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wV Kw wnr the Barrie Examiner Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited 16 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario Robb PublisherGeneral Manager Walls Editor Emeritus Henshaw Managing Editor OMB hearing judge fare for city council Annexation if you live in Barrie or the land grab if you live in Vespra Oro or Innisfil is now in the hands of the Ontario Municipal Board So far Barrie has spent at least $40000 on annexation That went to study by Proctor and Red fern consultants and gives the reasons Barrie needs the land Not all the Proctor and Redfern report has been made public some is being withheld for use as evidence at the OMB hearing That Barrie needs more land to grow is not arguable The OMB hearing Will be len thy A1 parties involved will drag out their highpriced lawyers and consultants and argue the pros and cons at our expense of cour se There are those who no doubt now are convinced chivalry is not yet dead Don Inch fired off letter to city council this week asking for an apology for comments made about his wife and Marilyn Jen nings at the last council meeting Mr Inch is no ordinary citizen He is provincial court judge And he signed the letter Inch Provincial Judge At least one council member felt little intimidated by the let ter And it has us wondering why Mrs Inch or Mrs Jennings did not ask for the apology After all they were the offended persons There has been great deal made lately of political in terference with the judiciary It works both ways Judge Inch may have been an enra ed husband when he wrote the etter but the addition of Provincial Judge to the si nature can very easily be ta en as meaning the letter is something more than the request of husband Mayor Dorian Parker cannot be blamed for deciding Monday night to deal with the letter in committee Some council members must be wondering justifiably what will hap if no apolo is given to Valerie Inch wife Don Inch Provincial Judge Should city council always try to buy locally The easy answer is yes But that policy can create problems The city wants to buy com puter accounting machine ap parently of the same type that regularly fouls up pay cheques and telephone bills The MAI Canada Ltd which has an office in Barrie wants to make bid while another firm Sigmatics Corp Ltd has already made bid Sigmatics does not have an of fice in Barrie Deadline for the bids was April Ald Alex Arthur said the finance committee has decided to accept bid from MAI despite the deadline being long past The whole thing raises the estion of just how far city ould and can go in supporting local businesses And councillors are on the horns of dilemma Certainly city should su port its own businesses by oing business locally But council is also entrusted with getting the best possible goods and services at the lowest possible price and being fair to all who wish to bid on goods and services Is the city being fair to Sigmatics by extending the deadline to accommodate local firm Difficult uestion and one that shoul lead to council examining its policy about buying locally Canada has tough role policing truce in Cyprus NICOSIA CP On the Green Line through this divided city Turk angry with Canadian may threaten to shoot Greek Its that kind of truce on Cyprus Or man shouting insults or throwing stones may set if shooting war that will stretch across the island Or two men Greek and Turk acquaintances of bygone days may meet to chat in the middle of the buf fer zone only to be shooed back to their positions by Canadian peacekeepers Or Canadian may spend days arranging the trade of Greek donkey for Turkish pump Another may walk down the buffer zone with his hands outstretched trying to stop shooting Another may die stopping the pilfering of thousands of dollars worth of cars and bicycles in the zone Another may spend days trying to make Greeks or Turks return few feet of Eh Barrie Examiner 16 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario Telephone 7266537 Registration Number 0484 Second Class Mail Return tage guaranteed Dal Sundays and Statutory Ho idays excepted Subscription rates daily by lcarricr as cents weekly $4420 yearly Single copies 15 cents By all Barrie $4420 yearly Simcoe County $3400 yearly lBalance of Canada $3600 year if National Advertising Offices to Queen St West Toronto no 1710 040 Iathcart St Mon treal Member of the Canadian Press and Audit Bureau of Cir cuiutlons 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 Reutor and also the local news published therein The Barrie Examiner claims Co yright in all original advcr tts rig and editorial material created by its employees and roducedlnthls news tlptl yrlght Regis ration lNum r203815reglster61 an territory they have taken over Truce between Greek and Turk on this Mediterranean island is all those things and mor to the men of the 3rd Bat talion of the Princess