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The Examiner is member ot The Canadian Press CP and Audit Bureau of Circula tions ABC Only the Canadian Press may re publish news stories in this newspaper credited to CP The Associated Press Reuters or Agence FrancePresse and local news stories published in The Examiner Published dailyexcepl Sunday and statutory holidays WEEKLYby carrier 90 cents YEARLY by carrier $46 80 BY MAIL Barrie SM 80 SIMCOE COUNTY $3650 MOTOR THROW OFF S39ayear ELSEWHERE IN CANADA $38 50 year ADVERTISING Len Sevick manager SALESMEN Dan Gaynor Lyall Johnson Barb Boulton Dana Graham John Zarecky NEWSROOM Sean Finlay managing editor Randy McDonald city editor sheila McGovern assistant city editor Bill McFarlane wire editor Werner Bergen sports Claudia Krause Iitestyle Marina Quattrocchi photographer PORT John Bruce Paul Delean Richard Dunstan Pat Guergis Scott Haskins Rudleigh MacLean Sue Burke BUSINESS Marian Gough accountant Betty Armer Dorothy Bowland Gail Mc Parland Vikki Grant the examiner serving barrie and simcoe county The Examiner claims copyright on all original news and advertising material created by its employees and published in this newspaper Wednesday Jan 1978 Copyright registration number 2038B register Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited 16 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario L4M 4T6 Elio Agostini publisher ADVERTISING 7266537 CIRCULATION Jon Butler manager Linda Halkes asst manager Andy Haughton Judy Hickey National advertising ottices 65 Queen St Toronto 8641710 640 Cathcart St Montreal CLASSIFIED Ruth Blais supervisor Freda Shinner Karen Atkinson Peggy Chapelt Dana Homewood The advertiser agrees that the publisher shall not be liable tor damages arising out at errors in advertisements beyond the amount paid tor the space actually occupied by that portion at the advertisement in which the error occurred whether such error is due to the negligence at its servants or otherWise and there shall be no liability tor non insertion at any advertisement beyond the amount paid tor such advertisement Alva LaPIante Elaine Porter Gary Pringte CLASSIFIEDS BUSINESS 7266537 cmcuuflou 7266539 NEWSROOM 7266537 72824 Time for end to the strikes If youre not directly affected its national joke If youre directly affected its national disgrace The most preposterous situation in Canada today the Canada Post Office continues to be national scandal one the federal government not only refuses to do anything about but seems to do everything it can to make worse The present system of negotiations must end Service is regularly disrupted in Montreal and Toronto by handful of workers who claim to represent the working class These handfuls not only prevent working people from earning just living they cost the Canadian economy in credible amounts in money and layoffs in the direct mail magazine greeting card and mail order businesses to say nothing of money lost in other businesses The Christmas performance in Toronto over the hiring of parttime workers at time of high unemployment is another in long list of irresponsible acts The collective bargaining rights of Canadian workers are made mockery of by the senseless acts of minori ty of post office workers The postal workers union seems to encourage these senseless acts The government seems incapable of do ing anything but promoting confrontation The federal government has an obligation to the people of Canada to end the senseless work stoppages and strikes in the Canada Post Office and to start work im mediately cheaply to all parts of Canada letters to the editor on new way of delivering mail rapidly and Store refused to take US bill Dear Sir Barrie as it grows and we grow learn together sometimes But not where Sears isconcerned Recently at Sears was refused when try ing to purchase merchandise using an American $10 bill Canadian currency only was acceptable Simcoe County has an active Tourist Associa tionwhich spends great deal of time and money encouragaing the tourist trade to en joy Barrie and Huronia personally know of approximately 200 Snowmobilers Amercian which have been encouraged through the Tourist Association and the Huronia Snowmobile Association in Simcoe County to come to the Barriearea this season These people would like to shop and explore the Canadian businesses feel relieved that can advise some of these tourists as to where not to shop in Simcoe County much to our shame The snowmobilers in Simcoe County are constructive group trying to establish good will and better business relations in the area by encouraging tourists into Barrie It is shame and degrading to us who try so port you have given us hard so often cannot understand how 1n particular we beneve coverage of local