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3hr ifiarrtr Examiner Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited 16 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario Robb PublisherGeneral Manager Walls Editor Emeritus Henshaw Managing Editor 4The Barrie Examiner Monday May 10 W76 modest suggestion about development days The tollowing edltorial is about professional develop ment days Since it is about professional development days it is about teachers It may be construed by some as being antiteacher It is not And we would ask those who find more significance In what is beMeen the lines than what is In the lines lust to read the lines The Simcoe County Board of Education is wrestling with the problem of professional develop ment days Professional development days are the days your youngsters have off schoo so teachers can get together to learn about the latest developments in society and in teaching Professional development days are not popular with arents Some teachers fee they are not popular with parents because some parents think schools are babysitting service And if the kiddies arent in school then they are not being babysat for free and that makes some parents mad Other parents feel professional development days hinder the education of their children They argue that teachers have full two months every summer for professional development and many parents dare question the worth of an education that is inter rupted every year for two months To interrupt it even further for professional development days seems rather pointless The board of education recognizes that the climate in Simcoe County works against school every day We have storms in this area and those storms sometimes make it difficult for schools to open Teachers are allowed by the ministry of education to take time off for 11 professional development days in year That is maximum and as with most situations where max imum is given maximum is taken The restraints argument is also used notably by Innisfil trustee Stewart Fisher who pointed out at recent board meeting that it seems little much to pay out $200000 iay in salaries for teachers who arent in their classrooms It is not really fair to teachers to mmpare what they do with what ha pens in other usinesses and in ustries And anyone other than teacher knows his boss doesnt pay him to spend one day away from work every year for profes sional development let alone 11 But what happens in other pro fessions such as the law medicine or engineering As general rule professional development days in those profes sions are handled on what other occupations refer to as days off One quaint definition of profes sional is an occupation in which there is not day off That defini tion does not apply to teachers since they are professionals even though they get lot of time off But teachers are unlike any otlger profession occupation or JO They teach and that alone place them in category all their own The real question that has to be answered about professional development days is Do they do any good And how do you decide whether professional development days do any good You can ask the teachers if they do any good That question of course has been answered if they didnt do any good then their pride as professionals would de mand that they call halt to them Teachers have not yet to ask that professional development days stop so as far as teachers are concerned they must be doing some good You can ask the students if pro fessional development days do any good Ask them if they have note an improvement in teacher performance following profes sional develo ment days Or in teacher know edge The answers might be interesting Or ask the parents if they have noted that their children appear to be being bettertaught following professional development days That approach might be very in teresting Or the school board trustees can be asked They of course charged with spending the public mone the best way possible will doubt ess answer on the basis of money which doesnt really answer the question of the worth of professional development days So what does the board do Asuggestion Cancel the professional development days all of em for the 19761977 school year Do it on the basis of financial restraint and in the meantime put together committee of teachers trustees parents AND students to examine the whole question of professional develop ment days whether they are needed or not and whether they do any good or not Then make decision for the 19771978 school year based on the recommendations of the commit tee INTERPRETING THE NEWS West Third World relations determined at UN conference By GEORGE KITCHEN UNITED NATIONS CP The future relationship between the industrialized West and the Third World is 3hr Earrir Examiner 16 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario Telephone 7266537 Registration Number 0484 Second Class Mail Return tage guaranteed Dai Sunda and Statutory Ho idays excepted Subscription rates daily by carrier 85 cents weekly $4420 yearly Single copies 15 cents By Mail Barrie $4420 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session to work out major changes in the international trade monetary and financial systems to meet the demands of develo ing countries for greater are in the worlds income The conference which opened Wednesday