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the Barrie Examiner Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited l6 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario Robb PublisherGeneral Manager Walls Editor Emeritus Henshaw Managing Editor 4The Barrie Examiner Wednesday March 24 I976 Friends of Firehall better start working The Friends of the Firehall say they are optimistic they will be able to raise enough money for their pro ject The Friends say they are con srdering number of fundraising projects The Friends say they want to in public about what they want to do with the old fireball The Friends say they are hopeful will have commitments for the $500000 they need by June 30 The Friends say they can get enough local monetary support to form the they match Wintario grant The Friends have been doing lot of applying for grants and lot of talking but there has been little in dication of action on the local level Has anyone heard subscription campaign to raise the bucks Have Hordes of volunteers been money Every banging on doors trying to raise time the Friends are asked about specific fundraising pro jectswe are told There are number of fundraising projects under consideration It takes time to mount suc cessfulfund drive It takes effort The people running the Friends can say they are hardworking and dedicated and believe in the project until they are blue in the face But if they dont organize proper fundraising campaign on the local level they will be red in the face about about it Time is running short The Friends say they need $50000 worth of local support It will not materialize by talking The Friends should take page from the citys sporting groups and get out and hustle for the bucks DOWN MEMORY LANE 30 YEARS AGO IN TOWN Barrie Examiner March 24 1946 Manager Ken Morrison reported Ontario hog market looked very good and so outlook bright for Bar ries farmercooperative packing plant Barrie Flying Club engag ed airport engineer Thomp son from Ottawa Squadron Leader Victor Collins Barrie native and appointed defence counsel in Germany for three Nazis facing trial on charges Canadian airmen Tenders will be called within month for grading new fourlane highway between Toronto and Barrie Inspector Peter Scott pointed out that pupils in Barries four public schools are getting far more than the Rs For instance at Queen Victoria School corner Collier and Owen music is taught in all classrooms now rink operates in winter for skating Mrs Blackstock grad of collegiate of killing gives folk dancing instruction Dorothy classes are being taken to important local places like firehall Barrie Ex aminer Barrie creamery Norris dairy etc Similar extracurricular activity organized by Principal Bill Bell at Prince of Wales At King ward there phasis on school sports like hockey and football plus art taught by Mrs Spearn music by Doris Kearns and Ed is considerable em Loth With capable assistance of Gerald Smith Prin cipal Bell has organized sports music and manual training First home and school club in Barrie was organized at King George last Barrie Collegiate Cadet Corps directed by Alex Cockburn of staff began training for annual inspection in Queens Park William Little is cadet major this year assisted by of ficers Ross Hickling Harold Brett Ernie Alexander Bill LaPlante Ron Stewart COMMONS CAPSULES From the Ottawa Bureau of Thomson News Service OTTAWA Back in the bad old days of minority govern ment all the talk was of bed mates and how long the NDP Liberal marriage would last Now its question of how long the NDP and Tories can share bliss in their marriage of convenience the eager attack on the government arising from the Quebec judges affair The alliance against the scan dalized government was alltoo familiar for External Affairs Minister Allan MacEachen who cautioned Conservative Leader Joe Clark prior to vote of con fidence in the Commons What chill must have gone through the spines of the dele gates who recently attended his national convention when they learned that the leader of the Opposition had called upon the NDP the minister said In the minds of his followers the call upon the honorable mem ber for OshawaWhitby Mr Broadbent must have been greater impropriety than call by any minister to any judge can tell the leader of the Opposition in the way of frien dly advice dont count on the the Barrie Examiner 16 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario Telephone 7266537 Registration Number 0484 Second Class Mail Return tage guaranteed Dai Sundays and Statutory Ho idays excepted Subscription rates daily by carrier 85 cents weekly $4420 yearly Single