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all Barrie Examiner Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited lb Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario Robb PublisherGeneral Manager Walls Editor Emeritus Henshaw Managing Editor 4The Barrie Examiner Thursday June 24 I976 An organizer is needed to match the NDP here SimcoeCentre Progressive Con servatives meet tonight to pick the man they hope will succeed Art Evans at Queens Park Picking candidate to represent the party in power should be routine thing And were the times routine the Tories of the area would have pleasant evening ahead of them knowing full well the man they pick will be the next MPP But the times are not routine For Tories the times are out of joint What Bennett calls the soc1alist horde is at the gate not only in SimcoeCentre but across the province The New Democratic Party is the official opposition The NDP is guided by con summate politician who has the respect of all who know him or know of him The NDP has picked candidate for this riding man who will be making his second crack at the seat man already holding elected of fice Those willing of the working man to cast aside easy labels know the NDP will probably be the official opposition in this province for long time to come if the party does not win this time out Even the most naive at politics must know the NDP despite its of ficial position is no more the party SUCCBSSOI they Liberals of this as strong death wish in Ontario as have ruling wish on the federal level The organization of the NDP is legendary thing for producing efficient organization What the NDP has become is the to the fading foolish province who have Lack of funds great To match the NDP in this riding an organizer is needed To match the NDP in this riding man who can talk convincingly needed about Progressive Conservatism is To match the NDP in this riding man who is sincere Progressive To beat Conservative is needed the NDP in this riding George Taylor is needed SimeoeCentre PCs do not need flashy performer They do not need man on white horse seek fantasies ing their support tu fulfill his own They need man who shows his care for the people of this riding not by saying he cares but showing he than the Progressive Conservatives are the party of the entrenched capitalist cares man whose roots and life are steeped in the best traditions of this area country man whose political philosophy is not the tire armor of getting elected for the sake of ting elected but the cloak of man to whom service to others to his community is allimportant this province and this get George Taylor is such man DOWN MEMORY LANE Rou Houghton Lt Chester Car 50 YEARS AGO IN TOWN Barrie Examiner June 24 1926 Capt 2IC Lt Young Irishman William Skelly James Robertson SgtMaj John arrested in Toronto Member of Weldon QM Sgt Donald Ku Klux Klan he admitted at Cameron Sgt William Trib tempt to blow up St Church in Barrie implicating two local men who were taken custody by Police Chief Alex ander Stewart Skelly claimed he was drunk on dandelion wineBarrie Examiner won Mason Trophy as most enter prising weekly newspaper Canada Donated by Star this was first year of com petitionSimcoe County Council closed June session in Barrie by reducing tax rate one levy will be slightly higher due to assessmentBarrie Collegiate Cadet Corps officers pictured on Page were Sgt Tom Coughlin Sgt Leslie Hedger Lt equahzed Marys into in Sudbury mill but Whitby Foresters held at Beach ALBERTA STRIPMINING year service medal by Bell DOC at regimental dance Air jet by 20 feet over North police President is presented with 20 General Dardanella Wasaga Absorption of farmland not confined to cities By ALAN ARBUCKIE EDMONTON CP The problem at farmland being ab sorbed by industrial develop ment isnt confined to Canadas majorcities Rural Alberta has its own ex ample of development coming into conflict with food producing soil and Progressive Conservative backbencher in the provmcial legislature has taken stand on the side of agriculture Gordon Stromberg has lived 01hr Barri Examiner 16 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario Telephone 7206537 Registration Number 0484 Second Class Mail Return postage guaranteed Dai Sundays and Statutory Holidays 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 0641710 640 Cathcart St Mon treal Member of the Canadian Press and Audit Bureau of Cir culations The Canadian Press is ex clusiver entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches in this paper credited to it or The Assomated Press or Reuter and also the local news published therein The Barrie Examiner clgims tin all origina ver 8ahnd editorial material aeated by its employees and re roduced in this newspaper yright Registration lNum r203815register61 on his 880acre farm since he was born in 1929 and expects his fivemonthsold son to take it over when he retires making it the fourth generation on the same homestead The representative from Camrose is not directly af fected by proposed strip mining operation which will supply coal for an electrical generating plant but he says he feels for the 137 families who are Calgary Power Ltd and Can Pac Minerals Ltd plan to stripmine some 35000 acres of farmland in the DoddsRound hill area about 30 miles south east of Edmonton and build the CamroseRyley power plant in anticipation of massive in crease in Albertas requirement for electricity Mr Stromberg and other de fenders of the farmland are worried about reclaiming the soil for agriculture once the plant has exhausted the coal supply 35 to 50 years after it begins operations in the early 19805 WANTS PROOF The MLA wants plants built first in areas where the soil is not as good while research is done on reclamation and people can be convinced it will be suc cessful in the mixedfarming area of DoddsRoundhill BIBLE THOUGHT For delivered unto you fir st of all that which also received how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures Corinthians 153 The shame of our Christian experience is that we have missed the magnitude of the Cross Daily