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ammonia4 we HAMbw deay May 22 1979 NEWSROOM 7266537 CllCUlATION 7266539 the eXaminer serving barrie and simcoe county Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited l6 Baylield Street Barrie Ontario LAM 4T6 Bruce Rowland publisher ADVERTISING 7266537 ClASSIFIEDS 72824 Exercise your right to vote Democracy never suffers from divergence of opinion Only lack of opinion can do that Today is voting day in Canada Some 15300000 Canadians are eligible to vote for the can didate of their choice In the new riding of Simcoe South more than 57000 voters are eligible to vote The voter turnout for federal elections is generally about 70 per cent This May 22 election with good weather almost assured the vote could be 80 per cent We ask why not even higher We remember that voting is guaranteed right for Cana dians We remember too it is also an obligation Canada IS strong so long as people exercise their democratic right to vote Polls are open until pm Vote as you like but vote Dear Sir congratulate Adjala Township Reeve on his timely call for the scrapping of the Human Relations Course would like to amplify some comments made re the homosex uality programme for Grade XI Masters and Johnson have found by their extensive research that homosexuals are made not born Our Simcoe Human Relations pro gramme would certainly appear to be aimed at making homosexuals Consider list of gay bars is taught What can this mean except that our Grade XI students know where to go when they reach the age of 19 list of Gay churches is also taught Gay churches are operated by fellow homosexual ministers and do not try to get the homosexual to change his aberrant lifestyle They are also required to know the differences between such frightful activities as bestiality sodomy buggery zoophilia fellatio etc Your business By VINCENT EGAN Business and Consumer Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service Most people like to think of Canada as classless society But to many people who are retired and are living on pensions Canada has two distinct classes retired public servants whose pensions go up automatically with every in crease in the inflation rate and nearly all other pensioners who are living on fixed income in an inflationary age People retiring from the private sector are being downgraded to secondclass citizens when compared to federal provincial and municipal employees who have an escalation clause within their pension plans one pensioner responded in recent survey The survey of 2716 individuals receiving pensions from 14 large Canadian companies was carried out by Towers Perrin Forster and Crosby consultants in the fields of ac tuarial services and employee benefits of the 2716 respondents out of 10277 who received questionnaires 50 per cent were residents of Ontario and 859 per cent were males About half the pensioners who responded added written comments to the statistical information requested in the questionnaire According to Keith Cooper and Colin Mills of TPFC who wrote report on the re sults of the survey four out of five of the respondents said their financial needs were being met Many of the problems they cited either would require prohibitively costly solutions or are beyond the employers province en tirely the report says HUMAN PROBLEMS The problems commonly encountered by pensioners arent necessarily of financial nature although they could be eased with more money Examples The expense of car must be continued for foodshopping 75yearold said My we want your opinion Something on your mind Sand Letter to the Editor Please make it an original copy and sign it The Examiner doesnt publish unsigned let tors but it you wish pen name will be used Include your telephone number and address as we have to verily 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 Wtotbc Editor The IIU In 310 III Out letters to the editor notice Pierre Lapierre former NDP candidate was brought here last week to address Curriculum 79 by our school board at the cost of $3000 Simicoe taxpayers money He called for high risk level in teacher relations Really should have thought that this programme was high risk enough Un fortunately our children are the target The homosexual programme is of course taught in morally neutral light As regards the rest of the programmesex education prostitu tion death education etc the less said about it the better Pro Steckel of Vienna noted Austrian psychoanalysts remarks are rele vant The mass sex education in the schools as it is being proposed is frightful thought whose execu tion will produce numberless sexual traumas Yours sincerely James Cotter Barrie Inflation eroding fixed pensions ability to carry is somewhat reduced Heaven knows what we will do when Im unable to drive the car believe there is real need for groups of small homes for one or two persons where older folk can live in their own homes but have the outside work such as snow re moval maintenance and upkeep done by younger people or contract com panies My main complaint is the cost of electricians plumbers and repairmen Rising municipal taxes and energy costs make it increasingly difficult for those on fixed income to maintain their homes In trying to arrive at some accurate way of measuring the adequacy of pensions both upon retirement and in later years the authors took into account the postretirement changes in personal finances but found it difficult to measure them precisely EXPENSES LOWER Some families finish paying off their mortgage about the time of retirement 0n the other hand some tend to spend much more on travel when their time becomes their own Pensioners budgets get break from various provincial tax credits and govern mentsponsored health plans and from price reductions offered by transportation com panies places of entertainment