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the examiner servmg borne and simcoe county va Doc 1979 Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited l6 Baytield Street Barrie Ontario L4M 4T6 Bruce Rowland publisher CIRCULATION 7266539 NEWSROOM 7266537 ADVERTISING CLASSIFIEDS 7266537 7282414 Ensure safety during jail strike Jail guards across Ontario walk ed off the job Monday to back demand for change in their status as bargaining unit Much talk has centred over the fact that strike is illegal What should not be lost amid the shuffle and controversy is that our pro vinces jails including the Barrie Jail are being supervised under lessthanideal conditions Management personnel and in the case here two or three guards who decided not to strike are wat ching over prisoners at the jails and correctional institutes Contingency plans drawn up last week when the strike seemed im minent also call for local police to be involved in the transportation of prisoners or if things get out of hand to guard jails What should be foremost in the mind of Ontarios corretional ser vices ministry as important as reaching an agreement with strik ing jail guards is the protection of citizens Pickets outside Barrie Jail Mon day where all but few of 39 guards walked off the job express ed bitterness at the provincial government They say their annual earnings are far below what first class Ontario Provincial Police constable earns by about $6000 Strikers are not intimidated by government threats of fines and firings and seem prepared to strike at length to earn the bargaining power they seek This is one labor dispute the pro vince must not drag its heels on The same can be said for the On tario Public Service Employees Union Fancy proposals and name calling wont settle this strike Some wellintentioned bargaining by both sides is needed to settle the dispute That way safety in Ontarios prisons will be ensured Lethal drug injection new capital punishment OKLAHOMA CITY AP At the Oklahoma state penitentiary in McAlester some convicts refer to it sardonically as theultimate high Medical experts say prisoner will feel no sensation other than little drowsiness when he is put to death by lethal drug injec tion the newest form of capital punish ment in the United States Eightytwo murderers rapists and kid nappers have died in the penitentiarys elec tric chair since 1915 One man was hanged In contrast to electrocution death by in jection will be almost instantaneous The convict will simply fall asleep The law prescribes that death will occur through continuous intravenous injection of an ultrashortacting barbiturate in com bination with chemical paralytic agent The official cause of death will be cor onary arrest Oklahoma and Texas enacted deathby drug legislation in 1977 Similar laws have been passed since in Idaho and New Mexico and are being considered in several other states In the last 30 months juries in Oklahoma have decreed that 27 persons should die through drug injection 125 persons face that fate in Texas along with one each in Idaho and New Mexico DELAYS SEEN The first druginjection execution is pro bably years away because of expected legal appeals In Oklahoma the scene at the prison call ed Big Mac will be strikingly different from executions of the past Instead of lastmile walk from Death Row through the basement to the electric chair over which still hangs metal sign saying Crime Does Not Pay fashioned in the prison licencetag factory the con demned prisoner will be taken to the third floor of the administration building About 30 persons will witness the execution The doomed convict will be carried to the third floor strapped to stretcher his head propped up so witnesses including six jour nalists and five persons chosen by the prisoner can watch him throughout the pro cedurc The executioner will be one of three volunteer medical technicians dressed in white rather than in black hoods None will beidentified They will stand silently behind parti tion through which tube will be passed and connected to the condemned mans arm or leg All three will inject dark fluid into the tube None will know which of them is injecting the lethal substance Quebec spending $800000 on safe driving campaign QUEBEC CP Highway safety has never been major concern of Quebec governments Traditionally they have felt that improved highway construction and more driving courses for young drivers were suf icient But this year the province was ready for Old age called endurance test TORONTO CP For an elderly woman on pension often its not question of enjoy ing retirement its matter of enduring it says Doris Anderson chairman of the Cana dian Advisory Council on the Status of Women Ms Anderson was commenting on the plight of many elderly women who are forc ed to exist on inadequate government pen sions Theyre on such tight budgets anything can throw it off trip to the dentist family crisis that involves travel funeral she said in telephone interview from Ottawa The governments monthly penston package for single person breaks down this way $17902 federal old age security which everybody gets $14697 federal guaranteed income supplement if person can prove need $3888 provincral guaranteed annual income system Total $36487 per month with four annual costof livingadjustments Statistics show Canadian governments now pay $54 billion year in oldage peri sions and it would