Knowles Canada company that has been established for as participants is very important and you have story certainly achieved this goal ThankyouagainforyourhelpWelook for rambllngs Th ward to working with you in 197877 the Royals 50th show Dear Sir YOU Smeereyt By BILL KNOWLES dont know how the department could do Simcoe County with the majority from Bar It gives me pleasure to express to you on behalf of the Royal Victoria Hospital Aux iliary our sincere thanks for the coverage gven our organization in the past year With help like yours we are able to reach the public who support our many undraising projects The money from all these endeavors is used to buy equipment for the hospital which cannot be included in the yearly budget Again our thanks Yours truly Mabel Radgman Publicity Chairman write your mp 39 If you would like to write your Member of Parliament or Member of Provincial Par liament printed below are their mailing ad dresses If you send us copy of your letter it might be suitable for our Letters to the Editor columns tAfter all if there is mat Ottawa OptL KIA 0A6 Sinclair Stevens MPYorkSimcoe Parliament Buildings Ottawa Ont KIA 0A6 Gus Mltges MPGreySimcoe Parliament Buildings Ottawa Ont KIA 0A6 PROVINCIAL George Taylor MPPSimcoe Centre Ontario Legislature Queens Park Toronto M7A 1A2 Gordon Smith MPPSimcoe East Ontario Legislature Queens Park Toronto M7A 1A2 George McCague MPPDufferin Simcoe Queens Park Toronto M7A 1A2 many years as Seats can be so incompetent in business manners where the American dollar is concerned am sure the tourist association are discouraged when trying to explain why company in Barrie upset our tourist industry as they must We require the services of Sears and also the tourists Tourists cant change therefore business and our narrow minds must change Perhaps there are other business establishments in the area which am not aware of that are encorporating the some poor business practices If we are to get where we are going in Sim coe County we better change and FAST Maisie Mitchell Secretary of the Huronia Snowmobile Association Appreciation Dear Sir Now that weve had an opportunity to assess our press coverage of the 1977 Royal just brief note of appreciation for the strong sup Clive Tisdalc Ag Public Relations Director Interpreting the news Grasping thechange WASHINGTON CP Governments in dustry and researchers are just beginning to grasp the extent of revolutionary change un der way at California air base Technicians are methodically preparing an ungainly 93ton space shuttle that will win no beauty awards but will bring mankinds final frontier within economic reach The first shuttle The Enterprise will be followed by others to average more than one space mission week from 1980 to 1991 In stead of huge costly rockets that lift one Telesat Canada is among organizations that have already booked use of the shuttle for placing satellites in orbit With dramaticallyreduced flight costsdown from $150 million to $10 millionlarge cargo capacity and the ability to pick up and repair malfunctioning satellites the shuttle system will enable dramatic expansion of satellite use MAKE ADVANCES Global communications resource in ventory and intelligencegathering will all advance rapidly The next stage will be orbital factories US skylab missions have already proved that the uncontaminated gravityfree en vironment of space can be used to make wide range of valuable new products pure crystals for carrying electronic current so pure that hand calculator could be reduced to the size of postage stamp perfectly round ball bearings and perfectly pure vac cmos Federal Labor Intensive Projects itrit llt 33 The way hear it someone in cabinet mentioned the old LIP program and the prime minister said ah how they got the name Well another year gone by and life con tinues as before But very exciting year is mw under way with the fate of our old Fireball being concluded within week or so federal election soon upon us the annexa tion issue being resolved and the opportunity to express your feelings towards your various municipal councils next November at the ballot box That should be enough to keep us all think ing and doing Divas distressing to read Letter to The Editor claiming we have lousy snow removal facilities think we have super group of people in that area Sure the grader fills in your driveway when it passes but that truly cant be helped short of hiring extra people to dig out every driveway in the city The DunlopCol ier streets snow removal presents particularly difficult task to the snow removal people and short of the city buying snow melter and additional trucks New Years Day marks major milestone for both Canadas construction industry and for our mammoth metricconversion program Its the day