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Thelorrte Emlner II member ol The Canadian Press CF and Audit Bureau of Galatians ABC Only the Canadian Press may republish news stories in this newspaper credited to CF The Associated Press lemon or Agence France Prone aid local news stories published in The Barrie Examiner COMPOSINO ROOM Jack Kerney foreman Glenn Kwan asst toremen Don Saunders BUSINESS Marian Gouah accountant Delve Minis Vikki Grant Connie Hart Jean Bass ADVER ISING Len Sfvrcl manager SALES Published daily except Sunday and stalutory holidays LorneWass WEBbe carrier Witt Cedooan 95 cents YEARLY by carrier Bill Raynor EDITORS craio Elson managing editor Ian Mulorew city editor Bill McFarlane wire editor REPORTERS Dave Fuller Claudia Krause Stephen Nicholls the examiner Wayne Her Aden Smith Stcvc Skinner Ban BoullO Ihelorrle Examiner claim copyright on all original news and advertising material coated by its employees and published in this newspaper FM Auguw 1979 serving barrio and simcoe county Ron Gm Copyright registration number 2038 register Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited 16 Baytield Street Barrie Ontario LAM 4T6 Bruce Rowland publisher CIRCULATION 7266539 NEWSROOM 7266537 ADVERTISING 7266537 CLASSIFIEDS 728241 Mortgage program priority item The Clark government should show resolve in implemen ting its promised mortgage and propertytax deductability scheme at the earliest opportunity Faced with opposition to the plan from the Chamber of Commerce and other business groups Mr Clark has now said he will wait until budget time to announce the timing of the plan We trust that what Mr Clark said during the election still holds true that the plan will provide average Canadians with housing opportunities that it willgenerate construction in the housing industry and that it will stimulate the economy and provide employment The PC government should remember this is one program that will benefit average Canadians We dont consider own ing home to be luxury but we do know the despair many Canadians have of ever affording their own home It seems to us that Ottawa has for years been willing to spend billions on elaborate social programs such as unemployment insurance bilingualism and the like Working taxpayers have paid the freight for these pro grams for years gladly in most cases Now is the time to channel somehing back to taxpayers in their quest for bet terlife Owning home in Canada is something every hardworking Canadian should be able to look forward to Helping Canadians to do this is in our opinion money well spent by the government Dear Editor In my opinion your reporter was cruelly deceived in the article entitl ed Hopes still running high for creation of college Examiner August 16 As the article states the original impetus for university in our region was enormous The city of Orillia county council and many township councils pledged help to start this project back in 1964 The land site was purchased and all looked rosy Perhaps diametrically opposed idealogies choked its growth at the committee level as no action was taken The SimcoeDufferinHalton Peel region of Ontario is one of 17 regions established by the ministry of education It is the only one not served by university The Wright Commission of 1972 recommended an urgent need to establish satellite college in the Orillia area Waterloo Lutheran University volunteered to do so but was rejected because it represented denominational influence and besides wouldnt qualify for pro vincial grant When WLU became public university they the com mittee to establish university From the legislature By DEREK NELSON Queens Park Bureau Thomson News Service TORONTO Everybody is in favor of safe disposal of dangerous waste materials un less the site chosen is their backyard Anywhere else is fine Unfortunately one persons ideal location is often another persons backyard An ongoing exchange of open letters here between MPP Jim Foulds NDPPort Ar thur and Energy Minister James Auld il lustratcs the point nicely Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd AECL is testdrilling near Atikokan in northwestern Ontario in its search for suitable site to bury nuclear fuel wastes Although the local council has approved the drilling and local MPP Pat Reid LRainy River isnt voicing opposition Foulds is leading an assault on the test work He starts from the backyard conclusion that we in northwestem Ontario do not want to become nuclear garbage dump site But who does The real question is where the best available site exists and the purpose of the test drilling is to help find that out COMMON VIEW Foulds stance is one peculiar to most opponents of waste disposal sites whether it 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 if you wish pen name will be used Include your telephone number and address as we have to verily 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 310 IAIIIE 0M 4M 4T6 letters to the editor wondered if more uni ue diploma course orientation woul nt be more fitting for Simcoe County students The province of Ontario found funds to build Georgian College in 1967 but none were available to finance the more expensive universityoriented courses Two thirds of the community college students in our area today attend community colleges other than Georgian They go to Ryerson Senaca George Brown and Conestoga because these communi ty colleges courses offer more