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The Earth Examiner Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited l6 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario Robb PublisherGeneral Manager Walls Editor Emeritus Henshaw Managing Editor 4The Barrie Examiner Friday June ll I976 Remember the taxpayer in county restructuring In dealing with restructuring and updating Simcoe County ad ministration the prime concern of those charged with the respon sibility of the decisionmaking should be the best interests of the residents concerned Population projections are in teresting and merit attention but it should not be overlooked that the ef fect of regulations and strategy in volved could be of much greater im portance The property ratepayers and other taxpayers who have to provide the money to meet the costs should be constantly kept in mind The stress given the need to people who live here and their childrens future also should not be considered protect the rights of the lightly Reeve Ingram Amos of Medonte probably spoke for most members of Simcoe County council as well as informed residents of this area when he submitted the ultimate decisionmaking should be done at the area and local levels of ad ministrations The criticism of the trend toward more centralization of powers in recent years is un derstandable Strong local govern ment has been one of the illars of our democratic way of lie and is something which should be highly cherished Elected municipal councils are much closer and more responsive to the people concerned pointed task forces or commissions which hold sparsely attended public meetings Hence recommendations from elected representatives should areas has carry more weight It is understandable that the sub stantial rise in taxes in regional made Simcoe County council apprehensive of such change The forecast of socalled ex perts in Muskoka and other areas just failed to materialize Propertyowners do not need to be told that taxes have been soaring beyond reasonable levels when despite heavy taxation govern ments have found themselves get ting deeper and deeper into public debt At todays high carrying charges it is mounting burdens on taxpayers with day of reckoning certain to come In Simcoe County survey of the need for new recreation facilities now being carried out should not overlook logical cost estimates or projected realism undertakings The opinions of taxpayers who of necessity must provide the financial backing should not be disregarded Allusions to Wintario funds diversion which should not ignore isa In freespending era it has been too easy to make hasty decisions oncelocal Without sound thought and meaningful consideration of the financial aftermath than ap in mind Warnings already have been given about the economic reper cussions which are faced because of overnment overspendin mancing and mounting pufili The average taxpayer looks to his elected representative to protect his purse and his rights It is major responsibility that all elected to public office should constantly bear deficit debt Indians get the dirty jobs native womens leader says REGINA CP Agnes Sinclair trained child care worker with seven years of experience approached the federal manpower office here several times to ask for help in finding job The only work they would give me was cleaning houses she said Mrs Sinclair said she believes the main reason she was not offered jobs more suited to her qualifications is thatsheis anlndian Our peeple always get the dirty jobs lot of girls are qualified as secretaries or something else but they get offered jobs cleaning house Mrs Sinclair said those ex periences made her want to give up trying to find any type of work But after got in with Native Women and we began fighting for our rights as women and as natives it makes you want to try again The Saskatchewan Native Womens Association one of the youngest native organiza tions in the province has grown steadily since it was started in 1972 and now has 1000 members Mrs Sinclair said STICKS TO FUNDAMEN TALS It also has earned the reputation of being one of the most dynamic and responsi ble of Saskatchewans native groups Mrs Sinclair president of the associations Regina Th2 Ifiarrtr Examiner 16 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario Telephone 7266537 Registration Number 0484 Second Class Mail Return tage guaranteed Dai Sunda sand 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 yNational Advertising Offices 65 Queen St West Toronto 8644710 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 Router and also the local news published therein The Barrie Examiner claims Corynght in all original adver tisng and editorial material aerated by its employees and regroduced In this newspaper ogeyrright Registration Nam 203815reglster61 local attributes some of the groups success to the fact that most of its programs deal with fundamental con cerns such as housing educa tion and teaching native Women about their rights Native Women gives us chance to run our own pro grams and run our own lives Afnd we know best what kind rograms we want and need She said lack of adequate housing is the primary pro blem confronting natives both on and off the reserves Reserve homes often lack running water have inade quate sanitation facilities and are so badly constructed that they are little more than shacks while in the cities there is an acute housing shortage for all income levels Mrs Sinclair said MOVES INTO RESERVES To try to improve this situa tion Native Women which has been rimarily an urban based ur anoriented group now is branching out to organize women on the reserves so that they can form their own lobbying