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112 Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited 16 Bayiield Street Barrie Ontario Robb PublisherGeneral Manager Walls Editor Emeritus DIM Henshaw Managing Editor 4The Barrie Examiner Friday Octal l976 Barrie and county have mutual interest In holding down its overall tax levy in year when most municipal and regional administrations have had to increase taxes Simcoe Coun ty council has received much merited commendation Warden Orville Hughes has em phasized the county administration over the years has shown the in terest of ratepayers and seeing they receive value for their tax dollars of prime concern review of minutes during past decade directs attention to numerous resolutions opposing dif ferent approaches toward estab lishing regional government which ultimately brought assurance last year from provincial government spokesmen this would not be forced upon this area comparison of county tax figures and levies here with regional areas shows that this stand has already resulted in substantial savings to property taxpayers living in member municipalities At the same time as opposing regional government the county council has been openminded about updating and restructuring its ad ministration on an acceptable democratic basis The general feel ing seems to be that each proposal for change should be considered on its merits rather than have far reaching changes made in pack age deal before all aspects are fully understood ExpanSlon of the crty of Barrie now to be followed by the city of Orillia and then Midland Coll ingwood and the southern area are well recognized as not only feasible but inevitable There are dif ferences of opinion on various an nexation ideas which should be fair ly solved by full and open discussion the so all the implications are made known Rural taxpayers who are told they might benefit by industrial and commercial assessment from larger municipalities could be misled if not also made aware of the necessary additional taxation for required services There was time when annexa tions were largely government by mutual consent often when an ur ban area petitioned to be annexed to obtain city services In the present era of faster development it is realized there are other considera tions such as pollution control and protection of environment which cannot be disregarded There also is valid interest in protection of farmland With proposals for extensive pro perty tax reforms and other up dating there is indication that some municipal amalgamations might be advisable in order to provide suffi cient tax base for efficient opera tion Townships which are affected by annexations may be given this aspect later consideration as well as some small villages But it should be remembered that there are still large areas of sparse population in Simcoe County even some areas which havent been developed With its central location and long time county centre Barrie is generally recognized as leading development community of this part of the province The civicpride of Barrie residents is reflected in their interest in orderly development and this should be understood The county and the city would both benefit by recognizing each others responsibilities and ambi tions with mutual cooperation INIERPRETING THE NEWS Another welltlmed drlve by Kissinger the diplomat By GARRY FAIRBAIRN WASHINGTON CP Once again US president is mov ing into the home stretch of his reelection campaign with Henry Kissinger directing welltimed diplomatic drive that could win political points for the administration Four years ago Richard Nixons reelection campaign received boost when Kissinger announced imminent peace in Vietnam Now another Republican Gerald Ford heads toward the Nov residential election with eadlines announcing Kis singers efforts to avert grisly racial war in Rhodesia In another similarity with the closing weeks of the 1972 cam paign investigations are being started into the campaign fi nances of Republican presi dent The Watergate scandal was just starting to come to public attention when Nixon won his landslide 1972 victory over George McGovern This week Democratic leaders began com menting on recentlystarted investigation into how Ford fi nanced old campaigns for the House of Representatives SITUATION DIFFERS But beneath the superficial similarities both the diplomatic drive and financial investigation of 1976 present sharp contrasts to their 1972 chi IBarrlr Examiner 16 Bayfieid Street Barrie Ontario Telephone 7264537 Registration Number 0484 Second Class Mail Return postage guaranteed Daily Sundays and Statutory Holidays excepted Subscription rates daily by carrier 85 cents weekly $4420 yearly Single copies 15 cents By Mail Barrie $4420 yearly Simcoe County $3400 yearly Balance of Canada $3600 year ly National Advertising Offices 65 Queen St West Toronto 8641710 640 Cathcart St Mon treal Member of the Canadian Press and Audit Bureau of Cir culations The Canadian Press is ex clusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches in this paper credited to it or The Associated Press 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 Co yright Registration Num r203815 register 61 counterparts The differences reflect major changes in the US