we need to remember that He died in our place for our sins and that our pardon is only in believmg it and receiving Him Calgary Power and CanPac have not proven to anyones satisfaction that they can recl aim these soils said Mr Stromberg Now can we take 35000 acres of some of the bet ter farmland in Alberta and take it out of production for ever Its question the provincial cabinet will have to decide af ter the energy resources con servation bord holds hearings this summer and makes rec ommendation but En vironment Minister Dave Russell has already said he thinks the plant will likely go ahead Reclamation Mr Strom berg said must be done horizontally so that the thin layer of black topsoil ends upon top after the mining is finished and the other layers of clay gravel and so on are put back in order not all mixed up with the heavy salt content of the soil lower down finding its way to the surface PROCESS COSTLY The cost of such reclamation will be very interesting Mr Stromberg is worried about what may follow the Dodds Roundhill development If you take look at my con stituency approximately one third of it is coal and Dodds Roundhill could be the begin ning of the end If the project spreads Mr Strombergs farm might face the same fate and he feels strongly about that happening would take the shotgun down off the wall My farm isnt for sale at any price There are communities of Ezople to think of Mr Strom rg said If these 137 families are displaced even if only for few years while the coal is taken out their immediate communities of neighbors churches and schools will disappear and likely never be recreated wm5 elrscs DONATO Rica70 wt PARLIAMENT HILL Bilingualism issue Wholl want to fly By STEWART MacLEOI Ottawa Bureau Thomson News Service The way figure it by the time everyone is through prov ing his point in this escalating bilingualism battle over air safety no one will want to fly again And the Canadian Air Line Pilots Association along with some of its individual mem bers seem to be doing the best son Maj Eugene Doyle C03 job of ensuring that no Arthur Fox passengers will ever feel com fortable up there again Judging from all the recent news reports it would appear that nearmisses are replacing bleTown council adjourned for hockey as Canadas national summer recess after cleaning up Sport odds and ends of business Paving debentures sold at 9979Frank WllCOX Beeton elected president continuingsagaof nearmisses Southwest Simcoe Conser thc pilots association reported vativesOntario Motor League warned Toronto motorists to be wary of speed while going through Barrie and radio station CKCN at viously bilingualism is not tacked local Albert Bryson of Board of Trade is taking UP SUbjGCtuMaj connection He said the ground Quartermaster of Simcoe controllers were preoccupied Of course bilingualism is to amc Just the other day in this that two Pacific Weslcrn Air lines jets missed smallcr airA craft by matter of seconds as they left Edmonton airport Ob problem in Edmonton but the western director of the pilots association managed to find with the issue Then there was the case of an Air Canada jet missing CP Bay The pilots attributed this to gross error by ground controllers and the incident was revealed to prove it isnt safe to fly at the moment Again there was no direct con nection with bilingualism NINE MISSES In the last week or so reports have been leaked out on nine near misses during the last month and there are horror stories coming from the pilots about near disasters over Que bec airports If bilingualism is not directly to blame they say then preoccupation is The issue is already politi cal hot potato And at the rate this current campaign is prog ressing it will soon become public nightmare The governments program of phasing in bilingualism at some Quebec airports has been badly handled from the begin ning Now the Canadian Air Traffic Control Association is fighting internally it is fighting against the government and President Jim Livingston has been quoted as saying have been up to my ass in alligators allday The Canadian Air Line Pilots Association pulled its members off the job and through system atic reports of near misses they are in battle with the con trollers English and French pi lots are filing reports on each other and French controllers are accusing their English counterparts of being racist We have Transport Minister Otto Lang saying that the use of bilingualism in Quebec will ac tually increase safety And we have the pilots association say ing it will sharply decrease it Then we have minority report from the French pilots saying something else again With this type of dis agreement how are we to know whats goingon HADLY HANDLE Most of these difficulties probably could have been avoided if the government had called all interested parties to gcthcr before announcing YOUR BUSINESS That breathing spell wont save the pound By VINCENT EGAN Business and onsumcr Affairs Analyst The British now have the breathing spell they wanted to help save the pound from col lapse on foreignexchange mar kets So far though there hasnt been much indication that they are using it for anything other than breathing Sterling had plunged from about $250 US in the spring of 1975 to about $172 early this month The panic was halted Aand the pound went up few cen tswhen the Group Of Ten comprised of the leading non Communist industrial coun tries offered Britain $53 billion line of credit Then the British tradeunion movcmcnl agreed that it would accept limit of 45 per cent on annual wagc increases in cases where the workload remains the same Thats an important step in reducing the rate of inflation which had almost touched 40 per cent at one point and was rltlinning at 15 per cent last mon As recently as 1974 wage in creases had been averaging nearly 30 per centre while labor productivity was rising little or notatall Important as the wage re straint is it alone wont be enough to bring about stability in the pounds external valuc Most of the same factors that contributed to the drop in ster THE PICK OF PUNCH MARK ONE MORE lN FAVOUR OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT groundtoair bilingualism pro gram Before the issue became emotional and sometimes un reasonable the pilots con trollers and the ministry of transport could have arrived at concensus about the feasibil ity of using two languages at some Quebec airports Instead former transport minister Jean Marchand sim ply announced that such program would be phased in There was never complete ex planation of what was involved and thcrc was no attempt to convince the public that its safety would not be en dangercd In short the program was badly sold And since he assumed the transport portfolio last year Mr Lang has done little to rec tify the situation Spending few hours in Paris control tower listing to bilingual con trollers is not likely to impress interested parties But the biggest danger of all it seems to me is in allowing basically technical issue to be come fearinspiring emotional issuc few days ago arrived at Ottawa airport in jet which just on the point of touchdown turned on full power and roared into the sky again Sorry said the captain There was an unauthorized vehicle in our way There was wave of ex citement through the plane and someone mcntioned the bilingualism issue By the time we landed passengers were talking knowingly about the Frcnchspcaking pilot who flew into our path What actually happened was that repair truck was slow getting off the runway lings value are still present and theres little apparent in clination on the part of the Cal laghan government to do any thing about them They range froin the Labor partys doctrinaire determina tion that the state must nation alize more and more private in dustries down to the overcon centration of British workers in the public service and in the service trades in the private sector Somewhere in between is managerial class that has long been rated as less efficient and less enterprising than its count erparts in some other industri alized countries Fresh evidence of the man agement problem was brought to light recently by leadin English newspaper The Guar ian It obtained documents show ing that some major British ex porting companies including the stateowned British Steel Corp had been timing their foreignexchange conversions on sales to customers abroad in way that put downward pressure on the pound Their technique was to delay the conversion of foreign in come into sterling The lower the pound goes the more poun ds the exports will earn Another major British news paperafter noting that the re spected Organization for Eco nomic Coo ration and Devel opment ha projected 197580 British inflation rate averaging 11 per centsuggests that this would bring the value of the pound down to about $140 by the end of this decade READER FORUM Reader agrees with mayor on townhouse controversy DearSir have just finished reading the editorial page of your paper of June 19 and feel compelled in all fairness to write re your short editorial on Mayor Parker and the Donald Street townhouses have an open mind as far as the capabilities of Mayor Parker are concerned but can understand her feelings when she first drove through this development for recently had the same experience and was equally appalled not at the condition of these town houses but that any city would approve such especially while surrounded by single family dwellings Mayor Parker may or may not have thoughtlessly blurted out her remark that this is slum At the mo ment this is not true but it does sow the seeds for slum in the future In my younger days similar project would have been tenement and while right now can believe young couples are happy with their nice new homes sincerely believe that if their financial situation improves they Will immediate move out into less crow ed area until in order to keep the townhouses occupied it wll become ren tal area This is when close watch will have to be kept 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 Opposition parties get the story too By DON OHEARN Queens Park Bureau Thomson News Service TORONTO One develop ment of value at this session was that the opposition parties have been given more recogni tion by public interest grougs Traditionally farmers usi nessmen labor educationists and numerous other groups have visited here to present briefs proposing legislation that they want and opinions on public affairs generally Originally with rare ex ceptions such as labor which has always been in close touch with the Coperative Com monwealth FederationNew Democratic Party these sub missions were made only to the government Then some delegations began telling their story to the opposi tion parties as well as the gov ernment And with minority govern ment this trend accelerated Over past months it has become close to custom for special in terest groups to visit the NDP and the Liberals as well as the government SPECIAL INFORMATION This is move in good di rection It is to be assumed that these groups have worthwhile cases to put before the legislators All will have special interest pleading But also all can be expected to have information which ordi narily wouldnt be before the public or the legislators and which could be important to fair consideration of measures affecting them It is in the public interest of course that such information should be available and weighed in making decisions The more rounded the base on which decision is made the better the decision will be INTERPRETING THE NEWS Italian political parties resume backroom talks By JOHN IIAY The Canadian Press The Italian election has plunged the country back into political confusion so typical that the Italians have word for it malgoverno After 30 years of gOVernment the Christian Democrats have fended off the strongest electoral challenge ever mounted by the Communists though their lead in parlia ment has narrowed Since neither party won 40 per cent of the vote the results have forced all seven major parties to resume the backroom argaining that has marked the selection of every Italian cabinet since the Second World War With the experience of nearly 40 postwar governments