groups and develop more local housing programs In the cities Native Women tperates five houses to pro vide emergency accommoda tion to both native and white women and children Since the Native Women house in Regina opened last fall it has been full every night has developed waiting list of about 80 and is often so crowded that women and children sleep on the floors Mrs Sinclair said She said one of the main reasons why natives in Regina are finding it par ticularly tough to get decent housing is because of the cilt tys zerovacancy rate for rental accommodation With this housing squeeze many landlords could afford to be choosy about their tenants and often refused to rent to natives HOMESOVIIRCROWIHZI This situation is forcing many of the citys 30000 natives to crowd two and sometimes three families into one home pay exorbitant rents bribe landlords and snap up any available hous ing often without risking the time to take look at it she said When the aper comes out we just grai it phone up the landlord and offer him as much money as we can To combat this native Women encourages natives to file complaints with the human rights commission whenever they have been discriminated against by landlords The group is campaigning for more and better sub sidized housing for Reginas natives 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 QUEENS PARK Conservatives embroiled By JOHN IIARIIRON ForeignAffairsAnnlyst Thomson News Service Receiving little attention in this country the Organization of American States OAS has held another annual mccting of hemispheric foreign ministers this time in Santiago hilc Chile remains the most criti cal Latin American republic in WE ARE LEARNING GREAT DEAL HERE AT HABITAT THE FOOD IN CANADA IS SO PLENTIFUL THAT DURING PUBLIC DEMONSTRATIONS IT IS THROWN AT POLITICIANS THE WOORLI TODAY Kissmger gives the word on his OAS visit to Chile which to hold an OAS meeting given the continuing repression and alleged tortures against po litical prisoners still cal ried out by that countrys harsh military regime Indeed Mexico which has bccn bitterly opposed to the hilciin junta since it over thrcw and killed Marxist President Salvador Allende in YOUR BUSIN The nuclear scare not catching on By VINCENT EGAN Business and Consumer Affairs Analyst Thomson News Sen icc Scare tactics ar being 011 ployed increasineg against the use of nuclear reactors as an alternative power source Indications are however that the campaign is failing to catch on On June for exam ple voters in California ap proved by twotoonc margin the continued use of nuclear generating stations in their state On the referendum the pro posal put forward by the anti nuclear campaigners wzis wor ded in such way that voters had to say No in order to ap prove of nuclear energy The minority who moved Yes were saying among other things that the power companies should be required to assume unlimited liability for their plants Otherwise all of Californias nuclear plants would have had to close by 1987 The antinuclear cam paigners knew of course that in membership drive By DON OHEARN Queens Park Bureau Thomson News Service TORONTO Currently the Progressive Conservatives are engaged in membership drive Canvassers throughout the province are trying to dig out voters who will become card carrying members This is one of the ste being taken to try and buil up the party for the next election It doesnt prompt one to go running out on limb to predict PC victory The arty may pick it some mem rs but it is dou tful if this effort will produce much in new votes Membership campaigns though an often used tool in our politics have never been no tably successful one The New Democratic Party has used it the most effectively It has always had core mem bershi which it has used both as cor organization and source of funds From time to time usually at annual meetings it will an nounce membership drives But there never have been spectacular results And the two older parties have fared even worse Over the years the Liberals have tried membership drives particularly after they have just elected one of their many new leaders And there have been no no table or even noticeable re sults It is new for the PCs to try plugging membership Over the years the art has tended to remain aloof pu licly at least from the old mechan ics of daytoday politicsand membershi drives are cer tainly anol mechanic That is is trying them now could indicate two things One that it is getting bit desper ate And two that there is lack of imagination in its politi cal leadership McMURTRY PRESS Perhaps because he has come in for bit of criticism new of ficial biography of Attorney General Roy McMurtry has been issued to the press The opening paragraph tells us It is rare tittorneygerr theres no such thing as unlimited insurance coverage By sctling an impossible stan dard for the utilities they hoped to stop the use of nuclear power altogether similar goal has been pur sued by different means in Van couvcr at the informal Habitat Forum paralleling the United Nations fonfcrcncc on Human Settlements SAFETY RECORD Ihc noted United States anth ropologist Margaret Mead at tracted cheering overflow audience at the Forum ac cording to the New York Times which said the scene could have been US antiVietnam teachin in the 1960s Its probably useless to speculate on why shutdown of major part of North Americas energy supplies should attract the same kind of support as did North Vietnams armed invasion of South Viet nam But the safety record of the nuclear industry and the claims experience of the prop eral who brings to the job the variety of experience Roy Mc Murtry does Then the next paragraph tells us that he