5hr Titanic Examinrr Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited l6 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario Robb PublisherGeneral Manager Walls Editor Emeritus Henshaw Managing Editor 4The Barrie Examiner Friday July 16 I976 Why civilized men become uncivilized There have been many attempts to set standards for the conduct of nations in the world Those standards suffer from the basic problem all law suffers from Law is presumed to apply to the standards of reasonable men ac ting in reasonable way Nations rarely appear to act reasonably 0n the occasions when nations do it appears to be more ac cident than anything else Might is still right in the in ternational community and reasonable men can do nought but shudder as they watch the world situation unfold in manifestations of everincreasing insanity The MidEast situation is probably the most insane in the world today There is no longer even shock ex pressed when guerrillas or terrorists of uncertain origin and more uncertain goals hijack an in ternational airliner There was nary lifted eyebrow anywhere in the world when the hijackers landed in Uganda and roceeded to threaten to kill all the ews on the aircraft unless certain demands were met There was not whisper from anyone not even from the guar dians of world morality the Indians about the terrorist act The Israeli government not blameless itself in the insanity of the MidEast appeared to be floundering and on the brink of giging the hijackers what they wan te Then in an adventure straight from the pages of Boys Annual Israeli commandos freed the hostages and killed the hijackers along with any Ungandan soldiers foolish enough to try and prevent the rescue Now even Mexico of all places is in on the act Condemning Israel for aggression Every tinpot Third World nation has blasted Israel for daring to rescue the hostages The United Nations will debate the issue and once again right and wrong on the international scene will become question of who has the most votes The government of Israel did the only thing it could do under the cir cumstances The government of Israel did the right thing Terrorism is rapidlyspreading disease which threatens all of us The Israeli act showed that civilized men can resort to un civilized means to combat the un civilized The Israeli act deserves the sup rt of all people who want to stay ree And the Israeli act is an example to other nations of the world whose citizens are held hostage by terrorists DOWN MEMORY LANE 10 YEARS AGO IN TOWN Barrie Examiner July 15 1966 Recreation Committee held 6th an nual bicycle rodeo at Queens Park with City Police Constable Bob Thompson inspector for mechanical fitness Barries largest in dustry Canadian General Electric opened another large expansion 65000 square feet as President Herbert Smith cut ribbon Special guests included Mayor Les Cooke Heber Smith MP and Art Evans MPP Grey and Simcoe Foresters were at Camp Petawawa for weeks intensive train ing Matthew Robertson 87 last member surviving of Barrie Curling Clubs Ontario Tankard champions of 1925 died in Royal Victoria Hospital Other members of the two rinks which captured the provinces highest honor were Bob Malcomson Charlie Beelby Oliver Cameron Sully Meredith Alex Habbick and Harry Hook Doc Simon Barrie has not won it since Kiwanis Club arranged schedule of events for 16 student exchange committee project of Canadian Council of Christians and Jews Local students have already visited Quebec Barries committee for Canadas Centennial Celebration has been busy planning events Tom Kerr is general chairman with Mayor Cooke and of president Ross Stephens well involved Barrie Speedboat Regatta with seven classes of boats will be held off St Vincent Park with Bruce Bigelow as general chairman Event again sponsored by Chamber of Com merce Don Dykstra Barrie Plaza ace hurler was only two outs from perfect game against Stew arts Garage until pinch hitter Butch Boyd spoiled it with hard smash between infielders Corby Adams and Gary Hines at Queens Park in senior fastball Annals of Canadian crime dotted with abductions Hy JOII leBlt The anadian Press kidnap attempt against Sign Eaton of the wealthy de partment store family recalls that the annals of tanadian crime are dotted with abduc tions some tor big money some with flair the rare one politically inspired and some downright flops Miss Faton yearold daughter oi John traig Eaton chairman of Fatonsof tanada was being hustled from her To ronto home early on the mom mg oi June 13 when police broke tip the attempt as the chased down reports of prow ler Elii Barrir Exaiiiiiirr 16 Hayfield Street Barrie Ontario Telephone mosi7 Registration Number 0401 Second Class Mail Return tagc guaranteed Dai Sundays and Statutory Holidays excepted Subscription rates daily by carrier 85 cents weekly W20 yearly Single copies 15 cents By Mail Barrie 84 yearly Simcoe County man yearly Balance of Canada 31 ili year iy National Advertising Offices 66 Queen St West Toronto £1710 60 athcart St Mon trch Member of the Canadian Press and Audit Bureau of Cir culations The Canadian Press is ex clustvely entitled to the rue 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 Barne Examiner claims Copyright in all angina adver tistng and editorial material created by its employees and reproduced in this newspaper ogeyrrigbt Registration Num 203315 register 61 While kidnapping has become relatively common lace in re cent yearsr nota ly in ex