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Lia WngyW W¢M The Emir Examiner Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited 16 antield Street Barrie Ontario Walls Publisher William Teller General Manager McPherson Managing Editor sArURDIiY MAY lmPAGE in phi ism Education Gets Too Large Slice Oi Barrie Taxes One fact emerges clearly from the bud get of Barrie City Council The cost of education in the city is now greater than that of all other municipal services com bined True portion of expenditures on education is borne by the Ontario ov ernment but the amount left to be raised by Barrie taxation represents 45 per cent of the budget Together the collegiate and public school board will spend 54003730 this year But only $1577000 will be Charge able against the tax rate exclustve of the amounts earmarked for separate schools and retarded children Mayor Cooke and other members of the City Council have pointed out fie quenlly that the burden of education is much too great for the taxpayers of Bar rie to beareven the proportion assess ed against them The schools share of civic taxes has risen two per cent in the past year to 45 per cent Surel the time has come to take an other loo at municipal financing The mayors contention that so per cent of education costs should be borne by the government has merit This would spread the burden over the population generally instead of placln the load on the should ers of residenli commercial and indus trial taxpayers The cost of education Is not point of Issue but its distribution is Today great er stress is placed oncducation as it should be We are trying to keep children in school and to encourage the talented to to university This means that more dren will remain in ciaxes and we will need more teachers more schools and more supplies new formula for distributia costs is needed If greater share were me by the provincial and federal governments municipalities could lower their own tax es or use more of their revenues for oth er services Here in Barrie we need more sidewalks and perhaps more expenditure on our police and fire departments Is our police force spread too thinly Has the time arrived to create permanent fire department rather than depend largely on volunteers We cant think too much of these things under setup by which the lions share of dty revenues goes for school purposes Municipalities must keep harping on inequalities in taxation Municipal assoc iations individual councils and delegat ions should endeavor to impress on the government that school costs must be re apportioned to relieve homeowners of burden they have borne too long Accommodation Ample The consternation created several weeks ago through widelypublished al legations of shady dealings in accomme dations reserved for Expo have been largely allaycd through subsequent in vestigations by both police and fair officials Despite all the bad publicity there will almost certainly be accommodation for everybody attending Expo 67 in Mon treal this summer re rt in the lllay issueof Mac leans hagazine examines the various charges laid against Logexpo the fans overworked accommodation bureau The accusations said among other things that Logexpo was grossly inefficient practised discrimination and had indulg edln fraud The report concludes thatOnly the charge of inefficiency has any grounds to it In the early days of Log expo there were inexplicable delays in utting out pamphlet explaining exact how the bureau works As aconse quence letters from wouldhe visitors from all over North American simply piled up Now com uter has been pres sed into service to eck the 30000 let ters week Ample accommodations still exist at reasonable rates even though some hotels and motels are inflaungvprices Expo will guarantee that no visitor has to sleep on park bench Fraud was extremely unlikely be cause Logexpo never handles money It merely makes reservations and notifies visitors how the booking can be con firmed All landlords with accommodation listed at Logexpo have been cleared in connection with discrimination tale Khone check with 12 landlords by lacleans staff writer pretending to be Negro failed to show any indication of discrimination With all these assurances there unfor tunately cannot be guarantee that the fplice will be right for many of the thousands of Canadians wishing to attend OTHER EDITORS VIEWS CANADAS NEW GOVGENERAL Christian Science Monitor Prime Minister ester Pearson has made felicltous choice in recommend ing to the Queen that she appoint Roland Michener as GovernorGeneral of Can ada it is now accepted that the holder of this high office be Canadian and that Englishspeaking and Frenchslpeak ing Canadians alternate in it Mr lich ener succeeds the greatly esteemed General Georges Vanier who passed on month ago and was Quebecker Mr Pearson was thus virtually under an an ligation to turn to an Englishspeaking Canadian And all things consideredit lessene would have been hard to find one better equipped thanMr Michener The great fact of Canadian politics at this time is the strained readjustment in relations between the lands English and Frenchspeaking communities Mr Pear sons lomacy has to great extent some of the more explosive pressures that had built up between 7521113 wfmiitl Canada WRING 11ft WARF f0 Tilt AMER Frenchvspealdng Quebec and the rest of But what the Prime Minister has done has produced something of an Englishspeaking backlash increasing in intensity as one moves westward from Ottawa At times Conservative Opposi tion Leader Diefenbaker has seemed to try to exploit this basklash to his ad vantage Mr Michener as GovernorGeneral should be able to take some of the sting