on which the two come togetherthe day that Canadian construction goes metric Conversion has been under way for years now and most Canadians are becoming rea sonably comfortable with weather and distance expressed in what the authorities like to call SI systems international But the $33billionayear construction in dustry is the largest and most important segment of the Canadian economy to have taken the plunge so far The industry was given nudgeor rather hefty shoveby the federal government which announced that after 1977 it would call all new tenders in metric and would require government consultants to prepare contract documents the same way In British Columbia the provincial govern well you know what he always says more Perhaps store owners should shovcl their own sidewalk area themselves this has been suggesth but everyone is afraid to tell the complainers to pitch in and lend hand Might give someone blisters guess So we let the taxpayers pay someone to do the job then bitch when taxes go up Jest la vie If had my way we wouldnt shovel any ci ty sidewalks except those in the vicinity of senior citizens residences and on special re quest from citizens physically unable to shovel their own sidewalks COUNTY IIORDSMEN met the County Chordsmen at meeting of the Barrie Physically Disabled group last month The Chordsmen is barbershop group of 20 30 men who donate their time to nonprofit groups to both entertain and to help them raise funds very great group of men who have their own charity to support also the children who have hearing problems The men are all from Standards 1977 have been widely distributed within the construction industry STILL OPPOSEI Some people of course remain incensed at the concept of metrication representing as it does replacement of all the terms that have become familiar and comfortable through lifetime of usage Others accept the concept but object to the im lementation of SI at time of rapid cost inf ation high unemployment and weak in ternational trade The costs are substantial they argue and will makc business less profitable and less competitive Authorities at the Metric Commission have answers to all such objections One such an swer is that more than 998 per cent of the worlds people live under governments that either use metric or are in the process of changing to it That would include the United States where progress toward metrication is all but imperceptible and oh well thats ric or close by You might give Wally Carruthers call it want to have this group sing for you They are holding public function at Central Col legiate on Jan 28 if you want to listen to them and help their very worthy cause tickets at the door TOUREI BARRIE JAIL had tour of the Barrie Jail last week with Mayor Ross Archer and few members of our council It was moving experience The conditions are the best possible but the overcrowding is almost unbelievable The in males are almost all eople charged with of fences and awaiting their trial they are in nocent men and women innocent until pro ven guilty which is how our system works This being the case they should not be fore ed to exisl in the conditions that saw Yes they are very wellfed and they have reading and writing materials but saw inmates sleeping and resting on the floors of the cell area as there was no room to sit anywhere else Some cells are only wide enough for very narrow bedonly about 30 inches with no rtXim between the bed and the walls and THERE IS DIFFERENCE But there is great difference between convicted killer and young kids charged with an offence and awaiting trial They are still innocent but you wouldnt know it For these people the jail should be at least acceptably comfortable or at least not an abject and debasing Black Hole of Calcutta Let them sweat if convicted but dear God how can we in this country force an innocent man or woman to pay this penalty before our law has decided his or her guilt just hope we have new jail soon and in the meantime wholly support warden Frank MacDonalds efforts to make life in the Bar rie Jail is livcablc as possible given thc condi lions he has to work with He is performing yeomans service up there behind City Hall and so are his guards but must remain totally shookup after seeing how we cage our people who are charged with some offences never thought it could happen in Canada Politically interesting By DON HEARN Queens Park Bureau Thomson News Service TORONTO Politically 1977 was much more interesting year than it was legislatively In fact it could turn out to have been one of our more significant political years There was an Ontario election of course And it could have shaken out the provincial parties for new deal in the future GRITS WINNERS The bones of the election were that the government