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rden so sin inau ural xamim°°°°°29973 Welfare system tOo easy By RICHARD THOMAS Of The Examiner But the problems of child abuse and the need for foster homes Simcoe Countys newlyelected warden made it clear Tues day that his attitude towards government handouts and those who dont pull their weight in the welfare system will not be sympathetic one Wlll remain with us he added until the adults of this county as well as some of the professional people take their respon sibilities more seriously WORK HARDER STOP IMPORT We want so much these days such as manufacturing plants to locate in Simcoe County he said am all in favor of in dustry to keep our children working and living Within the coun ty but am not in favor of bringing in new industry for which During his inaugural speech to council and capcity crowd of guests which included several federal and provicial members of parliament from the area Warden Allan McLean said cur rent legislation makes it too easy to get welfare assistance The sooner we get back to basics and stop handouts to peo ple who would sooner live off the ones who enjoy doing days work the better it will be for all of us he said The lead for this will have to come from the senior levels of government In his speech Warden McLean also indicated he expected more from some agencies funded by the province and the coun ty such as the Childrens Aid Society The latter group he said should be putting more into the county by working harder instaad of talking about it at meetings would like to see more people with the attitude What can do for this county instead of what can get out of it Warden McLean said On issues of planning and industrial development in the coun ty the newlyelected warden indicated his approach would be cautious one Doubleplanning by both the county and individual municipalities has proven to be costly he said with seemingly no end to official planning zoning and bylaw amendments and we must import workers Warden McLean said some of the small towns in the county which were debt free are now several millions of dollars in debt because of promotion and new industry During his speech the warden also commented on the need for policy at the county level to deal with the poblem of land fill sies whereby municipalities large and small could co operate in ensuring such sites were conveniently located Warden McLean said he could forsee the day when recycling would become part of this policy We all know there is too much waste of our energy and depletion of our forest products that we will some day regret Warden McLean said his term as chairman of the finance committee where he dealt with the societys budget had in creased his awareness of the problems facing it Starts later this month New police schedule placing men on streets By STEPHEN NICHOLLS Of The Examiner City police later this month begin new work schedule which officials say will put more men on the street and reduce sick time abuse Chief Earl Snider in presen ting the new schedule to Bar ries board of police commis sionars Tuesday said the pla toon system has been suc cessfully used by provincial police for years The system divides city police into four platoons that work alternate shifts for street duty fifth platoon includes detec tives identification and court officers the crime prevention officer the safety officer and the youth bureau officer These officers senior police officials and civilian employees work on independent schedules When the system starts Dec 30 each platoon will have seven uniformed policemen assigned to street duty After the force gains its additional five of ficers each platoon will have eight men said Insp Ron Pickard COMMANDS PLATOON sargeant commands each $5000 diamond physically disabled in Barrie is drawing even nearer going to charity ment after police were unable to locate its owner sioners Tuesday the Barrie force held the ring for 90 days and conducted an extensive investigation to find the owner that was unsuccessful Chief Snider vice on it he told commissioners Tuesday 0n advice from Ian Rowe lawyer for Barrie Barrie police turned over the ring to store management Mr Rowe looked up English case law on found property and he advises that although she the employee found the ring she was an employee of Woolworths at the time and Snider RING RETURNED City police gave the ring to Woolworths Barrie who turn ed it in to their Toronto head office spokesman for FW Woolworths Ltd said the company charity The police have satisfied themselves that they are unable to find the owner after six months said Keith Elliot director of public relations Rather than turn it over to charity right away we have decided to hold it for another year just in case he said As far as we are concerned we dont want to make any profit from this misadventure he said Chief Snider said the ring has been appraised as worth more than $5000 but Elliot would not comment Chief Snider said police searching for the owner were able to find the store where the ring was made but could not locate the owner During the search police advertised in newspapers to try to encourage the owner to claim his or her ring Chief Snider said the employee who found the ring left her job during the course of events $5000 diamond ring found in Barrie Plaza department store has been turned over to department store manage Barrie Police Chief Earl Snider told city police commis The Woolworths store employee who found the ring asked police to return it to her after no one else claimed it said Before handed that $5000 ring over wanted some ad the employers have the first right to the ring said Chief intends to hold on to the ring for year before giving it to bills received from planners As far as industry is concerned Warden McLean questioned whether most people realize how much of it is already within the countys boundaries platoon He is responsible for the function of his platoon said Chief Snider Sargeants will change