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avGud COMPOSING ROOM pubsm up summer member or The Curunion Press CW and Audit Bureau ADVERYISING BUSNE Jock Kerney foreman 5W3 cirrumim inci Only me Comma Pm mav revealsh new stories in Len Sewck manager Minefifiltzl 01 Glenn Kwan assi foreman statutory holidays nus newspaper credited to CF the Asslociaved 1moses 30 Mm Don sues De vac rm Saunders WEEK am From Prone analout savorresouo wheat Aden 5mm viklii ra Lorne Was the Erummcr claimgcopyriqht on att Original new and advertising material If WW con Ha 3009 YEARLY carrier created by its employees and Dualshed my this newspaper or Steve Skinner an ray Saturday Nov 17 1979 WWW b0 15 Marion Hardy Raynor 40 CNOOVHOVH airarionuryumbergr 29 mo mm ii Greer At Iron using me uteri orono Publisned by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited agrogzm Enuenov utgW Mom l6 Hayfield Street Barrie Ontario L4M 4T6 gghygflagfl gagitzarzi SIMCOE DUNN The aqvnnisu agree the manner manor be liabledtqr dahmiges art en ingot errorsn yer lumen beyond amoun par or Res Fr $39 00 Bruce Rowland publisher fixing WNW Am aughmasstsanmanagfl Yvonne Sierps THROW tultlv runed by that portion or the advertisement in which the error cc Freda Sninnerv Doug 80 PRESSROOM Mo curred whether such error is due to mpgence at servants or other JCocm La 39 AI Hanson foreman 50 wise and there snail be no liability tor don insertion or an advertisement tan MacMorchy EIIZTntEIJJmH Don Near asst foreman ELSE WHE RE 1N CANADA beyond the amount paid tor such advertisement Ftd MK er me hi to can rev se classrtv or rech NV 7266537 7266539 7266537 7282414 7266537 Che res Kim Pattenden trument L141 Council down to workable size Siriuoc can look forward to more efficient county government system in about years time December ltittti is workable 39 representatives private members bill introduc Taylor received third reading in the House this week cutting the number of council air by Mtl icorge tlt Simcoe Cent re members The bill in its initial form first appeared before council last February and received coun cils endorsement in June after 01 licials from each of the countys 35 municipalities had an opportunity to comment The new setup will save the color ty few bucks about $350ttoi but more importantly than that will streamline council as working body The county now has 10 standing committees some with little clout anrl the intention is to ainalgamate few of the least productive com mittees ounty Warden William libbiiis when the number of representatives on Sun cor ouncil will be reduced by 15 from an awkward 54 to more one of the strongest advocates of the bill to reduce councils size said the bill was wellaccepted the pro vince And well it should have Councils are oftentimes so large they negate their own effectiveness Since there are so many municipalities represented on county council under the new system it will not be possible for one or two munici palities to have their represen tatives join forces to push through council resolutions to the benefit solely of the individual munici palities The old act allowed two members on council to municipalities with an electorate of 2500 or more but the amendment now requires munici palities to have an electorate of 7500 or more to keep two represen tatives at the county level The bills largest boosters were themselves members of county council They recognized that 54 member council was not at its peak of efficiency We feel the streamlined council of 39 will be Approach used in Rhodesia wont work with Ulster Ily JUIIN IIAItIlltth Foreign Affairs iialy st The British formula of the constitutional conference has been applied to the ever festering problem of Ulster as it has been done with the equally critical one in Rhodesia While the Rhodesian event scents on the brink of success after weeks of meetings delays arid frustrations there is not much chance this traditional approach to problem solving is going to work with Ulster In fact one wonders if anything in the way of solution will ever work with the in tractable lllstcrmeii atholic and Protestant There are several alternatives leading to selfrule which lory Secretary for Northern lrelarid Humphrey Atkins has put before Ulster and his ow ii cabinet These range from moch for full cabinet Ievcl sharing of power which was tried arcady in 1974 and failed to new ar raiigcinents for local government The Northern Ireland parliament would handle such apparently norrcritical services as health and clfarc Slt Lll But in all llll liiiister Atkins largely overlooks iri lltu Inch has been major source for conflict oxer these last ten years the failure to Ilitlillt atholic participation at the top of whoa2e turr government in Ilsltl This coristiftitror iozfierrrme on Ilstei due to take plat the and wt tti rrioizth has alrcady beer firitrie4 the Official lnionist Party the t7til Paisley and the tiroii Party there are Vii tm from thr tragic assasssr ti Iiir lori mtter by the IRA IItt1ltiii ha the mindless opposition to an lii rrieiiirr from Irish Amerii ans leader for always fueled the flames in Northern Ireland preacher Ian III4KI1IiI irifi Iiiis it last ceased Both Senator Ted Kennedy and Representative lip ONeill Speaker of the Ilouse of Representatives who should know pettcr have been silenced by Mountbattens ate It would appear that such an event was necessary to close down the propaganda from IrishAmericans that the British were