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Gilt Earth Examiner Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited l6 Baylield Street Barrie Ontario Robb PublisherGeneral Manager Walls Editor Emeritus Henshaw Managing Editor 4The Barrie Examiner Saturday April 10 I976 THUMBS UP To Ethel Clifton winner of the Wilbur Wright trophy as Barries citizen of the year To Jack Ramsay director of the Simcoe County Board of Education for being recipient of an honorary degree from Wilfred University He gets along well with the teachers who proposed his doc torate To the Catholic Womens League and the Soroptimists club of Barrie for nominating Ethel Clifton as citizen of the year most fitting nomination To those members of the city staff who tried to tell OMB witnesses the citys side of the indoor pool story It would have been nice to have an in door civic pool in community this size To the Barrie Concert Association Laurier for presenting fine lineup for next seasons concerts To Victoria and Grey opening an office in downtown Bar rie Glad someone else has faith in this community To the new owners of the Queens Hotel for their expensive and tasteful remodelling job Keep up Trust for the good work party To Mrs Srigley and Mrs Cameron conveners of the Kempenfeldt IODE annual card To Royal Victoria Hospital aux something iliary for renovating and reopen ing the gift shop at the hospital To Jeff Madden who have city council and planning beard to think about when he suggested the board be abolish ed THUMBS DOWN To the provincial government for health insurance increasing premiums ing the Flyers and the OHA hard time about game dates Someone should send them crying towel To the Kempenfelt Bay monster for holding down the Ys Mens ice out car when the club tried to retrieve it Monday morning To the Thunder Bay Twins for giv IARLIAMENT HILL What the public complains about By STEWART MacLEOD Ottawa Bureau Thomson News Service The annual report of the offi cial languages commissioner was so newsy this year that no one has been paying much at tention to the complaints re ceived by the commission All the interest was focused on Keith Spicers sweeping criti cism of the governments lan guage training program So it might be good idea to go back to the report and see what the public is complaining about Actually its not really such great idea but well do it anyway Every year hundreds of let ters come to the language com missioner from individuals who feel they were hard done by in the use of English or French by federal employees Under the Official Languages Act federal departments and agencies are supposed to offer the public ser vices in the two official lan guages Naturally there are oc casions when its not done flawless system would require fully bilingual staff in every federal office in Canadaa ridiculous objective Some of the complaints are justified and no doubt help the commission beef up the bili ngual program But many are unreasonable some are ridicu lous and others suggest the au thors are not blessed with sparkling sense of humor For instance French speaking employee of the revenue department lodged an official complaint because supervisor had written him in Ukrainian Seems to me he could have had lot more fun and made his point if he found someone to draft reply in Chinese Then there was complaint that unilingual English veter inarians were sent into pre dominately French area of On tario to take blood samples from animals Since veter inarians are not normally chat ty with their patients this doesnt seem to be big prob lem Another complainant said that letters addressed to Ed monton in French were not reaching their proper destination The post office ex plained that rue and ave were sometimes in distinguishable and this created the problem Good try but not many people write ave in front of the street name There were 63 complaints about Air Canadanot bad when you consider the airlines carried 111 million passengers last year One of the com plainants wrote to report that the announcement of bus de parture from Ottawa Inter national Airport was delivered only in English on one occasion Someone else complained there were Englishonly signs at an Air Canada counter in North Bay Saudi Arabia strains to cope with pilgrims By YOUSSEF AZMEH JEDDAH Reuter Several hundred dustcovered grey and blue buses stand at the edge of this bustling Saudi Arabian Elli mums Examiner 16 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario Telephone 7266537 Registration Number 0484 Second Class Mail Return tage guaranteed Dai 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 lBalance of Canada $3600 year National Advertising Off ices as 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 Examiner claims gloryrlght in all original adver ng and editorial material mated by its employees and in this newspaper aggright Registration Num 203815reglster61 port ready to carry about one million Moslem pilgrims to Mecca The vehicles were among batch of 2500 