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Ellie Iiarrir Examiner Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited 16 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario Robb PublisherGeneral Manager Walls Editor Emeritus Henshaw Managing Editor The Barrie Examiner Monday December 1976 Voters not to blame for lack of interest Of the 24000 people eligible to vote in the municipal election in Barrie today about 12000 can be ex pected to actually get out and vote 60 per cent vote in municipal election is usually considered quite good Few municipalities reach that figure The custom in municipal elections is for newspaper editorialists to write scathing editiorial following the election blasting the voters for their apathy Everybody all about it We think it is shame that not all the voters get out and vote But we wonder if the voters are entirely to blame The motherhood grassroot politics Municipal councillors and school board trustees are according to sentiment close to the people who elected them and the electorate can if it wishes have fast direct bearing on the decisions of civic politicians We would like to suggest that for the most part that is utter nonsense As general rule of thumb school board trustees across Ontario pay then nods says tut tut isnt that shame and forgets sentiment about municipal politics is that it is the voter more attention to school board ad ministration officials and the On tario Ministry of Education than to Municipal politicians across On tario pay far more attention to Queens Park than to voters Voters know for instance that even if they are 100 per cent in favor of shopping centre the decision about whether the plaza is built or not rests with School board trustees across the Queens Park province were told for some time that reading riting and rithmetic were not being taught to the satisfaction of most parents It was Queens Park which finally ordered the three rs back into the schools boards not individual school Anybody who has followed mu nicipal politics in Ontario can cite case after case in which the wishes of the grassroots politicians and the people they represent are trampled on by Queens Park Few voters out It may not be the voters fault Municipal councils are not totally powerless but every day they lose little more of their power Give municipal councils back their power and there will be more interest in municipal elections Quantity of evidence slight despite the advance puffery By ROBERT STONE Another book on the fate of Nicholas Alexandra and their five children Exactly and according to the dust jacket of The File On The Tsar by Anthony Summers and Tom Mangold Clarke Irwin and Co Ltd 401 pages $1595 what were su to find within its covers is dramatic new evidence on the fate of theczars On July18 1918 it was an nounced that the czar was exe cuted in Ekaterinburg with the approval of the Central Com mittee in Moscow chaired by Lenin Contrary to an Izvestia are ticle of July19 1918 that the wife and son of Nicholas Romanov were sent to safe place an investigation that began after the capture of Ekaterinburg by White forces six days later suggested mass execution in the cellar of the Ipatiev house It is the most widely accepted version of events The Reds en dorsed it in 1920 No Romanov bodies were ever found It is the massacre version that the authors set out to ques tion Both Reds and Whites seem to have clouded the familys fate deliberatelythe Reds be cause of world opinion the Whites as essential truth be cause Admiral Kolchak was courting socialist support The Romanovs alive would have been an embarrassment CLOSED MIND Capt Malinovskys and Judge Sergeyevs conclusions were suppressed and they were relieved in the investigation by Sokolov upon whose dossier most of the new material in this book is based It seems that Sokolov ap proached the investigation with his mind made up in advance But in addition to Sokolovs dossier the authors had access to the file of Mirolyubov who was professor of criminology WWWWWW Elia Barrie Examiner 16 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario Telephone 7266537 Registration Number 0484 Second Class Mail Return postage guaranteed Daily Sundays and Statutory Holidays excepted Subscription rates daily by carrier 85 cents weekly $4420 earl Single copies 15 cents By Mail Barrie $4420 yearly Simcoe Count $3400 yearly Motor Throw $3900 yearly Balance of Canada $3600 year yNational Advertising Offices 65 Queen St West Toronto 8641710 640 Cathcart St Montreal 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 or The Associated Press or Reuter and also the local news published therein The Barrie Examiinerl clgims in all orig na ver tigihygngahrid editorial material created by its employees and reproduced in this newspaper Co yright Registration Number 2115815 register 61 jm public prosecutor at Kazan dur ing Sokolovs inquiry and there fore Sokolovs immediate supev rior The two files tend to con firm each other The authors have sum marized all the other hypotheses as well however including that of the Redsin such way that it is not always easy to tell the new from the old evidence unless they are identified specifically And since all the onthespot investigators are long since dead they are in no position to defend themselves