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The Examiner is member of The Canadian Press CP and Audit Bureau of Circula tions ABC Only the Canadian Press may republish news stories In this newspaper credited to CF The Associated Press Reuters or Agence FrancePresse and local news stories published in The Examiner Published daily except Sunday and statutory holidays WEE KLY by carrier BUSINESS Marian Gough accountant Betty Armer Dorothy Bowland Barb Bonito Gail McParIand 90 cents Dana Graham Vikki Grant YEARLY by carrier Aden Smith $4680 BY MAIL Barrie CIRCULATION $4680 Bill Halkes manager NTY Linda Halkes asst manager SMcogfgou And Hau hton AlvaYLaPlgante MOTOR THROW OFF $39a year Elaine Porter ELSEWHERE IN CANADA Gary Pringle Pat Merson $3850 year NEWSROOM Sean Finlay managing editor Randy McDonald city editor Sheila McGovern assistant city editor Bill McFarlane wire editor Werner Bergen sports Claudia Krause lifestyle Marina Quattrocchi photographer REPORTERS John Bruce iPaul Delean Pat Guergis Scott Haskins Rudteigh MacLean Sue Burke John Brown ADVERTISING Len Sevick manager SALESME Lyall Johnson the examiner serving borrie and simcoe county The Examiner claims copyright on all original news and advertising material created by its employees and published in this newspaper Monday Feb 20 1978 Published Conadian Newspapers Company Limited to Boyfield Street Barrie Ontario L4M 4T6 Elio Agostini publisher ADVERTISING 7266537 Copyright registration number 203815 register 6i National advertising offices 65 Queen St Toronto 86471710 uo cathcart St Montreal CLASSIFIED Ruth Blais supervisor Freda Shinner Karen Atkinson Peggy Chapell Dana Homewoort The advertiser agrees that the publisher shall not be liable for damages arising out of errors in advertisements beyond the amount paid tor the space actually occupied by that portion of the advertisement In which the error occurred whether such error Is due to the negligence of its servants or otherwise and there shall be no liability for noninsertion at any advertisement beyond the amount paid tor such advertisement NEWSROOM 7266537 CLASSIFIEDS 7282414 BUSINESS 7266537 CIRCULATION 7266539 Worsley Square good for Barrie Planning consultant Warren Scott put the problem with the Worsley Square project very neatly last week Board members said Scott are agonizing over preserving Barrie as they know it or opting for something that would mean major change in the city Scott is the planning consultant for Ed Jennings developer of the Worsley Square project The Worsley Square project is major change for downtown Barrie It is change greater than one of appearance The Worsley Square project could change the Barrie lifestyle it might be the first step for Barrie as major city Worsley Square if it goes ahead could turn downtown Barrie into 24houraday people place The addition of 426 condominium units will mean an in crease in the downtown population of Barrie major department store in downtown Barrie will mean more downtown shoppers not only at the department store but for other downtown businesses as well The new commercial and residential growth in Barrie has until now been suburban Downtown Barrie is slow ly becoming business section alive during the day moribund at night The Worsley Square project threatens to change all that The agony over the project is cloaked as concern about the height of the two 23storey towers the amount of commercial space downtown and zoning considerations But the real issue is change change which will radically alter Barrie The benefits of such change far outweigh the disad vantages Planning board members and eventually city councillors have to ask themselves one question will the change make Barrie better place The answer is obvious Yes it will down memory lane Feb 20 1950 Bowman prin cipal of Barrie District Collegiate said enrolment at the school was 775 The school he said was built for 570 students proposed addi tion to the school would cost $670000 and Barrie was seeking support of neighboring townships for the addi tion Goldie district hor ticulturlist rescued wounded buck deer from the ice at Thornbury William Garner was elected chairman of the Barrie Parks Board Fisher director of the BCI Concert Band attended con ference of music educators at Ann Arbor Mich Greer Transporta tion completed its first month of operating Barrie bus service Stafford Smythe signed Bruno Favero former Barrie Flyers junior star to finish senior hockey season with Toronto Marlboros DearSir Canadas newest political party the Na tional Reform Party could conceivably form the next Canadian Government The NRP was entered in the registry of Political Parties pursuant to subsection 13 t2 of the said act on the 13th day of December 1977 While the three major parties are caught up write your mp 19 If you would likc to write your Member of Parliament or Mcmbcr of Provincial Par lizmiciit printed below zirc thcir mailing ad drcsscs If you send us copy of your letter it might bc snitablc for our Letters to the Editor columns After all if there is mat tcr of coiiccrn that makes you want to writc to our MP or MPP if it is not pcrsoiial muttcr it should be of interest to your lricnds and ncighbors too FEDERAL Dr Ryiiaid MP NorthSiiiicoc Iurlizimcnt Buildings Ottawant ltoss Milne MP PecllluftcriiiSimcoc Parliament Buildings Ottawa Ont Sinclair Stcvciis MP YorkrSimch Parliament Buddiiigs Ottawa Ont ius Vlitges MP7 ircyrSimcoc Parliament Buildings Ottawa Ont PROVINCIAL icorgc Taylor MPP ASimcoc Centre Ontario Legislature Quccns Park Toronto iordon Smith MPP Simcoeltliasl Ontario Legislaturc Queens Park Toronto George Mcuguc MPPDuffcrin Sinicoc Queens Park Toronto letters to the editor New political party is formed Walter Duff retired railroad employee was named campaign director for the Barrie District Memorial Hospital Fund Helen Shanahan superintendent of Royal Victoria Hospital reported at hospital building committee meeting that RVH was badly over crowded and working under emergency conditions Moore former Barrie merchant donated $2000 for installation of laboratory at RVH Archie Goodall retired after 32 years and Malcolm Morrison after 24 years with