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lflrtfit VVCI CIRCULATION 7266539 NEWSROOM 7266537 ADVERTISING 7266537 CLASSIFIEDS 72824 Change policy on closed meetings One of the first things the Simcoe County Board of Education must come to grips with is its policy on closed committee meetings Traditionally committee meetings are closed when matters such personnel litigation or property acquisition are discussed However incorporated into the Simcoe County Board of Educa tions constitution is special bylaw which says that any com mittee meeting of the board can be closed for any reason The chairman of committee has simply to invoke that bylaw and theres nothing the public can do to gain admittance Thats an extraordinary power for any public body and in our opi nion power that should be rescinded in the public interest This Monday night is an example of whats wrong with the bylaw Following the boards inaugural meeting the board will reconvene as committee of the whole and go into private session What the committee will discuss is the drug problem in county schools and what policies are need ed lo combat it At some point the discussion is expected to touch on three youths recently expelled from school for possession of narcotic While the board coud eaily have closed just that part of the discus sion as personnel matter it has chosen instead to close the entire proceedings on the grounds that the subject matter is sensitive one Drugs in our schools are more than sensitive issue Its mat ter of vital public concern for parents with children at school and for concerned citizens in general By cutting off this meeting and others like it the board is doing disservice As elected officials trustees have responsibility to do the publics business in the public eye whenever possible And that cant be done when meetings are being held behind closed doors We think many trustees would favor opening up the committee system to allow more public par ticipation They should recognize that in this day and age meeting in private and then issuing recom mendations simply isnt good enough Its not good enough for the trustees who care or for the public who have right to know As was said the Simcoe County Board of Education must come to grips with closed meetings The way to do that is to rescind the existing open ended bylaw and put into place bylaw that names specific reason as the only critereon for closing off education committee meetings Ladies curling plays prominent role in Barrie By KEN IIIS urling was in its early year known as gentlemans game Timesdo change So ladies curling club emerged in Barrie just 3t yea rs ago The game started in Barrie way back in the 1870s This was chronicled in The Ex aiiier several weeks ago This scribbler got slapped down by some femmes for devoting the space to macho men So here goes and of course headed straight for the Imperial Towers to contact old friend Ede orby who has added Moore to her name Or could say Joe was h0iored by adding Corby Lets go back up to the southwest corner of lappertoii St at Sophia St In last arti cle it was stated that lapperton was nam ed after British officer Sophias nomenclature has not been discovered as yet by the archives or our learned city aldermen or altlerladies was told by member of the downtown Senate it was listed after the beauteous Sophia Loren Well lets go back to the winter of 194049 About 50 charming Barrie ladies gathered at the Barrie and Tliistles curling building on lappertonSopliia and so dazzled the gentlemen that they were eagerly admitted Barrie was still very much railroad towi even then so Mrs Hughes was appointed president Understand she got experience in some Gllt or lllt site named Hornepaync Or was it aprcol Early directors were Phyllis Harris Sal ly Napier Mrs Wallace Alllia Kennedy Marg Gray Maryann Smith Erial McNabb Mrs Jack Chrissie Coleman to Scott of course Mrs Diunmiond Marion Smith Pearl Dangerfield NEWBIIHHM The curlers boys and girls plus the very few juniors moved over to the new building at the new fair grounds on Essa Road in 195I Thats where titthll really got into high gear First elected prexy was Mrs Wilbur Iliyll Harris 194951 Then came Mrs Jack Edith Corby and in Slttttdlllg years Erial McNabb Mrs Harold Maryann Smith Mrs Archie Queenie Fraer Mrs Jack Altha Ken The at Home Scene nedy Mrs Dave Marion Smith Mrs George Seymour Lillian MrsAllen Gray Margaret Mrs John Gladstone Currie Ruth then for second term Mrs Ede Corby another Mrs Roy Smith Barbara who could also play clarinet Mrs Moore Marguerite Mrs Vern Jean Adams Mrs Marg Peacock Mrs John Grace Ough Mrs Fran Newton Helen Ideson Doris Homer Freda Green Betty Clyne Yvonne Armstrong Miriam Duval Clara Butler Dorothy Cordy Lilly Webb Lillian Gracey Isabel Colpitts Jennette Laws Joan Osborne Names make news Thats what