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Ellie Emir Examiner Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited 16 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario Robb PublisherGeneral Manager Walls Editor Emeritus Henshaw Managing Editor 4The Barrie Examiner Tuesday June I976 Some positive action about citys downtown How about that Downtown is no longer sitting the malls have all the fun and get most of the cus back and letting tomers Last weekend mall on Dunlop street proved successful Hats off to the Downtown Im provement Board for show Drawing attention to Barrie is part of the battle to win ning revitalized core for this ci ty Chamber of Commerce some wording The mall and efforts by com mittee of the Greater Barrie in the official plan are drawing attention to the core Last week chamber officials met with representatives of city message It was to make council planning nicipal staff to give them the board and mu change the official plan downtown the principal retail commercial institutional cultural and administrative area successful of Barrie It is important that council so downtown designate downtown before the ci ting to change ty will attract provincial help or major private investment The chamber cites the exper ience of Peterborough in attrac Eatons as reason to change Barries official plan Deterioration of the core must be reversed and it is in the power of council to help do it DOWN MEMORY LANE 10 YEARS AGO IN TOWN Barrie Examiner June 1966 Special edition marked 50th an niversary of the association bet ween Barrie and Base Borden Mayor Cooke and Col Elliott commented upon the ex cellent relations between the two Commodore Ha rold Brett took salute at annual sailpast of Barrie Yacht Club Barrie district collegiates will have full complement of teachers next year despite provincewide Third annual Ys Mens Pet Show attracts 230 en tries to Barrie Armoury Mrs Russell McLaren named presi dent of Barrie Horticultural Socie Damage could hit $30000 communities shortage ty after lightning hits roof Avenue United Church Barrie dian softball Guelph of Burton INTERPRETING THE NEWS US officials watching for rebellion in Sri Lanka By KEVIN DOYLE WASHINGTON CP US government officials have be gun closely monitoring events in the South Asian island coun try of Sri Lanka where specula tion is growing that poten tially bloody leftwing rebellion may be developing Recently Sri Lanka for merly Ceylon has been hit by wave of big robberies at gover nment institutions on pattern similar to that of 1971 when such action was followed by twomonth terrorist uprising which killed more than 1200 people and led to the arrests of 3100 others US sources familiar with events on the island just off In dia say Prime Minister Siri mavo Bandaranaike has al ready warned her provincial administrators of the danger of new round of terrorism and urged them to take preventive measures whenever possible In 1971 insurgents managed to capture several towns and government outposts and were reported to have assembled detailed plans for assassinating the prime minister new US ambassador to Sri Lanka former governor John Reed of Maine has just been named and officials say his most pressing task will be to assess the possibility of coup and of any foreign involvement At the height of the 1971 insur Ehr Barre 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 Mail Barrie $4420 yearly Simcoe County $3400 yearly Balance of Canada $3600 year Iy National Advertising Offices 65 Queen St West Toronto w41710 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 Reuter and also the local news published therein The Barrie Examiner claims Copyright in all original adver tismg and editorial material created by its employees and Ere roducedin this neWSpaper yright Registration rNum r203815reglster61 rection the North Korean em bassy staff was expelled alleg edly for having influenced the insurgents LEADER UNPOPULAR Central to the uneasiness on the island is the unpopularity of Mrs Bandaranaike and her So cialist government As concession to the ex treme leftists now believed to be the most active in planning coup the government has in re cent years nationalized most of Sri Lankas formerly foreign owned tea industry the centre piece of the islands economy But the administration has been unable to filfill its pledge to re lace foreign managers with omestic executives or to expand the tea industry sig nificantly following crippling drought in 1972 Observers say there are few signs of starvation among the 125 million inhabitants how ever partly because of free food rations and fairly exten sive social services Nevertheless the economy has been weakened by the re cent recession and the popu lation which had been used to relatively good life is restless Some estimates place the of 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 branch of the ASSOCiated Cana Travellers membership drive achievement Barrie Police Chief Edward Tschirhart attends annual con