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The Examiner is member at The Canadian Press CP and Audit Burmu oi Circular Published daiiY except tions ABC only the Canadian Press may republish news stories in newspaper NEWSROOM tDVERTSNG KSFNE Sunday and credited to CF The Associated Press Reuters or Agence FrancePresse and local 23 ngggfigwlinoédpor sztéesxghmamwr 23333 CW statutory holidays news stories published in The Examiner WEEKLYby carrier sheila McGovern assistant city editor Lyell Johnson armzpaawlgd 90 em The Examiner claims copyright on all original news and advertisino material created Bill McFarlane wire editor Barb Bouiton by Its employees and published in this newspaper seernQ barrie and simcoe county Wm Bergen sports Dana Graham Vk Gm YEARLY me Thursday Feb 23 1978 Claus Krluse tester Aden Smith 63° Copyright registration number mats register at Mm Welmcchi photographer BY MAIL Barrie Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited 323575 cmcuumm moo National advertising oiiices 45 Queen St Toronto sumo uo 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become an effective government and the NDP trying to prove the whole thing is capitalist plot The two big issues say the Ottawa political pundits will be national unity and the economic question But there is dark underside to the coming election an underside most Canadians refuse to admit even exists and most politicians wont discuss because after all it isnt part of the game That dark underside is political scandal and since 1974 there has been great deal of political scandal coming from the government side of the House of Commons There was the Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd AECL scandal which had the Crown corporation paying com missions of almost $20 million to sales agents for their work in selling CANDU reactors to Argentina and South Korea Then there is Otto Lang the Liberal Prairie Giant who stopped distribution of an edition of the Canadian magazine in June 1977 Lang threatened defamation suit against the daily newspapers in Saksatoon and Regina if the magazine was distributed The magazine contained an article about Lang The only place distribu tion was prevented was in Saskatchewan Langs home province The rest of Canada got to read the article Lang was also involved in Nannygate an attempt to send his childrens nanny back to Scotland on defence department aircraft Lang has love of flying so much so that he spent more than $750000 flying around the country on govem ment aircraft in three years Pierre lrudeau and his cabinet got really cute with the uranium cartel charges Last fall US congress investigation into uranium pricefixing revealed that the Canadian government had actively taken part in an international attempt to put the price of uranium at artificial levels Canadian uranium producers had been forced by the Canadian government to take part in the cartel Faced with the charges the Liberal cabinet did something that for sheer arrogance is unparalleled in Canadian history The cabinet made it illegal to discuss the issue in Canada or reveal any documents related to the charges Hardly shining example of honesty in government The examples go on and on Pierre Trudeau and his Liberal government have shown total disrespect for the laws of Canada time and time again There can be no doubt that national unity and the Canadian economy are important issues Candidates lshould be judged on their solutions to these two pro lems The scandalridden Trudeau government is also an im portant issue just as important as unity and economy government in an election has more to do than say what it plans for the next four or five years government in an election must show what it has done in its previous term and must answer questions about that term Canadians should ask Liberal candidates about na tional unity and the economy And Canadians should also ask Liberal candidates pointed questions about the long list of scandals down memory lane Feb 22 1914 Eighty Barrie hockey fans were stranded for the night in blizzard on Highway 26 between Stayncr and Sunnidale Corners They were returning from hockey game in Collingwood Thirty cars bogged down in the deep drifting snow and drivers and passengers had to make their way through the snow to shelter in farm houses and sheds Sir Joseph Flavelle chairman of the board of the Canadian Bank of Commerce spoke to joint meeting of the Barrie Lions and Kiwanis Clubs He pointed to the staggering load of debt carried by Canada which in 1934 was six times the amount carried in 1914 Barrie firefighters fought fire at Chester Madills home in 25 below zero weather sneakthief ransacked Rev Longs manse next door we want your opinion Somcthing on your mind Send Lcltcr to the Editor Plcasc makc it an original copy and sign it lhc Examincr tocsnt publish unsigncd ici tcrs but if you wish pen namc will bc uscd Include your tclcphonc nuinlicr and addrcss as we havc to verify lcttcrs Because of space limits public inlcrcst and good lastc lhc Examincr somclimcs has to edit condense or reject Ict tcrs Letters to thc Editor arc run every lay on the editorial page Send yours to lctters to the Editor The Exatnincr Post fficc Box 370 BARRIE Ont AM illi to Collier Street United Church during the evening service The thief took cash and jewelry worth $125 Cleland suffered painful burns while firing the boiler at Barrie Planing Mill Gilbert Wiley of Barrie was playing bass violin and horn regularly with Red Hickeys orchestra at the Palais Royale Toronto Sunnyside John Moore Sr won the cribbage championship of Barrie and district in tournament held at the Queens Hotel Older residents of Phelpston talked about their and Phelpstons past at social evening held at Gearin Hall by St Patricks Church Interpreting the news Your business The world today By JOHN HARBRON Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service In our vain search to date for an industrial strategy the relationship between the equipment needs of our armed forces and the way in which Canadian industries could