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patrol city streets The citys board of police commis sioners recommended the addi tional personnel this week and it will now be up to council to allocate needed funds in its 1980 budget The additional police will enable the department to place 24hour walking patrols in city commercial areas while maintaining existing car patrols The additions would give Thief Earl Snider what he has stated he wants higher visibility for police in Barrie Snider says Barries business community has consistently called for beefup of police numbers In fact Snider pointed out this city was operating with one policeman for every 741 residents while the provincial policing average is one for every 607 citizens The addi tional staff will bring Barrie closer to that figure one policeman for every 650 residents Its wise movc by the policc dcparlmciil to placc tlic cxtra men on the streets The fact is foot patrols are major dctcrrcnt to the type of crimc thc businessmen and all Barrie residents want rcduccd vandalism and building breakins Police on permanent foot patrol in commercial sections will be more visible then officers driving by in cruiser The beat system will also allow the officers to familiarize themselves with residents and mor chants in the areas thus building up mutual trust and respect between citizznry and police Couple with this police board deci sion Tuesday commissioner also approved the training of civilians to act as parttime desk personnel Although not as dramatic step this will help relieve the burden paperwork for Barries police giv ing them more opportunity to police the city The result will be stronger police force in Barrie We see it as positive step letters to the editor Sir read with interest your editorial on the general committee system for the City of Barrie and believe the points of your argu ment were well made would like to add few comments to shed little more light from an aldermans point of View The general committee system takes away some of the ability so necessary in todays complex society the ability to specialize An alderman is presented an envelope Friday at supper hour and has one working day to research up to 40 or more items for Monday evening meeting Understandably it is impossible to obtain complete information on all subjects with the result that the alderman attends the meeting to vote on items which are not familiar to him Even the reference commit tee chairmen are often not fully knowledgeable on the subject as shown by their asking members of the administration to answer questions posed to them by other members of council believe the greatest danger in this inabili ty to specialize is that it weakens the role of the elected representatives vis vis the ad ministration This is true at all levels of government but may be readily seen at the municipal level where elected terms are only two years As you see by the proceedings of Barrie council very few recommendsations are originated by individual alderrnen or committee chairmen but are made by the ad ministration This can facilitate the ability by an administration to empire build without informed challenge if they so desire Any good supervisor knows the importance of what he hasnt been told as well as what he has been told when he has to make decision an by specialization he knows what he hasnt been told Imagine yourself as new coun cillor trying to question man who has been doing his job for 10 or 20 years To add to this possibly your vocation is far different from his have to conclude there are great benefits to be gained by more indepth knowledge agree with your statements concerning the ability of all aldermen to review each item Under standing committee system there has to be great trust expressed by coun cil in the different committees which could or could not be warranted Also under stan ding committee system there is an easy cop out by councillors when criticized for actions of particular department by simply saying Im not on that committee The committees on which we now serve are reference committees and as such items are not generally studied by them unless re quested by council with the odd exception Even when referral committee has par ticular item to study they still have full agenda to research and vote on at general committee which leads me to think that the time demand would restrict their ability to deal with that particular item For some reason or other we also seem to be up against deadlines for decisions although the cir cumstances of situation may have been known for weeks In order for the general committee system to work well definitely feel more active role must be played by the reference commit tees and we should be able to depend fully on those committees to look at all sides of question with the advantage of their exper tise We would have more individually responsible council Yours very truly James Shirley Alderman Ward Davis as Jimmy Cogney By LEONARD NOBLE As youve probably already heard the im age makcis are hand at work attempting to reshape the public image of Premier William Davis Up till now the Premier has presented the appearance of benign friendly non rocker of the boat politician which some peo le euphemistically call keeping low pro ile That is not to say that the Premier hasnt come by that image honestly After all he was taught by the master of nonboat rockers John Robarts who not only was the former Premier of Ontario but remained in office so long without any serious competition that in the end he finally retired as undefeated champion If Bill Davis political career is considered success then he must pay tribute to his mentor John Robarts who taught him how to dress dully to speak boringly and to keep well insulated from any blamc that might in any way affect the government CHANGE STYLE But times they are changin as the lyrics to the song say