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xrwsmr 2m W4m4 can gtgtL Elie matrix Examiner Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited 16 Boytleld Street Barrie Ontario Robb PublisherGeneral Manager Wolls Editor Emeritus Henshaw Managing Editor 4The Barrie Examiner Wednesday August 1976 Action seems doubtful on Chamber request Does city council care about downtown Barrie Only the most optimistic of men would say yes The Chamber of Commerce has been pressing city council for some tme for an amendment to the citys official plan designating downtown Barrie as the heart of the city So far nothing has been done And it does not appear anything will be done The chamber has asked to meet with the city development commit tee Thursday evening to discuss the downtown area From what has been said so far the Chambers chances of getting any concrete action are slim In May the Chamber committee on cicic affairs asked for public meeting on the proposed amend ment to the official plan Council in its wisdom Thre has not yet been toward having public meeting passed the request on to Ald Jim Perri and the city development committee And Ald Perri commenting on Chamber letter asking to meet with council Thursday didnt seem too anxious to hold meeting Chamber meeting mittee core any move Or consider an amendment The official plan says Ald Perri already contains the necessary pro visions in different words The official plan was designed to protect the downtown says Ald Perri three months after the asked for the public It pears decision has been made the city development com No action no meetings most peculiar way to treat legitimate request from Barrie group which has shown itself willing to work to revitalize the downtown The Chamber may not get what it wants Thursday evening but some questions might be answered And the answers may be very in teresting come election day Booming selfhelp groups get help from new institute By McDANIEI EVANSTON 111 AP The selfAhelp groups that are boom ing across the country are get ting little help themselvesA from new institute established to study the trend Suddenly out of the wood work you get these little groups nobody ever heard about said Dr Leonard borman direc tor of the Selfllelp Institute af lilialed with the Centre for Ur ban Affairs at Northwestern lniveisity Rorman an anthropologist said the institute plans to gather data about selfhelp groups and provide training and clearing house for in formation to help the groups become more effective No one knows how many self lielp groups there are although some estimates place the figure at halfeinillion taxexempt or ganizations Alcoholics Anonymous 1AA which Bormaii calls the grandaddy of selfhelp organ izations was founded in 1935 and is cst named to have 800000 members In the decade from 1902 to 1972 the number of AA chapters doubled from 9000 to 18000 Borinan says FOR MENTAL PATIENTS Recovery Inc an association of nervous and for iiier mental patients was established in 1937 and now has 15000 members meeting weekly lor mutual support in 1000 groups in the Tinted States Canada Pucrto Rico and Ireland The development atid growth 01 Syiiauoii which liormaii says has had remarkable impact on drug addiction reflects concern over comparativer recently social problem It was formed 111 1038 by loriiicr AA member Other groups include such or gaiiiatioiis as Parents iionyiiious made up of parcn ts who haye abused their children Gamblers noninous tor those trying to oycrcoiiic that problem ltllS Ilikc 111 Pounds Stll siny weight reduction or gaiiiation the Fortune Society iiiidc upot tornicrconr Hits and Reach to Recovery Elir Burrir Examnirr 16 Hayfield Street Barrie Ontario Telephone 72643337 Registration Number 0484 Second Class Mail Return postage guaranteed Daily Sundays and Statutory Holidays excepted Subscription rates daily by carrier 85 cents weekly $44 20 yearly Single copies 15 cents It Mail Barrie 8H 20 yearly Siincix County $3400 yearly Balance of Canada $36 00 year National Advertismg Offices Queen St West Toronto 1710 640 Cathcart St Mon trcul Member of the Canadian Press and Audit Bureau of Cir culations The Canadian Press is ex cluswely entitled to the me for republication of all news dispatches in this paper credited to it or The Associated or Reuter and also the local news published therein The Barrie Examiner claims Copyright in all original adver tising and editorial material created by its employees and reproduced in this newspaper Copyright Registration Number 203815 register 61 for women who have had mastectomies The growth of healthrelated se1fhe1p