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Ollie Emir rx amine Published by Canadian Newspaper Company Limited 16 Bayfiald Strut Barrie Ontario Robb PublisherGeneral Manager Walls Editor Emeritus SATURDAY MARCH 1978 View Hanshaw Managing Editor PAGE Nine months to decide who will be our mayor Why is the city of Barrie like wo man Because it takes woman nine months to have baby and the city nine months to get mayor Ald Jim Perri announced Thursday March he would be candidate for mayor in the Dec municipal election That is campaign of nine months and two days While We would not be so rash as to predict citywide outbreak of morning sickness between now and Dec this latest antic of our municipal politicians has us wondering We realize there is great deal of news these clays from across the border about the antics of those who would be the next president of the great republic And we can forgive municipal politi ians who feel that what is good for the presidency is good for them But ninemonth campaign for mayor It strikes us as unique new form of civic irresponsibility Ald Perri and any other aldermen who wish to jump on the mayoralty band wagon forget they were elected for twoyear terms An alderman is elected to represent the people of his ward 35 YEARS AGO IN TOWN March Formerly of Barrie and MP for Shncoe North Leighton McCarthy KC now of Toronto named Ambassador for Cana Barrie Examiner rla to United States Banting 49 codiscoverer of insulin and worldfamous medical scientist killed in aLr crash at Newfoundland He was born Huronia Historic Sites Assn elected Victor Edwards of Midland president and Norman Clarke of Bar Public Library Board reelected William Bell princi pal Prince of Wales School chairman flora McGregor presided at annual meeting Queens Hotel of Womens Canadian Club Young Married Womens Group at Alliston rie vicepresident dinner midWinter denly An alderman who little more than halfway through his term of office sud decides he would rather be mayor is dropping that responsibility to repre sent all the people An alderman who decides 14 months into his 24month term that he would ra ther be mayor lays himself open for the judgment that everything he has done is doing and will do is to better his chanc es at the polls in December How effective will that alderman be in the nine months he is campaigning for mayor Will his decisions be based on what is best fer the city or what is best for his mayoraltv campaign year If Ald Perris example is followed by other aldermen then civic government in this city has an effective life of just over After that city council meetings and committee meetings become gatherings of political opponents rather than ses sions aimed at governing the city Ald Perri has set bad precedent which bodes ill for this city woman needs nine months to have baby City does not need nine months to decide who should be mayor To suggest that it does shows seri ous misunderstanding of what civic gov ermnent is all about DOWN MEMORY LANE formed by WA of Collier St Lnited l94l with Orillia defenceman held at INTERPRETING THE NEWS Church Officers chosen Mrs Angus Mc Nabb Mrs Ralph Will Mrs Warren iil gar Mrs Arthur McKenzie Mrs Brucc Johnston Mrs Charles Newton Mrs Al lan Bell Recruiting for Active Force Sir Frederick tradesmen began at Barrie Armoury age up to 45 if qualified Town Council asked by Ministerial Association to in vestigate conditions at Market Square Dance Hall now City llalb claiming toxicants sold and rowdyism often pre vailed also solicitation engaged in torrid junior hockey playoffs Barrie Colts Urillcrs lost star goalie Chuck Spearn with appendicitis and big llarold died Jennctt from Thornton with dislocated shoulder General RicChaig placed ban on hitch hiking within amp Borden Cod war catches headlines but home dispute LORDON CPl While the Aigloslcclandic col war catches the headlines potentially more important liduug LlCalMllL bulihling between Britain and fellow members of the 151 rrc 1n Economic Commimity EEC In the cod war Iceland gunv boats are trying to keep British Haulersguarded by Blllll new icselltrm 11qu within the ZOOmile economic zone Iceland declared last year In the EEC talks Britain is trying to protect its own fishing mterests within yettobede cared ztiJmile zone off the himin coa The EEC in