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the examiner MVJn 1979 serving borrie and simcoe county Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited 16 Baytield StrEet Barrie Ontario LAM 4T6 NEWSROOM 7266537 cmcuunou 7266539 CLASSIFIEDS 7282414 BUSINESS 7266537 Barrie groWing into urban centre Throughout 1978 Barrie will suffer growing pains At some point this year and hopefully soon the lengthy and costly annexation issues will be settled Bar will be physically larger and more people will call it ome But the pains of growing from small place to an ur ban centre have already started Weve been feeling them for the past few years Physical growth is the easy part The social aspect is much more difficult Urban centres have their own select problems There are no concrete figures available but glancing over the neWs pages of the past years there appears to be an increase in crime We now have tactical squad to handle more violent crimes and were getting portable buildings to handle the overflow of people in our jails Government studies have agreed Lake Simcoe is polluted and it will take long time and great deal of money to repair it It is unlikely the lake will ever be perfectagain Weve had welfare mothers in dispute with the city Weve had continual traffic jams along our main streets Anyone who has lived here for few years cant help but notice there are more people around were all getting used to lineups recent conference hammered home the fact the city needs more recreational facilities Urban growth means social woes and constant de mand for more people facilities What are we going to do about all this Urban growth does not mean the city is going to slide downhill We in Barrie are fortunate We started growing late and can look back and learn from the cities that grew before us We should not be the infamous teenager who refuses to listen to the experienced words of his grandfather What happened elsewhere can happen here Lets look at the problems before they arrive And throughout 1978 Barrie residents the new and the old must keep in mind one of the roots of social pro blems the inability of people to communicate and live in harmony with other people We will all have to accept differences and com promises We are all going to have to work harder at being plea sant patient and tolerant Mutual respect will be all important Theres going to be many more of us in 1978 and were going to have to get along Residents were faced with massive cleanup in 1890 after flood swept through the town This Is View of Clapperton Street north from the Five Points showing the east side of the Slmcoe Hotel The picture belongs to the Simcoe County Archives By JOHN HARBRON Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service The latest semiannual meeting of OPEC the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries ended in Caracas Venezuela about 10 da ago with no major increase in the world oilprice The next regular meeting of the OPEC member nations will be June 15th of next year with some of the militant Arab states sure to demand substantial price increases Among these will be Algeria and Libya who demanded price increases up to 23 per cent in Caracas compared to bloc of Arabian peninsular states led by SaudiArabia who proposed pricefreeze during 1978 The wide differences between Arab oil producing nations had continued from the previous OPEC meeting and was reduced somewhat by Venezuelan President Carlos Andres Perez who is working hard as one of the leading peacemakers not only among oil countries but in the Third World generally To do this President Perez had visited all the Arab oil countries earlier this year when price differences threatened to split OPEC ranks MORE THAN PRICE At the beginning of the year Arab oil states we want your opinion Something on your mind Send Letter to the Editor Please make it an ori inal co and signit ThegExamirligr doesnt publish unsigned let ters but if you wish pen name Will be used Include your telephone number and address as we have to verify letters Because of space limits public interest and good taste The Examiner sometimes has to edit condense or reject letters Letters to the Editor are run every day on the editorial page Send yours to Letters to the Editor The Examiner Post Office Box 370 BARBIE nt L4M 4T6 will want increase wanted 10percent increase in the world oil prilce in January and another five per cent in Ju Again Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates refused to go above five per cent But Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates finally agreed to an increase of 10 per cent in July and the militant members abandoned the second proposed July increase of five per cent Of course there is much more behind oil price hikes than the machinations of Arab representatives at OPEC meetings Some of the Arab oil countries are sworn enemies of many things Western especially the Wests liaison with the state of Israel Indeed the oil price hikes began in the fall of October 1973 in part because of the last ArabJewish War and the Arab determination to punish the big industrial nations for again supporting Israel is was the view of SaudiArabia Libya and Algeria though since then SaudiArabia has softened its political osition visavis the big Western users and so out of shock with the paranoid antics of Libyas President Col Quadaffi Iran is also an OPEC member nation of great influence but contrary to what most think in