cost an estimated $200 million more to bring the pensions above the poverty level we want your opinion Something on your mind Send Letter to the Editor Please make it an origlnal copy and sign it The Examiner doesnt publish unsigned let ters but it you wish pen name will be used include your telephone number and address as we have to verify letters Because of space limits public interest and good taste The Examiner sometimes has to edit condense or reject letters Letters to the Editor are run every day on the ditoriol page Send yours to latter to the Editor on Examiner Put Office Box 370 MIRIE Ont SafeDriving Week thanks to an aggressive campaign sponsored by the provinces threeyearold automobile insurance board The board is spending $800000 on safe driving programs this year including TV advertising campaign travelling exhibit on the dangers of reckless driving and special symposium on highway safety management organized in conjunction with the University of Quebec The TV ads which were also shown in drivein movie theatres all summer were designed to shock and shock they did In one ad camera travels down deserted highway passing smashed cars demolished motorcycles and crumpled childrens tricycles as the announcer details the grim statistics of 50000 injuries and 1500 deaths year on Quebec highways convoy of cars trucks and buses can be seen approaching and as it arrives the word alerte appears on the screen and smashes as the sound of collision is heard ITIES STATISTICS The second ad brings the viewer down the same abandoned road lined with wheelchairs orthopedic equipment and hun dreds of crutches as the announcer rattles off figures on highway accident victims The camera abruptly stops before coffin and the voice says Fifteen hundred cof fins Why In brief this fall to legislative commit tee studying proposed changes in the Highway Code the board blamed most ac cidents on Quebecers attitude to driving That attitude can be observed in full flower on what some call the longest dragstrip on the continent Its Highway 20 the fourlane highway which takes drivers from Montreal cast to Quebec City and then to Rivieredulroup and beyond The posted speed limit on this section of the TransCanada Highway is 100 kilometres an hour but it might as well be 100 miles an hour Cruising at 120 kilometres an hour motorist is sure to be passed likely on the right and if he looks closely it could be limousine belonging to Quebec cabinet minister bible thought will never leave thee nor forsake thee Hebrews 135 The true believer has the unique privilege of having the Lord with him and for him No greater thing an happen to the human being If God be for us who can be againt us Attend the services in your church feel better all week BUSINESS 7266537 EDIIORS ADVERIISIIG Craig Elscn managing editor Stan Didlbalis city editor Bill McFarlane wire editor RE FORTE Rs Stephen Nicholls Dennis Lanthier Nancy Figueroa Lori Cohen Tony Panacci Richard Thomas Sue Bowen camera operator Terry Field Cathy Heather Mary Delaney Peter Roberts Alison Merket SALES Aden Smith Wayne Hay Steve Skinner Marion Hearty Calvin Felepchuk Peter Clark CLASSIFIED Freda Shinner Janice Morton Ian MacMurchy The ill and exiled shah of Iran lies in Texas hospital bed his fate holding world attention because of 50 Americans held hostage in Tehran in his name But 10 other rulers who tumbled from power this year have all but vanished into the shadows This year the mighty have fallen at the rateof one month Many of their names now stand for terror torture and corrup tion Pol Pot Somoza Amin Bokassa Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlevi 60 fled Iran on Jan 16 in the face of revolution fanned by the religious fervor of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini He went to Egypt then to Morocco to the Bahamas and finally to Mexico where he lived in splendor in the mountain resort town of Cuernavaca But the shah will not be returning to those sumptuous surroundings when he leaves the US Air Force hospital in San Antonio Tex where he went Sunday He had been recuperating in New York City hospital after having gallstones removed and receiv5 ing cancer treatment On Nov 29 the Mexican government an nounced it would not renew his sixmonth tourist visa which expires Dec Egyptian President Anwar Sadat has offered the shah asylum BEGAN IN JANUARY The toll of the worlds despots began Jan when Cambodian rebels backed by Viet namese forces seized Phnom Penh and ousted Pol Pot whose government is accus ed of killing between 12 million and four million Cambodians With Chinese help Pol Pot still fights against the Vietnambacked regime No one is certain Pol Pot is still alive but Western sources say he has withdrawn into moun tains in southwestern Cambodia March 13 Prime Minister Eric Gairy of Grenada accused by his opponents of murder and fraud learned while visiting in New York City he had been ousted in coup April 11 Idi Amin Ugandan president for life fled Kampala just ahead of Tanza nian troops and Ugandan rebels Amin is accused of killing 200000 people during his eithtyear rule In May Amin told Philip fnterpreting the news Orwell may have been wrong LONDON CP As optimistic Britons stand on the threshold of the Orwellian 805 it seems the celebrated author of 1984 may have been wrong Despite warnings that inflationary pay settlements might mean higher taxes next year predictions that