pla toons every year he said Chief Snider said the platoon system uses men more effi ciently and reduces paperwork Police administrators are able to plan work schedule for whole year he said Insp Ron Pickard said the system gives police officials better control over the number of officers on duty at any given time Currently police operate on threeshift system Men are assigned to each shift Statutory holidays scheduled days off and vacations mean juggling of men to balance the shifts Often days off overlap and shift might have only three or four men Under the new system each eighthour shift will be manned by platoon Platoon for ex ample might work from am to pm relieved by Platoon which works until midnight when Platoon takes over STAGGERED WEEKS The platoons are on stag gered weeks Platoon for ex ample might work Monday to the following Sunday Platoon working on different time shift might work Wednesday to the following Tuesday At the end of Platoon As seven day work week Platoon begins that shift Platoon men would have two days off and begin new shift when they return to work Each month platoon gets one fourday weekend Officers receive statutory holidays and vacations but only two may be off from each pla toon at any time said Insp Pickard With this restriction Chief Snider said all his men are able to take two weeks holidays from May to October without severely reducing the number of on duty policemen Chief Snider said the new system should eliminate the problem of an officer working 16 hours in one day when the shift changes For example under the present system an officer may work pm to mid night one day but may be scheduled to work the am tc pm shift the next day Funds were presented Tuesday by the Kiwanis Club of Barrie and the local branch of the multiple sclerosis society to the city of Barrie to help in operation of the new bus service for the physically disabled From left to right are Rudy Marth vicechairman of the multiple sclerosis group Ald Ed Thompson John Day and John Burgar both of the Kiwanis Club Examiner Photo By DENNIS LANTHIER of The Examiner Arrival of the new transit service for the The Barrie and District association for the Start of special service for disabled draws nearer the provincial government then came out with 50 per cent funding subsidy program in July and finally came before city council in early November he said It was given 100 per cent support by the city following presentation from the group The new warden also commented on the importance of the tourist industry to Simcoe County and expressed the hope that more efforts will be made to attract even more visitors to the area Both groups of French oppose minischool By TERRY FIELD Of The Examiner While opinion varies on the French secondary school queston it seems everyone agrees on one point the school within school proposed by On tarios education minister is not theanswer The portion of the fran cophone community in the Penetanguishene area which favors the creation of separate French language school is simply not prepared to accept anything else The mini school will not allow for the French milieu integral to the protection of the language and culture spokesmen say Opponents of the separate school proposal also oppose the minischool To them the mini school with separate staff and isolated in Penetanguishene Secondary School promotes separation of the community along language lines SUPPORTS UNITY Were for bilingual unity says Fred Hitchman head of an organization which opposes any separate entity for the French We want the two languages protected but we dont want the community split in two Committee election disappoints group The unopposed election Mon day of six supporters of the separate French high school proposal to the countysFrench language advisory committee disappointed some members of the Penetanguishene communi ty Fred Hitchman head of an Christmas checks begin City police next week start their Christmas season road checks throughout the city Two officers are assigned to stop cars and visually check them for mechanical problems The officers will also check to see whether the driver is im paired Chief Earl Snider said police stopped about 1000 cars last year during the holiday season If problem is spotted in the car the driver has 24 to 48 hours to fix it said Chief Snider Last year only one driver was found to be impaired dur ing the traffic checks he said As courtesy gift to the drivers police will give away door lock lifter to each driver stopped The lifter rulerlike instru ment with hooked end can be used by driver to unlock his passenger door from the driver seat The lifters are distributed by the Ontario Safety League Last year Bell Canada shared the cost of distributing the lifters to drivers Four months for theft runaway from youth detenton centre near London who stole $85315 from Barrie gas station then took $200 cab ride was sentenced in provin cial court Tuesday to four mon thsinjail Lambertus Haller 17 con victed for theft over $200 ran away from the House of Concord and came to Barrie Dec When the attendant wasnt looking he grabbed the money from the Texaco station at Innisfil Street and Essa Road took cab back to the centre picked up friend and returned to Barrie The youths spent two nights at the Holiday Inn purchased digital watches backpacks and other camping equipment and were having dinner at the Ponderosa Steak House when organization which opposes the creation of separate school for francophones said he is sorry no one who holds the same opinion ran for the open posts He remains convinced however large percentage of the 6500 residents of the town are against separate school Supporters of the French school proposal and the Midland trustee for the Simcoe County Board of Education both admitted surprise that no opposition surfaced though it wasexpected Local business likes budget Her Dr Bette Stephen sons plan to create mini school will have the same result as totally separate French school he told