and various institutions The elimination of employmentrelated expenses business clothing commuting lunches and so on can save roughly five per cent of preretirement income the report says Whats the answer to the problem of post retirement financial security in an age of in flation for people in the private sector Glibiy federal cabinet ministers and the heads of publicservice unions say that the answer is to do as they have done go on pension tied to the cost of living But universal fully indexed pension scheme would be inordinately expensive rc quiring huge contributions by working people and employers alike The TPFC study concludes that the existing private pension system can provide reason ably adequate standard of pensions for all Canadians if regulatory authorities would give employers more room to manoeuvre such as making the administration of registered retirement savings plans more flexible bible thought And beheld and heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand and thousands of thousands Saying with Ioiid voice Worth is the Lamb that as slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and belss ing Revelation 51l12 Let us join them on earth in praise until we join them in Heaven in person So shall we ever be with the Lord Lamb of God Lord Jesus we thank you Amen BUSINESS 7266537 EDITORS Craig Ison man5am editor lanMulgrewcity CdlOr ADVERTISING SALES BullMcFarlanewure editor Aden Smim NEWSROOM Bert Stevens Dave Fuller Wayne Hay Claudio Krausc Stephen Nicholls Dennis Lanthier Nancy Figueroa Lori Cohen Richard Thomas Stephen Gaucr Gary Forbes Betty Armer Terry Field Peter Hsu Steye Skinner Barb Boulton CLASSIFIED Freda Shinner Dana Homewood Janice Morton Len Sevick manager Peggy Chapell supervise Business COMPOSING ROOM Marian Gough accountant Jack Kemey foreman Delve Mills Glenn Kwan 3531 foreman Vikki Grant 000 Saunders Brenda Woods Wm W355 will Cadoqan CIRCULATION Stan Wray Bill Halkes manager Raynor Steve White assistant manager Edwinmy Andy Haughlon Janie Hamel Alva LaPlanle Susan Kitchen Lisa Warry Ron Gilder ElainetPorter Barbara Sinai Cheryl Aiken PRESSROOM Don Near loreman Fred Prince asst foreman Harris Blanchard Brian Marr aw xw vmwvoshww na Published dailyexcept Sunday and Statutory holidays WEEKLY by carrier 90cents YEARLY by carrier $4680 BY MAIL Barrie 346 80 SIMCOE COUNTY $3900 MOTOR THROW OFF $4150a year ELSEWHERE IN CANADA $41003year St Montreal twwwm THATS FUNNY IRANIANSARE LINING UPTO GET The warld today By JOHN HARRRON Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Services The United States has good cause to worry about the future place of Turkey in NATO and as loyal ally given both the growing Turkish resentment against Americans and the rise of Isl mic religious extremism The first is result of the once major American military presence in Turkey which in the early 1960s included 35000 military personnel with their own builtin PX and supply system and control of the key listening posts against the USSR built in Turkey The resentment and in some places hatred of Americans was excacerbated by the withdrawal in 1975 of US military aid as result of the Turkish invasion of Cyprus and creation of Turkishsupported state in part of that strifetorn island This fouryear arms embargo has now been lifted as the United States again prepares to supply Turkey with weapons of both the present and 1980 fiscal years This year the Turks are getting $225 millions from President Carter of which only $50 millions is economic aid and in 1980 $300 millions which is exclusive of any other Western aid the Turks might also secure Yet the feeling in Turkish military and government circles is that such sums are not enough and that in any case they can only buy castoff military equipment for the Turkish armed forces TOO MANY ISSlES This is an argument which could normally be resolved through quiet meetings between American and Turkish officials involvcd except for one vital clcmcnt SCOOPS FlttEDWllll LEAD HAVE YOU Air6111mm ABOUT me FINE RECENTLY urosrv 5v U$ courrs 0N MITSUBISHI FOR statue AN AMERICAN COMFETITORS rm SECRETS ND ill lth IOR Future of Turkey in NATO JIMMY CARTER ally adrift With the radical changes of government and ideology in Iran the very important American electronic listening posts in that country had to be closed and abandoned This means the only chain of such posts remains in Turkey still very vital to the United States but not as close to aucasian launching centres of the Soviet Union as the former ones in Iran growing concern to America Two key US listening units in Turkey are at Sinope on the Turkish Black Sea famous during the Crimean War as supply base for the French and British armies and Diyarbakir only 240 miles from the Russian border with Turkey But leftwing religious groups in Turkey inspired by the success of their Islamic brothers in neighboring Iran are clamoring for the end to this American military presence and any other The rise of Islamic religious fun damentalism which is now sweeping the Middle East also includes Turkey even though that country as it has done since 1923 remains officially secular state Turkey of course remains the most easterly nation in the NATO chain of nations as well as key member of lesserknown alliance the Central Treaty Organization which has foundered on growing TurkishAmerican antagonisms And finally the countrys economy always shaky is in bad shape with high unemployment failure to diversify in dustry with large pools of untrained people The Turks as result are going through phase of dangerous nationalism with in tellectuals the press and political leaders making open and veiled attacks in all directions against foreigners LIKE TIIE TTOMANS Some leading Turks are even remembering the old Ottoman Empire in its last decades before World War One when the European powers imposed