Patricias Canadian Light In fantry of Victoria the current Canadian contingent in the 12yearold United Nations Force on Cyprus Since the 1974 Turkish in vasion of Cyprus Canadians have patrolled the narrow Green Line that wanders through this city where Greek and Turk are sometimes glowering nosetonose while their political masters go through the long and seemingly fruitless process of finding peace They still hate each other they still shoot at each other says LtCol Ieitch commander of the Princess Pats First theres namecalling then theres rockthrowing then bang+somebody shooting Once the firing startse phoom Itgoes rightdown the whole line Then Canadians andothers have to stopit Canadians experienced in peacekeeping call ration in Cyprus corpora war because the men who make the first moves to stop trouble are privates and corporals who man the observation posts MOVE IN EARLY They are the men who stop the shouting and stonethrow ing who break up meetings in buffer zones before somebody starts shooting who check for mouseholing Greeks and Turks moving into buildings that are supposed to be emp ty Leitch Capt Don Brodie and Capt Doug Martin all of Victoria commanders of the two Canadian sectors on the Green Line say it is the privates and corporals who must go out on occasion with hands upheld trying to stop the shooting CAVEAT EMPTOR Sally Ann helps When ASuimmers almost gone By LEONARD NOBLE Some years ago there used to be Criminal Courtroom located in the old city hall in Toronto called Courtroom Maybe its still there for all know It was located in the bowels cy of that enormous building and was conveniently located ad jacent to the womens holding cells or Tank with door leading from the Tank into the prisoners dock in that courtroom It was small courtroom as courtrooms go and dealt almost exclusively with criminal charges against women The most prevalent charge was prostitution and was know in legal vernacular in those days as Vag The reason being that char of rostitution was defin un der part of the old vagran section of the Criminal Code and thus the ap pellation It is impossible to attém to describe the comple degradation that en compassed all individuals who participated in that cour troom It was So macabre that it might have been something out of Elizabethan England Four or five women would PARLIAMENT HILL Participants becoming weary be led into the prisoners dock through the door of the holding cell Their cases were then tried and com pletedusually by con viction and sentence after plea of guilty police officer would then open the door that led into the Tank and those prisoners would go back through that door and be replaced by four or five others 10 THE DON There was also door to the side of the dock that opened into the courtroom but it very seldom opened since as most of the accused women as session nears 300th day By STEWARTMalEl Ottawa Bureau Thomson News Service When Parliament resumed Monday after its 10day Easter recess it entered the 288th day of the current session 34 days lon fier than the previous recort set in 196667 And apart from few ex citing flurrics over the judges affair and now the Sky Shops affair it is be inning to look like the tail cm of marathon nice The participants are be comin weary the spec tators isinterested The governments goals set out in the throne speech of Sept 30 1974 are all but forgotten as the 264 MP5 plod through routine legislation much of it administrative in nature and most of it boring in debate As an act of mercy Government House Leader Mitchell Sharp should bring the session to close and let the government return with new throne speech that might inject some inspiration into Parliament Throne speeches despite their overabundance of government puffery at least give Parliament new sense of direction In the previous session it was all about soverci nty before that it was out Canadianizing resources In any event the speech sets the tone for debate and provides govern ment spokesmen with an op KENORA MERCURY POLLUTION pleaded guilty as previously mentioned and since jail term was the penalty they were destined to go back into the Tank and from there to the Don Jail to serve out their time Whenever the door opened into the Tank the rumble of what sounded like hun dred voices talking at once could be heard On one occasion rising over and above all of that noise was the laintive wor of song being sung by an old progy which went Ive played aroun and stayed aroun portunity to talk about our glorious future 11 CONTINUE But the current session will continue to the end of June says Mr Sha He thinks progress so far as been ex cellent and he wants to see about dozen other billsmost of them are also administrative in nature ssed through the Commons fore the House breaks for threemonth summer recess summer recess Controversy continues over how badly economy hurt KENORA Ont CP Six years after mercury poisoning turned