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Ellie Titanic Examiner Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited 16 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario Robb PublisherGeneral Manager Walls Editor Emeritus Henshaw Managing Editor 4The Barrie Examiner Wednesday August l8 I976 Taxpayers the losers éon Civic Square Towers Barrie taxpayers are the losers in the citys decision not to pursue the opportunity to buy Civic Square Towers as city hall The attempt to purchase the building was compared un favorably with the proposal to build swimming pool But there was no real comparison The swimming pool was luxury item new city hall is necessity The present city hall apart from being one of the ugliest buildings around is cramped and totally unsuitable for city the size of Barrie And should annexation go through the inade uecies of the present city hall wil be glaringly apparet Why did the city lose the bid to get new city hall being the least of them Both candidates opposing Mayor scenting motherhood issue couldnt wait to let everyone know the idea was Dorian Parker bad one And this opposition made the ci itys attempt to get the building somewhat less than enthusiastic Then there was the Ontario Municipal Board the guardian of our fiscal morality which would have had to rule on the purchase if it jwent through The OMB apparently the vinces hatchetman when it comes Several reasons with politics not probably purchase to restraint on municipalities would not have approved the That lingering doubt about the thing final fate of the purchase offer must have made the sellers of the building hesitant about the whole The city also had to make its bid public which gave others in terested in the building rather nice break Dunwoodco may sciously used the citys bid as lever to get more for the building But if Dunwoodco did in fact do not have con that the firm cannot be blamed for doing so Certainly any bidder seriously in terested in the building would not have entered bid below the citys As for the complaint by some civic officials that Dunwoodco didnt say immediately after midnight Friday the citys bid was too low take it with grain of salt After all how often does the city let low bidders know their bids arent successful Mayor Parker had good idea It is unfortunate that cir cumstances combined to make hash of the idea The taxpayers are now facing the prospect of building new city hall And with the spending habits of some of the present aldermen it will be nothing short of miracle if con pro EYOUR BUSINESS Deficit on foreign trade has effect on most of us By VINCENT EGAN Business and ousunier Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service When someone says that Can adas 1975 deficit on current account was record $51 bilv lion the temptation is to shrug and look for some more rele vant and upbeat information That fact that our foreign trade is so deeply in the red however has direct effect on most Canadians iii the lower rate of economic activity and in the higher interest you pay on loans to mention only two of the most obvious effects As we broaden the gap by ini porting more and exporting fewer manufactured products we eliminate countless actual or potential Jobs in anada And to finance the deficit by borrowing more and more capi tal abroad we have to maintain hiin interest rates in Canada to lure foreign investors The conventional wisdom has been that as Canada is an ex porting country its only natu rail that demand for our prod ucts should have slumped dur ing the worldwide recession that followed the 197374 ex plosioii in prices of crude oil and other coniniodit ies It followed again according to the conventional wisdom that the inevitable recovery from that international reces sion would restore the foreign demand for Canadas exports and thus eliminate our trade deficit OUTLOOKl0ll That comforting prospect seems more like wishful think ing after reading ot survey of the trends and prospects in 5111 iBarrir Examiner It Hayfield Street Barrie Utlltltlo Telephone Hist Registration Number 0434 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for our foreign trade and balance of payments Canada hasnt yet felt the full impact of the 197374 quin tupling of the world market price of crude oil says the au thor of the study Dr Charles Barrett Soon he adds domestic de mand for petroleum products will exceed our oil production and Canada will be net impor ter of oil by necessity rather than by choice as at present The outlook is for substan tial and increasing overall trade deficit in energy begin ning in 1977 and continuin into the 1980s Dr Barret pr icts Canadas is an open economy and our policy makers fancy themselves as pacesetters in worldwide trade liberalization Unfortunately no other countries are falling into the parade that Canada is leading Dr Barrett sees little hope of multilateral lowering of trade barriers and distinct possibility that international struction of the new city hall costs anything near $5 million economic growth will be lower in the future than in the past Canada exported more mer chandise than it imported in ev ery year from 1961 to 1974 And throughout the 19605 our cur rent accountincluding not only merchandise trade but also service transactions and transfers such as