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Tm awnivrFVmo 11 summer W7 the ifiarrir Examiner Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited 16 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario Robb PublisherGeneral Manager Walls Editor Emeritus Henshow ManagingEditor The Barrie Examiner Tuesda December 14 1976 Closed negotiations er completely open 3Do we trust our government Should federalprovincial first ministers conferences be open to the press and thus presumably to the public An issue which has been sim mering for years came to head in Ottawa Monday when some mem bers of the news media refused to federalprovincial conference after the prime minister leave called for order Some members of the media have always been suspicious of what and how things are done behind the closed doors of such meetings The one is on tax sharing The first ministers wield an aWesome amount of power in the distribution of tax dollars at such meetings More so parliament Was Charles Lynch and the others who stayed with him right in protesting closed meetings Mr Lynch believes the entitled to full report on the conference He is not one who is willing to accept the handout press releases it appears than publi is from individual premiers or the know prime minister Alberta Premier Peter Lougheed said the premiers consider the conference gotiation which should be closed to the public How far should the press go in defending essentially ne the publics right to DOWN MEMORY LANE 15 YEARS AGO IN CITY The Barrie Examiner Dec 11 1961 Voting heavy for Innisfil Township offices Joe Cochrane defeats Charles Sproule for reeveship In fiveman contest for council elected are Camp bell Eben Sawyer and Allan ToddWinners of aldermanic seats on Barrie Council are Ward Hersey Earle Williams Jolliffe Ward Charles Wilson Gerald Roberts Charles Newton Ward Arthur Morrow Fred Mills Ward Marsellus Clarence Cumming Everett Emms Elected to school board Jack MacLaren Dr George Seymour Noel Stephenson Gordon Teskey Mrs William Paulin Ed ward Norman Cecil Young Dave McClymontSunday movies and Sports approved by city electors Cooke defeats James Hart ex Smith Murray By VINCENT EGAN Business and onsumcr Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service Gold is beginning to glitter more brightly on commodity markets The price had fallen almost to sun US an ounce in late Au gusta far cry from its peak of nearly $200 two years agoand predictions were widespread that it would fall to $90 It rose instead and closed the last week at $13765 There has always been some thing about gold that dazzles the mind as well as the eye The doomsayers lost sight of something prosaicnthe contin uing demand for gold as an in dustrial raw material Industrial demand has reas serted itself and thatcom bined perhaps with few other factors has pushed the price up by nearly onethird in the last four months The selling price was $137 an ounce when the International Monetary Fund IMF held its regular Dutch auction of 780000 ounces of the yellow metal Dec This was the highest price that the IMF has obtained at any of the five auctions it has held so fr this year Return Istage guaranteed Dai Sundays and Statutory Holidays excepted Subscription rates daily by rrier 85 cents weekly $4420 earl Single copies 15 cents Myail Barrie $4420 yearly imcoe Count $3400 yearly otor Throw $3900 yearly alance of Canada $3600 year yNational Advertising Offices Queen St West Toronto +1710 640 Cathcart St and Audit Bureau of Cir ations The Canadian Press is ex lusively entitled to the use for republication of all news tspatches in this paper ited to it or The Associated or Router and also the coal news published therein The Barrie Examiner claims ht In all original adver its employees and regroduoedinthisnews aper aggright Regls ration um r2m15register61 Elie Earrir Examiner IGBayfieId Street Barrie Ontario Telephone7206537 Registration Number 0484 Second Class Mail mayor for mayoralty Thomas appointed to board of direc citys The IMF members have agreed to reduce the funds gold holdings through periodic sales the profits of which are to go to developing countries The auc tions have been held at inter vals of roughly six weeks but will go monthly starting in March INDUSTRIAL USE Gold is in constant demand in the jewelry trade in dentistry and to some extent in elec tronics and other industries Its estimated by Argus Re search Corp New York that for every fivepercentgrowth in real Gross World Product value of all goods and services produced discounted for in flation industrial demand for gold increases by six per cent Another estimate is that for every lepercent change in the price of gold relative to other prices the industrial demand changcsvin the same direc tionby something like three per cent In other words industrial users buy more or less steadily increasing their purchases when the price goes down and buying less as it becomes more expensivebut tending always to keep the price within reason That doesnt explain some of the rapid price changes that have taken place however Its obvious that gold isnt just another industrial metal but that it occupies special place as store of value de tors ot Ontario Chamber of Com merce Ys Mens Club had ad dress by Coutts on historic sites of Simcoe County Barrie CNR station will close next year and passenger offices moved to Allan dale which station will be renamed Barrie Horace Heath retired principal elected