The Examiner today The ministers plan announc ed Oct is designed as com promise to put an end to the two year public debate It is similar to the annex once proposed then dropped by the Simcoe County Board of Education because it was unacceptable to French and English SEEK ALTERNATIVE If that proposal Dr Stephensons is not acceptable we will have to look for something that is acceptable said John McCullough trustee for Midland The board voted following the ministers announcement to work toward implementing the plan but confusion over financing and the French language advisory committee has slowed the process Hitchmans organization comprises 40 people At one point however the 40 collected some 2700 signatures from peo ple supporting their pointof view Many were francophones he said Hitchman said the organiza tion favors expansion of the ex isting French program at P58 which he added is lacking Supporters of the separate school proposal have been say ing the French program is weak for several years School with Christmas flavor Christie Trew and her sister Jennifer place their gifts under the Christmas tree while 8yearold Jeff Trounsell puts the finishing touch to the Christmas tree The gifts of food that the students at Maple Grove School give are all going to the CKBB Christmas Cheer Fund Examiner Photo Police wait for cruiser delivery Two of Barries three new police cruisers are scheduled to arrive by Christmas but the experimental sixcylinder cruiser will not arrive until 1980 Chief Earl Snider told Barrie board of police commissioners Tuesday smaller car is delayed during Christmas The two fullsize eight cylinder Ford LTD cruisers are to be built Dec 14 and should arrive before Christmas he said MADE IN US The sixcylinder car is made in US plant that closes down for two weeks during the Christmas season said Chief Snider Board members decided in November to buy one six cylinder cruiser as an experi ment to determine whether smaller cars are feasible for police work while NDP farmers wary OContinued from page one Ontario got it in the teeth he added The oil increases will benefit Western provinces and eastern provinces have been compensated via grant so physically disabled accepted contributions Tuesday from Kiwanis Club of Barrie and the Simcoe County branch of the multiple Said sclerosis society The cheques will help cover some of the and UP costs of handling the special service which should start operation by the start of February said Bob Kerr president of the physically disabled group The real process began last May when about 40 service clubs were contacted regar ding the possibility of the service Kerr said The community social services group then conducted survey determining that about 328 persons would take advantage of the ser vice in Barrie bus can be The bus is on order from Windsor and should arrive in Barrie about Jan 15 Kerr The bus will be able to hold up to 11 persons to five wheelchairs Kerr said Each ride will cost 50 cents he said It is expected to be in operation between 8m and pm each day and it is hoped the hours Kerr said The actual schedule has not been drawn up yet as the group hasnt been able to settle yet into their offices Kerr said Barrie is one of 22 successful communities in Ontario that has thus far taken advantage of the subsidy program apprehended by police Haller had only $561 left and the other youth had $2 Haller told Judge John Anjo he planned to head up north to his cabin in the woods the next morning The judge asked if it was cold up there and Haller replied yes Well Im going to send you to place whre its little bit warmer he said as he passed sentence Haller has previous convic tions for five breakltins and possession of stolen property used by interest groups after Tougher budget not possible By RALPH ALEXANDER Examiner Business Columnist An occasionally reliable source of mine assures me that the Honourable John Crosbie was singing beg your par don never promised you rose garden in the shower yesterday morning Its quite possible Crosbie characterised his budget as realistic budget by which he meant tough budget Despite the screams of anguish by the opposition particularly the NDP the retoric of the budget was much tougher than its content The major bullet we are asked to bite is the 18 cent per gallon in crease in the excise tax on gasoline However after this tax Canadians will still be paying the lowest prices for gasoline of any major developed country and about half of the Euro peans In addition on the expenditure side the budget projects government spending to increase in dollar terms at rate of 10 per cent per year until 1984 Its hard to characterise that as austerity sad reflection on Canadas federal fiscal status is that Crosbie still anticipates budget deficit of about $5 Billion dollars in 1984 down from about $12 Billion this year It scares you to think what it might have grown to if the Conservatives had proceeded with the stimulative deficit offered during the election campaign MAKES SENSE Many of the other specific changes introduced in the budget make sense on their own but again increase the com plexitiy of our tax system The energy tax credit of $80 per adult $30 per child to families earning less than $20000 is meant to compensate somewhat for the higher energy costs Allowing unincorporated businessmen to obtain tax deduction for salaries paid to spouse is only reasonable and long overdue Selling one million ounces of gold at todays grossly in flated price may in retrospect prove to be stroke of brilliance The routine increases on taxes on vices alcohol and tobaccoi where to be expected and cover inflation since the last such increases TRUE PROGRAM The increase in Unemployment Insurance premiums Should help move the premiums toward the level of benefit payments thereby becoming true insurance program rather than welfare scheme The increase in corporate taxes was put into the budget to give the NDP something to support the myth being that such taxes