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CIRCUL ATION It Hours mange CLASSIFIED Strchnvo 55 mango Peooy Chapettsuoervisor BdNowrotr Freda Shinner 5mm Apl1nt Janice Morton vsa than mam emu Ch tion CIRCULATION 7266539 ADVERTISING 7266537 NEWSROOM 7266537 CLASSIFIEDS 72824 BUSINESS 7266537 Whats wrong with Saturdays Whats wrong with Saturdays If youre downtown shopper thats thought that may have occurred to you You might also be wondering about Mondays or Wednesdays or weekday evenings anytime in fact that youve gone downtown to shop only to find various busmesses closed Take Saturday Traditionally its the biggest shopping day of the week Yet more than 10 per cent of businesses downtown close up shop early that day Other downtown businesses take off other days Some close Monday others adhere to Wednesday afternoon closing The result is lack of uniformity of hours that turns off many Wouldbe downtown shoppers In fairness some smaller downtown merchants cannot af ford the help to remain open six days week Nor can they of fer later hours that would cater to evening shoppers Also some downtown merchants have taken an aggressive marketing approach to encourage shoppers Many retailers however cling to an independent approach that simply doesnt work anymore It seems to us that more unified and longer shopping hours would benefit downtown merchants and shoppers alike Its something that the merchants in concert should be discussing Certainly downtown merchants must agree in principle that unified hours and sixdayaweek merchandising is the only realist ic approach these days And if they dont the spectre of the shopping plazas with their nonstop approach should help convince them Dear Editor am writing in regard to the latest Browndale staffing crisis as reported by the local media in which 14 people threatened to leave and three actually did Browndale management has always stated that the reason they require 24 hour dayseven days week commitment from their childcare staff is for the good of the children The idea they promote is that this sort of commitment builds deep relationship between child and staff and through this relation ship the child grows out of his or her disturbance But is this really the truth worked at Browndale Barrie for 16 months from July74 to November75 and for most of that time was househead found that the emotional and physical exertion required by the job was such that had very little to offer anyone children other staff friends in By VINCENT EGAN Business and Consumer Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service Canadas economic growth rate will con tinue to slow down in 1980 as well as in 1979 according to survey of forecasts prepared by leading economists On average the economists expect 31 per cent growth of Gross National Expenditure for fullyear 1979 and 17 per cent for 1980 The forecasts of economists at 16 banks in vestment houses and other financial organizations were collected by the Ottawa based Conference Board in Canada private nonprofit think tank The 1979 forecasts of economic growth ranged between high of 35 per cent and low of 22 per cent For 1980 the forecasts ranged from four per cent down to one per cent One of the main reasons for the wide range of forecasts for the Canadian economy is the different views adopted by the forecasters regarding the severity of the slowdown in the US economy says Ernie Stokes economist at the CBIC Many of the forecasters feel that the US economy will experience significant slowdown with the possibility of recession two consecutive quarters of negative growth in real GNE which would have con siderable impact on the Canadian economy Another reason for the wide range of we want your opinion Something on your mind Send Letter to the Editor Please make it on original copy and sign it The Examiner doesnt publish unsigned let ters but it you wish pen name will be used Include your telephone number and address as we have to verify letters Because of space limits public interest and good taste The Examiner sometimes has to edit condense or reject letters Letters to the Editor are run every day on the editorial page Send yours to letters to the Editor The Examiner Post Office Box 370 BARRIE an 4T6 letters to the editor the way of healthy growth oriented relationship The strain we worked under was what we imagined wartime condi tions to be like We believed we were fighting the moral equivalent of war and those who couldnt take the strain usually felt or were made to feel like traitors or emotional cowards Only after leaving did it occur to me that battleground is no lace to care for disturbed chil ren Why then does the battle go on as it appears from this latest crisis to be doing It took me and others like me long time to recover from our guilt anger and disillusionment around Browndale Thus my heart goes out to the three who did leave and the 14 who considered it You and your kids are caught in nowin situa tion Yours truly John Thompson Barrie Worse to come economists worn forecasts for the economy is the uncertainty regarding future government economic policy in Canada In general however the forecasters feel that both fiscal and monetary policy will be relatively restrictive in 1979 and 1980 BUSINESS STRENGTH The only significant source of economic strength noted by the 16 forecasts is the business sector Business investment especially in machinery and equipment is seen by the forecasters as major underpinn ing of the current economy Housing in contrast has been relatively weak in 1979 although some improvement is anticipated for next year On average the 16 forecasts put 1979 housing starts at 206000 and 1980 starts at 223000 Actual housing starts in 1978 were 227667 down from 245724 in 1977 The inflation rate is key element in any economic forecast On average the 16 economists surveyed by CBIC are expecting consumer prices to increase by 91 per cent in 1979 up from forecast of 82 per cent when they were surveyed three months earlier and by 84 per cent in 1980 