the only villains in Ireland and that peace would come automatically if they departed AntiltBritish politicians in the United States like Kennedy and ONeill are undoubtedly appalled at what they have encouraged in Northern Ireland and appear prepared to believe that Mrs Thatchers government is really searching for solutions What such Americans are finding out and what the British have known all along is that Ulstcrincn are not Englishmen per 59 nor are they equivalent in social and economic stature In fact Scottish analysis reported in The Economist Nov from the Centre for Public Policy Study at Strathclydc University in Glasgow points out the major economic disparities and social attitudes between Ll ster and the mainland United Kingdom NOT ILIIII BRITISH tlstcrman are paid less own fewer houses are not as welleducated and have lower life expectancy than the British Nevertheless the IRA could still claim this objective academic study is the proof they want of tlsters historic colonial status Railway company worried about meeting energy crunc MIINIIIEU IriilliwtK tiIt making tracks ti ii tiii viiil that should please lt ltatl taimrl but Ittitlltlltlg litirl Garth Campbell is worried via wont hayr enough cqtiipinerit wliir ttie III energy crunch hits Every time there snowstiiriii and the highways and airports are closed people sud derin show tip it the station and epect seat on the train Campbell said in recent iittci lsiially get them scat but not always And then they ask Why isnt there seat waiting for me hen want to use it We call them toiilwcathcr friends And when they re not using the train we run halfempty and they say were inefficient tarrrpticlt said the number of riders is up about to per cent Her last year continuing trend which began when hit started taking oyci tiiriitiin National and Canadian Pittlltt inter tll passenger trains 21 years ago Tom business has lcapt 2011 per cent and were otil st ratclnng tlic surface beeaux of problems with Illltl capacity tamplrct Elltl We could hurdle tw ice is many people if we had the space we want your Opinion Something on Vow mind Send atelier to the EditOi Please make it on original copy and sign it the flaming doesnt publish unsigned let but it you wislt Ci pen name Will be used Include your telephone number and address wehoyc IL nuIy fatter Because of spam IIYHIH pUbIk interest and good taste Ibo hammer sometimes has to edit condenser remit letters Lotteis to the Editor are run then do on the odtorial page Send yoursto Letters to the Editor The lithium Port om I01 370 Ill 0m STARTINt Tt lrtll ars account for the lions share of travel in anada but holidayers are starting to switch he said Automobiles are becoming less com niodious and fuel will be running short think well see lot more resortoriented vacations instead of stopping 100 places along the highway Well see return to places that are accessible by bus or train You look at something like Minakr Lodge tilt northwestern Ontariol Its on the main line but as hard to reach by car It fell into disuse not because its unattractive but because the pattern of travel changed People are going to start returning to places like Minaki and St Andrews NB ia has only 50 new passenger coaches on order because of federallyimposmi limits on capital spending The new coaches are of the advanced LRt rlight rapid and comfortaber design and should be entering service in 1982 In southern Ontario were using over too coaches that were built before 1940 Iii the summer need big blocks of ice for the air conditioning What do we do do keep using iceactivated cars in southern Ontario or do order new equipment RlNltiSlItRT It takes three years before the new equipment is ready What do we do in the meantime anada could soon be running oirt of gasoline and the transport crisis will come before can get new muipmcnt Campbell said that if the railway business is to survive the federal government will have to 111 cst erc essentially living on the past with emphasis on airports and highways he said The provinces look it the highways and they regard everyone else as the enemy In Ottawa they dont think of anything ex cept airports lcoplc fly to Irutcricton and then cvpcct local air carrier to get subsidies to take them to Simev NB jUSt near by It would make tar more sense to take bus to Sussex but the airlines dont know anything about the bus schedules Air service doesnt connect with any thing else Well have to get buses trains and planes orking together letters to the editor Sir It was disappointing to find out that there wont be any special reserve parking for the handicapped if Barrie City Council endorses general committee move made Monday October 22 Certain city council members are not only insensitive to the needs of the handicapped in respect to accessible parking but are totally uninformed that such needs do exist and are recognized by many communities and municipalities in Ontario and throughout Canada would ask these doubting aldcrmen to make themselves aware of such re quirements and note the following physical disability can be defined as any condition due to illness accident or birth which physically inhibits normal pur suit of the activities of daily life It is estimated that one person out of seven or 15 per cent can be regarded as having some form of physical disability Yet no park ing spaces other than Scars in the Georgian Mall have been provided to allow the ban dicapped easier access to the