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71 rlt ltFW OTTAWA CP After strong start this year the economy is showing signs of weak ness that may signal weaker performance for the threemonth period that ended June 30 The gmss national product GNP row at solid 52percent annual rate in the an to March 31 first quarter just over the rate regarded as necessary for continuing long term economic health But some recently released statistics suggest the growth in volume of goods and services measured by GNP slowed sharply during the second quarter the xamlnor Tuuday July 121917 extra Why the media focuseson drugs and not alcohol WINNIPEG CPI The $37 million in advertising placerl by breweries and distilleries in 1975 may be one reason why the news media focus on illicit drugs instead of legal drugs such as alcohol which cause more problems says the dime tor of Saskatchewan alcohol abuse program recent survey in small town in Saskatchewan dis covered that the No drug problem perceived by the com munity was heroin Dick Shattuck director of the Aware program told 200 delegates at an addictions conference Monday doubt there has ever been heroin addict in that par ticiilai town Sliattuck said he was disturbed by the way newspapers niagaZines radio and television present alcohol problems ll alcoholics began their drinking habits in the same manner we all did Yet the media continue to support the st ereoty pe that the alcoholic is someone very different from social drinker Shattuck also said the media may actually help spread some drug abuses lor example tremendous publicity about glue snilfing and about gasoline sniffing in the North are generally belie ed to have contributed to heir spread llc iecomincnded that the anadian Foundation on ohol and Drug DependenCIes ClADDi work towards llll pi in log relations between experts in the addictions field and reporters Health research word in fall TORONTO Pi Ontario Health Minister Dennis Tim brell said Monday he expects decisions will be made this tall on applications for funds under the health research and development awards program The program was established to disburse tip to $13 million in profits so tar lrom the provincial lottery tor medical research and equipment The minister said the ap plications are being reviewed by peer group evaluation committee with reCommendations to go to theministerin the fall Tim brell told the legislature that health loun dations should not Consider the program to be panacea tor their money problems He said he has encouraged the foundations to Continue their public fundraising ac tivities CLC unlikely to leave ILO ilTAWA Cll 77 spokesman for the Canadian Labor ongress ILti Monday disputed suggestion that the millionmember congress might soon split from the In ternational Labor Organization ILO It is very unlikely the CLC will leave the especially since Joc Morris president of the hasjiist been elected chairman of the governing body of the ILO the congress spokesman said He was reacting to weekend news report lrom Thunder Bay Ont which quoted Elmer Foster secretarygeneral of the Internatonal Federation of Terical ommercial and Technical Employees Foster was iuot ed as saying ommunist influence in the Gciievarbased ILH IS turning away the and the Ameri can Federation of Labor More for Olympic stadium MthlRlCAlufli II€NIS TIMBRICIJ Trudeau the boards director general said Monday The money to be included in the boards next budget will be spent toevcu ofl some irregular stairs and to install ramA ps and handrails and glass panes at the end of stairs to prevent people lrom falling to lower sections The boards budget is being approved clause by clause and It was not known hen the stadiiiins safety allotment would be presented the spokesman said National Research ouncil study conducted last year said the stadium stairs were built incorrectly and that spacing between some steps In upper sect ions is irregular Provincewide bargaining Tl iRONlO CPI bill to provide provitmwvide bargaining in cert ain sectors of the construction industry was given second reading approval in principle in the legislature Monday The bill tirst intrixliiced in the last session died on the on ler paper when the elect ion was called April trought back III the new session the bill was approved by all three parties and sent to committee for study The measure will be looked at by the committee which is to hear submissions from interested parties and then will come back for final approval alter the house reconvenes in the tall Labor Minister Bette Stephenson in agreeing to send the bill to committee said the bill needed careful examination iiid public input Police evict demonstrators MONTREAL PI Police moved in and evicted group of demonstrating workers Mon lay who invaded the oflices of MLW industries Ltd heavy equipment manufacturer which has locked out its employees in contract dispute Serge Brousseau president of Local 4389 United Steelworkers of America received cut over one eye during the incident but another union official said no other injuries were reported and police made no arrests The company described property damage as slight The Olympic installations