vention of Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police Flyers score 10 runs in the sixth inning on their way to victory over West Bend in Barrie intermediate leag stops Elmvale Palace Hotel 81 in senior league outing Hunter of RR Stroud wins Dr Salsburys Laboratories scholar ship for proficiency in the study of poultry science at Ontario Agri cultural College University of Reeve Anthony Beck of Wasaga seeking reelection will stand on his record honored for Base Borden ue Barrie Plaza WC ficial unemployment rate at 14 per cent but this does not in clude possibly large numbers who may be working for the equivalent of few dollars month LEADERS WARY Tourism has picked up shar ply according to official figures and is providing badly needed foreign exchange But private investors and inter national lending institutions are balking at providing fur ther assistance Sri Lankas complex and con stantly changing foreign rela tions are making it extremely difficult for outsiders to get clear understanding of the in ternal situation Moscow has supplied the country with jet fighters troop carriers and small arms China has provided patrol boats the US sends helicopters and Brit ain has sold rifles and grenades to Sri Lanka Nevertheless re lations with China seem stronger than with the others Sri Lankas huge deepwater port at Trincomolee might be an enticing superpower prize but so far officials say there seems little possibility of struggle developing for the port during any domestic upheaval To retire OKLAHOMA CITY AP Carl Albert 68 speaker of the House of Representatives an nounced Saturday he will retire at the end of his present term in the United States Congress Albert Democrat from Okla homa who has served in Con gress for 30 years said in statement that he decided long ago not to serve beyond his 70th year Get off my bloody fool sumlhenrlu NEW APPROACH Theyre leading revival in economic understanding By VINCENT EGAN Business and Consumer Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service In one survey after another the standards of presentday education have been made to look battered and torn In using English su risingly large numbers of stu ents are unable to write sentence much less distinguish between who and whom In history respectable number may recognize im portant dates and personalities but far too many lack any con ceptual grasp of important events And economics Awareness among high school students is negligible University students by necessity absorb more eco nomicsbut usually in highly subjective version reflecting the individual philosophy of their instructor Whether student graduates with no awareness of econom ics or with received prejudices that student is ill equipped to make everyday economic decisionsvabout spending borrowing in vestingand to act as respon sible citizen of democracy PRIMARY CONCERN With each passing year eco nomics is an increasingly im portant element in public life Publicopinion polls show consistently that inflation is the one issue that concerns Canadians most deeplybecause of its obvious impact on our ability to provide the necessities of life and to plan for the future In the news of the day the biggest story is inflationand the neverending fight between those who would reduce it and those who want more and more it Three years ago Robert War ren the retired director of edu cation in Calgary completed survey of the way economics was being taught across Can ada looking closely at the de gree of teacher interest in the subject and the supply of teach ing materials The survey clearly showed the need for an organized ap proach to economic education in the schools BALANCED APPROACH Trying to promote broader understanding of economics among generally apathetic public and teaching profession may seem like an impossible task But thats the task that was undertaken two years ago by volunteer group motivated by the findings of Dr Warrens survey The volunteers established the Canadian Foundation for Economic Education with an office at 155 University Ave Toronto headed by Freeman Stewart executive director of the Canadian Education Association The guiding principle of the nonprofit foundation is strict nonpartisanship Membership on the board of directors is meticulously bal anced40 per cent from the education profession 20 per cent from organized labor 20 per cent from business and 20 per cent representing econom ics agriculture and consumers Executive vicepresidential duties are shared by Gordon Milling research director of the United Steelworkers of YOUR BUSINESS At the heart of the argument America and Harvey Perry retired executive director of the Canadian Bankers Association HOW IT WORKS The objective of the founda tion is described as functional economic literacy for as many people as possiblein other words equipping young people for life with some of the most basic conce ts in economics would the first to admit that this is not an easy objec tive to achieve says the foun dations executive