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mom he Ennis Walls Editor Emeritus lllf fjingith his 1976 term as warden nearing ayelose Reeve Edgar Currie of Nottawas age township has been receiving some vlell merited congratulations on his good léadership given county council It was busy year with much attention devoted to recommendations of task for cis and others for updating and restruc turing the county administration The proposals ranged from an almost com plete overhaul to more modified changes all of which were received with variety of views ZiReeve Currie Was given strong backing for his stand that ultimate decisions on municipal and county restructuring should be made at the area and local lev els by elected representatives and coun cils close to the people they serve This is the democratic approach which is so important in this age of growing bureau cracy and the warden won much respect for his stand If the wardens views are upheld there Will be issues of much future significance to be decided probably next year which makes the need of continued good lead ership greater than ever While it has been taken for granted that new concepts will be adopted the principle that these changes should be made in democratic way to best serve the interest of ratepayers generally is sound The 1976 councillors will have the re sponsbility of carefully weighing all as pects of administration reforms and be fore making decisions should have full information about costs and taxation in volved The members have to constantly bear in mind that their main responsibil ity is to the ratepayers and people who elected them Budget estimates for 1976 are not yet available but it is already clear the coun cillors will have their work cut out to hold down another tax increase The CA NADAS STORY Some tough times faced by the HBO others who were financed by eventually destroyed the Hurons By BOB BOWMAN newsman JANUARY 14 um Published by Canadian Nowsplpon Company Limited lo Boyflold Shoot Barrio Ontario Robb PublisherGeneral Manager Honshaw Managing Editor PAGE ending budget for this past year tot led some $9786655 which was up $2 318629 from the year before Ontario government subsidies met large part of the cost which means taxpayers other than property ratepayers paid substan tial portion For municipalities the hikes in lanes went up $787034 to $3889825 or about 13 per cent Inflation which boosted costs of supplies and made salary adjustments necessary to keep up with living costs was largely to blame During this current term the county approved in principle the idea of county wide planning for development This is only beginning and of key importance is just how this strategy is to be carried out There are those who sincerely believe that planning should be primarily an area and local responsibility under prov incial guidelines with the principal deck sonmaking done here The acceptancc of countywide plan ning concept was generally hailed as progressive step but like other changes this depends largely on the followup re gulations and administration It also should be noted that county council placed itself on record again as opposing any further regional govern ment or restructuring of county admin istration by the provincial government unless it is clearly indicated such revision is asked for and wanted by local people Ratepapeis are deeply concerned over two aspects There is the need for the county to do its share toward holding down costs to practical and reasonable levels consistent with good management Also of key sig nificance is to see that any reforms fully recognize the need to strengthen demo cratic rights and control by taxpayers who have to pay for it all merchants The Company of 100 and the tlgonquins One of these stories recently described Oliver Cromwells ob jection to King Charles 15 30 Associates was formed in by wlealthy shareholders who were givesn tartrading 1110 In fol the Company of 100 Assocxates up and trans ferred its right to Canadians on 627 million ac real 95 dear no ly The company was sup Jon 1645 mm Fran Gaul had re mid to bring scltlers to Can turned Acadia anu Canada to ada and undertake develop OTHER JAN 14 EILNTS Trance for 400000 crowns mam lGllCauada experienced an ll1€le were number Olgtpec It suffered heavy losses for amazingly mild winter that ocular real estate deals in the some time especially in 1629 ended carv in March eml days when the Kirke brothers cap INSFirst leU of Halifax lung James engaged lll fled in supply ships and Que Herald There were riots in firm Alexander as poetry tu tor and gave him territory that now comprises Newfoundland Nova Scotia New Brunswick Maine and part of Quebec The Hudsons Bay Company leased Vancouver Island for seven shillings year Lord Selkirk obtained 116000 square miles of Manitoba Min nesota and North Daokota for 10 shillings year The general idea was to en trust the development of North America as much as possible to private