copies 15 cents By all Barrie $4420 yearly Simcoe County $3400 yearly Balance of Canada $3600 year ly National Advertising Offices 65 Queen St West Toronto $44710 640 Cathcart St Mon treal Member of the Canadian Press and Audit Bureau of Cir culations The Canadian Press is ex clusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches in this paper credited to it or The Associated Press or Renter and also the local news published therein The Barrie Iillxalrininerl clgims Co tina gins ver usliléflghnd editorial material treated by its employees and roduced in tblsnewspaper yright Registration Number 203815 register 61 311 Pierre Trudeau NDP they let you down when you need them most Opposition pressure for public inquiry and information on the issue of cabinet in terference in the judicial process was at its peak when visitor in the public gallery disrupted Commons proceedings by shouting at Prime Minister Trudeau below wonder who that is Mr Trudeau mused suggest the gentleman in the gallery is few weeks late for the Tory con vention The unidentified man was dragged from the gallery by three husky security guards It was an interruption of different sort which drew the ire of Gordon Falrweather PCFundy Royal who was In the process of piling as much scorn as he could on the gov ernment when Liberal heck Ier doctor by profession fi nally caught his attention The throatclearing per formance usually takes place at the intermission Mr Fair weather remarked but if the doctor wants to go to his dispen sary he might go and paint his throat Elmer MacKay PCCentral Nova obviously thought Public Works Minister CM Drury was just clearing his throat when the minister suggested he would make shambles of parliamentary democracy if he stepped down after the prime minister had rejected his resig nation Mr MacKay directed ques tion to the minister who may have brought in new parlia mentary concept namely conditional resignation with an option of nonacceptance The subject was given brief rest when George Hees PC Prince EdwardHastings brought up the prime ministers attack on Quebec Premier Rob ert Bourassa at the Liberal con vention in that province Mr Hees considered unavoi dable Health and Welfare Min ister Marc Lalondes dismissal of the assault as mere joke As the minister described the prime ministers speech in Quebec as combination of ki bitzing and jocular remarks the MP said will he give the House few examples of this good boyish fun which eviden tly had the delegates rolling in the aisles for the best part of 90 minutes because this House is overdue for little humor and few laughs to alleviate the jaundiced picture of ministers trying to influence the judiciary LETTERS TO EDITOR Murder of baby seals must be stopped now Dear Sir The recent controversy over the mindless slaughter of baby Harp seals off the coast of Newfoundland has come to my attention am writing to show my disgust and dissapointmcnt with the ministry of fisheries for not stopping this outrage My support is fully behind the Greenpeace venture The time has come to place our priorities on the preservation of our planet rather than money and politics have made my decision now Romeo LeBlanc must take long hard look at himself and make his Please help put an end to this senseless killing The murder of these baby seals must lie on your conscience WAYNE ROSS RR Barrie INVADED ENGLAND William the Conqueror Duke of Normandy invaded England and established new line of kings in 1066 DA MMITIjust because accepted one resignation This part of Israeli frontier quiet as Palestinians rebels look inward BINT JEBAIL Lebanon AP The turmoil of Lebanons civil war has emp tied this sensitive regioh along the Israeli border of any ef fective Arab military presence Despite Israeli fears of in creased frontier clashes the border has been quiet as Pale stinian and rebel Lebanese ar my troops turn their weapons and manpower to the civil strife around Beirut The Lebanese army has dis integrated leaving no troops under the regular Beirut com mand in these craggy hills where Lebanese artillery used to fire regularly at Israeli raid ing parties Military experts say the Lebanese Arab Army of rebel Moslem troops has maximum of 200 soldiers in the entire bor der area neglecting its vows to strike back strongly at Israeli incursions Fewer than dozen troops were seen during tour of the western borderline and none near the border itself STICK T0 CAMPS Palestinian guerrilla strength is concentrated in the northeastern border mountains the Israelis call Fatahland af ter Yasser Arafats Al Fatah The Palestinians have been sticking to their camps despite earlier