benefit from these has never been resolved All major weapons acquisitions programs in this country since the end of the Second World War have ended up in one or more quagmires in which either the generals and admirals indulged themselves with too ex pensive weapons or the supplier industries tried to outdo them Against that background and the future one of the largest weapons acquisition program in Canadian history already begun in terms of dollar outlay recent speech by the head of the Canadian Armed Forces was more than timely It was important and long overdue Admiral Falls the stillnew chief of the defence staff outlined for the mainly businessexecutive audience of the Canadian Club of Toronto how what he called the triad of factors must come together in this major military spending phase These are the defence expenditures in Canada themselves the extent to which es sential offshore purchases of many military high technology items would offset manufacture in Canada and the role of our By VINCENT EGAN Business and onsumcr Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service As rule business executives try not to rock the boat There comes time however when frustration boils over and that time came the other day for John Kostuik Memoirs shocking portrait of Richard Nixon presidency WASHINGTON ltli II It Haldemans memoirs produce shocking portrait of White House opcrations which jar with thc public conccplion of highlyethical disciplined Icadcrship ensuring the security and integrity of thc United States That Richard Nixon as president was devious and conniving was widely known immcdiatcly aftcr his resignation if not be fore thc Watcrgatc scandal which triggered his downfall But the llaldcman book The Ends of Power makes further allegations depicting highly insecurc Nixon constantly sus picious of his closest advisers and constantly plotting to gci lhc goods on his supposed enemies Morc than that there arc allcgations of blackmail attempts among various Nixon advisers along with deals and payoffs as part of negotiations that might be con summated by enemy countries rather than by branches of the same government STATEMENTS QUESTIONEI Whether all of Haldcmans statements are based on fact is open to conjecture Somc political observers suggest there is fabrication as well as bizarre history in the llaldeman book But as White House chief of staff Haldeman had an enviable position as observer as well as position of power There is no doubt he had access to information hidden from all others with the exception of Nixon Now Nixon which have chancc to reply with his own memoirs to bc publisth in May Undoubtedly he will sock to refute some of Haldemans remarks Keep on walking Rene Eustries in our largest defence outlay to te WORKABIJJ PLAN Admiral Falls proposed specialized highlevel industry government advisory council in what he called source of consistent advice on both purchasers and suppliers He also emphasized wellknown fact The armed forces and private industry in this country have not found formula for co operation at time of new weapons acquisitions which is not the case with the other NATO industrial powers Admiral Falls did not directly reiterate the unhappy past record of selfindulgence by both the military and their suppliers during previous major periods of weapons acqutsition And he did not have to This chief of the defence staff made it clear the extent of the military outlay over which he Will preside at the beginning and set the ground rules where the armed forces are con cerned The first priority must always be to get the right equipment for the military require ment not Cadillacstyle but equipment tviiillnch can do thejob will not compromise in IS Ground rule No has been established by our most senior military officer at time when the Warsaw Pact nations and the Kostuik started working in the mines 01 Northern Ontario at the age of 16 following in the footsteps of his father who worked un derground at Cobalt for 35 years In Horatio Alger fashion John Kostuik worked his way to the presidency of Denison Mines Ltd which holds the largest known body of uranium ore in the noncommunist world Mining companies such as Denison and people such as Kostuik who manage them see themselves as risktakers developers of hardtof ind resources good employers Their critics on the other hand are fond of labelling them as exploiters polluters and profiteers With the air of one who has been goaded too far Kostuik made these points at the 1978 annual meeting of Denison shareholders Exploitation Miners are among the most highly paid workers in Canada At Elliot Lake Ont Kostuik said the underground miner averages $1450 an hour when incentive earnings and fringe benefits are included Environmental pollution We the miners are the ones who live there not those who say we are polluting The most vocal live in sheltered university or sit in big law office or in government corner And if Denison earnings for 1977 were high 19279 million or $610 share on sales of $1991 million they perhaps out to be related to the high element of risk in the bodmor bust mining industry which has given Dcni son many lean years in the past and has been the downfall of countless companies that Defence chief defines limits of Canadian military spending USSR have truly terrifying buildup of both conventional and nuclear weapons The admiral clearly tossed the ball into the court of private industry not only with his proposal of an advisory council but for in dustry in Canada to face the need and the challenge of international competition What the chief of the defence staff was saying is what industry spokesmen on that podium and others have been saying to each other for much of the 19705 find and im plement an industrial strategy The defence components in this will not only be the estimated $7 billion to be spent on longrange patrol aircraft tanks armored vehicles fighter aircraft and new generation of destroyers It will mount to wider total of $279 billion by 1991 to include minor equipment research and development construction