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Ellie iliarrtr Examiner Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited 16 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario Robb PublisherGeneral Manager Henshaw Managing Editor Walls Editor Emeritus 4The Barrie Examiner Monday June 21 I976 Another 100 OHC units would go long way yearold son He and about 100 others need rent gearedtoincome apartments but the city hasnt constructed any On tario Housing Corp family units for the past five years The existing are filled and there are another 98 families on the waiting list for such accommodation Why hasnt the city asked OHC to build more family units Why has The plight of the Jim Howes family 18 not an isolated case in this City Fortunately this $130amonth apartment They are lucky Others in this city are in or even worse bind because they or receive dont earn enough enough welfare to afford ment in Barrie There are some 425 families and indiViduals on the welfare rolls of the provincial ministry munity and social Barrie These include the the aged and deserted mothers and their children The gap between what receive for shelter from the govern ment and what they actually pay ranges anywhere from 10 to 50 per cent more according to Joseph McReynolds local community and social services representative The average is 35 per cent which means that family has to dig into other parts of its very tight budget food and clothing to keep roof over its head Jim Howes is not on welfare He works as janitor and takes home $140 every two weeks to support himself his wife and their three lowincome family was able with the aid of sympathetic landlord to find alter nate accommodation after it was threatened with eviction from services similar there been an apart struction of com in disabled they of that city with On welfare family of one child up to nine years of age is entitled to $172 supplement from the Ontario government receive $120 month for shelter and much smaller amounts to pay utilities and buy household supplies Rent gobbles up major portion Its hard enough for family with moderate spend $200 and up month on rent to find suitable accommodation When is the city going to do something deplorable situation that is putting real hardship segement of the population Its not necessary to saturate the correct the shortage Another 100 units or so of rentgearedtoincome housing would go long way 74 OHC family units fiveyear lull in con In addition it can income and able to to alleviate this on fairly large subsidized housing to Evidence now coming to light British firms helped decline LONDON AP Evidence that is beginning to emerge suggests British companies played an important role in the recent run that drove down the value of the pound Until now market sources here have largely blamed the oilproducing countries and other foreigners with large holdings of sterling for driving the pound down to record low ofSl 70 June3 from $240in the spring of 1973 The pound sold for $177 Thursday These foreign interests are known to have converted hun dreds of millions of pounds to other currencies the last year because they lost confidence in the British economy For one thing inflation here at 189 per cent was double that of other leading industrial countries It now appears that some ma jor British companies also lost confidence and joined sig nificantly in the pressure on the pound particularly from May on These firms were acting in their own corporate interests protecting profits but the ef fect of their actions was to help drive the pound down further One of the firms allegedly in volved was the giant staterun British Steel Corp The Guard ian says this nationalized in dustry helped push down the pound from the end of April TIMING RLIIAI The timing is particularly significant At the end of April the pound was down to $180 Denis Bealey chancellor of the exchequer and other leading government spokesmen said the pound was then un dervalued They said inflation was being curbed and foreign trade improving They asked foreign sterling holders to have confidence that things were Elie Barrie Examiner 16 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario Telephone 72645537 Registration Number 0484 Second Class Mail Return tage guaranteed Dai Sundays and Statutory Ho idays excepted Subseuption 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 ly National Advertising Offices 65 Queen St West Toronto M1710 640 Cathcart St Mon treal Member of the Canadian Press and Audit Bureau of Cir culations The Canadian Press is ex dusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches in this paper credited to it or The Associated Pres or Renter and also the local news published therein The Barrie Examiner claims Jopyright in all original adver tisin and editorial material an by its employees and nsrodwodtnthisnewspaper ght Roglstration 208815 register 61 life andmore abundantly getting better Yet says The Guardian ac count it was precisely at that moment that British firms be gan to lose faith in the pound and helped to push it down to $170 British firms are unable to play the money markets But big firms with large overseas dealings can affect the market By paying their bills early in foreign currency or by con verting their foreigncurrency income late they can affect the amount of money crossing the marketthe supply and de mand which determines the rate of the floating pound In market terms these are called leads and lags The Guardian says British Steels financial managers de cided at the end of April to change policy They issued di rective reproduced in the newspaper saying the con version of foreign income into sterling should be delayed British Steel sells exports wortn $1 2billion annually DONE FOR PROFIT Conversion of this kind of in come into pounds would have helped drive the rate up Delay would help press it down By bringing in the money later at lower rate British Steel would earn