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the lame hammer is member at The Canadian Preel and Audit Iureou of circulation ABC Only the Canadian Pren may republish new stories in this newspaper credited to the Automated hen levtell or Agence France Praise and local news stories publilhed in The lame Enorniner COMPOSING ROOM Jeck Kerney lareman Glenn Kwan asst loremen Don Sounders Lorne Was Will Cadoaan Stan Wrav Bill Raynor EDITORS Creia Elson menealna editor Stan Didrbells city edltor Bill McFerIene wire editor ADVERTISING Len Sevick manager BUSINESS Marian Gouah accountant Delve Mills Vlltkl Grant Connie Hart Jean Bass Published daily except Sunday and slalutory holidays WEEKLY by carrier 95 cents YEARLY by carrier S4910 BY MAIL Barrie $49 40 SlMCOE COUNTY S39 00 MOTOR THROW OFF $4150ayear ELSEWHERE IN CANADA SALES Wayne Hay Aden Smith Steve Skinner Barb Boulton Calvin Felepchuk Peter Clark REPORTERS Stephen Nicholls Dennis Lantnier Nancy Figueroa Lori Cohen Tony Panacci Richard Thomas Stephen Gauer Sue Bowen camera operator 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nan insertion any advertisement beyond the amount paid for such advertisement Ihe PMbllh reserves the right to edit revue classin or teyeel an advertise CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING 7266537 NEWSROOM 7266537 CLASSIFIEDS 72824 BUSINESS Dont ignore social reality The problem with marriage today is increasingly the liklihood of separation and divorce The sad fact is that one in three marriages will fail figure that is on the increase People who have decided separation is the only answer are confronted by the question of what to do next Too often that next step is costly litigation and the mental anguish of prolonged divorce proceedings Its interesting to note new social service in Barrie that helps problems involved in separation and divorce The service is that of conciliation counsellor actually pilot project offered free to the city by University of Toron to graduate student Working out of Barrie family court the counsellor helps separatingcouples reach an amicable separation agreement with the emphasis on protecting children With the cutbacks in social services the pilot project faces an uphill fight to become permanent service in this city Yet ironically without this service the end result is more costs to the government and taxpayer in court welfare and police costs Regrettable as separation and divorce is today the problem annot be ignored The costs in money mental suffering and social problems are enormous To combat marriage breakdown we needbettcr understan ding by young people of what is involved in marriage we need more marriage counselling services for couples with marital problems To that list we might also consider funding the services of fulltime separation counsellor Increased services of this kind may be sad commentary on our times But its reality Sir thank The Examiner for the article on an nexation Oct would like however to phrase some of the statements printed as they were said apologize for the fact that have tendency to speak quickly and because of that some of my words were not com leter stated did not say it was pinning the blame on other goes wrong our council takes kick at the provincial government Then surprisingly that council expects to get the governments cooperation Another statement concerning the pointlessness of our position was that fail to see why council cant climb this hill to look at the next horizon instead of standing in swajmp with their heads down looking in the mu Your business By VINCENT EGAN Business and Consumer Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service To lose your job is bad enough But when the tax collector takes chunk of your severance pay you feel that the knife in your back is being twisted Yet the basic rule is that such benefits are subject to income tax Tender sentiment has no place in tax law There is however one set of circumstances in which person who has been fired may col lect settlement from the former employer and still escapet lt Thats when wrongful dismissal con stituting breach of contract has taken place If an employer unjustifiably fires an employee for alleged incom tence or fails to give adequate notice of ismissal or pay salary in lieu thereof the employee may take legal action says bulletin published by William Mercer Ltd employee benefit consultants Payments received from an employer for wrongful dismissal are damages for breach of contract Damages are capital in nature However they do not constitute capital gain since they are merely replacing loss Accordingly the employee has no dut to report the amount of damage awa or settlement on his income tax return and the employer does not have to withhold tax N0 SHAM Naturally therefore le who are losing their jobs would much prefer that it be on the we want your opinion Something on your mind Send Letter to the Editor Please make it an original copy and sign it The Examiner doesnt publish unsigned let ters but It you wlsh pen name will be used Include your telephone number and address alwehave to verity letters