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if NEWSROOM 7266537 CllCUlATION 7266539 Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited lb Baytield Street Barrie Ontario L4M 4T6 Bruce Rowland publisher ADVIITISING 7266537 CLASSIFIEDS 72824 Recognize value of public gallery ls Barrie large enough in culture to support its own art gallery Members of the Barrie Art Club believe so and are looking to establish Barries first fulltime public art gallery The club is currently voting on incorporation move that would enable the club to own real estate and apply for government grants What club president Gordon Whitehead has in mind is to purchase and renovate house in the downtown core Such move would give the club something it never had perma nent space of its own The proposed gallery would include space for the clubs per manent collection shows by local artists travelling art ex hibitions and library materials For the 30yearold art club the gallery would be dream come true It has worked hard and without financial gain to promote the cause Ofart in the community Should it succeed the Barrie gallery would become the first public gallery in this part of Simcoe County With fine artists residing right here it makes sense to house at least some of their work in our midst We think Barrie residents would enjoy being able to spend an afternoon at the gallery and downtown Barrie is definite ly the right location Unfortunately city council seems to take the view that hockey is more important than any cultural endeavor So while arenas receive large subsidies cultural groups receive mere pittance Perhaps the city should reconsider the value of art and lend its support in meaningful way This old post card shows the timeless beauty of Lovers Creek near Barrie its obvious from the scene that the spot Is aptly named Dear Sir After two year study or commis sion by the Ontario government and Hydro the white wash job states our alumium wiring is safe What farce Now it seems Ontario Hydro is being sued for millions of dollars Since then other government in spectors have found unsafe alumium wiring and it is fire hazard found out the same thing over two years ago when some wall outlets were smouldering and could have burnt our house down had the Ontario inspector up and advis ed to check all outlets My neighbor found the contractor had not tightened all the screws up proper ly Well known electric contractors will not have alumium wiring in their premises am eventually replacing all outlets sol may rest easier at night This lawsuit wants Ontario Hydro to replace all wiring in alumium wired homes in Ontario at cost of $1500 each hope they win for my sake and all the rest Too many fires are possibly from alumium wiring We need the local consumer group CAC to agitate the public to come out to their meetings and protect themselves with loud clear voice The consumer does not realize his we want your opinion Something on your mind Send Letter to the Editor Please make it an original 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 verity 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 editorial page Send yours to letter to the liter he Ember mom Iel 370 IAIII Oat letters to the editor power in the market grocery stores prices safety around work in cars and in other areas Write your MPP now and voice your rights on these matters that af fect your life Yours truly Ken Powell Barrie Dear Sir The organizers of the Georgian Bay Drama Festival would like to express their thanks to Georgian College for its cooperation and help during our recent festival of April and Our festival which included 11 secondary schools of Simcoe County was seriously disrupted by strike and by severe storm and it was only through the colleges goodwill and assistance that our festival was held at all Our special thanks must be ex pressed to the theatre staff and especially to Wendy Hicks for her help and her graciousness towards the organizers and the students of this festival Without her assistance our festival would have fallen apart Our gratitude also should be ex pressed to the Separate School Board and to Trinity Anglican Church for allowing us the use of theirfacilities Yours truly Meg ODonal Barrie bible thought Ilicrclorc lct all the housc of lsrcal know assulidI that iod hath madc this same Jesus horn hau crucificd both Lord and Christ Acts 23 The Bible make ll clear as to who was crucified and equally clear that because of it every bclicvtr can hc saved cnlcrnal He that bclimcth on lhc Son hath cvcrlasling litc and shall not come into condemnation but is passed rom dcaih unto lilc Rut the path of the just is as lhc shining light that shinith molc and more unto the pcrfcct day Irourbs IN Sharing the way can be more important than spcakmg about it Throw sonic light on the subject Jesus thrist The light of the world BUSINESS 7266537 Dennis Lanthier Nancy Figueroa Lori Cohen Richard Thomas Stephen Gauer entertainment Gary Forbes Betty Armer camera operator Dove Burcsik photographer CLASSIFIED Freda Shinner Peggy Chaoell Janice Morton THE CONSERVATIVE PART CAMPAlGN HA8 BEEN CARETUILV DESIGNED SO THAT DONT PEAK TOO EARLY all is up lift By JOHN HARBRON Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service The Ottawabased Dominion Marine Association which represents about 90 per cent of Canadas existing shipping industry