groups has been striking development over the past decade Borman said IIAS HEART He noted that Mended Hear ts national group for persons who had had heart surgery is growing at the rate of 200 new members month Other organizations include the blind the deaf arthritics and cancer patients who share their anxieties and concerns with each other and offer en couragement and support Borman said different type of selfhelp group is represen tedby the foodbuying clubs formed by consumers to save money There also are groups for widows new mothers who breastfeed homosexuals and the elderly Womens con sciousnessraising organizatio ns fall into the category of self help These groups seem to have the key to problems their people face Borman said One common characteristic they share he said is that they were developed outside of es tablished institutions Their de velopment in part represents an antiprofessional attitude he added TlRN TO EXPERIENCE Many persons who partici pate in these groups want help from somebody who has been down the line Borman said They find it easier to associ ate with group that offers help quickly in person or by phone instead of having to deal with the bureaucracies of pro grams sponsored by hospitals and social agencies Some selfhelp groups such as AA Recovery and Fortune originally were founded by or had the help of professionals But these professionals have had to bootleg their work Borman said they have had no support from their agencies or colleagues And many professionals have been disdainful of the work of selfhelp groups saying they were run by misfits hesaid Borinan said selfthp mu tualaid groups represent con certed attack on some of the most pressing problems of our society and may berSt what is needed in solving many of the social problems rampant in our society Perhaps there are few seg ments of our population that have not or could not benefit in sonic way from participation in sclfrhclp mutual aid groups he said Aussie imports hurting say Prairie cattlemen By JIM PSISAVES EDMONTth tCPt Prairie cattle producers say they are being hurt by lowpriced frozen Beef imported from Australia and New Zealand Ottawa has been succtssful in requesting the two countries to renegotiate contracts for low priced beef exports But Ted Iritcliett of Calgary editor of Beef Today says there is no way Canadian productis can compete because this country labor costs are the highest in the world There is completely differ ent set of economic conditions and production costs in the two down under countries he savs Whll we are saddled with input costs which are higher than anywhere in the world how can we expect to produce product and sell it in com petition with countries who have not bowed down to the un belicveablc labor and price dc mands he said in recent edi torial IMPORTS Preliminary figures for 1975 showed 1173 million pounds of meat imported from Australia and New Zealand up 17 per cent from 1974 Previously most of the im ported frozen meat was used in manufacturing wieners REVIVE OLD ROADS WASHINGTON DC AP The Road Information Program says onefourth of the United States 38 million miles of roads have reached middle age and need rejuvenation is is based on an average life expectancy of 22 years for new pavement Failure to resurface the 938305 miles of road means they will eventually have to be completely rebuilt at 42 times the cost of repavings was ea bologna ind lllill with lid trimmings in l1it11ltllt1c1 Only about 11 per cent of was lean boneless betf used 111 the hoth and restaurant trade but this iiiiiipci dixiiiiatically to more than lit pir cent during the last Muir Mr lritchcti said This llltll now finds tls way into the last steakhouse chains that iduitisi completi steak dinners loi under The inipoilcd incal directly to wholesales ind llllll the liolcsilcis directly to retail outlcts lliis llllllltlltt prices paid to liauic ciittlc roduccis which icicnlly l1ic been up to $100 an annual ll than the cost 01 prmliiction he said group ol about 13 farmers in the tliioway district 23 miles northwest ot hcic l1ift11lllttl an associazion which has declared ll ll no repay llltll goycininczit guaranteed cow call loans until 1tic iiicit goyciiiiiiciit ltllitllk llili economic plight tliic tlnoway calilriinn Kendrick says hc now about 1000 signatures petition seeking moratorium loans be repaid prices Ilsc x11 liti has 011 iltlll until WE WANT YOIR lllNlON Letters submitted for publication must be original copies signed by the writer Please include your street ad dress and phone number although they will not be published Letters which can