dividends and interest paymentswas strengthening Those were the years of Can adas greatest prosperity Canadians incomes and stan dard of living improved as never before largely as result of our participation in the 1960s expansion of world trade Now those glory days are gone and we cant sell enough exports to pay for our imports Nevertheless large numbers of Canadians cling to their 19605 type expectations and demand that the economic system to continue to reward them more generously each year on geo metrically increasing scale Inflation has been the only way to meet those ex ggctations And heavy foreign rrowin at high interest cost has the only way to offset our massive deficits In the short term inflation and foreign borrowings may do the job In the long run their economic cost is staggering THE WORLD TODAY Uphill struggle for GOP to win the presidency By JOHN HARBRDN Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service tnlike 1972 the Republican presidential candidate will have an uphill struggle to make the timed States presidency next fall Six years ago the Democrats had sure loser Senator George McGovern whose radi cal politics even for the Demo cratic party split the rankand file beleaguered as it was with the tailend of the radical stu dent niovement the hippies anti the opters out from American society This time the Democrats have winner in Senator Jim niy Carter shnewd and cer tain political animal to just about everyones surprise The American nation is no longer torn asunder by the deep tragedy of Vietnam The angry universities are quiet The stu dents arc hitting the books much like their docile campus predecessors of the apolitical Conversely the Republicans do not have winner which was the case in 197 when the de posed Richard Nixon had the largest majority in any presi dential election to date But what must concern Re publicans more than ever in country agam labelled con servative intts overall value system is that they are the de clining party in contemporary America DECLINE More than one careful and cautiouslytaken poll indicates Republicans have less than 30 per cent of the electorate one of these conducted by CBS teler VISIOH network setting it at 27 per cent The Democrats on the other hand have close to 45 per cent of the electorate with the re maining 30 per cent or so be longing to the noncommitted voter in the Nor is the decline and prog nosticated final demise of the US Republican party recent phenomenon All the polls show the Republicans have been los ing ground slowly since the days of Calvin Coolidge whose standpat image many say President Gerald Ford is doing good job of duplicating Now that represents decline in more than half century of federal politics and decades in which Republican presidents have indeed sat in the White House namely Hoover Eisen hower and Nixon The grim iron in these un disputable statistics is that they come at time when the basic conservatism of the American voter also is shared by themtherwise liberal and crusading Democrats and by FROM PARLIAMENT HILL Changes for sake of change unlikely in any Shufflin By STEWART MacIEOI Ottawa Bureau Thomson News Service When people talk of federal cabinet shuffles it is usually in terms of changing the image of governmentbringing in set of fresh faces to convince vot ers they now have golden op portunity to elect brand new team As result there have been many predictions of major shuffle in Ottawa because the Liberals havent exactly been burning up the Gallop Polls In terms of public popularity the Trudeau government can ob viously use all the help it can get And highlyplaced sources say there are fascinating arguments going on within Mr Trudeaus own office about how to refurbish his image There are those who want the prime minister to dump up to 10 of his present ministers and present his new government to the public as gungho vigorous team that bears little overall resemblance to the existing cabinet Then there are those and they include Mr Trudeau himself who are arguing that cabinet shuffles are grossly overrated in terms of in fluencingthe public In one exchange on the sub ject the prime minister was re ported to have offered the view that regardless of the numbers involved in shuffle within few days the public would be talking of the Trudeau cabi net again as if nothing hap pened He apparently used the term oneday wonder to de scribe the effects of shuffle WANTS OliELLET Those close to the prime min ister says that apart from ex pressing determination to ring Andre Ouellet back into Trotskyites reopen murder investigation LONDON Reuter British believers in Leon Trotskys in terpretation of communism have begun an international in vestigation into the assassina tion 36 years ago of the Russian theoretician Trotsky one of the leaders of the Bolshevik revolution was killed at his home in Mexico by young man who hit him in the head with an ice axe Trot skyists maintain that the assas xe see substantial percentage of the noncomniitted Some say Jimmy Carter the southern Baptist exnaval commander and favorite of the admiral father of the nuclear submarine and as selfmade businessman is about as con servative as incumbent Gerald Ford None knows for sure if this is completely true since Carter like our own Pierre Trudeau on the verge of electoral