recession is likely to continue next year and reports that Britain is suffering the worst year for strikes since 1926 there is an underlying confidence in the future says recent opinion poll In an attempt to test the climate of social attitudes London magazine New Society conducted survey to record the views of 1071 people in Britain aged 18 and over We are more cheerful than you might have expected said New Society editor Paul Barker reporting on the findings We are moving into the new decade with wry smile There are some specific things we are worried about violence for exam ple but there is an underlying confidence in the future Asked if they thought Britain would be good place for children to grow up in 10 years time Barker says 63 per cent said it would The middle class in Tory Britain are noticeably more cheerful about the pro spects than their fellow Britons REASONABLY GOOD PLACE Seventynine per cent said generally Len Sevick manager Peggy Chapell supervisor BUSINESS Marian Gough accountant Delva Mills Vikki Grant Connie Hart John Shunk CIRCULATION Bill Halkes manager Andy Haughton assistant manager Doug Boni Alva LaPlante Lisa Warry Elaine Burton Cheryl Aiken Don Saunders Lorne Wass Wilt Cadogan Stan Wrav Bill Raynor Ron Glider Ed Allenby Janie Hamel Susan Kitchen Yvonne Sierps PRESSROOM Al Hanson foreman Don Near asst foreman Fred Prince Kim Pattenden Eleven of worlds rulers have fallen within year BOKASSA ousted SOMOZA deposed pines magazine he lived in Villa in Tripoli Libya surrounded by 50 bodyguards perhaps under house arrest June Junior air force officers in Ghana overthrew the sevenmonthold military government of Lt Gen Fred Akuffo who was executed June 26 Iuly l7 Anastasia Somoza 53 whose family had ruled Nicaragua since the 1930s resigned the presidency and fled Months of fighting between his National Guard troops and Sandinista rebels left more than 200000 people dead and made refugees of one fourth of Nicaraguas 25 million people He settled in Asuncion Paraguay Aug Francisco Macias Nguema Giyogo wpo in decade of terror in Equatorial Guinea killed tens of thousands fell to military coup He fled but was captured and executed Sept 29 Sept 14 Afghanistan President Nur Mohammed Taraki whose proSoviet government was dogged by bloody Moslem rebellion was fatally wounded in palace shootout in Kabul He was thought missing until October when an Afghanistan radio broadcast said he was buried in the family graveyard Sept 21 Jean Bede Bokassa of the Central African Republic who in 1976 pro claimed himself Emperor Bokassa of the Central African Empire was driven from power speaking Britain 15 reasonably good place to live in But there is definite pessimism about progress The survey shows 55 per cent of Britons think things have changed for the worse in the last 10 years and 38 per cent expect them to grow even worse in the next decade However 36 per cent think things will improve while 17 per cent expect life to remain much the same In the 19805 51 per cent expect more bureaucracy and restrictions 62 per cent anticipate more violence and lawlessness but 58 per cent said the country will be governed much the same in 10 years time Compared with other European countries 55 per cent said Britain is about average in terms of the quality of government And Barker says 80 per cent of Britons questioned reject the idea that they will be caught up in nuclear war during the 19805 For it seems that no matter how bleak the future may look to politicians and the economists says columnist Keith Waterhouse writing for The Daily Mirror the British are not going to make melodrama out of it Waterhouse says the country that best survives the 805 will be the one that expects the least yet doesnt fear the worst COMPOSING ROOM Jack Kerney foreman Glenn Kwan asst foreman Published daily except Sunday and statutory holidays WE EKLV by carrier 95 cents YEARLY by carrler The Examiner is member or The Canadian Press CP and Audit Bureau at Circulations ABC Only the Canadian Press may re publish news stories In this newspaper credited to CF The Associated Press Reuters or Agence France Press and local news stories published in The Examiner The Examiner claims copyright on all original news 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expen ditures released here indicates just how different an MPPs life is today from just few decades ago An MPP was once parttimer who came to Toronto on his railway pass for month or two each year to pass legislation While in the capital his living cost were paid for out of the taxfree portion of his salary set aside for expenses as were all his costs at home the remainder of the year MPPs still get that bonus now $8000 equivalent to $14000 or so taxable income as well as their basic $22000 income But many of the expenses it used to cover are now paid for by the taxpayer directly True an MPPs workload has increased The House now sits five months year and unlike past years during much of the re maining time various committees are meeting BOOST INCOME On the other hand the old view was that the rare committee work was extra so ex tra cash was given for every day commit tee sat Inexplicably MPPs still get this allowance which has climbed to $80 day $25 of that as taxfree expenses Theres more than hint here of keeping an old system simply because it boosts in comes Their basic salaries indicate they are now paid for