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Edward Ladies Choir combine to present concert of choral and band mu51c at Central Collegiate oJOOIOKIo 3h i6 Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited 16 Bayiield Street Barrie Ontario Robb PublisherGeneral Manager Walls Editor Emeritus DIM Henshow Managing Editor The Barrie Exa miner Thursday December 30 1976 Rising energy costs What is there to do Summertime and the living is easy will start to take on new meaning this year Barrie and area residents will be facing hydro rate increases of ap proximately 27 per cent next month and gasoline and heating fuel cost increases are sure to follow About the only ray of sunshine on the horrizon is that not as much energy is needed during the sum mer nebulous glint of better times ahead could be major disagree ment among the oilproducing na tions This time around all did not raise their oil prices by the same amount One wonders how long the world will be able to abide paying more than $11 per barrel for oil when the rel there cost at the wellhead in the middle East is as low as 10 cents per bar However Canadians should not realistically expect large price decrease Oilproducers are in the drivers seat and they will want to remain What is left for us to do Our governments must allocate more money to research into alter nate sources of energy Eventually there must come sawoff between the cost of oil and that of nuclear and solar energy Where could they get that money without burdening the taxpayer Well they could stop wasting so much on mistakes that amounted to $109 million last year alone DOWN MEMORY LANE 10 YEARS AGO IN TOWN Barrie Examiner Dec 30 1966 Central Collegiate Band Auditorium Examiner Muriel Leeper says performance polished interesting and varied Fire Chief Dan Keast warns public about Polishmade Raggedy Ann dolls which are highly ble lhomas Electric employees who plan to enter winter carnival beardgrowing contest include Jim Bill Grant Ross Simpson Rodger Judd Jack Lockhart and Charlie Hastings Art Evans PC Simcoe Centre announces appointment of John Murphy as Crown attorney for Sim coe County lakes over post left by Thompson who retired Scott Lew Stoddart By JOHN HADWICK oclett TEL AVIV Reuter Israel expects new diplomatic offen sive by the United States in the Middle East next year and is fending off what it sees as clever moves by the Egyptians to steal the show Despite pledges by PreSident elect Jimmy Carter to react lir mly to any new Arab pressures offiCials here are wary of assuming that the incoming Democratic administration Will lean more toward Israel They say US policy aims are likely to remain broadly the sameto protect lsraels exis jtence and security maintain American influence in the area keep the Russians out and pre vent new war renewed lhese aims cannot achieved without Hdiplomatic campaign in the area offiCials say The peace offenswe has been Virtually frozen Since the September 1975 interim agreement bet ween Israel and Egypt The protracted ciVil war iii Lebanon and the US preSidential cam Reeve William Milligan and council and King 31 reviewer combusti Alliston paign have helped to slow progress With the election of new president and an end appar ently in Sight to the strife in Lebanon there is speculation that the next round of diplo matic haggling could be close athand Foreign Minister Yigal Allon said recently he thought 1977 would pmVide chances for Middle East settlement PreSident Anwar Sadat of Egypt recently stated his read incsstOSIgnapeacetreatyWith lsraelsomething that would have been anathema to Egypt few years ago and remains so to many other Arab leaders today Sadat has been telling ViSiting American senators and congressmen he is ready to go back to the Middle East peace conference at Geneva With no preconditions Israel and Egypt are still known to be Widely apart on the NEW question of partICipants at Geneva The Egyptians say the Palestine Liberation Organ ization PLO must be there is seeking applications for position of township clerk following resigna tion of Harvey effective Dec Brent Smith Barrie CoOp alternate captain Judged runnerup for most aggressive player award at Ontario Midget hockey tournament at Walkerton CoOps finished in tie for third Ron Bob bette and Jim MacPherson score two goals each as Barrie Bantams drop lhornhill 62 in North York Minor Hockey Association play at Barrie Arena Brian Curtis and Brian Kinsella score one each Rink skipped by Gary Smockum of Banting Memorial High School wins seventh annual schoolboy bonspiel at Toronto Parkway Curling Club Others on rink are Sutherland and Ross Hutchinson New diplomatic offensive in Middle East next year Gary McWaters Bill the Israeli government rejects the PLO Prime Minister Yichak Rabin has expressed