predictions they and the rebel forces would step up at tacks on Israel Israeli patrols along thc clcc lrified barbcdwirc border havc doubch to one an hour in the last two wecks rcflccting thc Israeli fears Military sources say troops and cquipmcni are massed on the Israeli side in significantly incrcascd num bers Ihcy shoot at anything that moves on this side said onc professional obscrvcr on the border Any incidcnt used to draw four or five halftracks Now the israclis bring up eight or 10 halftrucks right away as soon as anything happens The only serious incident sin ce the Lebanese army rebellion was brief clash shortly after dawn Friday but no one was killed the source said Several Israeli patrols have penetrated chanon briefly without op position he said Palestinian forces in Lebanon havc bccn strengthened by about 7000 regulars from the Palestine Liberation Army PLA Arafats military wing trained and equipped by Syria Other PLA troops came from Egypt bringing the total strength in Lebanon to about 8500 Soviet KGB defector played key role in assuring Oswald not KGB agent WASHINGTON AP So viet KGB agent who defected to the United States in the months immediately after the 1963 slaying of John Kennedy sought to assure US in vestigators that Lee Harvey Oswald was not KGB agent newly released CIA documents show The Russian Yuri Nosenko was one of two defectors from hostile intelligence agencies who played key rolc in the US investigation into whcthcr Kennedys assassination was the work of foreign con spiracy CIA documents said The other defector Cuban linked to Fidel Castros in telligence service also arrived in the US in the months immc CANADAS STORY French attacks were mistake By BOB BOWMAN One of the mistakes France made in the development of Canada was constant attacks on the English colonies to the south An old Indian chief war ned Governor Denovville If you upset wasps nest you must crush the wasps or they will sting you This adage proved to be trueespecially in the present day connotation of WASPS as white AngloSaxon Protestants In 1745 the New England states decided to hit back They raised force of 3000 men to at tack the Frnch fort at Louis burg Cape Breton It was an audacious plan Canada among the wealthiest WASHINGTON AP Six ty one per cent of the worlds population in 1973 lived in coun tries where percapita income was less than $500 and 30 per cent lived where it was less than $200 the World Bank says By contrast about eight per cent of the population lived in the richest countries where percapita annual income was $5000 and more than 17 per cent lived in countries with incomes from $2000 to $5000 and 14 per cent in countries with incomes from $500 to $2000 says the World Banks 1975 Atlas Canada with per capita in come of $5450 was among the wealthiest countries with popu lations of more than one mil lion The atlas also shows that while income has increased in industrial and oilexporting countries it has remained al most unchanged in the poorest countries The bank cautioned that there is an element of error in its figures because of rapid price changes incomplete and unreliable data in some cases and the need to convert all cur rencies into one the US dollar for purposes of com parison No attempt was made to off set the impact of inflation on in come AMONG RICIIEST The rich in 1973 those with percapita income exceeding $5000 and with pepulations in excess of one million were the United States $6200 Switzer land $6100 Sweden $5910 Canada $5450 West Germany $5320 and Denmark $5210 Some smaller countries also were counted among the rich including three oilexporting nations Kuwait $12050 the United Arab Emirates $11630 and Qatar $6040 Also in the wealthy group was Iceland $5030 The poorest countries on the list all with incomes of $200 or less were Mauritania Togo Kenya Sierra Leone Central African Republic South Viet nam Malagasy Republic Uganda Zaire Sudan Tan zania Indonesia and Haiti Also India Sri Lanka Paki stan Benin Malawi the two Yemens Guinea Niger North Vietnam Lesotho Nepal Eth iopia Afghanistan Somalia Chad Bangladesh Burma Burundi Cambodia Rwanda Upper Volta Mali and the two poorest both with percapita income of $60 Bhutan and Laos Three of the worlds five most populous nations had pcrcapita income of less than $500the largest China $270 India $120 and Indonesia $130 The other largest countries are the Soviet Union $2030 and the United States diutcly aftcr ihc assassination The Cuban told his inlcr rogators that Oswald may have been in contact with uban in telligcncc agents just scvcn weeks before hc killcd Kcnr ncdy said the documents Bccausc both