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Thnnday May 1979 NEWSROOM 7266537 CIRCULATION 7266539 ADVERTISING 7266537 the examiner serving borrie and simcoe county Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited I6 Boyfield Street Barrie Ontario LAM 4T6 Bruce Rowland publisher CLASSIFIEDS 7282 BUSINESS 7266537 NEWSROOM ADVERTISING Craig Elson managing editor Ian Mulqrew city editor SALES Bill McFarlane wire editor Wayne Hay Dave Fuller sports editor Aden Smitfi Claudia Krause Litestyle editor Steve Skinner REPORTERS Barbboulton Stephen Nicholls Bert$1evens Dennis Lanthier Nancy Figueroa Lortcohen CLASSIFIED Richard Thomas Terry Fields Stephen Gauer entertainment Gary Forbes Betty Armer camera operator lave Burcslk photographer Freda Stunner Peggy Chapell Dana Homewoort Janice Morton How serious is the problem Barrie police chief Earl Snider says theres no unusual pro blem with drugs in local schools Stewart Fisher chairman of the board of educations moral committee agrees That sounds reassuring but we want to know for certain That of course was the intention when drug study com mittee was formed last fall to look into the subject Months later the matter is still up in the air The first order of business it would seem to us would be to complete that study as soon as possible If theres no real problem with drugs in our schools lets see the proof in black and white and be done with it Our inclination is to agree that Simcoe County is likely no different than any other school board area in Canada as far as illegal drug use That means there is some illegal drug use in our schools The question is to what extent and with what effects When an officer with the Barrie police force found serious drug problem in some of our schools last fall we wonder how that could change over the last six months What officials are now saying is that the problem has been blown out of proportion If thats so one wonders why the subject was raised in the first place We agree its important that there should be no overreac tion to what has already been said At the same time lets not try to downplay it either The important consideration is to consider carefully the evidence in the forthcoming repor to take steps to correct them NUNi oryicr and if there are problems The municipal building in Victoria Harbour looks much the some today as it did In thls artists drawing The building is of architectural interest Dear Sir In regard to report entitled Resident worried Examiner April 28 was appalled at Mr Ray Allens reasoning for not consider ing the addition of sidewalk along the Kidds Creek Hollow on Cundlcs Road West Twice in an approximately 300 word report Mr Allen stated that there hasnt been single accident involving pedestrians on that stretch of road wonder is Mr Allen looking for volunteers We live in Letitia Heights and our children like most other children in the area like to go to stores It is long hard walk or bicycle ride up and down Anne Street so the logical place for them is the convenience store located at Cundles Road and Glenwood Drive or down Glenwood to the mall We dont allow this for just the reasons Mr Donald Graig reported Is is death trap and not just at night This assume would suggest the reason Mr Allen stated that there is little pedestrian movement in the area It is truly sad state of affairs in city as progressive as Barrie when innocent pedestrians must be hurt or killed to provide statistics to as Mr Allen stated warrent sidewalk on the street at this time With an apparent attitude such as 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 if you wish pen name will be used Include your telephone number and address as we have to verin 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 letters to tllo itltor The heather Post Office In 310 Milli Ont MM that Mr Allen must find great con fort in the fact that the position of ci ty engineer is not an elected posi tion Signed Disgusted parents Barrie Dear Sir In the final analysis only profits create productive jobs as it is only profits that make possible in vestments in plants and equipment without which jobs are not available Whether Leftists and unions are morally bankrupt in matters of economics and business or just economic morons is mute point Regardless the citizens of Canada have this cross to bear Everything possible is being done in Canada by the NDP and unions to impede our economic growth and general prosperity While it is quite evident that the Trudeau Government is terminally ill it is pitiful to see the Honorable Warren Allmand desperately trying to get votes by adopting the tactics of the Leftists deliberately misrepresenting the causes of con tinued inflation in Canada Eleven years of mismanagment of our economy by the Trudeau Government has resulted in col ossal national debt onerous taxes and public services we neither need norcanafford The result has been inflation weak Canadian dollar costly im ports and the loss of respect of the international business community During the same period unions have blackmailed the Canadian public and governments wages have been pushed up astronomically with little regard for productivity and the welfare of Canadians at large Our leftist Trudeau government their bureaucracy their followers and irresponsible unions will if not repudicated bring Canada to its knees It has happened in England and it can happen here The NDP would only hasten our demise Hillmer Oakville Ontario business SCOOPS Len Sevick manager Ruth Blais supervisor BUSINESS COMPOSING ROOM Maran Gough accountant by Kerney foreman Delva MIllS Glenn Kwan asst foreman Gail McFarland Don Saunders VikluGrant LornoWass Brenda Woods wilt Cadooan Stan Wray CIRCULATION BIIIPaynor BillHalkes manager EdAIlenDy Janie Hamel Susan Kitchen Steve White assistant manager Andy Haughton Alva Laplante Ron Guldcr Lisa Warry Barbara Strial Elaine Porter pRESSpOoM Cheryl Aiken Don Near Ioreman Fred Prince asst torernan Harris Blanchard Brian Mair nlhllflll lIIfflll No no THESE dummies are doing the political debate From the legislature Ontario legislature columnist for the Thom son News Servicc Derek Nelson today surveys the federal campaign in Southern On tario By DEREK NELSON Toronto Bureau Thomson News Service TORONTO All that stands in the way