essential places of business supermarkets banks municipal and medical offices shopping malls in the city of Barrie Even the Royal Victoria Hospital does not provide reserved parking for the disabled and handicapped One reason for this is that people con sistently underestimate tor simply are not aware of the number of disabled who also drive their cars Thus the opinion of certain aldermen on Barrie City Council According to the Municipal Directory published by the Ministry of Treasury Economics and Intergzvernmcntal Affairs in 1978 surveys of various Canadian municipalities indicate that one of every seven people is disabled This would mean that there are some 4500 disabled people in the City of Barrie Moreover according to an article that ap peared in the New York Times on August 1979 38 per cent of the disabled people drive their own cars and an additional 38 per cent are driven by others On the basis of these figures it is possible to estimate that there could be over 1700 physically disabled people in the City of Bar rie who drive their own cars plus an addi tional 1700 who are driven by others This comes to probable total 01 3400 people who could benefit from accessible parking Such parking is not available in Barrie And this does not include the many handicapped peo ple from out of town who must come to Barrie to carry out business In individual interviews with disabled peo ple and their families it was found that do cessiblc parking was key issue One of the Traffic and Engineering Committees con cerned in recent study of parking for the disabled in the City of Hamilton was whether spaces should be provided only in city lots or whether city bylaw should force private parking lot operations to reserve spots for the disabled In Toronto Alan Barker president of the Toronto Parking Operators Associatier agreed to put at least two wide parking spaces in lots with over 200 stalls The latter could very well fall intoa similar category as shopping mall parking where the disabled must get to supermarkets drug stores banks dry goods stores etc Today disabled person driving his own car or being driven to shopping mall cannot depend on reserve parking in the City of Barrie In order to ensure that these parking spaces were used by either the physically disabled drivers or passengers Toronto adopted recommendation from the Mayors Task Force on the Disabled and Elderly that decals be used by those handicapped who drive or the cars of thse handicapped who get driven which would allow access to the reserved parking spaces Illegal parking would be fined parking violation Clarly precedents have been set in Ontario which respond to this aspect of the access problem of the disabled Recognition of the legitimate human needs of disabled people will facilitate their par ticipation in all aspects of community life The City of Barrie should institute course of action providing accessible parking for the disabled which should be part of the overall plan to make Barrie barrierfree communi ty In the greater Barrie area it could benefit an estimated 3400 disabled people Let it be understood the handicapped and disabled are not looking for free parking only accessible parking Ruth tarth Barrie Proposed IraqSyria union BAGHDAD Reutert Announced with considerable fanfare year ago the proposed union of Iraq and Syria has followed long series of previous Arab alliances into the garbage can of history Relations between Syria and Iraq are normal said Hassan Tawalbe senior official at the Iraqi information ministry There are ambassadors there is trade there are open borders There is no movement toward union now but that does not mean it will never take place Western diplomat provided more succrnct assessment The uiriorr is as dead as dodo On Oct 26 1978 the leaders of Iraq and Syria signed an agreement to end more than decade of hostility arid merge into single state with population of sortie 20 million and armed forces almost half million strong The accord was hailed tll Baghdad and Damascus as turning point in Arab history which is full of abortive mergers liver the last two decades Egy pt Jordan Syria Iraq cmen South Yemen Libya and Tunisia all have been involved in abortive unions ltllTll RIFIS IDIIIII The United Arab Republic of Egypt and Svria lasted years The most fleeting union so far was that of Tunisia and Libya which lasted less than 24 hours The countries of the Arab world share common language religion and heritage Itut political rivalries many rooted deep in history have proved stronger than the ob vrous factors in favor of unity trait and Sy ria buried an acrimonious 10 vear lend last year in reaction to the amp lavid agreements between President Airwar Sadat of Egypt and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Ilcgiii Both countries felt sc riously threatened by the acconl followed by the Egypt ianlsraeli peace pact last March The reconcrliation paved the way for last years Arab summit meeting in Baghdad which decided on political and economic boycott of Egypt as punishment for its treason to the Arab cause All but three Arab states Oman Sudan and Somalia severed ties with tairo COLLAPSE IN Jll Now there no longer is any pretence that Irar and Syria could serve as model for Ara unity among unsuccessful attempts The Arab worlds two biggest military powers apart from Egypt Iraq and Syria are ruled by rival wings of the Baath Party which aims for the unity ofall Arabs from the Atlantic