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The Earth Examiner Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited 16 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario Robb PublisherGeneral Manager Walls Editor Emeritus 4The Barrie Examiner DM Henshaw Managing Editor Monday Nov 1976 School trustees waiting until after the election The Simcoe County Board of Educations family life or sex education program for Grade and students will certainly be land mark By the time it is implemented if have been postponed reread rediscussed and referrad to more committees and groups than anyother program Sex education is sensitive issue In state system of education trustees and teachers must always in mind the differences in life styles and religions of students While the boards program Lear to Be Human will deal with values which differ with upbr inging the major portion of the pro gram involves the facts of life which are the same no matter ever it will likely keep ning religion Many parents for reasons do not tures to his patients Children are asking questions in Simcoe County schools right now and teachers have no guidance or resources to fall back on other than their personal opinions The boards program hastily concocted document Well inform children well about the facts of life Trustee Bill Ives physician pointed out major portion of his time is spent giving family life lec qualified preparing mittee has start Tru discussed last Wedne trained to any school or any of child taken what the fielenl teachers and ad ministrators have spent full year the curriculum for Grades and alone The boards moral education com been involved from the stees have attended special meeting on the program it at twoday con ference and rehashed it again at sdays meeting Teachers would be specially teach the program The program would not be introduced in until parents have had chance to review it Any parent who disapproves of all he course may have his out of the class That all seems reasonable and ef Then why has it been referred back to host of committees for fur various their Initial most trust ments they Trustees tant and di are elected decisions is not Delays ther study and review eaction would be sec education is far too controversial an issue for trustees to get mixed up in so close to an election But then ees indicated the corn received from parents were favorable are faced with an impor fficult decision but they and paid to make those ont make it any easier trustees make up your minds Freetrade zones in US glimpse into the future BUFFALO NY tCPi freetradc zone often conjures up pictures of exotic foreign ports of call but one recently opened in this prosaic Lake Erie city the 19th to start oper ating in the linited States Four other zones are close to the Canadian border at Sault Ste Marie and Bay City Mich Seattle Wash and Toledo Ohio The emphasis in the zones is generally on commercial rather than manufacturing ac tivity The Buffalo Forcigrrlradc Zone Operators Inc zone is on an area of 18 acres which George Keitncr executive vice president said he hopes to turn into miniindustrial park He said his original plans for zone in ariada had been well received by anadian business men but not with much cnr thusiasm irorn the government Two anadian companies are using the Buffalo zone he set up instead Freetrade zones are one of the tools of international trade and Ill keep working at getting one in anadzi Canada has never had one as far as the customs and excise branch of Revenue Canada can determine And although the federal government has tried to offer similar benefits through customs and tariff regulations the merits of zones are still dc bated from time to time The Quebec government has talked of zone adjacent to Montreals Mirabcl airport Changes in customs and tariff laws would be required Goods and materials can be imported dutyarid tarifffree into such zones to be stored or used in the manufacture of IN LERPRETING THE NEW Nonvoters 1n Uni ld number 70 million Ehr Barrie Examiner 16 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario 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THREE FORMS The zones can take number of forms They can be small areas such as the highlysue cessful zone next to Shannon airport in the Republic of Ire land Alternatively the area can be completely free port such as Hong Kong third form is transit zone that for example is negotiated between land locked country arid its seaboard neighbor The fourth variety is free perimeter zone designed to stimulate trade off the beaten track Parts of the Amazon ba sin are designated as such ZOYttS Stanley fizgala chief econo mist of the customs and excise branch of Revenue anada sais the advantages of the zones are freedom from duties bonds and other customs expenses re duced transportation costs and wider choices of destinations for goods Immrters also find them con venient for storing goods pendv ing the start of new import quota period for breaking bulk shipments and repackaging or testing the goods for quality and avoiding the tariffs on any returned to the manufacturer The problems with zones arise when materials or prod ucts enter the domestic market and customs officers have to determine the tariff Should the goods be considered as domes tically produced If they are of foreign origin what are the countries of origin and there Ry IEOROIIKINIIEN UNITED NATIONS tCIi ne of the biggest worries for Jolitical leaders in this years residential election campaign iow driving toward its climax the large number of Amerir ans who plan to let this elecr tion go by without voting Authoritative surveys have placed the number of none voters at staggering 70 million That figure approaches onehalf of the total of registered voters in the coun try If further erosion takes place