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Architectural and historical treasure or not the birds have settled on the old Firehal Ignoring architects ravings over lintels and such eefully paying no attention at all to the Firehalls uture as cultural centre the pigeons have been using the building as giant bathroom They have used the Fireball so well that there is danger of wood rot The pigeons lack of total good manners is contributing to an estimated cost of $20000 to $30000 to get the Fireball into shape to survive the coming winter There are other probably more serious problems facing the Fireball as it faces yet another winter It must be weatherproofed and structural repairs must be done Council is waiting too for private proposals for restoration and operation of the building and for report from consultants working on the citys core revitalization stud rth who have said on occasion that the Fireball is useless have apparently been wrong The thing has been useful for Barrie pigeons and to other Barrie locations which might have been suitable targets for undisciplined igeons We are surprised at the lack of thought being given Barries Pigeon issue which is apparently an issue in more ways than one Can igeons wreak such havoc elsewhere If the Firehal is torn down or shut off to pigeons where will they strike next Does Barrie need pigeon dropping ground Will using cats solve the problem or create bigger one Should pigeons be forced by municipal bylaw to be diapered Would it be cheaper to keep the old Fireball as pigeon dropping ground It wouldnt have to be heated even the most liberal of liberals would agree heated pigeon washroom is goin too far but steps might have to be taken to ensure al pigeons use the Fireball It just adds more to the everincreasing complexity of the task facing Barrie City Council The simple issue of saving the Firehal for cultural centre has taken on another dimension And pigeons in the end may solve the issue Concern about cost By DON OHEARN Queens Park Bureau Thomson News Service TORONTO Today there is concern about hos ital and medical costs annual meeting of the Ontario ital Association voiced strong alarm out shrinking finances brought about by Provin cial Treasurer Darcy McKeoughs restraint program Among other thi lowered ser vice and higher rates were ta ed about BIG RISE This question of rates is one that can make one sit back in wonder The basic rate today for standard hospital accommodation is $20655 Believe it or not can remember when this rate used to be $12 and there was great con cern when it began creeping up to $17 and $18 We all know of course that costs have gone up all costs but this is an increase of nearly 17 times Hospitals are labor intensive Wages are their big expeme But wages or not do operating expenses have to have risen by that much in some 20 or so years EFFICIENCY There has always been some suspicion about hospital operation in the province Excwt for state imtitutions such as men tal homes our hospitals have been run by voluntary boards And though the voluntary principle probably has lot of merit behind it it can certainly be questioned on the grounds of ef ficiency And it would seem to be about time that we started questioning this efficiency with hospitals So far as can recall there has never been study of the administrative efficiency of Ontario hOSpitals Yet at $18 billion they re esent our biggest single government expen ture Shouldnt we look at them and look at them closely and intensively Saving is the name of the game in govem ment today and out of this hige expenditure on health surely there are big savings to be made Some social noses might be out of joint that their worth might be questioned But never mind the noses Lets find out if Really And all these years we thought you were making tea If 32 flaw gugtg we can save some money Battle lines have been form ed To choices U9 Parliament hill on Que ec economic issues one Your needed to cure no business By STEWART MacLEOD clearly indicate Quebecers are firmly com dependencelikely in the spring of 1979we Ottawa Bureau mittedtofederalism are gomg to bear many contradictory Thomson NewsServlce Across the street Premier Levesque was arguments about the economic impact of Its quite obvious that Premier Rene giving reporters different vers on Theres separation This seems to be main line of at Levesque didnt invite federal Finance clearer and clearer perception among tack as boththeseparatist and federal forces Minister Jean Chretien to Quebec City to many citizens if not most of them that the plrlepare fudtigumam bout in the battle for the celebrate the first anniversary of the Parti government that is chief responsible for the egianoe ebecers Buaiglzznffflmn fifWWhetfi mmpgg Quebecois electlogie to power Tttilerehwould economic imation is1 central govem first yea Ivtvasqnjiebveoted Safely t3 havebeenamuc tter rt wi out im mentw ic scontrosover tari smone es is mg cors chhea Anal against our opportunities or against such amid the tempera ruins of the provincial Thomson News Service Its less than two weeks since the Economic Council of Canada published its annual review saying in effect that our economy is in mess Because everybody knew that and because the ECC didnt offer any dramatic longterm solutions the report caused almost no stir whatever Already it seems to have been filed away on the crowded shelves reserved for lost causes and borin studies Too ba because every Canadian is per sonally affected by the direction in which our economy is heading To illustrate compare the lifestyle toda of the average Briton or Italian on the one hand and the average West German or Swiss on the other As for its restraint in not professing to have all the answersso uncharacteristic of economiststhe ECC deserves more credit than it has received Acting for actions sake doesnt solve any problems The ECC is made up of representatives of agriculture business the professions the universitiesall sectors except organized labor which is refusing to participate in any such joint ventures as long as the government retains some limit on wage