political situation and in the political standing of the in cumbent presidents Even if Kissinger manages to hammer out an agreement for orderly transition to black ma jority rule in Rhodesia Ford will not gain as much as Nixon did with Vietnam There are no US troops in Rhodesia and the current election campaign has been dominated by domestic is sues Kissinger himself has become somewhat of political liability since 1972 under at tack by many Republicans as well as Democrats Also the Rhodesian issue could hurt Ford Leaders of black African states say Kissin gers proposed agreement en visages far too long timetwo yearsfor the tran sition to black rule while the Rhodesian government com plains that US officials misled it into believing the black leaders had accepted the proposed agreement If US efforts produce no agreement and black guerrilla action in Rhodesia intensifies Ford may become vulnerable although the situation is un likely to become clear before the Oct television debate with Democratic challenger Jimmy Carter At the moment com mentators conclude that Ford should take that debate handily because of greater familiarity with the issues and his adminis trations basically popular record in foreign affairs In another contrast to 1972 the president needs foreign policy coup Whereas Nixon eld continuous and com manding lead over McGovern in the opinion polls Ford has lagged behind Carter For that reason Republican strategists must be grateful at the differences between the Watergate investigation and the investigation of Fords finances Whereas Nixon was even tually exposed as being ulti mately responsible for com prehensive pattern of corrup tion burglary and subversion of the constitution even Fords enemies tend to take lowkey approach to his troubles with investigators in Michigan In Grand Rapids Mich Fords home territory where the FBI has seized Republican records to determine whether some union d0nations were im properly spent in Ford election campaigns Democratic lawyer Jean McKee said Ill be very much surprised if it turns out to besomething CANADAS STORY Henday travelled looking for furs By BOB BOWMAN Another Henday was probably the first white man to see the Rockies in 1754 althou there is sibility that distinction longs to two sons of Pierre de la Verendrye in 1743 Henday was former smug gler from the Isle of Wight who joined the Hudsons Bay Com pany in 1750 after he had been outlawed from Britain The purpose of his journey in 1754 was to try to persuade In dians on the Prairies to bring their furs to Hudson Bay He left in June with band of In dians and arrived at present day Red Deer Alberta on Oc tober It was remarkably fast trip considerin the modes of transport availab Henday met the Blackfeet In dians in the foothills of the Rockies and was surprised to learn that they could not take furs to Hudson Bay because they did not use canoes They travelled on horseback Henday seemed to have en joyed the ru ed trip and kept diary He ad number of feasts with Indians along the way and wrote You can never fill an Indian am not behind thank God and have good stomach As am looked upon as leader have ladies of dif ferent ranks to attend me Please observe the men do nothing but hunt and we leaders hath lady to hold the thogin with water to our heads when we drink Henday did manage to find Indians in the Edmonton area who would bring furs to Hudson Bay and began the return jour ney in April 1755 with 60 heav ilyladen canoes Although he was former smuggler he wasnt as wily as some of the French traders he met on his way back to Hudson Bay They entertained him and his Indians and got most of the fur OTHER EVENTS 0N OCT ionFog Clement estab lished Bis olpric atQuebec HIMCivil aw replaced milio tary rule 1853T0r0nt0 Globe was is sued as daily newspaper oarPrime Minister Ifiarrir Examiner EEBVETCHIVIIG ABOUT WAGE AND PRICE CONTROLS THE WHOLE IDEA WAS HIS REMEMBER WE KEPT TELLING YOU IT WAS WRONG WE KNEW YOU WOULDNI LIKE IIIEM REMEMBER THE WORLD TODAY Arab emlrates portrait By JOHN HARBRON Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service The United Arab Emirates earn about $55 billion from their oil revenues But apart from those people in the inter national oil business they are largely unknown to the rest of us They are collection of very small but wealthy Arab oil kingdoms situated on hook of land near the entrance to the Persian Gulf on the SaudiAra bian side the Iranian coastline running along the northern side of the same gulf They include Abu Dhabi the largest of the group Dubai Sharjah and Ras al Khaimah Their closest neighbors are the vast kingdom of SaudiArabia major oil producing state tiny Kuwait another oilrich Arab kingdom and the oilpoor but highlypolitical Oman Each emirate pursues an in dependent policy where its oil resources are concerned but have supported loose con federation politically with Sheik Zayed ben Sultan of Abu Dhabi as the accepted ruler of the group All the worlds major mul tinational oil corporations and many of its independents oper ate in all four emirates And suppliers to all four states are buSlly creating new town sites highways shopping centres car dealerships for the rich families and public housing Indeed this rash of independ ent development may have