behind them Italians now are resigned to the malad ministration and indecision that accompany this un certainty leading member of the tiny Republica partywhich lost several seatscommented sim ply that the result confirms the ungovemability of the coun try The result also confirms paradox in Italian politics De spite government instability voting tends to follow rela tively stable pattern The Christian Democrats lost few seats in the Chamber of Deputies but held firmly on its share of seats in the Senate The Communists made strong gains but mainly the expense of the smaller parties in cluding the Socialists who previously had backed the Communists bid for share in the Italian government But neither of the major par ties managed to pull the coun try from the political impasse that has gripped Italy for years It appeared from the CANADAS STORY Cook could be regarded as the founder of BC By BOB BOWMAN For some strange reason Captain James Cook is noted in world history for his survey of the coasts of Australia New Zealand and the Antarctic But it is often forgotten that he played very important role in Canadian history and might be regarded as the founder of Brit ish Columbia Cook took part in the battle for Louisbourg in 1758 and was responsible for getting the Brit ish fleet up the St Lawrence for Wolfes attack on Quebec the following year It was re markable achievement because Raising drinking age politically unpOpular TORONTO CP The drinking age should be raised back to 21 but the gutless wonders in senior levels of government wont do it because its litically unpopular North Yor Mayor Mel Lastman told an addictions conference ResponSible research has proven the number of alcohol related accidents in the under 21 age roup has increased dra matica ly since the drinking age was owered the mayor of the Toronto borough said But the gutless wonders in our senior levels of government arent likely to raise the drink ing age because they fear prohibitionstyle backlash from our teenagers and the tavern owners Mr Lastman set up special expert committee in 1974 to deal with the problem of drink ing drivers and says it is the only such municipal group in Canada This committee has recom mended several tough measures to get drinking drivers off the road he said in cluding Im unding vehicle used in an coholrelated traffic of fence for one month regardless of who owns it Providing courts with records of past drinking driving offences so repeaters will feel the full clout of the law Annually notifying insur ance companies of drivers in volved in alcoholrelated acci dents and encouraging these companies to write in special deductible clause so drinking drivers will have to pay more if they are involved in accidents Requiring mandatory au tomobile insurance and will indeed need strict maintenance and upkeep con trols agree with Mayor Parker that they will have to ch005e their areas very carefully if they are going to allow more developments such as this If this is what one must have in order to provide homes that people can buy then God help usall sincerely believe that every person who would like home of his OWn and is will ing to work to provide it should be able to get one The fault lies with those who allowed both the cost of land and the interest rate to escalate to the point where none but the wealthy can af ford to buy what could be called comfortable single home today Personally would love one myself but would never consider buying into townhouse development Sincerely FREEMAN And also it is in the public in terest that this information should be available to the oppo sition members as well as the government The opposition has respon sibility and duty under our system It functions to see that legislation is the best possible and to guard against bad legislation It is therefore as important that it be as well informed as the government is In the past timidity and fear has been the main cause why special interest groups have confined their approaches to the government They have been afraid the government would resent it if they ap proached the other parties This of course is situation that can be reprehensible for one thing it leaves an aroma of special deals and it is reas suring to see that it may be changing results that the Christian Democrats would require the support of one or two of the smaller parties in order to govern But with the increasing strength of the Communists it also appeared that no matter what course the Christian Democrats follow there will be further periods of political stalemate and government res ignations and possibly more elections However failure of the Com munists to pull ahead of the Christian Democrats produced relief among Italys NATO partners including the United States US State Secretary Henry Kissinger repeatedly warned that the US would not cooper ate with an Italian government led by Communists Whether his preelection comment af fected voters is difficult to judge the river was uncharted and he did not lose ship in an armada that stretched 50 miles After the fall of Canada to Britain he surveyed the St Lawrence River and the coast of Nova Scotia including Hali fax harbor It was his success in Canada that led to his commission to explore Australia and New Zea land He discovered the Hawaiian Islands in 1778 and then contin ued to explore the coast of what now is British Columbia His base was Nootka Sound on the west coast of Vancouver Island as it was named in 1791 George Vancouver was midshipman with Cook in 1778 Cook was murdered in the Hawaiian Islands on his way back to Britain but his ship re turned safely carrying his diaries When they were pub lished they encouraged British seamen to get into the fur trade at Nootka Spain claimed the Pacific Coast at this time and attacked the British ships at Nootka In fact Admiral Martinez sailed into Nootka June 24 1789 and claimed the area for Spain War between Britain and Spain was narrowly avoided and it was agreed that they would share Vancouver Island equally This led to the fur trade that attracted the first white set tlers to British Columbia