more pounds So delay order would be issued only on the expectation that the pound would fall and that this might be profitable for the company The British Steel Corp con tributed to the recent rapid drop in the value of the pound The Guardian says British Steel spokesman said in re sponse to the newspapers ac count that the company is ex ible in its approach to the present financial situation and acts to minimize any ad verse affects on the cor poration Other evidence also suggests that British firms have contrib uted to the run on the pound although individual companies are not identified The sign posts are An official report by Brit ains major clearing banks said loans to the private sector rose by more than $300 million in the four weeks ending May 19 but that there were few signs of any investment demand The report said the loans may be due to changes in the pattern of foreignexchange payments associated wihh the weakness of sterling In other words companies were delaying con version of their foreign ear nings until the pound went BIBLE lHt ilil They shall hunger no more neither thirst any more neither shall the sun light on them nor any heat For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes Revelation 1617 portion of what He has prepared for us in the future is available now Jesus said am come that they might have down and covered lhtlf sterling needs by borrowing at home Informed financial sources estimate that net capital out flow from Britain was more than $1 billion each in March and April but less than $100 mil lion iii May The March and April figures are consistent with foreigners pulling money out of Britain The May figure is not suggesting other reasons were responsible for the pounds drop in May such as British firms using leads and lags Official figures from the Bank of Englands report for the first quarter of 1970 showed that the oilexporting countries held their investments 11 Brit ain steady during the period of fer reducing them last year In short said the central bank there was less pressure on sterling from the oil produc ers in the first quarter than there had been in 1975 Resident says decision townhouses astounding SOMUCH FOP THE COST SHARlNG PROGRAMS GENTLEMEN NOW WELL HAVE LlTTLE BQlEF CitWEE ABOUT CONSTRWONAL REFORM lt0 Vacation travel is the best cure for those seeking rest from work By IjVI EGAN Business and onsunitr Affairs Analyst Ilioiiisoii News Scri ice 1th summer and by now your thoughts have turned plcnsan tly to vacation plans if youre typical fnnadinn But thcrc are some pcoplt who are so Xtllsltl dcdi catcd to work that they can find nothing plensunl in the prospect of normal vacation Sonic are business executives so drivcii that the can no more abstain from work than thc typical alcoholic can abstain from the bottle Others may be so instcure in their work that they rcfusc to go away in case someone THE WORLD TODAY from summers among us By JOHN IIAItIiItON Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service Francis Meloy Jr the murdered American ambassa dor to Lebanon deeply loved two countries his own and fan ada lie was Frank to me from the time we first met in the sum mer holiday country of North crn Ontario where his parents from Washington had budt summer home long ago not far from our own and when fami lies on the lake used to have ten parties on the beach think that activity was Ca nadian affcctation rather than an American one genteel tra dition carried into our north woods by the more hardy immi grant settlers who liked nevcr thelcss to keep the style of the Old Country about them Frank was approaching his early 20s and Wiiitiinc service in the United States Navy when was in my IllltllttllS lie was then as in middle age very tall handsome quiet and thoughtful human being In later years this made him into the kind of ambassador for whom his staff would walk on coals You can imagine the envy of your columnist the Toronto schoolboy rubbing shoulders at those tea parties and on canoe trips with the Meloys of Mary land especially with Frank who was about to study for his MA at Yale After naval service Frank had distinguished diplomatic career which mainly kept him away from the remote wooded aradise which his family had ought and had called Skygar Norwegian for seagull He entered the state depart ment in 1946 and proceeded to his first appointments and re sponsibilities in Duran Paris at NATO and the Defence ol lcgc later as filllHitl officer in Saigon and as it senior stu dent til Britains liiipciiiil fcnccColliiie llis liitc senior ippointiiienls included those of Director of the Office of Western Iluropcan Affairs in the state department deputy chief of mission at the Embassy in ltoinc lie was ambassador in three trouble spots for the 178 the Dominican Republic limo1963 and Guatemala until last month when he was appointed 1111 basszidor to Lebanon Frank Meloy as an iiinhiissa dor was the complete antithesis in every regard personality style and human relation shipsrr to the ugly American type of ambassador which iii spired the hook and the movie of the same name and one suspects few 11S am bassadors therczif er remember long supper with him on the balcony of his residence in Santo Domingo in early 1073 placid time in the Dominican Republic compared to thc antiAmcricanism which his predecessor Ambassador Criinmins had to face But Frank delineated in calm iii cisive terms the potential for more of the same in that still peaceful Caribbean republic But we also spent much time talking about those boyhood and teen years on Canadian lakes the trails his late father had cut in the north and reading from his diary since the aged Frank Meloy Sr had just passed away in Santo Domingo Frank loved canocing walking in the woods and mUSiiig with good friends He never married but was riot in any sense solitary man Above all he loved the once wild iiniiditin north woods where his parents before him should steal their job or