something to do with Sheik Zayeds announcement he wishes to break up the loose confederation SHARE TIIE OSTS His government would like to see the others absorb more of the growing costs for defence and welfare in the region which Abu Dhabi now largely ab scabsfl er inelllcrenctes of several small but rich Arab kingdoms include the fact each one has an integrated modern airport equipped for jet facilities Dubai has daily and direct jet air service to London The Canadian presence so far in these affluent kingdoms is financial one with newly forrned local branches of the TorontoDominion Bank and Wood Gundy large in vestment firm in Abu Dhabi andDubai Other than disinterest to share the growing cost of serv ices and defence the reason for the falling apart of the sheiks is obscure Arab leaders of the United Arab Emirates have as much trouble working together as do leaders of the larger Arab states But in these smaller conservativelyrun places an cient family rivalries and pride YOUR BUSINESS The board room who gets in By VINCENT EGAN Business and Consumer Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service Theres bank chairman in Montreal who must be wishing that he had never ned his mouth about woman irectors Earle McLaughlin of the Bennett ordered RCMP to sto men looking for work from ri ing on freight trains lassCanada House in New York was opened Against strap Toronto CP Education Minister Thomas Wells said Wednesday he opposes the use of the strap in Ontario schools While the province does not ban the strap it strongly dis courages school boards from usingit he told re rters personally ont think it adds anything to the improve ment of discipline in the schools You dont gain respect you dont get authority you dont get discipline in the class rooms by slugging somebody or using corporal punishment survey of principals in Lon don Ont showed that most be lieve discipline in elementary schools has been helped by return to using the strap The strap was brought back in London ast January after threeyear ban Royal Bank of Canada touched off royal Canadian con troversy that is generating much more heat than light The question of the alleged shorta of qualified women has toroughly obscured more basic point about the responsibilities of corporate directors Not long before the Royal Bank chairman made his gaffe fellow QuebeckerGuy Saint Pierre the provinces minister of industryhad called upon big companies Operating in Quebec to elect more French Canadians as directors And before that organized la bor had been demanding place for its representatives on cor orate directorates The Uni ed Auto Workers for ex ample set that as one of their demands in their 1976 contract renewal talks with Chrysler Environmentalists also have been seeking directorships as have consumer advocates In the United States similar pres sures have come from racial minorities Business hasnt exactly flung open the doors of the board room and welcomed all the spe cialinterest groups who want to come in For one thing there are legal requirements that directors must meet In the case of Cana dian chartered banks directors are required by the Bank Act to hold substantial number of the banks sharesthe exact minimum depending upon the banks capita ization As Mr McLau hlin norea later that disquali ies all but handful of men and women And business would deny that it is ignoring special interests simply because those interests may not be specifically repre sented on the board still play their part For the international oil com panies any breakup of the United Arab Emirate would be critical since the geology of the region defies the petty politics of Arab princes Those oilproducing sands ex tend the length of the southern shore of the Persian Gulf into Iraq and Bahrein at its head It is not known to what extent Sheik Zayeds state is no longer prepared to subsidize the serv ices and military needs of the three additional emirates which do not produce oil and do no share in the huge royalties of their neighbors Both Abu Dhabi and Dubai have participated in the Arab worlds almost paranoid pur chase of 50phisticated weadpons from Western Europe an he United States AN ENEMY The United Arab Emirates have watched the buildup of the Iranian military estab lishment across the Persian Gulf into the largest in the en tire Third World and wondered about Irans imperial ambi tions But even such fears are not enough to bring these tiny states together on common weaponsbuying program Old tribal rivalries it would seem still supercede these king doms hasty entrance into the 20th century For example an oil com anys directors would inevita iy give serious thought to the environmental impact of any new projects they might under take whether or not the board includes an outside en vironmentalistwho might be unable to help make decisions in the many other areas board must deal with competent allmale board of directors would make sure that the womans view had been canvassed earlier before making policies on products and services the company was offering to women Good business sense would demand it The board of directors after all is group of shareholders elected by their fellowshare holders to represent all share holders in dealing with management and to establish policies