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sf Elli Barrie Examiner Published by Canadian Newspapers ompany Limited lb Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario Robb Publishe Walls Editor Emeritus rGeneral Manager Henshaw Managing Editor AThe Barrie Examiner Friday June 251976 An error in strategy in the annexation bid Not only is Barrie council bullheaded in keeping the public im the dark about annexation Council may also be making serious strategical error By refusing to make public $40000 report on annexation prepared by Proctor and Redfern consultants council leaves itself open for sharp criticism at an On tario Municipal Board hearing later this year The OMB is likely to look un favorably on municipality that made only token efforts to achieve volunta annexation with three surroun ing townships The secrecy surrounding the an nexation report should arouse more suspicion about the citys motives What other reason could there be for refusing public access to document so Significant to the ituture of Barrie and Simcoe Coun One suspects that city council has been illadvised in this mat ter perhaps by peo le more ac customed to the versary sys tem of lawsuits and criminal cases At the OMB hearin the four municipalities will no oubt argue growth strategies Barrie has alread stated that 20000 acres need to annexed quadrupling the citys size to meet the development policy plot ted by the SimcoeGeorgian Area Task Force The task force report was generally endorsed by politicians around the county including the reeves of Innisfil Vespra and Oro Only Reeve Bill Gibbins of In nisfil had serious objection to the task force opposing designa tion of an urban study area around the city Quite correctly he foresaw the designation as precursor of the citys huge annexation bid Reeve Gibbins concedes that Barrie will grow He and the rest of council once asked Barrie to an nex 6000 acres the city now wants 13500 acres but received no response The OMB no doubt will consider the property tax structure the en vironment and even community identity before making decision In seeking all available facts and arguments the OMB may be puzzled by Barries suppression of information until the ap propriate time DOWN MEMORY LANE 55 YEARS AGO IN TOWN Barrie Examiner June 23 1921 Simcoe County Council wound up weeks busy session with tax rate set at five mills Mrs Hughes opened Tea Kettle Inn on Dunlo Street She made many frien here while managing Hostess House for men of Royal Flying Corps at Camp Borden 191718 Han erson from cir cus day believe responsible for night burglaries of suits from Brown Bros and Craigs Rev Faliis preached farewell ser mon to large congregation at Col lier Street Methodist Church Sun day evening Town Council granted United Empire Loyal 0r nage Lodge $100 to assist in 12th of July parade in Barrie only one between Gravenhurst and Georgetowm outside of Tronto in central Ontario Residents of Blake Street protest choice of Kempenfelt Drive as route for new provincial highway Only two more days for Barrie Chautauqua under huge tent in Queens Park Attractions re maining are New York stage play starring Percival Vivian Miss Ruby Gall and Her Singers lectures by Dr Robert Norwood on Modern Canadian Poets and Dominion of Canadas destiny Annual Speech Day success at Ovenden College Two patrols of Girl Guides were inspected by General Biggar Mrs Stewart presented sports prizes The principal Miss Eigood ex tended thanks on behalf of her associates Miss Ingram and Mlle Shopoff Channen installed worshipful master of Kerr Masonic Lodge Childrens classics market is tough one to compete in MONTREAL CP When Canadian child learns to read he is likely to become ac quainted with Winnie the Pooh 13an or the Cat in the Hat These classics in childrens inerature hail from Britain France and the United States Waive and they have no Canadiancmm Many Canadian publishers are trytn to compete with the giants these countries for space on the bookshelva of Ca nadian children But eve with government aid in the form of Canada Council grants it isnt easy There is an attiusde that what is published elsewim is better said Raymonde Martin of Les Editions Fides Mrs Martin Who started the Frenciriangua houses youth and leisure epartment two 112 Barrie Examinrr IS Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario Telephoneneesal Registration Number 0484 Second Class Mail Return tage guaranteed Da ySunda sand Statutory Ho idays excepted Subscription rates daily by carrier 85 cents weekly $4420 $813 Single copies 15 cents By all Barrie $4420 yearly Simcoe County $3400 yearly IBalance of Canada $3600 year National Advertising Offices I65 Queen St West Toronto 8641710 640 Cathcart St Mon treal Member of the Canadian Press and Audit Bureau of Cir cuiations The Canadian Press is ex cluslvely 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 Copyright in all original adver tls and editorial material area by its employees and reduced in this news aper yrlght Regls ration Num 203815 register 61 years ago pointed to the books in her Seagull Editions line as examples of Canadian chil drens literature on par with foreign juvenile books Seagullsfla hip book Jean ne Fille du by Suzanne Martel won the 1974 Aivine Beiisle prize for the best Fren chCanadian childrens work and is bein published abroad in several nguages Sale of rights in France is currently under negotiation with several houses Mrs Martin said HARD TO SELL ABROAD Whileman Frenchbooksare sold we anadian books do not usually fare well in France said Claude limuette of Les Editions Heritage Unlike Fides