Higher prices for food and energy are reasons cited for the higher rate of increase in prices according to Stokes of the CBIC Inflation is expected to remain high in 1980 partly as result of the increase in oil prices imposed by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries as well as higher labor costs brought about by increases in wages and slower productivity growth PROFIT GROWTH Corporate profits are expected to grow by 206 per cent this year but more slowly next year in the face of increases in costs of material and labor Forecasts of the unemployment rate for fullyear 1979 have been scaled down to 79 per cent of the labor force from 84 per cent in the previous survey Last months unemployment rate was 72 per cent The 1980 unemployment rate is expected to average 82 per cent of the labor force Probably because of widely varying assumptions regarding the severity of the slowdown in the economy of the United States the 16 economists forecasts of Canadas surplus in merchandise trade range widely between $19 billion and $32 billion this year and from $15 billion to $46 billion in 1980 Canadas merchandise trade balance was $3382 million in 1978 up from $2737 million the previous year Parliament Hill By STEWART MacLEOD Ottawa Bureau Thomson News Service There IS no doubt that Claude Ryan means well but in his headlong rush to give his Liberal Party an almost regal respec tabilityhe may have gone overboard What the prayincial Liberal leader is threatening to do IS take all the fun out of politics Its one thing to ensure that your party be free of potential scandal but its quite another thing to insist that all candidates have papal qualifications If Ryan has his way it will be easier to become an astronaut than Liberal candidate in Quebec What he wants for the next general elec tion says Ryan are candidates who are un compromisineg honest welleducated prolt fesstonally successful financial stable and who lead exemplary personal lives The Liberal leader then goes on to list 12 different characteristics which should be looked for as constituency organizations search out can didates for the next provincial election to be held sometime between now and 1981 No sitting members would admit it of course but under the Ryan doctrine few of them actually quality And its no wonder some of them are quietly fuming about the new ground rules which threaten to interrupt their otherwise brilliant political careers Some of them have served since the good old days when patronage was the greatest criteria N0 FLAWS But Ryan the austere former publisher whose own professional and personal lives are above reproach is determined to change all this What he wants in his Liberal team are candidates with an unblemished profes smnal record as regards honesty and integri ty Furthermore they should have righteous and honorable personal Iif Interpreting the news Corn to CLAUDE RYAN high standards Politics is very hard profession he said sounding like recruiting officer for the RCMP One is exposed to constant pressure Those who are extremely weak before even entering risk finding their ruin there Yes times have certainly changed There was time when candidate could expect to have serene and safe sinecure on the backbenches simply as reward for raising few bucks for the party at the local level And if he lost the election he could perhaps become the snowllow operator for the next four years Ryan being an intellect himself shows the anti in 1an tail 16 dee iodo hdldo ou ideal see asthe con nodions Penchont for respectability may be Claude Ryans undoing remarkable disinterest in snowplow operators In fact he says minimum qualification for Liberal nomination should be university degree Furthermore can didates should be between the ages of 35 and 55 Presumably some of these recruiting guidelines are flexible enough to allow an underaged genius to enter the National Assembly and perhaps an odd lefthanded pipefitter will be allowed in from time to time but generally speaking the party leader seems rather fixed in his ideas about the candidates he wants He proposed to establish regional committees specifically charged with verifying the financial profes sional moral and ethical credibility of can didates at any convention GOOD JOB Up until now thought Ryan has been do ing firstclass job of reorganizing the Liberal Party in Quebec He has been travell ing the back roads restructuring shaky organizations talking to local residents and instilling distinct federalist optimism throughout Quebec as the separatist govern ment of Rene Levesque prepares for the in dependence ref erendum Up until now that is This latest credo on recruiting suggests that Ryan still may have few difficulties in adjusting to the dayto day realitics of politicsBut if he carries through with this misguided manoeuvre and forms government with chain of unblemished intellectuals he will soon realize the error of his ways Just wait for those first debates on the price of pig feed the state of the cod fishery or the sorry plight of loggers And quite apart from this can you imagine going through an entire session without one personal scandal No Ryan has clearly gone too far this time Relationship between CanadaUS remains fundamentally harmonious WASHINGTON CP The nomination of new United States ambassador to Canada comes at time of change for the two coun tries The election of new government in Canada combined with changing economic situations in each country and the possibility that the administration of President Carter may be replaced in 1980 means Kenneth Cur tis former Maine governor can expect his Ottawa experience to differ from that of his predecessors Despite the changes the relationship bet Ween the two countries remains fundamental ly sound and harmonious but there are few sour notes awaiting Curtis Carter confi dant who is likely to arrive in Canada next month after Senate confirmation of his ap pointment The current ambassador Thomas Enders who unlike Curtis is career diplomat presided in Ottawa