and runs to May 28 is being attended by 155 countries 111 of which are in the Third World groupin They produce much the worlds raw materials make up per cent the worlds population an dsreceive only 30 per cent of the worlds income They want new inter national economic order greater access to Western markets more money for their natural resources an easing of the heavy burden of debt they owe the west and more control over multinational companies zerating within their bor After sharp and bitter debate they won Western romises of change at that 1975 economic session the second such UN meeting in two years and now they want to see those words translated intoaction FACE IMPLIED THREATS If they are not the West faces the implied threat of in ternational cartels to control raw materials nationalization of properties and unilateral cancellation of debts The Nairobi agenda is replete with items with high sounding namescommodity banks manufactures and semimanufactures transfer of real resources transfer of technology trade relations and thelike But these can quickl translate into breadan butter issues for the average Western industrial worker if for example lowered trade barriers permit an influx of cheap foreignmade goods and leave him without job The debt problem is com plex and the amoufts enor mous Statistics published by the World Bank show that the outstanding public debt of 86 develo ing countries grew to $117 billion in 1973 from $38 billion in 1965 The triple burden of oil shortages the food crisis and the world recession has since shed that total to $130 Billion ro Well now we know how the other half lives PARLIAMENT HILL Gallery reporting dispute may affect Hill coverage By STEWART MacLEOD Ottawa Bureau Thomson News Service Since reporters frequently fight among themselves no one pays much attention to those little squabbles in the Parliamentary Press Gallery But the current dispute could have some far reaching implications regar ding the daily coverage of Parliament At the root of the dis ute is that longawaited pan to televise proceedings in the House of Commons And one of the offshoots is that television and radio reporters are up in arms over suggestions that this live coverage may eliminate the need to interview individual MPs after the daily question period In the middle of the dispute is Charles Lynch president of the press gallery who is being accused some of his electronic co leagues of strengthening these suggestions Mr Lynch of course is losing no op portunity to ex ress his views while new si issues keep developing petitions are cir culating and people whisper nasty things out each other In other words its typical press gallery squab ble But this one is more in teresting than usual because it does raise the question of how the public will view Parliament when television cameras are mounted in the Commons at cost of $3 million And this could hap pen as early as nextyear RESOLUTION SOON resolution will be presen ted to the House next month calling for the entry of the cameras and when this is ap provedas it will bea com mittee will be established to implement the plan Much of the work has already been done by an out side firm And to inform MP5 how televised Commons will appear on your screens the firm made film on the subject showing how the cameras will rate how the lighting will installed and how individual MPs will come across The film was shown to all party caucuses with en couraging results But when it was displayed to the parliamentary press gallery the results were decidedly different Elec tronic reporters said the whole tone of the production indicated that live coverage would replace the interviews complete with their forest of YOUR BUSINESS Several points made clear at conference on 011 prices By VINCENT EGAN Business and Consumer Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service Even though the federal provincial first ministers conference on oil prices en ded without agreement several points became clearer as result of it All Canadians will be pa ing much more than ays record high prices for gasoline and homeheating fuels after July Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island homeowners will face stiff new increases in their electricity hills which are already far beyond the ability of some of them to Pail The federal govern ments greed for more money is insatiable From all indications Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau is determined to use his Petroleum Ad ministration Act as the au thority for 25percent in crease in the price of Canadian crude oilto $10 barrel from $8 Neither Mr Trudeau nor his cabinet ministers have even retended that the 828 barre increase should act as deterrent to encourage Canadians to conserve mergy If there were the case the government would have made point of ensuring that most of the increaseand the similar increases in each year since 19173were ear marked for oil exploration and development Instead the oil industry has THE WORLD TODAY Guerrilla action forecast in African desert nation By JOHN HARBRON Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service The Namib is breath takingly beautiful and desperately awesome African desert with sand dunes higher than the Sahara The desert which divides one of the worlds most rugged interiors from the South Atlantic coast gives