board will spend 8330000 to eliminate safety hazards such as uneven stairs at the Olympic Stadium spokesman for Roger fly0 Scar 184 Yongo St Hwy 11 For example Statistics Canada said Mon day that retail sales declined during May by fourtenths of one per cent from April to $501 billion This followed twotenths of one per cent decline during April from March levels This points to weakness in consumer spending patterns that was apparent even during the robust first quarter After discoun ting for price inflation consumer spending in the first quarter dropped by fourtenths of one per cent the first decline in years PRODUCTION DOWN Similarly as the Bank of Montreal notes in New gun reverse the law say opponents OTTAWA CI The gov ernment is attempting to re verse basic tenet of criminal law by forcing people to prove their innocence under its pro posed gun control legislation Progressive Conservatives complained Monday succession of MPs most 01 them fmm rural ridings urged Justice Minister Ron Rasford to alter his bill saying it will do little to keep guns away from criminals but will put tighter controls on lawabiding people ne provision that upset the opposition is clause making it an offence to possess firearm that does not have serial num ber without lawful excuse What that does said Elmer MacKay PCentral Novai is encroach on the doctrine of reasonable doubtone of the comerstones of the countrys criminal law system Instead of the state having to prove mans guilt the onus of proof would be on him to show that he is innocent MacKay said adding that the prospect dismays me WANT CHANGE The opposition has proposed an amendment to the clause one of 37 amendments put for ward to the bill The issue has been before Parliament for three years and the govemment says it wants the legislation passed before re cessing the House or the sum mer Basford rejected suggestions he is making fundamental changes to the law saying in some cases there already is an onus on person to prove his in nocence One case would be charge of bigamy where person must Great Lakes polluters make little progress TORONTO CI Almost none of the sources of serious pollution in the Great Lakes ba sin showed signs of improve ment during 197 says the Great Lakes water quality board In its annual report to be pre sented to the International Joint ommission which meets here Thursday the board recommends governments place more emphasis on env forcing their regulatory requirements for municipal and industrial discharges ideir lifted in the report as signilicant sources of pollution of boundary waters It also names 10 Ontario in dustrial plants and nine in the tnited States as major waste contributors who have not com plet ed control programs In Ontario they are Ameri can an of Canada Ltd Mara thon KimberlyClark ol Canada Ltd Terrace Ray Domtar Packaging Ltd Nipigon Ray Great Lakes Paper to Ltd Thunder Bay Abitibi Paper Co Ltd Thunder Bay Eddy Forest Products New extradition agreement signed by Canada Germany OTTAWA Pi Canada and West Germany signed new extradition treaty Monday which among other things provides that aerial hijackers can be sent home for trial The signing ceremony by Ex ternal Affairs Minister Don lamieson and Count Mac yon ItKlOHIlSADUIIIlu West Gennau ambassador was witnessed by Prime Minister Trudeau and VlSlllIItl ierinau fhancellor llelmut Schmidt The treaty replaces an extra dition arrangement that came into cflect in 1974 and reflects that its July review the key industrial production indexa measure of how busy factories arefell by threetenths of one per cent in April That decline left the index seventenths lower than it was in January Housing starts even though they rose during May to rate of 245000 from 230000 in April are still 14 per cent lower than the rate year age Although tigures to show the second quarter GNP performance are not available until August indications are that the economy is lagging after strong first quare ter controls United States The Toronto tained export into 1978 ptovv that the cailiei iiiaii iagv was tllSSOthtl lllt minister said Hut loriloii lowerr Red Deer said he tell the minister had not been con vinciug and doubt it be even convinced Ininsclt Ile and other oilsirvatives urged the minister to take an other look at the clause IIIESIINIIII IIIIMOVAI Earlier in the day the opposi tion pressed the government to remove section of the bill al lowing the cabinet to issue regulations under the gun coir tml legislation They moved an ainendmmit would reverse normal practice and have the govern ment bring regulations before the Commons for approval Dan McKenzie PtkWin nipeg South Centre said Parliament is being weakened by the government use of or dersincouncil orders issued by the cabinet to set regulat ions Its time to cease govern ment by regulation he told the Ilouse Why must they be forced on the public Last year the government published more than 3300 such orders but less than 700of them had been brought before Parliament the Manitoba MP Pamela Mercer and Miss lS said into the hotel pool in Santo Pageant AP Photo REJ ECTS PLEA Basford rejected that pro posal saying the House could not cope with