tortions from persons coir nected with financial in stiiutions national sensation was created in 1934 in the snat citing of millionaire brewer John Labatt of London Out 11 was Canadas first known bigmoney kidnap news of some earlier ones trickled out only later It was also an out standing flop froiti the kidnap pcrs ltWpllllIl And the law didnt exactly distinguish itself in the case either lllIlll TO BED The head of the beer firm was taken at gunpoint from his car on southwesteni Ontario back road and driven 275 miles to the Muskoka area where he was kept chained to bed in cot tageforthree days note signed Three Fin gerul Abe asked for ransom of $1501 Members of the La bait family were told to move into the Roy al York Hotel in To mnto ind aw ait developments Two of the kidnappers drove to Toronto and the pair went in to the hotel only to find police and reporters lurkin behind every potted palm in lobby One of them grabbed the car the only one the gang had and headed straight for the lnited States The other was left to take bus back to the cottage near Bracebridge Disgusted and panicking the other two picked up another car and drove the VICIIIII to Toronto where they him after giving him 31 fortaxi fare Their largesse left them with net loss of 8532 on the venture Their other gross it turned out later were 36m including $500 for finger man partly offset by 99 they found in Labatts pockets IIIT WRONG MEN At the end of year investi gators had nothing to show ex cept conviction against David Meisner oneeyed Cincinnati bookie and the detention of an oier Cincinnati character called Piccolo Pete Murray Both as it developed were the wrong men Things got untangled only af ter the original finger man Jack Bannon former beer runner of Windsor Ontput the finger on one Michael Mc tardell Detroit man from Dublin Ont as Three FingeredAbe Mctardell was taking his case in Indianas Crown Point Jall which had earlier gained notoriety as the one from which killer John Dillinger had walked out by ap arently wooden waving handcarv gun at his captors Hy DON OHFARN Queens Park Bureau Thomson News Service TORONTO One of the very ticklish problems of today is just who would be responsible and how for envrronmental damage particularly in cases of personal damage Mercury pollution of course is the classic example The key case of Dow Chem ical which centres on mercury pollution is still before the cour ts so comment is somewhat shackled But accepting that it is only recently that we have known that mercury discharge is dan gerous and that unwittingly company has been releasing it into watershed what is its liability If it didnt know the sutr stance was dangerous it was hardly negligent Still it did put the substance there But then if it were hdd accountable for the PARLIAMENT HILL How could President Ford possibly bring in politics By STEWART MacLEOD Ottawa Bureau Thomson News Service External Affairs Minister Al lan MacEachen really told US President Gerald Ford where to get off the other day when be accused him of political inter ference in the Montreal Olym pics If there is one thing our gov ernment cant tolerate its po litical interference in rts When the external fairs de partment told the International Olympic Committee that Tai wans athletes would not be allowed in Canada as re resen tatives of the Repu lie of China no one would be cynical enough to suggest that political considerations were involved As Prime Minister Trudeau told the Commons We wel come the athletes from Taiwan We do not discriminate on the basis of sex race or indeed national origin However he added we will not let athletes come into Can ada under false representations and to pretend they represent country China that they do not represent that is all we are saying Political Never With the entire Olympics threatened the IOC executive committee bitterly backed down and recommended that the Taiwanese athletes could not participate under the name of Republic of China And unfortunately some of those mean editorial writers in foreign countries seem to be interference YOUR BUSINESS Now is good time to look into RRSPs By VINCENT EGAN Business and Consumer Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service When people think about the tax savings of Registered Re tirement Savings Plans its usually just before the annual March deadline for the pre vious years contributions Thats when most columns about RRSPs are written too Theres much to be said how ever for thinkingand writ ingabout RRSPs in July One reason is that its pos sible to think more clearly about them now without the pressure of an impending dead line Another reason is that you have much better chance of obtaining competent advice from the financial institutions that take your money and issue your RRSP During the annual crush in February the institutions have to make temporary experts out of people who after March go back to their normal duties that are unconnected with RRSPs HIGHER LIMITS Yet another reason is that the recent federal budget proposed an increase in the maximum QUEENS PARK Environmental damage who is responsible damages in some industries the finanCial cost might be so great as to ruin the company NE CONTROL Firstly the prospects of such situations as mercury appear ing in the future will be much lesslikely Advance precautions against environmental llutants have been greatly tigened For examp most sub stances and particularly new chemicals have to be environ mentally checked in