that are in the best in terests of the corporation They are not tokens and any director who did attempt to carry on solely as representa tive of certain segment of the public would risk running afoul of the legal responsibilities that all directors have toward the shareholders who elected them The shareholders have put their capital at risk That ives them the right to expect heir representatives the directors to put the interest of the corpo ration and its owners first If that interest is best served by directors who give the board diversity of geographical rep resentation sex economic pings and the like so much ebetter But first things first Each di rector regardless of linguistic background color or whatever ought to be committed above all else to the interest of the corporation Accurate information only from aninformedcouncil DearSir In the Sept 23 edition of The Examiner an alderperson named Arthur wrote venomous letter aimed at discrediting Mr Kinzie The costofrunnin some city departments had on 300 to 400 per cent in the last three years and making the public awarearms Iactiieémed to up set Arthur terribly Taxpayers of course can un derstand him being upset Thereisamess at cityhal As finance chairman he helped createit Mr Kinzie appears to be living in vacuum Arthur states and he goes on to say and not having heard of private corporation retren chment closing of Hill Refrigeration an example during the recent recession r7 Hill Refrigeration dear Alex is still operating It did not close during any recent recession And Arthur says Mr Kinzie appears to live in vacuum WE WANT YOUR OPINION Letters submitted for1 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 mnnot be published For the sake of space public interest and good taste The Examiner reserves the right to edit con ldense or reject letter in nu kw Surely members of council and particularly the chairan of major committee like finance should at least know which industries are located here it How can we expect to haye staff at city hall convey ac curate information to the public when the chairman of their department is complete out of touch with community fairs We know Mr Arthur ls against development and profit He doesnt have to encourage the demise of local industry to prove his point Its time we elected an formed council which wl make accurate informati available to the public bye Alex et all Yours truly CJennings Time for long hard look at the positives we have DearSir Iagree Freedom of worship is not another way of saying everyone should be forced to go to chur ch In your editorial Is Sunday for churches on you say that if the church as relevant message for our times then that message will become clear no matter what the com petition Again1agree Unfortunately things have somehow gotten out of balan ce Many people including luc writer of the abovementioned editorial seem to have forgot ten the source of man ethics and principles whic have given us the freedom we enjoy Our whole democratic society was originafly based on sound faith in the princi les of the JudaoChristiantra ition Neither Mr Waldocks Saturday Sermon nor any statement by the Barrie and District Ministerial Association has suggested that Sunday be exclusively for church at Sundays should be pause daVs for people Dear Sir Your accusation that the Bar rie Ministerial is engaged in nefarious campaign to bend Sunday into an enforced Church going day is patently ridiculous Sundayisfor Sundays shoul be pause days from the multiplicity of organized acitivities and events pie believe which seem to control our lives during the week Ulvcfl context of such daily spiralling pressures do any of us have complete emotional freedom of choice vote for keeping Sunday truly people pause day Bill Fritz Pastor Collier Street United Church FROM PARLIAMENT HILL Whats message of thosepolls By STEWART MacLEOD Ottawa Bureau Thomson News Service hope the political scientists will soon come up with an ex planation for those confusing public opinion polls before the various parties decide to cancel the next election campaign It was okay when the polls merely concentrated on party popularity but now that they are getting into such questions as the entity of leaders things are getting bit com piiclatedl atest pularit 11 showed that till Liberals had dipped to an embarrassing 29 per cent while the Con servatives shot up to 47 per cent from February figure of 37 QUEENS PARK Separate shools new twist By DON OHEARN Queens Park Bureau Thomson News Service TORONTO The question of separate schools has come up again but with new twist Traditionally the separate school question has centred on how much public money should go to Roman Catholic separate schools which long long ago were given assurance they could carry on as separate en tities Just when how and why it is controversy dont intend to get into Anyway public money does go to Catholic schools up to Grade and the recent in cident was that here in Toronto Hebrew school tried to get in under the public umbrella It proposed that it be taken over by local board with the only difference between it and regular school to be that it would give classes in Hebrew reli ion and studies which we be gold for separately by the Jewis community BLE OGHi And Jesus put