in the voter turnout at the polls next Tuesday the number of nonrvotcrs conceivably could exceed the number who do vote The figures underscore the sorry performance at the polls by people who pride them selves as possessing the most democratic of the Western democracies Their voter turn out in recent presidential elec tions has been steadily down ward 640 per cent in 1960 610 in 1961 606 in 1968 and 556 in 1972 Since the majority of Ameri can voters traditionally support the Democratic party any do cline in voter turnout tends to undermine the political for tunes of the Democratic cori tender rnore than it does those of the Republican fore what tariff on each part of the product What is the value added in the frost country How do dumping laws and import and export controls apply The rirorc intricate coun trys trading patterns the more complicated the quest ions ustoms officers in all in dustrialized countries abhor free zones because of the prob form they create Mr Airgala said VOIDS PROBLEM He said Shannon largely avoids the problem by making it so hard for goods to enter the domestic market that few do number of zones have been proposed for anada over the years including Halifax hurr chill Man arid areas of the Niagara Peninsula iovcrnrncnts have responded by adapting tariffsandcustonis procedures to offer similar lien cfits rather than accepting free lflllt The main mechanism is duty drawbacks which refund 11 per cent of tariffs on imported goods if they are rccxportcd Alternatively goods can be placed in bonded warehouses and tariffs are paid only when the goods are rcrrioved to the domestic market One disadvantage of lllc warehouses is the importer is restricted by rules as to what he can do with the goods while they are in bond He cannot for example use them to make an other product But Ictcr Dawes director of foreign trade for the anadian Importers Association said drawbacks involve great deal of red tape He would like free zones to be looked at seriously in Canada ted States IIXIISIISOFFERED The nonvoters give various explanations for their at titudc that thecandidatessay one thing and then do another that both candidates are dull and there is little choice that it doesnt make rnticli difference which candidatc is elected Rut voter sentiment and some polls notwithstanding there are clear alternatives be tween the two candidates and their platforms For example Jimmy Carter the Democratic contender is running on platform calling for $5 billion reduction in mil itary fXptllfllllllfS Republican President Gerald Fords plat form seeks superior na tional defence and period of sustained growth in our defence efforts The Democrats support the congressional lllllllplllcVllllvt kins bill which calls for federal expenditures to reduce adult unemployment to three per cent within four years The Republicans oppose that bill as well as any huge federally financed public employment programs The Democrats stress the unemployment problem the Republicans stress the problem of inflation Dcrnocrits would consider wage and price coir trols Republicans vehemently oppose them FROM PARLIAMENT HILL Govt decentralization program Pi is leading to lots of questions Ry SlIIlRl HaclllOl Ottawa llurcau Thomson ts Sen icc After it was announced that sortie 030 employees of the Vet erans Affairs Dcpartiriciit would be moving to harlot tctown from Ottawa some of ficials of the department cxr presst surprise that this hadnt bccii disclosed earlier It Sltlll that fill the publicity material had been prepared weeks ago and the announce nicnt lizid bccn scheduled for early October Officially there has been no cxplzination for the delay Aftcr Veterans Affairs Minis tci Dan MacDonald did an riouncc the personnel shift while visiting Charlottetown oriscrvative Leader Joe flark hinted that the timing might have something to do with four forthcoming byelcctions in the province Perhaps so but some back room officials in the prime min isters office have offered ati even more interesting exr planation still involving bye lcctions They say that when Ml lrudeau went to PEI in early October he had planned to make the announcement then But it seems that at the last moment someone remem bcred the Oct 18 byelection in Ottriwaiarlcton and it was dc YOUR BUSINESS New credit bill favors savers It lll llfi llusincss and onsunicr Affairs Analyst Tlioiiison News Service lndividual anadians Will get slightly better brcak iii their ltllllllf Illl financial iii Sllllllliilis if the proposed Iloi rowers and Depositors lrotcc tion Act litcotrics law lTntil now iiidivrduals dealing with banks trust firms and loan companies have had about as much clout as the Montreal fixpos pitclntigslaff The banks and trust com panics that hold your savings have been able to get away with paying interest on the smallest amount in your account over sixrrrionth period That means that if your ac count stood at $600 up until the last week of the sixmonth pe rim and you then withdrew $300 you would receive six nionlhs interest on only $100 The institution in other wor ds had the interestfree use of $500 for nearly six months The new bill if passed will require the institution to pay you interest on the full $600 for five months and on $100 for flu sixth iriorith tltut it wont as suggtstcd few months ago require it to credit you with in terest on daily basis The financial institutions wont like it and some have al ready coiriplaincd about the ex pcnsc and the administrative difficulties Rut they should know better than the rest of us that people ought to be paid fairly for the use of their money And corn puters will eliminate rriost of the administrative details NO MORE LIMIT The new bill according to An thony Abbott consumer and corporate affairs minister also is designed to protect borrowers against excessive