and Bill Davis ad visers have encouraged him to change his style with the times if he is to continue as the leader of the Conservative party in Ontario can just imagine conversation between the Premier and his closest adviser as they talk over the problcm of the Premiers im lzLookit Bill youve got to look tough talk tough and give the impression that you are tough if you hope to survive in politics Peo 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 lot tors but it you wish pen name will be used hcludo your telephone number and address com have to vorin letters Income of spoco limits public interest and good taste The Examiner sometimes has to odt condense or reject Intlors Latter to the Editor are run every day on the odtorlol pogo Send your to to tho filter The tuber Put Cities In 310 Milli out 41 pie expect toughness in their leaders these days asserts the adviser what do you think should do thats dif fcrent enquires the Premier his voice betraying slight edge of irritation Weve got to figure out an angle for you so that the moment your name is mentioned people will say Now theres tough guy see replies Bill Sortve like when the name Humphrey Bogart Edward Robin son or James Cagney is used IIASTEN PROGRESS Exactly replies the adviser Only weve got to hasten the process with an advertising campaign he continues If say Speedy Muffler you think of fast efficient and incx pensive service or RabbitVolkswagen im mediately brings to mind Don tell me interrupts the Premier excellent mileage You got it exudes the adviser OK exclaims Bill what do we have to do to give me this so called toughguy im ago Its not gonna be easy Bill replies the adviser Youve gotta really work at it OK OK responds the Premier war ming to the idea what do do Well get you sonic television time says the adviser get you out of those dull looking business suits and get you into rakish devil maycare outfit for starters Go on go on interjects the Premier en thusiastically Youll call Rene Levesque no good traitor for what hes doing to Quebec Peter Ioughced piece of parasitic garbage for at tempting to gouge every last dollar out of Canadians for oil and with Joe Clark says the Premier You put on your best tough guy imitation and after bawling him out for playing footsie with Peter Lougheed and dancing with Rene Levesque you say You dirty rat dont play that song again Sam if you know whats good for you bible thought But ye btIOHtI building up yourselves on your most holy faith praying III the Holy Ghost Jude Thcrc is praying that goes far beyond our personal know ledge and cvcn our deepest destrc We know not what we should pray for as we ought but the Spirit itsilt niaketh in tercession for us 2th groanings liich cannot be ultcml Oil producing provinces have oces at conference By DEREK NELSON Queens Park Bureau Thomson News Service TORONTO BC Premier Bill Bennett remarked at the first ministers conference in Ottawa how the new Joe Clark version of conference table closely resembled poker table No longer was there the horseshoeshaped gladitorial arrangement of the Trudeau years but chummy greencovered table where the first ministers could sit elbow to el bow Unfortunately for the Bennett analogy everyone went into the game with stacked deck The producing province and the federal government having constitutional responsibility for oil prices each carried four aces to the table Lowly Ontario went in with the worst cards possible and only brilliant job of bluffing by Premier William Davis kept the provinces hand from being tossed in early NICE TRY Rhetoric and what some Ontario officials call t8 federal Conservative seats in On tario gave Davis what leverage he had at the conference It seems clear that in earlier discussions Ontarios position did have an effect on the federal authorities who originally wanted to go to world price for oil in jumps of $611 barrel year Now Clark who unlike his Liberal predecessor actually seems to listen to people appears to have accepted smaller hike But that wasnt enough to satisfy Davis who stubbornly held to his opposition to world price even when it was clear he stood alone among the 11 first ministers Davis reiterated his longstanding position that western Canada should not be paid what their oil is worth on the open market but that the price should remain frozen artifically low By JOHN IIARBRON Foreign Affairs Analyst US defense spending now record $155 billion This year marked the 35th anniversary of the DltDay landings of June 1944 and next year will mark the same anniversary of the end of World War Two in Europe They are reminders of the lime and treasure in both human and material resources which were needed to unseat the last military conqueror of Western Europe These reminders of recent history and the wellremembered Nazi German domination of Europe must be on the minds of NATOs chiefs and planners as they look at European defense mechanism facing Soviet military might The North Atlantic Treaty Organization NATO also has 1979 celebration its 2101b year as the major defence agency against future Soviet invasion of Europe In the spring of 1949 that eventuality seemed imminent as the cold war escalated and the Berlin Blockade begun in the fall of 1948 was drawing to close British and American military brass were saying very strong things in private such as their judgment that the Allied armies should have kept on going after Nazi Germanys colA lapse in 1945 and pushed the Russians back to their boundaries That would surely have extended World War Two to the long and exhausting phase of the Napoleonic conflict of the early Nineteenth Century RECORD HIILI1ll Thirty years later the Soviet weapons buildup facing the member nations of NATO is the highest in history All the comparative figures of troops under arms tanks tactical nuclear missiles ground and airborne military backups show superiority on the