not be authenticated by phone cannot be published For the sake of space public interest and good taste The Examiner reserves the right to edit con dense or reect letter that suggests no till lc Iul a¢ emerge vV oow ryp vpnr yrr 44 The right place at the right time FROM PARLIAMENT HILL Were back to 1969 state with decision on bookstores By STEWART MacLEOI Ottawa Bureau Thomson News Service When Supply Minister Jean lierre Goyer announced that the government would close its six bookstores across Canada you suddenly got the feeling that we have come full cycle from 1969 when Prime Minister Trudeau launched new infol iiiatioiidrivc At that time special task force looked at federal informa tion services and decided they were drifting downriver bum ping and bobbing and sometimes disappearing en tirely in ra ids of confusion If Cana ians were to be in formed of what the federal gov ernment was doing on their be half new information agency should be established said this report It was estimated that some $200 million was being THE WORLD TODAY Free government newest in Europe Ry ltlll llRlllON Ioreign ffairs Analyst Thomson New Scry icc In world where democracy is subteitcd destroyed and plitlllttl it is pleasure to rc port on its success in Portugal and die establishment there of Europes newest ficc govern incnt This resulted lIOIIl the clccr tion of ticn llltllllll Ramalho lioics as president and Social is party Leader Mario Soarcs is pi llIlt minister The latter as essential after President IIancss victory but not iiiinditory since the Social is party had won only 35 per th ol ln otc in the election of iiiid July The extreme lcttist can didiuc Hitlo Samoa dc ar illio won oiin 10 per cent of thc otc trailed by sickly and scrying liciniei losc Plllllttln dc cvcdo and less than eight pci ccnl to the oiiiiiiunists and lltl illltlltlllt ilctai in Pain licstdcnt elect Hones had shown he would be 11011011 scnsc politician licn he put down last mciiibcns military ltMll tlltl no less than eight iimy backed mini regimes had tailed to bring political peace to lortugal He has also warned Commu inst lato not to engage in any campaign of agitation after the election that is the subver sion tactics in which the Com munists excel when they are de feated at the polls Il1tltRC RESTORE Thus for the first time in ex ltll halt century this tiny Iberian state stripped of the riches as well as the problems of its former African empire has democracy restored The end of the long corporale state in the Pollugufse home land began one mtght 53 from the ideas carried back in the knapsacks of Portugal re turning colonial regiments the revolutionary and neoMaiXist concepts of the African liber at ion movements These farleft ideas domi nated the younger officer cadres of the Portuguese arm during the several political crises which wracked the nation in 1975 It was grim irony that the empire so long held and now di vested by Lisbons tlttltts should have exported more than minerals and products but ideas to radically upset con servativc homeland iid now the uphill climb be gins to restore an economy 11 aged by political infightingand large injection of unworkablc workcis assemblies and an ad anccd form of socialism spent each year by Ottawa in an attempt to inform Canadians of federal activities and much of this was being wasted in duplication and general inefficiency The task force produced Jimpage report which referred to ludicrous results from some current federal informa tion programs The general conclusion was that taxpayers really didnt know how Ottawa The parallel is not unlike the legacy of sucl heavy workers invnlycincnt in industry which was lcaluri of thc Allende liiis1icgtnicintlnic loliticlcd working class lcadcts coiiiplctcly untrained in management skills iliiiost ruined Chilean indiistiy loi cign 111 cstniciil and bank loans dried up YOUR BUSINESS Cities outward sprawl puts squeeze on farmlano Ry viscist no Business and Consumer ffairs iialy st Thomson New Sery ice All across Canada cities iio sprawling outward and putting the sqiiccc on the agriciiltuizil hinterland An iiicicasingl urbaiiicd pipulations need for mort hy ing space is in conflict with llic widely recognized need to in crease food production The conflict itself is as old as time but its finally reaching crisis proportions III some areas Theres no shortage of solu tions to the crisis everyone can produce one but each solution seems to haw fatal flaw in it Meanwhile provincial gover nmentswhich could act seem to be immobilized much as rabbit becomes im mobilized by the threat of snake classic case is that