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rp wrmmnnm awn1 Elir titanic Excision Published Canadian Newspapers united win midiabrr 18 Bayfield Street barrio Ontario xWilla Glarll FIlDAY JANUARY 11 ll Plxl Computers an Affect Employment if you dont think automation is get ting to be serious problem ioroiirée workers in large firms consider the re cent statement oi US economist who said The hundred thousand office workers now being displaced by com puters will be spit in oceanin the seventies In its January issue Office uipmen and Methods magazine says uote goes right to the heart of one the most serious labor problems that the Canadian economy will ever have to face The US economic picture has always served as barometer for our own busi ness outlook Since our neighbors are already expressing concern over their growing automation problem many be lieve that the persons with power to act in Canada should do more than simply scratch the surface of this growing di hmma regular and competent survey of this situation musbbe undertaken now before the dislocations reach unmanage able proportions ll is estimated that additional computers installed in the US each year dislocate 100000 work ers the writer continues few years ago the rule of thumb for buying computer was If it doesnt displace more than 120 clerks it isnt economical But as computers became In Offices faster andmoreambidextrous it be came common to see them replace 500 to 1000 clerks at time One win any said its computer system will all nato up to 1500 clerks five per cent of its total staff lllosi firms have publiclydeclared that many of the displaced personnel will be iven the opportunity of being upgrade into higher skills The idea that displaced clerks go briskly into computer specialties is myth accord ing to the results of study done by the University of Michigan Man jobs dont disappear immediately cause staff are moved elsewhere in the organ ration and are not replaced when they eave Com liters also affect executives Mr Donal Michael US consultant to UNESCO maintains in report that growing numbers of executives would not only forfeit their jobs to machines but would also pose problem to so ciety Where can the go he asked To firms not yet ass gning executive jobs to machines to thegoverninent to top in agement If none oi these can be made available with any freedom what is going to happen to the role of the middle manager on the way up From where is topmanagement going to recruit its own replacements Its Sneaky Killerl Carbon monoxide which causes more deaths than any other poisoning known to man is especially dangerous during the winter months Traffic authoritiesagree that no one really knows how many accidents are caused by drivers who actually are half poisoned by this gas But they do know that deaths from such poisoning will cer tainly increase sharply during these win ter months Carbon monoxide is colorless odor less and tasteless it is expelled from the cars exhaust system and is deadly poison to human beings in an enclosed space Before driver realizes what is happening he gets drowsy and begins to doze at the wheel If the gas itself doesnt kill the resulting crash into tree or bridgerail or an oncoming car might finish the job Safety officials give these common sense rules to avoid carbon monoxide accident Check your automobile exhaust system regularly Make sure your muffler is not leaky Never allow your vehicle to run in closed garage or unvenlilated space Never drive with all the windows closed 1n slowmoving or heavy traffic or while travelling through tunnels keep air intakes closed and remain good distance behind the vehicle in front of shoud be followed you to prevent intakes of large amounts of carbon monoxide into your own car Shut off the engine when sitting in parked car for more than few min utes if you feel sleepy while driving stop at once get out of the car and breathe fresh air The cause of drowsiness may be carbon monoxide Resume drivini with the windows open In the event of carbon monoxide ois oning the following first aid inatruc ns Remove the victim to fresh air im mediately and start artificial respira tion at once Call the doctor and the fire or police department Continue artificial respiration for at least two hours or more Keep the victim warm with blankets or covering Ifemergency breathing equipment is available use it for at least 15 or 30 minutes after natural breathing returns Keep the victim warm once he starts to breathe again By no means let the victim drink cot iee or tea or any other stimulant Rub the victims arms and legs to aid circulation Urge him torest and recover slowly to avoid any strain on the heart Remember Carbon monoxide poison ing can kill within few mlnutesl DOWMEMORY LANE 60 YEARS AGO IN SIMCOE COUNTY Barrie Northern Advance 1904 Pro vincial Prior of Knights Templar Rt Eminent Sir Knight Boyd of Sault Ste Marie paid visit to Mount Calv Preceptory Emergent