forth his hand and touched him saying will be thou clean And im mediater his immediately his leprosy was cleansed Mat thew 83 No one touched by Jesus can remain the same Father we reach out together in Jesus name for the divine touch that can make us what we ought to be spiritually physically men tally and materially Thank you for answered prayer Amen per cent And immediately everyone attributed this to Joe Clark the 37yearold fast travelling Conservative leader who happened to assume office last February very obvious attribution you might say But now we have this other poll which shows that shortly after the leadership convention 68 per cent of Canadians were able to identify Mr Clark as the new party leader Now however only 60 per cent know his name And this comes after Mr Clark has stumped the country along with good slice of Eu ro keeping his picture on to evision screens and the front page of newspapers But the proposal missed out when the school insisted that all students would have to take these courses Education Minister Tom Wells insisted that the courses would have to be optional as is required by provincial law for religious instruction PILOT However the Hebrew school business will probably be ironed out one way or another for it appeared that there had been considerable provincial cooperation and consultation in the proposal in fact that it was probably looked on as pilot project It wou make sense that the province would be involved in this for there have been pres sures from various other groups that have their own schools and want to kee some identity and yet get pub ic fun ds which they probably deser ve One thing is certain how ever If there is such develop ment the schools will be part of the re or public school sys temt at is they will be open to everybody NO EXTENSION The last thing that anybody in government wants to do is to enlarge the separate school sys tem Not that separate schools in themselves arent good Most of them are But one system would prob ably have been more efficient an probably socially better Most educationists and politi cians today would just as soon they didnt exist But they are here And they wilhstay ienuance Muller as in any statement of basic Christian pnncrples personal freedom is promoted AsI see it great injustice is done when people especially our young people are pressured into choosing bet ween several things which would be good for them the loss of one or the other might leaveavoid For example both school and organized sports are good fifi our young people Who wouid consider it wise to jeopardize childs opportunity for develop ment in either area by scheduling both so thats decision would have to be made between them Surely in an age when we can send travellers into outer space we can sort out our time in such way that ample op rtunity is given to enjoy our reedom Perhaps we all need to take long hard look at those things which have given us the positives we have and based on our findings reestablish some sound priorities Yours for better Barrie Gary Venables Makes you wonder whether itsworth theeffort MESSAGE UNCLEAR There must be message in the fact that political party can experience dramatic infj crease in its popularity while the party leader experiences surprising increase in his anonymity Trouble is dont know what the mssage mightw be But am afraid that all the parties will jump to premature conclusions and decide they should hide their leaders Sonie Liberal thinkerand that party is full of thinkersmight come up with the idea that Prime Minister Trudeau should go into hiding so voters would forget his name while the party re gains its popularity There is probably some com uter expert working in the basement of Liberal headqu ters right now to prove wi flow charts that if they can gfi 27 per cent of the population forget the name of the prirdg minister the Liberals can the next election They used to laugh about Mr Clark being referred to as on mug Who Now they know he been an to good thing along Everyone knows that Ea Broadbent is the leader of New Democratic Party and NDP has scarcer moved on popularity charts over the eight months NONAME SOCRED And this has probably beenIW the trouble with Social Credilz Most people could identify Re Caouette as the party lead But that party has lwdemhm in Nfimt convention coming up vember and regardless which candidate is selected wont be well known Social Credit could be force to be reckoned with As things stand both Mr Clark and Mr Trudeau have plans to travel extensively in Canada over the next two years The prime minister has instructed his ministers to get out and sell government policies while he concentrates on meeting voters and listening to what they have to tell us Mr Clark seems more concerned with meetin people nyqyyaurrnwen Pun rsonally after spen ing the irst few months concentratirfiiz on grassroots organization 140 hope they stick to motif lans because its more fun ving arty leaders out in the mi open ere we can size them upand even et to know theier names But they conclude that the future fortunes of their respective parties would benefit from bit of noname leadership one of our at democratic traditions coul dis ap to prevent this lets all try to remember that Joe who is not his real name Hfilii