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Tuesday Nov 27 1979 CIRCULATION 7266539 NIWSIIOOM 7266537 ADVIIIIISING the examiner sewing borne and simcoe county Puonsned by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited l6 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario LAM 4T6 Bruce Rowland publisher CLASSIFIEDS 7266537 7282414 BUSINESS 7266537 EDI tows Craig Elson managing editor Stan Didzbeiis city editor ADvERTISING SALES Bill McFarlane wire ed for Aden 5mm REPORTEDS Warneuav Stephen Ntholl5 Dennis Larthver Nancr Figueroa Lor Cohen Steve Skinner Marion Harav Calwn Felepchul Peterciark Yonv Panacci Richard Thomas Stephen Gauer CLASSIFIED Sue Bowen camera operator Iefv Field Calhr Heather Marv Delahev Freda Shinner Janice Morton ianMacMurchv Timbrell should heed health care petition Ontario Health Minister Dennis Timbrell should pay heed to the 274000 residents of this province who signed petition protesting health care policies in Ontario The petition was presented in the legislature last week by New Democratic party leader Michael Cassidy and his caucus members Petitioners including several thou sand from Simcoe County pro tested the governments restraint program for health care and op gosed any form of extra billing doctors to extra fees being charged to chronic and otller pa tients as well unfar OHIP premiums The petitioners are making valid point for the problems were now experiencing without health care system may only be the tip of the iceberg Optout has become the familiar phrase in medical language these past few years as more doctors have decided to leave OHIP so they can set higher fee schedules While doing so they have damaged Ontarios once prestigious health care system one we thought was firmly established The problem does not rest solely with Ontarios doctors Inflation and higher operating costs have hit that profession as they have others However instead of taking quick exit from OHIP doctors should have been little more pa tient and realized the move could create hardships The Ontario government also should have recognized this problem and done something about it Doctors have strong platform in the Ontario Medical Association which could have arrived at solu tion with OHIP administrators The fact is that OHIP premiums are not now nor were they in the past unfair Medical attention is costly and most people realize this Unfortunately many have found out the hard way having to pay several hundred dollars out of their own pockets to optedout doctors then wait months until HIP reimburses them only part of the doctors fee Ontario residents have had enough of this setup As for Tim brell he should stop gloating about how much money has been spent on health care in the past as he did when the petition was presented and work with his provincial colleagues to bring the OHIP system back to respectabili ty It may be costly but it would be money well spent letters to the editor DearSir want to thank Mr Knapp for supplying facts about Georgian College and its role in the education system of Simcoe County In his erudite condescending and sympathetic reply he staunchly defended the honour and the dignity of those young students who at tend Georgian College This was quite unnecessary Ive devoted my whole life to the education of young peo ple and so share his love of all young peo ple For the first time he supplied this com munity with afewfacts Ilnrolment of first year students is 729 Now 341 have completed Graded 12 This word completed is significant one How many had first class standing and how many of these just passed because they were in attendance Again 159 have com pleted Grade 13 How many of these had first class honours or even second class honors That leaves 229 students of which total many hold high school equivalency from other provinces or programs Now uivalency is another interesting word an other programs that lead to this equivalency is interesting Finally how many is many and how many remain after you substract the many from the 229 students Who are these 100 or 150 re maining students Where to they get the right to attend postsecondary institution like Georgian College The other fact gleaned from Mr Knapps solicitous letter is that graduates from Georgian College such as nurses and technologists start at salaries ranging frorn $13000 to $16000 Training of nurses was transferred from hospitals to Community barrie landmarks ollegcs to give the latter institutions some restxictability Ill not enter the debate which insists that his move was not wise one But my question in my original letter was How much more does youngster in crease his earning potential by attending Georgian College Very few of the 729 first year students of Georgian will graduate as nurses or technologists Finally Mr Knapp asked me to kindly dismount from my elitist horse My dear sir rode the bus to college and back every day My father never earned more than $4000 year in his 33 years of work with the Ford Motor Co For six summers worked in factories and on assembly lines would have died if had to spend 33 years of my life as factory labourer Thanks to struggling Assumption College in Windsor earned my degree and became teacher in Simcoe County poor boy cant do that in province that boasts of equality of educa tional opportunity Why is ours the one region in Ontario that does not have its own indigenous university Mr Knapp my quarrel is not with you It is against system that would consider the building of sports complex for communi ty college while simultaneously denying funds for the construction of one university building This Mr Knapp was what my original letter was all about You never even addressed one word to this issue If embarrassed some members of your