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curvy hammer Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited 16 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario Robb PublisherGeneral Manager Walls Editor Emeritus 4The Barrie Examiner Downtown revitalization DIM Henshavv Managing Editor Friday Nov I2 1976 one step at time Barrie is slowly workin toward redevelopment downtown The latest chapter in the new downtown is reco prove the recommendation and the committee be appointed early in the tion from planning board cil appoint subcommittee to gather information for secondary plan on downtown revitalization We would expect counci new year Its membership would representatives of elected jplanning board civic affairs com mittee of the Greater Chamber of Commerce and other interested people WAR DAYS YEARS AGO Marshall Green sparka its way of its civic affairs committee has been fighting long hard battle trying to turn people on to downtown revi saga of mmenda hat coun Wm at projects talization It is business people like Mr Green who will have to continue car rying the ball The province with its Business Improvement Area scheme says business people must initiate such 1e reason is that if it is imposed by municipality it is just another form of taxation include officials Barrie What the province wants is for the business community to get behind the scheme There is lot of work that has to be done before dOWntOWn revitaliza tion becomes reality ug of the And provincial funds arrive DOWN MEMORY LANE The Barrie Examiner 21941 Freedom of the essential said Harold Hale editor Packet and Times in address to Barrie Lions Club Paul Fisher arrived from Fergus to manager of Royal much outweighed seniors two junior players were Jack Nixon and Leighton Clark Sen were Jack Hamilton and George Storey jopened in town with Barrie ob 3jective purchase of two armoured carriers ZBryson recovering in hospital following training crash Sgt Norman Hooper former sports editor and ad manager War Weapon Pilot Officer Examiner now with Grey coe Foresters on guard part of our democracy Bank of Canada Barrie Collegiate football teams beaten by Owen Sound in Georgian Bay finals juniors by 270 Nov 12 press is of Orillia become Knights 101 Best ior stars Week Sinclair Maurice Calgary for The and Sim duty on QUEEN PARK Are we renewing our forests By DON OHEARN Queens Park Bureau Thomson News Service TORO TO Are we ex ploiting ur timber resources In the sudden limelight which has been centred on our forest resources largely through the Reed Ltd affair prime con cern that has arisen is whether we are paying enough attention to the renewing of these re sources There have been number of claims some of them from for esters that we are not They say that both cutting methods being followed and the limited extent of the reforesta BIBLE TH The people asked and he brought quails and satisfied them with the bread of heaven He opened the rock and the waters gushed out they ran in the dry places like river Psalm 10540 41 He is no respecter of per sons The God who brought wilderness miracles in the past will meet you in your darkest hour today Only believe am the Lord thy God change not 3hr Barrie Examiner 16 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario Telephone 72645537 Registration Number 0484 Second Class Mail Return postage guaranteed Daily 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 541710 640 Cathcart 81 Mon treal Member of the Canadian Press and Audit Bureau of Cir culations The Canadian Press is ex clusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches in this paper credited to it or The Associated Press or Renter and also the local news published therein The Barrie Examiner claims Co yright in all original adver tis and editorial material crea by its employees and roduced in this news aper regogyright Num Regis ration r203815 register61 tion effort are putting the prov ince in the dangerous position that as early as the end of the century it may not have enough wood to harvest to keep its pulp and sawlog mills operating Such predictions would seem to bea bit frantic But still when viewed in per spective there also would seem to be some cause for concern in our forest management policies Enough cause that these abould be reviewed and new ap proaches taken Forest management has really only been matter of major policy in Ontario since the war Former premier George Drew greatly expanded use of the forest resources after the Second World War being responsible for addition of several new mills in the north And at the same time he ap pointed royal commission un der Gen Howard Kennedy to advise on forest utilization and management That was the beginning of ad vanced forestmanagement methods in the province However these never reached the intensive cultivation methods used in some European countries par ticularly Sweden and the Black Forest in West Germany There were two reasons for this One was that even with the CANADAS STORE Quebec Act is remarkable By BOB BOWMAN The Quebec Act passed by the British Parliament in 1774 was one of the most remarkable pieces of legislation in history It was enacted in secrecy be cause it gave full privileges to Roman Catholics in Canada at time when no rivileges were allowed to people of Ireland Perhaps the Quebec AQ was partly responsible for the tragic situation in Ireland today The legislation was so secret that members of the House of Commons were not permitted to hear the debate in the House of Lords When the Commons considered the bill no visitor was permitted to take notes Historian George Wrong wrote that the Quebec Act con firmed despotism in Canada There was to be no elected leg mile run at Varsity tercollegiate athletic meet Nova Scotia