American buses imported last year by the gov ernment which is rapidly ex panding facilities to cope with the huge annual influx of Mos lem Hajjis pilgrims Once year Hajjis come to this desert kingdom to follow the footsteps of Mohammed performing rites which are re quired of all Moslems at least once in their lives Of the 15 million who made the Hajj pilgrimage last year almost 900000 came from outside Saudi Arabia ac cording to recently released of ficial figures on the pilgrimage season huge compound to accom modate pilgrims was recently built next to the international airport here and there is an other at the port where pil yims must stay in quarantine for at least eight days BIBLE THOUGHT So Jotham became mighty because he prepared his ways before the Lord his God Chronicles 276 Power belongeth to God and is available to man The man who does not take God into account in his preparation for life will have to reckon with Him as to why he didnt To the OMB for the way their representatives conducted public hearing on proposed indoor swim ming pool Monday And lady complained that she finally found French speaking ticket agent in Winni peg but he spoke in an accent that was not French Furthermore she com plained there were no French language newspapers aboard the plane Had she looked more closely she would probably see there were no English newspapers ei therat least havent seen one for long time on the air line It seems the Canadian Fenc ing Association raised the ire of one member by sending out all its literature in English But this doesnt have much to do with government RUDENESS PROBLEM In reading the letters you get the impressinn that the com plainants are probably more annoyed at rudeness rather than the lack of bilingualism There are frequent references to individuals being rude and arrogant One person complained after phoning the enue depart ment in Ottawa The report says The employee who took the call did not speak French and transferred the call to an other person saying in rude tone French line three While most of the complaints come from Frenchspeaking Canadiansand this is under standableits nice to see that an odd one is beginning to flow in from the other side Its good for national unity An English speaking reporter complained that the background papers distributed prior to Prime Minister Trudeaus visit to France and Belgium were available only in fiench Commissioner Spicer noted in his report that in the past it was usually French speaking journalists who were the victims The change he added might be interpreted as sign of progress With progress like this the Commissioners office may even last as long as the Halifax Relief Commission The relief commission estab lished after Halifaxs 1917 ex plosion was disbanded only few months ago NEWS ITEM TRAFFlC LIGHTS ON BAYFIELD MAY BE SYN CHRONIZED FOR BETTER TRAFFIC FLOW That third mayoral candidate lurks still in the shadows By SEAN FINLAY City Editor Seems little strange to hear talk of December municipal election in April but there it is Thoughtful city burghers none named Ronald are speculating on the possibility of third candidate in December Some reported to be hoping very much for third can didate any third candidate Best bet right now seems to be Ald Ross Archer now keeping mum in the style he is accustomed to as the two Barriefirsters circle each other warily like jackals around carcass Two other names also men tioned First is former mayor Les Cooke who is said to have told cronies he wont if Archer does Second is Willard Kinzie whos telling same cronies the same thing differently Im not running if there is strong third candidate says Kinzie who is letting it be known Archer is the strong third candidate As for those correspondents who insist on telling us that we must know who the third can didate is well we dont No more than you do The OMB dropped by City Hall Monday to hear arguments for and against the citys troposed swimming pool now thing of the past Is politics really the art of doing nothing Prominent objector Parker in private life mavr all she surveys was con spicuous by her absence Never showed her face at the OMB hearing But she was in and out of City Hall all day Monday say those who watch her Examiner city hall reporter Peter Depodesta came back from the OMB hearing chewing his beard and railing against THE WORLD TODAY the awful rudeness of the two OMB types whom he said had made up their minds before the hearing about the decision They were rude to city hall staff as well says Depodesta who hasnt yet discovered the elect of God need not be polite Just what it always wanted Realtor David Wass gave the Barrie Real Estate Board pic ture entitled The Old Grey Mare at its breakfast meeting Tuesday Said picture was caricature of her honor Wass director of the board did not explain just what the board could do with the framed art But from the mood in certain Barrie circles these days it shouldnt be too difficult to guess Jeff Maddens proposal to abolish the