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Ellis Tiaras Examiner Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited 16 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario Robb PublisherGeneral Manager Walls Editor Emeritus Henshaw Managing Editor 4The Barrie Examiner Friday March I9 I976 Oro Barrie councils should hold the line We ho the city fathers will be able to old Barries municipal tax increase to the modest nine per cent Oro councillors are contemplating City finance chief Ald Alex Arthur said this week he is hope will be able to hold the line at around eight per cent If Oro council is able to do it the city should One would think the alarming increase ful Barrie in school taxes will be more than enough incentive for councils to do some belt tightening Ald Arthur said finance committee is consider ing committee of the whole meeting to discuss recreation and public works budgets If such merce has already government it should cut out some frills in the fields of culture and recreation And it plans to form spending watchdog committee It may as well start at home meeting would accomplish kee ing tax 1ncreasesmodest it shoul held We hope to rise above their personal re Judrces to come in with bu get that will serve all residents City taxpayers should expe some services of the public works department and recreation The Greater Barrie Chamber of Com be aldermen will be able ct limits on told the federal DOWN MEMORY LANE 50 YEARS AGO Barrie Examiner March 19 1926 Two Barrie men Bill Dignam and Hanmer left for Hudson Nor thwestern Ontario to mush of into new mining camp at Red Lake Frank Livingston acquired title to old Queens Hotel property destroyed by fire in 1915 having paid tax arrears He plans modern garage and car agency Reo on site Queens University formed alumni club in Barrie headed by Rev Dr Shortt of St Andrews Church Barrie Creamery output 350000 pounds butter in last year operated by Tordiff Bros for decadeBaracas young mens Bi ble class of Collier St United Chur ch won Sunday School hockey Goal Garretts Reginald had starred bark CANADAS STORY His own men did him in By BOB BOWMAN The great explorer LaSalle was murdered Mar19 1687 by some of his own men He had been attempting to found col ony in Texas but was not suc cessful and was trying to lead his men to his trading post in II linois LaSalles real name was ReneRobert Cavelier but he was the Sieur de LaSalle He came to Montreal from France in 1667 because his brother was Sulpician priest there LaSalle was given siegneury but his great ambition was to find the short route to China He talked about this so much that friends jokingly called the seigneury La Chine mean ing China and that is the name of the district today LaSalle sold Lachine to raise enough money to explore but was given another seigneury at presentday Kingston Ont when he helped to build Fort Frontenac In 1676 he built furtrading post on the Niagara River and Ellie Barrie Examiner 16 Bayfieid Street Barrie Ontario Telephone 7266537 Registration Number 0484 Second Class Mail Return 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authenticated by phone cannot be published For the sake of space blic interest and good taste Examiner reserves the rigrt to edit con Num dense or reject letter built the first ship to sail west of Niagara Falls Gradually his explorations took him to Michigan 111 and down the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico He claimed Louisiana for France in 1682 LaSalle was quiet deter Portuguese consul leaves ST JOHNS Nfld CP Jaime Ferreira Portuguese consul here for the last 10 years has left to take up new position in Spain No replacement has been named for Mr Ferreira whose job was to look after Portu guese fishermen when their vessels came here for shelter andsupplies During the last five years there has been significant dowhturn in the number of Por géguese fishing vessels docking re Modern technology has trans formed the Portuguese fishery and the once famous white fleet threeand fourmasted schooners have all disap peared from the Grand Banks and other fishing grounds This old seaport was home away from home to the Portu guese schooners for hundreds of years and their white hulls sharp prows yellow pointed masts and latticework of sail and rigging was familiar sight to generations of New foundlanders As late as few years ago as many as 30 schooners with 3000 fishermen and as many dories small oneman boats that fished from the mother ship called here for food and safety from Atlantic storms championship of Barrie beating St Marys in threegame finals handi ly Team was managed by Horace Heath class leader and coached by John Francis Dobson Players all devout churchmen boys were Harold Hart Chester Carson Kenneth McKen zie forwards Billy McKnight Kenneth Walls Peter Sinclair Arnold Meredith At Dick defence Tribble Ernie Capitol movie theatre silent except for pipe organist Godden RinTinTin in Below the Line Organist had trouble simulating in musical score Laura LaPlante in Smouldering Fires tale of passion coming next week mined man but had an unhap py knack of making enemies He was constantly in trouble with the authorities at Quebe cand his heroic companion Henri de Tonty saved him from hostile Indians on number of occasions Tonty was probably as great an explorer as LaSalle He was known as the man with the iron hand because he had real iron hand to re lace one that had been sever from his arm while fighting for France inSicily OTHER MARI9 EVENTS lossPierre Radisson nhelped Jesuits to escape from Iroquois 1825Hudsons Bay Com pany established Fort Van couver on Columbia River ISMBritish Columbia legislative council voted in favor of joining Canada lassLouis Riel proclaimed provisional