enterprise Even in 1880 the Canadian Pacific Rail way promoters were given 25 million acres of land Ruling monarchs and their govesrnments did not want to bee worth The Canada yea in those days the furs Quebec However proved later tinJ the company lion act was able to import furs from 30l000 hires beaver was estimated to be 10 million Then the Iroquois put company out of business They were dealing with Dutch fur traders in New York and it was necessary to divert from the trollai the Ottawa River one of the chief supply routes BIBLE THOUGHT business im New Brunswick min to educa lSOZSupieme Court estab lished legality of Prince Ed ward Island prohibition ucl 1949RCAF North Star made first nonstop flight across Can lhe ada WISEQuebec population Conservativess British and demanded lcmlcrslip cou vention ISMJules Leger became and Canadas 65th governorgeneral WE WANT YOUR OPINION Letters submitted for pub Montreal Iroqums and spent their own money The situation was the sames under France Cartier De Monts Champlain yere among E5 22 $152 a75517£fs1j£¥ f2 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signed by the wrlter Plea your emu bless them that so Include your street address you 790 them that and phone number although hate you and pray for them they will not be published LN which despltefully use you and which mm menu persecute you Matthew 444 rated by phone cam be pub If we have not learned to lished For the sake of space Pray for our enemies there is publlc Interest and good taste good possibility that the Lord The Examlner reserves the may not be listening to prayers right to edit condense or reject that we offer for ourselves letter THE PICK OF PUNCH 1916 Los Angles limes mumslo Good plot New whip not control of ti tulle station QUEENS PARK NDP lucky to hold on to What they garnered By DUN OrlEAllN Queens Parl Bureau Thomson News Service TORUNIO 35 next picmicii think even Stephen hzmscll would laugh of mu if you sug gestal ll Some people do course Particularly the most zealous III the New Doinocrulic Party ranks They look to thcr Seplinibcr success and ride cloud higher than any iiiuiijiiauu join over sent anyone WERE LLCKI But realisls in the NDP takc Stephen Lev is much more reserved view of their partys position They know lliut in the Sep tember election they got pretty well every seal possible for them and perhaps few in which the gods threw the dice their way Ihat on only wry slight lu Cltgtc in lllCll popular vote the paiiy doublcd its holding And for the future they will lw lucky to hold on what ilicy llll llicy do lime new con fidence going ll them Their Ulktli ard this is party that places gical dependence on inorkcrsl will hic more heart lhriv will be ablc In so the grail llul aungt ith in the last election they were left alone while the two other parties bat llcd each other Which via one great reason why Sepicii Lewis was able to produce his great cool cam paign liillll also to produce THE WORLD TODAI Chou the urban man who administered China By JOHN IIARBRON Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service lhcie will be many culogics of the dead lrcniici hou En lal of the Peoples Republic of China The CDC public affairs program As It llzipiCii which generally exercises lcliulng Views has already fallen all over himself uhh major Chou Eulogy During its coverage Mark Gayn the Ioioulo Stars for eign affairs YOllLlllllll and China specialist came out llll the incredible IClllalk llial among all the worlds loaders Iic has met none had any char sma except Chinas Chairman Mao lselung and the late Pro YOUR BUSINESS llllil liou icll lll lrilc Pope John XXII and no luic Argentine strong mm Iumi lomno Icion in his licydzzy had charisma So do the living Fidel Castro and liicziimrcolutionaiy liziu Il Iiih Hus li Iayn met any or all of tlioc unn dont know Much publicity is given to the longevity in poucr of lluo and hou But Spains recently dead Franco who had absolutely no charisma hcld power about decade longer than either of the two Chinese leadcus Wt he is ignored in the long ciily pecking order put down merely as fascist and butcher uliosc civil war cost We lives of aboul one million bpunmids 1976 car sales outlook brighter By VINCENT EGAN Business and Consumer Affairs Analyst Thomson New Servlce Caronakers are busily nego tiating some tight turns in North American and world markets after getllng the 1976 model year off to tirescreech ing start Canadians still favor fullsized and intermediate cars while small cars accoruil for re duccd share of our niurkcl In the United Sllllts in con trast small cars hzivc born making big sales gains And in Europe car sales aic booming again despite recession and high gasoline prices West Germanys Volkswagcn based in Wolfsbnr hour If border with East Jenmany is in the embarraSsmg position of having to rebuild ls production force not long after ll had granted generous incentives to encourage 25000 workers In re tire The companybuilt its