any learned editor knows So here are some of the early members Molly Foster Emma Patterson Mary Chittick Freda Crossley Flo Boyes Amy Vair Bertha Stewart Edith Moran Mrs Stroh Min Stewart Mrs CN Stewart Mrs Don Simon Ms CR Healey Verna Henderson Marg Hodges Mrs Hook Mary Divingston Kitty Lit tle Win Adamson Mrs EA Boyd Kay Boys Elma Burbidge Mary Craig Mrs CliffBrown Mabel Emms Mrs DAngio Mrs Dickey Ms Glass Bethea Crowe Mrs Clem mens The ladies were real good curlers and were well up in provincial competitions One fairly recent year even won Southern Ontario and came close to winning all Canada honors That was Lilly Webb four with Sheila Bristow and The Collie sisters In 1970 the Barrie Country Club moved to an 18hole golf course on St Vincent St and added curling facilities Some of the above names moved there and it has been moving ahead too So believe me ladies curling is real big in Barrie Liberals face dilemma in mortgage interest vote tlll Liberal MPs find themselves in the uncomfortable position of wanting to vote against $575 million in tax relief to hoineou ners next year but not wan ting to bring down the minorin Progressive Conservative government and force an elec tion House leader Allan lllacEachen confirmed in an interview Thursday that Liberals will vote agaiiit the mortgage interest and pro perly ta credit plan when it comes up for bible thought Woman where are those thine ac cusers llath no man coiideiiineil thee She said no man Lord And Jesus said unto here neither do condemn thee go and 5m no more John ti lo Peo le who dangle past before person oughtpto be conscious of the Lords presence If ye forgive not men their trespasses neither will your Heavenly Father forgive you second reading approval in princtple Tuesday Asked if he expects to see all caucus members in their seats for the vote he replied We had them here yesterday to vote and well have them here again next week The Liberal caucus voted Wednsday to op pose the legislation in all votes even at the risk of defeating the government As the NDP also has said it will vote against the bill and as the Social Credit group that holds the balance of power has strongly criticized it that should put the future of the minority Clark government in jeopardy But few MPs want an election at this time particularly the Liberals who have lameduck leader Pierre Trudeau announc ed recently he is stepping down and the par ty has scheduled March convention in Winnipeg to replace him To avoid showdown some MP5 will have to stay away during crucial votes or some will have to break party solidarity Once the MP5 elected in byclcclions Nov 19 are sworn in standing in the 282member Commons will be Conservative 135 Liberal 1H NDIBTand Social Credit BUSINESS 7266537 Mary Delaney Peter Roberts Alison Merkel AI Hanson torernan Fred Prince Time of year to hear whats on readers minds By STEWART MaclEOD Ottawa Bureau Thomson News Service This seems as good time as any to see whats on the minds of some readers these days From Chatham Ont The government was right in opening our doors to 50000 boat people Now we should do the same for the thousands of starving Cambodians From Hedley BC To hell with the Chinese woma ltlNew Glasgow NS wants to know why does the opposition let the govern ment get away with spending all that money on sillyprojects like birdcounting when most of us cant afford to heat our homes cant provide satisfactory answer Maam But those now in the Official Op position used to be pretty good at it too Sarnia writer asks whether it will be possible for Prime Minister Clark to fulfil all his election promises in the current session of Parliameht At the current rate of progress think we can assume the promises he doesnt scrap will probably be fulfilled Sorry cant do better on that one ATKEY DEFENDEI Youve been much too hard on Im migration and Employment Minister Ron Atkey complains reader in Barrie Ont He was not the only minister responsible for that promise to move the Canadian embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem Youre absolutely right But Atkey was the only minister who cheerfully took credit for it dont agree with you that Atkey did the right thing in encouraging Canadians to sponsor Vietnamese refugees was another view of the immigration minister The government should be leader not fol lower The next thing you know theyll be asking us to sponsor our own senior citizens man in Union Ont is all in favor of giving more power to the police Oh know the civil liberties boys will cry blue murder if the police are allowed these powers but wouldnt you rather have your civil liberties protected by an efficient police force than by bunch of longhairs carrying placards This view incidentally seems to have an overwhelming popularity with letterwriters Another typical example Lets scrap this