meeting held at Home Masonic Temple on occasion with the Preceptor Eminent Knight Hamp ton EJory prbsiding Alexander Brown 57 of Essa fell on Barrie main street and hit head on ice He was car ried into Wellingtonllotel where he died before medical aid arrived Boys mayor by acclamation Sam uel LountSoules of Big Bay Point died suddenly in St Louis Missouri where he was visting daughter Nat Dy ments Neale reported doingwell in training at Barries Brookdale Stables getting ready for this year Kings Plate Barries powerful senior hockey club defeated Newmarket 202 Lewis scor ed seven for the locals Grindy Forres ter five Two Toronto clubs Marlboros Authorized as second class man Test Disin Dnnrtnunt Ottawa and ivrpaymont oi portals In euh pally Sundays and statutory Holidays erupted KENNETH WALL Pilth VICTOR WnION Genrel If I11 iumlDN Mlflliilllfl HA wnson Advanfllnl Manres ilnnnliii manaecaantant llllCHABlu nolmnana circulation Manager Subseriptlnn rate daily by carrier Jibweek near yearly saute copy mail In Oniarllh 00 yuiJflo Ill beatings time months 0175 month Outside Ontuia atone Outlid If British vpoueulnn and Faelit 10012 folcea 113 Toronto ate cart Skeet Noam Weat Felonr strait Vancouver any es Paton in Grand Trunk Railway snow The Barrie Examiner Education and St Georges and Collingwood also in senior OHA series Coroners in quest convened inBarrle by Dr Wells concerning death of fireman Jam plow wreck on Collingwood line Churchill junior curling rinks defeated Barrie colts infour games Coiling wood rinks skippedby Noble and Wynes OTTAWA REPORT rcs Must Choose Path ill Crossroads PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA As Conservlvn delegates gather heraior their annual meeting it they sense the grave import ance of their choice of one of the paths which lead onward or backward from the crossroads of opportunityiwhere their party new pauses lndeclslvely total of 3911195 voters in the 1968 election gave Conserv itivesthe largest public support ever attained byany polticol party in Canada But onethlrd oi thosehave since moved out of camp and the remainder new are split irreparany ovar the same point which caused that unprecedented defection The leadership of the party The 2591614 continuing Con servatives who marked their ballots accordingly last year can be classified into three groups These are the pessi misiic optimists the optimis lic pessimlata and the party firsteu The lintmentioned are the group who parrot Diet is our leader and we are happy about whathe has done for us othi era had better agree withusor else These number probably less than 500009 and are mostly in the Prairies The optimistic pessimists say Mr is the leader of our party so we must stick with him openly for the good of the partybut we hope nature will take its inevitable quickly These constitute pet haps half of the balance ofthose continuing Conservatives say 1000000 PARTY BIGGER THAN MAN The party firsters insist that any party is more impor tant than any one man even the leader They maintain that Can ada andtbelrparly needs com petent leadership based on on equivocal policies and an end in sectional jockeying and eiec toral bribu They would do Dlef their party at any cost Numberlng nearly 2500000 this beat arrle fluifsisklppsd by George map includes the hard not of floggand Mchven for Tankard group Alexander Brown head of Brown dc Co store won handsome pair of curling stones donated by James Vair competitorin the grocery business Run nerup was Dr Henry Arnall Slrathy KC Barrie elected president Simcoe County Childrens Aid society Morning passenger train from Pene tanguishene to Allandale was stuck in snowdrifts near Etmvale until snowplow arrived At annual meeting of Barrie Tanning Company towns leading in dustry neat to railwaySamuel Wesley reelectedpresident and John Sinclair managing director Haughton Len nox selected Conservative candidate for South Simcoe in coming federal election ArdeghMemorial Home marked 30th yearduring which time shelter has been parovided for 107 aged persons Alex line elected chairman Barrie Boardof Barrie rink ofWesley Cline Phil Love OliverPatterson and Hy Graseltpskiphwon Collingweod bonspiel OTHER Enrons Virws risks totiRCHANoE Arthur NewsChronicle riiuy swéepstake ticketan guards practical and level than just wait Blasting the ahrewdly quoted in the pro continuing Conservntlv well as most of the 1dliianl voters largely in Ontario and Quebec who transferred their support elsewhere in the 1962 and 1963 elections This group potentially enjoys the support of many politicava astute Canadians who are deeply disturbed by the rifls which political opportunism has fostered withlnour nation The rest against French Canada the tamer against the city dwellerthe affluent unem ployed against the conscientious workers Such Canadianl also deeply fear the probable elec toral destruction of one oltbe great parties of free enter Two leading Tory MPs deliv eLed significant