skep tiCism at the latest vmces from Cairo although adding that Israel would be more than ready to enter into peace talks With Egypt Rabin refused to agree to the PLO being invited to Geneva or torming the baSis of govern ment of any Palestinian state set up alongSide Israel He said Israel could not agree to the establishment on the West Bank of the Jordan of an independent and possibly IOSIIIC Palestinian state run by tasscr Arafat the PLO chair man The Israeli fear remains that whatever guarantees and promises were involved in peace settlement West Bank in the hands of the PLO or even more hardline guerrilla organizations would put Israeli iVilian centres under the con tinuing threat of attack West Bank run by the PLO would be tiiiiebomb Rabin said US farmers face problem if huge crops materialize By DON KENDALL WASHINGTON AP major question tacmg United Uh Barri 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 yearly Single copies 15 cents By Mail Barrie $4420 yearly Simcoe County $3400 yearly Motor Throw Off $3900 yearly Balance of Canada $3600 year gyNational Advertising Offices 65 Queen St West Toronto 8641710 640 Cathcart St Montreal Member of the anadian 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 Copyright in all original adver tismg and editorial material created by its employees and roduced in this newspaper raga yright Registration Ker zooms register 61 Num States farmers in 1977 in addi tion to the usual weather prob lems is what Will happen to commodity prices if huge har vests of wheat and corn mate rialize again lhe question is further com plicated by how the new Carter administration may seek to remedy plunging market prices for the major grain crops and how Congress Will respond in drafting new general farm leg islation Presidentelect Carter told farmers in his campaign last fall that he wanted improved government price supports to help them cover the cost of pro ducmgmaJor crops Congress may go along With some increase in pricesupport rates but aides say probably no radical changes will be made The present programs for those crops expire With the 1977 harvests Many farmers have complained bitterly about Ford administration reluctance to in crease price supports substan tially to help offset declining prices ii And let us not be weary in well doing for in due season we shall reap if we faint not lalatian569 Sow the garden of your life down with good things and leave the rest to God He will not disappoint you Seed long ago committed to Him will surely come forth in His time Huge grain harvests in the last two years have been coupled With surplus of beef cattle But farmers and ranch ers have thinned out their breeding herds dramatically and agriculture department ex perts now say cattle prices and consumer beef pricesWill gradually increase in 1977 In general terms 1976 was moderately good year for net farm incomeAt an estimated $21 billion for the year it was up slightly from $227 billion in 1975 but fell well below the marks of $278 billion in 1974 and the record $299 billion in 1973 Perhaps most alarming to farmers was what happened to market prices in the wake of the giant grain harvests of 1975 and 1976 Sharp declines in wheat and corn prices along with the de pressed cattle market and sag ging hog prices toward the end of 1976 buckled the agriculture departments farm price index sharply Since last summer In November the index was SIX per cent below what it was in the same month of 1975 On the brighter Side the su perabundance of grain beef poultry and other commodities helped ease retail food costs in 1976 for the second year in row Retail food prices rose only three per cent in 1976 com pared With an 85percent in crease in 1975 and annual gains of 145 per cent in each of the two preVious years hm 21 zvrzrzclxé The Kibitzers YOW OPEC Wins another one and without fight By VINCENT EGAN Business and Consumer Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service When you pull into the ser Vice station for fillup early in 1977 you Will probably find that the price of gasoline has risen by another cent or two per gaf Ion The extra price may be chickenfeed to you but it rep resents pure unadulterated ex tra profit to the international 0il cartel running into millions of dollars The only comfort to be de rived by Canadians is that the new increase might have been even greater The reason that it isnt greater is that for the first time in recent memeory the members of the Arabdomi nated cartelthe Organization of Petroleum Exporting Coun triQSdlSilngG on the amount by which they should increase the fixed price of their crude Oil The cost of producmg ml in the PerSIan Gulf area is as low as 10 cents barrel The cartel has been selling it at $1l51 lUS per barrel of light crude Oil Citing worldWIde