from the au thors criticism KINGS ADVICE Nor can King George who comes in for royal roasting in chapter headed King George Slams The Door This chapter not without in terest fails to address itself even remotely to solving the disappearance of the exImpe rial family It was King Georges advice based on an acute appreciation of British public opinion at the time that opposed providing asylum for the Romanovs in Britain and that led the British government to withdraw an earlier invitation The authors label this to gether with the silencing of the British ambassador to the Kerensky government shabby affair but another judgment comes to mind The king and his cabinet were well aware of prevailing anti czarist public opinion among warweary people and the im minence of the last great Ger man offensive which was about to break somewhere on the Western Front The authors statement that there is no obvious ex planation of the kings behavior page 253 seems blind to the political and military realities of the time The French Army was in capable of sustained effort sive riddled with Red sympa thizers and scarcely able to maintain staunch defence France offered no haven for the czar either and would have been offended by British haven NO OPEN FILE After the frustrating leads to nowhercpincluding 41 pages devoted to the story of and useless interview with an aged Anna Anderson Anastasia the authors confess frankly on page354 If the remaining facts ever do emerge they may reveal something less melodramatic than the death in the cellar and less exoticthan survival Until then the truth about the Romanovs remains casu alty of history And the file on the Tsar stavs open Robert Stone is an Ontario writer with special interest in history Ihomson News SPIViIf Quebecs federal grants could keep province in By VINCENT EGAN Business and Consumer Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service One reason to believe that Quebec will remain within Con federation despite the election victory of the separatist party is this Quebec receives far more money from the federal govern mentor more accurately from Canadians in other prov incesthan it contributes Granted political passions can be more powerful than cashflow statement On the other hand though money is the lifeblood of the economy and even the Le vesque government might hesi tate at the idea of cutting itself off from more than $1 billion year BIB UGHI For ye see your calling brethren how that no many wise men after the flesh not many mighty not many noble are called But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are might Corinthians 11627 The Lord is not looking for the wise but the willing The truly smart surrenders to Him Give Him the best of what is left of the rest of your life Now and forever you will be glad that you did and so will many others whose lives and will touch government that in this fiscal year is anticipating to receive $13 billion in uncon ditional grants from other prov incesvnamcly Ontario Alberta and British Columbiaevis har dly in position to cry that it is not receiving its just dues says economist Leigh Skcnc of Burns Fry Ltd investment dealers Quebec accounts for about 27 per cent of Canadas population and receives about 27 per cent of conditional and unconditional grants from the federal government 25 per cent of old age security payments 27 per cent of family allowances and 29 per cent of payments un der the Medical Care Act TAKEANI GIVE Those four categories of tran sferred payments add up to Iittle less than half of total federal expenditures Personal income taxes make up slightly less than half of fed eral revenuesbut only about 18 per cent of those personal in come taxes come from Quebec Allowing for differences in the fiscal years percentages on expenditures apply to the years from 1974 on the net ad vantage to Quebec is at least $1 billion and may be closer to $15 billion Mr Skene points out That would represent one measure of the cost of separa tism to Quebecers Its unlikely that any gov ernment will disregard figure of about $200 per capita says Mr Skene Even before the recent elec tion the Quebec government kick illiose pfiiiicologiumbkbums FROM PARLIAMENT HILL New attitude to Quebec demands will give LeVesque difficult time By STEWART MacLEOI Ottawa Bureau Thomson News Service Its not going to be easy said Quebec Premier Rene Le vesque as he talked about the difficultiesif not the im possibilitiesof running nor mal provincial government while his longterm goal is separatism Sure we are aware of how delicate the situation will be LEW Dec important in world history By JOHN IIARBRON Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service On Dec 1956 ramshackle motor yacht with the curious name Granma and its 81 weary and partially seasick crew lan ded on beach in eastern Cuba to begin what would end as the victory of Fidel Castro Nothing looked less likely on that fateful and for most of the 81 fatal day than that Castro would succeed or even be re membered in the pantheon of th ba revolutionaries over the years Somehow the landing was spotted by the professional sol diers of the dictator Fulgencio Batista and by the American built fighter planes of his air force The 81 were ambushed and slaughtered almost to man Less than dozen escaped in