the English Wabigoon River system into fishforfun area furious controversy continues over how serious the pollution is and how badly the Kenora area economy has been hurt To Barney Lamm an area tourist operator for 30 years there is no argument Theres no question in my mind that people are getting hurt and Im going to do everything in my power to stopit Mr Lamm who closed $imillionayear tourist operation because of the poisoning says all fishinf on the river system shoul be banned Some fishing camps con tinue to operate he says with the owners telling guests they cant eat enough poisoned fish to hurt them When the Indians see the tourists eating the fish they say Why cant we This is the reason it should be closed federal report released earlier this year says very high exposure to mercury continues to be serious problem for guides working at fishing camps despite repeated government war nings about eating con taminated fish FOUGHT CLOSURES Both he federal and Ontario environment departments favor closing the system com pletely says Mr Lamm But Leo Bernier the Ontario natural resources minister and MPP for the area has fought closure Bernier has been protec ting the industries says Mr Lamm His views do not sit well with local businessmen many of whom say the tourist industr is not being hurt Its just not having the im act that certain people Roped it would have on our in dustr says Irv Plosker mote operator and president of the Northwestern Ontario Travel Association Last season was better than expected and operators were leased with deposits and okings received at this springs Sportsmans shows Mr Plosker says the num bers of sports fishermen are dwindling Theres definite change coming The camp operators can see theyre going to have to change to more family ac tivities such as bird wat ching hiking etc Replies Mr Lamm Thats just bunch of crap The real good fishermen are going to northern Saskat chewan the Northwest Territories and other areas Elizabeth Myles another large operator who closed in 1970 agrees CALLED NONSENSE That was bunch of non sense We had the best season ever in 1969 and were booked for 1970 Both contend that no honest businessman can say the mercury poisonin has not hurt the tourist in ustry Not many people will disagree that it has hurt the economies of Whitedog and Grassy Narrows the two main reser vcs on the poisoned river system Mr Lamms cam Bar neys Ball Lake Lodge ac commodated 125 guests at one time grossed $1 million year and employed 75 Indians from Grassy Narrows Mrs Myles who operated Hooks English River Camp with her husband Colin spent $250000 on supplies and serv ices in 1968 could ac commodate 70 guests and em ployed about 30 Indians Many of these people still are without work and since 1970 there has been an in crease in violence alcoholism and other social problems on the two re serves We erated there 25 years an never had an in cident big enough to call the police says Mr Lamm We didnt have drowning stabbing not an incident With any violence of any kind SHORE LUNCHES BANNED Mrs Myles says that early in 1970 the provincial govern ment advised operators of the mercury poisoning and said guests should not eat shore lunches of fish She notified guests with reservations and many cancelled She says she closed down because the rovincial over nment sai the pol ution would be cleared up in few months We thought that we could stand oneyear loss We were in good financial position and thought if it was one year we could take it Mrs Myles now operates much smaller camp on Lake of the Woods Mr Lamm has camps and flying operations in Manitoba the North West Territories and northwestern Ontario He says he will contintle to press his lawsuit against Reed Ltd the Dryden pulp and paper operation for dumping mercury into the system until last fall He estimates he has spent $250000 on the case already says he has attended every mercury conference available and has travelled to Japan to study mercury poisoning there We got involved because of the financial loss Now its matter of principle He says the Ontario govern ment spoiled his business then backed away It had protected itself by warning mople not to eat the fish then allowed other camps to continue operating Theres just no way you can operate fishing lodge and tell guests they cant eat the fish and cant have shore lunches Adds Mrs Myles If you want to sleep nights you tell them and tell them the truth Signs warning about eating the fish have been taken down she says and the government has left it up to the operators to tell guests about the poisoned fish This 01 town too long Summers almost gone At that point the door cIOSed and no more of the song could be heard as court resumed What brin all this to mind you as Saturday is the start of Salvation Army Red Shield Appeal month The Salvation Army was the only ray of sunshine that ever came into that otherwise dismal courtroom to do whatever it