out of this backlash He isa Western er from Alberta Politically he is Conservative although his recent diplo matic service lifts him already above partisan party politics And although he is an Englishspeaking Canadian he is one with understanding of Quebecs aspirations and of the need to meet em We congratulate the new Governor General and join in the prayers of Can adlians that under him the affairs of this great land will continue to prosper MM WWI At QUEENS PARK Tax Rebate Plan Ticklish Problem fly DONALD OHEARN TORONTO The govern ment bad tickllah problem to tackle in the question of local tax rehatu to elderly property owners with limited incomes Two years ago the City of Hamilton received authority in private hill to give tax reduc tions of up to $150 year to elderly owners Its lead was followed by other local governments who put through similar bills at this years assign The ovemmcnt throuch Municipal Affairs Minister Vil fred Spooner made it clear it didnt agree with the practice In essence its position was that such deductions were un fair to the other taxpayers as it required them through their properties to directly subsidize the elderly However in each case the members of the private hills committee which has the im porter say overrode the min lsters advice and approved the bills And along with this as the number of municipalities pro viding rebate grew there was strong demand on the govern ment to bring in general legls latlon to empower all municipal ilics which wished to do it to provide this tax relief The problem facing Mr Spooner andhls colleagues was that they couldnt bring in legis lotion which would require or even permit one section of the community to subsidize another section Yet it may didnt respond to the demand they would face criticism from the obviously large number of people who felt the lower income elderly do served some relief So they acted They have have brought in bill which will allow any municipality to give tax credit to those elderly who qualify There is one important differ ence in the approach they have taken however from that Ham ilton and the other municipal ities have followed This is that their credit will not be straight gift It will be repaynble when the property is touted over either by sale or through the death of the owners And so that municipalities will LETTERS TO EDITOR BARRIE TAXES Dear Sir It is with frightening soberncss that taxpayers in the city of Barrie should view their new 1967 residential tax rate and ask themselves where it is going to end The truth is that it is not going to end but will continue to rise each year unless some thing lsdone to curb many of the unnecessary frills that are attached both to our secondary and our public schmls You reported in your paper that the major portion of this years increase resulted from higher collegiate costs No one His going to deny that we need the host learning facilities that it is possible to give our young mmaiW is Hayfield Street Barrie Ontario Authorized as second close Ottawa and for PWEntof postage to cash Daily Suddaya and aim DUKE all STRIULS ANCESTOR OF mme WAWEMIRD EWEENOR oFTtlE HUDMSBAVCO wwggwumwm wanlanes WEDM10910 lumen his armor WIWED washroom We runner mole vommwrmnrom MSMEMELOURTMG fiflwso can Roam ROS WAS emote 7V5 cummm IY Burmas DAILIAMMT but 1ch mr Mums nuncm 14 mama Homes mi ssr uoenl GOLF counts so WASESTAELISHED in tea AT cussrccnrtomtrr 11mm Sitcom HUDSON 9AYCMT6 Mil5W0 IIImom WV Statutory llohdays excepted Subscription rates daily by carrier 45e weekly 5734 yearly Single copies too By mail Bariis 52340 yearly Ontario $1200 year motor throwoff 515 year Mail out side Ootario $14 year Outs side Canada British posses sions $15 year USAv and foreign Year National Advertising of Iices 425 University Avenue Toronto 040 Cnthcart St Montreal 501 mo West Pen der St Vancouver EC Member of the Canadian Daily Newspaper Publishers Association the Canadian Press and Audit Bureau of circulations The Canadian Press ls ex clusiver entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatdle in this paper cred ited to it or The Assocated Press orReutcrs and also the local news published therein mammaer people but would like to ques tion some things call them ru mors if you like that trouble me as taxpayer and should cause concern to every taxpayer in this city For instance would like to know is it true that at one ofour Collegiate they have woodworking machine that cost the taxpayers $60000 that is ne ver used because it takes too long to set it up Is it also true that at this was collegiate they have or had cows pigs and chielt kens and if so for what pur pose since 90 per cent of the students there will never see farm Is it also fact or isnt it that in many collegiate Home Economics classes the stoves and refrigerators are traded for newmodclseach year Is it fact or isnt it that in the trade £0119 Torrie Examiner cusses in our high schools the teachers have their all changed and their ears greased free of charge at the taxpayers cxpense plus many other re pairs done to their pemonal ears lhase are things have heard as rumors and dont profess to know that theyare fact but would like to state that as taxpayer of this city and lamp port of all other taxpayers we should have the right to know just what is going op and how our money is being spent Some type of citizens mm mittee should be set up to inves tigate these rumors and to find out if they are true or not and file monthly report on their findings It would he watchdog cornmitte made up from all walks of life and called from list of taxpayers on the same basis asone would be called for jury duty Since it would appear that