planning zones establish the zone once inter national agreement on 200mile hauls ls reatied at the Law of the Sea conference which re 353 the Barrie Examiner 16 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario Telephone 7266537 Registration Number 0484 Second Class Mail Return postage guaranteed Daily Sundays and Statutory Holidays excepted Subscription rates daily by Carrier 85 cents weekly $4420 yearly Single copies 15 cents By Mail Barrie $4420 yearly Simcoe County $3400 yearly Balance of Canada $3600 car ty All other countries $4500 yearly Motor throw off $3600 yearly lational Advertising Otltcca Queen St West Toronto 864 1710 640 Cathcart St Mont real Member of the Canadian Press and Audit Bureau of Circula lions The Canadian Press is exclu sively entitled to the use for re publication of all news dispatch es in this paper credited to it or The Associated Press or Reu ter and also the local news pub lIShcd therein The Barrie Examiner clams aimright in all original adver tising and editorial material cre ated by its employees and repro duced in this newspaper Copyright Registration Num ber 203815 register 61 an ArmLizzezmemm sames in New York later this month Some of the nine EEC coun lri zLTLVICLZthlty hat the Community zone should be free to tlccts from ll mem bers WANT LIONS SHARE Bi Brtam llull walcr would clamf 61 nor cent of the Communitys newly enlarged fishing area and Brit ish trawlermen want the lions share l0r themsolve Under negotiation now an EEC proocsvl curl ll states such as Britain exclusive ll ii nixinn lllurg riglL within llllL This proposal also calls tor catch quotas for Veach llle member bated on their l1llll cal hauls it is Foreign Secretary James Callaghan told fellow ministers in Brussels this week that the 12mile limit is not enough for tritalu and he w3 supported by the Irish gavcrn ment Britain might be able to plead special case It has the EECF largest tonnage of tishutg vcs sols lands the Irrgest catch for human consumption and would Wideninyinflm121 bubbles prov 1h lurgcsl Cctor of 1h iIlIt iOIlt lie problem is that the lilit llsiiiu llcy olllllcl ur lulc llrltcm ulld lcumtuknc two major tishmg slatescu tcrcd the Community wun Irr larl llrl 1973 In 1973 members landch LIIUJJUII lsl 911 up British sector against 477000 lll tillll ll lfll Norway and the Soviet Union trrul lltlICl litltlllt tons Hum ihc Ulllhll sector WE WANT YOUR OPINION Letters submitted for pub lication must be original cop tcs signed by the writer Plea se include your street addrisx and phone number although they will not be published Lct tcrs which cannot be authenti cated by phone cannot be pub lished or the sake of space public interest and good taste The Examiner reserves the right to edit condense or reject letter uajgd PW llT cl he TllEkllll ElitltilFTEIl comm memo ma REMOVE TllY RUBBERS FOR THOU ART ON HOLY GROUND NOTES AND COMMENT The bed story at Royal Vic llv SEAN FINLAY til Editor Danie new lllLlld appeared to hurt bud hzildlcd lhc stall 35 llmtil dvlulla Hospital occl ljlll thc dccclvlli l1li allClllUlll llllJ alter 1313 went to press The Calledin Pcs rccn ed 11 maxim filll had bccn or lCt to cl bolt lllrtc Llllll3 LtllIlljl 241 94 ifulll the oc lanl Mailc tlnlaio llhli lt Etcuill flu lllr otticc valor KI ll wclo lu MN 11 lll he lllll llt 11 11 when rxpltlcr lcic Lernlal Chl llil Um tdlncrou hospdul nd luuum on bcd eililn born all lt hilll iltlJlttl mutualu pp 11 cll Ill 21 lltli ll Ih tl tuned can restuh on thc lud clonal at it hll the number of bcls was lie and Mill ll no twin lill 111 Ii no air to lw cu ll Illll tl alv cnl slut ouln In Yllt ttl wl wvclu 011 uw lmpltul llull was not lludil in the lw of lllitl flitlflCl to rid sll Saturday lljtl clsuh of The lluluuoz zucchn ln 2A blu c311 pfiolvd la lllll ltuc wc lllll 12o lullx wtnc bcm cut 11 llVll 01 toursc he said Ou know filllllll hc stall cu didnt lt witnt possible Saturday mannun lo 91 comment from liepital olticlals about the stalf flll ho lnc lirvamuicr published as ll lCntl story the news that the lmlmnl had been ordered to cut tltll by the ministry of health Monday morning reporter Ri iiiard Dunstan called Mr Cam cron and admd for some de lallS of staff cuts llic1c rcllt gun to be slatl till said Mr Cameron lhc nospunl 131 the money nlltl b0 11 Iron the budget without cutting