public speeches on the eve of their partys meet PEls Heath Maol headed intellectual insisted that WevPCs must do much more recent subjugation of his party to the cult of leadership he cess of making god of our leader we made sheep of our selvet Frenchcanadian Paul Martii ago demands eat of ethnic net rebel atyesr eMtahlllhm Canadasnd new solute to theurgt need tor auprolt stun bllemllnh and tumble enoughito encompass all Cana total 1319531 til it ranks THE FRENCH ii neau whowas an active aill svgi was warw last two elections But have calculated that it less than one per cent of these more 8140 in selected constituencies had not switched to the Liberals there would still be Conserv alive government prominent Ontario organizer tells me that in his area comprising about 10 constituencies about 95 per cent now oppose the present leader Against the opinion of this electionswinging array of voters stand perhaps ball million pessimistic optimists who tliresian to boil it the leader is rejected Tbe arithmetic of the ballot box suggests clearlywhich road the Tories should choose the urgent need to restore unity to our nation and stability to our economy points the lamaway The destiny of great party ranks above the interests of any one man In the considered opln Inn of manydelegaiea arriving here sson BIBLE radoairr lie that bath the Son bath life and be that hath not the Son of God hath not llial John tall and has given us criterion mildetermining our spiritual can on Thomson May Take Lords Seat Soon LONDON CPI Publisher Roy Thomson will probably take his seat in the House of lords in about monthand he should make the rafters ring He plans to speak often on wide range of subjects make no claim to speak on behalf of Canada but think can modestly say that know more about Canada than many other people here and can in terpret the country to Britain he way that has not previ ously been done lhomson told reporter it was announced in the New Years honors list that barony has been conferred the 69 yearold publisher For the moment he is still plain Roy Thomson The name he will be known by as member of the peerage is still under discussion HEALTH SERVICES Dear Sir see by the papers thatOnv iarlo is likely to have health services program But the plan as comprehensive as it should Under hill 16 it looks as if the only health services insured would be the bills of medical doctors Even the dentists are excluded according to news re ports of the committee studying the proposed plan noticed that ophthalmologists are in cluded because lhey are medi cal doctors but optometrists who take fouryear course at the optometrio college are leit out and yeinn optometrist is qualified to do many of the things that an ophthalmologist can do The papers reported that there are four or five times as many optometrists practising In Ontario as there are ophthal mologists or nculisls People wbodo not live close to the larger cities cant go to an ocu list but inmost towns of only iew thousand people there areoptamelrlsts practising their profession think you will agree Mr Editor that insured health ser vices should be as brand as brand as possible and not set up for the benefit of any one proiesslon lhe benefit should beto the public Yours truly Ockweli Toronto WAGE lN BARBIE Dear Sir am delightedthat thpCity Cotiocfl discussed the letter wrote to the Toronto Daily Star illicit RAMBtEll ruins T0 roiroii suggested dileaut seem to be We have to keep wages at straightforward answer on the extension oi the mini mum wage law across Ontario From thesplendid rhetoric of Mr Roberts who unfortunately seems to confuse the problem of the low wage camera with garbage to the righteous indig nation ol Mr Newton who does not clearly state what he wants stopped cold stand sever ley reprimanded Perhaps itls higher wages lllr Newton wants stopped cold am not qualified to interpret his intent as Mr Hersey hasrelegaled ms to the domain at the scatter brains However may suggest to the City Council that they ogre lully read the article by Arnold Bruner in the Toronto Daily Star of is January of and also my letter to the same paper week later am3posllive they will find them informative and interesting Perhaps should quote from Mr Bruners article ior those who will be unable to obtain it Mr Bruner quotes Mr May Barrie lndustrln Commissioner as saying High er wagea would make Barrie unattractive for new industry level at least 10 low Torontos Because of this statement aboutwage policy in lhlsarea asked queslion in my letter if this is Mr Mayfa own economic phllosphy or has it per cent be been imposed on him by er autborityfi have the right as have other interest taxpayers of Benin and District to expect hi Collins 117m2 LsQM uvvwwrva emv The announcement made by AFFECT MANY llEMB Canal toners halfmonth ago tlons contain US promise for President Johnsons govern ment in this With thi mammm linear more on Pierce Price We Seen In Britain lylflmlm