to the Persian Gulf Never given much chance of success by foreign diplomats the IraqiSyrian merger project collapsed last July shortly after Saddam Hussein succeeded the ailing Ahmed Hassan alBakr as president of Iraq On July 28 Baghdad announced the discovery of conspiracy against the leadership Some 65 party leaders and gov ernment officials were arrested Eleven days later 21 were executed by firing squad Although the Iraqis never made any public allegations they presented Arab govern ments with videotapes of court proceedings and leadership sessions designed to show that the alleged conspirators were acting on behalf of the Syrian government Since their Syria has vanished from the state controlled Iraqi media In Stalins Russia you had nonpcrsons said Western diplomat Here they have progressed to the invention of the noncountry Syna just ceased to exist as far as the media are con cerned Syrian President Hafez alAssad indirectly has blamed the Iraqis for the failure of the merger at teriipt In an interview with the West German news niagainc tier Spiegel last August Assad said merger attempts had in fact led to nothing and added Perhaps it is necessary and advisable to let timc pass until our brothers tll Iraq are willing to rejoin the common path There is no sign that they are preparing to to so Brit officials here stress that the present state of relations is an improvement on the situation before the unity agreement was signed Iraqi officials and number of senior Western diplomats say there is little prospect of the two countries returning to their earlier hostility when the homers were closed and flights between Damascus and Baghdad suspended Iraq has reached certain political matqrity which goes with its enormous orl wealth and its aspirations toa leadership role in the Arab world and the nonaligned move ment said Western diplomat By STEWART taclIOI Ottawa Bureau Thomson New Service The way the Liberals manhandled the Pa rtr Quebecois in those three Quebec byelections its tempting to think that the governments independence referendum has already been lost and we can again turn our attention to more normal pursuits like football games and train wrecks There is no doubt that the byelections represent severe setback for Rene Levesques Parti Quebecois as it gears up for the referendum campaign The party which holds comfortable majority in the National Assembly now has lost all six byelections each one of them featuring emotional argu ments over the PQs sovereigntyassociation and the Liberals renewed federalism With the independence issue dominating the entire political horizon in Quebec we are inclined to view each byelection as minireferendum And obviously the issue influences voting patterns in the province But there were many other factors at work in these byelections just as there were in 1976 when the separatist Parti Quebecois was elected on the issue of good government DIFFERENT VIEWS Not surprisingly Liberal Leader Claude Ryan tends to feel that the byelection results represented resounding defeat for Levesques sovereigntyassociation And again not surprisingly Premier Levesque tends to feel that this had nothing to do with the byelection results The people have categorically rejected the PQs constitutional option and the white paper they had the impudence to release said the jubilant Claude Ryan Quebeccrs want more open attitude to the rest of Canada to fundamental freedoms and to the economic climate The results said the dejected Levesque had nothing to do with the referendum And he said that anyone suggesting such con PARLIAMENT HILL nection was being profoundly dishonest think its safe to assume that the correct interpretation lies somewhere between the two extremes Considering all the social unrest manifested in marathon strikes that Quebec has experienced recently It would be foolish to suggest that the voters went into their booths thinking of nothing but sovereigntyassociation In each of the three byelection campaigns local issues including strikes unemployment and even paving contracts worked their way into every speech But it would be equally foolish to suggest as Levesque has done that voting patterns were not affected by his con stitutional proposals LIBERALS SLRPRISEI The Levesque government choose to bring down its white paper on sovcreigntyassoci ation in the midst of the byelection carn paigns and the Parti Quebecois candidates choose to make it central theme of their electoral pitches And several of chesqucs former ministers offered the view beforehand that defeat for the Pt would be significant setback for the partys iii dependence campaign Two of the three seats had been field by Parti Quebccois members and one of them the Montreal riding of Illaisonncuve had been PQ stronghold since 1970 the preserve of former minister Robert Burns The third seat had been held by Fabien Roy now the federal Social Credit leader From the be ginning the Liberals thought they would win two of the seats and they figured they had an outside chance of taking Illaisonncuvc BACKGROUNDER AuditorGeneral will study government native fund OTTAWA CPi Parliament has authorized AuditorGeneral JJ Macdonell to do detailed audit of federal govern ment trust fund for Indians that has grown to $198 million since Confederation in 1867 motion presented in the Commons on Thursday by Liberal MP Warren Allmand Notre DamedeGracei was given allparty approval JV Fowke assistant auditorgeneral