was captain of the Varsity football team Just what this has to do with being suitable attorneygen eral is left to the imagination There is chance that Mc Murtry is getting bad break from the press It has latched on to his positions on hockey pornography and more recen tly hate calls and built them up And there has been little other mention of him lhis could have left the im age of politician avaricious for publicity But the problem is that there has been very little else to write about him September 1973 refused to at tend this OAS meeting As an important Latin Ameri can state the absence of her foreign minister was clearly felt Human rights groups and commissions around the world asked Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to make major statement about the lack of hu ertyandcasualty insurance in dustry give no support to the wild claims of danger that have been made by antinuclear campaigners Insurance companies were rcluotant to prowde coverage of nuclear plants in the late 19505 when the decision was made to go ahead with planning of the new power source It has turned out however to be one of the most profitable lines or business for the US in surance industry There have been no injuries because of nuclear accidents at nuclear plants and only few among suppliers Here are figures on the com panies claims experience pro vided by the US Insurance In formation Institute LOSSES SMALL On the liability side pre miums of $74 million have been received by the insurance com panies since they started pro viding this type of coverage Claims and claim expenses have amounted to only $570562 The industry has started to pay refunds out of its reserves and last year it returned $5 mil lion to its insured utility com nies and reduced premiums 20 per cent on liability insur ance over $100 million On the property side where the allrisk insurance extends to all operations and not nust to nuclear the insurers have col lected $117 million and paid claims of $26 million The companies have been re ducing the premiums they charge because claims have been relatively small Pre miums are being cut 295 per cent this year compared with 241 rcent last year ile the safety record of the nuclear industry has been en viableas borne out by insur ance experienceit is never theless true that major nu clear accident could happen Its also sible that several fully 108 cd jumbo jets could collide in midair Theoretical possibilities havent been allowed to block the resent growth of air trave however andif the California vote is reliable in dicator of public opinionnthey will not stop te equally prudent development of nuclear energy IV sie man rights in Chile and in Latin America while in Santiago Dr Kissinger did this not only in Santiago but enroute during stopover in Santo Do mingo capital of the Dominican Republic The United States secretary of state made it clear to the military government of Chilean President General Augusto Pinochet not to expect Ameri can support for his in ternational loans until he cleans house where civil liber ties are concerned STRONG CRITICISM This might not have been the kind of criticism which world humanitarian groups wanted from the American secretary of state But it is likely to have more impact than tough mother hood kind of statement which will have no effect on the Chil ean generals In country facing the same deep economic problems and severe balanceofpayments difficulties which also plagued the late president Allende the Kissinger approach was more realistic one The military carried out the very bloody military coup of September 1973 not only to un seat president they hated be cause he was Marxist but be cause he had brought the Chil ean economy to its lowest level in history lhe generals have not been able to restore health to Chile and have had to rely on huge foreign borrowings on which pigments of interest due have it difficult to meet Other than this major issue the OAS settled down to the routine matters of this hemis pheric or anization trade transfer technology prob lems regional economic coop eration and human rights in other Latin American nations like Brazil Paraguay and Bo livia The OAS largely escapes our gaze in Canada because we are not member nation though we have had an official ob server at the OAS with am bassadors rank since 1972 Since its formation in 1948 from the older Pan American Union the OAS has been ac cused of domination by the US its most powerful mem ber and still is CUBA MAJOR ISSUE Many of the issues about its viability and usefulness have concentrated on its relations with Cuba since the time that country was expelled from the OAS in 1962 by the kind of vote not permitted in the inter national bodys constitution BIBLE IIIOUOHI The Lord gave the word great was the company of those that published it Psalms 6811 Today if you will give out rtion of Gods Word you can gbcome part of this great promise Who among us would not want to be in partnership with Him Of dictionaries and perspective By STEWART acLEOD Ottawa Bureau Thomson News Service If youre going to write about politics day after day its vir tually impossible to keep issues in Iperspective without constant re erence to magnificent old book called The Devils Dic tionary The trouble is havent had one for years And since the au thor Ambrose Bierce hasnt been seen since 1913 it isnt easy to pick up another copy have been searching for weeks Excuse me said to girl in one store do you have copy of The Devils Dic tionary Sure she replied youll find it under the occult Its all about Satanism isnt it She led me to section which dealt with Satanism astrology ghosts and witches It Wouldnt be here tried to explain You see