government at Batoche 1922Arctic explorer Stefansson took possession of Wrangel Island for Britain BIBLE THOUGHT And behold there appeared unto them Moses and Elisa talking with him Then an swered Peter and said unto Jesus Lord it Is good for us to be here if thou wilt let us make here three tahemacles one for thee and one for Moses and one for Elias Matthew 1734 Just as they recognized those who had been in Heaven hun dreds of years so shall we know each other there Remember Heaven is described as home Yes we shall know each other there and so shall we ever be with the Lord To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord THE PICK OF PUNCH 1976 L0 Mink TIMI Face facts manyoure an underprivileged black radical leftwing unemployed person of no fixed address with an Irish accentmi course youre guilty BRINGING HOME THE CONSTITUTION wonder John Turner was successful politician By STEWART MacLEOD Ottawa Bureau Thomson News Service You have to hand it to John Turner The flashy former finance minister has finally broken his silence seven mon ths after leaving the federal cabinet and in masterful display of tightro walking he managed to isassociate himself from present economic policies without once directly criticizing the Trudeau govem ment Its no wonder he was such successful politician Mr Turners speech to the Ontario Economic Council also govided clear indication that is not through with politics YOUR BUSINESS That 76 holiday Will cost more By VINCENT EGAN Business and Consumer Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service This isnt exactly manbites dog news but here goes Your 1976 vacation will almost cer tainly cost more than it would have last year Theres one small saving to be made if you will need new pass rt this year and if you actt is month The price of passport is go ing to $12 from 10 April That 20percent additional increase comes from those same wonderful folks in the federal government who socked you with 300percent increase few years ago by doubling the price from $5 and halving the validity of Canadian passports to five years from 10 The new $12 price was to have been introduced March but administrative problems forc ed the government to give travellers an extra month in which to buy passports at the $10 price plication forms are available from post offices and travel agencies In filling out the application pay special attention to the categories of people who may or may not sign as guarantors And be sure that your pass rt otograph is proper en ors 33 by the photographer and by yourself AIRFARE IN CREASE Also going up in April are airline fares both domestic and international After April most domestic airfares will rise by 82 to 10 per cent if the Canadian Transport Commission approves the airlines requestwhich it is virtually certain to do The increase will be even ater119 centon the vii travel ed airlanes bet ween Ioronto ananontreal An increase of nine per cent in fares for international Had he given up all political ambitions he would not have handpicked every word to avoid offending any Liberals And he probably would have been far more revealing about why he suddenly quit the cabinet last September In breaking his silence the handsome 46yearold lawyer did it with the delicacy of master chef cracking an egg There was to be no unnecessary spillage PRIVATE STATEMENT And Mr Tumer also took care to introduce his remarks as private statement on the economy coming from prac ticing lawyer It was up to charter flights has already been approved by the CTC But the price escalation wont stop there Ian Gray recently appointed president of Vancouverbased CP Air told Toronto press conference recently that Canadian airlines would definitely have to app ly for yet another fare increase within year The major reason is that the oil companies are expected to raise the price of kerosene jet fuel by about four cents gallon this summer Current price is 45 cents up from 13 cents about two years ago Mr Gray complained that although the airlines must start paying such increases as soon as the oil industry imposes them they can onl begin to recover the add expense through higher fares after months of bureaucratic delay The recent rise in the Cana dian dollar to nearly $102 US and the decline of some European currencies against the United States dollar may sound like ood news for tourists head overseas But even when the stronger dollar is measured against decidedly weaker pound sterl ing French franc or Italian lira the difference is still offset byinflation Here are few examples Admission to one of Bri tains top tourist attractions the Tower of London costs three times as much as it did two ears ago ain fares on one London commuter line are 40percent higher than at this time in 1974 and are soon to rise by another 17 per cent In Paris the price of good seat at the Folios Bergere has risen 23 per cent to 80 francs from 65 francs year ago In Rome the price of soline has umped 10 per cent sust since anuary to about 166 members of his audience to decide whether there were political overtones And of course there were such overtones although no one can accuse Mr Turner of directly tackling the prime minister Look at what Mr Trudeau said in his Dec 23 television in terview on the new society some economists say all youve got to do is get back to the free market system and make this market system work It wont you know He also said that the imposition of price and wage controls was telling Canadians we havent been able to make it work the free market system Now look at one of Mr Turners private statements No one has con vinced me there is an alter native system that would work better while preserving the economic and political freedom we now enjoy And loo at what Mr Trudeau