The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

Elia iliarrir Examiner Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited 16 Bayiield Street Barrie Ontario Robb PublisherGeneral Manager tgornygrish Wells Editor Emeritus AteThe Henshow Managing Editor arrie Examiner Saturday April 24 1976 THUMBS UP To the Catholic school board for cutting down to six the number of ment days or elementary schoo teachers To the Barrie Ja cettes for 15 yyears of service to communi ofessipnal devel To the Barrie Lions club in con junction with Innisfil Oro Angus and Alliston Lions for playing host to the District 12 convention this weekend To Barrie cit nisfil his copies To the county school board ust in case it does not cut the num er of rofessional develo ment days or spending ing publicity about violence in hockey instead Roy McMurtry so much time grab council for not providing Innis 11 Township coun cil with copies of its annexation proposal It was nice of Examiner reporter Jim Dalziel to give In plan To To Art Evansy PC Simcoe Centre for telling Innisfil Council the way it is about their official Ben Strau an for being named boss of fyear Barrie chapter of secretariesassociation To Rick McCombie Georgians male athlete of the year To Christine Welson the col the na ional leges female athlete of the year THUMBS DOWN systems To cit to The cit quested PARLIAMENT HILL Dan Slanders advises on political woes By STEWART MacLEOD Ottawa Bureau Thomson News Service Newspapers employ ex perts to solve personal poblems ranging from love to cabinet making By writing to these various columnists you can learn how to fix your car be infermed of the origin if certain words or be told what fly touse in catching Ar ctic trout But there has always been void Individuals with political problems had nowhere to turn for ad vice until now So as blic service this space will made available from time to time to Dan Slanders well known advisor to the politicalOrn DEAR DAN SLANDERS My husband and are beside ourselves and we desperately need your help Our son Floyd thats not his real name IS 19 and after we devoted lifetime of love to him he came home last night and broke our hearts He said he was engaged to Liberal Dan we have done everything for that boy We had him carrying Tory acards when he was only our and we never went to constituency meeting without him He never went to bed without reading few verses on John Bracken and three years ago he filled us with ride by winning poetry contest with Trudeaus Son nets to Socialism Itwas just beautiful How can we stop this mad marriage Dan Floyd says the girl thats not her real mme refuses to turn Tory and we all know these mixed marriages dont work And please dont tell us to consult our minister hes New Democrat of the worst type BESIDE OURSELVES Sud DEAR BESIDE receive hundreds of similar letters from heart broken parents and its most difficult problem to solve If you cant talk them into leaving the country before their engagement be comes public suggest you plan some farout ceremony that will make people forget about politics Perha Church of Sciento ogy ceremon atop that huge IN 00 smo estack or nude wedding around Ottawas centennial flame Good Luck DAN SLANDERS DEAR DAN SLANDERS Why is it that all antiabor tionists who say no one has right to take life always seem to be in favor of capital punishment And those who avor abortion always seem to be against hanging Am right CONFUSED Vernon DEAR CONFUSED receive hundreds of similar letters from confused voters consulted an expert THE WORLD TODAY West Germany returns to high technology By JOHN HARBRON Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service West Germany missed out the postwar development and international sales of jet Ghr Barrie Examinrr 16 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario Telephone 7266537 Registration Number 0484 Second Class Mail Return tage guaranteed Da Sunda and Statutory Ho idays excepted Subscription rates daily by carrier 85 cents weekly $1420 xiii Single copies 15 cents 11 Barrie $442 yearly Simcoe County $3400 yearly Balance of Canada $3600 year iy National Advertising Offices 65 Queen St West Toronto $44710 640 Cathcart St Mon lreal Member of the Canadian Press and Audit Bureau of Cir crrlstions 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 Reuter and also the local news published therein The Barrie Examiner claims in all original adver and editorial material created by its employees and need in this newspaper ogeyrright Registrationq Num 203815 register 01 aircraft and computer technology But it is deter mined to make mark in the design and export sales of mclepr technology Its difficult to imagine the Germans as technologically backward in any sense of the word It was Impe rial er many which first followed af ter Britain during the earliest phases of the Industrial Revolution of the last cen And in the 19208 many Ger man patents developed by in dustry directed to peacetime uses dominated world in dustries The Hitler era again saw German scientific ingenuity put to milita use in the design and pr uction of such terrors as the dive bomber the 88 mm quickfiring anti aircraft gun which was also andantiltank weapotridthte3 Vl an V2 ongranger From the latter emerged enough technology tran sferred to the new American space program to give it boost literally in startup methodology But contemporary West German was un derstands ly out of business in the development of jets and computers in the mid1960s because the postwar German state had only been created WHY BEHIND Restraints on German tech nology restrictions on her own weapons development all understandable given her role in the two world wars Sadats wish to bring of getting people concerned about our creaking antiquated court council for not reacting xaminers editorial on the planners antiWASPish sta ements To anonymous letterwriters Gee some of those anonymous jobs are pretty good Too bad they arent signed and pen name re psychiatrist and he said abortionists should be hanged Does this help And thanks for writing DANSLANDERS DEAR DAN SLANDERS My daughter who