victory in the early summer of 1968 has made no major political prom ises or projections Either way the US will end up with conservative chief of state in the White House next January And this means one who will take the Russian threat con stant element of our era since 1945 much more seriously It also means the poor dis possessed materially and in tellectually of the US still will be deprived of the many state benefits we know in this count trythrough medicare state health plans greater exten sion of the welfare state thar in the For the Republicans however it is those unassailable figures of declining membership which will be their great nightmare of the 19805 no matter who wins the presidency next November sin was an agent of foreign government Alex Mitchell editor of the Trotskyite newspaper Newsline told news con ference Monday We do not believe this mystery has been fully cleared up We believe our investigation will expose the conspiracy of the century Harold Robins an American who was Trotskys personal bodyguard at the time is in London to help in the investiga tion Trotsky found political asy lum in Mexico City in 1937 hav ing been sentenced to death for what the then Soviet leadership under the late dictator Josef Stalin called high treason fol lowing Soviet Communist party leader Vladimir Lenins death in I924 xw li ANIIRIIOLIIHJIT cabinet he hasnt actually made any firm decisions Mr uellct it will be recalled was the minister of consumer and corporate affairs who was con victed of contempt of court and left the cabinet during the so called Judges Affair Ills appeal is pending and the prime minister wants to hear this decision before tem pering with his cabinet And in the meantime the point can be made that if Mr Trudeau doesnt know what he is going to do with his cabinet there is little point in the rest of us dabbling in guessing games However the prime minisa ters philosophy on the effects of cabinet change represents an interesting departure from tra ditional viewpoints Successive Canadian prime ministers have always placed high priority on making those image changes at the right moment usually before key general election and shuffling the dear departed off to theSenate Back in 1963 former Con servative prime minister John Dicfenbaker got great mileage out of accusing Lester Pearson of governing with the same old buncha reference to the fact that several senior mem bers of the Liberal cabinet were holdovers from the government of Louis St Laurent And Mr Pearson would acknowledge privately that somehow he must update his cabinets image BUT NOT TRUDEAU But apparently Mr Trudeau is making no such acknowledg ements One of the prime ministers senior advisors ap parently went to him with the suggestion that it might be politically profitable to move Transport Minister Otto Lang to another portfolio Mr Lang angered most Quebec Liberal MPs when he agreed to con troversial terms of reference for an inquiry into the use of French in groundtoair com munications The prime minister rejected the suggestion He was repor ted to have said that Mr Lang is basically doing good job and change in portfolio for him would have virtually no im pace on the bilingualism issue But it was in this connection he was anxious to see Mr uel let back in cabinet Next to for mer environment minister Jean Marcliand who quit cabinet over that particular language issuerMr Ouellet had been the most influential minister among his Quebec colleagues He has been described by one backbencher as voice or reason who hears everything at the grossroots level And during period of ex pected language tensions the prime minister wants to ensure that people like Mr uellet are in position of some authority But it now seems unlikely that there will be any cabinet changes merely for the sake of change IT WILL be an uphill struggle for whoever gets the Republican presidential nomination says columnist John Harbron But President Ford opposed by Ronald Reagan had little difficulty staying on his feet as the Republican convention opened in Kansas City His son Jack grabbed the presidents coat tails AP Photo READER FORUM Urges council to do best With What the city has DearSir What am about to write is not concrete facts but my thoughts about many hap penin in the ration of the city Barrie ere will be no dates because just do not remember any In early Spring of 1976 small rumble was heard about annexing more land for the city of Barrie then it turned into quite noise because Barrie wanted too much land from surrounding townships It was said at that time along with many other things that we arelookingtothe year 2000 Well say this is irrespon sible because first if they are talking about the planning of the city they had better for of it because the planning to ate has not been that great If you will note there is in dustry and residential mixed all over the city except for the east end and if my memory serves me right they were talking about industry for what they annexed from the Town ship of 0m If they want land they can take what is offered them by the townships and designate one area for industrial use and then get the lead out and get some industry in to bet defray the tax load on the resit ents Secondly note that the residential taxes have more than doubled in ten years and all