inflation caused in large measure by PEts qumtupling of the world price three years ago most OPEC members want to boost the current price by 15 per cent But Saudi Arabia by far the largest producer and most dominant member of the car tel wont raise its price by more than live per cent And its increasing its production to ensure against any possible shortage PRICE STABILITY Does that mean that the oil cartel is beginning toconieung lued and that competition Will force the price down closer to realistic levels lhats posSibility but no more than that at the moment Saudi Arabias 0il minister Sheikh Yamani said in an iii terview few months ago Each of us is aware that OPEC must continue to must that Without it individual members could not manage on their own It is only if we stay united that were able to keep the world at bay But we also feel responsi bility regarding the world econ omy We realize that unless we FROM PARLIAMENT HILL There are no magic solutions Wish to ruin the world economy weve got to oppose the policy of certain OPEC members Support for the continuation of the OPEC cartel comes from other sources as wellasome of them surprismg The interests of the multina tional 01 organizations which market the Oil on behalf of OPEC are served by high and stable price That helps to preserve the value of their in vestments and to encourage the development of new high cost Oilbeanng areas And the United States state department has for years been tacitly supporting the cartel apparently on the theory that the wealthier the OPEC coun tries become the less likely they are to pass into the SOViet sphere of influence tanada for its part has meekly followed where the multinationals and the US government have fed 11 the US would rather not have confrontation With the cartel our unenergctic energy ministers have seemed to sayr why should taiiada bother lnic both countries have ad hered to the International Energy Agency lIEA tion to our current difficulties By STEWART aclEOI Ottawa Bureau Thomson News Service was frankly surprised to read the critICisms directed at Prime Minister lrudeau for the alleged lack of leadership he displayed during hlS yearend conversation on the CIV lele ViSion Network Prime Minister Pierre Irudeaus yearend teleViSion interView serves Canada ill said one loronto newspaper sitting in editorial Judgment There were similar notes volc ed by radio commentators in the days following Mr Ini deaus Boxing Day chat With journalist Bruce Phillips It makes you wonder what these people had expected in the way of demonstrated lead ership Should the prime minis ter have issued warning that he was willing to declare CIVII war in the face of threatened separatism in Quebec Should he have fired half his cabinet in teleVised extravaganza Should he have announced federal election Or the imple mented of the War Measures Act Just as an insurance pol icy No dont think so There are no magic solutions to our current difficulties in Canada and rather than pretending he possesses all the answers suggest Mr Trudeau served us better by discussing the state of the nation the various options facing it and the deCiSions we all must face in the months ahead At least he threw out huge feast for thought BBIGIITSIDE The election of separatist government in Quebec was not all bad he suggested In sen se the fact that our choices have been forced upon us now that our future has been forc shortened think theres posmve aspect to that think we might have through negligence let some thing worse happen Now we have to make definite choices lhcrcs no more sitting on the fence and its up to Cana dians now both on the English and French Side of thelanguage community its up to them to make their choices and to de cide what kind of country they want to Will together There was another posmvc aspect which hadnt thought much about and that involves separatist movement in one part of the country testing the national Will in other parts think Canadians were growmg soft in their desire to eXist as country said the prime minister Now this could change Do we really want to give up something of ourselves do we really want to sacrifice some thing of our future in order that we be country or do we want to take the easy road towards the regionalisms or the ego centric personal conduct Is it gomg to be every man for himself or is it going to be every man for his country its perhaps very good thing that the test of our Will should be put to us now rather than three years down the road And thought Mr lrudeau did masterful Job of defining country that was worth sac rifice or two You know in historical terlt ms were well on the way to becoming one of the lreest one of the most prosperous demo cranes in the world But to look around talk to the people read the media lis ten to