dcfcctions camc so soon aflcr Kcnncdy was killcd formcr US in telligcncc officials say thcy Louisburg was supposed tobe one of the most powerful ffort resses in the world but the New Englanders received informa tion that conditions there were poor and the troops were al most ready to mutiny The New England force was WASP in the prcstenday sense It was led by William Pepper ell militia colonel from Maine Its motto was supplied by Methodist preacher No despair while Christ leads Most of the 3000 troops were New England farmers who walked to Boston carrying their own muskcts to join the force The ships sailed from Nantu cket on Mar 24 1745 but stop ped at Canso NS where there was small British garrison They were joined by British naval squadron from the West Indies commanded by Com modore Warren It was good thing they were given this naval support other wise thcrc would have been no chance of success Powerful French warships were in Louis burg harbor and they could have blown the New England ships out of the water The combined attack on Louisnurg began Apr 30 and the great fortress was captured June17 Although Britain traded Louisburg back to France in 1748 for Madras India the campaign marked the begin ning of the end for France in North America BIBLE rHouoHr Behold the Lords hand is not shortened that it cannot save neither his ear heavy that It cannot hear Isaiah 591 God has strong arm heady car and compassionate heart and He loves you Right now you can get right with Him Father in the next moment help the reader to take care of all eternity by receiving Jesus into their hearts Amcn doubtcd thc auihcniicity of the information provided by thc two men particularly Noscnko sincc his icsiimony seemed to eliminate any possibility of Soviet involvement REPORT RAPPEI The Warren commission con cluded there was no evidence of conspiracy but CIA memo writtcn in May 1975 said that the Warren report should have lcfi wider window for this contingcncy That mch is among some 500 pages of documents just rc lcascd by tho CIA in response to request made under the Freedom of Information Act March 1964 CIA memo to FBI Director Edgar Hoover says Noscnko reported that his own department was in volved directly with Oswald because Oswald came to the USSR in 1959 but there had not ever been thought given to recruiting either of them Oswald or his Russianborn wife Marina as agents The memo warned however this agency has no in formation which would specifically corroborate or disprove Noscnkos statement Noscnko who the documents said was questioned about Os wald as recently as 1967 iii sistcd that Oswald was of no in tcrcsi to the KGB because of his emotional instability as shown by an unsuccessful 1959 suicide attempt in Moscow Noscnko told the CIA that he next heard of Oswald in Sep tember of 1963 when Oswald appeared at Soviet embassy in Mexico City and requested visa to return to the Soviet Un ion FIIJI FLOWN IN On Nov 22 after Oswald had been identified publicly as the prime suspect in the Kennedy slaying Oswalds KGB file was immediately flown from Minsk where he had lived during his years in the Soviet Union to Moscow Noscnko told the CIA twopage summary of Os walds activities was then pre pared and forwarded to Soviet lcadcr Nikita Khrushchev said Noscnko Oswalds file showed that the KGB had no personal con tact with him and had not at templed to utilize him in any manner Noscnko told the CIA In addition to telling the CIA about the possibility of con tact bctweenOswald and Cuban agents the unnamed dcfcctor testified that the Cuban intelligence agency took extraordinary security precautions immediately following the Kennedy slaying This information was relayed to the Warren commission which saw no need to pursue this angle any further said June 1964 memo LETTERS TO EDITOR Traffic lights are the answer Dear Sir The news item in your issue of March 10 where the chair man of the public works com mittee is extrolling himself for the changes he initiated at the intersection of Codrington and Mulcaster streets whereby the number of accidents have been reduced in comparison of two periods now make Codrington Street Gardiner Expressway and Mulcaster Street secon darv road Mortorists on Codrington blithely motor along quite oblivious to north and south bound traffic on Mulcaster desiring to cross the in tersection and prohibiting them from making lefthand turns onto Codrington nore right hand turns in the proper man ner onto Codrington westward would like to submit that the number of accidents occuring does not provide the sole criterion to be used for the necessity of erecting traffic lights at any