said about the need for more government involve ment the government is going to take larger role in mnning institutions as were doing now with our anti inflation controls but as well be presumably doing even after the controls are ended because repeat we dont want to go back to the same kind of society with high unemployment and high inflation Compare this with Mr Turner remark When in doubt let the private sector do it N0 ATTACK The former minister didnt come out with an attack on the govemments price and wage controls But he did say they WASHINGTON LENS Every spring along with daf fodils cherry blossom and the submission of the American defense budget there comes from Washington news of an unexpected Soviet military challenge Usually it is new missile or submarines off the American coast But this year there are two differences the subect is the Soviet defense bu get and it looks more afierious than the normal spring as The CIA is in the process of radically revising its estimates of Soviet military spending The result will probably show that the Soviet nion is ding almost twice as muc as was previously thought amounting perhaps to 15 per cent of its gross national pro duct James Schlesinger the former defense secretary told Congress in October that Russia could be outspending the United States on weapons by up to 50 per cent and widen ing the gap But the official American estimates are the Ll wvii would have more chance of suc cess if preceded by an acrosstheboard freeze And that represents fairly fundamental disagreement with Mr Trudeau Mr Turner also said some in teresting things about govern ment social olicies sug gesting that suc programs as unemployment insurance wage indexing and various universal schemes are preven ting the government from tak ing the pressure off inflation The economy has been run with no downside pressures hesaid careful examination of his speech shows that Mr Turner is clearly disassociating himself from current govern ment economic policies and as mentioned earlier it was classic performance by politi cian who might be preaching for recall You can bet that Mr Turners baby blue eyes blazed at every word in his speech several times before he deliveredit But having paid tribute to his political astuteness would ac tually prefer to hear Mr Turner speak as former finance minister Now that he has proven his ability at tightrope artistryand few can match his performanceI would be far more interested in his actual words if knew ex actly why he left the Trudeau cabinet Some of the policies he indirectly criticizes were in place long before his resigna tion But since he has carefully broken his silence perhaps he now will be more revealing in subsequent speeches LETTERS 10 EDITOR Gun controls waste of money Many people who comment on gun controls do so without first analyzing the roblem and by doing so will fai to arrive at solution which will actually solve the problem rather than just to camouflage it in lot of additional red tape The intentional misuse of firearms is what we are all con cemed about and this misuse is perpetrated by two kinds of people the professional criminal to whom firearm is tool of the trade and the emo tionally unstable who use firearm for reasons which only make sense to them Criminals do not apply for permits to own or carry guns anyway and any further toughening of gun controls will obviously go unabided by them Anything short of the death penalty for owning an unregisterfifun will fail to im press any already facing long prison term caught after committing crime Black market guns are available in Ireland and will be available in this country also to those willing to pay the price Crude but deadly effective guns can be manufactured very cheaply by almost anybody and certainly by criminals who de pend on them Therefore tougher controls registration or unavailability of firearms would not ham criminal element at all Now let us see how the many varieties of mentally unbalanc ed people would react if they were frustrated in their plans to shoot somebody In the Far East these people seem to run amok with dag ger orkitchen knife and suc ceed in killing or injuring score of people before being ap prehended What would stop our variety from cleaning few dozen peo ple off crowded sidewalk with powerful nightclub by fire started by two disgruntled THE WORLD TODAY The Communists favor coalitions By JOHN HARBRON Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service The evolution of strong Com munist party elements in Western Europes non Communist nations has been overlooked by much of the press more interested in repor ting about the Common Market Only in Portugal where con fusing struggle between the Communists and various par ties of the nonCommunist left has continued since April 1974 do we read of communism emerging in NATO state Recent developments in the very large and influential Com munist parties of both Italy and France suggest both now are prepared to continue in ge nuine coalition with socialists and even other parties to bring down the status quo The French Communist party has maintained such an alliance for many years one of the reasons having been to br ing down the ruling Gaullists This has not been true in Italy where succession of weak but persistent Christian Democratic regimes have clung to power since 1946 time after time with socialist sup port Even the Spanish Com munists operating from their 37yearlong exile in France talk of coalition with the non Communist left They have been practising it as well through curious allegiance of themselves with some dissident Spanish monarchists and rightists as well as with socialists NEW COMMUNISM The possible evolution of several nationalist Com munist parties in major Euro