of Progressive Conservative sweep in southern Ontario May 22 is Joe Clark You can almost sense it in the air and in the negative way people talk about the election More concretely it crops up in casual conversation with undecided voters in Your By VINCENT EGAN Business and Consumer Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service Tens of thousands of cars are stolen every year in Canada yet an incredibly large number of carowners seem almost to be inviting the theft with all its ensuing headaches and heartachcs Think for example of the sleepless nights that await you if your car should be stolen to be used in holdup or if it becomes involved in serious accident while the thief has it Even if the thicfs intention is no more than to strip your car for the spare parts that are in heavy demand in the aftermarket you still face an inevitable financial loss and good deal of unpleasantness with the insur ance company The prudent course for carowncr is to prevent the theft in the first place OLNCE OI PREVENTION Here are few obvious precautions recommended by police Dont park where your car will be out of Sight of passersby if at all possible ChooSe bright spot in preference to dark one Itcmove the keys from the ignition Out of every three cars stolen in Canada one has its keys in the ignition or in some only slightly less obvious spot Closc the windows and lock all doors when you leave the car Its true that an expert thief can probably circumvent locked door but theres no point in making the task any easier Dont leave luggage or parcels either on the roof rack or inside the car where they can besecn Lock them in the trunk JLST ONE KEY If you must park at lot that insists that you leave the key leave the ignition key lettcrstothceditor columns and in the con tradictory results produced by the various public opinion polls Theres definitely mood for change feeling that Pierre Trudeau has been prime minister too long That hit peak in last Octobers byclec tions where the Liberals lost their electoral shirts in southern Ontario not winning any of the seven seats they contested And that seems to be the key to this election in southern Ontario The voters want Trudeau out but they cant find an alternative Dont let them steal your car only The attendant doesnt need the key to the trunk much less the key to your house or apartment Keys can be copied quickly and addresses obtained from the license num her On the same topic dont leave pieces of identification such as your drivers license and insurance certificate in an unlocked glove compartment Iiraud artists like to get their hands on such documents to be used in crimes involving forgery Consider installing some kind of protective device sueh as sensor that causes your born to blow if an attempt is made to steal your car while it is unattended DESIGN CHANGES Theres welcome news from the car in dustry where manufacturers have been working to improve antithef devices on new cars For instance General Motors noting that more than onclhird of all stolen cars are taken by removing the ignitionlock cylinder is mounting these cylinders in small de prcssion to prevent car thieves from gripplniy them and twisting them out Illl the tools they commonly use On se cral lines of 1971 GM cars door locks have been redesigned to make it more duty ficulf for thief to manipulate the locking rods and thereby open the door Still another change has been the use of distinctive rosetteheaded riyets to attach the visible identification number plates morr solidly to the left end of the instrument panel Carowners should kcep record of that number and all other identifying data such as license number and validation sticker number somewhere other than in the car so that it will be readily ayailable to the police in the at that the car is stolen despite all the precautions RHODESIA IS BEING INFILTRATED BY RUSSIANS The Examiner is member at The Canadian Press CPI and Audit Bureau at circulations lABCl Only the Canadian Press may re publish news stories In this newspaper credited to the Associated Press Reuters 0r Agencc France Presse and local newsstortes published in The Iarmner Published daily except Sunday and statutory holidays WEEKLY by carrter chnts YEARLY by carrier $46 so Coovrtght registration number mats regStet bl BY MAILBarrtc 36 80 National adverttstno offices 65 Queen St Toronto 864 1710 olOCathcart St Montreal SIMCOE COUNTY S39 00 MOTOR THROW OFF Sal 50a year ELSEWHERE IN CANADA $4 00a year Ontario wants Trudeau out but cant decide on Clark Wanting to eject the Liberals they naturally turn to the only real alternative the Progressive Conservatives lNEASY ABOIT IOE But their inclination to vote Tory runs up against what they see and what theyve heard about Joe Clark Even to committed Conservatives Joe Clark is man without charisma or footlight appeal He leaves many people with the slightly uneasy feeling theyre watching little boy play politics In newspaper surveys those whove decided to cast Liberal ballot often say its because of Joe Clark Clark lacks something in the projection department Some of those who know Clark say that is an unfair image of the man and cite matters such as his political success his good marriage and his welding of the Con servatives info united party for the first time in 20 years IACIS OST But facts are unimportant in this cam paign Television is calling the shots with little help from the rest of the media And its being played by the press as though it were the Miss Canada pageant where images and impressions dominate content receiving at best superficial scrutiny Combine Clarks own feelings with the poor evcn biased press he gets and the result is an electorate quivering on the edge of indecision not knowing who to vote for They could go for the Canadian Labor Congress candidate of course the NDPs Ed Broadbcnt but hes somewhat of gray personality having the blandness of custard pie even when clambcring down potash mine for the benefit of the TV camera Which means Broadbent generally is seen in the same negative category for prime minister as Clark and Trudeau with the added liability that his party cant possibly win enough seats to form the government anyway And thats important The Americanization of our politics has reached the stage where almost