student body or even yourself apologize Sincerely John Schmidt Barrie Collier Street United Church the first Methodist church was erected in IBM It was frame building and stood to the east of the present church site The now standing brick budding was erected in l869 Until the late I840s the use of brick in churchbuilding was rarely approved by High Churchmen the material being regarded as inferior to stone Thereafter brick come to be valued for its ability to create smooth planes Len Sewck manager PqurChapetl supervisor COMPOSING ROOM BUSINESS Jack KHMV Hyman ubi 551962 lavndeC£Dl 6W9 Wna Glenn Kwan asst toreman statutorv notoars DH Mls Don Saunders VSKGGM Layne we WEEKLY bv carrier Connie Hart may 95 cents Stan Wray YEARLY Dy carrier 811 Raynor Mom sv MAIL Barrie Ea Attenm St Montreal CletuLATION JaneNamfl BHNIKH manage SusanKitchen SMCOE COUNYY Hugh 3553 3999 Vvonne Stews 00 Doug Bom £55990 MOIORTHROW OFF Alva LePIante 505an Lsawefiy AlHansonloreman Elaine Burton Fr CherylAilten ed me GEEZ ARE YOU SURE TURNER l8 SIITING ONACOUCH 3v Pension reform needed twoyear study recommends OTTAWA CP Faced with looming old age boom governments and the pension in dustry should cooperate to reform the cur rent private pension system the Economic Council of Canada recommends in twoyear study released today Time is rapidly running out Flor ac comdplishing the required improveménts se con it is highly unlikely that they can be achieved in the absence of some form of part nership with government the report says However three of the counci 24 members criticize the report for failirl to solve the future retirement income prob ems faced by 54 per cent of workers who have no company pension plans and must rely on government pension and assistance programs The council estimates that the portion of elderly in the population aged 20 or more will jump to one in three by 2030 from the current one in seven MAKES PROPOSALS Among council proposals are coordinated plan by Ottawa and the provinces to extend and improve private pen sions Amendments to liberalize private pen sion legislation including giving workers the right to employers pension contributions in five years instead of 10 years regular review of the Old Age Security Act to ensure government assistance pro grams are adequate for the elderly poor The council declines to suggest an income target Oldage security and guaranteed income supplement payment should continue to be tied to costofliving shifts Govemment pension plans should be brought into line with those in the private sec tor by limiting pension income received as result of pensions being tied to the cost of liv ing The council is critical of what it calls defi ciencies in the private sector pension system Of the 46 per cent of workers with private pensions in 1976 half were publicsector employees The coverage was particularly low in the trade field and in community business and personal services the report states In addition less than onethird of private plans allowed workers to count their averagebestearnings or finalbest earnings in calculating retirement in come As well many private occupational plans have in adequate survivor benefits the council says SUGGESTS NEW SYSTEM To overcome the deficiencies the council notes but does not recommend British style system to establish fullyfinanced sup plement to the Canada and Quebec pension plans Those employee plans which matched the minimum standard could opt out The council gives no overall estimate for the costs of its recommendations which if implemented would increase the current package of privatepublic pensions to an unspecified level above the current system The report estimates that the cost of the publicprivate pension system will account for 31 per cent of gross national product in 1981 Central to the council report is plea that Ottawa and the provinces regularly assess population growth trends at threeto fiveyear intervals to keep ace with factors which could alter deman on the pension system Such coordination is absent at present Offers young farmers chance to learn abroad OTTAWA CP An opportunity for young Canadians interested in agriculture to try their hand at farming abroad is being offered by the International Agricultural Exchange Association nonprofit organization formed in 1963 Barbara RobertsThomson association representative for Australia is on six month promotional tour of Canada to inform young people of the opportunities to travel and work in Europe Australia or New Zealand The organization offering training pro grams in different types of farming and home management also aims to develop an understanding of cultural patterns and ways of life in other countries Last year more than 200 Canadians par tici ated in the program but another 200 coud have been placed in various spots around the world Trainees pay their own transportation and some other costs but receive board and lodg ing and training allowance from the host family Prices quoted early this year ranged from $1300 for fourmonth European stay to $5870 for year TRAINEES SCREENED Applicants must be between 19 and 28 have highschool education and have at least two years experience in agriculture Potential trainees are screened and inter viewed before they can be accepted and an area supervisor keeps in contact with them once they are in the host country The organization makes travel ar rangements on group basis It is responsible for obtaining work permits where required and for arranging employment on approved farms Programs include choice of four to eight months in Europe six to eight months in Australia and New Zealand or 12month aroundtheworld tour The yearlong tour has stopovers in Hawaii Fiji Singapore Thailand and Denmark with approximately fivemonth