coast continues in jour nalism as writer for unit newslet ter Kiwanis Club celebrated 19th anniversary with ladiesnight din ner at American Hotel Roy Mc Vittie presiding Leighton Hap Emms reported to Omaha of American Hockey League as playing coach His elec trical contracting business in Barrie will be in charge of brother Roy President Arthur Smith presided at closing golf banquet Barrie Country Club and presented cham pionship trophy Battle Cup to Jim Willis Mrs Kay Lilja won ladies title Alexander to Bill Dyment and superintendent Barrie Tanning Ltd until retirement dies in his 8lst RCAF Camp field at Borden being resur year Landing faced Large number of Harvards and Yales sent to Hagersville until job completed Bob Delaney won in Stadium expansion we were using only less than 50 per cent of our known resources And second our terrain and tree species generally didnt lend themselves to the in tensive silviculture of the European countries So we used limited ap proach NOW 90 PER ENT Now the important change has been that with the ex pansion of old mills and estab lishment of new ones we are us ing90 per cent of our resources So we have reason for worry And undoubtedly we will be coming up with some answers One concern is that under modern bigscale cutting great machines are used which har vest an area clean in contrast to old methods where some trees were left standing and would naturally regenerate Then lot of our spruce limits are in swamp and again jack pine is difficult to regenerate Further there is question of whether reforestation is better carried out by the companies or by the government It now is done by the government but at least some foresters think it could be better handled by the industry under government di rectioni The overall situation un doubtedly has problems But still there is no apparent reason for hysteria which in some areas has been creeping in islature While Canada was to have English criminal law as more merciful than that of France it was to have French civil law That act caused great dis sention in the colonies that now are the United States It was partly responsible for the American revolution It also caused dissention among Englishspeaking citizens of Canada On Nov 12 1774 they signed petition against the act because it deprived them of number of rights including trial byjury Later when the United Em pire Loyalists came to Canada they would not live in Quebec but obtained land in what now is Ontario Even so it took until 1791 before Canada was divided into Lower and Upper provin ces FROM PARLIAMENT HILL Senator Hayden hangs right in By STEWART MaciEI Ottawa Bureau Thomson News Service One of the more frustrating aspects of writing daily col umn is that when finally you reach the right frame of mind to tackle particular subject you trip over some other dis traction As an example have been preoccupied for days about Sen ator Salter Hayden the 80year old Liberal who apparently has fought off all efforts to oust him as chairman of the Senates banking and commerce com mittee Senator Hayden who is hon orary director of the Bank of Nova Scotia and director of many other firms has been holding this prestigous post for 26 years Now as the com mittee prepares to examine the new Bank Act many senators who have interest in financial institutions have volunteered to stay away from proceedings be cause of possible conflict of in terest But not Senator Hayden No sir he is going to stay right in there makin sure the com mittee is not eprived of his ex perience as the countrys bank inglaws are revised So after thinking about this blatant conflict of interest for several days jumped out of bed today finally in the right mood to say something about it Unfortunately now find cant concentrate on the sub ject Again have tri ped over distractioner somct ting that fascinates me How can anyone think about mundane matter like the Senate when we have govern ment brochure telling public servants how to receive telephone bomb threats After all we must maintain some priorities Those of us who work in pri vate industry probably still tend to run like the devil when someone phoncs and says bomb has been planted two floors below But not public ser vants No as good bureaucrats they are expected to remain behind and fill out the proper forms The new instructions have come from the Canadian Bomb Data Centrensome day in tend to find out what else the centre doeswand public ser vants have been told exactly what to do when the bomb threat comes over the phone When the call comes sug gests the brochure the first thing the public servant should doislisten lmagincthat Actually this is something public servants could hear in mind when answering any phone call Its amazing how much one learns this way Its also important for the lis tenor to be calm and courte ous No particular phrases are recommended but pcrha the caller Would he satisfie with something like Thank you for calling Mr Bomber we cer tainly appreciate your interest in our building After the hombers ego has been properly massaged the listener is then expected to ask him and politiely of course what time the bomb will ex plode This is good for openers YOUR BUSINESS Inflation war is not over yet By VINCENT IIGAN Business and Consumer Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service How well is antiinflation working The 62percent increase in consumer prices during the fir st year of restraints is oh viously less painful than the 106percent increase in the previous 12month period from October 1974 to October 1975 But even 62percent in flation rate represents much too rapid deterioration of the value of Canadians savings pensions and other financial as sets It seems welcome only in re lation to the succession of jum