director Les lie Cole himself former school teacher Its one thing to be con cerned about the lack of knowl edge among Canadians about how our economic system works much more difficult prob lem is to determine the best way to do something about it The route the foundation has chosen is to set up regional or provincial councils to work with local teachers Threeweek summer courses for highschool teachers have al ready been held in Halifax and Saint John NBwith empha sis on the methodology of teach ing economicsand the pro gram is to be extended to other cities as the foundations fi nances permit It is supported entirely by voluntary contributions The di rectors believe that the group should neither ask for nor ac ccpt government grants The foundation is going to the aid of teachers in another wayby making an assessment of current teaching materials on economics and by devel oping further instructional ma terials to be offered to teachers where the need appears to be is BNA Acts pogg clause By VINCENT EGAN Thomson News Service Ottawa has had some big at tractions in the early days of June including Gilbert Be cauds performances at the Na tional Arts Centre and the Que bec dairymens rampage on Parliament Hill One of the major crowdpull ers however has beenof all thingsa session of the Su preme Court of Canada Any sitting of the Supreme Court in the noble courtroom that visitors reach by an impos ing staircase is an impressive sight But the hearings called to de cide in effect whether the anti inflation restraints are legiti mate have brought to Ottawa an unusually notable gathering of lawyers along with con stant queue of ordinary people who would rather absorb the historic arguments than bask in the earlysummer sunshine that makes the city look its best The case arose after group of school teachers in Renfrew Ont dissatisfied with their salary increases challenged Ontarios right to place its civil servants incomes under the federal restraint program The federal government in the person of Justice Minister Ron Basford ordered the Su preme Court to review the law decide whether the AntiIn flation Act is valid and whether it can apply in Ontario without provincial legislative approval Those questions are regarded as so farreaching that most of the other provinces chose to be represented at the Supreme Court and offer the benefit of their views Other legal and paralegal people equally anxious to par ticipatc helped to pack the courtroomeven to the extent of virtually displacing journal ists from the table supposedly reserved for the press The case is one that is best savored by legal kinds attuned to the niceties of legislative lan guage and constitutional prece dents And the Supreme Courts de cision seems likely to serve as precedent for future years in cases having nothing to do with inflation At the heart of the matter is Strange bedfellows as Syria sends in troops By GEORGE KITCHEN UNITED NATIONS CP International power plays can roduce strange bedfellows but ew have been so strange as the current threesome of Syria Is rael and the United States That is the spectacle which emerges in the Middle East as Israel and the US stand aside in silent and obvious approval as Syria sends its troops and tanks rumbling into neigh boring Lebanon in move to end the festering Lebanese civil war Meanwhile the Soviet Union applauds quietly from the side lines Such acquiesence would have been unthinkable six months ago The Israelis would have bristled and sent troo charg ing to the frontier ha the Syr ians as much as set foot on Lebanese soil Washin ton would have thundered ut Syrian interference in the inter nal affairs of her neighbor Six months ago Syria was lending powerful support to the Palestine Liberation Organ ization PLO in their call for the dismantling of the modern state of Israel Now Syria is at odds with PLO chieftain Yasser Arafat and by its intervention appears to have taken up arms against PLO guerrillas in volved in the Lebanese civil war APPROVES MOVE Israeli Prime Minister Yit zhak Rabin said in speech in Haifa that he Would not stand in the way of anyone who wan ts to subdue Arafats terror ists Washington also has been concerned about the yearlong strife between Lebanons Chris tian and Moslem communities and the mounting toll of more than 25000 dead Israel has natural concern about developments in Lebanon since the two countries share common border Any wholesale Syrian takeover of Lebanon may pose an immediate threat to the security of Israel which is still in technical state of war with Syria and Egypt de spite Nsupervised troop with drawals on both fronts One key to the calm Israeli reaction is the positioning of the Syrian forces The Syrians have struck at the waist of Lebanon far north of the Israeli border and thus pose no immediate threat The Israelis may also recognize that moderating in fluence even though Syrian in nature would be preferable to continuing turmoil and even tual chaos WIDENS GAP bonus for the Israeli cause is that