stuff The Ministry ol health agreeJ Willi Mr Cameron and his bold So lozduy The Examiner and there would not be staff cuts at the hopital but there would be budget cut newspaper is only as good the information it receives In thr case the information wit all that good and some readers mut have felt just htlc confused about What the ministry of health was doing to lloal Victoria Hospital Had an interesting Friday at ternoon lint wcek talking with gttlfil Slmcoe County teachers about education and the news llltdlll thmk got more from the scum than thcc did Teachers are worried about FROM PARLIAMENT HILL Capital punishment vote implications Ba SIlillAlil AlacLEOII Ottawa Bureau lhomsun Nervs Service The tittllcomlh1 trcc voic on capital punishment has tar rcalcr lllllt£tl implications than their deckicn on hang Inc In lncl it the UllllTIOlls otes clam 12 lult hmcnl prcscnt government could it Huh Ilccnurl Itpllfillgt iflllllllt ln ltu tlttcldtd more no mllx rlliipllnu on the bill and llls will bc tree to vote individuals This was also donc five years ago when the Commons by fairly close margin thlltlcll to abolish capi tal punislnncul except for the killers ol pohccmcn and prison grunts Now that tlu trial pcriod has mr Ltl Ih government has brought in legislation ll abolish lupltcl ptmiliiiicrlt cntirelv and replace ll with mandatory min lnmm lic l111 tlltlldri And surveys of MP5 indicate tllc olc will bl low Opinions are lnuplv dividch both within the onscrictivc and Liberal lzirtics as MP5 wrestle with the question of whether to vote ac cording to their own conscience lllt lll mal i1tll should it IMO lit or as representatives of con stituency icwpoiir lu lmllfirm bill was coupled With new tough prison sentences bccuuc calumcd Solicitor jencral Warren Allmand tth is what we tlnnk we can go throuin Parliament N0 HANGINGS the re hasnt been hanging lll Canada since 1962 And in this period govcnnents have ctmmuth the death sentences nnposcd on six killers of police inch and prison guards lhcle now are 10 such killers on rlcuth row and the govern ment must shill make decision on whether to commute their sentences As Mr Allmand recently said If you see how close we are to hanging 10 people youll see the dilemma were in He is confirmed abolitionist Ind so is Prime Minister Trudeau Should the Commons vote to retain capital punishment the government will be in an impos sible position To carry out the wishes of Parliament some kill crs would have to hang be cause while cabinet would still have the prerogative to com mute death sentences it couldnt continue to do this anomali catty their image about tlzc he community lccls ohwut ltl And education hi mr something apart from Iu lll1l stream of soc10 in men years What mos pcoplc about education and lwun cost Education and to getting to the lu yr 71m the law and lllt For some thin lullc been looked on as society but not pm lhere are indicaholp the lit thing is haulieuu flu Part of that problem the greater lragzncmn ly part of the prob teachers have bccn unuliic ill willing to get the do of 31 they do and how no it ml why they do ll acm l1 pub lic l0l 11101 pcaplc llInn are like llltl to lc world Through newspnpcr pl0 ct their information lllll 11 drill around them had to adml ers that in general ers have concentrated on money aspect of llllliilmi The Examiner promcd the teachers will lrv to act mire news about what is lliilll1Llfllg at schools acrolt to its ltfitltl And for thc tcmhcr 11 that workshop Friday we swam ly mistaken when sad ILIuen tion Reporter Slrclln illmerit had no toaclnu cwcllcncc She does lrw Thi lmcl llvll lllt would At some piint it he come contempt ol Purllamcrl It is generally acknowlcdgcl that the lrudeau govcrluncnt will not permit hanging Mr Allmand has suid be cold never send anyotic to the lows and lr lllt 21 dlcated that his own political lu ture could he allCtLCtl lnll fails to paw One Liberal Party new has indicated that thc bill lll pass by about 12 votes But Lhclc are SUU some undecided IP margin LlllS ClUrc culllll am be tipped by an outbreak of flu And it could easily be changed if pOIlLeman happens in bi killed close to voting day Even MP5 who are slolltly up posed to capital punishment tc knowledge that tJhcrc strumr sentiment in Canll tor of the noose Dan Mclxcnzic the South Utilirc