which puban only Canadian works wcmtage of Herita es list consists of Cana ian editions of foreign books Selling books in France is like trying to sell perfumes wine or fashion Mr Cirioquet tesaidexplaining that ivena choice the French pubic will opt for its own product He cited the example of Heri tages Bobino and Bobinette booksbased on characters in childrens program on CBCs Frenchlanguage network which are popular here but made no dent in France Then he said French pub lisher bought the rights to the series and put it out under its own imprint with great success We must break out of the Canadian market to succeed Mr Choquette said echoing the sentiments of several col leagues The Canadian juvenile market does not justify large enough print run to make books retail price competitive with books imported from or co printed in larger countries JOPUBLISHING HELPS McLelland and Stewart one of Canadas lar est houses and ublishers of ildrens books such famous Canadian au thors as Margaret Laurence and Mordecai Richler tries to co ublish its Canadian works wit American or British firms to save on printing costs INTERPRETING THE NEWS United States officials still concerned about indecisive Italian election result By BRUCE LEVETT WASHINGTON CP United States officials are still uneasy about the way the Ital ian elections turned out Many are unhappy about the big gains by the Communists despite repeated warnings by US government leaders that Italians should not allow the Communists to form part of the new government So far it ap are that the rightoficentre hristian Demo crats may be able to continue their postwar control of the ad ministration though faced with larger Commun st ogposition in the Chamber of uties The major question is ether the Christian Democrats can rsuade sufficient numbers of smaller splinter arties to form part of credi le coali tion President Ford campaigning in Indianapolis said The op portunity for continuation of democratic government in Italy hasbeen reserved However tate Secretary Henry Kissinger suggested in Paris the vote was indecisive and had not fundamentally changed the basis of his con cern over Communist in fluence SEES NO CHANGE The essential which we confronte in the spring has not been fun damentally changed he said The possibility exists on the basis of the election to form coalition of democratic parties since there is something like 56 per cent of the parties that are neither Communist nor Fascist It is now up to the Italian political parties to decide which way they want to direct ltalian politics robiem vzxnh $1233 Retentionists havent given up on capital punishment issue By STEWART MaclJlOl Ottawa Bureau Thomson News Service Since the Commons had risen to such lofty emotional peak for that secondreading vote to abolish capital punishment it wasnt surprising for Sean OSullivan the Conservative MP from HamiltonWentworth to say Its antisclimatic from here on in He could be wrong however Not only does the abolition bill face some heavy opposition in Im saving my applause for his return PARLIAMENT HILL committee but it still must come back into the Commons for crucial thirdreading vote And the retentionists havent given up Within hours of the first voterapproval in principle John Reynolds the prohanging Conservative MP from Burn abyRichmondDclta was on national radio appealing for writein campaign against the abolitionists Eighty per cent of Cana dians are in favor of capital punishment he says Their QUEENS PARK Tough political battle seen for next election By DON HIZARN Queens Park Bureau Thomson News Service TORONTO The next elcclt tion when it comes could be much more of political battle than we have been used to Our elections in recent years politically have been quite humdrum They have tended to be nice guy contests with most of the concentration on issuesAor at least what the combatants have considered to be issues and little personality either about people or parties From the session just ad journed this well could be changed in the next vote MANY JIBES There was much more of the personal in this session than we have been used to It wasnt rampant There werent daily slurs or frequent bitter interchanges on person alities But despite Kissingers rc marks many observers ques tion whether the Christian Democrats can govern without Communist cooperation While the Communists wait in the wings the Christian Democrats have to deal with national economic situation that may require tough internal belttightening that may prove highly unpopular with the ltal ian public especially the Com munistoriented trade unions Without Communist per suasion ltalian workers may not be convinced they should accept new austerity measures including wage restraints at time of high inflation INDUSTRY WORRIEI If finally the Christian Demo crats to agree to allow Commu nists to partici ate in the ad ministration espite all the party has said about rejecting But there was an almost con stant undercurrent of person ality in the form of jibes inter jections and passing references which indicated that the feel in were there though being he back And in the heat of campaign these will probably break out if they arent actually part of the strategies of the particular par ticswas there is reason to believe they will be THE DUKE If the byplay develops as it seems it will probably lot of attention will be paid to Liberal Leader StuartSmith Both the government and the New Democratic Party have zeroed in on Dr Smith The general tone has been to dismiss him as scatterminded and bit of top He has been reminded on many occasions of the wealth