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rustum nonlnsertion of any advertisement beyond the amount paid for such advertisement nu ed ll The Examiner is memberot The Canadian Press CP and Audit Bureau of Circula NE wovenn excep tlons ABC only the Canadian Press may re bllm new stories in this newspaper Seawlgiififmeanaglng editor Len Sevlckfmztager 1733353179 accountant SUM and credited to CF The Associated Press Router or Agence FrancePresse and local Randy McDbnaid city editor SALESMEN Betty Armer 5GU°lY holidaYS news stories published in The Examiner Sheila McGovern assistantclty editor Lvell Johnson Dorothy Bowiand WEE KLY bY carrier gill McFarlane wire editor Barb Bouiton Gail McFarland 90 cents ghfExaginer csairmspcggygggt urtihallsl original news and advertising material created saryin rner Bergen sports Dana Graham Vikkl Grant em oyee newspaper Friday Jan 27 1978 andsmcoe couny Claudia Krause iliestvie John Zarecky YEARLLfijocarner giggly gtéattrocchi photographer Aden Smith BY MAIL home Copyright registration number 203815 register gt IS om an Iml RS unadan ewsPope John Bruce ERCULATION 34630 National advertising offices 65 Queen St Toronto sumo 640 Cathcart St gt 16 Baytield Street Barrie Ontario LAM 4T6 PauiDeiean cussmeo Ligdaauttllkeraarsasgenanager swcoe COUNTY Montreal 69 Ruth Blais su rvisor And 650 AWN P°b° rations Winner Avauriiiii mom hascaricataztzatt12323mtractchainsaw Sue Burke Kan HMO Elaine Porter 39 that portion of the advertisement in which the error occurred whether such error ls John Brown mgyflcrmpe ma ELSEWHERE CANADA due to the negligence of its servants or otherwise and there shail be no liability for it 7266537 7266539 7266537 72824 7266537 W909 1PM Mersop $3350 year 12 91x Lefsgeton with planning Ed Jennings wants to builda major shopping and apartment centre in downtown Barrie He appeared at planning board Tuesday night to prei sent his plans Mayor Ross Archer and Ken Byles planning board chairman both said they were excited about the project but wish Jennings had presented his plans sooner Mayor Archer has to look no further than the faces conj fronting him every Monday night to understand Jenn ings delay Jennings plan is the fourth presented in the last three months which might make Barrie more progressive cil ty The score now is 30 against progress The downtown mall project roposed by Harris Steele Millet Salter Ron Stewart an Jack Wallwin got tangled up by council Then there was the 125th anniversary committee fiasco which put Barrie firmly in the bush league Council followed that up with the Winter Carnival stinginess keeping Barrie in the bush league There is as well the continuing Firehall saga which would have developers of less faith and optimism than Ed Jennings thinking fondly about guarantwd invest ment certificates No wonder Jennings took his time It is tribute to his faith in the future of this city that he is even thinking of major development And at planning board the sniping started almost im mediately Janice Laking worried about how the development would fit in with existing buildings in the arca mention ing that superb example of modern Canadian architec ture the Post Office building planning board member who probably would prefer to be nameless wondered about the danger of aircraft hitting one of the two apartment towers Jennings plans to build Perhaps we should also be worrying about the 23 storey towers punching holes in the sky The small minds have had their day in this city It is time the small minds remembered that Barrie will soon be city of 125000 people That means change It means new roads It means new buildings It means new houses It means new apartment buildings Barrie is fortunate It knows it is going to grow larger it knows where the growth is going to be it knows how it has to plan for that growth Lets get on with planning for the future Lets stop in venting reasons why things cant be done and start fin ding out how things can be done letters to the editOr ll Supervisor corrects story error Dear Sir would like to correct misrepresentation in your article Young people and the law facing the problem together dateline Wednesday January 11 1978 The article quotes Mr Ted Bigelow Proba tion Officer as saying In November had 28 kids on probation in Barrie 25 in Coll ingwood 35 in Alliston Angus and Tottenham area 25 in Bradford and Innisfil Township and 34 in Orillia This would give Mr Bigelow 147 cases am sure Ted was mis quoted While am in no way underemphasizing the great work Mr Bigeiow is doing both with An us reply Dear Sir With amazement we recently read in the local paper that Judge John Anjo and Acting Crown Attorney I3 Thompson considered that young man sentenced to probation for crimes committed should not serve this probation in Angus because of what they call the Angus syndrome hirther implying that there are very many young people in Angus serving probation and that it is not good