increases PUBLIC CONCERN The politicians and the bureaucrats flecially the economic planners who have us into the current mess would do well to pause long enou to considerwith the help of the ECCs owkey studywhere their policies are taking us Why Because although it may not be ob viom in Ottawa nor in the cosy surroundings of the provincial legislatures the lics concern about the economy probab goes deeper today than at any time in the last 40 or 50 years Granted life in 1977 is fairly comfortable for most working Canadians and even unem ployment isnt the hardship it once was But its safe to say that Canadians are girormighly confused about what the will ing we want your opinion Something on your mind Send us letter to thededitor Please trite it an dnai copy sign it iit unsigned letters although pen housed uponrequest includeer it or telephone number because we lettersbut we wont nt your address should you prefer Weve ound that M1 letter are the best read Because of space limitations public interest and good taste we sanctimes have to edit ooridense or reject laters Letters to the editor run Wednesdays and Saturdays Said yours to Lettas to the edtor The Examiner Box 370 BarricllntlAMM countries as the Netherlands Japan or the United States For the time being we continue to out perform the British and Italian economies But there are stron indications that we will experience their pr lems from runaway in flation to increased time and social unrest It is inflation that has undone the British and the Italians and yet the Trudeau government is satisfied to accept measure of inflation that will see consumer prices double within decade POLICY CHOICES Nevertheless it is possible to envision agreement on some courses of action that might restore measure of economic health One would be to getand keepthe growth of the countrys money supply under control The Bank of Canada has been tryi to limit its growth and the ECCin me its few specific recommendationshas urged the government to support the central bank Thats not as easy as it sounds since it conflicts with some shortterm licy objec tivessuch as providing more jogqulckly second would be to start rolling back the govermnents share of economic activity rom its current 42 per cent or more of Gross National Product The extent to which bureaucrats are making vital decisions con cerning Canadians dai lives is alread serious infringement on the personan om thatwe professto rise Such rollbac could take placeif the federal government accepted the ECC recom mendation for permanent personalincome tax cuts and the provinces reduced their sales taxes The governments would have to adjust to the tax reductions by cutting their spending programs RESOURCE TAXES third item of priority is for government to stogobgating the resource industries to death In the mining and the oilandgas sectors the multiplication of taxes and other levies during the 19703 has left producers with little money for exploration The residt is that we are consuming those resources faster than we replace them The far that some corporationespecially if it is forel controlledmay make profit is one that es hard Governments in virtually confiscating the profits of the resource industries are sayin effect that the search for more fuel more metals is less important than their vari om spending projects and the upkeep of their bureaucracies Anyone who has read The Way Aheadthe federal governments 1970 discussion paper on the postcontrols periodmay notice the authors concern with the need to control the buelnas sector so that it doesnt act in some way that Ottawa regarrh as undesirable Pabapa we really Wt to be looking back ward to find the best way aheadback to time when the market system was permitted be an expression of the peoples free ce But Chretien went there any wayspecifically to speak to the Quebec Chamber of Commerceand as Levesque was holding forth to various reporters on the glories of independence and the follies of ederalism the federal minister was in ef fect picketing the party Secession means economic disaster was the theme of his talk And he said that even the mere tineat of secession by Quebec is playing havoc with its economy The oneljy way stability can be restored he so est is fit an immediate referendum will By JOHN HARBRON Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service An American magazine published in New York called Strategy amt Tactics has two sabotage that is vandalism and acts of sabotage against the growing number of world mclear installations The other is scary scenario for what the editors call The Canadian Civil War the quotes are theirs The publicati0n which calls itself the magazine of conflict simulation appeals to the rising number of people like businessmen and college students who are fascinated with game theory If you are good at chess but bored with the we conflict simulation is your next bag havmg crack at Canadas unity crisis seems to be one of the fall offerings of this unique publication But wont be writing about that you can if you buy the ma zine more worrisome development is extent to which acts of sabotage have been attem ted against man dangerous nuclear utablsbmenls in Nor America and Western Europe into motivu at the tactical level MANY ATTACKS Vamlalism and outright attacks have been farreaching Let me site few at random fromthema lnes check list Beginning May 19w there was the effort to damage the Illinois institute of Technology reactor with pipe bomb More serious was the raid by is terrorists from the Marxist Peoples Revolutionary Army on Argentinas Atuchai reactor undcr construction the big budget Chretien obviously didnt agree It would not be honest to attribute to the separatist government the whole responsibility for the economic problems of Quebec said the fi nance minister But it would not be honest either to pretend that the deterioration of the economic situation in Quebec has nothing to do with the election of separatist govem ment MORE COMING Until the Quebec government gets around to holding its longawaited referendum on in Terrifying items in US magazine Did you know 400foot