highly technical and rewarding careers In conclusion the present finan cial squeeze upon all ministries of the government absolutely precludes any funds for new university anywhere in Ontario even if there was compelling need So hopes are not running high for the creation of college in this region To put it more simply we had our chance in 1967 when our hopes should have been realized In to days financial climate our univer sity cannot become reality much before the year 2000 John Schmidt Barrie Waste must go somewhere be for nuclear for incineration of PCBs the burying of liquid industrial waste or even garbage landfill Having reached his conclusion first that no dump should go into the northwest Foulds then proceeds to find arguments to justify his position While numerous they basically cluster into two groups One is to charge the company or govem ment agency concerned with lack of credibility which is polite way of saying it lies lot In the case of AECL condemnation comes because it is already committed to the ex pansion of the nuclear generation program and is not an antinuclear independent agency There is the vague hint here that AECL employees would deliberately make decisions that would expose the pea le of Atikokan if facility should ever be uilt to avoidable risk The other antiwaste disposal technique is to claim the disposal method itself is unsafe Foulds for example says safe un derground nuclear waste storage in pluton rock formations lacks detailed scientific evidence cry not unlike that of opponents of liquid waste itll get in the water table or the burning of PCBs itll get in the air But making facility supersafe good idea is really stage two First has to be ac ceptance that the wastes will go somewhere And involving the public in that decision is fine in theory but it has its problems in prac tice LONG TIME The only way to destroy PCBs is high temperature incineration in cement kilns but citizen protests have prevented commercial operation of Ontarios only such facility since 1976 Meanwhile the stuff continues to ac cumulate around the province One can understand and even sympathize with local opposition to dump sites The do in volve risk however slight and the idea is very upsetting But fairs fair If opponents get to block site or even test drill such as Foulds argues against then they should also suggest suitable altemative location Someones backyard had to take the drawbacks as well as the benefits of modern technology BUSINESS 7266537 Dennis Lanthier Nancy Figueroa Lori Cohen Richard Thomas Stephen Gauer Betty Armer camera operator Terry Field Peter Hsu Cathy Heather Cavrn Felepchuk CLASSIFIED Freda Stunner Dana rtomewood Janice Morton Peggy napell SuDeVSO Bran Howcrolt Ea Allenby Janie Hamel Susan Kitchen Yvonne Slerps PR ESSROOM CIRCULATION Bill Hollies manager Steve White assistant manaaer Alva LaPIame Lisa Warrr Elaine Porter Cheryl Amen Fred Prince Kim Pattenden AI Hanson foreman Don Near assttoreman BY MAIL Barrie $49 40 Theodverlieer agrees that the publisher shall not be liable for damages arising out SIMCOE COUNTY of error In advertisements beyond the 0mm paid luv the space actually occupied 99 00 by that porllan of the advertisemenl in which the error occurred whether such er MOTOR THROW OFF Sll 500 year ELSEWHERE IN CANADA SAI ooaveur MIiml Your business By VINCENT EGAN Business and Consumer Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service The gasoline price increase that will hit drivers any day now may be unpleasant but even the new prices are bargain in comparison with what they are likely to be during the 19805 Canada has been blessed with generous resources of oil and gas At this point however the all resources are apparently much less plentiful and harder to reach than the reserves of natural gas and our trans portation system is geared to the use of the more easily portable gasoline and diesel fuel rather than natural gas Its possible to make all kinds of scarey projections of the future price of barrel of oil using various assumptions about the greed of the international oil cartel and the rate of domestic inflation two factors that arent unrelated On the basis of one particular set of assumptions that the cartel will raise its price by five per cent year and that in flation will be 10 per cent year the result would be 10fold increase in the price of barrel of oil to about $130 by 1995 and rise in the price of gasoline at the pump to some thing over $4 gallon Remember however that the incomes of public servants and the strongly unionized would be rising apace CRUNCH GLUT Theres tremendous uncertainty about whether we will be able to supply the nations requirements for oil says Mason manager of geology for Bow Valley Ex ploration Ltd of Calgary 0n the other hand he told Toronto group in talk on behalf of the Petroleum Resources Communication Foundation the chief concern about natural gas is to find market for the surplus production to some extent byproduct of oil production The National Energy Board has concluded on the basis of what it believes to be the most realistic projection that the average an ticipated Canadian production of oil by 1995 will be almost million barrels per day below the countrys average anticipated needs That means that with utmost con servation and still paying more than $3 billion year in todays dollars for foreign oil we could make do if there is in fact foreign oil available and if