the grumblings and Ca nadians arent happy with their fate You know we are sup pose two of the mainstreams of the western Civilization Were the iiihcritors of two of the main languages and cultures of western ocCIdental CiVilization Weve put together tre mendous country Weve built it politically and weve also ex panded it geographically Weve brought in some of the most progresswe somal and political systems in the world Were free country Were pluralist somety but theres not great feeling of content in tANADAS STORY As outstanding as Laura Secord By BOB BOWMAN While Madeleine de Ver cheres and Laura Secord are Canadas best known heroines an equally outstanding in diVidual is Marie Madeleine de Chauvigny who became better known as Madame de la Peltrie She was wealthy widow in France when she was only 22 and could have remarried and lived in luxury there However she was determined to come to Canada and work among Indian families Other members of her family who hoped to share her money tried to prevent her from leavmg France and asked court to brand her as men tally incompetent Madame de la Peltrie was able to escape their clutchts af ter hard fight and arrived at Quebec in 1639 where she ceived as kind of cartel in re verse the IEA is made up of major oilconsuming nations who are committed to sharing their supplies With each other when shortages occur But little has been heard of the IEA since it was f0unded couple of years ago amid burst of optimism that it would stand up against OPEC and its multinational marketing agenlt ts As in so many other areas the Canadian government has found it eaSier and Simpler to cave in and pass the bill along to the consumerevin this case by pricmg imported OPEC Oil below cost in Eastern Canada and setting correspondingly higher prices for Western Cana dian on in the rest of the coun try The latest stage in that equalv ization process is the increase of 70 cents per barrel to $975 in the wellhead price paid to Western anadian crude 0il prmfucers effective Jan Within couple of months when eXisting inventories of Oil and gasoline are used up retail gasoline prices Will probably increase by another two to three cents gallon Canada The prime minister was of fered spectacular forum for his steelyeyed leadership act when he could have banged his fist and declared that not one square inch of tanada would be negotiated away long as he had one breath left in his body But he knows he cant do any thing Without unquestioned sup port from the people And think he wisely chose to make us do somethinking He or his successor Will have enough opportunities in the fu ture to demonstrate leadership opened school for Indian chil dren in shed on wharf She also went to Montreal to help Jeanne Mance build the first hospital there By uSing her own fortune and getting financial help from people in France Madame de la Peltrie was able to build convent for the Ursuline Order although she did not take reli gious vows She lived in small house near the convent and on the night of Dec 30 1650 was hor rified to see that it was on fire She did not wait to dress but hurried through the snow in nightclothes and bare feet to help rescue students who were inSide Unfortunately the con vent was burned to the ground Madame de la Peltrie died at Quebec in um Her fortune had been spent years before READERFORUM New Years resolution clear the sidewalks Dear Sir My heart goes out to the elder ly and handicapped people of Barrie during the winter mon ths If they wish to take walk air their dog or buy loaf of bread they must traverse the hazardous paths which we call city sidewalks LEE WORLD TODAY Carters cabinet genuinely liberal By JOHN HARBRON Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service The words liberal and conservative still are used in American politics in their tradi tional ways liberal being politician genuinely interested in social change and govern ments major role in bringing this about distributing the wealth to do so conservative remains believer in moreorless unst ructured Americanfree enter prise every man standing strong as his own provider in bad times and good In Canada by comparison the words immediately conjure up the names of our two major political parties But at the same time these names do not necessarily tell us Canadian Liberals and Conservatives are as far apart as the small and small varieties in United States public life Gov Carters cabinet now completed is the most liberal since the days of Franklin Roosevelt of the late 305 and early40s Most of its members in cluding possibly Griffin Bell the Georgia lawyer made attor ney generaldesignate believe more often in the liberal View of America as outlined above than the conservative posmon which most of former president Nixons new cabinet of eight years ago