the Syrian move widens the gap between Syria and Egypt the two comradesin arms in the sixday 1973 war against Israel The two Arab states have been at loggerheads since Egypt signed second Sinai disengagement accord with Israel last fall without in sisting on comprable Israeli withdrawal in Syrias Golan Heights frontier area Egypt since has been seeking to woo the PLO away from the Syrians and assume the mantle champion of the Palestinian cause The tipoff to the Syrian plan for intervention came last week when Syria agreed without po litical conditions to sixmonth extension of the UN buffer for ce which guards the frontier be tween Syria and Israel The ex tension serves to protect that flank for Syria while she is oc cupied in Lebanon BECOME HANDY GIRLS TORONTO CP Handy Woman takeoff on the comic book and television character Wonder Woman might soon ap pear asa promotionin lumber and burlding material stores catering to ddituyourselfers Wentworth BuildAll of Hamilton originated Handy Woman to try and show women they can do home repairs at least as well as men greatest MAKING CHOICE If people because of igno rance of economic matters cant perceive where the com mon interest lies how can we expect their actions to be re sponsible asks Leslie Cole General indifference and ig norance about economic rela tionships leads to myth and confusion It seems very clear to me that when times turn harder as they certainly have done throughout the world in the ast two years then pu lic opinion fed by myth and con fusion tends to get ever more polarized and the common in terest even more obscure Thats why feel that the argument for economic educa tion is bound up closely with the nature of democracy itself In country after country during the past year or two seriousminded people have been raising questions about the ability of democratic in stitutions to survive the on slaught generated by double digit inflation and severe indus trial recession Nobodynot even the people at the Canadian Foundation for Economic Educationbelieves that by exposing teenagers to courses in economics it will be possible to resolve our eco nomic problems or even bring about consensus as to what the problems are If people are to make res sible intelligent choices aggut such pressing questions as energy development environ mental protection and income restraints however they can only do it when they recognize the full economic implications something the lawyers call the pogg clausea section of the British North America Act that assigns to the federal government the responsibility or the peace order and good government of Canada The federal position is that pogg gives it the right to deal with the economy generally and inflation specificallytwo topics not mentioned in the RNA Act UNLIKELY PARTNERS Ontarios Tory government supports that federal inter pretation Albertas Tory gov ernment opposes it Lawyers for Alberta and for the Canadian Labor Congress strange bedfellowscontended in effect that while pogg may be grounds for federal inter vention in an emergency it isnt good enough in the case of serious problems the ex pression used in the federal governments white paper an nouncing the antiinflation pro gram Highlighted by the probing questions of few of the nine Supreme Court justices the case has had all the ebb and flow of western movie fist fight For the spectators on the pub lic benches however things must have seemed about as ir relevant as movieso seldom did the reality of ruinous in flation impinge upon the legal and constitutional arguments Outside the Supreme Court one lawyer from Western Can ada summed it up with the ob servation that while everyone could see abundant evidence in daytoday life that inflation is national emergency the federal authorities hadnt proved it within the panelled walls of the Supreme Court US campaign frightening By JOHN HARBRON Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service The several presidential can didates in the United States have been using the many pri maries for some frightening personal assessments of Ameri can foreign policy The worst offenders are Ron ald Reagan Republican con tender and Governor Carter the Democratic hopeful neither of whom have had any direct experience with the Washington bureaucracy or the state department Senator Frank Church presidential hopeful who has had very great deal to do with the state department and Washington bureaucracy in much trouble since the Nixon years is more precise about them He has called State depart ment officials who advise suc cessive presidents and secretaries of state com pulsive interventionists By this he meant they had advised Kennedy Johnson and Nixon to interven in Viet nam and in other places of crises like the Dominican Republic and possibly at one point to consider also an inva sion of North Korea If so thats the kind of state department official Ronald Reagan would like to have around if he ever were elected president Indeed the most erroneous and sabrrerattling