fulltime work Beyond that money and the additional cash paid out to cabinet ministers opposi tion leaders parliamentary assistants com mittee chairmen house leaders and chief whips there is the indiVidual members expenditures Unlike the old days accommodation and travel is paid for direct only new MPPs go by air some every weekend or two and rent apartments year round with their allowances couple even tried to buy con dominiums but that created such stink it was hurriedly forbidden FROM THE LEGISLATURE TWO AR ES Its in two other areas the dollars readily add up office expenses in the legislature itself and office expenses in the constituen cres At one time MPPs had nothing but their desks in the House New NDP leader Michael Cassidy alone wracked up $37000 in legislative office ex penses on print mailing stationery telephones and translation not counting staff salaries or what he spends as third party opposition leader Granted no other member spent more than $13000 and two Rene Brunelle CP Cochrane North and George Kerr PC Burlington were under $1000 But on average it isnt cheap FIVE EXCEPTIONS On top of legislative office expenses MPPs averaged $16000 to $17000 on consti tuency offices that price including an assistant rent staitonery postage and longdistance calls What is interesting is that six MPPs felt they could survive without those offices which critics complain give an incumbent too much of an edge at election time The six who spent less than $1500 each are Education minister Bette Stephenson and Osie Villeneuve PCStormontDundas Glengarry both at zero dollars and Ron McNeil CPElgin Russ Rowe PC Northumbcrland Clarke Rollins PC Peterborough Hastings Harry Worton Wellinglon South Excepting Stephenson all are legislative veterans and maybe their ability to take care of their constituents without expensive goodies indicates to some degree why they are still there Canada in the doldrums without Trudeau Times NEW YORK CP The New York Times says Canada is going through political malaise with the Clark govern ment dwindling to caretaker status and the Liberal party marking time while awaiting successor to Pierre Trudeau In weekend editorial headlined Canada in the Doldrums the newspaper says Canada is suffering all the problems of the United States with the additional headache of moves forQuebec separatism Economically Canada is the tail ap pended to an inattentive American mule the editorial says However The Times says that relations between Canada and the United States have remained cordial and Canada presses its in terests without bombast and with tolerance of American ignorance of Canada PRAISES TRLIEAU The editorial praises former prime minister Trudeau for share of the credit for the smooth relations The newspaper also says that theinalaise in Canada has also affected Quebec where the referendum on independence has been postponed until spring and the separatists have been losing ground Mr Trudeau is in eclipse yet his most deeply felt federal cause in ascendant it adds Prime Minister Clark has gained little The Times says His minority government is operating only with the tacit approval of theopposition It is time for treading water waiting for the Liberals to find leader and for Quebec to decide if it really wants to pav JOE CLARK gained little the high price of independence the editorial concludes All in all malaise Canadian style Hes cunning for president US convict concocts prison escape scheme By TOM TIEDE MARION Ill Garrett Trapnell No 72021158 has wanted to break out of the for midable US penitentiary here ever since arriving nine long years ago Hes serving life sentence for air piracy Prison authorities say hes tried to escape on several occasions One time girlfriend hijacked helicopter to snatch him from the yard Last year the girlfriends daughter commandeered light plane ap parently for the same reason The attempts failed Now Trapnell 41 is working on new plan for freedom No 72021158 is running for president of the United States Really When Im elected he says from the other side of visitors booth the first thingllldoispardon myself Well never underestimate man doing life Trapnell admits that as convicted felon he cant vote in the next election nor is he allowed to hold public office But the Constitution guarantees any native born citizen over 35 the right to be candidate for the White House no exceptions Hence No 72021158 is bona fide contes tant He has registered with the Federal Elections Commission his number there is P00000265 and hes receiving government position papers and correspondence brief ings In the eyes of the election laws hes the equal of Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan True this equality is something of technicality An FEC spokesman says Trapnell is one of nearly 100 marginal can didates who have filed for the 1980 election The spokesman says the marginals are en titled to run even if they are bureaucratic nuisance but of course they have no change Dont tell that to No 72021158 He says he is most serious about the election Hes now writing his platform soliciting cam paign workers and hoping to raise enough earnest money $5000 in each of 20 states to qualify for federal funding Yes he could receive tax gifts for financing Trapnell has als Unit the Nationalists Ch ristian Demoeratic Party He says its oit to the 3521 of the Democrats and the left of the formed his own political