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eXaminer serving borrie and simcoe county va MBV 179 lCIRCULAriou Copyright registration number rows reaistcr 6t Ed Allenby Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited I6 Bayfiold Street Barrie Ontario UM 4T6 Bruce Rowland publisher NIWSIOOM 7266537 CIICUMTION 7266539 ADVIITISING 7266537 CIASSIFIEDS 7282414 Treat vandalism as serious problem Like stuck record the message repeats itself year after year person or persons are reported responsible for causing damage to public property Last week it began again Trees shrubs and buildings at Georgian College were damaged by vandals It is beyond reason why anyone would do such thing Nothing is to be gained from such an act There is tremen dous loss and destruction of property which the community can use and enjoy In the case of Georgian College one or two people have already been caught in the act of vandalism Yet they have been let off with warning Were they the guilty persons If so then there is too much mercy in this action Every summer Barrie is visited by vandals who damage schools public washrooms parks flowers and trees Ehery summer some are let off with warnings Or people witnessing such acts fail to notify the police The answer to vandalism is not to overlook it as relatively harmless act The answer is to act to ensure that justice is brought to bear against those responsible persons fine for the amount of damage would soon prove to these deliquents the expense of their thoughtless actions There is every reason to wax indignent about valdalism Eyery year The Examiner publishes stories about the cost to the taxpayer of vandalism But the vandalism goes on and on Maybe thats betause too many of us just dont treat the problem seriously enough to nip it in the bud Maybe its time we did just that Early closing hurts tourism Recently The Examiner commented on the value of tourism to this area As Ontarios second largest tourist area that value is enor mous The Ontario government appreciates that fact and is doing something about it Once again it is operating its We Treat You Royally cam paign with publicity and training programs geared to in crease the industry Last week it announced facelift program for its 37 in formation centres in the province including the centre at highway 400 in Barrie While the province shows laudable concern for boosting tourism the federal government has acted in the opposite direction The feds did this by cutting back the hours on the Trent Severn waterway Worse this was done without even study on the matter This summer the waterway will close at pm rather than 830 pm in the past Protests have been registered by the Grey Bruce Huronia Muskoka Travel Association They reason rightly in our view that the reduced hours make it more difficult for Metro tourists to utilize the waterway during daylight hours The early closing does nothing to help tourism in this region While the province and tourist associations work flat out to attract tourists the federal government comes along and throws wrench into the works Is this what federalprovincial cooperation is all about From the legislature By DEREK NELSON Queens Park Bureau Thomson News Service TORONTO Theres curious sense of marking time hanging over the legislature these days Not that all the actors in thc daily political drama arent playing their parts They are and some of them quite Well Its like the words and costumes for good theatre are there but thc spark that makes for great performances is missing Partly its probably result of the federal election which takes the spotlight off the pro vincial stage until May 22 But down deep it appears to be more than that The Tories appear happy confident even cocky as though they are in total control of the House As in fact they are The opposition parties are spinning their wheels going nowhere Which is strange when you consider the number of good issues theyve hammered the government with in past weeks NDP RIOIIT The New Democratic Party members have solid iSsuc in their claim that doctors opting out of OHIP and health care budget restraints are going to wreck medicare Its partly nonsense of course since health care budgets are increasing not being out back But there is perception that medicare is hurting and people will react very negatively to that NDP leader Michael Cassidy goes so far as to say the Conservatives are creating the kind of anger that gets governments thrown out of office Queens Park marking time The Liberals too have believable issue in their continual assaults on Ontario Hydro particularly in thc wakc of the Three Milc Island nuclear accident in the US and also in their worries about hazardous wastes NO REACTION Both opposition parlics havc rightly rakid the Tories ovcr thc coals for thcir almost total failure to train thc industrial work lOIH we need in the provincc Apprenticeship training is lirslrclziss disaster area But somehow noni oi this has rially clickiil with the public in terms of hostility towards the govcrnmcnt If anything the Conservatives Stilll mori confident than at any tinn sinci lllt 1971 election MUCIICIIANOE One might suspect in facl illll ii thi current oppOSition malmsc continuis Premier Bill Davis might wcll bc looking for tannissuc with which to go to tho pcopii MS He did say year ago that hc inicndcii to serve out full term moaning until mill or so But if the Conservatives sccni ii majority theyre just liable to junk that kind of promise The Davis image has undcrgoni ii remarkable transormation in thc Spmt of four years In 1975 the electorate felt about him thi way they do today about Pierre Trudiail No longer Now its respect And if Davis can translate that change into votes for majority Tory administration hell likely do just that IUSINESS 7266537 Nancy Figueroa Lori Cohen Richard Thomas Terry Fields Stephen Gauer entertainment Gary Forbes aetty Armor camera operator CLASSIFIE Ruth Blots supervisor Freda Shinner Peat Chapcll Dana Homewood Janice Morton Parliament Hill By STEWART MacLEOD Ottawa Bureau Thomson News Service Since that Great Television Debate among our political leaders was billed as the biggest single event of the election campaign guess it cannot be ignored Its pity because am now forced to admit