pean countries clearly disturbs the Soviet Union Hints of this worry came from the 25th con gress of the Soviet Communist Soviet defence budget rocketing responsibility of the CIA and its analyses are so esoteric that the differences of view did not come sharply into focus until last month Americas traditional prac tice is to calculate Russian defense spending in two dif ferent ways ruble estimate to measure the burden on the Soviet economy and dollar estimate that tries to compare the Soviet ef fort with the American one There are two main methods of working out the ruble figure One is to ick out certain items from the oviet budget that are believed to involve covert ding on defense and add em to the admitted defense budget The other is to analyse Soviet industrial production in order to estimate the value of the military equipment To get dollar equivalent from either result the usual method is to think up plausible exchange rates for various categories of military spending and convert the ruble figures into dollars at these rates The CIA is now rethinking all its assumptions For exam le ever since the early 19605 it as been assumed that the Soviet economy was markedly more efficient in the military field than in civilian production This may no longer be true it may never have been true Rus sian defense manpower which includes many civilians doing support work is now thought to be much bigger than was once believed And there are number of unresolved issues about dollar conversion In par ticular personnel costs things like looking after soldiers dependants housing and pensions are not thought to be sufficiently Americania ed to make the present con version rates valid The size and quality of the Soviet forces actually arrayed against the United States and Nato are known pretty ac curately So does it matter how much they cost the Russians It does The pur of in telligence is to in icate what your opponents are able and ikely to do Malcolm Currie per the customers were happy that they were not shot instead Imposing any variety of con trols on law abiding citizens is just way conscience soothing on the part of law makers who realize their inability to cope with the criminal element or the mentally unpredictable Registration of all firearms in itself is useless and is obviously just the first step to future con fiscation made easy Again only the law abiding citizens those who would not use their firearms illegally anyway would comply with such an order Criminals who own their guns illegally are not going register their weapons and accommodate the police We have all accepted the fact that thousands of pie will each year be killed criminal or just irresponsible car drivers but nobody justly so is sug gesting that millions of good drivers should give up their right to own car Tougher laws against criminals Yes by all means Better protection against peo ple with known mental pro blems Yes by all means But uit wasting time and money penalizing the inno cent just because it is easier RALPH WEST WE WANT YOUR OPINION Letters submitted for publication must be original copies signed by the writer Please include your street ad dress and phone number although they will not be published Letters which can not be authenticated by phone cannot be published For the sake of space public interest and good taste The Examiner reserves the right to edit con dense or reject letter party in Moscow where French and Italian delegates spoke up on behalf of their party and not necessarily on behalf of the party as an international one It is the present and future courses of Communists in fiance Italy Portugal and possibly Spain if the Juan Carlos monarchy will ever let them function there which will determine the partys role in Europe of the 19805 In Britain communism re mains miniscule force as it always has though British business organizations like the Federation of British Industries can point up to the number of them in key trade union management posts The Benelux countries Holland and Belgium have small local Communist parties though there are signs of strong Communist party com ing in Holland if Queen Julianas oldest daughter ever takes the throne Princess Beatrix and her German husband Prince Claus are open and known friends of Russian diplomats in Holland and in Europe In communism as elsewhere one can say there is nothing new under the sun and that the Popular Fronts of the 1930s re mind us of the cold comfort from Communists in alliance But these are not the years of the popular fronts of the 19305 because their formation was encouraged by Moscow to bring European Communists into subversion role with the non Communist left WILL COALITION WORK It is possible given the ongo ing strength of bourgeois par ties and causes in Europe and faced with the industrial power of Common Market structures that European Communists have decided at last that coali tions must be permanent goal the Defense Departments research director told congress last month that he believed Russia could achieve dominance in deployed military technology in the 19805 if cur rent trends continued The Nato allies need to know if current trends will in fact continue and it makes all the difference to know how much the Russians are now spending ondefense To be sure generals never think they have enough On February 25 the North Viet namese army surely one of the most heavily eguipped ar mies in the war with all those wea ns it has taken from the th Vietnamese said it needs still more arms for protectin the countr The Russian efense bu get no doubt reflects this universal tendency But it may also show that Soviet generals have more political clout than their Western opposite numbers If theyve got 15 per cent of fie countrys GNP they must ve Ap