nothing excepl the party leader matters anymore This presidential approach means local candidates and this is especrally true the closer one gets to Metro Toronto in southern Ontario becomes almost unimportant PLNI IOILLAIt It almost means any policy that does manage to slip through the medias trivia screen gets lost III the cruin of personality and image The CNCtpllOll to that rule this time and one of the best factors Joe Clark has going for him with many people is the promise to make mortgage interest deductible No other policy plank has excited southern Ontario interest Whether itll be enough to tilt the electorate in the Conseryaftves direction remains an open question howev er The Examiner claims copyright on all original news and advertisng material Created by its erhplovecs and published in this newspaper The advertiser agrees that the publisher shall not be liable tor damages arts me out of errOrs to advertisements beyond the amount painter the space ac tually occupied by that portion at the advert rcmcnt in which the error or curred whether such error IS due to the negligence at Its servants or other Wise and there shall be no liability tor non InSOrltOII at any advertisement beyond the amount paid tor such advertisement The world today New aid forUgando By JOHN IIARBRON Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service Uganda is the latest Third World nation to face massive reconstruction and recovery after the ravages of its dictatorruler This now familiar pattern which we have seen around the developing world since the 1960s affects the international financial and business community each time it takes place Countries with great natural resources like Indonesia or with fewer of them like Egypt and the Dominican Republic have all been in the same kind of deep trouble after the strongman has gone In 1966 the long and corrosive years of Sokarno as President came to an end and left one of the Third Worlds largest and richest nations in political and economic shambles Indonesia nation as populous as Japan as oilrich as most of the other major oilpro ducing countries had been devastated by his political and personal excesses In 1961 the assassination of the unloved and decplyfearcd dictator Generalissimo Leonidas Rafael Trujillo left potentially rich agrarian Caribbean republic on the verge of bankruptcy It took more than decade and brutal civil war in 196 to restore that small cattle and sugarproducing nation to any kind of normalcy and its first free election last year EGYIT ALSO SCFFEREI In Egypt the death of President Abdel Nasser in the early 19705 saw another ancient Third World state bankrupfed by its leaders extreme military and economic policies Nassers almost complete nationalization of his countrys industries and banks reduced Egypts capacity to be productive nation where the continuous population explosion has not let up in the postwar decades Nor has President Anawar Sadat been able todo much given the expenditures for the 1973 war with Israel and Egypts unbridled birth rate Uganda today is in worso shape than any of these as former strongman General Idi Amin Dada goes down to defeat Basically rich agrarian nation not unlike the Dominican Republic with coffee and sugar to export instead of cattle it had fewer economic resources on an organized basis to start with than the Caribbean island republic Moreover in 1972 Amin ruthlessly expelled the East Indian bankers and merchants the countrys entrepreneurs who had dominated the countrys business communities Amin also exterminath much of the countrys bureaucratic elite and sent into exile the foreign missionaries who still play major role in many of Ugandas educational institutions The results for the very new administration of President Lulc the former rector of Mak erere University will be to seek massive aid and assistance from abroad Much of this will have to be on straight gift basis since Uganda will not be able to pay its way for some time And inspifc of the growing resentment among the taxpaying populace of those rich nations who will rise to Ugandas needs they must help support yet another emerging nation in trouble the need will be met ZAIRE JOINS IIIE RANKS TOO Moreover Uganda is not the only African nation on the rim of total chaos in Africa today Zaire the vast Congo ltivcrbascd nation looted mercilessly by its dictator president Mobulu Sese Scko is already receiving major foreign financial aid Like Indonesia it could be selfsupporting from its great resources wealth given rational leadership Says OEC study More treetrade bad for Canada TORONTO Il study of transfer pricing released today by the Ontario Economic Council says moves toward free trade agrccmcnts with the United States could result in economic losses to Canada Transfer prices are the internal price of goods and services when irimed within the same organization They do not pose Serious problem because multinational companies operating in Canada and the US are dis couraged from setting artificially low prices because of offsetting taxes and tariffs in the two countries But study by if Outrin and LE Mathewson of the University of Toronto warns that manipulation of the transfer price could become more frmruent if such specral freetrade agreements as the Canadian auto pact become common In North America PRODLCE INCENTIVES The problem they say is that the corporate tax systems in North America given present tax rates and the lack of tariffs produce strong incentives to manipulate transfer prices in freetrade environment in order to minimize tax payments If free trade is to be contemplated seriously it should in our view be ac companied by changes in the fiscal system which would remove or at least weaken tn ccntivcs to manipulate transfer prices The study says price transfers which do not reflect true market prices can reduce tax and tariff revenues decrease the use of domestic labor and capital and encourage the con version of Canadian domestic fimis into branches of multinational organizations More freetrade agreements between the US and Canada supported recently by the CI Howe Institute and the Economic Council of Canada could pose transfer pricing problems the study said It said information on transfer pricing is scanty and the coneltmon are hypothetical