cluding Fidel his brother Che Guevara and others who now are all powerful and senior men in Castros government It was from this very small handful who hid by day grove was expected to have to go to the capital market to borrow $2 billion or more per year That kind of financing would be difficult enough Add to it the $1 billion or $15 billion in federal grants that would have to be replaced if Quebec were to separate and the total be comes staggering ASIIORTFALL Thats not to say that Mr Lc vcsque and his colleagues will change their minds about sepa ratism on the grounds that Quebec cant afford it Financial help would almost certainly he promised to re public of Quebec by such coun tries as France and Cuba Whether they could deliver on such promises is much less ccr lain however Another option for an inde pendent Quebec might be the technique that Cuba Algeria and other revolutionary regimes have usedmthat is the seizure of assets owned by out siders with little or no com pensation Even that however wouldnt replace the continuing net in flow of more than $1 billion that Quebec receives in Con federation If Quebec were to cut itself off from that income its peopleespecially the aged the sick and the poorcould well face crisislike reduction in their standard of living It is more likely thinks Mr Skenc that the concept of separatism for the foreseeable future will be used to pry addi tional revenue out of Ottawa What we are trying to be is an efficient provincial government in terms of the present regime while preserving and reserving our tions for the future As is Nov 15 election victory sent the Canadian dollar on nosedive and as businessmen openly pondered their future in Quebec and as the federal gov emment began looking at its own options it makes you real ize just how delicate the situ led for food medicine and weapons by night that one of the major social revolutions of our era emerged The venue for Castros minuscule then growing guerrilla war against the ap parently tough military forces of Batista would be the heavilyjungied and very isolated regions of riente Cubas most eastern province LONG STRUGGLE For weeks to come Castro and small band of warriors not much larger in number than the disciples of Christ per suaded others the exploited and downtrodden of the huge foreignowned sugar plan tations and industries of Orien le tojoin their ranks And in time they did Thetiny band grew to guerrilla army of several hundreds Becoming bolder they attacked and took isolated army posts acquiring weapons and food In time Castro would head genuine guerrilla army which finally captured Santiago de Cuba one of Cubas largest cities and heavily garrisoned by the Cuban army Meantime in distant Havana at the other end of the long island of Cuba academics pro fessionals in business politi cians against Batista started fundraising in the island and abroad for the Castro cause others slip away to join him in the jun The rest of it all the struggle down island throughout 195758 now is history On Jan 1959 Batista his family and reti nue of the highest military and civilian officers of his brutal re gime fled by plane On Jan 1959 Fidel entered Havana in triumph It could all have been fore stalled or happened some other way if the entire 81 had been shot down near the beaches 20 years ago was in Cuba both in the late 19405 when the rot in Cuban society was well begun and again in 1958 as the old order was near its end Thirty years ago Fidel Castro was one of many Cuban revolu tionaries of which Cuba had produced hundreds going back to the aborted struggles against Spain as the colonial ruler of Cuba In 1958 he was already world figure But he was still not accepted even by the oldline leftist and Communist parties of Cuba In the jungle he defined so cial and political doctrine which was not Marxist but based on the remarkable and neverimplemented Cuban con stitution of 1940 This would have made Cuba more like Mexico in its new format heavily socialist state than what it has become Marxist one DATEIN TIME Whatever your opinions about the very controversial Cuban revolution Dec 1956 is as im rtant day in the history revolution as July 14 1789 the day the Bastille fell in Paris ation really is And when Mr Levesque joins other premiers around the bar gainingtable with Prime Minis ter Trudeau later this month in Ottawa he could find himself facing even greater difficulties Since he has already decreed that Quebec will not feel bound by any fiscal agreements over its fiveyear term Mr Le vesque probably wont get the same cooperation from other premiers that his predecessors enjoyed Prime Minister Trudeau is not exactly noted for uncon ditional generosity when it comes to dealing with normal provincial governments and he is unlikely to become phi lanthropist when dealing with government devoted to separa tism ANT STAY Originally Mr Trudeau had hoped the forthcoming federal provincial conference of first ministers would clear the air somewhat as the 11 leaders sat around and discussed some of these delicate problems relating to fiscal arrangements and constitutional change But Mr Levesque who naturally doesnt want to miss the opening of his National Assem bly on Dec 14 cant stay in Ot tawa for the constitutional talks And without Quebec par ticipation no one is