place to live It is realized that these learned men have devoted their lives to the defence of the inno cent now boldly and publicly state without trial nor judge nor jury and convict an entire community of such an unworthy offence Hundreds of fine citizens hard working men and women of all walks of life have now been unjustly sentenced Not to mention the young people all of whom are branded as criminals Those planning to settle in Angus may now reconsider and those who have made their homes here may wish to move out while those who remain walk with head hung low The results could be far reaching and to say the least disastrous It was even more amazing to read the attempted rebuttal by two supposedly irlclligent members of the Angus Village Trustees nc Cecil Westover who claims to be 28 year military veteran who is quoted as say im he feels the military authorities at CFB Borden are partly to blame for the amount of crime in Angus If the military could con tml their people better he says then we might not ave as many roblems here He mm on to say the ba actors at the Base are expelled from the military and they settle in Angux Duet that man realize if it were not for Base order he would be unemployed and so would mt of the business mat in An Why is it when the military do good jo it is what is expected of them but when you need someone loco the can blame the serviceman All roe men are public servants and all three should be thoroughly ashamed Sincerely Edward Guergis Angus Ont robationers and other children also would like people to know we have other Probation and AfterCare Officers doing the same fine work as Mr Bigelow In Barrie we have Mr William Davidson Senior Probation and AfterCare Officer Miss Penny Green Probation Officer Mrs Jeanne Harris Probation Officer Mr Wayne Clute is in the Collingwood Office Mrs Rissah Munday in the Midland Office Mr John Walton in the Orillia Office In addition Mrs Annette Sunday works rttime on Christian Island and Mrs Lisa odds assists Mr Walton All our officers are doing extras like taking youths camping running activity groups helping in their community and are willing to assist any way they can in making Simcoe County great place to live Sincerely Mrs Craig Supervisor West Central Area Probation and AfterCare Services Barrie EDITORS NOTE The Examiner erred The caseload attributed to Mr Bigclow in correctly included areas served by other pro bation officers $575 profit Dear Sir Thank you very much for the advertising fir and the coverage following the Elvis Presley Night held at the ANKF hall Satur day January 1978 We realized profit of $575 which was turn ed over to the Ontario Heart Retardation Thanks for your concern and we hope that you will consider helping in this respect to this cause again Sincerely yours Mrs Jane Lapp Barrie Ontario we Want your Opitjion Something on your mind Send letter to the Editor Please make it an original copy and sign it The Examiner doesnt publish unsigned let ters but if you wish pen narrrewill be used Include your telephone numb and address as we have to verify letters Because of space limits pubm interestiand good taste The Examiner sometimes has to edit condense or reect letters Letters to the itor are run every day on the editorial page Send yours to Letters to the Editor The Examiner Post Office Box 370 BARRIE Ont L4M Parliament hill By STEWART MaclJIOI Ottawa Bureau Thomson News Service dont know whether its due to the Christmas recess or public opinion polls but our federal politicians have returned to Parliament all fired up for an election Tory Leader Joe Clark is confidently talking about knocking off three Liberal cabinet ministers and perhaps winning as many as 30 seats in Quebec the party now has only three of the provinces 74 seats And New Democratic Party Leader Ed Broadbent is already talking about establishing some working arrangement with minority government after the vote Once the budget is out of the way think the government has an obligation to go to the people says Clark And he wants budget now Broadbent who saw his partys popularity increase by one percentage point to 19 in the latest polls can hardly wait to get out on the hustings If you look at the last two Gallups polls not just the last one the Liberal Party of Canada has dropped full seven oints The New Democratic Party of Canada gove up four over twomonth riod and that other party in the House Com mons the Conservatives has gained mere two Your business By VINCENT EGAN Business and Consumer Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service Its hard to believesuch is the depth of our inflation psychologythat only decade ago Canada was in the 16th year of nearstability in rices etween 1952 and 1968 the inflation rate had fluctuated between about one and three per centa year Since thenapart from short period in the early 19703 inflation has been high and usually moving higher What brought about the madness