their secretary in their absence And still others are genuinely indisixrnsable in their jobs and cannot relinquish thc responsi bility for dealing with their business operations supply problems labor negotiations salts campaigns and the like There is streak of Puritan isin in many work addicts that makes them feel selfrighteous about their dedication to ihcjob and their ability to deny them sclvcs the ordinary pleasures of travel and relaxation The irony is that they would almost certainly be far more cf lttllvt executives or managers if they did indulge themselves in regular vacations had first canocd on thciiiso hiltd lakes in thc ylilIS before the First World War and before local iinndians had done so thought it was symbolic he should die on the day and at the hour Prime Minister lnidcziu was presenting iinadas Bicentennial book to President Ford all about the common bor dcr itlltl called Bctwccn Fricir ds Frank Meloy would have knoWn all about that from his summers its boy and youth iinongiis At the very least change of pace enables the business per son to make decisions more of ficieiitly upon returning to work with clearer head IIANGII OF PACE The benefits of vacation travel can go well beyond that of course sensible relaxing vacation is almost essential to the long term physical and mental health of anyone who works un dcr constant pressures psyv chologists and doctors have said They contend that those exec utives who take their vaca tions in the form of long week ends or day or two added to the end of demanding busi ness trip are fooling thcm selves Granted such breaks do help So docs firstclass travel which allows the executive to relax while travelling and avoid dc lays while waiting for baggage at the end of the trip But they may well be reduc ing their personal effective ncss and thereby cheating both themselves and their business by refusing to take an extended uninterrupted break from their work The best type of vacation for the work addict or for anyone who labors under heavy pres sure is probably one that establishes sharp contrast with the frenzied pace of the work situation BACK TO NATURE Getting back to nature for example is one effective way of recharging executive bnt teries if the executive has the skills that camper needs Otherwise it could simply add to the tensions and frustrations THE PICK OF PUNCH The ending of retirement preparation classes has left big gap already present Another relaxing form of va cation is sailingAagain depending upon whether the executive has had the chance to acquire the skills needed in water sports An alternative related to sailing Would be vacation on cruise ship Such cruises should be chosen carefully but theres hardly anything that could match the right kind of awayfromitAall cruise say for example among the Greek islands of the Aegean where Western civilization has its roots Not cvcrylkxiy enjoys being at sea Another alternative for such people might be to select single Greek island The island of Rhodes for ex ample is one of the most inter esting It has pleasant cli mate endless beaches all of them fully accessible to the publici classical Greek ruins such as Lindos wellpro served medieval walled city an abundance of hotels great shopping andrropening this SUllillltlvil large new airport accommodating nonstop flights from and to London and New York BOOKS FOR TRAVELLERS Visiting any of Canadas three largest cities on your next trip Here are notes on some newly published books for background reading Ilic Toronto Book edited by William Killiourn Mitc Iiiilliin of iiniida ltd 290 pages $11195 This is an anthology of pieces that have been written about the city Canadians love to hate by such diverse critics as Charles Dickens and Ernest Hemingway The authority most amply represented in the collection is Mr Kilbourn him self one of the socalled reform politicians currently presiding over the Queen Citys dccav INNOVATIONS One of Canadas major new attractions opens to the public this week The CN Tower looking like rocket taking off soars into the sky from base on what used to be Canadian National Rail ways downtown Toronto freight areas The CNR unlike its major competitor is sponsoring other innovations wit the traveller in mind One is fourtimesweekly package including train travel to Kingston Ont from either Toronto or Montreal tour of the city with stop at the beau tiful mid19th century city hall and Thousand Islands cruise on dieselpowered replica of paddlewheel steamer Another is revival of steampowered locomotive for an oldfashioned Saturday rail excursion from Toronto to Niagara Falls Dear Sir was astounded at the decision by the Planning Board on June 15th to accept Mr George Davies proposal for townhouses in the Sunnidale Woods subdivision It is obviously an exercise in futilit and complete waste of everybodys time to hold public meetings when the vast majority of the citizens in the neighborhood concerned who packed the City Hall and who all voiced their objections to the proposal are completely ignored consider this to be fraud perpetrated upon the public by the city administrators since the opinion of the public bears no weight in their decision making This is despite the fact that we heard no logical reason for agreeing to spot rezoning apart from the benefit to the developer Also the planning board were given very reasonable alter native by the public which was to develop as much of the land Davies plan Dear Sir attended Tuesday evenings meeting of the Planning Board and have few comments to make The fact that most of those attending the meeting were not in favor of the plan by no means proves that the majority of residents in the area share their opinions Most of those objecting to the rezoning were reasonable and intelligent and respect them and their opinions But the behavior of others ranged from childish tie booting and hollering when statements were made supporting the plant to downright rudeness