advance of use But still almost certainly new pollutants will slip through and pollutant qualities will probably be discovered in long used substances such as asbestos and PCBs in recent years To partially meet this prob lem at least the compensation aspect the government here bly will be looking at end given in Japgn amount that you may deduct taxfree from your current in come and set aside in an RR SPto be taxed when you receive it after retirement The maximum remains 20 cent of earned income but inance Minister Donald Mac donald has proposed that this may be as much as $5500 if you dont contribute to company pension plan In the case of employees who do contribute to company pension plan the total of those contributions plus your own contributions to your RRSP could go as high as $3500 The pevious limits were $4000 and $2500 respectively When you are dealing with sums of money such as those its essential to act carefully which is easier advice to follow now than in the last week of February BlYER BEWARE An example of common misunderstanding is cited in the Delaney Report on RRSPS tP0 Box 758 Barrie Ont IAM 4Y5 $3 35 by maili In February 1973 woman had 3101 to spare She called her insurance agent who sold her an RRSP that aranieed an amount if she di Japan was sorely hit by pollu tion with Minimata the prime example and the cost was dire tOne company paid out more than $65 million in set tlements To face up to the situation the Japanese government established new organization Pollution Health Damage Association operating under new Environmental om pensation Law This organization operating on the lines of our Workmens Compensation Board is build ins up fund through laws on in ustry and compensation to victims of pollution are being handled throughit Such an approach would be designed to handle cases in the future Cases from the past of cour se are another stor Just what burden there will and who will have to shoulder it rests largely with the Dow case misunderstanding the issue and are even suggesting that our government actually engaged in political interference TERRIBLE TALES The influential Wall Street Journal went so far as to sug gest that our policies were ma nipulated by Peking This ex ercise in crass politics and bro ken promises conducted by Canadian government was the way the editorial began Thats not bit nice And Washington Star sports columnist referred to the cow ardly deceitful conduct of the Government of Canada Oouchl The London Daily Mail talked about the Canadian govern ment succeeding where Hitler failed Mr Hitler it will be recalled made an unsuccessful She deducted the $1000 from her 1972 taxable income and in due course received tax re fund year later the insurance company sent her premium notice for $1000 Not having $1 000 and believing that it was simply reminder that she could put another $1000 into the plan she ignored it Soon the agent called and set her straight She had con tracted to invest $1000 year and if she didnt the plan would lapse Seeing the plan in its true light for the first time the woman told the agent that she wanted to cancel the plan and take her money out The agent had more news for her She could cancelbut the company would keep all the money Athe agents commis sion and the companys admin istrative costs are met out of the first couple of years pre miums on most insurance con tracts The moral is that any con tract or agreement concerning your RRSP should be examined as potential savmgs plan not just way to reduce current taxes Would you invest your life savings in this plan if it wasnt an RRSP asks author Tom Delaney If your answer is nof then dont invest in that particular plan attempt to prohibit Jews from entering the 1936 Olympics You see there is obviously mistaken impression abroad that politics are somehow in volved in the Montreal Olym pics But actually the first time the Canadian government ac tually referred to political con siderations was when Mr Ford let it be known he was not hap gyel with the way Taiwan was ing treated He thought the IOC committee had made bad decision and that he was urging the head of the US Olympic Committee to use his influence in the IOC to have the ruling reversed Mr MacEachens reaction was swift He said he was sur prised the head of any govern ment could compel its comlt mittee on which way to vote Its surprising and bad ex ample of political in terference And he went on to reassure Canadians that we have been scrupulous to avoid influencing whatever decision the Canadian committee should take The minister is right of cour se We dont fool around with national committees We deal directly with the international committee NO POINT Anyway what would be the point of the government trying to influence Harold Wright head of the anadian Olympic Association when he said it tawas decision on Thina was the blackesi day iii anadas history get the im ression Mr Wright had alrea made up his mind anadas policy of no political interference was made clear back in 1969 when former external affairs minister Mit chell Sharp wrote the president of the IO would like to assure you that all parties representing the national Olympic committees and the international sports federations recognized by the lO Will be free to enter anada pursuant to the normal regulations In the face of this who could EOSSlbl suggest that we rought politics into the Olym pics And now that we have man aged to change Taiwans self proclaimed name and now that only two