of in flation that has slashed the value of Canadians savings sent property values skyward and led the economy eventually into its current slump One factor without an doubt was the unionization of the public service begun under the government of the late prime minister Lester Pearson Pearson and those who followed him may have thought that since privatesector work ers could organize it was only natural justice to extend the same right to government em oyees The fatal flaw in that position is that the private sector is subject to market forces As is being demonstrated with increasing uency these days theres limit to the one company can assume before it reaches the point at which it can no longer Finance presume The NDP leader says he is confident his party will elect more MP5 than ever before and the chances are very good indeed that either the Liberals or the Conservatives will be forced to form minority government And as he sees it the party winning the la est number of seats will have to sit down wit the New Democrats and work out long term program of cooperation It does involve committed kind of program where both sides have to realize the serious nature of Canadian problems and that in fact might well better represent the mood of Canada to have more than one party sharing the responsibility for governing the nation After that Christmas lull you get the impression around Ottawa that an election campaign is already underway although Prime Minister Trudeau doesnt appear to be in any hurry to call the vote He says he wants to get batch of legislation through Parliament firsta task that might be rather difficult amid the election atmosphere that exists in the House He is fully aware of this think it is getting more and more obvious that in the fourth year of government op positions tend to try and make Parliament an uncomfortable place for the government he says And with all our economic problems not to mention national unity Parliament would be rather uncomfortable place for operate profitably in competitive market At that point the businessjobs high wages and ailwgoes down the drain In the public sector theres no com rable pressure and both sides know it overn ments have bottomless well of taxes to draw from as well as virtually unlimited borrowingpawers Politicians moreover love to dispense favors It sometimes seems they live for nothing else Where somone in business might negotiate just as adamantly as the union re resentative the government em ployer is ikely to cave in if confronted with stnke for excessive wage increases That tendency is reinforced by the nature of public services which are almost always mo nopolistic and leave the users of those ser vices with no alternative source study just published by the Economic Council of Canada draws attention to yet another characteristic High unemployment has negative impact on wages in the private sector but little in the public sector When inflation speeds up however government employees wa es are likely to rise much more strongly it those in the private sector The study entitled Wage Determination in Mntyor Collective cements in the Private PubiicSectors yUniversity of Montreal professors JeanMichel Cmuineau and Robert Lacroix underlines the growth of publicservice unionism Politicians all fired up for an election campaign government even without the looming election LIBERALS EAGER There are some Liberals who think this atmosphere may begin to bother the prime minister rather quickly forcing him to dissolve the House for spring election Despite the public opinion polls there are good many Liberals who want to get the election out of the way As the opposition gears up to attack the government the central theme will be the economy Clarks party will be arguing for tax cuts and an immediate reduction in government spending And the New Democrats will be fighting for new indus trial strategy What we have to do at the federal level now says Broadbent is not be so can corned about new social welfare proyams but to make the hardheaded decisions about industrial strategy and growth for the country to deal with unemployment During the Christmas break Broadbcnt went to Ja an for first hand look at that countrys ustriai strategy He was impressed All things being considered and given the mood of returning oliticians this will likely be very rough par iamentary session for the Trudeau government The prime minister nay well prefer the peace and quiet of an election campaign factor in inflation spiral The number of publicsector employees protected by major agreements was seven times higher in 1975 than in 1967 The civil servants made their biggest wage gains in the period leading up to the imposi tion of antiinflation controls Average hourly base rate of wages for unionized blic ser vants in ms was $320 $331 in private sector jumping to $416 $369 in 1974 and to $440 $388 in 1975 Messrs Cousineau and Lacroix offer three major