of the tenderfrun and grape lands of Ontarios Niagara peninsula The land much of it sheltered by an escarpment is uniquely suited to the production of peaches and grapes Its also an area of pros perous industry with plenty of highpaying jobs Demand for living space is strongnot only from working families but from those who attracted by its st enn beauty l1ltl1lltli it as pldtt tor ond home or ictirciiieid home HI RI tl2 llicpcoplc All i1tllt1tilt tullt llrt ot their agiu ulturai litr lilyn so much that the annual iagaia tirapc and Wine lcstiial it catharines not has attracted strong community support and become one of North Americas mayor recreational cy ents More than about ISIlOrs are expected at this years fes tiial the 13th running from Scpl tho2o Nevertheless the Niagara Regional Council has juSl oted by substantial margin to extend urban boundaries in way that ill take 7600 acres of fruitgrowing land out of pro duction and permit residential and commerCial development instead That decision has been pro tested by lnleIdualS and groups who are concerned about maintaining an adequate level of farm production to feed rapidly growing p0pu1ation They contend that too much of this unique land has already been paved over The Ontario government on ce before overruled somewhat similar decision of was spending their money From this report came Infor mation Canada new federal agency which was to work in cooperation with all existing information personnel scat tered through some 40 depart ments and agencies We were told that millions of dollars would be saved STORMY LALNCIIING It is important that Cana dians be informed about what their federal government is doing said Prime Minister Trudeau when he announced the formation of Information Canada 11c was particularly annoyed that provincial governments always appeared to be bogging the credit on sharcdcost programs The launching was stormy with opposition spokesmen ac cusing Mr Trudeau of estabe lishing Liberal propaganda agency Robert Stanfield then leader of the Conservative party said that if elected he would disbaiid the agency Rut Information Canada apr pearcd to flourish as new of ficcs opened across Canada nd major part of its business as selling books jolt prey ioiisly held by The Queens lllllltl the Niagara Regional Council It may well do so again Whether the decision to urba nm the farming land is per mitted to stand or is vetoed some people arc going to be convinced that an injustice has taken place POLICY IIllll Farmers work hard to make living that most of them con sider inadequate llS there farmer anywhere who cant produce figures to show that at beast he barely breaks even When they see newcomers paying skyhigh prices for reSi dential land stones throw from their farms they natu rally resent those laws that for bid them to accept offers for their land at comparable m8 ketprices That resentment is the greater whenas is the 6855 the Niagara region this year the market for their Producllon has shrunk and IN Pmes fallen But who can question the va rotestsagainst the lg llllrfeplaceable farm land Groups such as the On tario Institute of Agrologists have been warning that the vinces farms Wlll not be producing enough to feed the population within 25 years Americans CANADAS STORY Strange role for Washington By BOB BOWMAN George Washington played strange role in Canadian his tory First as British officer he helped capture Canada from France Then during the American Revolutionary War he tried to capture Canada and got great deal of help from France Washington might have suc ceeded in capturing all the Brit ish North American colonies if he had attacked the Maritimes at the beginning of the war In stead he sent troops to attack Montreal and Quebec Montreal fell easily but the Americans were defeated at Quebec and had to withdraw their troops from Canada In November 1775 when the were attacking Montreal and Quebec there were only 126 ablebodied troops in the garrison at Halifax and they would have had to defend what now is Nova Scotia New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island The Americans could have captured the entire territory and then blockaded the St Lawrence so the British could not get troops and supplies up the river to Canada Washington was reluctant to attack Nova Scotia but New England ships raided many of the coastal villages They felt that Nova Scotia should have Jomed in the revolt gainst Brit iin However on Ant 11 1775 Washington said That prov ince has not acceded it is true to the measures of Congress but it has not commenced hos tilities against them nor are any