the Nile inton now me for the an cient temples of Philae The monuments now bein dismantled on Philae some 800 yards upstream span more than 2000 years of Egyp tian history and include tem ple dedicated to the phanomc lsn While the Phllse temples are being taken apart stone by stone teams of workers of the an Dam Authority are levelli and resin in Agilka to make it like Philac With Adm riding three ar ds above the Niles highest water level the Philae monu ments once rebuilt on the island will be safe from the floods which have submerged lmthtfinsincetheAswan Dam was The traitfer of the menu limits to be completed by ms the last stage of loycnr mambythellnited Nations cstionsl Scientific and Cultural 0r solution UNESCO and Egyptian government to save the ar cheological treasures of upper 3mm PROBLEMS INTRICATE In the first stage of the cam paign the massive temples of Abu Simbel some miles south of Philae were taken apart and reassembled at new site to save them from flooding But scientists say Philae presents more intricate engi nearingproblems To to more than per cent of Philaes estimated 46000 building stones have been dismantled with each stone is belledwithscodeindicsting its precise place in the arch eological structure The resurrection of Philse re fleets the legend of lsis whose brotherhusbend was into 14 pieces by his jealous brother Seth Pharaonic my thology says Isis tracked down theI in is and reassembled her it After the old Aswan Darn was built flood waters used to cover the Philae temples for 10 mon ths of each year The peril to the monuments became pennanent when the giant Aswan High Darn was built in the 19005 to the south of the island submerging it throughoutthcyear According to mythology the tears which lsis shed during her agonizing journeys in search for her husband caused the flood of the Nile in flowing every year the river com memorates lsis tears The cult of Isis flourished in various parts of Egypt but no where as strongly as on the island of Philae where it re mained long after the advent of Christianity The most ancient temples of the island date back to 370 BC in the days of the pharaoh Nec tnnebo But the of the island is thegreat empleoflsis WIrladsalvationuofblhsilse was out join gyptian andUNESOOexperts They decided on solution that would allow futiine gener ations to see the shrine of his not as mere collection of stones but as its builders con ceived it in intimate and sig nificant relation with the life giving waters of the Nile Total cost of the project was estimated at about Slanillion Asked how overnment inter vention woul guarantee better service and fairer prices Val depenas responded This is chance to redirect the economy to create equitable economic growth To maintain govern ment presence in private enter prise is an effort to maintain standards The emphasis is not on making people bankrupt Marcos told private exporters in April the regime believes in private roperty and initiative It be ieves that while wealth should be regulated it should not be so asphyxiated that we deny the individual the in itiative to which our civilization owes its progress The foreign dimension of trade should be in the hands of the people most qualified to do something about it The people who are most qualified are you the people who daily are engaged in export Less than three weeks later DirectorGeneral Gerardo Sicat of the National Economic and Development Authority NEDA the countrys plan ning body suggested the over nment would take over ex port of coconut products His remark set off an argu ment with another government agency the Board of in vestment which insisted the coconut trade was too com plicated for the government to andle Sicat also suggested the ov ernment may go into ip building and steel and copper smelting Weyerhauser Philippines subsidiary of big American wood products firm said in June that presidential decree slashing 27170 acres from its logging concession has forced it to close its operation in Basilan island in southwestern Mind anao The decree gave the de partment of agrarian reform the authority to cut and dispose of the timber Director Roman Casanova of the bureau of lands has said it was matter of time before the government took greater control of private urban lands Marcos already has ordered land census in connection with his announcement of still unexplained urban land re form The government took over the sugar trade in 1974 when world prices were high Prices dipped shortly ufterward and in 1975 for the first time in 17 years the volume of sugar ex ported dropped below one million tons The government has gone heavily into the hotel business with loans of 14billion pesos about $200million accounting for 85 cent of construction costs nine hotels scheduled to open in the Manila area by Oc tober The Government Service In surance System owns one Ma nila hotel operated by the Hyatt chain and second which Phil ippine Air Lines will manage REACTION CAUTIOUS Private enterprise reaction to the trend has been cautious even before the imposition of martial law local business de pended for protection on the government Officials remarks on takin over businesses have serv to create uncertainty as to the real government attitude to ward domestic entrepreneur ship said writer in The Daily Express Manila news paper controlled by roberto Benedicto marcos am bassador to Japan While there has been re markable improvement in the performance of government owned business enterprises during the last 3V2 years there still has been no convincing showing that publicsector investments have become inherently more efficient than privatesector ones Chief executives of major Philippine firms complained