working periods in either Australia or New Zealand or Europe French language school sparks Toronto controversy TORONTO tCPi The search for loca tion for the citys first Frenchlanguage public school has thrown the Toronto board of education into controversy About 800 angry parents attended meeting Thursday to protest the conversion of downtown senior public school to ac commodate students of Ecole Gabrielle Roy It is the fourth school that has been con sidered for conversion and it pleases neither the parents of children attending it nor the parents of Gabrielle Roy students Parents of pupils at Hodgson senior public school and the five public schools that funnel students to it plan further rotest meetings this week to challenge the rds decision The parents say their children will have too far to travel if they have to go to another school Meanwhile parents of Gabrielle Roy students now sharing building with another Toronto Englishlanguage public school arent pleased with the choice of Hodgson school either bible thought lam thcbreadollifeJohn648 Only the Saviour can fully satisfy the longing soul and the burdened heart He still feeds the hungry multitudes in lifes wildemess DonNear assv lareman Kim Pattenaen $41003 rear tisemcrt The Exammer is member at The Canadian Press it and About Bureau at Circulation ABC Only the Canadian Press may to publish news stories in this howsoever credited to CF The Associated Press Reuters or Name France Presse and local news stories published in The Examiner The Exammer claims coon9hr on all original news and gavele much created bv its employees and published In this newspaper Copyright registration number 203315 register 61 Naticinet advertising ottices 65me St Toronto so We M0 Cathcart The advertiser agrees that the publisher shall not be liable tor damages on ing out at errors in advertisements beyond the amount paid tor the space at tualtv occupied by that portion at the advertisement in which the error oc curred whether such error is due to the negligence at its servants er other wise and there shall be no liability tor non insertion of any advertisement LSEWHERE 1N CANADA beva the amount paid tor such advertisement Yhe PubIISher reserves the right to edit revise classilv or reiect an adv US legislators require more than $60000 year By JOHN HARBRON Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service If we concern ourselves about conflict of in terest by our politicians and we should look at the American system reveals how far it can be practiced among elected legislators very revealing article recently in the British newspaper The Guardian estimated that 54 of the 100 members of the United States Senate have conflicts between their personal financial interests and the jobs they perform for powerful Senate committees Then it proceeds to report the ways in which their personal interests and govern ment business clash In the Senate agricultural committee which helps formulate farm policies for Congress three senatorial members hold large agricultural interests One of these Senator Herman Talmadge Democrat from Georgia who is also under investigation by the Senate ethics committee for improper financial dealings owns giant 1388 acre farm with an estimated worth of $2 million The Senate finance committee presently deeply involved with working out windfall profits tax on the oil companies and hotly contested issue includes Senator Russell Long Democrat from the oil state of Loui siana who owns $12 million of oil and gas pro perties Six other members of that committee also have substantial personal holdings in various oil and gas stocks The Guardian makes this ominous com ment The Senate finance committee which is responsible for putting together key energy tax laws IS the energy lobby In addition to this large number of US Senators are very wealthy in their own right without being able to say their personal for tunes affect directly what they do in the Senate The impressive Republican moderate WASHINGTON AP US intelligence officials strongly suspect that the Soviet Union provided chemical weapons they believe were used against Laotian tribesman resisting communist Pathet Lao and Viet namese forces These officials asking to remain anonymous said team of Soviet chemical warfare specialists was detected earlier this year in western Laos scene of reported poison gas attacks on HMong hill tribesman who have never accepted Communist vic tory in Laos Well probably never be able to come up with conclusive evidence but we have high Senator Howard Baker from Tenncsec has an unearned income of 3328000 frotn sales and iraterest on his share of property partner ip And as you might already guess Senator John Heinz is indeed the heir to the II Heinz fortune the richest man in the Senate richer apparently than Ted Kennedy also US Senator His net worth appears to be around $50 million almost million for each brand comments The Guardian All this relates to current flurry in Washington as to whether ongressional salaries should be boosted Congressmen who also have large sprinkling of wealthy elected members to the House of Representatives now receive base salary with substantial tax free portions of $57500 per annum They are pUShing for seven per cent pay increase before the end of the year rd so far have voted for this by show of hair rather than by individual polling in public The reason of course is that they do not want to be identified individually as asking for pay hike at time of growing recession in the United States and continued criticism of govemment Yet for conscientious American politician with no outside resources perhaps maintain ing two homes educating children operating his congressional office in Washington to salary close to $60000 