hit the rich Of course corporate taxes are just cost of doing business and are past on the form of increased prices thus hitting Broadbents so called little guy The Canadian stock market should benefit from the in troducton of the Canadian Common Stock Plan which allows investors to deduct up to 310000 per year for investments in to Canadian Commor Stocks Hopefully this will balance the negative impact of higher corporate taxes In summary it would appear that Mr Crosbie introduced as tough budget as he could persuade his party could be passed by Parliament and tolerated by the public tougher attack on the budget deficit was needed but was perhaps politically not possible at this time Crosbie does however deserve full marks for style Ontario will have to handle the brunt of costs he said Ron Jones president of the Simcoe County Federation of Agriculture was also not over ly impressed with the budget announcement As usual we didnt seem to be given good deal of con sideration by government the federal we seem storm capital hill though The group is concerned with increased fuel which should begin farmer by cost that time not lot of fuel would be used up by farmers he said It could hurt in areas such as transportation of farm com modifies which truckers will have to pass on to farmers Jones said CHANGE SYSTEM As well the centralized pro cessing of food and farm com modities which is now done may have to be changed as fuel costs rise in the coming years he said It is difficult to determine at the moment what benefit the lower excise tax announced by the government will mean to farmers he said Meanwhile Perrin Beatty MP for WellingtonDufferin Simcoe said today the budget was realistic restrained Canadas economic problems For too long the ment has been demanding restraint from individual Cana dians but has been unwilling to demonstrate restraint in its own spending he said Mr Crosbies message is that the federal government spree is coming to an end CONSERVATION Energy price increases will encourage conservation and help to finance new energy pro jects he said new energy tax credit for lower and middle in come Canadians will help to cushion effects of other prices he said Of particular benefits to the area will be tax break for farmer on capital gains on family farms increased deduc tions for volunteer firefighters small tions for spouses working familybusiness Ron Stewart Simcoe South MP was unavailable for com ment Auxiliary police thanked for work cheer to this years Christmas party for the citys auxiliary policemen fund town country Barries board of police commissioners will add little The board decided Tuesday to donate $150 to the party production of the Chief Earl Snider said the auxliary officers log more than 3000 hours helping fulltime city police officers Mayor Ross Archer board member said contributing to the party is recognition of the time donated by the un paid auxiliary volunteers Judge Ward Allen also board member said its the least we can do Board meets tonight The Simcoe County Board of Education is scheduled to meet tonight at the Education Centre Ferris Lane beginn ing at pm On the agenda tonight is the ratification of tentative con tract agreement with the countys 1000 secondary school teachers Christmas review Dec 20 North Collegiate staff and students will be presenting Christmas Review an evening of music and skits to celebrate the season Dec 20 at the Grove St school beginn ingathm The review is open to the public and proceeds from the night will be used to mount larger musical production in the new year Old safety van valuable Repairing Barries former safety van for use as mobile identification unit will cost more than $900 the citys board of police com missioners was told Tuesday Chief Earl Snider said the like almost an afterthought he told The Examiner dont think it will cause farmers to to effect the the spring at feeding time Jones said Until oraccident The van has only 30000 miles on it said Chief Snider Tuesday Theres still lot of good mils left in CHIEF EARL SMDER 11 many good miles and approach to govern van needed $900 in mechanical repairs to render it mechanically fit for the road The van also requires body work and painting he said The van had been used by police as safety patrol unit until earlier this month when the Kinsmen Club donated new safety van to the force Police officials decided to urn the old van into an iden tification unit to carry equip ment to the scene of crime Home delivery for tickets Simcoe Rescue Squad volunteers say they will personally deliver tickets to your home if you want to attend their New Years Eve dance Frck Ritchie squad member said members will deliver tickets ordered by calling 7373844 Proceeds of the dance will be used to buy new equipment for the rescue squad said Ritchie Tickets are $45 couple and the price includes buffet dinner and drinks Eratertainment for the eveing is provided by Willow Creek Ban The dance begins at pm New Years Even in the Barrie Armoury Award for conservation efforts Tottenham resident Peter Hasenpflug owner of Dunker ron Holstein Farms recently received an award from On tario Hydro for his efforts in conserving energy Hasenpflug was given the companys electrical energy conservation award by Graham manager of marketing for Ontario Hydro in the Georgian Bay Region Graham said in one yaar Hasenpflug saved about 14000 kilowatts of electricity which is the amount required to heat the average Ontario home surance Commission for $1 1978 was fined $800 in provincial court Tuesday UIC he was unemployed while he actually earned $3277 as UIC He has thus far returned $400 Library tree decorating busmess development bonds to encourage investment in Small business and deduc all children to sing Christmas carols and libraryChristmas tree Saturday at pm Thomas Lennon 36 obtained the money by informing the truck driver from Oct 11 to Dec 13 1978 Lennon was ordered to continue to make restitution to the The childrens branch of the Barrie