last November that the greater government control over busi ness the greater will be the power of bureaucrats over busi ness This tends to result in yaft and corruption or form of bureaucratic capitalism Locksmiths banding together for better standards in trade OTTAWA CP Locksmiths are being short changed by the public by police departments and by themselves says Harry Keeney Mr Keeney retired police lieutenant said he and other Ontario locksmiths are trying to change all that Banding to ether about four years ago to orm quasipro fessional association the locksmiths are pushing for more closely defined standards to govern their trade They are devising the first ap prenticeship rogram to enable wouldbe miths to learn their skills at recognized shops At present locksmiths dont need licence to begin prac tising their trade Mr Keeney said Almost anyone can be come locksmith by taking few conespondence courses or working in store that only deals peripherally in locks Consequently the ublic sometimes viewed mem rs of the trade with distrust to the point that they shied away from usingalocksmith Mr Keeney agreed that this is sometimes for good reason its deadly information he says WEED OUT UNDESIRABLES But while the Association of Ontario Locksmiths represent ing almost onethird of all those in Ontario cannot vouch for the integrity of all their colleagues it said all locksmiths should not be downgraded if one of them had abused his knowledge Locksmiths in the main havebeenfair and honest with the public said Leonard Passarello association direc tor He said one positive result of the mgrenticedup system is that association can begin weeding out some of the less histworthycandidates Were try to set up the scheme in way that while the man is with you you canscneaihim But locksmiths dont heap all the blame for their sometimes secondclass professional status on the public Locksmiths have done the lousiest job of any industry in the world to let the public know why they are here and what they do Mr Keeney said An expert locksmith can copy key just by looking at itthey dont need to keep the original They are cialists in alarms as well as ocks can assemble and manufacture locks and can assist police in determining how particular burglaries have beencommitted But at present locksmiths main interest is all aspects of home security Mr Keeney said Its time that the people lawenforcement agencies and the government stop viewing locksmiths as tainted with sole object of profit Mr Pas sarello said Alberta cracks down on boom in gambling EDMONTON CP Gam bling is big business in Al berta$50 million in l975and AttorneyGeneral Jim Foster is concerned that the money will attract organized crime There is no reason to believe Alberta will be exempt from criminal pressures to which other jurisdictions have become exposed Mr Foster told the legislature in April Last March he announced the establishment of new gam bling control branch headed by former RCMP gambling ex pert The branch keeps track of non rofit organizations licen sed by the government to hold lotteries casinos hinges and games of chance And at the beginning of May Mr Foster announced new series of regulations governing the provinces burgeoning ca sino operations the purpose of the regulations was to make games in casinos somewhat more fair The regulations restrict goo graphical areas such as Ed monton to one casino at time and each organization is limited to sin twoday casino each year asinos run ning longer than this mist be sponsored by different groups SMALL OPERATIONS BEST If you limit the size to small communitybased operations you dont attract underworld connections Mr Foster told thelegislature He also introduced rule changes for blackjack ames such as elimination of idden hole cards intended to make it more difficult to cheat The attorneygeneral has omised further ations or other types of gambling operations but casinos were his first concern Ron Sheppard head of the gambling control branch said applications for bingos and lot teries are decreasing but casino applications are increasing daily Newspapers in the prov inces major cities constantly carry advertisements for ca sinos sponsored by groudps as di verse as sea cadets an pensio ners clubs The heavyweights in the provinces casino operations are those run annually in con junction with the Calgary Stam and Edmonton Klon dike ays During their to days of operation they are respec tively the secondand third largest casinos in the world Thelar est is in Argentina Mr estimates $3 million was wagered at the Cal casinos 50 tables last summer Edmonton had slightly smaller operation but planned expansion this year will probably make it as large astheStampede casino CHECK 0N PROFITS The overnment has in troduc com lex system of bookkeeping Ira orli to track of money flit now must be cad in specially designated ac counts and can only be used for the particular charitable proj ects specified when the casino operations applied for their li cence Mr rds departmait has time investi ative staff headed by 25year CMP veteran William McCall The investigators monitor gambling operations and check an irre larities job previ per ormed sdically by city po lice and CMP CAN DAS STORY Claim traded for fee payment By BOB BOWMAN There have been many lucky gold strikes in Canada some of which were mentioned in the story of July 13 about the Por cu ine area of Ontario re was cat deal of luck in the Klondi too For in stance Bi Alex McDonald traded sac of flour for half interest in claim Thirty on Eldorado Creek He earned $20 million and became King of the Klondike He died penni less in log cabin However it wasnt necessary to as far as the Klondike to str it