unnecessary royal commission into RCMP wrong doing Criminals will continue to use every dirty trick in the book and how are the Mounties going to catch them if they dont play by the same rules And dont give damn if they open my mail WRONG MISTAKE From Prince Albert Sask Joe Clarks biggest mistake in forming his cabinet was not as you imply adding Robert de Cotret through the Senate by ignoring Alvin Hamilton the best idea man the Tories ever had Clark showed he has no sense of judgment And from Truro NS How can Joe Clark continue to ignore Robert Coates for cabinet post It was Mr Coates who got Clark elec te From Kelowna 80 Why dont you say more about the Clark government holding some of its cabinet meetings in Jasper Exactly how much has this cost us the taxpayers And what can bunch of ministers do there that they cant do in Ot tawa The answer to both questions is that dont know Tell me is it really true that Joe Clark cant swim Does his head sink Well Ive never seem him thrash about in the water but its his own claim that his head sinks However perhaps hies merely being modest ln Timmins 0nt they dont beat around the bush would just like to know whether its true that Maureen McTeer tells Joe Clark what to do wouldnt mind knowing myself Ill close with two conflicting viewpoints one from Thunder Bay and the other from Sarnia If you guys give Clark chance hell be the best prime minister in history boAnd Trudeau makes Clark look like lost ylt UK Tories outdistancing counterparts in Canada By JOHN HARBRON Foreign Affairs Analyst Conservatives in power in Canada and the United Kingdom since last May are com mitted to the same kinds of changes but are proceeding at different paces The Tory government of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is ahead of Prime Minister Joe Clark in implementing election promises In both parties these include reduction of government expenses selling off crown corporations and stimulating private in dustry Where many of Joe Clarks cabinet ministers responsible for such social services as pensions health needs Indian affairs and unemployment insurance are overwhelmed by the difficulties in cutting back the Thatcher Tories have started to hack away Reductions already announced by Mrs Thatcher include building programs for schools and universities severe cutbacks in statesupported school meals and transport which could come to half billion dollars drop of about 50000 in the number of teach ers Where the Clark government has only listed the crown corporations it would offer to private industry the Thatcher Tories have already introduced their bill for the sale of large piece of British Airways to private in terests INFLATION WOES Mrs Thatcher has stronger personal commitment to reduce the inflation rate in Britain which is now nudging 17 per cent than has Mr Clark in Canada who cannot prevent our rate going up to ten per cent in 1980 Where government spending is concerned the situation facing incoming Tories in Canada and Britain was somewhat different The previous Trudeau government here had already begun costcutting program WORLD TODAY after having raised government expenditures to an alltime high But the previous Callaghan Labor government in Britain had planned very large five per cent increase in government spending about $75 billions Mrs Thatchers Tories facing much larger foreign policy issues than Joe Clark has been more successful with the agreement on Rhodesias future about to be signed by all sides involved The British Tories created no em barrassing booby traps for themselves such as the Clark proelection promise to move Canadas embassy in Israel to Jerusalem Since Mrs Thatcher and many of her senior policy makeis had previous cabinet ex perience they knew how to avoid such gaffes as the Clark volteface on the aborted Je rusalem embassy romise On defense out ays both the Clark and Thatcher Tories are committed to expanded budgets and new military hardware in both cases concentrating on new aircraft and small warships To be fair the Thatcher Tories have much more clout at Westminster than does our Tory government in Ottawa since the former was elected with large majority while Clark must hold on to parliamentary majority of one with Social Credit support BRITISH IDEOLOGY This doesnt mean Mrs Thatcher faces less opposition in the British House of Commons than Clark is doing in our own The strong ideolo ical conflict between British Tories and La rites does not exist in our federal system at the present time Kim Pattenden Emma ADVERItsmG gusmsss COMPOSING ROOM Publismdailyexcep1 The ExaminerlsamemberotThe Canadian Preu CPmlhAudit Craig Elson manaoino editor Len Sevick manner Marlon Couch accountant Kva fem Sunday and CllCUlIIIOM 30 Mm stan Didzbalis city editor SALES Delva Mills Glenn Kwan asst toreman mm and this my credited