had refused to carry out the audit for 75 Indian bands unless directed by Parlia merit Revenues are put into Ottawas general revenue fund the governments main bank account under authority of the Indian Act Indians want to know what has been done with the money Is the money being loaned out at low interest rates to Third World countries asked Graydon Nicholas chairman of the Association of New Brunswick Indians The fund was established before Con federation to look after the business in terests 0f Indians and includes revenues from transactions such as the sale by the colonial government in 1840 of Indian land near Brantford Ont to oil revenues currently paid to bands on the Hobhema reserve near Edmonton brotherhood officialsaid ASSORIIJI RICVIINllIS Rod Brown assistant deputy minister of Indian affairs said the fund contains $312 million in revenues earned on capital assets and $167 million earned in the sale of non renewable assets such as oil gas coal and sand Most of Canadas 550 Indian reserves are also held in trust by Ottawa but it would be impossible to estimate their value Some of the reserves were outright gifts to bands from the Queen of England but others were created by federal government decree or treaty Ron Fournicr assistant deputy minder of Indian finances said the aud It€i could supply general arid onerng it last fivetottiyears But if they war Li to go farjir the beginning of time or each translators dont think we keep records is ierg And he sazd the Ind out their to housrng or ecoron 1c Graydon dtgtd29€ our band money to suppor ittTF rn wt isl grams Lnder the Iftlql Act itam resprnsbtc to pron ffflftm develop programs rum2 housmg Jihad tor our rewru no its Better communication QLEENS PARK By DON OHEARN TORONTO There were probably good many lessons to be taken from the great Mis sissauga evacuation incident here But one that strikes home greatly to me is that we need much much better commu nication on environmental matters And particularly that in such com munication we need to deal much more with fact and less with cries of alarm There are some of us who through our work have had to be quite close to environmental questions and as result have become somewhat skeptical We have had to handle the tremendous fuss about mercury in fish And yet when we have gone behind the public alarm we have found we cant come up with even one death in North America from mercury pollution We have seen politicians and the media and environmental groups become intensely excited about spraying school yard with 24D Yet when we investigate just what thr actual consequence of this might be we find that at most it would be very very trivial And with the continual stream of alarms in recent years we have found that there tends to belittle wide know ledge or substantial fact behind the cries And with this the experience that often those who cry the loudest know the least Hysteria has tended to rule illltl this has made some of us skeptical it not actually cynical TillI WIIY So that when the Mississauga Itllltlllll to at broke personal reaction is not to give tI convincing credibility For even though thousands of people and Illlllll quot let of Million were being shippiin out of their homes on the record it could have been exttClSt in hystei ia Essentially Imirlei jumping gun in the Iiuiatr of on IlItlIll WthIt has ruled in mu ii iirirrieutal matter And any sitsprr iriri iil UL lIPUEIlN nr rl by II liltl that from lbrv =titt tlww weir itii precise explanations gry If II Wils said than thing tltll situation there had been mutt pioparu explosions and parlii iilmly tlirtn war tank car of chlorine that might look And not mm this people had to be mm ml out on environmental matters LOOKING BACK But there was never any why just what could happen that would mean this car of chlorine could threaten the lives of quarter of million people over an area many square miles And unbelieveably such precise in format ion was never given watched for it wanted it wantml to knowjust what this really was all about There likely has never been such press coverage in Toronto history Radio stations and there are good many in Toronto were broadcasting nothing else 24 hours day Ielevision was constantly interrupting And the papers when they came out on the second day follow ing the week end iiirirleiit devoted the great bqu of their space to Mississauga IlfllAIIl Itiit in none of this heard or watched was there any explanation of list what the ihhi rine could do The only thing close was it rarlio inleryiew with police tlllll who said he thought that when ililrii llll Iiil lirit Iiirtil II turned iiito phrisgriie IIII llll wa an instant killer Ill two and Iiill IlJl this was the oii at all concrete fact from ollir rirloiii iii the huge media ioyei age raiue iiitoss in Tuesday when tillttt were open alter the Aiiiiislu Ilay holiday Itoiiiirl out for my self trailed Ii ieirrl in the chemical industry and asked him Jim has this big thing been Irlt real Hell yes lion It said This slttll is ttitlslatrl gas If that tank hall pIII and the wind had been strong and right it could have wiped out third of Metro much for that This one was legitimate Iliit still there has to he the question of just how legitimate was the mass evacuation Just how much did those who ordered it really know There has to be some suspicion they perhaps didnt know all that intich It illustrates the whole eiyingwolf character of the cnwronmental problem