to Mmm or WW Will ulf ornipeii ran and gmt finkmwngm commended avatar is wharf known bore Ia resale mu mlm norms ry manu widows ran are ready sinsthat baton long the fiercest piles war that this coats try has ever use nillaoen be under ay Already before the bill has even been in trodpcod tn the llouu of Com meats stares within to hours 01 too aanouamneat badanoeun ccd drastic cuts in the prices of many of the items affected For lnstanes stores selling it quor at once reduced the prth of bottle of whiskey by as much as so canto SMALL MEN to Ml While the lie lenaralty will stand to and am deal alimony when this war develops it use doubtfly will who iha poo mailman is put the If In WU Ip tllllh° WW urea in they will stand lotion heavily And in than run they aa urt the gab will lnally lose out in shopping Their so ermarlret and big store ri because of their bulk buy ing methods will be better able to cut prices than the small corner shop owner And it Is armed that when the little men are put out of billions by the giant concerna price cuttlnr war then the big slam will it nble lodlctate their own prrc cs Wifilfllliflflllfl to public In tcreat hlr Heath counters thlswltb the claim that the certainties men will not be put out of bus lness because they can still offer that brand of personal ser vice which their customers preciate Politically he la in ing big risk The new plan may very well become law la lane to turn the votes of the small shopkeepers against the government But the effects oi Stockton damn the cut prices will not be felt while Wml WWW lt by the housewives on some lilncu twill WWII IOtiitims afterwards profilably too hardware co actionery we no to influence their vat tiles pharmaceutical articles theeleetiom camerasatatlonerytypswrlisrs um Imam Famoltbona records and office whiny um Immmm mm equipmth take in pushing ahead with this it ill 911th been IUIKH measure But it is doing so in ted that price maintenance may in kmwiem um use Lunar be replaced by Illilm opposition il even more anxious recommended prices which to abolish priceibitng than it manufactuan will Infill so there may be no advantage gent but without having the either way Edward Heath 1n thallouu el Commons said that the system of fixedlprlcea would be repaid ared as all the public internal strap in com where the con trary could be proved before special tribunal which is to be established it is estimated that this aboli tion of price fixing will affect about 35 per cent of all the spending done in the stores of the country Among the items which will be affected and on which price fixing would be pro hibited are the following mannerisms his new 08 Appears To Be Ready To lienegotiate Panama Treaty Deep suspicion and distrust are hampering interAmertcan peace committee attests to re store diplomatic relations be tween Panama and the United States For almost week the live counlry Latin American team has tried to reconcile differ ences between the two coun tries whose relations were shat tered by the riots bloodshed and slaughter that resulted from flagraising incidents in the os controlled Panama manlan envoy is that the us failed to keep promise inihe past and that the only way to make sure of U5 fulfilment la to get firm agreement in writing Oh this point committee dis cusslon moves back endiorth While public statements are made that progress is being at tained an observer who has been watching the situation closely says the 115 and Pan ama appear as far apart as ever lie senses that the bulkof committee opinion is on Pana maa side And this brings up the question of the future Amer ican image in Latin America The committee is made up of Venezuela Argentina Colom bia Dominican Republic and Ch ihe us has been spending hundreds of millions of dollars An lnlormant disclosed there were momenta during the ex haustive committee talks when itaeemed compromise would be reached that this could pro vide the wav for resumption of diplomatic relations and the beginning of operations to re move the roots olthe problems ihatI blossoplied lnltoI the flat oregn pocy crsa Johnson government Emwdthgpulatins But then first one side and then theother would stiffen and the committee would be back where itatsrted The key point is that Panama insists that any agreement on restoration of diplomatic rela to renegotiate the 1903 Panama Canal treaty under which the US controls the waterway and adjoining territory and in re turn provides Panama with an annual payment at lisoosoo lhe US is reporte to have informedj the committee pri valely that it agrees the treaty is obsolete and needs to be re negotiated but it adds that if this is statedspublicly it could have adverse political effect presidential alto lion year TheUS would like to see the Panama request lramsd in more general language to pro vide for dis ioii on all pints of diflerencebut not specify in particular that the treat be renegotia Panama wont agree The view of the Pana