ps in the Consumer Price Index CPI that were taking place before the federal government imposed its antiinflation restraints in midOctober of lastyear Its remarkable that the re duction in inflation has been achieved des ite major wage settlements at are running well above the inflation rate and any improvement in labor productivity Average annual increase in base wage rates was 119 per cent in the 12 months ended Sept 30 latest period for which figures are available In the latest threemonth pe riod July to September base rate increases in collectively bargained settlements averaged 97 per cent iv What has brought the in flation rate down to its current level of 62 per cent is the ex ceptionally good performance of food prices Last month the food ortion of the consumer price in ex nei ther rose nor fell Initially the AntiInflation Board apparently fearing big rise in food prices went out of its way to emphasize that food prices didnt come under its jurisdiction Lately however it has hceh taking credit for the stability of food prices by claiming that 58 per cent of the food cost in the CPI is attributable to middle men and retailers and is there fore subject to Alli control True enough but the 58 per cent represents basically series of fixed markups on 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 Keep an eye on the curlyheaded kid with glasses IHE WORLD TODAX Nicholas II story just will not die just in case you might be blown to bits Then the listener asks where the bomb is located Mean while of course the call is beingtraced But in the event the tracing process cant he completed be fore the air is filled with public servant particles it is sug gestcd that the caller he asked where he is at that moment Presumably the bomber is just dying to reveal this infor mation Oh yes he must also be asked what the bomb looks like This information would pre vent the disposal experts from wasting time dismantling the air conditioner or the bosss martini mixer Finally and this point seems well taken the bomber should be asked to reveal his name Surely no decent bomber Would object to these reason able bureaucratic re uests Why he isnt even ask to fill out the form himself or even reveal his social security num her But if he is unreasonable and uncooperative the public scr vant is then told what to listen for such as the tone of voice the accent background noises and that type of thing Finally the public servant must put his own name on the form with the branch and department Then his next of kin And only now should he pick up his lunch con tainer and briefcase and leave the building Ive been so moved by this might never get back to con centrating on that Senate com mittee farm price thats independent of thcAIB The outlook for food prices depends largely on the weather However the recent high rate of slaughtering of cattlc mostly cows rather than steersmeans that the supply of calves will be declining in 1978 And that scarcity in turn means that there will be an other higjump in beef prices In reporting the latest mouth tomonth rise of 07 per cent in the CPI in October Statistics Canada singled out the increase in property taxes on homes for special attention Taxes not only municipal but also provincial and federal are becoming relatively more serious cause of inflation as wage increases become more moderate and food prices stabi lize Despite liticians repeated pledges restraint govern ment spending remains almost out of control Its not just the politicians who disdaining commercial airlines jet about the country in imperial lendor Its also the armies public servants and Crowncorporation em ployees who ive less than full effort while eing paid salary that automatically rises to in sulate them from inflation Government waste is paid for by taxes As taxes go up indi vtduals living standards go down By JOHN IIARBRON Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service Whatever really happened to the family of Nicholas II The last czar of all the Russias con tinues to fascinate us as much as who else killed John Ken nedy In neither case have the facts as outlined by government and the media been allowed to rest Such facts are seen as smoke screens and mistruths by host ofauthors very convincing British book using previously hidden documents says that Czar Nicholas II his wife and his heir the Czarevitch as well as the four daughters were not ex ecuted en masse by the Bolshe viks July 16 1918 as history tells us Rather Vladimiar Lenin the new Bolshevik leader executed the Czar and his heir at later date but used the daughters and the Tsarina empress as bar gaining elements in his negotia tions with Imperial Germany These were his endofwar dealings between declining Imperial Germany ruled by Kaiser Wilhelm II related to the Czar and the new Bolshevik regime to end the war on the Eastern Front This took place in March 1918 at BrestLitovsk when ruined Russia delivered huge territories including the vast Ukraine to the temporarily vic torious Germény END OF VALUE Within months Germany was in defeat the armistice having been signed Nov 11 and llusa sian royalty no longer useful in bargaining since the Kaiser had fled and Germany was repuh lic Proof of this say British aU thors Anthony Summers and Tom Mangold in The File on the Czar reallife thriller is seven volume dissier by Rus sian monarchist official with police reports and original af fidavits they found in Harvard University that the Russian im perial family was not executed at Elkaterinburg in the remote Urals but were moved around at the discretion of the Bolshe viks Judge Ivan Sergeycv em ployed by the White Russian monarchist forces to in vestigate the fate of the impe rial family gathered much evi dence to prove the Czar was