president Barrie Hor ticultural SocietyFred Grant unofficial celebrates 97th birthday at Mrs Ar chers nursing home Cundles Demolition of buildings at Bayfield and Ross streets begins today in preparation for new Woolworth Store In addition to Bali Planing Mill premises formerly occupied by Ray Livingston Drugs Coffee Shop London Life Barrie Radiator Service and some second floor apartments are affected YOUR BUSINESS Demand for gold again picking up Central Collegiate historian Jeannes fence against political change alast resort Thus immediately afterJim my Carter won the United States presidential election early last month the price of gold advanced sharply in re sponse to widespread anticipa tion that Democratic ad ministration would promote higher inflation as means of stimulatingthe economy The death of such strong leader as Chinas Mao Tsetung inevitably generated much un certainty leading to nervous flight from currency and into gold on the part of wealthy Chi nese in Hong Kong and else whereinthe Far East Then there is the longsim mering civil war in Lebanon one result of which has been that good deal of oil money throughout the Middle East has been prudently switching into gold The outlook as seen by the Argus researchers is that golds price will continue to tend upward The ceiling would probably be about $150 an ounce or about nine per cent above the current market price because at that level further increases in speculative demand would be offset by declining industrial demand Even $150 price would be too low however for profitable production at most of Canadas junior goldmining prospects 1N IIERPRETIN THE NEWS Canada ready to help with Rhodesian peace By AL COLLETTI UNITED NATIONS CP While Canada maintains it has no direct involvement in Rho desia it is ready to provide some help toward peaceful so lution And while reports from Gen eva suggest that the blacks and the whites at the Rhodesian ne otiating table are dead loc ed number of Western diplomats including US State Secretary Henry Kissinger have suggested there is still hope that bloody war may be prevented Canada is watching the talks closely This week Canadian detegate Jac es Gignac told the UN comm ttee on decoloni zatlon that Canada is ready to give careful consideration to any request for assistance which the parties involved may agree to put to us In the Canadian view as long as the Geneva talks go on there is chance of reement But colla se of conference woul leave little choice to the guerrillas except to escalate their warfare in Rhodesia Prime Minister Ian Smith of Rhodesia who accepted an AngloltAmerican Ian for majority rule at was blueprinted by Kissinger wont budge from it He interprets it as giving his white power structure control of any interim government as well as the key ministries of defence and police He refuses to acce the ideri that the plan was raw ma terial meant to be discussed not actually executed The four African nationalist delegations at the conference want no part of it and wont even agree to discuss it The black leaders have come up with their own pro sals all of them giving blac ultimate control ot key ministries Inlhing in there about discrimination against IJL THE WORLD TODAX Weirsaw Pact countries keen to keep Spain out of NATO By JOHN IIARBRON Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service Dr Kissingers farewell visit and speech to NATO during its foreign ministers meeting in Brussels where he was called chairman of the board again concentrated on the constant Soviet threat The public terminology re lated to that famous and dan gerous concept of detente which the Russians foisted on us last year through the Hel sinki Conference Its Moscowinspired smoke screen just as their peace movement which functioned during the cold war years of the 1950s The Russians themselves are the first not to honor it At this NATO foreign minis ters meeting the issue was proposal from the Warsaw Pact countries the USSR and their captive Eastern European nations for ban on nuclear weapons and freeze on mem Hy DON OIIEARN Queens Park Bureau Thomson News Service TORONTO One of the mi nor problems of the govern ment over the years has been trying to frustrate efforts of the New Democratic Party and the old looperative Com monwealth Federation to work the system for publicity freebies True there have been more momentous matters But from time to time some lighter moments have been pro vided as the other party has tried to trip the government withitsown dollar sign MESSIII IT One notable incident was many years ago when Leslie Frost was first in power When George Drew took of fice in 1943 he started Han sard record of the debates of the House for the first time And he had the daily record printed in much the same tidy format as today When Frost came in he quickly put stop to this not to the record but to the print ing He ordered that the daily re port should not be printed but BOB BOWMAN when the United Empire Loyalists came to the British North American colonies during and after the American Revolutionary War they in sisted on forms of democracy they had known in the colonies they had left This resulted in Canada being divided into Lower and per provinces in 1791 each wit its own legislature It was novelty for French speaking Canadians to elect members to legislature They had never even voted on any thing before except perhaps in church organizations However the legislatures did not create