could in quiet humble and yet efficient way One can say that the Army went where angels feared to tread CANADAS STORY Two big mistakes in their campaign By BOB BOWMAN When the American Revolutionary War began in 1775 George Washington and his colleagues made two mistakes about Canada They sent armies to capture Mon treal and Quebec and they were defeated If they had captured Nova Scotia which included New Brunswick they probabl would have been success ul Then they could have blockaded the St Lawrence and prevented British ships from getting to Quebec and Montreal The conquest of Canada would have been relatively easy The other mistake was failing to do an adequate blic relations job If they sent emissaries to Nova Scotia and Canada soon enough they might have been successful in getting them to join the rebellion es pecially Nova Scotia Eventually the Americans did send Benjamin Franklin and two leading Roman Catholics to Montreal but it was too late While they were there units of the Royal Navy arrived at Quebec and the American troo that had been besieging fort had to retreat across the border This led to Montreal being abandoned as well+ including Franklin and his colleagues Franklin was good man for the job He had been Canadas first postmaster and organized the postal ser vice in Montreal Quebec and TroisRivieres in 1763 He What did the Army do that was so great It recognized that the in dividual no matter how low he or in this case she had sunk in the mire of the social highway they werestilI Iliman beings fhathééded the love understanding and iespectthatan humanbeing needs if itis to lourish So when the Salvation Ar my canvasser comes around dig deep because we need organizations like the Salvation Army to help amongst others those people for whom Summers almost gone knew number of important people He and his colleagues arrived in Montreal April 29 1776 and were welcomed by number of important businessmen many of whom were Americans but Roman Catholic churchmen were strongly opposed to breaking away from Britain They felt that the Roman Catholic church might lose its in fluence if it came under the strongly Protestant United States Furthermore the French language might also be lost without the protection Britain had provided Franklin brought good deal of continental money to distribute in Canada but it was not trusted People said it was not worth con tinental damn an ex pression still heard today OTHER APR 29 EVENTS 1742Pierre de la Ve rendryes sons began ex ploring for route to the Pacific 1792+Captain Vancouver arrived at Strait of Juan de Fuca 1891+First Canadian Pacific steamer Empress of India arrived at Vancouver 1903+Frank Alta was buried by an avalanche and it is believed about 100 people were killed 1962 Prime Minister Mac millan of Britain arrived at Ottawa to confer with Prime Minister Diefenbaker No returnfor UK on metric system use LONDON CP Britain is fully committed to the metric system and has long passed the int of no return says or Ewing chairman of the Metrication Board In the boards seventh an nual report OrrEwing said some 15 million students are fully absorbing metrics and most of the world has changed or is changing The exceptions were Brunei Bur ma Liberia and North and South Yemen The report said dates should be set now for full im plementation of metric BIBLE THO UGHT Then shall the Kings say unto them on his right hand Come ye blessed of my Father inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world for wasnaked and ye clothed me was sick and ye visited me was in prison and ye came unto me Matthew 2534 36 Let us do something spiritual for the starving multitudes today and pray and then let us also do something practical and give to that need Jesus fed the multitudes and He said in His Word As my Father hath sent me into the world so send you measuies in Britain although traditional imperial measures are not to be out lawed entirely The Metrication Board is an independent body respon sible to the secretary of state for price and consumer irotection During 1975 the report said metrication was achieved in measuring clothing furnishing fabrics and carpets propacked pasta salt sugar breakfast cereals flour oats dried vegetables edible fats dried fruit and biscuits Bulk deliveries of petroleum products in metric measure began in January and half the fish landed now is sold in metric units The metrication program in agriculture horticulture and allied industries is expected to be complete by the end of the year Industrial materials have been metricated for several years and metric measure is involved in more than half of all engineering production The construction industrys metrication program is vir tually complete Most inland and overseas freight tariffs now are based on metric weights and post and telecommunications are largely metricated THE PICK OF PUNCH Well Frederick you always wanted to be single again and now you are