its name to Namibia which could be the next independent black state in southern Africa The more familiar name is South West Africa Eu ropeanized name assigned to the huge re ions by the Ger mans Sud est Afrika was their geographically largest African colon in the years before 1914 he Germanic nature of those years still clings The Namib desert is broken in the middle by the small South African enclave of Walvis Bay and the tiny tourist centre of Swakop mund Further to the south is the port of Luderitz and in the far east and north of Namibia slim anhapdle running paralle to Angola links the territory to independent Zam microphones that now bring MPs to television screens And what annoyed them most was that their president Mr Lynch was on the film ap pearing to support this thesis Without going into the sub sequent shouting its fair to say the film presentation en ded without riotous sustained applause One of the basic problems in the press gallery is that print journalists and elec tronic journalists have totally different requirements Since the print people require only pencil ey can operate ef fectively within the Commons chamber But cameras and micriéphones are not per mitte there so electronic reporters irust have some special arrangements Until few years ago cam eras wereset up outside the diamber and ter the daily question period MPs who said something significant inside were asked to repeat it for the benefit of radio and television But when the lob by became snaking mess of cables cords and cameras former Speaker Lucien Lamoureux decided that bet ter facilities had to be pro vided SPECIAL ROOM So special interview room was established one floor been allotted only pennies out of each of these big increases The lions share goes to the overnmentvno doubt to lp pay for the goldplated public service salary in creases and nsions that threaten to ankrup the public treasury In his singleminded con centration on his annual windfallnMr Tjudeau was deaf to the warnings of the oilconsuming provinces that iiprice increases will add to inflationary pressures on the prices that Canadians pay for everything and thereby slow down the economy Thats not just forecast based on economic theory Its what happened when or tawa boosted the price of barrel of Canadian oil to $360 bia It is still called Ca rivi named after one of the an cellors of Imperial Germany The major settled regions still bear names assigned by the Germans to designate tribal locations like Damaraland Hereroland and Bushmanland And at Kolmanskop Dut ch rather than German name the sand has moved in to irrevocably claim the town founded in 1908 by German ttlers to mine the diamon CONSTANI DESERT In the centre is the dreaded below the camerasit is called 1308 and MP5 were invited down there to repeat their statements And often they were saying great deal more than they said in the House This meant that the print journalists were in danger of missing new material So they began following the elec tronic reporters to monitor the conversations And yadually what began as simple repetition became fullscale news conference The whole exercise is miled the scrumand its fairly descriptive word for it Anyway amid all the con cerns and anger some of the electronic reporters are cir culating petition which will later be resented to all MP5 calling or continuation of the present interviewing process We dont want this television proposal sold on the basis that we are going to stop interviewing says the CBCs Terry Hargraves Its lovely little scra but somehow dont thin the electronic journalists have too much to worry about The MPs run Parliament and show me politician who in doesnt terviewed like being in 1973 to $6 in 1974 and to $8 in 1975 Mr Trudeau was only slightly less deaf to the ap peal of Nova Scotia and Prin ce Edward Island for moderation to ease the crisis facing users of electricity generated with overpriced oil He made the empty gesture of authorizin yet an other study of the pro lem SHORT MEMORY Backing him up was Alber ta Premier Peter Lougheed who conveniently forgot those yearsnot so long agowhen the rest of Canada was sup mrting his province by ying Alberta oil at hi her price than that for ich Venezuela was offering its crude omaheke thirstless lands into which the German colonial troops forced the waring Herreros in 1904 where they perished in the hundreds Beyond the thristless lands are the further terrors and perils of the Kalahari Desert now in the modern state of Botswana Today 750000 people inhabit this incredibly empty land with its diamond mines salt cattle farming cop About 400000 of them be ong to the large Owambo tribe in the central northern region bordering on Angola READER FORUM Union gives its side of cookware sale here DearSir The Executive of Local 545 United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers of America UE feel that some com ment is necessary to clarify some items which appeared recently in your paper con cerning our local As am sure everyone is aware union is nonprofit organization having only one source of income the dues paid by its members In UE our dues are comparatively low while the level of service to members is extremely high Cons uently we find it quite di ficult to adequately respond to the many appeals for assistance frequently financial which come to our door