dont know what it all means And dont tell me to go out and talk to the viewers tried that and it turns out that every Liberal thinks Prime Minister Trudeau won hands down every Tory is proud of the way Joe Clark faced his antagonists and every New Democrat thinks Ed Broadbent wiped the floor with both of them listened to two enline radio shows the morning after the abate and of 22 callers From city hafl By DENNIS LANTIIIER Of The Examiner Apathy is something suppose Ive never been quite able to understand Ive been in Barrie for just eight months covering the city council beat with The Ex aminer Admittedly things can get very slow in this town because often people will not really say whats on their minds because they know Joe Blow down the street and are deathly afraid of offending him Yet dont think longtime Barrie residents appreciate just what they have here Im from the big city Montrealand am not used to picturesque bay or the closeness of the countryside fell at home in Barrie right from the start because was made to feel welcome by lot of very friendly people But docs anybody really care about this town Sometimes you really have to wonder The latest case in point concerns two citizcns forums which have been held by city council at the end of January and April The forums were introduced by mayor Ross Ar chcr to acquaint residents with the goingson in tho city ovcr the prior three months lhi forums hzivc bccn dismal failures ItIZIIASII OI IROJ ET lhc first forum turned out to be rchashing of lht downtown sccdcr project with the sumo persons licing in attendance as those whoth gonc to previous sccdcr meanings It was won worsc at the cnd of last month Wlltll just 15 jxrsons showed up The session was won WOISt than lhc majority of council nitclings Vcry dull POLITICIANS stiffENCE Wllo LDICTIONARYVCVLASVS Bill Halkes manager Steve White assistant manager Andy Haughton iva LaPlante isa Warry laine Porter Janie Hamel Susan Kitchen RonGilder Barbara Strigl PRESSROOM 9le Aiken Don Near iareman Fred Prince asst loreman Harris Blanchard Brian Marr BY MAIL8arrie 80 National advertising oltices 65 Queen St toronto 364 mo 610 Cathcart 51 Montreal SIMCOE COUNTY 900 The advertiser agrees that the publisher shall not Do liable tor damages aris MOTOR THROW OFF SILSanear ELSEWHERE IN CANADA SALOanear ing but of errors in advertisements beyond the amount paid tor the space at lually occupied by that portion or the advertisement in which the error oc curred whether such error is due to thc negligence of its servants or other Wise and there Shall be no liability tor non insertion at any advertisement beyond the amount paid for sut advertiscmcnt 50m nice new enterer and Some inveslmenf here posilivel gorgeous lax cul lherea spot ofcapila punishmenl over here and those dreadful old monitored nine said that the prime minister scored victory seven said the title went to Ed Broadbent and six awarded the decision to Clark But in response to questioning none of the 22 said the debate would influence their decisions on voting day Obviously the victor was in the eye of the committed beholder Which makes you wonder whether it was worthwhile to tie up three television networks and inflict two hours of tightlycontrolled rhetoric ona potential audience of eight million Cana dians It wasnt debate in the traditional sense of winning intellectual arguments it Keass complex competiti to see who looks Naturally all three participants pretended they just loved the exercise and they would No understanding city hall apathy Admittedly residents should not submit themselves to the torture of sitting through Barrie city council meeting Yet you look at CKBBs city council hotlinc show on Wednesday nights On many occa sions the shows host is lucky to get even three phone calls per half hour recently asked one Barrie alderman if he had received much in the way of flak over the continuing annexation delay His reply Arc you kidding Nobody gives damn Strange isnt it Barrie has little industrial land left and unless something is done quick ly to obtain that land Barrie could lose its claim albeit selfimposed as Ontarios most progressive city Yet nobody cares at least according to one alderman FORMED GROUP The citizens for Downtown Barrio group formed to oppose the sccdcr project is certainly step in the right direction Their goal is to eventually form citizens group to examine all matters pertaining to council hope they are successful in their aim because town without active citizen input on all matters will not survive for long Mayor Ross Archcr says it is possiblc thc attendance has been low at citizens forums because pcoplc arc content with the way thc city is being run dont buy that Because even if persons were happy with things they would at least want to show up at citizens forums where thcir voicc could be heard If they cared that is riurs NOT SENTENCE THATS wuiiEWAsm unions simplq l1y to Winner of The Great Debate depends on where you stand have given their eye teeth for longer discussion And naturally all their aides thought it was marvellous and in each case their man was the obvious winner Didnt he look great asked Patrick Gossage in reference to his employer Pierre Trudeau We walked away with it declared Murray Weppler an aide to Ed Broadbent Clark was wonderful said Tory House Leader Walter Baker My problem is that still dont know what was supposed look for during those two sometimes tedious hours had obviously spent too much time talking to party officials and reading advance publicity on the event By the time the program actually began didnt know whether was supposed to listen to what the participants said or concentrate on Joe Clarks hands Pierre Trudeaus water glass or Ed Broadbents index finger had read that if any candidate happened to knock over his water glass he could forget becoming prime minister had also been told that since Trudeau was expected to win anyway he would have to completely demolish Joe Clark in order to score more points And also learned that since Clark was expected to put his foot in his mouth he could move up in the ratings by merely not doing this As for Broadbent thc preprogram concensus seemed to be that he would automatically come out ahead simply bygetting the same exposure as the