iii tcrcst charges THE PICK OF PUNCH Im here against medical advice ofcoursc cided that it was not an oppor tune time to tell the world that 650 jobs were leaving the capi tal As things turned out it prob ably lidnt matter since the Liberal candidate was soundly thrashed lll OttawaCarleton FACTS NEEDED These things may not be par ticularly important by them selves but they point to an of vious need for more open dis cussion about the governments decentralization program As things stand we dont know how rrruch of the program is in spired by politics by econom ics by practicality or by hidden motives Suspicions obviously Ilcre however the improve inerrts maybe illusory The bill would retrieve the existing limit of oneto twoper cent monthly interest on small loans defined as those under $1500 The reason for the removal is that lenders arent willing to advance money at those rates to highrisk lXirrowers which is said to force those borrowers to turn to loan sharks who charge extremely hiin interest Mr Abbotts bill would elirni irate the ceiling and in its place give borrowers the right to apply to court for review and reduction of interest rates that they considered too higt In the first place its doubtful that many Canadiansoutside of the underworld of Montreal and perhaps couple of other large cities have the slightest idea of where to find loan shark even if they wanted to Second place its just as doubtful that many borrowers Would be inclined to launch court action against financial institution That happens ex tremely seldom in those prov inces that already permit such actions PAPER TIGER The Borrowers and Depos itors Protection Act as it now stands is something of paper tiger notable more for its cau tion than for its ferocity in do fence of consumers Thats not necessarily bad thing British laws have until recently protected UK bor rowers from paying realistic in terest rates The result has been economic distortion and dislocation lf Canadian interest rates were limited too severely lend ing institutions would invest their money elsewhere credit would dry up and the in dustrics supplying durable goodscars TV sets stoves refrigerators and other major household applianceswould be in much worse trouble nixtn iiii exist As soon as this DVA transfer was announced an Ottawa newspaper wondered in print whether it involved some kind of trade off perhaps for the eventual closure of the Cana dian Armed Forces Base in Summerside worried David MacDonald tlr Pigment was on his feet in flash when the ommoris met And instead of celebrating the transfer of 630 jobs to his province he was more con cerned about what might hap at Surnmerside where the use employs nearly 1100 and the unemployment rate is far higher than in Charlottetown would think the prime miti ister would want to clear the air he said And he asked for clear assurances that no trade off is involved in the movement of DVA personnel to Charlotte town can certainly give that as surance replied the prime minister felt better when he said that Mr MacDonald re marked later But he was still bit worried What concerns me is that some people up here tend to view harlottetown and Surrimerside as side by side and that job lost in one city can be replaced by new one in the other Thats riot the way it is In 1969 the province was as sured by official ttawa that the Sum merside base would not be wound down unless it was replaced by an equivalent oper ation But this hasnt eliminated oftrepeated rumors about closure there NOT EQUIVALENT However there is some coir solation in thefact that the DVA transfer in no way quali fies as an equivalent operation In fact its the only govern ment de artmerit with de creasing liudget and decreasing personnel and unless there is another war its respon sibilities could be terminated in 20 years or so There had been earlier talk about ttawa that it would be melded into the health and wel fare department This is another reason why we cant permit tradeoff said Mr MacDonald The transfers have annoyed some employees because of housing investmentsfiothers incidentally want to join the DVA because of the thoughts of living in PElvand there is general air of confusion sur rounding all such moves About 400 employees of the unemploy ment insurance commission will be going to New Brunswick and about 250 are going to Matane Que where they might be hardpressed for houses There are other tran sfers coming too and Andy Stewart president of the Public Service Alliance of Canada says before it is over some 20000 ublic servants might be mth fromOttawa It might be good idea but unless there are clearer ex lanations of motives more origrange planning and greater consultations the program could degenerate into an unholy mess Cable TVs proposal should be reconsidered Dear Sir An article appeared in the Barrie Examiner on Oct 26 wherin it was stated that Barrie Cable TV Ltd is applying to the Canadian RadioTelevision Commission CRTC for 75 cent increase in monthly rates an increase of over 14 per cent because they were installin 85 miles of microwave ca les along CN telegraph lines which should improve reception on Channel WBEN Buffalo and Channel WGR Buffalo im mediately In addition to this on Jan the abovementioned Channel lus Channel 12 CHEX Peter rough will be dropped and replaced by Channel 25CBLFT French Toronto and Channel 79 CITYTV Toronto In future for those who want to receive the aforementioned channels and 12 they may pur chase multichannel converter from Barrie Cable TV Ltd for mere $8995 Hopefully the Anti Inflation Board will review this request as with this proposed improve ment in service Barrie Cable TV Ltd will only be fulfilling their contract with their clients as included on their pamphlets that are given out when visiting their offices in Barrie if considering