and ignorance interrupting speakers and acting without regard for everyday common courtesy What some residents seem to ignore is the fact that we already have R4 zoning on Shirley Avenue with an apart ment building at the corner of Shirley and Wesley St Pius as the Ministrys of En vironment and Housing would allow as single family residen ces We the taxpayers of this area have been given grave doubts about the way this plan ning board directed by the City Planner Mr Wayman Fair weather runs their affairs showing total lack of concern for the concerns of the tax payers of this citv We note with grave convern that at this same meeting plan ning board turned down proposal by Lou Koslov for apartments at Cundles and Koslov Drive an area already designated for apartments because four repeat four residents objected and our chief planner said he must listen to the public This is so incredible that the facts speak for themselves and leaves one speechless Sincerely NAZERALI MD 15 Shirley Ave Barrie welcomed by Vine Cr resident there are homes in the area which could be considered multiplefamily as they contain rented rooms and basement apartments By only building on six of the 12 acres Mr Davies has en deavored to plan this develop ment with generous concern for saving the trees and preser ving the natural setting of the valley My only concern now is that Mr Davies will wash his hands of the whole project and this property will be sold to developer from outside our community Should this happen think we will see more single family homes covering more of the total area with trees cut down indiscriminately and the esthetive beauty of the valley ruined Sincerely RUTH MESLEY 5Vince Cr Barrie QUEENS PARK Smith makes play against government By DON OHEARN Queens Park Bureau Thomson News Service TORONTO Stuart Smith has been making big play recently against arbitrariness in government Fundamentally it is good point Arbitrary action by govern ment always is something to be carefully guarded against And the Conservative ad ministration here has been so long in power so long ac customed to doing things on its own without any realistic op position that it can only be ex pected it has an inevitable ten dency towards such arbitrary action LINE There is however dividing line and care must be taken that this is appreciated From time to time there defi nitely must be arbitrary action on the part of government The demands of society are such that the interests and feel ings of some people must be overridden in the general good and in such circumstances gov ernment often has to be arbi trary And to blindly oppose arbi trariness for the sake of oppos ing can be as harmful as the ar bitrary action itself OVER HEADS current example is the case of brine disposal well in Lam bton County Both the township council concerned and area residents were against giving permit to the well basically on fears of pollution but also presumably because of the general public antipathy to having disposal re sources located in their com munities But the final decision was up to Minister of the Environment George Kerr And after having his ministry check for possible pollution and being satisfied that the well would be safe he went over the head of the municipality and granted the permit JOB THERE This was clear case where such arbitrary action was called for For the welfare of the provin cial community at large the well was needed And beyond this it was needed urgently And the only way it could be provided in time was for the government to act arbitrarily When arbitrariness becomes really offensive and of course it can never be welcome is when such exceptional circum stances in which the general public welfare outweighs par ticular interest arent present And insofar as he is guarding against this the Liberal leader is doing his job COMMONS CAPSULES From the Ottawa Bureau of Thomson News Service OTTAWA Bob Stanfield admits that he bored few au diences during his term as Tory leader and until now he has al ways felt little guilty about his ability to induce sleep But he explained Finance Minister Donald Macdoiialds recent budget speech has made him feel much better Speaking as one who may have bored audiences as suf fered throughout that marathon of platitudes which the minister delivered felt purged of all sense of guilt Mr Stanfield told the Commons no longer felt guilty for what may have inflicted on my audiences dur ing the past 25 years or so Privy Council President Mit chell Sharps suggestion that budget ches be teleVised also ha the former Con servative leader chuckling Perhaps Mr Sharp wishes to destroy not only the House of Commons but Canadian tele vision as well The truth is that the speech would never have been made on TV Some described Mr Macdo nalds speech as realistic but according to Mr Stanfield ii more accurate adjective Would besoporific do not believe anyone could be that dull for so long without really trying he coin mented know that could not have been so dull for so long without working hard at it Earlier Prime Minister Trudeau had remarked on Mr Stanfields speechmaking abilities after concluding that realization of an eight cent rate of inflation woul be the fulfilment of dream bad dream Mr Stan field suggested in tones described by the PM as mum bling did not mumble the Tory protested said it quite dis tinctly The honorable member dreams quite distinctly apologize Mr Trudeau replied The dreams of some MPs could be fulfilled with relaxa tion of dress regulations in the House of Commons The subject of dress has been debated for years and surfaced again when Frank Maine Wellington entered the Com mons sporting an ascot in place of the required necktie One has to wonder how much daydreaming is going on at the CBC when su rior with the lofty title of ac rig manager of the human remrces depart ment feels compelled to issue memo advis all staff that the July holday will take place on Thursday July I976