its really humorous book It defines pol iticians as those who have lear ned to rise above their prin ciples Whats humorous about that she asked with librarian rigidity Obviously what you want will be with the dictionaries over there dont think so remember that the book defines Con servative as statesman who is enamored of existing evils as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others Thats dictionary she said NOT THERE But the book wasnt in that section Can you tell me anything else about it she asked Well remember the defini tion of poverty It was that the number of plans for its abolition equals that of the re formers who suffer from it plus that of the philoso hers who know nothing about it Lets look under poverty she suggested No no because this book also describes the Senate as body of elderly gentlemen charged with high duties and misdemeanors That confused her sol left went to another bookstore am looking for The Devils Dictionary the book which describes politics as strife of interests masquerading as contest of principlesthe conduct of public affairs for private ad vantage The sales clerk was excited 15 that the book that defines representative as member of the Lower House in this world and without discernible hope of promotion to the next CAN ADAS STORY Franklin really deserved honor By BOB BOWMAN The search for the Northwest Passage began about 1500 when Sebastian Cabot recommended it as the short route between Europe and Asia There is possi ility that he may have made voyage to Hudson Bay about that time Gaspar Corte Real certainly got to Greenland in 1500 Many other great explorers followed Among them were Hudson Button Foxe Baffin Davis Ross Frobisher Bylot and Weymouth route through the Arctic was finally discovered by the Sir John Franklin expedition in 1846 but he and all his men died there and it was not until 1859 that the story of the expedition became known Sir John died Junell 1847 In the meantime Britain sent many expeditions to the Arctic to try to find Franklin One of them led by Captain Robert McClure got the credit for find ing the first route McClure en tered the Arctic from the Pa cific and found open water through Melville Sound How ever it took him four years to get back to Britain where he was knighted and earned re ward of £10000 which he shared with his men Franklin really deserved the honor Nobody worked harder for it He spent from 18191822 exploring the Arctic coast be tween Coppermine River and Hudson Bay Then he made an other trip along the coast from Thatsit am sorry we dont have Off to another store Do you have copy of The Devils Dictionary book that defines Opposition as the party that prevents the govem ment from running amuck by hamstringing it remember that book said the clerk It described lighthouse as tall building on the seashore in which the government maintains lamp and the friend of politician Thats it repeated again And it describes Love as temporary insanity curable by marriage and lawyer is one skilled in the cir cumvention of the law am particularly interested in the political section of the book said You know that part which describes alliance as the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply in serted in each others pockets that they cannot separately plunder third Havent seen it for ears he said But if you fin it buy me copy ALL REMEMBER The guy at the next store re membered it too Ill never forget the definition of guillo tine he said It was de scribed as machine which makes Frenchman shrug his shoulders then quickly remembered the definition of push one of two things mainly conducive to success es pecially in politics The other is pull The owner of the store joined the conversation He recalled the book and the definition of consula person who hav ing failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the administration on condition that he leave the country But he didnt stock the book However he knew an old fellow down the street who went in for this sort of thing By Golly said the old fel low think there is copy in the basement Ill be right back could hear him shuffling through books down there an then there was long pause followed by chortle Hey this must be it he shouted An elector is one who enjoys the sacred privilege of voting for the man of another mans choice He came up the stairs looking at the word di lomacythe patriotic art lying for ones country Anyway got the bookor at least most of it am now going to take week off and try to put things in perspective the Mackenzie River between 18251827 Both expeditions were dan gerous an required the utmost stamina in order to survive Nevertheless Franklin was con fident that there was no ice in the Arctic that could stop prop erly equipped ships It wasnt until 1906 that any one actually sailed through the Northwest Passage The suc cessful explorer was Roald Amudsen Norwegian and it took him three years to get through The RCMP patrol ship St Roch with Sergeant Henry Larsen in command was the first to make the trip both ways The first from west to east took two years 19401942 but the return run from Halifax to Vancouver was made in 88 days in 1944 OTHER JUNE 11 EVENTS i782William Black first Methodist minister in Canada preached at Halifax 1815NorWesters led by Duncan Cameron attacked Sel kirk colony at Red River lassPrairie settlers met at St James and demanded the formation of government 1917Prime Minister Sir Robert Borden introduced Compulsory Military Service Act in House of Commons Canadian Board of Grain Commissioners was established HMSGeneral election result was Liberals 125 Con servatives 67 CCF 28 THE PICK OF PUNCH Poor old Mickey Duckhe never quite made it did he