to be ap rehended T0 at tack it there ore is measure of conquest rather than de fence Historians have neglected the exciting story of the sea war off the coast of the Maritimes One of the British frigates that took part had young captain Ho ratio Nelson He fell in love with girl at Quebec and that story will be told on the appro priate date OTHER AUG EVENTS 158FJoliii Davis entered Ar ctic strait now named after him 1755Acadians were sum moned to Port Cumberland for deportation 1791 Prince Edward father of Queen Victoria became commanding officer of garrison atQuebec WiltsAmericans reoccupied Fort Niagara as result of Jays Treaty 1874Pioneer newspaper man PC Laurie arrived at Battleford lamCanadian Home and School Association was founded at Toronto 1960 Medical Council of established 1905 Russia bought 187 mil lion bushels of Canadian wheat Research Canada was INTERPRETING THE NEWS Admission embarrassing for Kissingers visit By BRUCE LEVIZTT WASHINGTON tCPi The United States disputing Paki stans resolve to match Indias atomic bomb potential has been forced into an embar rassing admission Reports made public here disclose there is high probability that the US however unwittingly helped Inr dia into the nuclear club in the first place The admission is doubly em barrassing to the US since it coincides with State Secretary issingerstriptoPakistan Kissinger is conducting talks with Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto apparently to warn Pakistan it risks losing all American economic and mili tary aid if it goes ahead with the purchase of nuclear fuel reprocessing plant from Frane ce Such plant would be ca pable of making bomb material from the irradiated spent fuel of civilian nuclear reactors There is little doubt the Piiklr stani drive was spurred by the atomic blast set off in 1974 by neighhiringlndia TOET2RSS Bhutto has vowed that Paki stan will match Indias capacity even if Pakastaiiis have to eat grass to pay for it Canada permanently termi nated its nuclear citoperation with India because Canadian supplied research reactor was used to make the material for the Indian explosive device and became India refused to give satisfactory assurances it would not do the same thing again Now Kissinger Senator Abraham has written liiliicolt Let not llllllt heart envy sin ners But he thou iii the fear of the Lord all the day long Pro verbs 321 Let ind decide what you are to have and dont envy the per son who appears to have it made you never know what may comewith it If the Son therefore shall make you free ye shall be free itidied John it lie is the key and with our permission He will open us up peace have and never to life of release that we known 13115114 41m ti iii11 PICK OF PUNCH The other backers and feel that youre attempting Dem ConnI stating there is likelihood that US heavy water was used in the Canadian reactor in India The leltcr and an accom panying state department analysis blames incorrect calculations and mis interpretation of Indian state ments for the original assess ment Heavy water is an expensive manvmadc chemical containing more than the natural propor tion of heavy hydrogen atoms found in ordinary water and is essential for some types of re actors including Canadas famed Tandu reactor BOTIISIIESIOSI€ Should Pakistan insist on go ing ahead with the purchase of the reprocessing plant and should the CS back its warn ing to the hill the result may be costly both to Pakistan and the from strategic stan dpoint embargo on arms sales to Pakistan imposed af ter the IndiaPakistan war of 1071 was lifted last year Aid to Pakistan from the IIS amounted to more than $162 million in the ensuing period and estimates lll that it may approach twice that figures in the year ahead Among the hardware Paki stan ants from the is the light attack let bomber The lS has hinted that any such sales might llt liltllktll unless lilkllllll cooperate on the nus lltll1llt llllltls litlt ilso sec the possibility ciiicrgnig of stale matc on the critical issue lead ing to renewed rift iwtween the two countries forcing Paki stan to look clstvacii for aid and thc losing triend in SillSll lt lllil nd as llltlll is riciiyed him to them gate he power to become lhc sons of Coal even to them that belieic on his name Iolinl 13 We lXCtilllt it part of the family of God llflle on our relations uh lli in He must increase but must decrease loliu 110 The business of every hris ban is to lift up the Sai tour and play down self The greatest problem of the church is that we have not held Ilim up as the answer abs to incorporate too many unrelated themes into one movie