of the for eign policy statements during these record number of pri maries was the famous Reagan misstatement about the Pan ama Canal WRONG 0N PANAMA Most American school kids are supposed to be thoroughly indoctrinated in American his tory even if Reagan isnt And any one of them could have re minded him that the US did not annex the canal zone but it was made available for lease in perpetuity This is controversial ee ment which both presi ents CANADAS STORY Great explorers and militarists By BOB BOWMAN The LeMoynes of Montreal were among the greatest mili tary families in Canadian his toryperhaps world history It might also be claimed that the La Verendryes of Three Rivers were the greatest exploring family The father Pierre Gaultier went to France and served with the army He was gravely wounded at Malplaquet but re turned to Canada where he got into the fur trade in 1711 On June 1731 after serving in the Thunder Bay area he was given permission to estab lish post on Lake Winnipeg This was the beginning of number of daring trips to the West that led to his establishing posts at Rainy Lake Lake of the Woods Fort Maurepas near presentday Selkirk Winnipeg and Portage la Prairie His three sons were just as active although JeanBaptiste was killed on this date in 1736 when his party was attacked by Sioux at Massacre Island Lake of the Woods The other two sons Pierre and LouisJoseph known as BIBLE THOUGHT Let not your heart be troubledye believe in God believe also in me In my Fathers house are many man sions if it were not so would have told you go to prepare place for you And if go and prepare place for you will come again and receive you unto myself that where am there ye may be also Johnl4l3 If you know Him on earth you will be with Him in Heaven What reunion of the redeemed with the Redeemer Praise God Johnson and Nixon were pre pared to renegotiate with Pan ama President Ford would have continued to do so except the Panamanians broke off dis cussions Governor Carter is less cate gorical as he is about most is sues But one must wonder about the ability of semiru ral agribusiness millionaire with Biblebelt view of world relations to cope with the very complex issues of foreign pol icy which he would have to do if elected And of course whoever wins Henry Kissinger will not be around to supply the masters hand and rain to future foreign policy crises His era will end with the end of the Ford administration Other than detente with the Soviet Union word President Ford no longer uses in his speeches to satisfy voters out there who are strongly anti Communist some major foreign policy crises face the US These include the mounting race war in Southern Africa the possibility of Com munist regime in Italy the ongoing world inflation and the possibility of stillhigher Arab oil prices at the beginning of 1977 Reagan has already em broiled himself in more foolish statements about Rhodesia He backed down last week from his alleged remarks that as presi dent he would propose mixed military force from major white countries to go to the aid of that white racist territory In the meantime President Ford for some eason or another has hastily called an economic summit in Puerto Rico to which he has invited the heads of all the major industrial countries including Canada At this stage of the US presi dential campaign its best to try and not take all the remarks seriously The only fear is that some of the candidates especially Ron ald Reagan are doingjust that Chevalier made trip into the territory of the Mandan Indians in 1742 They set out from presentday Portage la Prairie and went southwest across the Mississippi River and didnt re turn until the following year During that trip they saw high mountains in the distance and it is possible that they were the Big Horn range of the Rock ies In that case they were the first people apart from In dians to see the Rockies An thony Henday is officially credited with that distinction because there is no doubt that he saw the Rockies in 1754 when he was at Red Deer Alta During the Verendryes trip west in 17421743 the Chevalier buried metal plate as souve nir It was found in 1913 by some young people who were walking near appropriately Pierre the capital of South Da kota The inscription includes the information that the plate was buried March 30 1743 OTHER JUNE EVENTS USSAdmiral Boscawen de feated French ships off New foundland although war had not been declared HasSpaniards seized British ships at Nootka Van couver Island 1790Kings College was opened at Windsor NS 1824Patent for washing ma chine was issued at Quebec to Noah Cushing 1832Ship Carrick from Dub lin arrived at Quebec with half its passengers dead from Ch lera 1859Gov Douglas estab lished Supreme Court of British Columbia ISMLegislature of Canada opened its last session before Confederation 1881Fire at Quebec de stroyed 642 homes 1893First steamer on Can adaAustralia line arrived at Victoria BC THE PICK OF PUNCH Ive done it Ive done it substitute for soya