democracy Each province had British governor and he had supreme authority hirthermore many leading po sitions in the civil service were filled by appointees of the Brit ish government and were re bership in their respective mili tary organizations This was rejected outright by the NATO member countries in part because of renewed suspicions of Soviet motives and also because NATO now is anticipating major new Western European member nation This is Spain long the pariah of many NATO members chiefly the Netherlands and the Scandinavian member coun tries as long as Gen Francisco Franco was alive and his re gime persisted But Spain is moving slowly and irrevocably into democracy and her large military establishment though backward in NATO technical terms defends the south western corner of Europe And the Russians definitely do not want Spain in NATO Unity among the NATO member countries was assured when Dr Kissinger read QUEENS PARK Tripping govt with own dollars be mimeographedmeaning big messy and awkward vol ume every day He didnt say so publicly but his reason was that with the old record CCF members were having large numbers of their speeches reprinted and mailed out to their constituents mainly at government expense Frosts adventure came to an abrupt end however It was pointed out to him that the cost of his mimeographed travesty was much more than the prin ted booklet Ahd to him dollar meant ev erythingeven more than frus trating the CCF The most recent instance of party publicity pogey concerns three NDP members who have been publishing an NDP paper in Italian They are listed only as editorial committee mem bers but it is assumed they or the party are the owners Then it turned up that Forze Neuve was getting government advertising question was asked in the House and all that Industry and Tourism Minister Claude Bennett could do was defend the advertising His ministry had placed it CANADAS STORY This did not create democracy garded as sinecures When the legislature of Lower Canada began session Decl4 1820 one of the first or ders of business was to rotest the number of appoin ments that had been given to people rom Britain especia ly as me of them never even came to do their jobs Orlaexample was the Rector of Sorel an mportant military post He drew salary ear but spent 10 of £200a years in En land Lord Pl mouth who ha influence de ayed his de parture because he was too charming neighbor to be allowed to live in remote Can ada Francis Burton was ap pointed to be lieutenantgover nor of Lower Canada in 1808 but remained in Britain until 1822 drawing his salary Then he came to Canada and stayed 10 years message from Presidentelect Jimmy Carter that his ad ministration will sustain and strengthen the NATO alliance Dr Kissingers last speech to NATO tied the growth of Rus sian military power to her eco nomic strength and suggested that even if Moscow did not have plan for world domina tion the future use of Soviet forces would be unpredic table Their involvement in the An golan civil war where Russian ships and equipment backed Cuban expeditionary force was on his mind without any doubt The Warsaw Pact forces in terms of numbers of battle for mations tanks aircraft and ar tiliery are superior to those of NATO In tank strength alone there are an estimated 12500 of them in the East compared to perhaps 7000 on the NATO side 3500 of these in the West Ger man army At sea Soviet naval and mer chant shipping strength contin ues to build at terrifying levels The Russian shipping fleet will be the largest on the worlds oceans by 1985 And Russian naval forces facing purely NATO ones have long since sur passed them in numbers of ships and kinds of weaponry Around the world the Soviet network of intelligence gather ing continues unabated in global web of informationgath ering and espionage SOVIET ESPIONAGE AGAIN Once again our own country through the discreet language of the external affairs depart ment has tossed out member of the Soviet Embassy in Ot tawa this time Major Vladi mir Andreev an assistant air attache The timing of his expulsion was propitious The Canadian armed forces are in the process of receiving top secret docu ments about the latest United States jet fighters like the 15 because the defence depart ment is in the initial stages of deciding on new fighter So guess what Soviet Air Force Major Andreev was try ing to see in Ottawa Canada Mexico uneasy neighbors By JOHN HARBRON Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service TORONTO Americans are watching with growing unease the rising social and political problems of her two geographic neighbors Mexico and Canada Mexicos crisis despite the arrival of new president is deeper and more ominous than the Canadian But in both coun tries the failure of longprom ised social reforms high unem ployment and drop in produc tivity are taking an inter national toll And it is being expressed in loss of confidence in the Mexi lcan peso and the Canadian dol ar The former is in much more trouble than our dollar much to the surprise of Mexicos over confident money managers who decided to unpeg it from fixed value held since 1954 only to see it plummet 50 per cent in value The unpegged Canadian dol lar dropped from value rela tive to the American of $103 to 97 cents with some very criti cal New York money men say ing it should realistically settle at about 92 to 95 cents given Canadas current economic and productivity decline Now