is 63 is getting married and she would like to impress the neighbors by having Prime Minister Trudeau attend How can we get him to the ceremony PROUD MOTHER Syd ne DEAR PROUD Plan the wedding for sun my weekend half way down Whistlers Mountain He might drop in DAN SLANDERS DEAR DAN SLANDERS My mother who is 63 is getting married and she wan ts to invite the prime minister to her wedding But Fred thats not his real name and are planning an even bigger wedding and we also want to invite Mr Trudeau But since Mothers wedding is first he wont likely come to two wed dings in the same family We are afraid that if we send him an invitation he will feel obliged to send us an ex pensive gift Would he NOT GREEDY Thunder Bay DEAR NOT Ho ho ho DAN SLANDERS CON FIDENTIAL TO LIBBER Yes Joe Clark frequently addresses his wife by her first name also delayed the German return to high technology But now West Germany is offering com lete nuclear technology pac ages for sale chiefly to wealthy Third World nations like Brazil and Iran who see nuclear power as an expression of their growing nationalism Last June West German signed an agreement wit Brazil to supply that large and economically viable country with the worlds first complete nuclear technology export agreement Next year West Germans and Iranian government of ficials will sit down to di cuss an identical package for lran another emer ing nation on Braziliansty course of national aggrandizement There are rumblings from the Egyptians who want to look at German nuclear technology given President it to Egypt He was encouraged in this no doubt by the offer of United States nuclear technology from former president Nixon in 1973 The West German deter mination to sell entire nuclear packages rather than just the reactor its sup rt services or even the fue is alarming the US The Americans claim West German export sales drive runs the risk of supplying un stable countries with the necessary technology to make their own nuclear weapons That just about completes the Boy fillin NOTES AND COMMENT Was way it read Way he meant it By SEAN FINLAY City Editor The Examiner Yet another letter has grac ed my desk in the continuing saga of Barries massage parlor This time Bob Johnston from Stroud is the correspon dent and he gets the old hackles up ri ht off the bat by suggesting at all editorial writers should be forced by law to sign their articles Why The editorial is the voice of the news per it is the com ment of newspaper in the issues of the day seem to have left the im pression last week that one man writes an editorial and from there it goes on to the editorial page Not so Usually the publisher Jay Robb and the managing editor Dave Henshaw con fere and decide which issues are worthy of comment Then they decide what that com ment should be and an editorial comes forth On other occasions myself or other staff members feel strongly enough about sub ject to writeaneditorial That editorial has to go through the publisher and managing editor it is rare for those editorials to be published the way they are first written Back to Mr Johnston who accuses me of low blow in suggesting another letter to the editor rambled Well dammit the thing did ramble Far too often those of us in the news per business run into peop who say that what we reported isnt what they meant We reported what they said and too often what they said is not what the meant lm oldfashione if what you have to say is important then it is important that it be said clearly so others can understand Now to that ole debbil the body rub parlor Lets get The Examiners position very clear The Examiner is not in favor of the body rub parlor We dont like it we dont think it should be there But The Examiner does not think mob action is the QUEENS PARK way to get rid of it The way to get rid of it is by working through the law There are three levels of Ewemment which could ass ws to rid the city of the rub parlor Certainly in the day and age we dont have to resort to mob action And those who favor mob action or worse tolerate it should remember it can wbrk two ways Those who are in favor of the massage parlor can also resort to mob action to get their way My personal opinion about the massage parlor is quite different to this newspapers Not all of us are happ welloadjusted individuals with normal family lives There are great mény lonely people in this world there are great manytgeo pie to whom the standar of the amorphous middle mass that represents much of Canada are completely foreign Canadians are great ones for passing laws and putting people in jail But we all mi ht consider just how many the laws we Overtones of zealousness 1n Jones report on alcohol By DON OHEARN Queens Park Bureau Thomson News Service the Jones report on Youth and Alcohol that the minimum drinking age in the province TORONTOIt is hard to should be increased to 19 find much argument with the from 18 main recommendations of Not only have we all heard CANADAS STORY Disobeyedan order and broke the siege By BOB BOWMAN When it ever is it justifiable for member of the armed forces to disobe the order of superior ficer Tradition is along the lines of Tennysons Char of the Light Brigade eirs not to reasoh why Theirs but todo or die Admiral Nelson was one of ficer who successfully disobeyed command by holding his telescope to his blindeye There was an instance in Canadian histo when an of ficer of the orth West Mounted Police refused to obey command and helped to reak the siege of Bat tleford during the 1885 rebellion General Middleton com manding officer of the Cana dian forces ordered Colonel Herchmer of the NWMP to our Own stories about the growth of drinking in the schools of the rovince but the report itse had official figures which should con vince any doubters take 50 men from Regina to try to rescue the ple of Battleford who had sur rounded by Indians for two weeks Herchmer refused to because he knew that con tions were impossible The distance was 200 miles and only half his men had horses The would have to ford the Sou Saskatchewan River swollen by spring floods and would have been easy