Sovret side The Russians have twice as many new tanks as the NATO nations about the same difference in total number of regular troops larger military air forces and political control mechanism over their Eastern FROM THE LEGISLATURE WEAK INDUSTRY Coming from the leader of Canadas major industrialized province it is an under standable if somewhat selfish viewpoint Still it does make one wonder just how efficient our industry is when it needs not only an 85cent dollar but oil at halfprice to compete successfully in world markets Undoubtedly part of Davis concern is political he is protecting his flanks at home where both opposition parties keep probing for chinks in the Tory energy armor Ontario Liberals and NDP think political mileage can be gained from opposing oil price hikes But one wonders People know there is good deal more opportunism than party principle in much of the opposition The NDP government in Saskatchewan for example is proworld price as were the federal Liberals till they lost last May SAUDI ARABIA Davis repeated the old argument that world price is arbitrary and artificial which is true But unlike 1974 when it was pegged high by OPEC because of world oil glut there is now supply shortage and all that keeps price from surging is Saudi Arabias determination to hold it down Canada imports 40 per cent of its oil and is consuming increasing amounts annually all at world price There is valid argument to be made about the timing of price increases such as waiting until interest rates fall but in the final analysis Davis is playing with an empty hand by being rigid on world price European satellites which is impossible in democratic Western Europe To combat this all the NATO nations agreed to three per cent increase in their defense budgets in real terms during the NATO heads of government meeting in Washington in May 1978 We must do much more in the defense area to rectify the adverse budget trends of the past 15 years says Zbigniew Brzczmski President Carters National Security Ad viser We need to be able to compete as sertively with the Soviets wherever they impose upon us such comnefitinn Accordingly Presraeni Carters next federal budget to Congress in January will in crease defense outlays to record $155 billions This figure could grow to $170 billion by fiscal 1982 taking into account inflationary tendencies while maintaining the three per cent commitment of last vear SALT II INVOLVED Some senators are gearing the need for such higher US defence budgets to their support for the SALT ll Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty which is the only part of the weapons buildup where restrictions will be accepted by treaty between the USA and the USSR Emboiiled premier emerges as winner in energy debate By STEWART MacLEOD Ottawa Bureau Thomson News Service The way some tell it poor William Davis the embattled premier of Ontario was lonely defeated figure at that federal provincial conference on energy as one by one other premiers fell in line behind pro posed oilprice increases Davis alone battled gamely on behalf of the poor struggling consumer arguing that the proposed increases would cripple the poor and the elderly increase unemploy ment fuel inflation encourage fullblown recession and generally create horren dous mess Even the Atlantic premiers who have historically fought tooth and nail against higher fuel prices accepted the in evitability of new and massive increases Davis takes it on the chin said one headline as the story described how the On tario premier stood in isolated splendor against the proponents of escalating prices Davis oil price plea gets little support said another and we were given details of how the Ontario premier went home defeated He had fought fiercely on behalf of the battered consumer but he could do no more Now he said at the conclusion of the talks am no more optimistic about the provinces future than was before the con ference began SHOULDNT FRET have no way of knowing exactly how William Davis really felt within his inner being as he left the Ottawa talks and the television lights to return to the relative serenity of Queens Park Perhaps he really was disappointed or even devastated Its just possible that he expected to swing other premiers to his side as he spearheaded an attack against higher prices But if were him wouldnt feel de jected think would feel that for prac tical political purposes it was whale of meeting If were heading minority government and got that type of exposure on national television fighting fearlessly on behalf of the Ontario workers the con sumers the elderly would be euphoric Its not every day that you get an opportuni ty to go before your own voters and defend them from the perceived collective greed or INTERPREIINQ IHE NEWS indifference of every other political leader in the country Its true that the conference wasnt called to settle pricing that would come later in talks between Ottawa and the producing provinces but everyone knew that the main federal proposal was to raise Cana dian crude prices by $1 barrel in January followed by $3 increase next July and then $4ayear increases until the price reaches 90 per cent of the Chicago level With the exception of Davis all the political leaders agree that the Canadian price should generally rise closer to world levels STOUT DEFENCE If these increases are permitted said the Ontario premier it would be an excessive and imprudent response to the claims of the producing provinces and the petroleum in dustry It would he warned cost the average Canadian family an additional $700 ayear As the sole apparent defender of the little guy Davis warned his fellow delegates and his television audience that the Canadian people are running out of patience with the line that they have been living wild ly beyond their means Perhaps our govern ments have but our families certainly have not am alarmed