vigorously defended Some of the new faces like Michael Blumenthal treasury secretaryelect are genuine libs erals pursuing causes which the Nixon crowd would have called kinky or downright against Americas interests It is believed for example he is strong supporter of the ulti mate rapprochment which must come with the Castro regimein Cuba Joseph Califano Jr Brooklyn attorney of mixed Italian and Irish origin whose mother taught school for 35 years is the new secretary of health education and welfare deSignate QUEENS PARK Darcy McKeough manoftheyear By DON IIEARN Queens Park Bureau Thomson Ne Service IORONIO Dealing With the manofetheyear business think that once again will have to go to Darcy McKeough There have been number of other people in our provincial sphere who have been better than ordinary To me Health Minister Frank Miller for example has been quiteoutstanding Miller has handled the most difficult of Jobs in manner which if you are close to it you cant help but admire He has had to appear as Mr Mean in spades Cutting back on health spending par ticularly when you have to close down hospital beds is akin to the public to slapping old women in public Yet Miller who is the most human of men and who would have known well what the pub lic would think of him and suf fered agonies as result never theless did it and did it with good grace because he knew it had tobedone And even though he was un der attack which often was not only uninformed but vicious and even though he landed in the hospital in the middle of his ordeal with heart attack he managed to keep his cheerful ness and with foes as well as hisfriends But still McKeough must get the top rating Being in womens fashion desgning what do you see happening to me when Mrs Carter is In the White House Berrys World Perhaps as 1977 test ap proaches the city fathers and every homeowner in Barrie could make New Years resolution to keep the sidewalks shovelled and make Barrie safe place to walk JOAN JARVIS Barrie This is department with budget almost as large as de fence and deeply involved in the social issues of modern America which have been cen tral policies since Roosevelt The new commerce secretarydesignate Dr Juanita Kreps though persona grata to Wall Street because of her economics and board direc torship experiences is college president and one of two women Presidentelect Carter has chosen for his cabinet James Schlesinger fired by Mixon as defence secretary is not yet back in the cabinet as energy adviser to Mr Carter but he could be if his position is elevated to cabinet level Schlesinger the only Republican in the Democratic cabinet is held with some suspicion by many Democrats because of his hardline views as former defence secretary and casting aside criticism from the environmentalists on nuclear weapons development Now he has the national envi ronmental concern in his lap and will have to do tum around some say in his views If he doesnt Mr Carter will probably persuade him to do so Though not in cabinet rank job Theodore Sorensen the late John Kennedys confidant speech writer and legal ad viser will head up the severely criticized Central Intelligence Agency CHANGING THE CIA As the creme de la creme of the Kennedy liberal Democrats Sorensen will try and turn around the CIA to its original functions and cer tainly away from its un constitutional domestic ac tivities Its not the new cabinet of prolessmnals but with no Wash ington experience Carter prom ised during the campaign But it is filled with theliberal pragmatism which has been the mark of all Democratic admin istrations in the US from Franklin Roosevelt onwards The provincial treasurer gets this because he is the one man around here who has shown any fine grasp of the realities of to day He has shown that he knows that our root problem is the economy He above all has demonstra ted sensitivity to the fact that at the core of not only the crises of the day but any dreams of the future lies the present economic muddle complexity and uncertainty Others have shown some knowledge of this again Miller would be one but McKeough has been the one who has shown deep awarenas not only of the need but the urgency to get some kind ofa grip on the economic handle Oddly there have been few Signs of such awareness in the opposition ranks Along with this he has shown the courage to face the prob lem even though it well could be political suicide and has not hesitated to stand up publicly to the hard decisions that have been called for This is not to say that he is perfection or even that he has done nearly enough But he has done more than anyone else Ontario tor the most part leads the way in Cah ada in the economic fight And being so largely respon sible for this makes McKeou the writers manottheyear to Democratic party