demands on weak sultans and helped carve up that former empire Turkey will require more care and at tention from President Carter YES AMERICAN LAWS SAY TIME FOR HEALING TRADE SECRETS The Examiner is member of The Canadian Press tCPl and Audit Bureau of circulations ABC Only the Canadian Press may re publish news stories in this newspaper credited to CF The Associated Press Reuters or Agence France Presse and local news stories published in The tramher The Examiner claims copyright on all original news and advertisth material created by its employees and published in this newspaper Copyright registration number 70385 reqister 61 National advertising oltices 65 Queen SI Toronto 864 me 640 Cathcart The advertiser agrees that the publisher shall not be liable tor aamaqcs arts ina out at errors in advertisements beyond the amount paid tor the space tually occupied by that portion at the advertisement in which the error oc curred whether such errOr is due lo the PQIIQCHCP oi its servants or other wuse and there shall be no liability tor non insertion at any advertisement beyond the amount paid tor such advertisement From the legislature Nuclear scare Hydros problem By DEREK NELSON Queens Park Bureau Thomson News Service TORONTO Nuclear radiation scares people Simply put thats the basic problem On tario Hydro faces as it encounters critics in the wake of Three Mile island and the Shultz letter Three Mile Island is the power plant near Harrisburg Pennsylvania which suffered the worst disaster in nuclearlndustry history And Shultz is the pseudonym for Ontario Hydro employee Bill Taves who leaked documents to back up Itis contention that Three Mile Island kind of accident could happen here The technology surrounding nuclear power is so complex and complicated that it is diffi cult for the ordinary person to understand exactly what has gone wrong or in Shultz case what might go wrong The details given in the media only confuse not enlighten All people absorb is vague impression of danger heightened by the media use of scare headlines and quotes from antinuclear critics VERY LITTLE Considering that nobody at Three Mile island wa killed and radiation release was minimal eduivalent to two per cent of natural background radiation the amount of coverage the accident received was ex traordinary But thats the nature of the nuclear beast People associate it with atomic bombs and the possible deadlyeffects of radiation And this sense of forboding about nuclear power which reaches the level of paranoia in movies like The China Syndrome is just something Ontano Hydro has to live with The antinuclear lobby has one good side effect IS SAFE It forces the industry including Ontario Hydro to be even more safetyconscious than they already are Which is considerable Royal Commission on Electric Power Flaming chairman Arthur Porter estimated recently that in time effort and dollars nuclearreactor safety planning is two orders of magnitude above all other sarts of chemicals that get into the environ ment Lets hope that Three Mile Island and Shultz can teach them even more Human beings always have tendency to become complacent about what they know and do and the value of Shultz and Three Mile Island has been to stir up the nuclear industry MANY ENEMIES Safety systems and procedures are being reviewed both here and in the US Not only is Ontario Hydro doing an internal review but legislative committee will delve deep into the intricacies thissummer Which is all to the good Nuclear power is too important to our economy to abandon before its multitude of enemies because nuclear supporters like Ontario Hydro are prone to reject critics as kooks Many maybe most are but they represent that vast mass of people who are scared of the mysterious and unknown shadows that seem to cling to nuclear power And they have to be calmed as far as humanly possible Backgrounder Drug smuggling constant battle MONTREAL CP At first glance it looked like an ordinary Canadian quarter But it wasnt It was hollow The coin had been used to transport heroin into Montreal and is just one of numerous methods used by drug smugglers Its big game of hideandseek Insp Gilles Favreau of the RCMPs drug squad said in recent interview Eavreau says he receives monthly bulletin from drug enforcement agencies across North America revealing the latest techniques used by smugglers And every month theres something new Tires orange cans records cars motors furniture fire extinguishers oxygen tanks stuffed anteaters and even condoms filled with cocaine swallowed by couriers are just few of the ways drugs are smuggled Last year an Ontario man was arrested at Mirabel Airport when customs officers became suspicious at the way he was walking Upon investigation they discovered that his shoes had hollow heels stuffed with $90000 worth of heroin and hashish In another seizure customs officer in England couldnt understand why someone would ship 258 cases of canned fruit to Canada when the fruit was readily available here Then it was discovered that 72 of the cases contained 3000 pounds of hashish USUALLY CAUGHT The chances of succeeding are on the side of the smuggler but the odds are on our side says Favreau whose department seizes an average of $50 million worth of drugs year They might do it couple of times and get away with it but eventually it the keep it up they will get caught The smugglers always think the have good thing going but there are only so many ways to conceal drugs Favreau says drug smugglers will sometimes flood an area with drug concealing item when the think theyve found policeproof method Recently stuffed anteaters mtlaining drugs were intercepted at the mnwt The game was Over but the group sending the drugs obviously didnt Mimi Eavreau says It was quite comical because every time we saw stuffed anteater we knew it wasfull ofdrugs