from various worthy aganizations and individuals in the community We have in the past been privileged to assist in the formation of such services as The Parkview Senior Citizens Recreation Centre and the Eaggedy Ann Day Care Cen We have sponsored Midget Baseball team and donate on regular basis to the Canadian Cancer Society the Heart Fund the Ontario AntiPoverty Organization and many other organizations We have been happy to assist various groups such as The Littles Hill Pla ers and the Barrie Social tanning Council through the free use our building and office equipment on various oc casions are presently providing this service to yet other grou of Barrie citizens and 00k forward to assisting others in the future We also endeavor in every way possible to be of assistan ce to those who make up the labor movement in Barrie and area not only the mem bers of our own union but also the workers who have no union to represent them in their UIC appeals or problems in getting Work mens Compensation etc This is responsibility taken very seriously by UE and we are proud to say that no one has ever been refused any help we can give OFFER CONSIDERED So when the opportunity arose for us to raise some money through the sale of cookware to our members their families and friends we agreed to consider it We examined the product which was to sell for $19 for seven piece set and then went out into the business community to compare quality and price Being convinced by our comparative shopping that this was good va ue we con tacted the office of the City Ofiers to be mediator for Barrie Mayor Reeve and Coun cillors attended the Tuesday May 4th Joint Meeting of the Council of the City of Barrie andlnnisfil am concerned and therefore am speaking out as taxpayer that we do not need to waste more of our money on more meetings like that one understand that annexation meetings have been oing on since 1969 and that is was the first public meeting wonder little has come about in the way of mutual agreement if past meetings were similar to that meeting attended Do we really have to go the expense of an OMB hearing that could drag on for months possibly for years When in the final analysis only time and more industry wil prove Barries case in point suggest as Innisfil has of fered 6500 acres now that Barrie take that and get on with the job of attracting more industry If Barrie needs more land in ten years THE PICK OF PUNCH Clerk where we were assured that no licence was required We then distributed prin ted leaflet toour own mem bership the workers at the Canadian General Electric Plant in Barrie advising them of the availability of the cookware For this we were to receive small commission on each set sold in threeand one inlf day period somewhat similar to the various fund raising activities of many service clubs church school and social organizations in Barrie and for the same pur pose to raise money for social welfare in the com munity Unfortunately some local business person objected to this activxty possibly regar ding it as competition and endeavored to prevent com pletion of the sale This was not the result however and we are greatly concerned about what did result Our people were disillusioned and an ered Disillusioned to find at in Barrie the much vaunted free enterprise stem is not free to workers ut only to Chamber of Commerce af filiates and angered by the assumption of certain elements in the area that they have the right to tell citizens and taxpayers of Barrie how and where they may spend their own honestlyearned dollars It is my sincere hope that the anger many of our mem bers are now expressing will not prevent them from sup porting the local merchants in the future as we have in the past am saddened to see businesses which have prospered in the downtown area for many years moving to relocate in the plazas leaving more and more emp ty shops on the oncesobusy Dunlop Street Many people are still calling our office and our homes to ask if it is possible to get sets of cookware We can only suggest that they go to Sears Towers mart Consumers Distributing West Bend Woolworths Graysonheld or Canadian Tire We understand that these stores have informed the federal investigator who was called in that they have sets of comparable quality at $19 or less on their shelves If we had been able to find even one such set in any of these stores we would probably not have un dertaken this venture Yours truly LAURA MacDONALD President UE Local 545 Innisfil fine Then go back to negotiation tables now speak out as real atate agent that we in this industry know that Barrie needs more land NOW more industry NOW Barrie is no longer the commuters delight and more so with the proposed increase in gasoline What alternatives does Council suggest to help balan ce an everincreasin residential tax load It shoul be land now and more in dustry As candidate seeking the nomination for Simcoe Cen tre for the Progressive Con servative Party there is no better time to make my voice heard and get my feet wet suggest mediator be ap inted and feel that wou quite capable and willing to act as an unpaid mediator if acceptable by both parties to seek that necessary com pomise to get land for in distry NOW Respectfully Yours Derek VernonBrowne lhcyrc threatening to kill lllf story if fluy dont got good zoom on terrified hostage