going to pay much attention to con stitutional proposals these days But what most Canadians will pay attention to bet are any demands from this new Quebec government that would adversely affect other regions of the country Normal family tolerance doesnt extend to someone seeking divorce Take for instance that state ment by Quebecs Industry Minister Rodrigue Tremblay that the federal government should delay decision on proposed new steel mill on Cape Breton Island If this goes ahead he said it could kill Sidbec the Quebec owned steel company because the market would be over loaded delay was needed to give the Quebec plant chance to modernize Cape Breton has been waiting for years for new $3 billion plant and there have been sug gestions the project would soon go ahead Traditionally when one area of the country suggests that de velopment in another region be delayed on reasonable economic grounds there has been tendency to cooperate with the suggestions But can this cooperation be expected when such suggestions come from provincial government devoted to separatism MUIR SIIOCKEI Well if Mr Trembiay had been in Ottawa when new of his suggestion reached the desx of Robert Muir PCCape Bre tonThe Sydneys he would have seen the Peace Tower rocking from the rage below Outrageous un thinkable cant believe it were some of Mr Muirs more moderate comments Here we are in Sydney with an unemployment rate of be tween 25 and 30 per cent and with only 2300 employed at the present steel plant compared with about4100a year ago Weve been waiting for years for new plant to correct really bad situation and then along comes this Tremblay whose government is dedicated to the destructibn of Canada and he says we shouldnt get plant now because it may hurt steel plant in Quebec Mr Muir was fuming Its absolutely ridiculous for the Quebec government to make such suggestion and it would be unthinkable for the federal government to pay any attention to it Its the most out rageous thing Ive ever heard This is just the first example of new attitude toward Que bec demands There are going to be others and Mr Levesque will have an increasingly diffi cult time arguing that he heads normal provincial govern ment Iledoesnt COMMONS CAPSULE Trudeau running from questions From the Ottawa Bureau of Thomson News Service OTTAWA The prime minister is running some cabinet ministers are hiding and those that cant conceal themselves just make point of ducking The pressure on the govern ment hasnt let up since Audi torGeneral Macdonell re leased his embarrassing report two weeks ago The even more embarrassing uestions he raised appear end ess Mr Trudeau obviously frus trated by the pesky swarm of reporters that surround him daily despatched $100000 wor th of highcalibre talent in the form of three personal aides and secretaries to dust them off his tail The only conclusion reached at meeting they held with the press gallery executive was that the PM is getting pretty testy as the heat increases Theres no refuge for Mr Trudeau inside the Commons either as the opposition grows increasingly suspicious over the costly use of sales agents by Crown corporations Tory Leader Joe Clark was grilling the PM on the practice and the impact it may have on Canadas international reputa tion but Mr Trudeau was dod gin the questions as best he co Just answer yes or no de manded George flees PC Prince EdwardHastings Yes or no the PM replied taking Mr Hees suggestion petulant little boy Mr Hees remarked Mr Trudeau ignored sug gestion from Ray Hnatyshyn PCSaskatoonBiggar that he seek little devine guidance through the affair The prime minister was in the process of explaining that his staff was seeking letter sent to his office by former auditorgeneral Maxwell Hen derson He should have ignored the explanation that he was preoccupied at meeting with religious leaders If you go down on your knees once in while things would be little better in this country Mr Hnatyshyn quip ped Not all the red faces are to be found around the House of Com mons By Senate order last Friday the special flags were mounted at halfmast to indicate the death of parliamentarian The office of the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod had learned of the death in hospital of Senator MG Basha After the flags had been at halfmast for four days it was reported the senator had re signed about week prior to his death CANADAS STORX 1500 killed in explosion By BOB BOWMAN This is the anniversary of the Halifax explosion in 1917 that killed 1500 left 25000 homeless and caused $25 million damage It was the worst explosion in world history except for the atom bombs that were dropped on Japan in 1945 The tragedy was caused by two ammunition ships that were entering Halifax Harbor They collided and one of them Mont Blanc caught fire She was carrying 500000 pounds of TNT 61 tons of other explosives and 2300 tons of picric acid The crews abandoned the vessels immediately Both ships were blown to bits when the fire reached the ex plosives There was tidal wave that drowned many people along the shore and wrecked the waterfront Ac tually the explosion knocked clock out of tower at Truro NS 60 miles away There was an official inquiry later and it was learned that the pilot of the Mont Blanc was Englishspeaking but the crew were