the more money that is granted our school boards the more they will ask for some type of res traint should be put in their Way We need good education yea but not at the expense of our national welfare Yours very truly Napier Street RAY MOSLEV barrio Em SMFIKIN$ not be deprived of the credit revenue they will give them interestfree loans to the money out on credit The municipalities giving straight deductions now may be critical of this Their private bill will be killed by the gov ornment legislation But on the practicalities of the situation the government ap pmnch would seem to be rea sonable one It isnt an ideal solution El derly people probably shouldnt have to pay what is really an education tax But pending complete revision of our method of financing education it seems aagood as any possible Established 1871 Vancouver Edmonto was llSA Dunlap St er QUEBEC OPINIONS This is selection of edi luilfr on current topics Milled from the Pf ch laamge pm of Canada Montreal 14 ProneMayor Jenn Drapesu has long be listed in Montreals interna tiooel role uhlcb he considers was consecrated by Expo the sensational e0lll that us suru it of place in the con mrt of treat cities He has sold ofien that this role has become evident in the last so years particularly in the last dozenthat is since its title as airline capital of Canada has made it an almost obligatory stop on the itiner aries of personalities arriving in America Headquarters of the Inter national Civil Aviation ganizatlon and the interna tional Air Transport Associa tion university capital of the Frenchrspeaklng world with the establishment of head quarters ol the association of partially or totally French anguuga universities Mont real has become the rendez vous for an ever increasing number of international con ventions especially of those whom the French language organizations of Europe play preponderant rolc That is why in answer to those who ask about the future of the costly and magnificent buildings at Expo Mr Dra peau solemnly promised to work to preserve them from destruction We know that rules of international ex hibitions call for demolition of Vthe pavilions but one may ask whether these rules were not meant to apply especially hon fhe cxporltltns were held solely on European soil when many countries are rd ntlvely close to one another change of condom per haps makes relaxation of the rules possible ll there exists man on pable of bending the rules in favorable way it is surely lllr Dropeau whose stubborn ness created the islands which he now wants to develo into permanent iterahonal clty where from everywhere ct all times the igrlms of Men had hie orld could come to meet The creation of such an in ternational city in Montreal would benefit young gen erations immensely with to morrows fantastic means of BIBLE THOUGHT And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven and there was is thick darkness In all the land of Egypt three days Exodus 1022 The man who looks to Heaven for his strength is still able to do great things on earth Willi God all things are possible uncommon Home Business Auto Head Office Kitchener Ontario President0eneral Manager Foot Economical MUTUAL Insurance Winnipeg London Hamilton loronto Ottawa Montreal Moncton Halifax VENSOM transportation they nould be able to come to learn much more easily than us hale been able in do in truly be mine as the premier of Que bec has expressed the hope citizens of the world and pro meters of peace ftmude Llpolnle April 29 Grnnhy La Vol dc lErt The fundamental test of hu manity in our era any Prime Minister Pearson lies in building world where iodi vroual and notional litany is guaranteed among all the di versity of nations of cultures and of political rellmes but where interdependence la roe ognixed as being perhaps more essential than independ once The prime minister mild not have expressed himself bcltcr it is true that Confeders tlon brought into being cen tury ago is not masterpiece But our ancestors sought ac cording to the possibilities of the time to unite the English and French language prov inces by eraurtng recognition of their rights The constitution today no longer meets the needs of country whose evolution has been fantastic That is nor mal It was not possible for them to foresee everything But it is by understanding and determination that it will be possible to reshape or en lirely remake the constitu tlon That French Canadians re fuse to glorify the ast is of no importance alaoevrr What is important is that they look toward the future and striie to make it better Canada ls not province but all the provinces No do fun of this country is sec ondclasa citizen lf Canadians shake off their inferiority or superiority complex as the case may be they will have already taken glant stride towards unity This unity will permit them to live in mutual respect to be conscious of their mission and to realise great things Expo 67 one of the wonders of the world Is product of Canadian unity Members of all ethnic groups of all prov inces collaborated to bring it into being It It not striking example of what we can do when we really want to Roland Gagno April 29 ADIOACTWITY RISES OTTAWA CF Radioac live fallout rose sharply in some places in Canada during January as the result of the Chinese nuclear test Doc at tho health departments radia tion protection divisionroys its monthly report However ll levels were well below considered permissible from health viewpoint the report said ECONOMICAL7 lllliull llisuulltr ionlilu STRONGRELIABLE The Economical Mutual insurance Company has provided its Policy holders with the best in 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