takes very logical position on its expansion If Canadianowned shipping is essential for the movement of bulk cargoes through the Great LakesSeaway system and of passengers and cargo to Canadas disparate East and West Coast communities why cant it also build and control Canadianowned deepsea shipping fleet Today there is no Canadian merchant marine to move the many imports of one of the worlds largest industrial countries which come here in foreign flag carriers The DMAs present member shipping companies welirun and constantly modernizing are mainly bulkcarrier operators moving vital grain iron ore ce ment limestone cargoes through the lakes and ocean ferryboat systems which maintain allseason services through some of the worlds wildest seas DMA President Rear Admiral retired Robert Timbrell wants to see this Canadian jurisdiction extended to anadianowned deepsea merchant fleet operated not by the state but private enterprise WE HAD FLEET This was briefly the case after the Second World War when fleet of wartimebuilt Libertystyle cargo vessels carried Canadian cargoes deepsea But our postwar ocean llttl was SCOOPS lVE JUST DRAFTEP MY PROPOSAL TO CURE POLICE RATDS ON NEWSRO0M5 Ruth Blais supervisor Dana Homewood dee Jane Hamel Andy Hauohmn Susan Kitchen Alva LaPlante Ron Glider Lisa Warry Elaine Porter 930 Srg Cheryl Aiken PRESSROOM Don Near tortman Fred Prince asst foreman Harris Blanchard tintan Man my vnu dissipated Aging ships were sold off to developing countries starting new national fleets or were scrapped Between 1950 and 1970 the costs of ship building in this country escalated The worlds merchant shipping tonnage also escalated because the great maritime states Britain Japan Norway and especially the emerging USSR built larger and more efficient ships available to move cargoes any where in the world And host of new countries which lid not exist in 1946 for cxatnplclli1na Indoncsizi India Nigeria and some of the very old developing countrics such as Lat in American maritimc states built their own dccpsca fleets The federal governments shipping policy statement released last January admitted to this Vthatcvcr thc molivc for creating the fleet developing countries were quick to learn that by retaining control over the cargo as long as possiblc buyer or seller was better able to influence the terms and condi tions of transport Instead of acting on this trend very ominous part of which is the growing reliance by Canadian importers on Sovictflag ships to deliver imports and strip their exports the same document opted for the status quo for Canada RICFISING It does not for example accept the provision of new tax and financial measures to support the development of Canadian deepsea merchant marine BUT DONT KNOW WAT TO CALL IT ANDREW The Examiner is member at The Canadian Press CP and Audit Bureau ot NEWSROOM ADVERTISING ausmess COMPOSING ROOM pummheddauyecep circulations ABC Only the Canadian Press may re publish news stories in CreiaEtsonmanaein9 Editor Len Sevick manager Marian Goughaccocntant an Kcmcy loreman Sunday and this newspaper credited to CF The Associated Press Reuters or Agencc lanMngrewcity editor SALES DelvaMitts trlcnn Kwan asst foreman yummy holidays France Presse andlocclnewsstones published TheExarniner Bill McFarlane wire editor Gail Parland 00 Saundos Dave Fuller sports editor fjgégzfili Vikki Grant Lorne W855 WEEKtoYéPJSrre The Examvrterclaimscooyrghl on all Oflglnal news and advertising material Claudia Kreuse Lifestyle editor Seve Skinner Kathie Mitchell will Cadooan YEAR created by Its employees and published in this newspaper servin arrie an simcoe count anwrav Home Tmy MDV 1979 REPORTERS ggsagsggg ggfiagltgzggnager Bill Raynor $4680 Copyright registration number 203815 register 61 All 599 NChols PEWY Kevanagh Steve White assistant manatw Ed MW BY MAL Hame sMao National advertising othces 65 Queen St Toronto 864 mo 640 Cathcart SIMCOE COUNTY M° $3900 MOTOR THROW OFF 541503 year ELSEWHERE IN CANADA SAT Oanear Case to be made for sea merchant fleet For country with three vast ocean coasts and very heavy reliance on imported goods this headinthesand altitude by successive postwar Liberal governments from St Laurent to Trudeau is detrimental to our selfinterest Unfortunately the failure of both public opinion and even Ottawas policyforming bureaucrats who should know better to see logic in the need for Canadian merchant marine is based on an illogical stand that profitable and efficient industry is seeking to expand deepsea through government sub sidv The DMA has not proposed subsidies but pramatic use of such techniques as escrow funds tax incentives for ship owners These have been used effectively for years by the many new and old maritime states who carry all of Canadas imported goods The DNA also is constantly prodding the federal government to improve and expand research on methods to permit an allscason seaway The DMAmcmbcr shipping companies who inst year movvd 18 million tons of grain one of our largest export earners two million tons of it for American customerst and millions of coastwisc passengers do not have to prove either competence or ability to expand competitively NATIONAL PRIORITY Very curiously what they must continue to prove is what the federal government already has accepth but refuses to implement that control over conditions of sea