Ieoauee at space limits public interest and good taste The Examiner sometimes has to condenseor reject letters Letters to the Editor are run every day on the edtorlal page lettes to the editor ut time Barrie stop parties for ailing to resolve the dispute What did say was am sick and tired of Barne playing Bill Davis football Every time something Finally said there is nothing on this earth that cant be done providing you dont care who gets the credit ask all the parties to keep this thought foremost in their minds We are hung up on tight line the 0MB line of 14000 acres which the majority of council feels is owed to us submit that at this time we are not selling 250 acres of industrial land per year not even close to 200 acres If we were to accept line that gave us 10000 acres and if only 7000 of those acres were considered good for in dustrial development at rate of full 250 acres per year we would have enough land for the next 28 years deem that sufficient allowance to do our necessary planning Thank you Jim Shirley Barrie Why they tax severance pay basis of wrongful dismissal so that they dont have to share their benefits with the tax col lector But warns the Mercer bulletin the tax authorities are vigilant about sham disputes There should be evidence of genuine dispute between employer and employee probably involving litigation over the firing or the amount of the damage settlement Furthermore where the circumstances are ambiguous the tax authorities will pre sume that the severance payment IS taxable Actually the term severance pay isnt used anywhere in the Income Tax Act Instead the term retiring allowance is applied to the most common form of this benefit to employees who have quit or been fired In the eyes of the tax people you are retiring when you leave job no matter how young you may be The retiring allowance usually takes the form of lump sum paid as compensation for loss of thejob loss of office in legalese or in recognition of long service The choice as between one description and the other is up to the employer and employee Its immaterial to the tax collector The employee must pay income tax on the retiring allowance sooner or later However unlike regular employment income retiring allowance can be tran sferred directly from your employer to Registered Retirement Savings Plan or an Income Averaging Annuity Eventually when you Withdraw the money from one or the other of those two tax shel ters you have to pay income tax on it Thats preferable from tax standpomt to simply adding the severance pay to your current years income antd paying tax on it at ourmar inal or to ra On the Ether handp if you dont land another job quickly you may haveto use the retiring allowance for current livmg ex rises and forget about the niceties of tax de erral However if you have reasonable nest egg of savings to tide you over until you start your next job its wise to look IMO the tax con sequences of any proposed severance ar rangement and then to act carefully bible thought And now ahidcth faith hopc chunlj thcsc lhrcc hill the grcalcsl of thcsc is chari ty orihlhians lfilzlil Thcrc is no lorcc that Is grcaltcr than love God is lorc iod so loved the world that Ilv gave His only Son By this shall mcn know that yc arc my disciplis il huvc lovc onc for another 7266537 Parliament Hill By STEWART MacLEOD Ottawa Bureau Thomson News Service When Prime Minister Joe Clark decided his cabinet didnt require anv leftover material from the Diefenbaker eara there were many who thought he was unwiser discarding great deal of mature sage advice Such veterans as Alvin Hamilton Marcel Lambert and Walter Dinsdale have been around Parliament long time both as the victors and the vanquished and they could tell those young upstarts thing or two And what about George Hees the ebullient senior citizen from Prince EdwardHastings who at the age of 69 is just getting his second wind Apart from one threeyear interruption during which he passed the time by being president of the Montreal and Canadian Stock Exchanges and director of the Montreal Worlds Fair Mr Hees has been in Parliament for the last 29 years He was minister of transport and minister of trade and commerce achieving fame by telling Canadian businessmen that they had to get off their butts and hustle foreign sales As gogetem minister George Hees had few equals There have been recent rumors that Mr Hees may end up as Canadian High Commis sioner in London it would be great ap pointment but until something like this transpires was afraid that his wily wisdom would be allowed to wash away on the Tory backbenches should have known better GOOD CAUSE The gungho former party president is coming back to this new sesston of Parliament with the worthy objective of reducing our marathon election campaigns to more humane three weeks and if he can manage this we will all owe him an enormous clap on the back His timing couldnt be more appropriate Since this is minority Parliament we could be faced with another The world today By JOHN HARBRON Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service Catholics and nonCatholics even non Christians