we can negotiate to buy it comments Mason The situation in natural gas is strikingly Backgrounder different The NEB estimates that Canada has 66 trillion cubic feet of established gas reserves and it estimates that the total ultimate potential is 147 trillion Currently our domestic consumption together with exports amount to only three trillion cubic feet of natural gas year PRICE THE KEY Mason in common with most people in the oil and gas industry contends that higher prices are the key factor in avoiding catastrophe and achieving security of domestic supply He points to the much higher prices of gasoline in industrialized countries overseas as evidence of the way in which North American consumers are being protected from the full extent of increases in the inter national price of all since 1973 We cant continue to be protected Interpreting the news Gasoline price increases the worst is yet to come Mason argues If we are we are asking for trouble He rejects charges that the petroleum industry is profiteering The industry com prising some 700 companies averaged an 113 per cent return on capital employed in 1977 vs an average of about 75 per cent for all industries The oil and gas industry is risky and uses highrisk ca ital Mason noted If the in ustry didnt offer reasonable return on the investors money the investors would simply put their money into more attractive investments Oil and gas can become the economic backbone of our country and Canada can regain its economic strength in the world if we will just accept the realities of price and cost and give the necessary encouragement to those want to find and produce oil and gas Congress still divided on constitutional change By CATHY McKERCHER WASHINGTON CP The campaign for ratification of constitutional amen ment that would give the District of Columbia voice in Congress is entering its second year and backers hope it goes better than the first Since winning US Senate approval year ago this week the plan to give residents of the US capital the same voting representation in Congress as other Americans has made little progress toward ratification by the 38 states needed before it can be attached to the Constitution Six states Connecticut Massachusetts Michigan New Jersey Minnesota and Ohio have approved the proposed amendment which would let the District of Columbia elect two US senators and one member of the House of Representatives But at least eight other states have rejected it including neighboring Maryland where the House of Delegates turned it down three times The measure is still pending before lawmakers in some states including Wisconsin and California but in others in cluding President Carters home state of Georgia it has not even come up for debate Supporters say publicly that with six years ahead in which to seek ratification they are not discouraged by the performance so far But it is hard to find lot of encouragement FEW RUSH IN Compared with the proposed equal rights amendment which was ratified by 30 states within year of being approved by Congress and later turned down largely in the more conservative states left the voting amendment is not attracting rush of sup port from state legislators In addition discord is reported among the bipartisan coalition of local and national groups that steered it through Congress hampering fundraising efforts for the publicity campaign needed to win state approval That campaign relies on major argument that the amendment would end situation which is fundamentally unfair and some might say even unAmerican The 670000 residents of Columbia 75 per cent of whom are black are in an awkward political position Tiny country one of worlds richest NAURU Reuter It takes just 20 minutes to drive completely around one of the richest countries in the world The place is not some oilrich sheikdom in the Middle East but rather tiny dot of land in the South Pacific called Nauru The entire 28squarekilometre island just below the equator can be viewed at glance through an aircraft window Its greywhite beaches fringed with coconut palms look out on thousands of miles of empty ocean Only an occasional breeze cools the blistering heat The island has one paved road no industry no rivers and the irregular rainfall and sandy soil make any kind of farming impossible Despite the harsh environment the 7500 residents wellted and living in modern houses lead life that would be the envy of most outsiders There is no unemployment nqtaxes schools are free and the govemment pays for all medical care even bearing the cost of overseas travel for specialist treat ment The source of this prosperity is phosphate Apart from its beaches Nauru is virtually solid mound of phosphate the residue of generations of bird droppings that is made into fertilizer for crops Mining of the deposits much in demand by hungry world generates about $20000 year for every man woman and child on Nauru island government sources says The cash of course does not go directly to the islanders but the equivalent per capital gross national product for the United Arab Emirates is $14500 the United Statés $7800 and Britain $4200 say the most recent World Bank figures The Nauru government took over the lucrative mining operation when the island became independent from Britain in 1968 and present estimates say the deposits will last for 20 more years The phosphate is mined from central plateau that covers most of the island rising