transport is national priority HOW ABOUT THE SthOfli $600 LAW The advertiser agrees that the puinSher shall not be liable tor damages arts Ing out of errors in advertisements beyond the amount paid tor the space ac tually occupied by that portion at the advertisement in which the error oc curred whether such error is due to the negligence at its servants Or other Wisc and there shall be no liabilily for non insertion of any advertisement beyond the amount paid for such advertisement Your business Protection of industry misnomer By VINCENT EGAN Business and Consumer Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service One reason that inflation flourishes in Canada is our high level of protectionism To protect our textile industry for example the government wont allow you to buy all the inexpensive foreignmade clothing that you otherwise might As that example shows there are two sides to the question The domestic producers side which includes not only the factory worker but also the managers and shareholders and the consumers side which is much larger numerically Both sides are examined in detail in new study entitled Nationalistic Policies In Can ada just published by the CD Howe Research Institute Montrealbased non profit think tank The author is JeanLuc Migue professor of economics at the Ecole nationale dad ministration publique and he writes on level that is more familiar to other academic economists than to laymen Nevertheless his message emerges clearly Economic efficiency suffers when nationalism leads to protectionist policies The thrust for protectionism comes from those who stand to benefit by it such as professionals managers union members and owners of declining businesses Protectionist policies are adopted at the expense of others OUTPUT FOREGONE Protectionism violates the rules of economic efficiency Migue contends by causing production to be foregone This is reflected not onlyin higher con sumer prices which have long been recognized and accepted but also in lower productivity and lower returns in the protected industries and in slower economic growth Not only must Canadian consumers pay more for the protected goods they purchase but they must also as direct Consequence of protectionism pay for them with reduced budget Policies so contrary to the interests of the majority have been adopted by governments because those benefiting from protectionist nationalist measures have come to dominate the political process Migue argues In general it appears that nationalism as practised by governments results in re distribution of wealth from lowerincome groups to those with higher incomes At another point Migue describes professionals and managerial personnel in both the public and private sectors as the primary beneficiaries of protectionism and therefore they can be expected to be the principal instigators of protectionist nationalistic policies In all jurisdictions that practise protec tionism Migue says its typical of govern ments to assign certain lofty objectives to what they term their industrial strategies Pursuit of an industrial structure similar to that of the most developed societies This is an unrealistic aspiration for us he contends because it substitutes costly diversification and selfsufficiency for the advantages of international specialization Support of certain industries such as steel and car manufacturing to the detri ment of other generally more profitable industries Hostility toward multinational en terprises which are falsely perceived as cause of backwardness In Canada and Quebec as elsewhere this hostility is called antiAmericanism and is particularly widespread in intellectual bureaucratic and professional circles which benefit the most from protectionism Perception of the market system with its competition and freedom as another source of backwardness and foreign domination The system that sets up obstacles to in dividuals frecdom of choice Migue con cludes symbolizes oppression and thus inefficiency We Metal stocks poor right now By LAIIRENCE MOLLE The anadian Press Stock market investors should get out of metals and minerals stocks for the short term says Montreal analyst Ronald Kay Kay of Bache Halsey Stuart Canada Ltd said in recent interview that downward correction in prices of nonferrous metals stocksisimminent The usual seasonal downturn will be ac centuated this year because of the ap proaching recession in the United States Also worldwide metals supplies are in creasing while demand is falling off The only way metals stocks can go up is on speculation but cannot see that lasting long Kay said recent market report from Bache Halsey Stuart written by Kay and Douglas Dawson noted that prices of metals stocks con sistently appreciated from November through March and depreciate during the re mainder of the year The study was based on an analysis of the metals and minerals index on the Toronto stock markct the major Canadian exchange for resource issues The better performance of the index from November to March reflects the pattern of the stock market as whole and the fact that metal prices are generally stronger in the period Deliveries to manufacturers increase then fall offduringthc summer lull Manufacturers inventories usually grow in the summer but in the 178 they started to increase in January and February signal that rcccsston is on its way