the services that were added were usually unwanted ie un nexes the Sears mall and necessary sidewalks that surrounding business the nobody desired money that they draw to their Third one alderman made statement that we need more housing in Barrie As far as Im concerned figure they have enough housing with some being built under the rules and regulations of the city and the building code at prices that most people cannot afford and feel owning home built by one of the better builders in Barrie that these new homes in these developments are gar bagc DOWNTOWN ORE Fourth we must not forget the downtown core To me the very controversial trees on the main street add ab soluter nothing and for the city to spend money on the lighting and upkeep of them at CANADAS STORY Chief fled to Canada By BOB BOWMAN Western Canada was in great danger in 1877 when Sitting Bull and 4000 Sioux crossed the bor der into southern Saskat chewan and stayed for four years Fortunately the newly created North West Mounted Police were able to keep them under control until they retur ned to the United States It wasnt the first time that Sioux Indians from the US sought refuge in Canada al though it wasnt Canada then but the Red River area belong ing to the Hudsons Bay Com pany Little Crow was Sioux chief living in Minnesota reserva tion and had tried to adopt the ways of the white men He wore suit collar and tie and at tended church every Sunday Unfortunately he and his fol lowers were badly treated Their monthly food supplies of ten arrived late and the food was apt to be wormy and spoiled When Little Crow CODplilllrl to the storekeepers in August 1862 he was told If your people are hungry let them ci grass Little Crow went to church usual the following Sunday but called council of war the next day He told his followers that they must regain their freedom and nothing could stop them On Monday Aug 18 the Storekeeper was found dead his mouth stuffed with grass Then the Sioux went on the war path and killed 2000 people in two days However they could not com pete with military might and had to flee to British terri tory Little Crow went to Fort tarry and called on Gov Dal las for hel He showed the gov ernor als and flags that had been presented to the Sioux by the British and reminded liiiii THE PICK OF tlWhats happening to our me there another deux old barn boards rails etc does not add to the beauty our city They have rules for time when we are supposedly tight for money lacks imagination Furthermore the city should not allow the downtown mer chants to renovate their place of business using such things as think it looks stupid and of residential areas why do they not have rules for the business section Just this week heard an alderman whose name do not recall state that they should either issue debentures or raise the taxes Well say cut ding because it is easy fort em to raise the taxes however cannot go to my employer and say Hey man the city raised my taxes got to have more money It was stated on the news that Vespra Township was using scare tactics with the people of Barrie saying that if Barrie an nexed all this land it was going to increase their taxes that statement was no scare tactics it isthetruth All the people have to do is stop and think if Harrie added more land in the quantities that they want it will require more policing maintenance and ser vicing of this land therefore costing more money which will apply in reverse to the townships For example if they city an townships will be lost as well as the residents and farmers of these townships will only incur greater taxes and who else but the farmers cant take much more before they collapse In closing would like to say that think Barrie would be wise at this time to accept land that has been offered even un der pressure from the people from the surrounding town ships and city and cut out these childish earrings on and save the taxpayers money with lawyer fees etc and get on with the job we elected them for giving us the best ad ministration they can with what they have Concerned Taxpayer Eugene Mortan Barrie that the Sioux had been prom ised the protection of the red flagof the north Gov Dallas agreed to provide food but no guns or ammunition which the Sioux needed to sure vivc Little row disbanded his men and went back into the with his son They were picking berries when white man saw them Believing the adage The only good Indian is dead In than he killed them OIllIIB AlG IX EVENTS 1652 Iroquois attacked Irois Rivicres and killed tiov Iluplr essis 1703 French and Indians from Ilacentia Nfld destroyed Honavista and bur tied four ships isizi George Brown ptililishcd Thc Banner for Presleyfcrzanfhurch tum Edward Prince of Wales Later King Edward II iffl ed Quebec Marquis of Lansdowne ticcame gm crnorgeneral isit Parliament began spe ci ir sessniii 1336 Alexander Graham Be Museum was opened at lit lxxlx we Placental Vfld cele bratni tcrtciiteiiaiy of its founr lillill llltll illl RtltlttlllNl me my God concerning this and wipe not out my good deeds that have done for the house of my Iod and for the offices thereof theiiiiah It The Lord has long memory and many rewards for the failitul Slay iii there with the work of itd and ill servant of find You shall in no wise lose your reaml lNCH nage trois Jennifervare