city planning board given to the citys realtors leaves one question unan All international airlines facing financial crunch By JOHN HARBRON Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service Rumors that Air Canada may increase fares on its short haul runs very large 20 to 30 per cent is one of many indications the ongoing financial crises facing all international airlines Air Canada stateowned airline with access to govern ment cash if it ever gets into very bad crunch the kind fac ing many American and over seas airlines has had record deficits in any case In the United States the five trunk airlines which carry about 30 per cent of the worlds total airline passenger traffic are worrying about large YOUR BUSINESS enough cash flows to buy the next generation of new aircraft With plenty of net worth left in the system and few airlines still showing profit like Delta the industry is operating with slowlyaging equipment The DOB and stretch versions of it have been around since 1958 The Boeing 747jumbojets are having tough time being paid for what with the unprece dented jumps in fuel costs since late 1973 and escalating outlays in running an airline Air Canada appears to be in better shape with its existing equipment than some of the gi ant US carriers But as the 19708 come to an end it too will wonder about replacements for Is productivity pay much too automatic By VINCENT EGAN Business and Consumer Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service One feature of the antiin flation program that has been accepted without questionun til nowis the automatic two rcent annual wage increase ll productivity gains Under the guidelines this years acceptable pay in creases normally are two per cent for improvement in productivity or output per worker eight per cent for in flation and two per cent to cat ch up with someone who may be better off Upon closer examination however the productivity guideline seems to have little relationship to the facts of our economic performance Economist Norman Mogil of the Montrealbased Howe Research Institute contends that it does not give adequate recognition to the fact that Can adas productivity growth has been weakening over time In study just published by the institute Mr Mogil notes that the growth of productivity in Canada has been slowing considerably over the past dec ade He says the outlook is highly uncertain and its doubtful that the target of twopercent an nual improvement will be easily achieved over the medium term For the Canadian economy as whole productivity or output per worker grew at an average of 21 per cent year in the 1954 to 1974 periodhigher in the early years and as little as 15 per cent in 1973 When all levels of govern ment service are excluded however the productivity per DC8s and 95 1975 WORST YEAR In terms of earnings for the US carriers 1975 was terrible with losses of $100 million across the industry Inter national aviation losses on operations are less precisely known Thats because so many air lines in this world are staterun and statefinanced carriers and there are reasons in some coun tries for not revealing all about the prestige national airlines operations It goes without saying that partandparcel of the baggage of new state or one on an ex pansionist wave was and is the national airline The Iranians have one flying formance is considerably bet ter In the private sector an nual improvement in produc tivity was 33 per cent in 1954 to 1974 but trending downward to as little as 25 per cent even in 1973 year of strong economic growth Mr Mogil points out that workers in the private sector with their aboveaverage pro ductivity gains may not feel like accepting the lower na tional average performance in order to allow workers in the public sector to keep pace with out generating inflationary pressures swered What are the alternatives What are the alternatives Bureaucrats one suspects talk at coffee break about just how difficult they have made life for those who pay the bills It is nice sport for the bureaucrats but if it doesnt stop soon then this country is going to quietly smother While the bureaucrats keep on bureaucrating Topic of municipal elections came up at meeting of club reliably reported on these pages as an outfit that does well nothing Wont vote for either one of the candidates said one gent to which another said wont vote at all if they were the only two running Spring is no time for cynicism say the poets and if people are cynical now it means either there is no spring or things are worse than we think costly Boeing 747 jumbo jets all over the world in competition with hardpressed international carriers like British Airways and PanAm who could probably carry all of the Iranian busi ness Israels small and highly competitive staterun El Al Airlines was showing the in dustry how it could be done before the 1973 war by moving jumbo jets with 70to90per cent passenger capacity and making the anticipated bundle from such high passenger loads Another