the large num bers of orders involved Alex Patterson PFraser Valley East suggested not all cabinet orders had to be placed before Parliament only those dealing with the riminal odL STOCKHOLM AP The head of the Organization of Pet roleum Exporting Countries OPEC opened twoday meeting of the oil cartel today with praise for its unquestion able solidarity after its six month rift over prices Abdul Aziz bin Khalifa al Thani oil minister of Qatar told representatives of the 12 other member countries he is quite confident of cooper ation within OPEC The question of another rise in oil prices is not on the agenda for the semiannual meeting The issue has been put off until the end of the year as result of the recent agreement that en ded the price split in the organization and evened out the 1977 price increase at 10 per Espanola Denison Mines Ltd and Rio Algom Mines Serpent llarbour Polysar Ltd Sarnia and Allied heniieal anada Lt Anderdon In the LS they are Reserve Mining Silver Bay Minn Out board Marine Corp Waukegan lll Abitibi Paper Alpena Mich US Steel Gary Ind Bergstrom Paper Neenah Wis Ford Motor Co Dearborn Mich Great Lakes Steel Wyandot te Mich RMI Sodium and Chlorine Cem Plant Ashtabula Ohio and Scott Paper Oconto Falls ms Stay of proceed In addition the board joint anadaIS body recom mends an outright ban on mirex longlasting poisonous chemical used as pesticide and tire retardant IROQUOIS FALLS Ont Clt stay of proceedings What began as poolside photo session ended with one dunked Monday afternoon From left are Miss Mexico Felicia Mercado Miss Canada all pushing Donna Schultz Miss New Zealand where the girls are awaiting the Miss Lniverse It expresses concern as well about new and yet un discovered toxic substances in the freat Lakes system that may have repercussions on human health and warns that on 22 charges laid against the Abitibi Paper Co Ltd by the ministry of the environment was issued Monday by Provin cial ourt Judge Gard ncr The charges were laid Nov 1970 in connection with im pairment of environmental quality of the Abitibi River Judge Gardner agreed with Abitibi lawyer Iome Morphy that letter written by minis try official in Timmins con st itutcd an agreement with the company which the rown should honor public health agencies are not sufficiently informed about the potential dangers anadas desire to modemize existing arrangements and to sign new treaties Inder the new treaty extra dition would be possible on of lences related to aerial hijack ing and drugs also for Con spiracy to commit or being par ty to any oflence listed as ex traditable in the treaty The treaty says it is not pos sible to reluse extradition for political reasons for crimes against internalionallypro tccted persons ambassadors and others protected under iii CutOut let Graphics ternational treaties The new Yamaha XTSOOD the great all around machine for on or off the road freedom Features like powerful respon sive 500 cc stroke engine Nitrogen Oil shocks for long no fade riding and moto cross forks to take the punishment All this and more for only BARRIE ONT 726877 $1625 Illuminated Signs Artwork Posters Billboards Printing Gold leaf etc etc 31 Tiffin St It was mainly surge in exports that helped the economy in the first three months as US economic recovery provided strong market for Canadianmade goods The volume of Canadian exports to the increased at an annual rate of 29 per cent in the first quarter brokerage firm Burns Fry Ltd is skeptical that Canada can count on sus lcd recovery in economic ac tivity during the second half of this year and And away you go Kim Tomes Domingo would like to express my thanks to all those whose sin cere cooperation has resulted in our returning to the single price system alThani said believe that such result marks the unquestionable solid anty of our organization and has proved anew that OPEC is capable of shouldering its re sponsibility towards its mem bers and the whole world in the nost rational and sensible manner FRIENDLY T0 WEST Observers were struck by the reference to OPECs responsi bility to the rest of the world Another oil minister also soun ded conciliatory note toward customers in the industrialized West We dont want to upset the world economy by raising the ings issued in Abitibi pollution case On Aug 12 1910 Peter Wil liams an industrial abatement officer wrote to Jes Jordan manager of the Abitibi mill saving that if the company fol lowed proposed program to be completed before Dec 31 1976 no charges would be laid Prosecution lawyer David Croeker said he will appeal the decision immediately in divi sional court in Toronto and would go to the court of appeal if necessary If he is successful at divi sional court the charges will be laid again Iroquis Falls is 45 miles nor theast of limmins PLASTW SIGNS ters Sheets OUTDOOR ADVERTISING lTD Barrie 72897 NOT ROSY Burns My notes that while exports are in easing it is also important to look at the level of imports into the US where there is less than rosy outlook for Canada The US is aiming for economic growth of about five per cent in 1977 and 1978 which would require large reduction in the rate its imports expand he