for more than three years including the early days of the Carter ad ministration when bilateral relations hit one of their highest points ever One of the factors involved in the warmth of the bilateral situation was the personal rela tionship between Carter and Pierre Trudeau Trudeau who at the time of Carters elec tion had been prime minister for eight years was treated by Carter as an elder statesman of sorts SITUATION REVERSED Since the May 22 federal election the situa tion has been reversed Prime Minister Clark now is the new kid on the block while Carter is bearing the weight of three tough years in THOMAS ENIIERS lS ambassador office with his popularity sinking to almost inconceivany low levels Carter and Clark have met only once at the Tokyo economic summit earlier in the sum mer second meeting is expected in November when Carter plans to go to Ottawa for 24hour visit While the relationship between the two leaders is still forming analysts say some ac tions of Clarks government have not made things easier for the Carter administration Clarks election promise to move the Cana dian Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv for example ran counter to US Middle East policy and officials here were relieved when Clark appeared to back down from the pledge The Canadian seizure of 19 American tuna boats off the coast of British Columbia recently surprised some American officials who saw it as an unusually tough response to the situation While the tuna problem is becoming less urgent as the fish leave Canadian waters it remains to be seen what impact the seizures will have on package of fish agreements before the Senate OPPOSF TREATIES Negotiation of the agreements partial solution to conflicting claims arising from the adoption of 200mile maritime limits was considered major accomplishment by the Trudeau government But their provisions are unpopular in the US and American fishermen have started large scale lobbying effort to defeat Senate ratification Another legacy of the CarterltTrudeau days the multibilliondollar northern natural gas pipeline is presenting frustrations While Canada feels it has moved quickly on the pro ject it sees US footdragging as major reason for the roject languishing two years and billions of ollars off schedule In the coming months other energyrelated matters will develop The US facing fuel shortages and doubledigit inflation caused partly by oil imports now wants to move Alaskan oil south and may decide to go for project through Canada The world today COMECON style strongwilled By JOHN HARBRON Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service COMECON the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance is the Communist blocs equivalent to the European Economic Community But unlike the EEC the Communist bloc structure is largely punitive onesided organization which was formed in 1951 by the Soviet Union primarily to help that nations postwar recovery The kind of autonomy which exists in the EEC to the extent individual nations wonder about the future of the organization is unheard of inside COMECON Nor will it ever hold free and open parlia ment with democratic elections to choose its members as has just taken place in the EEC How could free elections take place within COMECON when all the member states have Communist dictatorships themselves At the start of COMECON all the countries of Eastern Europe were in severe difficulties Poland was shambles her industries totally destroyed Her work force was dissipated by the war Indeed the Polish economic plight in the late 19405 was probably worse than that of the USSR which had been the most severely devastated of all warring nations during World War Two The Russians accordingly helped to rebuild industry in Poland East Germany Hungary Bulgaria and Roumania SOVIET AID CAME In all these countries the Russians also assisted in the expansion of industries which did not exist before World War Two or were too small because private capitalists were not interested Shipbuilding is case in point where Soviet investment and orders for new ships permit ted the growth of new Eastern European in dustry which had existed before 1939 only in perfunctory way But the Soviet pattern was to demand their ships be built before the ones needed by the country in question or before state shipyard say in Poland or Hungary could seek foreign orders Such foreign orders were for hard currency countries in Western Europe and North America who could pay in pounds deutschmarks Scandinavian currencies for new bottoms Inspite of this early and still visible Soviet interference Poland has become one of the worlds leading shi builders with major export business an large merchant fleet under its own flag Often the Soviet technological inputs were so outofdate that key industries in the Com munist Bloc nations steelmaking automobiles petrochemicals were unable to meet both domestic and export needs The result during the late 19605 and 19705 is that all the Eastern European member states in COMECON borrowed heavily in the West to build modern industrial facilities using Western technology and management methods Joint venture agreements between capitalistic giants and Communist bloc state enterprises were common during the 19705 to the extent the hated Krupp Steel works which had used Polish slave labor during the war signed an agreement with Polands state steel mill Technologysharing needs had out done memories of bitter history HLGE BLOC DEBTS Today the COMECON nations owe billions of dollars francs pounds and deutschmarks to member countries of the EEC who have prospered so well they can offer their exper tise to the East bible thoughts For with God nothing shall he impossi hlcluki1117 This is lllt way God sees your problem Iurn what faith you have loose in the middle of this great promisc and go on to victory Father look to your word and pray that you will meet the need of this reader no mat ter how htpltSS it may appear 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