findings about publicsector wages They are clearly more sensitive to in flation that is likely to stay abreast or ahead of price rises than those in the private sector They are much less sensitive to labor market conditions Only in the public sector have relatively low wages been rising by more titan higher wages Wage behavior in the public sector the authors conclude poses serious threat to economic stability So they ur that political decision be made to des gn wage policy that would avoid disparit es in wage behavior between the public and private sectors rst however the government would have to convince the unions of the need for wage policy That wont be as easy as it was to convmce the government 10 years ago of the need for publicservice unions Queen park Prioritisil problem By DON OHEARN Queens Park Bureau Thomson News Service TORONTO Life is matter of priorities for us all Example Shall buy another drink or save the money Priorities are matter of much importance togovernment today There are so many demands on govem mentso much to be done And it cant possibly all be done There isnt the money for it all so there must be decisions constant decisions on just what can be done What comes first And what must be put to theside SPENDING NEEDED There have to be doubts if government here genuinely appreciates this It recognizes the general fact that its spending must be cut back therefore its restraint program But then the question is how much further does itgo Does it realize there must be more spending in some areas even though there is overall restraint That if there really is to be progress in meeting our problems of today certain areas and activities must be encouraged meaning largely that money must be spent on them The evidence isnt reassuring One has firm suspicion the government believes restraint is an end in itself and doesnt realize the further job it has to do SAVED 817 MILLION As one example the government today should be encouraging development new development have mentioned the importance of small business in this And what has the government done about small business Practically nothing Perhaps better example is energy and particularly energy conservation There is one common piece of knowledge around here This is that the ministry of energy has particularly hard job in getting any money Yet it is ministry of today ministry that is key to the particular conditions of today As just one instance of what can be done in this area there has been government energy bus on the road now for some 26 months It has surveyed some 300 plants and has been able to identify possible annual savings of $30 million for these plants or 17 per cent of their consumption But even though it has been going now for more than two years and has proven itself this program still has only the one bus At its rate the plants in the province might be covered by about 2025 Yet industry con sumes more than half our energy Thc government has policy and priorities committee of cabinet Just what it does isnt certain But first task might be tolook at its own priorities Canadas story Anniversary of capital By BOB BOWMAN This is day when the beautiful bells of the carillon in the Peace Tower of the Parliament buildings at Ottawa should be heard all across Canada by radio and television In fact this writer now in Van couver would like to hear the carillon every day of the year even for few minutes Today is the anniversary of Ottawa becoming the capital of Canada in 1858 The choice was made by Queen Victoria on Dec 31 after good deal of competition from Quebec Montreal and Toronto Quebec was considered too far east and too French Toronto was too far west and too English Montreal was vulnerable to attack from the US It is said Queen Victoria was influenced some intings sent to her by Lady Hea wife Gov Head She was good amateur painter who captured some of the beauty of Ottawa on canvas from Majors Hill park where the Rideau River flows into the Ot tawa However there were other strong reasons for the Queens choice It was recommended by military authorities including the Duke of Wellington it was far enough from the US border to be protected It had good water trans ortation connecting the St Lawrence and Great Lakes Ships could bypass the US border by using the Ottawa River Rideau Canal route Nevertheless Queen Victorias choice of Ottawa caused furore and led to the defeat the government It is said that even John Macdonald was not convinced that Ottawa would remain as the capital until just few weeks before Confederation The inscri tion on the ctxnerstone of the original Par ament building laid by Edward Prince of Wales in 1860 echoed this doubt It read Cornerstone of the building intended to receive the legislature of Canada OTHER JAN 27 EVENTS intMail stages were established at Qrebec and Montreal rutNova Scotia appointed committee to study postal operations and this later had bearing on Confederation