of times on which he has appar ently changed his mind Communist courtshi the gov ernment may be seed with fresh worries about the flight of Italian capital The mere thought that the Communists might have suc ceeded in the general election brought many Italian in dustrialists to the point of get ting their money and some of their operations out of the coun try Many surveyed Canada and the United States for in vestment opportunities Authorities noted there had been steady exodus of Italian funds and industrial brains rincipally to North America fore the vote Should the Communists fi nally push their way into the overnment it is likely this ight from Italy may increase adding to the countrys eco nomic problems views should be made known to MP5 before the final vote While the general concensus here is that the legislation with perhaps few amendments will eventually pass into law its still too early for Solicitor Gcneral Warren Allmand to re lax entirely There was only an eightvote margin on second rcading approval and three rc tentionists were absent Two of them will probably be here for third reading POSSIBLE SHIFT Since halfdozen MPs didnt Then some time ago when there was an important debate in the house he was absent in Windsor And the next day the Windsor Star published pic ture of him playing tennis He has not been let forget this with common reference to him being as the Duke of Wimbledon Also of course both the gov ernment and the NDP continue to try and tie the Liberals to the federal partyparticularly to Prime Minister Trudeau LABOR MASTERS The NDP in turn is being savaged by both the govern ment and the Liberals for its tic withlabor This reached peak during the last week of the session when the party loosened its po sition on disposable beverage containers immediately the two other parties began accusing it of taking orders from its labor masters Also of course there has been the usual tag of socialism thrown at the NDPcrs With the government rhaps surprisingly there has on the occasional altcm to also tie it in with its erai counterparts parcntly the opposition thin Joe Clark may not have all that much ap peal 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 blic interest and good taste he Examiner reserves the right to edit con dense or reject letter FISH CALLED BEEF Sturgeon once were so plenti ful in the Hudson River that steaks cut from the big fish were called Albany beef make up their minds until the last minute it can be assumed that there may be minor shift in the voting pattern the next time round Much will depend on how the bill comes out of committee The abolitionists are con fident they now have the momentum and that minor changes in the legislation prior to thirdreading will strengthen their support But they also live in fear of some shooting in cident prior to thirdreading which could influence mem bers Thats why there is so much emphasis on speedy passage dont think retentionists have chance said relieved Stanley Knowles following the vote He appeared unusually confident as he said its great day in the history of civ ilization Prime Minister Trudeau was less confident cautioning that it is too soon to say its all over With brilliant abolitionist speech few days earlier he had no doubt in fluenced the outcome The vote he says has moved the country one step away from violence from bar barism And speaking of barbarism have come across the verbatim transcri of death sentence impos in New Mexico in 1881 it may be difficult to believe but it is taken from the official records of the United States District Court COLORFUL DEPARTURE Here is how the judge im posed thc death penalty Jose Manuel Miguel Xavier Gonzales in few short weeks it will be spring The snows of winter will flee away the ice will vanish and the air will be come soft and balmy In short Jose Manuel Miguel Xavier Gonzales the annual miracle of the years will awaken and come to pass but you wont be there The rivuict will run its soar ing course to the sea the timid desert flowers will put forth their tender shoots the glorious valleys of this im erial domain will blossom as rose Still you wont be here to see From every treetop some wild woods songster will carol his mating song butterflies will sport in the sunshine the busy bee will hum happy as it pur sues its accustomed vocation the gentle breeze will tease the tassels of the wild grasses and all nature Jose Manuel Miguel Xavier Gonzales will be glad but you You wont be here to enjo it because command the shri or some other officers of the country to lead you out to some remote spot swing you by the neck from notting bough of some study oak and let you hang until you are dead And then Jose Manuel Ml guel Xavier Gonzales further command that such officer or officers retire quickl from your danglin corpse at vul tures may escend from the heavens upon your filthy body until nothing shall remain but bare bleached bones of cold blooded coppercolored blood thirsty throatcutting chili eating murdering sonofa bitch Stock trading changes coming By VINCENT EGAN Business and Consumer Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service Imagine securities market that would allow investors in hundreds of smaller commu nities all across Canada to buy and sell on the basis of exactly the same market information thats available to say per son on the floor of the Toronto Stock Exchangeand just as quickly Farfetched Not at all Such instantaneous investing could materialize on short no tice The technology based on computers is well developed Yet the concept of Canada wide computerassisted secu rities market