economy is showing signs Of weakness If past relationships hold Canadian exports to US markets likely will rise by about 103 per cent in 197 and about 48 per cent in 1978 Burns Fry estimates This would mean over the seven quarters to the end of 1978 an Miss Universe contestant getting OPEC talks of solidarity and notes responsibility price too high said Jamshid Amouzegar Irans interior minister and one of OPECs price hawks in the past The inroads that Saudi Arabian pricecutting made into Irans sales during the price split ap parently had an effect Last December 11 OPEC members decided on twostep Price increase of 10 per cent in January and five per cent in July But Saudi Arabia OPECs biggest producer and the United Arab Emirates UAE broke with the others and imposed single fiveper cent increase RIFTENIHCI The rift ended when Saudi Arabia and the UAE agreed to raise their base price another five per cent to 10 per cent while the others abandoned the fivepercent increase due on July Issues remain that might di vide the membership but an OPEC spokesman promised no spectacular results at all from the meeting sill lnded wih bull really enjoy this NEWaIIyou ns Fry says average rate 01 increase in exports of about 15 24 per cent at annual rates Burns Fry notes that in the last six quar terssince about the start average increase in exports to US markets was at 15 per cent annual rates So there may be sharp slowdown in Canadas biggest market for export goods Viewed in this context exports appear to have prevented recession in the past but are not about to lead us into recovery Bur Of 1970018 26 people died in Newark riot NEWARK NJ AP Ten years ago today rioting broke out here that left 26 persons dead $15 million in damaged property and lasting impres sion that Newark symbolized everything wrong with the ur ban United States Since those five days in 1967 Utting speaks NAIROBI Reuteri Gerald Utting 40yearold Canadian journalist held by military po lice since his arrival in Uganda three weeks ago says he has been well treated by them Uganda radio said today The broadcast monitored here was reporting television interview with Utting arrested after flying to Uganda from Nairobi Nothing was heard of him until last weekend when ganda radio said he had been arrested there The radio said today that ting of the Toronto Star said he went to Uganda to find out Ugandas stand on the Com monwealth Games to be held in Canada next year He was also quoted as saying that race relations in Canada are bad because 01 hostility be tween Asians blacks and whites He also said that the United States dominates the Canadian economy President Idi Amin was quoted by Uganda radio today as referring to Utting during meeting with the newly ap pointed Ghanaian high commis sioner to Uganda Brig Men sah Ile said Utting came to Uganda without the knowledge of the government Anybody can come to Uganda he said provided he obtains the neces sary documents first ORILLIA 93 COMMERCE RD 705 3266485 JERRY SMITH TIEDEN RENTACAR AND TRUCK SERVICE RATES DAILY WEEKLY MONTHLY YEARLY Featuring Chevrolets and other fine cars changes have been made in the police department and city gov cmment The city has black mayor and blacks are better represented in other areas of govern ment But the lives of many of those who rioted are not much differ ent The citys population has shrunk to 339000 from 400000 mostly because whites fled to nearby northern New Jersey suburbs The proportion of blacks in the general population has risen to 64 per cent from about 50 per cent Unemployment is 17 per cent Rates of murder infant mortal ity venereal disease and illiter acy are among the highest in the US In 1907 the worlds attention focused on this city as 7000 state policemen and National Guard soldiers roamed the streets looking for looters When it was over 23 persons had been shot to death and three others had died in riotre lated accidents Many of the businesses owned by whites in the predominantly black Central Ward were destroyed by looters Many of the homes were pockmarked with bullets from the automatic weapons of the troops Before the riot the city had rejected community pleas for civilian review board to in vestigate several reports of po lice brutality that summer The riots broke out after cab driver John Smith was charged with interfering with policemen who had stopped him for traf fic violation When Smith was seen being dragged into the Fourth Precinct station crowd began throwing rocks bottles and gasoline bombs More than 250 people were ar rested the first day On July 13 the rioting be came deadly Fires and looting erupted and the police and Na tional Guard reect ed with bul lets BARhiE 341 BAYFIELD ST 705 7370800 JIM RAWN IN RODUCIN mums it canleat Salad Bar caneat dBar every steak dinner Make great salad yourown way trom wide assortment of fresh vegetablestopped with tangy Parmesan cheese Croutons and choice ot fourdelICious salad dressings This superb NEW Salad Bar is included with every steakdinner PONDERO toCanadians thisyear Boyfleld Street North of Hwy 400 This is another reason why Ponderosa Steak Houses will serve 18 million steaks ncicsrism HOUSE 117