relating what is happen ing in the two nations might not be fair given Mexicos hor rendous problems with popu lation explosion and the timing of her emergence into in dustrial development neither of which we have in Canada But look at these from an American point of view Her overseas allies like the British and Italians could go awry po litically and economically Other distant developing coun tries on the same long road of social revolution as the Mexi cans for example Egypt or In donesia could run afoul with their hasty push for modem ization NO LONGER STABLE But the Canadians and Mexi cans in spite of their growing antiAmericanism always more vitriolic in Mexico than in Canada were always con sidered as stable border allies of the United States The Mexican troubles have been long coming foreseen by critics and observers of Mexico if not by her own for mer president and his hen chmen But ye beloved building yourselves on your most Iy faith praying In the Holy ost Jude 20 There is praying avail able to all Christians that yes beyond what we can pick up with our limited minds and resent to God We know not Mist we should pray for as ought but the irit itself maketh intercession orus The chief is overpopulation nation which had 40million people in the mid19603 now as 80 million and will be home to 100 million by the end of the century Whatever has been accom plished by that countrys long social revolution begun in 1910 institutionalized in the 19405 in terms of Indian reform mas sive land distribution creation of essential domestically owned industries is being whittled away by the cradle Mexicos declining gross na tional product performance down to about fivepercent increase per annum is nudging dangerously close to her annual birthrate increase of about four per cent per annum After all the basic message of the famous Mexican Revolu tion whose results are hard to detect these days was Indian reform land distribution jobs and literacy Overpopulation is not the Ca nadian problem But as in Mex ico declining productivity too much state intervention in the economy and overconfidence in the economic system are sim ilar problems WHY DOLLAR DROPS All these were indicated as reasons for the recent decline in Canadas dollar hints by New York money men that Canada was about to catch the British disease of too much statism decline in the role of the entre preneur through excessive tax ation and controls US Presidentelect Jimmy Carter has indicated he wishes his foreign policy to restore Americas realations with her traditional friends and allies Canada very much included This could mean more care ful look by Washington than in the past at our economic per formance given the fact the American one also is in rather bad shape with unemployment creeping above eight per cent More so than in Mexico where the multinational companies know they face severe local controls Canada as the single largest foreign recipient of US direct investment is being wat ched very carefully by US private industry The $35 billion in foreign di rect investment in Canada most of it American is the largest of its kind in any na tional society QUEBEC FACTOR Continued uncertainty with the nowweak federal govem ment the Iongterm plans of separatist and socialist provin cial government in Quebec are bound to have their effects on future investment plans Certainly our overburden of foreign investment can be equated to overpopulation in Mexico as two extensions of wealth and humanity which are unnatural to each North American economy see YOUR NEWS QUIZ think PART IV PICTURE QUIZ POINTS Prime Minister Trudeaus home riding is HOW DO YOU RATE to 100 MM TOP SCOREI II to 90 points Excellent FAMILY DISCUSSION OUESTION 71 to no points Good 61 to 70 points Fair OOorUndeflHHmml In what areas if any do you think the federal government might cut or increase its spending Save This Practice Examination STUDENTS PART NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL Give yourself 10 points for each correct answer An ice jam forced temporary closing of the Seaway the largest inland navigation system in North America The World Hockey Association CHOOSE ONE Quebec Nordiques Winnipeg Jets are scheduled to play in the lzvestia Tournament in Moscow USSR December 16 through 21 Great Britain mourned the death of Benjamin Britten one of its bestknown who died at the age of 63 amusical composers bpainters csculptors The United Nations Security Council extended the term of its peacekeeping force in the Golan Heights for months The Golan Heights is located on the border of Israel and CHOOSE ONE Syria Egypt In national election which observers believe was influenced by the Lockheed bribery scandal the LiberalDemocratic Party of lost its majority in the lower house of Parliament and must form coalition government aGreat Britain blapan cBelgium PART II WORDS IN THE NEWS mm Take points for each word that you can match with its correct meaning succumb mundane 3eccentricity incongruous reticent arestrained reserved bdeparting from the norm or rule cincompatible not harmonious dyield to greater force etypical ordinary PART III NAMES IN THE NEWS Take points for names that you can correctly match with the clues Andre Fortin lames Macdonell Ed Broadbent Jacques Dextraze Robert Andras 121 376 Valuable Reference Material for Exams aleader New Democratic Party bleader Social Credit Party cChief of Defence Staff dPresldent Treasury Board eAuditorGeneral VEC Inc