though it picked up some seats failed by seven to get its majority while both the New Democratic Party then the official opposition and the Liberals dropped seats the NDP five and the Liberals one The bones werent the real story of the election however Dominantly this was the Liberals Before the election the Liberals were considered by lot of people probably the large majority as almost writeoff Leader Stuart Smith had been getting bad press They had been doing disastrously at the polls And generally their outlook was bleak However Smith fought good campaign and made himself credible And the private members group which some few of us had felt all along would keep the party vibrant stormed back Only one sitting member was defeated And practically all of the rest increased their majorities substantially NDP LOST The government simply didnt get off the ground It had an elaborate campaign which probably enabled it to do as well as it did in the end But it didnt have an issue Before the election it had been drumming away for some time on the economy and the need for restraint But this didnt surface during the cam paign The premier and his colleagues either couldnt or didnt dare make this prime issue So it more or less floundered during the campaign and got its seats through its sur face campaign riding work and the stature of its candidates The NDP was lost as party These are economic times and this was an economic election The social issues so dear to the party are practically dormant if not dead And the NDP and economics simply arent bedmates It got by as well as it did through the lustre of Stephen Lewis and the hard work of its individual members who had served their ridings well Regulations from king By BOB BOWMAN Early French Canada had problems with rising prices as they do today On Jan4 1868 the Quebec Council called all the inhabitants to meeting to discuss the price of bread It had risen to 15 sols loaf which would be about 25 cents In fact loaf of bread cost more than cord of wood which could be bought for the equivalent of l7cents By royal decree Canadins had to eat brown bread Louis XIV was gourmet His own dinners began with rich soup laced with wine then fish with savory sauces followed chicken roast and usually meat pie with truffles and mushrooms Then he might con tinue with golden platters of shellfish and finish with large quantities of fruit All this would be accompanied by the finest wines about 12 inches between the end of the bed Muff dnrv LOUIS WOUld relax and ter of concern that makes you want to write small payload eaCh orb and the and the co mm sometimes think about his poor people in to your MB or MPP if it is not personal hecona Itselessv 29 Shgmes Cg 03 more Your This is inhumane to say the least thought Canada Wld make regUlallons for matter it should be of Interest to your ms ea can us many business it wasa thing of the past wherea prisoner had them and one 35 that bakers Should Wily friends and neighbors too 395 th use pm in the CC instead of toilet make dark brown bread although Louis never FEDERAL Otto is new capaCI otrhecolnomict ex but waswmng ate it himself Dr Rynard gonrotfipéce Cglntfiom ewe Those of you Wm know me or read yhis COL Some of the afterdinner regulations be con MPNorth Simcoe gtign gtC ltmlg gneS Space um know how feel about people that break coctcd were that dogs had to be kept off the Parllfimem BUIIdIHBS vit mi 00 tasets etven the law the thieves rapists and murderers streets on sundays people were not allowed Ottawar1t KIA 0A6 cecyraft m2 lcasts liglk c3 1133 VINCENT EGAN ment has been building four metric housing have little or no sympathy for convicted from the houses eo doc Ross Milne Pgrhaps some day the Stars Business and Consumer pilot projects criminals and support the immediate rcturn Emlxomil had bf hofie and Mppeejpuflerin5im¢oe But the potential beng unleashed by the Affairs Analyst And metric supplements to the I977 of the rope and Wish could pull the lever Imp W91 0w lame parliament Building shuttle is no longer science fiction Thomson News Service National Building Code and to Restdcnlial for copkillers myself girlb the 0W homes and In the presence of their mothers There were strict regulations about swearing The first four offences brought fines but fifth offence meant session in the pillory Anyone convicted sixth time had lip scared with redhot iron Aneighth of once was the end The culprits tongue was cut out Those were only few of many regulations ordered by Louis XIV bible thought Behold mine age is as nothing before thcc Psalms 395 Some of the great things in life have been achieved by people who thought it was all over He wil restore the years One of the most vital things of life is to take the word retirement out of your vocabulary