prime minister and the leader of the opposition VARIOUS APPROACHES And compounding these handicaps were the various backroom approaches to the debate Trudeaus people decided the main thrust of his arguments should be to depict Joe Clark his chief rival as incompetent to be prime minister Broadbcnt they reasoned could be left alone Clarks aides primed their candidate to be quietly aggressive concentrating on Trudeaus economic and unity difficultics while projecting himself as matured responsible prime ministerinwaiting It was important that he eliminate those jerky hand motions Broadbcnt knowing the other two con testants would get off on esoteric subjects went into the debate with sci gameplan to stay with such basic issues as medicare housing the status of women immediate energy needs and jobs And since he wants all the antigovernment votes he can get it was important to aim his heavy artillery at Clark not Trudeau Clark could use up his am munition on Trudeau What this debate obviously needed was an extra hour so the aidcs could tell us what each contestant was trying to do on the set How am supposcd to know who looked best when still dont know what was supposed to look for Id like to 500 them do it again this time without much warning without panel of journalists who gave it nowsconfcrcncc flavor and without modcrator who oi viously likes to moddlc in good fight Thcn wc would gct clcar winncr sn DICTIONARY CLASS fig The world today Pontiff plans visit to Poland By JOHN IIARRRON Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service The visil of Popc John Paul II to his native Poland next Junc could trigger reaction feared and unwanted by Eastern Europes Communist governments This could be more public and open resistance to the many Russianimposed restraints on daily life and freedom of ex pressions which the satellite states have endured for 30 years The Holy Father an open and deeply committed man to his church and to Polish nationalism would not himself perpetuate such reaction But his presence for thc first time since becoming Pope and the growing unease of Poles en masse with their Communist governments as well as their unquenchablc Catholicism all could cause reaction Poland is in many ways more restive than Hungary where wide range of personal freer doms have been permitted or Rumania where an independent foreign policy against Moscow has not been matched with an ease in individual freedom Czechoslovakia is cruel and heartless enclave of reborn Stalinism in region of Soviet satellite countries who would chuck off Russian domination tomorrow if given the chance And in East Germany more properly the German Democratic Republic West Ger manstyle prosperity has not brought with it the openness of public discussion and the free press found on this side of the obscene Berlin Wall SIGNS OF SPRING But all over Eastern and Soviet satellite Europe the signs are there again this spring for more release from the restrictions rationing and atrocious thoughtcontrol mechanisms of Soviet political and military masters The Communist governments as well as Moscow are certainly aware the Popes presence in his mother country could cause new outburst of demands for reduced Communist controls They cannot prevent his returning home in the one Slavic country where the church is probably almost as powerful in society and in controlling the minds of the people as the party apparatus And one could say the Polish road to in tellectual press and cultural freedoms as we understand them can scarcely come through church which has censored the arts for centuries Nor is the Polish Catholic Church synonymous with Liberal views functioning as it has done and must do as frontier church against atheism and Marxism all around Nevertheless it has become through the place and role of Pope John Paul who must deal on an equal footing with the worlds other churches western vehicle if you will for Polish freedoms and even political in dependence The same kind of reaction has taken place in Rumania but with the paradoxical development that the independent role of Communist President Nicolac Ceauscscu and not that of churchmen has aroused an identical demand for Freedom This might be difficult to meet by the personally brave Rumanian leader who has been resisting the Russians since his refusal in 1968 to support his Communist neighbors in the Czech invasion Nevertheless in surveying world of very few free and open societies concentrating as we do on poor illiterate and brutal Third World states we forget half of Europe remains in bondage RUSSIANS WONT OBJECT The Russians with their own growing internal dissidents must know this and accept if warily the Pontiffs visit home in June Backgrounder Pope John Paul wins acclaim VATICAN CITY AP In his six months in the chair of St Peter Pope John Paul has been basking in wave of personal popularity unsccn since the reign of Pope John XXIII more than 15 years ago The Pope by Night with Discounts for Tour Groups jokingly headlined the leftist magazine Espresso in an article discussing the boom of Wojtyla the Popes Polish family name Dcspitc unchecked terrorism and mounting street crime which the Pope has decried tourism is up 10 per cent this year in Italy Thc first nonltItalian pope in 455 years seems as much an attraction as the Colosseum and the Roman Forum newspaper surveyed souvenir vendors and found they have sold more photos of John Paul in six months than they sold of Pope Paul VI during his entire 15year pontificate Onehalf million foreign tourists poured into Rome during the Easter holidays 100000 more than in 1978 and record crowd of 3500 packed St Peters Square for the pontiffs noontimc Eastcr message CROWD LINGERS The crowd stayed and the Pope made two appearances on the balcony As dusk set in several thousand lingered The Pope came to his window and said it was time to go to bed So great is thc demand for tickets to John Pauls wcckly general audiences that with thc coming of spring they have bccn moved from St Peters Basilica to the vast square outside Part of his popularity can be attributed to his background as manual laborer actor avid sportsman and author He did not enter the seminary until his 205 and he draws on ex periences to which his audiences can relate