reputa tion on the famous Beetle but in recent years has diversified its product line tly to broaden its coinponive posi tion vomwam is still con umplaung the establishment of one or two assembly plants in tho miilhcastein United States which would help offset the dis nlvanlugc of overvalued lcutschcmirk decision had been expelled two months ugri Production facilities in the United States would permit Volkswagen in fight back more effectively against ho Japanese automakers who lust year ended the German companys 20year reign at the top of of the US Import markel MARKET SHARE Altogether lorcigivmade curs accounted for record 18 per cent of the US market in 1975 ln Canudo Emporls share of be market dropped marginaUy to 162 per cent from 156 per cent In I970 But the most unexpected news of the US auto industry in 1973 was the lateyear im provement in sales By midDecember Americans were buying domestic cars at rate 30percent higher than in the comparable 1974 period The revival in car sales ape partntly stemming from enthu siastic consumer acceptance of some new 1976 models wasnt enough to prevent sixporcont drop in sales for the full year 1975 But it palm to mo 19 manlull Lll tho milll but classy can that have some figures lllLll icienl cliallcngcd and well mold have beenl llils wont happen again and the party wcll knous lii ihc ncl election it will be in light from the siuii MORE 0le lltcn there is llic mailer of fighting ground Being lhc olicizil oppoiiou has llllll some new stature for the Nlll Ilul wall llil up up new rpe ground for if It now has lllilllll the indus trial areas and the north In middletown and rural 0n tario it hasnt registered Will this mow open up There are no obvious ieaons why it should And hisoiic ones why If shouldnt Maos Cominuiusi Chinese stale was proclaimed Oct 1949 Francos fasch nuc Oct I936 In the Soviet Union the October Revolution remains equally memorable in the au nals of the start of great social revolutions and their con commillanl civil wars Why the fascination for Octobcr Io repeat the lllllllll Ulll mcnls of Chlnuwutclicr Mark Gayn Chou was one of the truly dynamic leaders of the 20th century He was the supreme administrator behind the mas sive achievements of the Chi he Communist revolution where Chairman Mao has re inalued its ideologisl and at times its political hammer Whore Mao was and remains caught the fancy of growing number of llS customers THINKING BIG The Canadian the year on buoyant note One reason is that Canadian consumers lizivlul taken to small cars with the some on lliusiasm as mcriounltund there are relatively few cyc calching innovations among big cars in the I976 model year Another is Elie lPllllptlsllloll of the scvenpcrcezit retail sales tax in Onlario the coun trys biggest market The province iad removed lhe sales tax on new cars for most of 1975 as stimulus to the iiidusiri offsetting this to some exlcnl prices of used cars have shown aboveaverage strength in many parts of Canada Ihal encour ages pnlentinl iieiivcar buyers to trade This year vill bring contract negotiations hetwcn Canadian caiinakeis and the unions rep rosooting hourly employees If those negotiations no badly and lead to significant work stoppages the domestic market could be disrupted Sales of North American cars in Canada last year totalled 820841 units up 57 per cent from 7831583 in 1971 slzirts less market somewhat Finally there is the matter of candidates The NDP got the numbers But to date at least there seems some doubt about the quality Dr Charles Godlrcy should be an outstanding mciiibcr But so far he has figured little Marian Bryden has fine background But to date she hasnt seated in Gill Sandeman ol lelerboiough has shown up well and liouldut have any trouble being returned But as for the othersell it wouldni be surprise to see the NDP drop at least half dozen seats in the next election This as with all predictions of course is aside from the fact some wt of the gods or some prriiciilarly dumb pollllcians may turn llllllg topsy turvy the peasant with peasant con sciousness and cunning Chou born into comfortable Chinese middle class milieu was the ur ban man Like Ho Chi Muili the dead leader and founder of North Vietnam Chou Was trained in that finelytuned French school of Communist philosophy in the 19205 Chou shared the memorable and oftreported hard life of the Communist Eighth Route Army routed time and time again by both the Japanese and Nation allsl Chinese armies of the late 19305 but never totally defeated by them lions key role in the Pain theon of future Marxist China was assured In effect his toughness and administrative expertise were needed in the earliest years of the new China to reorganize the worlds larg est and most populous dictator ship lroni the chaos of civil war and of Chivng Kaislicks im mensely corrupt era we in the West who have met him like reporter Guyn rc mombcr him as charmer who set the style for Chinas emer gence in the world