to CP Tlhe Aqucée YLMEIMMIJMS or con BillMcFarlare wire editor Aden Smith VlkkiGrant Donsounders WEELY by FrancePress ahdloculnevrss of 939W RE FORTE as Wayne my Connie Hart Lorne Was Ms The Examiner claims copyright on all original news and warming material Stephen Nlcholls Steve Skinner John Shunk Will Cadogan EARLY by cam raged by its employees and published in this newuupu mama Dec 1979 an borne and Simcoe wumy i335 QZTvmliiélla CRCUL° Elfingvzr 34 Copyright registration number mus noisier Publisned by 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education By DEREK NELSON Queens Park Bureau Thomson News Service TORONTO Education Minister Bette Stephenson is breath of fresh air in the calcified bureaucracy that is the education establishment of this province The more one reads what the lady is saying and the reason she ives for saying it the more one is im ress Stephenson as reputation at Queens Park for being caustic with the opposition and as knowitall always having forceful answer even when shes weak on the facts The other side of that coin is that she really has desire to learn everything she can and she actually reads with critical mind the background studies upon which so many educational decisions are based Most education ministers in Ontario Bill Davis being the prime example appeared to swallow bolusbolus every latest fad cranked out by socalled education experts NOT BETTER Thats why in 20 years weve gone through all kinds of changes in the school system Open concept schools county school boards the credit system large amounts of support staff audiovisual aids even so help us television network have been enlisted in the cause of better education Whether in fact education has improved as result remains an open question The dropout rate is 70 per cent and in creasing People still graduate after 10 years of compulsory schooling who are functionally illiterate We still import overseas workers for skilled jobs because the education system cant produce them GOOD TOO It is obvious the thrust of education for the past two decades went awry in many areas and the best aspect of Stephensons tenure as education minister is she appears to be asking why FROM THE LEGISLATURE To be fair one should note the province has had its successes too such as in special education the identification of why some children are slow learners and how they can behelped Stephenson svvms willing to tackle the self justifying myths of the education establishment For example she is seriously looking at the question of class size even though it is an article of faith among educators that the smaller the class the better the learning It isnt necessarily true and leaves aside all kind of other important factors Chief of those even ahead of teaching quality is the home environment It is there child acquires the motivation required to make success or failure of education and Stephenson realizes it N0 IMPRESSION The uestion then is what can the schools do an one obvious solution is to redirect funds from the fatcat secondary system into the early grade years where they might actually do some good Stephenson has not said she would do that but she has indicated willingness to shift funds between priorities within the limits an age of restraint and teacher unions imposes on spending At the very least she leaves the impression that any option is open for consideration And that is the best news education has had in longtime Criminal activity rising in major Chinese cities PEKING Reuter crime wave is sweeping through the major cities of China Authorities especially in the huge sprawling cityof Shanghai on the east coast are particularly worried about the trend as it centres on the increasing criminal tendencies of young people The situation has become serious only in the last few months and the official press which usually does not dwell at length on the negative aspect of Chinese society has published constant stream of stories about robberies gang fights rapes and general troublemaking The problem has become so serious in Shanghai says the citys Liberation Daily that many young women now are afraid to attend evening school for fear of being at tacked Young men usually operating in pairs are reported to prowl darkened alleyways of Peking threatening passersby with knives and demanding money wristwatches and other valuables The most obVious reasons for the rise in crime are the huge unemployment figures that exist in China and the revision during the last year of the governments down to the country program which has resulted in fewer surplus young people going to rural areas to relieve pressure on the Cities Some estimates put the number of unemployed in China at 20 million and With nothing to do and no source of income there are no unemployment benefits here many young people turn to