heavilytravelled intersection That was not the case when traffic lights were installed at the following intersections Bayview and Burton Avenue Bayfield and Seophie Baylficld and Wellington Bayficld and Grove Penetang and St Vincent streets Innisfil and Tiffin streets The difficulties there were that traffic in the inferior direc tion were ocompletely discriminated against traffic in the superior direction As resident of Barrie for 75 years think am quite correct in saying that Wards and were always considered the most backward in the city but today those wards and Ward are leading in population con sequently as regards Wards and there is much more traf fic in the area of Codrington Mulcaster Penetang and St Vincent streets than heretofore This leads me to say that while the prevention of ac cidents is of paramount im portance so is the desirability of creating condition where the flow of traffic can be so regulated as to give all motorists equal consideration at an intersection such as Codrington and Mulcaster streets as would result with the erection of traffic lights hope the chairman of the public works committee will favorably act on my con tentions so that the erection of traffic lights at Codrington and Mulcaster streets will soon become reality Yours truly CLAYTON GOSNEY New Stroud hall is disappointing to disc jockey Dear Sir discjockcycd my first dan ce at the new Stroud complex on March 14 and must say Ive never been so disappointed with hall anywhere The designer must have either hated music or known very little about it The acoustics were so terrible that while sat directly behind my speakers and often could barely hear the music pcople directly across from them and in far corncrs complained of it being too shrill as every high note bounccd from wall to wall Dcspitc every attempt of ad justing bass and treble con trols rcarranging speakers adding more speakch and even turning them upside down so thc bass spcakcrs would be at car lcvcl there was no possible unnbination to be found that would prove satisfactory The light switch which con trols thc bar light also controls light outside the bar so in or der to have the bar light on thc dance floor is also illuminated by glaring flouresccni sun shine To all this splendor is added shaky floor which increase the chances of skipping records something to be expected in older halls but ran into fewer problems of that sort in the old Stroud Hall Too often we tear down the old to make way for the new without first carefully examing what experience and wisdom the old have to offer us would highly recommend anyone in crested in renting hall for dance to consider the possibility of taking few extra minutes and driving to Chur chill wherc they can still find hall similar to the Old Stroud Community Centre far superior in acoustics and at mospherc In fact for one plan to turn down any future offers to provide musical entertainment in the new Stroud complex until such time as proper measures are taken to correct at least the acoustics of the hall JIM YOUNG Barrie Why does civilization allow seal slaughter LETTER TO PIERRE TRUIEAU House of Commons OTTAWA Ontario DearSir wish to protest most vehemently your action and that of your minister of fisheries in condoning the in sane and senseless slaughter of the poor and helpless baby seals What kind of nation and society are we to permit such diabolical thing to occur in so called civilized country Are we to admit that this small body of people the Greenpeace 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 bc 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 Foundation are the only ones of total of 22 million people who can rightfully call themselves civilized Are you without conscience or shame to allow such diabolical happening to occur demand that you revoke your order in council pro hibiting the spraying of green dye on the pelts of these helpless creatures also demand that you invoke the 200 mile offshore limit to keep the Norwegian boats away from the Labrador Coast and St Lawrence Gulf also demand that this whole matter be dealt with on the floor of the House instead of in secrecy behind closed doors so that the public may know the kind of government we have am sure that you dont want the feeling of guilt and the blood of these beautiful but helpless creatures on your hands If you allow this to continue what will your sons think of their father when they grow up and know the part you played in this sordid and sadistic affair The world is beautiful and on ly man is vile Yours truly FRED ROSS RR Barrie THE PICK OF PUNCH Would you like to say few words to daddys answering machine