as great powcr llis foreign policy in itiatives permiltcd such events as the Shanghai agreement al lowing for an opening between China and the United States in 1972 and the earlier formula of the Canadian solution lbi West ern recognition of Peking in Co wber 1970 In one of those quirks in the journalistic profession tbls col umnist who never expected to visit China ale fill walked close to and chatted with Chou Enlai for continuous period of four days during Prime Min ister Trudeaus official visit to China in October 1973 that fa vorie month again DIDNT ASK CllOU Like the other Western journalists hesitated to ask Clnu what building the new china coat in human terms Some have speculated it was about livemillion Chinese dead through executions famine and war Than far in excess of the amber Franco despatcihed to create his new Spain closer to Hitlers gonoide of sixmillion Jaws Book to bOdY counts mm on than maim 130 W030 03 Tough times for Kiwis By GRAHAM CP Correspondent AUCKLAND NZ ICP After the election comes the reckoning And New Zealand finding the reckoning pretiy stiff Everyone knew that the end of 1975 would be tough time whatever the government The reality has been tougher than many foresaw New Zealand hech general election at the end of November and the Labor government had EOdell been postponing price rues until the end of its flucow year term It had pledged on taking office in I972 lo lwill pride railway and electric charges steadymaybe rash promise in face of subsequent ifltion but it honored the im fll3flll IIowcvcn government dens llltllls stlpplllg liliesc service had encounlcred grouinc rlc which had to be made up from taxation so there was Median that Labor would have to raise many charges imme diately after the election IABUR OUSTED Came the elcciion and Labor was ousted in landslide which lClOll the part positions actly In the illscat House of Representatives Labor pre viously held 55 seas and Na lional 32 National won 55 seats vhile Labor has dropped to Main focus of the campaign was on the personalities of lhe party leadersLabor Prime Minister Wallace if 81 Rowling 18 personable reasonable but no spellbinder and National leader Robert Muldoon 34 thrusting aggres sivc abrasive The major issue however re mained the state of the econ omy public opinion poll shortly before the election showed that nearly 50 per cent of people thought the recession or inflation bc main worries Aimed with mandate to ap ply strong remedies the new National government is doing just that Muldoon who has de cided to be his own minister of finance in the brief period since the election has Mitziised gasoline prices from 51 gallon to $133 Iiicreased passenger fares by up to 64 per cent Palcd bull electricity charges by 60 per cent oubled postage on inland letters In eight cents and raised other posing Increascd telephone dnrgol charges lemoiurily halted cavpitvalv rail intciisiie immigration from Britain PRICES MAY SOAR Forecasts are that subsidies on milk and bread will be re duced or abolished sending prices of these necessities sea nig Political and industrial labor declares the increases to be far more severe than warranted or than had been planned by lhe previous governman But Muldoon relorts that the economic reality he has found since taking office is for more serious than Labor had dis closed While Labor politicians gain me the role of doomcastcr before the election he said there was nothing said in the last three years which would match the reality we liaie found An impression is that hei tlonal is applying savage reme dies immediately wllile if can blame Labor for the bllllfdllnllL with the hope thatt he measures will stabilize the economy and enable the severity of ilie moves to be relaxed during the National term of office DEFICIT SERIOUS serious cxeiiial deficit re mains to be tackled and there are expectations that some dc lion will soon be taken to curb imports Critics of the new government predict its sweeping measures will cause massive unemploy ment lotal unemployment for the whole country still stands at only 5668less than one per cent of the work force and one of the lowest in any country Muldoun says his measures are aimed at preventing unemploy ment on lasting basis instead of simply postponing the Cil day as Labor sought to do The unions already are call ing for subshantial wage in creases to counter the new price rises There are in dications that confrontation between the unions and the gov ernment will eventually lead to showdown But Muldoon relishes ligb and many people believe that factor in his election victor was the belief that he voud deal firmly with militant ummlS and show that they were not iunning the country At least the government can not be accused of dawdling or failing to act decisively is setting something of lUCulkl for dramatic starts TRAVEL RAPIDLY Mercury moves with great speed on its journey around the sun diatom short 80 miles second yd O9 pron 72 am 54