is not high Unless regular pay increases are accepted by the electorate our legislatures could become rich mens clubs US suspects Soviet Union supplying chemical weapons suspicion that the Russians provided the chemical agents one official said US Army investigating group including several doctors concluded that at least two and perhaps three different chemicals were used against the tribesmen nerve agent substance that caused bleeding and pro bably riotcontrol gas The army investigators based their report on medical symptoms and other signs described by 43 tribesmen they interviewed last month at three refugee camps in nor thorn Thailand The tribesrnen estimated 700 to 1000 people died and that many more were sickened as result of attacks by planes and rockets Liquor was prime issue in early Frosi days By DON OHEARN Queens Park Bureau Thomson News Service One of the great first concerns of Leslie Frost after becoming premier was the sorry state of the liquor business The image of the liquor business was bad The public generally tended to look on it as what would be called today ripe This in turn rubbed off on the provincial govern ment Liquor outlets were pretty shoddy While new cocktail bars were quite plush neighborhood bars had the decor of prison dining halls white tile floors and walls iron tables and chairs They were cold and not too clean They were operated to great degree by freebooting roughcut crews who mainly drove Cadillacs The typical ones could have been cast as bit players in gangster movies TOLL GATE CLOSED When Frost took office he quickly closed the toll gate party officials had been operating His decision was to stay the issu ing of new licences except in extraordinary cases to be authorized only by him But he still lacked effective control of the total situation The Ontario Hotel Association did represent the operators but did not have continuing contact with any high level of government In typical movie fashion was to become directly involved One afternoon as walked along University Avenue car pulled into the curb In it were the owners of the Club One Two Torontos first and most elaborate cocktail lounge Both were direc tors of the Ontario Hotel Association How do we get to see Frost they ask ed Knowing he would also be interested in meeting said tomorrow morning or aftemmn It was arranged with the premier for 930 the following morning dozen directors trooped into the cabinet room They left beaming for they had been subjected to the dazzling charm of Leslie Frost But before too long the realization dawned on them that absolutely nothing had been gained They had sought hours and other conces sions They had gained nothing not even foot in the door Nor did Frost get much out of the meeting He did see enough to conclude im proving the image of the Liquor business was the last thing in the mind of the OHA leadership It had no control over the opera tion or conduct of its members JOHNSON HAD LOLT My initial role as gobetween hardly rated rave notices nevertheless the premier call ed few days later to ask if had further suggestions My recommendation was he recruit Jack Johnson to his campaign Johnson was the eminent Canadian hotel man of the day He carried tremendous clout in the Ontario Hotel Association He was also the manager of the Royal York where Frost had lived for years and the premier knew him well He could carry the message to the LOOKING BACK association that the premier wanted it to clean up its act Johnson proved eager to cooperate and went to work quickly At the very next directors meeting he put the premiers message bluntly until there were signs of better image Frost wouldnt be receptive to anything most of all the longer hours so many of them wanted They got the point There was another problem however great obstacle to correcting the liquor situa tion had been the terribetween government and the hotel industry Except for routine inspection of premises practically no con tact at all existed MEETING DISASTER Frost agreed might work to bring about remedy by developing some regular line of satisfactory communication to get the whole problem off his back litically which was what he most wante Through Johnson and other friends in the association was retained for threemonth study and proposals on the OHA public relations It became evident almost immediately that the crux of the communication problem was Col Arthur Tiger Welsh As provin cial secretary with cabinet responsibility for liquor matters he was the logical conti nuing point of contact As it tumcd out he wasnt He was fine person but his army career had been the big experience of his life He had emerged from it martinet In day to day affairs he could be very aloof and the OHA had not even been able to see him To get the temper of the situation ar ranged for an OHA delegation to see him iFrost had called him to receive it The meeting was disaster Welsh was cold and negative An abrupt no was the reply to everything had taken the precau tion of having Chester Walters comptroller of Ontario and man of unmatched stature sit in His intervention saved the day He supported the delegation and Col Welsh agreed to grant the concession it had requested The hotel men left with what they wanted but with communications worse if possible than ever IIOICE LIMITED After the meeting Frost called me down to his office and asked what seemed to be the problem Well sir said the first one would say seems to be your minister He looked up resignedly suppose really have known that he said Theres only so many to choose from you know He decided he himself would try to keep some contact with the hotel men That remark by Premier Frost is perti nent to anyone who wants 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