cv uueslionnairc to hi in iv with his question Did tluy fa vor having the dcth pcnnlty itpllclll of premeditatcd murder inur der for personal gum or muilcr resulting from crime ul IO lence such as armed mumy rape ctc ii remarkable 13m con stituents said yes Only nu stud no la BOOK REVIEW CORNER Clair Martin Wvum still gripping By PHYLLIS GROSSKUBTH In An Iron Glove by Claire Martin Harvest House 167 pa ea $250 The Right Cheek by Claire Martin Harvest House 161 pages $250 The Bicycle Tree by Robert Olver McClel land and Stewart 237 pages $895 In 1966 an extraordinary auto biography by Quebecmse au thor Claire Martin wen the GovernoroGenerals award for fiction We all know that even cultural bureaucracies have their own perverse logicality but in this case some human forebearance must be extended to the judges Claire Martins account of her childhood is so bizarre that one can understand that readers could hardly credit that the ev entsI she recounts were actually rea But they were real all too real and she recalls them with graphic vividness and most star tling of all with wry humor Originally the work was pub lished in two volumes Dans un gaut dc ter and La joue droitc Subsequently Ryerson Press published them in single volume uhdcr the title In An Iron Glove Now Harvest House has rever ted to the twovolume format In An Iron Glove and The Right Check in superb translation by Philip Strattord UNIVERSALITY In her forward Claire Marlin observes that when she first wrote her book she was under the impression that the soory she was relating was uniquely lrcncthanadian However lIlCe her book was published she has received let ters from all over the world it hch tax acknowledged the validity of her account of the acprcslon ol the weal by the rung Admittedly cruelly is cdcm iv but surer there is something unqueiy FrenchCanadian in the particuar kind of suffering ex pclicnccd by girl of her gen cration slte is now in her 50st clerically dominated sexual llt0rl minority society 11 Gothic clcmcnls are too close to the novels of Rojean Du cliarmc and MarieClaire Blaise to be simply comndental ller llrst sentence is startling have forgiven cicrythlng l1 crything encompasses an enor mous amount of life in her use the hung hell she endur ccl until 2110 was over 20 The 031 of the pew was the man whom she always reters to as my father Probaby such tnclng toward her parent was urccssary order for her hit terness to be absorbed But the woman will always carry those childhood scars lhc lllltal fzgurc of her lii1ll dominated hcr lile to such lllltllllOllalC degree that he in chart was her childhood IIcr exhuuicd intimidated mo tiicr is barely meniioned the lllllllUlullS sstcrs and brothers are precarious survivors clinging to each other in terrified alliance alumni the menacing and all pwvcrful figure whose main ob Jct in lilc was to concoct cn umou humihatmns and perverse punishments lhe suffetnng child is an arche lal figure which has always cluztcd horror and pity consciOus dis BlBLE THOUGHT Now when Jesus was born in lethlchcmyuf Jndca in the days of llcrod the king bchold there fllllt wise men from the cast to Jerusalem saying Where is he that is born King of the Jews hr we have seen his star in the cast and are come to worship him Matthew 212 isc nici arc still coming to la the Lord give you cues Christ centered Christmas and healthy happy and prosperous ll al in Jesus name Amen jut ililll your local When the Capitol Oliver Twist quaveringly asks for more Maggie lulliver pleads With her brother to be allowed to love him Cinderella scrubs the floor while the wicked step srsters flounce off to the ball The orphan Anne of Green Ga bles asks please may stay In many cases suffering inflic tedupon child is closely as socrated with poverty To be little and to be poor is the ultimate de basement Claire Martin however came from reasonably affluent fam ily yet large part of her fathers bullying took the form of enforcing his children to live as though they were close to starvation lake some ogre in grotesque fairy tale he would wolf down succulent morseis while the chil dren gratefully choked on the leftovers The only relief from the hell of home was the purgatory of the convent The nuns are depicted as tyr annical neurotic twisted to the point that some of them go in sane Fear of