nuclear survey tower was demolished during an antinuclear demonstration at Montaque Mass in February 1974 In fiance Bretonese separatists bombed the fullyoperating nuclear reactor at Bren nails and forced the plant to close tem porarily in August 1975 the summer of 1974 vandalism con tinued against the Trojan reactor in Ranier Ore An at the Indian Point reactor in New York in early November 1971 thats six years ago about solo Slomillion in damage was caused by arson perpetrated by former employee You will notice none of these units is military installation These too have been penetrated but with little publicit You may remember the incr ible story of the theft of tactical missile from US ar mory in West Germany few years ago which was carried in more or less open truck all the way into East Germany The missile had nuclear capability in the firm of an optional nuclear explosive at its tip These have not been emphasized in the press like airliner skyjacklngs because they do not involve people in the same way and because the actual event has been closed of ten to the media But sure they offer greater threat to world secu ty than even these harrowing and emotional skyjackings for extremist political purposes Preventing major commercial nuclear lant from oil properly could become highest arm terrorist art when many of the economies of the industrial north both here and in Western Europe are tied more intimately to nuclear power by the 1m shattered or outofservice reactor can close down effectively all mallor operations in akey portion ofa selected na ion Liberal Party an shellshocked federal Liberal Party But going into the second year of PQ regime the provincial Liberals are rebuilding toward leadership con vention and federal Liberals are taking off the gloves in the fight for Confederation And with economics in the forefront the trench warfare will be headed by Chretien an appealing downtoearth orator whose over ing purpose is to convince Quebeceis that prosperity and stability are synonymous with ederalism On the other side Levesque is trying to convince his people that the current economic difficulties are due largely to fed eral policim and that perity will come to Quebec only when £3 is new part nersbi with Canada He oesnt use the word independence much anymore The words partnership and association rently have more so peal in Quebec and al the first anniversary interviewers featured these definitions Successive public opinion polls have in dicated that vast majority of Quebecers are opposed to independence CLAIMS OPIIMISM But in order to even gather majority sup port for new constitutional arrangement short of independence the Levesque overn ment must convince the population the province would benefit from such change And he claims to be optimistic More and more Quebecers are coming to realize that the main ibility for the economy rests in Ottawamys With unemployment in the province already over ll per cent and expected to rise to 14 per cent during the winter it would be convenient if Leve ue could lay all the blame at Ottawas oorstep But Chretien and his troops wont accept it Hence his tou talking foray into Quebec during the PQ irthday celebrations The province is losi its population at three times the norms rate he warned Unemployment is rising faster in Quebec than in most regions of Canada Private in vestment is down Corporations are fleeing Quebec accept that the political status of Quebec is being questioned he said But we must all recoguze that if the issue is prolonged it will bring in its train mounting economic costs We may as well get used to it because the battle lines have been formed and we are in to hear these arguments repeated en dless during the next 18 months bible thought Cast bread upon the waters for thou shall find after many days Ecclesiastes God is watching evay good deed and in His time will declare dividends that will astound you Be not weary in well doing for in due season you will map if ye faint not Have good day with the One who made it imported By BOB BOWMAN Now that weekend mas of beef rs sun rare treat it is perhaps mental cruelty to look back at the early days canme in Canada Although the buffalo on the were themost numeroislarge anima maximich they were almost extinct by 183 The famous Alberta missionary Join McDougall ruined thatifthe aimbadsu edsomanybuf falo then should also be ideal fa cattle ranching He and brother David began im porting cattle from Montana and encouraged others to follow their example The North Mounted Police also brought cattle to supplv then own meat So great industry began and Land Act 1881 provided leases of land up to 100000 acres at one cent an acre The meers who obtained these leases were boo to raise one head of cattle for each 20 acres Losses were heavy at first because the ran chers lacked expenmce There was great deal of cattlerustling and the Indians who had depended on the buffalo for food and ciothw also felt entitled to pick up strays whenever they could Penalties for rustling were severe An one caught first time had to pay the owner tlmw the value of the animal second fence was considered to be extremely serious and resulted in harsh treatment Ranchers began branding their mttle so they could prove ownership Stock districts where they is old be registered were established Nov 11878 Frank Oliver one of the pioneer newspapennen of the West did not approve of cattle being imported from Montana He contended that British Columbia cattle were better and tried to have trail made from Kamloops to Bow River Unfortunately this was not done Oliver also played an important part in preventigf the buffalo from being ex tamina OTHER NOV EVENTS nayGen Murray became first British governor of Canada Ben amln Franklin utabllshed post of fices at mtreai TbmeRiversandQuebec lairSt Johns Nfld was damaged by re lmEgerton Ryerson llshed Claiatian Guardian to promote Me odlsm in religion and politics linoIndians of Ontario and Quebec titloned to be governed by their own chiefs tstiil paths Queen Im wa was option isuHMGS Labra mile trip around Niliii Amerl Canal and Northwest Passage