crime out of necessny or sheer frustration Treasures of Tutankhamen superstar exhibition By VINCENT EGAN Business and Consumer Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service Like smash Broadway hit or per formance by rock superstar of the moment an archaeological supershow can drive todays public toa frenzy of anticipation In that frenzy people can lose sense of proportion and subject themselves gladly to allnight ticket queues or to ticket scalpers The latest such manifestation but cer tainly neither the first nor the last is Treasures of Tutankhamun touring exhibi tion of 55 beautiful artifacts dating back to the Egypt of 33 centuries ago or display at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto until Dec 31 In recent years there have been other such supershows such as Chinese exhibition and collection of gold artifacts made by the Incas in what is now Peru Next to go out on the road will probably be an exhibition of paintings and objects found in excavations at Pompeii which was buried in lava in 79 AD It has been on display in New York Newest supershow just opened in San Francisco is 5000 Years of Korean Art The extraordinarily successful marriage of fine arts and archaeology on the one hand and highpressure show business on the other would have been unthinkable to earlier generations of curators of museums and galleries In the past it was taken for granted that people of any discernment would come out to see treasures of their own accord Today galleries and museums are com peting just as vigorously as any showbiz pro moters although very carefully and suc cessfully retaining their professional dignity COMMERCIALISM But anyone can peel away the various layers of commercialism surrounding the su pershows and find the decorum gradually diminishing and the hype gradually in creasing as the distance from the actual ex hibition lengthens ViSitors concluding their tour of the Treasures of Tutankhamun at the AGO must pass through large sales area to find the exit to the street Some of the articles on sale reflect good sense and taste as for example an audio visual kit of 41 color 35 mm slides of the Tut artifacts and cassette recording of an erudite commentary on those artifacts the kit costs $1895 Then theres the Laura Secord counter with what must be some of Canadas most ex pensive candy such as suckers in the shape of the kings famous death mask the most important of the artifacts found in the tomb in the Valley of the Kings on the Nile in 1922 In between is virtual department store of Tut merchandise fullsize reproductions of some of the artifacts on display costume jewellery representing many of the Treasures embroidery kits ties scarves lavish books records calendars jigsaw YOUR BUSINESS puzzles and so on SCIILOCK VALUE But for real schlock value look in the windows of countless shops nearby or in the various US cities in which the Treasures were displayed earlier on their road tour Merchandisers have created everything from Tut underwear to Tut Tshirts with slogans of exceptionally bad taste embla zoned on them from King Tut cocktails to whoopee cushions In all such archaeological supershows there has been certain mystique emanating in part from the undoubted impor tance of the exhibits but possibly helped along by the publicityconscious sponsors For months advertising and public relations efforts for the Treasures of Tutankhamun have tended toward the creation of scarcity value for the admission tickets At this exhibition unlike others in the past tickets are for admission at specific hour of specific day Applications for the $350 tickets were made available in department stores on Aug and St service charge levied on each order Thousands of tickets were left over however and put on sale week before the Nov opening Eager customers tno doubt influenced by AGO spokesmens statements to the press about the high prices that US scalpers had demanded lined up before dawn and waited hours to buy Others coming later in the morning had almost no wait ANOTHER SIDE Theres another side to the business in vol vement however Many corporations and institutions have contributed their support in cash services or materials sometimes even anonymously And many hundreds of individuals have also contributed their services as for ex ample volunteer guides to lead school groups through the exhibition Treasures of Tutankhamun is nonprofit venture in the narrow sense that the net income from admissions estimated to be about $8 million will be paid to the government of Egypt which owns the arti acts But there are profits aplenty to be made from the countless sideshows mer chandising gimmicks literary luncheons with authors of Tut books musical revues on the Tut theme and so on What all of this will do to the future of museums and galleries is matter of speculation