the Barrie Parks Board work was going ahead with new per manent married quarters at RCAF Camp Borden Floyd Griesbach former Nottawasaga district farmer was appointed national secretary of the Farm Radio Forum in power struggle the NRP has been busy making public its political ideology and policies in crossCanada newspaper cam paign The NRP by showing positive leadership and policy making has been winning over the undecided voter as well as disenchanted Liberal PC and NDP supporters The party is also being widely accepted in Quebec Once the strongest currency in the world the Canadian dollar is now in danger of becoming known as the Libcrdollar in which like Trudeaus Liberal government there is less and less public confidence Our budget deficits trade policies high unemployment high inflation weak national unity all stem from government mismanagc ment Trudeaus famous cliche fuddle duddlc should be changed in our history books to read bumbling and fumbling Canadians are beginning to feel and believe the familiar accusation that Liberals in power have dictatorial bark no onc will have much trouble convincing Canadians that thc Trudeau government has madc mess of things and is dedicated to the destruction of freedom tougher problcm facing Canadians will be dccidiiig why thcy should vote PC or NDP The National Reform Party is new breed with new ideas and the next election will not be fought on traditional party lines Your comments support and participation isinvited Address of the Party is National Reform Party RR Box 26 North Bay Ontario PiB BGS Respectfully submitted National Reform Party Ron Gilson Party Leader Excellent Dear Sir have read with interest the letters and ar ticles in your newspaper describing peoples fears and phobias concerning the 23storey towers proposed for the Worsley Square pro ject think that the towers arc an excellent idea When the sky falls they will hold it up and thus avoid damage and injury in downtown Barrie Yours truly CHICKEN LITTLE Barrie The world today By JOHN IIARBRON Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service Its not only the Arabs who want piece of America The Canadians have growing stake in industry even though many of their own industries are dominated by American investment Canadian giants are dominant in the following US industries supermarkets paper products liquor aluminum farm machinery mining and fish processing Their joint stake in the US is substantial about $56 billion of the estimated $27 billion Your business Hy VINCENT EGA Business and Consumer Affairs Analyst Thomson News Scrvicc thn carmaker predicts It good year for sales you tend to ask whats wrong The automotive industry is so accustode to succession of recordbraking sales lcvcls that when business is incicly good its time to worry William Pickett the plainspeaking president and general manager of American Motors iCanadzii Ltd in Brampton 0nt is the latest to forecast it good but not record your for the industry Canadian production could fall as much as five per cent this your Pickctt believesal though the dip in newcar sales might be only about one per cent to just under one million units In Canada there is an excess of 300X more units than was the case coming into 1977 he told meeting of the Conference Board in Canada Dcnlcrs simply cant go on carrying this inventory without corrcspoiiding pickup in retail which dont think is going to hap pcn Pickett said theie scimod to have bccii an overconsumption of cars in the 1977 model year October 1976 to September 1977Aand that sales since last October seemed dis appointing And Ford Motor of Canada Ltd president Roy Bennett reports that his company sustained loss of $187 million in OctoberDecember 1977 HI IM JEAN JACQUES in foreign direct investment last year in the US And the Canadians are not alone British Dutch French Italian West German and some Japanese industrial giants are cx panding profitablc US business sectors The most recent is the purchase of Miles laboratories makers of Alka Scltzcr for about $250 million by Bayer AG the West German drug multinational LARGER STILL IN 78 This increasing foreign role in American industries which Forbes Magazine of New York estimates will grow to $32 billion by the Inventories rise as car sales dip Forcigncxchaiigc losses and cost in creasesnot offset by sellingprice in creases wwcrc major factors Fourfifths of Canadian automotive production is sold in the United States under thelimitcd frcctradcagrecment Last month the US department of commerce predicted zi oncpcnccnt dip in 1978 car sales and fourpercent decline in sales from the record US levels of In that country dealers inventories ol unsold vehicles at the beginning of 1978 were 300000 units larger than year earlier Pickett puts the blame for the current sales slowdown on three factors The industry caught up with pentup demand during the 1977 model year Prices of used cars arent rising in proportion to newcar prices Consumcrs have been increasing their debt to levels that may be unsustainable The availability of financing and the ability of people to pick it up are two different things Pickett foresees two notable changes shaping up in the automotive market in 1978 Imported cars w1ll probably capture 17 per cent of the market hc believes down from 19 percent in 1977 He says forcigiicar prices in Canada have risen by more than 10 per cent during the last year because of inflation and the decline in the value of the Canadian dollar and he adds that North American manufacturers have been aggressively pricing their sub compacts Canadians have growing stake in several US industries end of 1978 does not include further major piece of the action held by Canadian Japanese and other foreign banks in the US and still further participation by Canadian insurance company giants in the US life insurance and real estate The Royal Bank of Canada the worlds fifth largest bank in terms of its worldwide assets is the fourth largest foreign bank operating in the United States Japans Bank of Tokyo is first Add the assets of Canadian banks and insurance firms in the US which include sizable amounts of Florida life insurance and real estate