the demon sex lpervades almost eicry aspect of do At one point the fa screams Me Im the one you owe your life to and you you are the one who owes her lite to me FITS 0F FURY At thzspslnt Claire Martin is moved to make some rare obser vations for generally She simpl recounts one outrage after an other To owe someone somelhln when its impossible to be grate ful is rather painfui but when its your own lite you owe its really rotten When had learned enough to understand exactly what owed my life to how had come to be me human being with my own existence to lead and my own death to die at the other end when saw that all the horror that had been imposed on me came as the consequence of moment or pleasure taken from poor sick frightened no man reduced to the state of an object used and kicked aside afterwards when understood that was nothing more than the result of an act committed with out lovc borne with horror and religion on one side and per formed with hatred on the other why treated myself to some fits of cold fury Search as might couldnt make sense out of it Is this forgiveness Claire Mar tins book would not be so pow erful if the humiliations did not rankle still if the ultimate de fiance were not such triumph Obviously her father was psy chotic but she makes no attempt to explain or understand his con dtzon He simply was there demonic force in the world anr now thank God he is gone Actually there were times when laughed out loud at some of her descriptons of his droll an tzcs And perhaps laughter as one of the more therapeutic forms of forgiveness Claire Martin is remarkable woman and her book wll un doubtedy become Canadian classic Robert Ohcrs The Bicycle Tree is novel to be experienc ed rather than described To say that it is about an Ontario farming community and that it concerns marriage death rape vengeance and crops is form of distorted accuracy To say that the characters are brushed in sparingly but with remarkable depth is reaching closer to the truth To asert that Olvcr has mar vellous feeling for the pain and joy and the mixture of both which human beings extend to each other is to suggest that this is remarkable first novel and that Olvcr is talent to watch Phyllis Grosskurth Is pro lessor of English at University Tollegc University of Toronto Thomson News Service shows Disney why everyone stays at home CORNWALL Ont CP vhcn the Capitol lheatlre lnows Love llotcl Masage Parlor or Dr Feelgoods Sex Clinic it can count on substantial iucue at the box oltice When it shows The Best of Disney True Life dvcnture cveryune stays home In Cornwall thats showbiz much to the embarrassment of Mayor Gerald laiislcn and his council The city happens to own ill theatre It purchased the site for $133 um in 1973 with the idea of turn mg ll into municipal arts centre Since funds were no lllltflltlltih llll Irv tfapitol was leased to Market illcnvlu Lil Ctllll lound itself in the movie busi ness It also found itself the target tl protests from the Stornlont Christian Council and the St tlumbuns Catholic Womens ioague over the duality of films rlltlwn in Cornwall particularly at the Capitol The mayor was sympathetic but noted that the films had all been passed by the previncial worship board and that the city cannot overrule provincial legislation The only way of getting rid of those movies is for the city to break the lease with the on erators and that would log it 3240 year in revenue he said Sims director of the board said the best ct stonrim the lmwin exori entcd films is for people to stay rcm the thcalrc But sidewalk interviews in dicated the majority had no in tcntion of staying away Ihey said there was nothing wrong vith sex movies and that each individual should act as his own CCllSU Legal sources said the city with the help of cooperative rown attorney dillld try to en force ban on movies it consid ered objectionable but that it would involve costly legal battle Theatre managers little sympathy The manager of the Port Theatre said where the lied Forn Grows familytype film had been one 01 the poorest draws of 1975 in spite of exten sive television advertising Eric Markcll 0t Markell lheatres said the Capitol lost 51000 on the Disney film and attracted only 800 people to two stage performances of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs showed