rejoice in the presence the words the thoughts the joy of Pope John Paul II as he moves through the United States The Christian message is still essential in world of rampant materialism hypocrisy in business and politics endless human hatreds In these days we have been turned off formal religion because of the militancy and bigotry displayed in the Middle East by Zionists and Arab leaders alike In Iran the appalling application of the precepts of Islam to execute people for crimes for which forgiveness is offered in the Christian church does great disservice to Islam The Ayatollah Khomeini has become the newest bloody religionist in historys path modern John Knox who distorts great faith by claiming God is his ally These religious fanatics are the most fearsome of leaders And we are still cursed with them this late in what was to have been truly enlightened century Cheryl Aiken Kim Pallenaen gtskew GEORGE IIEES former party president general election anytime and its doubtful whether any of us are ready for another eight weeks of watching Joe Clark Pierre Trudeau and Ed Broadbent compete for primetime television Thats the trouble with modern campaigns Each day for full eight weeks the party leaders concentrate on some midday event that will give them good shot on the late evening television news Oldfashioned evening rallies which at least were live events featuring hecklers are out Controlled media events are in Consequently for eight weeks we sit at home watching Clark Trudeau and Broadbent visiting shipyards accepting roses from senior citizens and But now John Paul 11 sturdy Christian leader physically and intellectually the son of Polish Army sergeant Pope who witnessed as young man and future priest the atrocious Nazi occupation of Poland brings back the true message of one of the worlds great religions Here in North America we are free to watch or if possible to join the vast crowds turning out to see and hear the Holy Father But in Eastern Europe and the USSR where Catholicism has been an embattled faith the meaning and purpose of this particular Pope takes on meanings we may not comprehend in the West The worried authorities of Communist Poland could not have turned down the papal visit earlier this year Poland is Communist only at the top and except for loyal party cadres in industry the professions and government service as deeply Catholic European nation as is Spain The power of the Catholic Church rivals that of the Communist Party in Poland and has done so since Communism was forced on this country by the Soviet military invasion in 1944 $000 year gm ROCKH bu disrupting noontime shopping centre ac tivilies And they have to keep it up for the full two months even if it means return visits Its fatal to indicate that campaign may be flagging The reason that eightweek campaigns are necessary is because it takes that long to enu merate voters each time an election is called The only way around this is to establish permanent voters list that is updated each year WANTS LIST And there is no reason why we cant have list like this and eliminate at least half the boredom which the Canadian electorate experiences today says Mr Hecs pointing out that the provinces of Quebec and Prince Edward Island have already moved in this direction He thinks rightly that two months is far too long period to have our political leaders climbing drilling rigs watching the loading of grain and inspecting fish plants all for the benefit of television cameras These performances go on night after night for two whole months while the voting public becomes bored to death and com pletely taken up with trivia which down grades the whole political process Thats what the MP told service club in his home riding as he prepared to return to Ottawa to take up the cause of shorter campaigns And another thing George Hoes thinks he has been given far too much time to prepare Without criticizing his leader he obviously doesnt think it was necessary to let Parliament remain idle for five months fol lowing the May 22 election Following the last British election which resulted in change of government Parlia ment met six days after the vote If they can do it says Hoes there is no earthly reason why we cant Joe Clark may have decided he didnt need Hecs advice in cabinet but its clear he is go ing to get it anyway Hopefully he will listen Poniiff warning to mankind Christian message of hope John Paul II can do less for the smaller Catholic communities in the USSR the largest being in once Catholic Lithuania other than to emphasize to Moscow the strength of the church in the Soviet satellite Europe In Czechoslovakia where an appalling Stalinism strangleholds one of Europes great Slavic societies most church activities must be clandestine In that country no pre dominance of Catholicism forces the Com munist authorities to be lenient John Paul II concludes slow move by the Vatican from refusal to deal with Communist nations under any circumstances Pius XII to opening VaticanCommunist dialogue John XXIII to secret negotiations ailh Communist officials Paul VI PAPAI WARNING But John Paul IIs Polish