operations and maintenance goods and services HONEST DEFINITION Admiral Falls has been honest in defining publicly the outer limits of Canadian defence spending in the next decade Our military managers are constantly accused of not taking an initiative in this national dialogue The admiral has clearly done so It is time now for our industrial leaders to respond Will they Frustration point reached by Denison Mines president have lost heavily in unsuccessful efforts to create mines One of Kostuiks greatest frustrationsand one thats shared by many other executives who have made similar complaintsis dealing with public officeholders About 70 per cent of our executive time is occupied with governmental bureaucracies andi overlapping government structures he sat We deal with true bureaucrats the definition of which is those individuals who have lost sight of the job at hand If the present situation had been the situation years ago there would be no Sud bury no Elliot Lake no Yellowknife no Trail no Schefferville no Noranda And indeed there would be no Toronto financial community and certainly no bureaucracy to obscure reality SQUEEZEIOUT Those may be strong words but its true that reality all too often is obscuredthe reality that people must be permitted to create wealth if there is going to be any wealth for the bureaucrats to distribute Not long ago taxes and royalties on mining production in Canada exceeded 100 per cent of earnings in certain circum stances Yet the companies that try to generate wealth are subject to unlimited verbal abuse and bureaucratic harassment year after yeardespite the continuing efforts of business to explain and defend the simple economics of the enterprise system park Stokes faces tough times By DON OHEARN Queens Park Bureau Thomson News Service TORONTO Misery One man here probably will know lot about it before this session is over Speaker Jack Stokes of the Ontario legislature may already be having sleepless nights as he thinks about it In fact you couldnt blame him if he were thinking of giving up his job and resuming the peaceful life of private member He undoubtedly isnt for this hardy nor therner is not man to duck challenges But still there must be temptations TWO PAINS For some time now speakers in the Ontario house have had hard time Quite few years ago the house started becoming boisterous and this grew until it of ten was in state of rowdiness This put big burden on the various speakers who of course were charged with maintaining order Some of them just couldnt do it When Stokes took over last year he turned out to be the best we had had He was firm wouldnt stand nonsense and generally kept pretty good control though few times he had to threaten to close down the sitting Despite the relatively better conditions however there were two members who gave him steady trouble Both fellow New Democratic Partyers One was lie Martel of Sudbury East Cassidy had the practice of apparently ignoring the chair The speaker would order him to sit down but he would remain on his feet and keep talking sometimes arguing with the chair and sometimes just continuing with whatever he was talking about usually the latter Martel had the habit of staying on his feet though usually he would try and get into bitter wrangles with the chair HIS OWN Last year Stokes had the comfort that these flareups happened only occasionally But now they threaten every day Cassidy of course is NDP leader now and this means that every day he is in the house he will lead off for his party in question period And Martel has been named NDP house leader which in turn means that when Cassidy is absent he will lead off horrible thought for speaker And it is his own party doing it to him Canada story Burns held world title By BOB BOWMAN In 1955 Vancouver newspapers carried the death notice of Rev Burns There was scarcely ripple of interest except perhaps in the lowincome district of the city where the quiet church minister had worked Nevertheless the formal announcement jolted the memory of sports writer Burns Burns It took day or two and suddenly he realized that the late Rev Burns was none other than Tommy Burns who had been heavyweight boxing champion of the world Citizens of Vancouver were stunned when the story was made known Tommy Burns had retired from the ring in 1921 became church minister and had worked quietly in Vancouver ever since It ind been forgotten that he was one of the most remarkable boxers in the history of the ring Tommy Burns was born in Hanover Ont in 1881 and his real name was Noah Brusso He became boxer in the rough and tumble days of the sport and although he weighed mly 170 pounds he won the worlds heavyweight championship on Feb 23 1906 by defeating Marvin Hart in 20round fight at San Francisco Burns claim to the title was disputed by mmber of other fighters so he agreed to take them on and defeated all of them In fact on me night he fought two challengers and knocked out both of them In recent ears Mohammed Ali boasted that he could the same but never went through with it Burns defeated 10 challengers in the two years he held the title until he fought the huge black boxer Jack Johnson in Australia Burns weighed 170 pounds while Johnson was about 50 He took terrible beating from Johnson and the fight was stopped by police in the 14th round to save him from further punishment Burns could not even get close enough to the Inge Johnson to land blow After the defeat Burns kept fighting and peared in number of Canadian cities including Calgary until he was 40 years old Then he was defeated by British heavyweight Joe Beckett and retired to Vancouver where he became church minister Burns never had trainer or manager He trained himself and wrote book about condi tioning for sports that has been used by many athletes During his career he earned $200 000 and lifted professional boxing into the big money class OTHER FEB 23 EVENTS 1770Samuel Hearne made second attempt to travel from Hudson Bay to Coppermine River 1879First issue of La Patric Montreal 1901Manitoba prohibition law ruled null and void