Cable TV are the two channels ie and 4they may be viewed with Cable TV Lacrosse association expresses appreciation Dear Sir On behalf of the Barrie Minor Lacrosse Association would like to thank your newspaper especially the members of your Sports Dept for the excellent support and coverage given to the games and activities of the BMLA during the past season Your weekly jaunts to to Skating club thanks DearSir On behalf of the Barrie Figure Skating Club would like to thank you very much for the excellent coverage that you gave to us in regard to our skate exchange and the opening of our skating season QUEENS PARK Province plans farm cushion By DON OHEARN Queens Park Bureau Thomson News Service TORONTOFarmincome stabilization will probably be getting lot of coverage out of here during this session It was the key issue of the spring session And though the government has greatly revised the bill that was knocked out then it was established as key p01itica1 issue and having established foothold the oppo sition will probably continue to try and make political mileage out of it The focus of its attack will probably centre on the fact that the province will actually only be paying towards five per cent of the income stabilization From its statements and from press reports the common impression probably is that it will be paying towards 95 per cent But this isnt so ISIIION Essentially what the govern Tide turned in November By BOB BOWMAN Canada was nearly captured by the United States in 1813 but the tide turned in November The plan was to capture Mon treal although it was late in the year The campaign was en trusted to two elderly generals Wade Hampton and James Wil kinson who were veterans of the Revolutionary War but disliked each other intensely Ham ton was to use the Lake Champ airr route to attack Mon treal with an army of 4500 men He was defeated at Chat eauguay by Col de Salaberry who had only 700 soldiers and some Indians It was remarkable achieve ment on the part of the Cana dians and Hampton who had little heart for battle was glad to use the defeat as an excuse to withdraw his army to the US In the meantime far stronger US force of 8000 men led by Wilkinson left Sacketts Harbor NY Nov1 and began descending the St Lawrence River They were ha rassed by small detachments of British and Canadians all the way from Prescott Most of the Americans had to leave their boats and travel on land to pass the Long Sault rapids he were forced into battle and de tented at Cryslers farm Nov11 by smaller BritishCanadian force led by Col Harrison Wilkinson had about as little heart for battle as Hampton and withdrew his large force to For those of us that are con nected to Cabe TV and have had the patience to try and watch channels and for which we have been paying in the past most will agree that reception was anything but ac ceptable Now Barrie Cable TV feels it right to assess an additional 75 cents per month to make it right In addition to the above it will cost an additional $8995 after Jan for those who want to pick up programs on Channel 12 CHEX Peterborough that are not available on local CBC TV stations such as the Satur day night hockey game from Montreal and Toronto Argonaut football games played in Toronto but not broadcast locally etc Truethe application to the CRTC has yet to be approved but number of subscribers to Barrie Cable TV must feel that the proposed changes will give them no more than what they are presently paying for and in some cases subscribers may feel there will be reduction of service with the dropping of Channel 12 CHEX Peterbor ough Consequently the proposal should be reconsidered Peacock Marshall Green John Graham Ponderosa Steak House for the player of the Week pictures were very much appreciated We look forward to working with your staff in similar relationship next year Thanks again Yours truly George ohnstone Secretary BMLA The board of directors and all of our members certainly ap preciate all the help that you have given to us Thank you Mrs Lorraine Kaye SecretaryBFSC ment here is offering to do is put ivepercent cushion on top of the federal governments payment towards stabilization This payment now is for 90 per cent of which Ottawa comes up with the full shot there is no farmer contribution The provincial plan is to pay five per cent on top of this with the government putting up two thirds of the premium cost and the farmer onethird The catch is that the Ottawa program is very limited apply ing only to few crops Federal Agricultural Minister Eugene Whelan has agreed to include other crops as the need occurs and the provin cial sweetener would be applied on top of them DESIGNATED CROP But if Whelan didnt agree to designate crop perhaps be cause it wasnt important enough then only the provin cial five per cent would apply to it Plattsburg NY for the win ter He made feeble thrust on Montreal in March but was driven off by another small Ca nadian force led by Major RB Handcock So Montreal again escaped actual attack as it had done in 1760 by the British and in 1775 by the US Of course news of the Ameri can defeats did not reach Brit ain until weeks later and the British began negotiations with US President Madison to end the war OTHER NOVJ EVENTS lamLabrador was granted to Joseph Penja of Rotterdam HasBishop Inglis opened academy at Windsor NS Sail ing ship service began between Halifax and Britain 1847Normal school opened at Toronto 1885CPR began service to MontrealOttawaSudbmyLakehe ad and Winnipeg lassIndependence of Canada Club adopted platform loosGovernment of Sas katchewan opened depart ment of municipal affairs 1919CNR opened railway station at Vancouver nusUnited Nations Food and Agriculture Organization met at Quebec roseRestrictions were im posed orr consumer credit tossRCMP seized SIU docu merits