gently from the beaches short drive along dusty track and the palm trees suddenly give way to the eerie lunarlike landscape of the digging The islands labor force is too small to meet the demands of the mines and most of the phosphate workers are recruited from other Pacific islands and Hong Kong The Nauruans themselves are employed in the government service or public utilities such as the telephone system and con struction The island imports everything from toothpaste to bulldozers The government led by President Hammer Derouburt for most of the 11 years of independence runs shipping line and an airline The airlines planes fly to places as far away as Japan and Australia but Nauru is too far off the beaten path for most tourists Nor is Nauru ever likely to become tourist haven But the government already is planning for the day when phosphate its sole means of livelihood dries up It diverts 60 per cent of the present revenue from phosphate mining each year into trust fund that is invested in stocks and property overseas to provide national income for the future to In due to the negligence al its servants or otherwise and there shall be no lblllty for non Insertion of any advertisement beyond the amount paid lot such The Publisher reserves the right to edit revise classify or reject an advertise The world today Major sales to Japanese By JOHN HARBRON Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service We have been told for years that the Pacific Rim nations are natural market for Can That word came from former Prime Minister Trudeau during his several visits to the Far East business leaders and dip lomatic representatives So far inspite of the truly huge market possibilities of such populous countries as Ja pan China and India we havent done too well in Asia The Japanese have told us to peddle our CANDU nuclear reactor somewhere else and that they are not interested in it Instead they are planning to build one of their own based on American nuclear power plant technology The Ottawa Citizen editorial of August 15th last put it bluntly Canadians would be mistaken to think of the Ja nese as fair trading partners Weve burn our fingers often enough with Yankee traders but the Japanese are in league by themselves The paper then continues to remind us that those big deals which the Japanese sign with Canada are for our natural resources iron ore coal and fish but rarely for technology sharing The result is that one of the major in dustrial nations of the world has no intention of developing balanced trade with us We were and are major natural resources supplier for the Japanese because they have forced us to play the game their way With the Peoples Republic of China the muchtouted biggest market in Asia we are going to dent that difficult trade prospect by subsidizing the Chinese to buy Canadian fabricated goods The Export Development Corporation in Ottawa an important crown corporation which guarantees the financing of Canadian firms doing business abroad has loaned $2 billion to Peking to stimulate lagging Ca nadian export sales to Communist China It would appear that 12 companies presently negotiating with the Chinese Government state agencies for orders will benefit from the record high EDC loan Both the Japanese and the Chinese have proven ot be very frustrating trading part ners practicing long and tedious delaying tactis which we are told have been part of their cultures Perhaps with $2 billion of Canadian public funds in their state bank Pekings bureau crats will stop playing games with our businessmen They should because they will soon be buying from them with our money India as market has been even more of lost cause especially in the last few years when that country began its successful import substitution activities In fact the Indians have developed healthy export market of their own in certain lines of finished goods It will never compete with the aggressive Japanese and South Korean markets of the same kind But it virtually eliminates any Canadian possibilities of major export sales of our consumer and industrial goods to country of half billion people Our failure to sell CANDU nuclear reactor to the Japanese must be taken by the new Clark Tory government as reason to develop an industrial policy which Mr Trudeau inspite of his many speeches on foreign trade prospects never could bible thought And this is the confidence that ye have in him that if we ask anything according to his will he heareth us And if we know that he hear us whatsoever we ask we know that wr have the petitions that we desire of him John Szll15 His word and His will are one and the same If ye shall ask anything in my name will do it My word shall not return unto me void write your mp 99 If you would like to write your Member ol Parliament or Member of Provincial Parlia ment printed below are their mailing ad dresses ll you send us copy of your letter it might be suitable for our Letters to the Editor columns Alter all ii there is matter of concern that makes you want to write to your MP or MPP if it is not personal matter it should be of interest to your friends and neighbors too FEDEIAL MSTEWAIT MPSimcoe South Parliament Buildings Ottawa Ont GISMITGES MPGreySimcoe Parliament Buildings Ottawa Ont MIG lEVflS MPSimcoe North Parliament Buildings Ottawa Ont HIM BEAT MPWellingtonDulferinSlrncoe Parliament Buildings Ottawa 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