origins and long servrce as priest bishop and cardinal in Communist state mean more than new strength for Catholics suffering the af flictions of Communism In his brief United Nations address the Pontrlf warned what can happen to mankind when the excesses of Auschwitz racial hatred are practiced in world which already practices much inhumanity From the legislature Costs rise for consumer By DEREK NELSON Queens Park Bureau Thomson News Service TORONTO Strange as it may seem the collapse of Canadas negotiations with Argen tina on selling that country second CANDU reactor could mean jump in Ontario Hydro bills There is rule of thumb in the nuclear industry which employees 31000 peo 1e mostly in Ontario that two CANDU reac ors year have to be sold to keep the business viable Ontario Hydros original building plans for the rest of the century would have absorbed most of that production but with decreasing energy demands since the OPEC price hikes of 1973 the utility has scaled down its nuclear commitment Currently we have eight major and two smaller reactors producing power in On tario Another 12 are in various stages of development just released policy document from the provincial energy ministry sees no additional reactors being built prior to 1995 GO ABROAD With targeted growth in energy demand of only two per cent it is likely that no more than four additional reactors will receive the goahead in the mid19805 for completion after 1995 Should the electrical demand alone reach four per cent which is unlikely at the mo ment as many as 16 reactors would be required Since other provinces are showing no great interest in nuclear power the slack in do mestic sales has to be taken up overseas Now Argentina has put crimp in that option That country was our best hope for further CANDU sales abroad In fact if superior product like CANDU loses out to the untried German heavy water reactor system in Argentine eyes it is unlikely well be able to sell CANDUs to anyone Thats true even if bribery played role in the Argentine decision and even more true if Argentina took seriously our silly lecturing them on morality something we didnt do with equally dictatorial buyer Rumania POWER COMMISSION The end result is nuclear industry that is going to go through some hard times which will probably show up both in unemployment figures and on our Hydro bills As many as onethird the industrys 31000 jobs could disappear by the end of the 19805 and one of the few truly Canadian enterprises could end up on the rocks Dr Arthur Porter reached some tentative conclusions about the consequences of de clining sales in the 1978 interim report on nuclear power he did for the provincial government He saw rationalization taking place as some manufacturers left the industry with the result single suppliers would remain to sell to Ontario Hydro Costs to Ontario Hydro might rise by an estimated 10 per cent if protected rather than competitive industry were to emerge he said Interpreting the news Carter faces Cuban tensions By ATIIY McKERCIIEIt WASHINGTON CP President Carters televised speech on the presence of Soviet troops in Cuba represean an attempt to end crisis that many critics believe should never have begun In temperate response to the situation Carter reassured Americans that the troops pose no threat to the US now and that the US will ensure they pose no threat in the future Questions remain however on whether Carters response to the situation will be enough to prccmpt potentially far more serious situation Possible rejection by the Senate of the new strategic arms limitation agreement with the Soviet Union The troops issue began when Senator Frank Church an Idaho Democrat and chairman of the foreign relations committee which is holding hearings on the treaty disclosed that American intelligence had located Soviet combat brigade in Cuba The presence of the troops confirmed by the state department was made public just before the opening of the Havana summit conference by nonaligncd countries Cuban President Fidel Castro was in delicate situation as he pushed hard to bring delegates closer to the Soviet orbit Some observers suggested the US disclosure was designed partially to weaken Castros power play DEMANDEI WITHDRAWAI Church and other senators quickly demanded that the troops be withdrawn and warned that the arms treaty would not be approved until this happened Carter instead of being in command of the situation from the start found himself in the unenviable position of trying to control problem that appeared to be getting out of hand The issue had suddenly taken on the air of crisis crisis of the type Carter did not want to see develop at time when the arms treaty crucial to the future of USSoviet relations was on the line In an early attempt to take over the issue from Church and the other senators Carter said the status quo was unacceptable The status quo US intelligence says indicated that between 2000 and 3000 Soviet troops on the Communist Caribbean island had been organized into combattype brigade savea1 years ago The Soviets and Cubans reacted an whatl sawdevmluthe saidthe ngadem