targets for the Indians have passed are for vic timless crimes crimes in which noone is hurt crimes which cause no harm to socie ty As Wayman Fairweather said at planning board meeting in slighUy dif ferent way we are not all White AngloSaxon Pro testants My standards of conduct should not have to be your standards of conduct by law any more than yours should be mine Mr Johnston suggests in his letter that people have an obligaton to themselves their ldren and their coun try to be alert at all times to any inroads on their freedom and decency But democracy does not mean to me there is right way of living and wrong it means that society can and does tolerate many styles of livin that no group or in divi us is persecuted or prosecuted for being dif erent It als means to me that all minions can be expressed without fear of censorship or retaliation For instance between 1970 and 1974 the number of Grade students in the province using alcohol increased to 71 per cent from 52 per cent And there was an alarming increase in the number of traffic accidents involving young drinking drivers Along with this both the re ports proposed age limit and the rationale behind it made sense The theory behind the 19 year limit is that this is the age when most students have finished secondar school and the objective rs to et liquor out of the high schoo The thinking and this also must be agreed with is that once any category in the schools is drinking then almost inevitably this is going to read down through the schoo There are other things in the report that must be agreed with and some even tobepraised EADER FORUM Dear Sir Newspaper accounts show he Teacher Group of aldermen to be consistently imrnature in response to the issues facing council over th past six months Witness the following re cent events Aid Perri encourag ing harrassment of patrons to the body rub parlor Encouraging acts that could lead to anarchy can hardly be considered mature Thank God he has not been elected mayor Aid Laking after lawyer David Hogben read letter written by his client in deputation to council wants to deny deputations with letters written by other people Suggesting that citizens be denied that very basic right of being represented by agent or counsel can hardly be con sidered sign of maturity can be no Teacher Group bit immature Thank God we didnt send her to Ottawa to de fend our rights in Parlia ment Aid Arthur suggested that tax ayer was motivated greed when the taxpayer by agent made deputation to council concerning rezoning atgplication This mg more than assurn tion on the part of the Al erman immature assumption and immature reaction Had he assumed the taxpayer to be motivated by frustration he may have been right Thank God he is not runn ing for Mayor In any event there is an election this fall and we get an 2th then to break up teac ers group at City Hall Yours truly MONEY The official plan is citys problem Dear Sir Your recent editorial com ments about Wayman Fairweather planning direc tor of the city do nothing to resolve the fundamental pro blem of planning and development in Barrie today That roblem is an outof date of icial plan which of fers little guidance on key matters facing our city How are we to accommodate 125000 people by the year 2011 What is the role of our 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 downtown and should it be revitalized What kinds and prices of housing do we want in our ci ty These are all questions for which our current official plan has no answer Rather than unwarranted personal attacks we hope that The Barrie Examiner will focus our attention and concern in the problems of Barrie in order that we can all work together in their solution Yours Truly MARSHALL McNAIR Editors Note Since when is asking questions an unwarranted personal at tack We agree the official plan does not answer your questions but does your asking them mean your let ter is an unwarranted personal attack on those who drew up the official plan Lets have our questions answered and lets have your questions answered Lack of depth noted in radio tV reports DearSir After attending the recent Ro al Commission on V10 ence came away more arlightened on the subject due primarily to the varying interest groups present The presentations reviewed the subject with varying degree of depth must confess my disap pointment with the local media CKBB and CKVR as feel that they waived the perfect opportunity to make their views public on the subject to the com munity of which they seve and the Royal Commission on Violence in the Com munication Industry As for what was reported there peared to bea severe lack depth De th that would have reflect the true mood of the public At no time was it mentioned that par ticular program be stricken from the viewing public This is in reference to the com ments made CKBB reporter John Pa mer that Starsky and Hutch and Kojak were going to be taken off the air This statement was total ly misleading and irrespon sible One would as well think that CKVR were there for the entire evening if they didnt know better Their coverage did reveal the opinion of the commission members however did lack the public sentiment the public of whom they Serve After speaking with members of both media know that they are responsi ble individuals who are con cerned about their viewing public CKVR has already suggested one way of presen ting the issue to the pie an hopefully this will im Elemented before the Royal ommission concludes in May Im sure the mdeia com munity would appreciate your comments as would WENDELL WHITE Minesing North says thanks to festival organizer DearSir On behalf of 25 Junior music students of Barrie Nor th Collegiate and myself would like to publicly thank Barbara McCann for inviting Is to be part of the Barrie Spring Music Festival am sure that all the THE PICK OF PUNCH vocalists and instrumen talists involved appreciate the time and organizational effort that Mrs McCann put into making the festival such asuccess Yours truly SHARON LIBTHORPE Music Director BDNC was mentioned on the newts todayl was referred to as reliable source