rich On July 20 1890 Eugene Sayre Top ing paid $1250 for claim in ritish Co lumbia and it turned out to be one of the richest gold mines in theworld Two prospectors Joe Moris and Joe Bourgeois had staked claims on Red Mountain and went to Nelson to have them recorded Top ing former sailor and wri er was deputy recorder of deeds at Nelson where pros tors paid $250 to record eac claim Moris and Bourgeois were disappointed about tests on the samples they brou to Topping and did not feel ike paying the $1250 nec essary to register their five claims So the offered to give Topping one the claims if he wou pay the $1250 fee Topping agreed and went to ins his purchase which he cal ed Le Roi Then he took the train to Spokane Wash to try to raise money to develop the roperty On the way he met Colonel Redpath finan cier and George Forester lawyer He showed them his samples and they agreed to spend $3000 on development of LcRoi The venture was success from the start and Le Roi paid $725000 in dividends in eight years Toppings luck led to further discoveries in that part of Brit ish Columbia including Slocan Star and Payne Gold copper and coal deposits were found along the British Columbia United States border which led to the development of the fa mous mine at Granhy tlic Crows Nest Pass and thc smelter at lrail OTHER JULY 20 EVENTS 107 Fort Kaministiquia ho came FortWilliam 1814 Eight Canadian traitors were hanged at Aii caster near ltamilton mitt rSir Hamilton arrived in Newfoundland as first resi dent governor l854 Robert Stephenson far mous British engineer laid fir st stone of Victoria llridge Montreal lilil British joined Canada 1875 University of Manitoba was founded IiitllFirst Illt train on tered Winnipeg mils Trial of Louis ltiel be gan at Regina l92it Japan opened legation at Ottawa I945 Canadian mothers re ccived first family allowance cheques I965 Prime Minister Pear son outlined medicare plan in provincial premiers Tolumhia Once snails nuisance gourmets prod interest HALIFAX CP At one time they were considered nuisance but the worlds gour mets have prodded fishermen in Nova Scotia into renewing their interest in escargots More commonly known as sea snails the delicacy will be caught and processed for mar ketin in Canada and the Unit States by the end of this summer Michael Drebot roduct de velopment officer or the pro vincial de rtment of fisheries and coordinator of the proect said all systems are for the marketin of the she lfish We shout be able to sell all the escargots the fishermen can catch The province has spent much time and money during the last two ears setting up largescale pr uction of the sea snail which had previously been dis carded or destroyed by Nova Scotia fishermen Mr Drebot said escargots latch on to lobster tra and have been nuisance to obster fishermen Now Nova Scotia has the opportunity to turn this bycatch into profitable industry The government has been working on the project in con junction with Neil Fisheries Ltd of Digby NS and IMO Foods Ltd of Yarmouth NS TWO FIRMS RESPONSIBLE The Digby firm will be re sponsible for steaming and processing while IMO will look after canning Unlike foreign imports the ones marketed here will be thoroughly cleaned Mr Drebot said the European snails are canned immediately after theyre caught Cost will be the same as French and German escargots between $5 and 56 package for fourto iveounce containers More than 90 per cent of hotel operators and restaurateurs in 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 blic interest and good taste Examiner reserves the right to edit con dense or reject letter THE PICK OF PUNCH the HalifaxDartmouth area who participated in govern mentpromoted tasting session about year ago agreed the Nova Scotia snails were of pro mium quality he said Most of the sen snails are being harvested in an area nd jacent to Digby in the ltay of Fundy but refitarchch have found they can also be fished along the southwestern shorc from Digby to Yarmouth and along the Cape liretoii shore Although the shellfish will be caught now byproduct of the lobster fishery the proviir cial government has developed special trap for catching the escargots It will be distributed to the fishermen latcr if market demand warrants iiccclcratcd catches The fisheries dcpzirtmcnt has also sent new specialich scp arator and washer to Ncil Fisheries The machine will cut the processing time in halves VISIT SIlItIlIII NIIIIHZSI Interest in the project was in itiated by VlSll to large Japanese processor of land snails about two years ago In addition to the sale of cs cargot as gourmet food the government is considering the utilization of the smaller snails fullyprepared with SpHfS but ter and other initiatives The government is also lodi ing at the snlc of an cscnrgot paste for use as sprcad Bl BI 14 iiim ltl In iihcon the Lord ap peared to Solomon in dream by night and iod said Ask what shall give thcc tive therefore thy servant an un derstanding heart to judge thy people that may discern bet ween good and had for who is able tojudgc this thy so great people And the speech pleased the Lord that Solomon had asked this thing Kings 35 l0 An understanding heart would probably be one of the last things the average person would request but as evidenced in Solomons life when we have feeling for others we can be sure the Lord Will not fail to give us even over and above what we ask have also given thee which thou hast not asked both riches and honor PRIII2NTSlIlIT Tree bark is good heat in sulator Thats what like about strolling in the park during my lunchhourl get marvellous sense of freedom when get back to my office

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