at the widespread tempta tion to turn national economic development policy into zerosumgame seemingly at the expense of Ontario he said with sideways glance at Prime Minister Joe Clark The government of Canada must stand not merely as an arbitrator of com munity differences but the guardian of the nation as whole No one could object to that As mentioned earlier dont know how William Davis felt as the lone obvious loser But if were him would not waste any time orchestrating another one With defeats like this he cant lose London Times hits streets after llmonih absence By BRUCE LEVETT LONDON CPI There was champagne along Fleet Street when The Times returned following an 11month absence but there was an air of appraisal behind the celebration The Express Newspapers Group publisher of The Daily Express and its Sunday partner as well as The Daily Star and The Evening Standard announced it was dropping plans for computer typsetting or photo compositioh Jocelyn Stevens managing director of The Express body said events at The Times and problems at The Daily Mirror in introducing partly computerized system have discouraged the group Only The Observer has installed new printing and composing technology and is training its printers on them William ReesMogg editor of The Times in an editorial headed The sparks are falling on the gunpowder said there was lesson not only for Fleet Street but for the industry as whole over the problems besetting British newspapering The Times and its unions have signed agreements providing for an increase in productivity of about 30 per cent and wages near the top in British journalism ReesMogg gives one example of the significance of these agreements and the con sequences of not trying to reach them WILLCOST SAME By 1981 it will very possibly cost The Financial Times at piece rates on the con BACKGROUNDER tinued use of obsolete equipment as much to set news colunn as it will be costing The Times on electronic machines to set page The editorial says the Fleet Street disease is only the British disease in more acute form It gives as examples the problems besetting British Leyland the car company British Steel and British shipbuilding Even efficient British firms are usually overmanned by between 50 and 100 per cent the editorial says They survive because the British standard of living and therefore of wages is below the average of our competitors Inefficient British firms are often overmanned by 200 per cent The Times says there is lack of sense of reality as Britain competes with obsolete equipment and gross overmanning against modern electronic equipment and tight manning standards and calls this suicide There are indications that even after spending its 195th year silent The Times is not completely out of the woods Two unions the National Graphical Association and the Naticnal Society of Operative Printers Graphical and Media Personnel are in dispute over whose members should control the pushbutton which controls the flow of newspapers into stacking machine In Britain its called demarcation dispute and it must be settled before the weekend when the pushbutton comes into full use Chinese honor memory of Dr Norman Bethune PEKING APJ China has honored the memory of Canadian Dr Norman Bethune one of the few foreign martyrs of the Chinese Communist revolution who died 40 years ago while serving in the Red Army About 2500 people gathered Monday in the Great Hall of the People to mark Bethunes death The Observances also included an an exhibition of his belongings including diaries and letters and photographs of Bethune with the late chairman Mao Tsetung and the late premier Chou Enlai An article in the Peoples Daily on Monday described Bethune as great inter nationalist Wang Binghan president of the Association for Friendly Relations with Foreign Counlt tries and friend of Bethune gave the main address at the memorial The seal was his revolutionary weapon he said ding that China must carry on his revolutionary traditions and high moral standards Dr William Baroots the head of Canadian delegation said Bethune was impatient and quick to anger usually against complacency in others but was deeply compassionate toward the sick and wounded WAS WARM PERSON But he said beneath cold and often hard exterior there was warm human being Bethune arrived in China in the spring of 1938 at the head of medical team sent by the Canadian and Communist parties After service on the front lines in the war against Japan he died Nov 12 1939 from blood poisoning He was 49 Mao later said Bethune was an example of the spirit of proletarian intemationalism mans ability may be great or small Mao said but if he has this spirit he is already nobleminded and pure man of moral in tegrity and above vulgar interest man who is of value to the people Brilliant and restless Bethune who was born in Gravenhurst Ont was con troversial figure in Canada His out spokeness his advanced ideas on the treatment of disease especially tuberculosis and his domineering personality created enemies within the establishment Disillusioned he left Canada in 1936 to work with the Spanish socialists against Francisco Franco and his German and Italianbackers Bethune was the first to introduce mobile blood transfusion teams to the battlefield Retail sales above average OTTAWA ICPi Montreal and Vancouver posted aboveaverage increases in retail sales of more than eight per cent for Sep tember from year earlier Statistics Canada figures released Tuesday show While the national average was growth rate of 56 per cent Montreal soared to 87 per cent and Vancouver followed with 82 cent Winnipeg however posted decline of 56 per cent Toronto had growth rate of 16 per cent Total retail sales were $638 billion 56 per cent from year earlier but down $669 billion in August The highest increase was in Alberta where the growth rate was 141 oer cent from year earlier