held by at least three Canadian insurance and trust companies and the total Canadian stake in America is probably close to$20billi0n At the same time those muchpublicized Arab investments have not penetrated in dustrial sectors mainly because the oilrich Islamic world and Iran must import Western industrial expertise because they have little of their own Why do the Canadians keep coming The reasons are straightforward US economic performance is much better than the severely lagging Canadian despite slump in the US And tax restrictions on corporate growth and profits are more severe here In the case of German Swiss and Japanese firms the decline of the US dollar against their stillstrong national currencies gives them an edge in moving industrial development capital into the American economy HOW CANADIANS STAY This is not true for Canadian multi nationals in the US Most must pay for ex pansion from their domestic American earn ings because the Canadian dollar has declined about 10 per cent from par with the US dollar Following the preferred style of Canadian corporate executives at home Canadian industrial expansion into the US since 1945 has been mainly silent cool and shrewd And its paid off In food and liquor two large Canadian firms George Weston Ltd and the Seagram C0 account for almost half of the estimated $87 billion in revenues last year from Canadian multinational cor porations operating in the United States Nevertheless Canadians readily reveal curious satisfaction with US concern over growing foreign penetration This is watching American legislators squirm and squawk in the same way Canadian nationalist politicians have done since the Second World War over the mounting US control of Canadian in dustries Queen park Ontario did well By DON OHEARN Queens Park Bureau Thomson News Service TORONTO Ontario did unexpectedly well at the Ottawa first ministers conference lot of hard work had been done here in advance of the meetings wortk which had been done quite quietly for there was no indication here of just how intensively we were getting ready And as result the province arrived at the conference better prepared than anyone even the federal government with solid line of proposals that covered not only the province itself but the rest of the country And the pr0posals applied not only to mid term economic prospects and plans which was the focus of the meetings but also to shortterm unemployment T0 INVEST Probably the most reassuring development of the summit meetings was that there prac tically was unanimity that while govern ments generally had to cut down on their spending they would loosen the purse strings bit for capital works where these works represented an investment Stress the investment For this means there would be spending in such fields as energy projects and railroads where there would be regular return on the investment but not on makework projects and other areas where the spending only drives up the public debt and adds to inflation KEEP RESOLVE There were two Ontario points that were particularly appealing One was the proposal that there should be strong incentives for encouragement of research and development The second was that there should be strong drive to manufacture at home poducts that we at present import 0n the first any intensive study of the economic situation illustrates clearly that where Canada lags greatly is in research and development and that if the country is to have healthy future it has to develop advanced technologies Thanks to our large branchplant economy air research and technological facilities are far behind our position in the worlds trading nations And then the amount of goods we import particularly industrial components is mammoth To see prime attention being paid to these two areas gives some confidence But perhaps not as much as could be For the test will be if we manage to change the attitudes of the past and maintain our resolve and drive We have had program for example on import replacement for nearly two decades It started out with big splash But what has been heard of it recently Not much As with many programs after the initial momentum it apparently has tapered off Incidentally give credit to the new Ontario New Democratic Party leader Michael Cassidy Import replacement is one of the issues he has been pressing strongly Canadas story Ridicule not fair By BOB BOWMAN Many of the worlds most original thinkers have been ridiculed but ended with the last laugh Some people wanted Alexander Graham Bell to be put in jail for trying to market an invention that would enable people to talk to each other through wire Bell laughed all the way to the bank when his patent for the telephone became the rich est in the world Vilhjalmur Stefansson one of Canadas greatest explorers wasnt that fortunate but he lived until 1962 when critics were begin ning to realize that his claims about the Arctic werent as ridiculous as they had thought Stefansson was born at Gimli Manitoba in 1879 and became an anthropologist He began to explore the Arctic in 1906 and became convinced that great wealth was there and could be developed His book The Friendly Arctic was ridiculed by scientists and other explorers but he predicted great deal of the activity that now is taking place Stefansson made number of daring journeys through the Arctic and found that the secret of survival was to live like the Es kimos He learned to hunt caribou in 1908 polar bear in 1909 and seal in 1912 One of Stefanssons expeditions for the Canadian government began in 1913 and lasted five years the longest on record His men survived because he taught them how to live like Eskimos building their own shelters and hunting their own food On Feb 20 1915 he began trip that took him along the coast of Banks Land to Alfred Point and then to Prince Patrick Island Most if this area had never been seen before and he was able to claim it for Canada OTHER FEB 20 EVENTS USSBritain began campaign to capture Canada by sending Gen Braddock to Virginia with two regiments mosJoseph Willocks was arrested for contempt of egislative assembly lassThe legislative council of Canada voted 5415 for confederation