factor in the quotient as the airline economist would say is the parallel crisis of corporate health among the aircraft manufacturers There are really only three of them in the US Boeing Lock heed and McDonnell Douglas We all know about Lockheeds great difficulties In terms of the classic ratio of debt to net worth this distraught company has debts of $595 million net worth of only more $67 mil lion One or all of these manufac turers could survive and along with them their airline custom ers in terms of new aircraft if they agreed either to merger competitive production of so called derivitative aircraft N0 NEW DESIGNS These would be versions of the existing TriStar or Lock heed L1011 with fuelsaving highbypass engines and differ ent wing designs Whatever the answers are for the worlds aviation industry and airline companies for the 808 inflation economic down turn and our need for them ve their problems very high visibility CAVEAT EMPTOR Some criticism from park bench By LEONARD NOBLE In view of the recent get tough attitude adopted by the federal and Ontario govem ments concerning government spending it occurred to me that the respective governments have wasted great deal of the taxpayers money in the past on needless expenditures and grants which they now find that by either reducing them or getting rid of them completely the people of Canada generally and the province of Ontario in particular can well get along without Nevertheless wondered what couple of out of work down and outers might have to say in criticism of the respec tive governments position on spending and was fortunate enough to overhear the following conversation quite unbeknown to them as they sun ned themselves on park bench in this early spring weather Ha Tom Trudeaus gone crazy Oh Why do you say that Harry Well was reading in the paper just the other day that Ottawa intends to pay the rovinces less money out of tax revenues received than what was originally agreed to WHATS IT MEAN Is that fact Whats it all mean then Harry Well according to the paper Ontario treasurer Dar cy McKeough estimates that Ontario will lose at least $300 million dollars if Ottawa uses different formula for recalculating payments due to the provinces for years from 1974 to 1977 QUEENS PARK Telling public the way it is By DON OHEARN Queens Park Bureau Thomson News Service TORONTO This was budget of government facing an election with its jaw stuck out It was in effect telling the public like it or not popular or not we are going to do what has to be done and we arent going to try and buy you The budget could be classed as the most unique in decades particularly for year which well could see an election dur ing its span N0 BAIT Politically it was almost com pletely negative sop to small business small break to those few voters who own mobile homes and concession to those people who buy meals Against this there were the increase in OHIP premiums and the boost in liquor and to bacco taxes measures which hit the majority of the elec toratethough admittedly the Three hundred million you say Harry Thats not hay You can say that again Tom Further more you and me are going to be affected by this directly How do you figure that Harry Well in that same paper James Taylor Ontarios minister of Community and Social Services said that if any ablebodied welfare recipient refuses to take job then he can lose his benefits right away Say Harry that is serious Why Ive being living on the dole for the last 15 years and nobody ever bothered me before Thats why say this is serious Its bad enough that we may not get our $300 million dollars but on top of this you and may have to go to work EXPLOITATION You know Harry its get ting so that the government is exploiting us in every way possible dont know where its going to end To think that Bill Davis would approve of regulation to the effect that person would be required to take parttime casual or seasonal jobs that welfare ad ministrator thinks would be ap popria te or else face the loss of welfare payments is just too much to take You can say that again Tom Life is just getting too darn complex for my liking When they take away your in come what have you got left Youre 100 per cent right Harry she aint what she used tobe OHIP boost will affect mainly employers There wasnt the bait that one has come to expect from Tory budgets even in normal years TIP TOED That said there are two fur ther observations One is that even though the gwemment did have its jaw out it was still playing it very carefully The jaw was out but still it was on tip toes When it came to new taxing and raising revenue it held its punches If big new revenues were to be raised the fields to go to would have been personal and corporation income tax and sales tax Other provinces have been playing around with these in their budgets but here they were ducked The very good explanation given for not touching them was that increases in any of them could tend to slow down the momentum of the economy