alive He was dismissed by the same White Russian forces ho temporarily overran Elkaterin burg after the royal family had been imprisoned there Instead the royal daughters at least were interned again at Perm 200 miles to the north west in Bolshevikheld territory But when Imperial Germany collapsed the bargaining value of the royal women was lost The Tsarina was German princess Here the authors lose track and cannot tell us if they were released or were later shot also This approach gives credence to the case of the Grand Duch ess Anastasia that she lived somehow escaped to the West after the Bolsheviks won over all the White Russian forces and initially survived in Paris along with the Czars mother in the thriving White Russian exile community of the 19205 The theme was glamorized in move featuring Yul Brynner as determined White Russian general proving Anastasias va lidity confused Ingrid Berg man playing bogus Anastasia and regal Helen Hayes the Czars aging mother It was all great stuff and who knows might have been an ac curatethemeafterall Unlike the many books on John Kennedys murder which try to prove lot theory and more than one iller but have not done so The File on the Czar convinces us that the his toric date of the Russian royal family executions now is in serious jeopardy Even more fascinating is the unconfirmed story that British King George refused sanc tuary to the Russian Czar who was after all his cousin Berrys World see its Christmas catalog time again Kissinger prepares to step doWn By BRUCE LEVETT WASHINGTON CP State Secretary Henry Kissinger re mains quietly in the shadows preparin to step down from the worl stage as his last ma jor peace initiativethe Geneva conference on JRhodesia totters precarious ySome US officials suggested at one pointas the black and white Rhodesian leaders be came deadlockedthat Kissin ger might be forced to set off on one more journey of shuttle diplomacy But sources say that possi bility no longer exists Kissin ger is removing himself from the centre of diplomatic atten tion His aides say he is con vinced this is the best way of smoothing the transitional path leading to new Democratic state secretary However Kissinger will re main in his job until Jan 20 when Jimmy Carter takes over as president and Democratic cabinet takes control of the US government SYSTEM DIFFERS Unlike the Canadian system where cabinet ministers are drawn from the ranks of gov ernment supporters in the House of Commons American cabinet ministers are picked by the president and confirmed in their office in congressional hearings Theoretically the president of one party can pick men of an other party for his cabinet But president might risk falloff of support from his own camp if he did not reserve prized offices for qualified people in his own party In the case of Kissinger often described as brilliant tacti cian in the field of US diplo macy Carter has vowed to re place him Carter believed that President Ford virtually abdi cated the field of foreign diplo macy leaving vital operations to Kissinger Meanwhile Kissinger contin ues to meet with his aides daily on major international develop ments without considering per sonal intervention Aides say they do not expect Kissinger to intervene in arms limitations talks or on Pan ama not even on crucial meet ings of the Organization of Pet roleum Exporting Countries OPEC in December He is expected to speak to the North Atlantic Assembly in Williamsburg Va next week He is scheduled to make his final official overseas trip next month when he attends the Nor th Atlantic Treaty Organization NATO meeting in Brussels and the Conference on In ternational Economic Devel opment in Paris Even without his physical presence at the Rhodesian talks however echoes of the Kissinger monotone will con tinue to be heard It was his compromise for mula calling for transition to majority rule in two years with an interim integrated govem ment that brought Prime Min ister Ian Smith to the table mssibly heading off fullscale civil war It is also this formula de signed partly to limit Commu nist influence in southern Af rica on which the conference is faltering Wood for energy or for fun FREDERICTON CP The day was cold wet and miser able And yet for more than 100 area residents who turned out bumpersticker on display said it all Wood burners have more fun Unusual as it might seem in province in which the chief in dustry is forestry it was Fire wood Day in Fredericton demonstration in support of the art of finding chopping buying and using wood for energy or fun The event was the brainchild of Dr Alex Dickson coordina tor of continuing education in forestry at University of New Brunswick who staged two similar days while teaching at Cornell University at Ithaca NY Many people today did not grow up in the country he said in an interview and therefore have no idea how to get wood how to chop it burn it or even buy it properly and are more or less at the mercy of the wood vendor Firewood Day was an effort to try to change that Woodlot owners foresters and chainsaw dealers formed part of the group of course but many of those who participated own or plan to own ireplaces or woodburning stoves inu¢i He said the use of wood is on the increase both for estheticsf and as supplement to oilfired heating It is also partly psy chological thing an associ ation with the past People learned what to con sider when buying firewood how to handle insects in the woodpile how to burn wood safel and efficiently and also watc ed demonstrations of tree felling bucking skidding and manual and mechanical splitt ing The day was UNB forestry acuity cial natural resources ment Maritime Forest Ra nsored by theft rovinwI departm 895 School and Canadian Forestryfif Service