French The pilot was asked what order he would give QUEENS PARK More coverage for liability By DON OHEARN Queens Park Bureau Thomson News Service TORONTO This fall when the Ontario government in creased the minimum public liability coverage you had to carry on your automobile to $100000 from $50000 the Liber als contended that the limit even though it would be the highest in North America was still toolow They wanted limit of $500 000 and they had some com pelling arguments behind them There particularly was the case of Dr Zoritto young postgraduate medical student at McMaster University Ham ilton Dr Zoritto received injuries in an automobile accident that will partially disable her for life The courts awarded her $350 000indamages But there was only $50000 available in coverage from the other party so the injured doc tor had no real chance of recov ering very much more than her legal costs and nothing near what the court considered she deserved and needed And the Zoritto case of cour se was only one of large num ber in recent years where the courts have made large awards and there hasnt been the money available to cover them ONLY $9 It seems obvious that the limit should be much higher than $100000 and probably the if he wanted to reduce speed and replied Demitasse One of the Mont Blancs offi cers was asked what he would do if he heard such an order and replied that he would send for cup of coffee No one seemed to remember this incident last summer when the controversy arose about the use of French and English in in structions to aircraf OTHER DEC EVENTS 1678LeMotte and Father Hennepin arrived at Niagara Falls 1749French built Fort Rouille at presentday Toronto 1752Halifax Gazette of eight pages is claimed to be the first book published in Canada 1880First issue of Ed monton Bulletin ismThomas Selfridge flew in kite designed by Alexander Graham Bell at Baddeck NS 1921Liberals led by Mack enzie King won every province except British Columbia New Progressive party won 60 seats Agnes Macphail was first woman elected to House of Commons $500000 that the Liberals sug gest This is particularly so as the cost apparently would be strikingly low Liberal house leader James Breithaupt put forward figures from the Insurance Bureau of Canada to show that the cost of increasing coverage to $500000 from $100000 would be only $14 year and it would be only an other $9 to bring this up to $1 million At such low cost one has to wonder why the government didnt go for the obviously needed $500000 figure rather than let the Liberals suggest it The only apparent answer is that this would mean that the limit of the Accident Claims Fund which protects against uninsured drivers would also have to be raised to $500000 Butso what The fee for uninsured drivers is to rise to $100 under the new $1000001imit With $500000 limit this probably would have to be at least doubled and probably more But shouldnt any vehicle owner who wants to operate without licence have to pay at least this In fact today with insurance by law available to everybody should he be able to operate at all without regular coverage The select committee of the house on insurance is expected to report in March and it prob ariily will be recommending is IN lIERPRETIN THE NEWS Deep conflicts remain despite c1v1l By JOHN HAY LONDON CP peaceful stillness has fallen over Leba non after more than 18 months of civil war but the deep con flicts that led to the fighting re main to be healed Syrian tanks spearheading the socalled Arab Deterrent Force are enforcing truce that came only after about 30 000 Lebanese lives were lost in war that had threatened the fragile peace of the Middle East Reports from Beirut indicate however that progress toward durable settlement is being delayed by two issues the status of southern Lebanon along the Israeli border and the reluctance of Lebanese combatants to turn in their weapons The Israelis wary of their own defences oppose the in stallation of Syrian forces in southern Lebanon which has been their single peaceful fron tier in past wars with the Arabs The Palestinians argue that the Arab Deterrent Force should control the southern re gion which has been an oper ating base for Palestinian guer errys Wo 01976 by NH inc WK war peace rillas for years STOCKPILE WEAPONS In the south Israel is be lieved to have agreed to occu pation by nonSyrian forces made up of troops from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates For the Palestinians that would have the advantage of removing what they see as he dangerous presence of Christian forces On the arms issue both sides are reported close to agreement on returning weapons formerly held by the Lebanese army and stockpiling other weapons un der supervision of the Arab Deterrent Force That leaves the underlying political and social divisions which led to war in the first placestill unresolved The war was fought between the Christian minority which had held disproportionate political and economic power and variety of Moslem and Palestinian groups The 400000 Palestinians in Lebanon most of them landless refugees had fought longest and hardest and their future place will be crucial for the suc cess of any peace rig Since you are going to no vote for either can didale which one will you no vote for more apatheticaIy