always seems to be something that will materialize next yearand next year never comes If stock trader of half cen tury ago had gone into Rip Van Winkle slumber and awak ened today he would soon fit right back into the business The names of most stocks would have chan ed and prices would certainly higher But he would find little change in the ageold system of endless telephone calls from brokers offices to trading floors and the constant melee among floor traders Even though the computer might have been invented for the task of matching investors buy and sell orders accurately and instantaneously the in vestment industry apparently cant bring itself around to ac cepting the new technology fully The president of the In vestment Dealers Association of Canada noted the other day BIBLE THOUGHT Therefore will divide him portion with the great and he shall divide the spoil with the strong because he hath poured out his soul unto death and he was numbered with the tran sgressors and he bare the sin of many and made intercession for the transgressors Isaiah 5312 Nothing was spared He spent the last cent of Himself The last drop of His divine self was poured into our Salvation No wonder then the word says am the way the truth and the life no man cometh to the Father but by me He that beiieveth on the Son hath life He that beiieveth not the Son shall not see life but the wrath of God abideth on him THE PICK OF PUNCH This moch comes with an optional advertisement cutoff device CANADAS STORY British settlers By BOB BOWMAN Although Canadian youngsters believe that the In dians scalped the early settlers the truth is that the British set tlers scalped the Indians in many cases They were aid for every Indian scalp they rought in Only few Indian tribes did the barberin practice that originate in Europe especially Britain France Spain and Holland Only small iece of the crown was cut of and the victim was allowed to go free because of the humiliation when he retur ned to his own people British naval squadron and troops from the New England colonies captured the French fortress at Louisbour in 1745 When the war end in 1748 Britain traded Louisbour back to France for Madras In ia it was an expensive trade be cause Britain had to build base at Halifax to counteract Louisbourg Furthermore Louisbourg had to be recap tured in 1758 before they cou begin to conquer the rest of Canada Halifax was founded in 1749 and settlers were brou from Britain to do the wor Their arrival was resented by the Micmac Indians and number of clashes occurred including massacre at Dartmouth across imam manner that the inception of Canada wide trading in most securities through cathoderay terminals with computer was just question of time In Canadawide system anyone with access to the sys tem will of course enjoy equal ity with everybody else in the system in terms of the infor mation base and time regard less of location said Andrew Kniewasser The system would be de signed to be linked later with United States markets and eventually with overseas mar kets Mr Kniewasser predicted that Canadawide trading sys tem and Canadian Depos itory for Securities both com uteroriented would be rought together one day The Depository already launched but not yet fully oper ational will in time eliminate the need for stock and bond cer tificateswhich would result in big saving in time and money What then is holding back the arrival of the computer age in the securities markets of Canada SOME ROADBLOCKS One reason may be that in vestment dealers and stock brokers fear that their clients average Canadiansare not ready to forego the engraved bond or stock certificates in fa vor of computerized receipt Trust companies were also reluctant originally because substantial part of their income is derived from their work in transferring certificates be tween seller and buyer Their resistance is eroding now how ever more fundamental problem is provincial sovereignty Secu rities trading is matter of pro vincial regulation and some of the provinces have been reluc tant to agree to uniform set of regulationsespecially if the regulations appeared to ema nate from Toronto But without uniform regu lations coasttocoast trading system wouldnt work Even the investment firms the brokerage houses and their trade associations may be hesil tant to adapt to the new trading techniques that would be neces sary with computerassisted trading All groups concerned would be well advised to overcome their inertia and to modernize the securities marketsnot only to guarantee fair play for investors throughout Canada but also to help ensure the very survival of those markets the harbor This situation led to the bounty being offered for In dian scalps The British later managed to get Abbe Pierre Maillard from Louisbourg to work for them He had served the Micmacs as missionary and they trusted him He was able to negotiate peace treaty and there was ceremony of burying the hat chet at Governors Farm June 25 1761 OTHER JUNE 25 EVENTS 1647First horse in Canada arrived at Quebec as present for Gov Montmagny 1805Simon Fraser began journey through Rockies via Peace River ismPhilemon Wright floated first boom of logs down Ottawa River 1815NorWesters attacked Seikirks Red River settlement lassSteamship service be gan between Hamilton and Os wego NY lassSalvation Army arrived at Dawson City ismUnited Farmers government was defeated in Ontario limoCharles Kingsford Smith and three companions flew from Ireland to New foundland in 31 hours metDeath of Mc Curdy lieutenant governor of NS the first man to fly an air craft in the British Com monwealth