black African man tries have Withdrawn in protest against an alleged racist New Zealand and now that delegates decided not to ap plaud Mr Trudeau to protest his government policies as crying shame that Mr Ford would see fit to bring politics in tothetllimmcs THE PICK OF PUNCH couldnt think of anything that isnt medically or morally or politically unacceptable on the way out By JOHN HARBRON Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service The likes of Jimmy Carter Gerry Ford Ronny Reagan in the United States and Joe Clark in Canada suggest North American electorates are not currently in the mood to elect philosopher kings The late 705 it would appear with emerging conservatism in our democratic populations in Canada and the US want no new p01itical Camelots The John Kennedy 1961 in augural speech appeal of what you can do for your country the Lyndon Johnson Great Society are popular this elec tion year only to readers of books on recent American polit ical history But Americans en masse do not seem to hanker for another JFK or the wide sweep of fed eral liberal legislation of LBJ They were in the continuing Rooseveltian tradition of the dreary 19305 updating in time and circumstances the thrust of the New Deal which saved capi talism in America from certain failure Franklin Roosevelt too was patrician like JFK scion of rich family and highborn heritage who had more social conscience in him than the rest of his family put together Rather in America in election year we are seeing an elec torate revert to either the lit tle man in the presidency which would be Jimmy arter or the standpat resident in the Eisenhower tra ition which we might find with Reagan as Rev publican incumbent ANONYMOUS PM In Canada the Who is Joe Clark syndrome should not deter from the fact small town foothills prairie politictan could be the successor prime minister to the elitist Pierre Trudeau after the votes are counted in our 1978 federal elecA ttoti ln terms of place of origin and style Joe lark and Jimmy Carter plus places like Plains Georgia and High River Alta may be what the electorate wants this time round truer ANAI AS STORY New Westminster should be capital By BOB BowMAs New Westminster not VIC tona should be the capital of British olumbia 11 was the capital when British olumbia was only the mainland and Vancouver Island was so ratecolony two colonies were united in under the name British olumbia but Victona was cho sen to be the capital by the Legislative Council The dew sion was the result of some skulduggery story that Will be told on the it priate date Vancouver di not exist then It it after the PR was com eted in 185 number of sites up the Fra ser River were considered be BIBLE Tilt lt lHl expression of vox populi weary of spectaculars suspicious of powerful leaders Mr Carter has good deal more experience in this world than Joe Clark having built up family business served in the US Navy during the Second World War and holding major administrative job as governor of his home state of Georgia And the Democratic party is more united than the Canadian Progressive Conservatives They still function as dis parate group with concepts of public policy ranging from the ultra conservatism Sinclair Stevens to the Red Toryism of progressive Fora Macdo nal Of course one can always be surprised by what an estab lished candidate will do once in office The biggest sleeper as president in the US could be Ronald Reagan whose tenure as governor of California resulted in lighter more ef ficient state administration One remembers from the 1964 presidential race in the US that it was Senator Goldwater who called for more troops in Vietnam and shocked many Americans with such proposals as defoliation Yet it was the late president Lyndon Johnson the over whelming winner of that elec tion who had to resort to both in ffice the half million men in Vietnam and airborne destruc tion of Viet Cong jungle hide outs The Johnson tragedy is that he is being remembered more as warlord than for his truly great social and antidis criniinatory legislation which followed in the best Truman and Roosevelt traditions lark as anadian rime minister might be compelled to make innovative moves as did former prime minister Die fenbaker in resources develop ment and out of context With prevmus Liberal develop mental policy WhoeVer is in power in our two countries by 1900 their styles will be closer to the popu lism which escaped us in most of the 705 July 16 10 The problem was to et location that might be ended in case of an attack by the Lnited States The border is only few milesaway New Westminster had the ad vanta of deep water and could developed into sea rt Although the city is on the raser River there is sufficient of water to enable large ships to dock The origina name of the area was Queen sborough and it was supposed to be the only rt of entry for all Lord ytton who was colonial secrets in the British government not like the name Queensborough He described it as being not only prosaic but the qutntesaence of vulgarity New Westminster was built by the Royal En meets under Colonel Moody he site was covered with fine trees some of which were 250 feet high and 27 feet in circumference Rev John Sheepshanks chaplain to the arrived after the work had begun and described the scene in letter He saw mighty trees lying about in confusion as though giant with one sweep of his mighty arm had mown them down tore Governor Douglas in mrporated New Westmmster