the West is not an Arab state Nevertheless the shah of Iran has committed his nation to an early 20thcenturystyle forceddraft industrialization And he needs the increased prices he can obtain from his countrys oil reserves which Iranian experts admit are limited Other member nations of OPEC include Ecuador in Latin America Indonesia in Asia and Nigeria in Africa all developing nations and needing as much revenue as they can obtain from their natural resources exports Indonesia has been lying low relative to oil price hikm because of massive scandals in Pertomina that countrys state oil cor poration and mishandling of its resources The Indonesia military mismanaged Pertomina and engaged in such expensive activities as longterm charters for super tankers when that market was at its peaka maritime transport area now in deep slump OPEC therefore is microcosm of the Third World oil producing nations themselves and of their conflicting national interests NEWSROOM Sean Finlay managing editor Randy McDonald city editor Sheila McGovern assistant city editor Bill McFarlane wire editor Werner Bergen sports Claudia Krause liiestyle Marina Quattrocchi photographer Dan Gaynor PORTE John Bruce Paul Deleon CLASSIFIED Richard Dunstan Ruth Blais supervisor Pat Guergis Freda Shinner Scott Haskins Rudleioh MacLean Sue Burke Parliament hill By STEWART MachEOI Ottawa Bureau Thomson News Service dont want to make big deal of it but somehow doubt whether our federal government spent wisely when it dished out $21000 to learn that the outlook for those planning career in the study of insects is not very promising one Its obviously handy to know these things but in these times of restraint $21000 seems like big bunch of bucks And since there are fewer than 700 entomologists in the country and since the study was done by way of questionnaire think that the government should have shopped around bit before letting this contract am not sure why this particular contract sticks in my craw Heaven knows there are greater examples of overspending coming to light every day For instance probably should get worked up at the government spending $37000 for survey and assessment of the current slateofthcart of hydroelastic analysis of naval ships and advanced marine vehicles structures and their associated appendages And would certainly like to know more about that $77000 contract for feasibility study of consolidated radio dispatch for pickup and delivery of urban goods know the pickup and delivery of urban goods is important to good many people but think Your business By VINCENT EGAN Business and onsumer Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service With each turning of the calendar the modes of travel that used to seem preposterous have come to seem more at lainable To speculate on what may happen by the end of the century to the way you travel is almost like reading yesterdays science fiction in the knowledge that it will be tanorrows newspaper Its tempting to compare the pace of the on rush of transportation technology to the speed of the supersonic Concorde zooming between tendon and New York at twice the speed of soundexcept that the Lockheed Sit71 military aircraft is already flying at more than triple the speed of sound People have natural tendency to think that whatever degree of progress has been at ADVERTISING Len Sevick manager SALESMEN Lyall Johnson Barb Boulton Dana Graham John Zarecky Karen Atkinson Peooy Chapell Dana Homewood BUSINESS Marian Gough accountant Betty Armer Dorothy Bowland Gail McFarland Vikki Grant CIRCULATION Jon Butler manager Linda Halkesasst manager Andy Haughton Judy Hickey Alva LaPlante Elaine Porter Gary Pringle vould be inclined to question the govcm ments $77000 fascination with the problem BIG GRANT And in these times of frugality suppose its even fair to ask whether the government should have given that $300000 grant to the University of Toronto to establish chair in Hungarian studies Perhaps Multicultural Minister Norman falik is dead right when he says this chair will contribute im maisurably to anadian academic life but its question of whether we can afford these immeasurable contributions Off hand would say that we are not in dire need of an evaluation of the impact on the raiding habits and attitudes of Ontarians of thc Wintario Lottery Cultural Bonus Pro gram Yet we are getting it at cost of $90000 Amt the government acknowledges that the contract was lot as result of an unsolicited proposal Meanwhile pro osals are being solicited for studies into ternatc methods to the scalding of hogs This next one is costing us only $5ththats petty cash in government circles but am wondering just why we need the development of manual on the sodc of good practice for highways and railways for use by field personnel By writing to various provincial highways departments and the railways it should be possible to pick up the good practices without taincd at the moment is the ultimate To counter that tendency Stuart Luxon British Airways manager for central Canada says he reminds himself of the changes that Sir Winston and Lady Churchill saw in their lifetimes when they were born motorized tran sportation was unknown When they were married in 1908 cars were still novelty and flying was experimental By the time Lady urchills life came to its end few weeks ago preparations were under way for the US space shuttle Enterprise to go into series of peoplecarrying orbits in outer space in the 19805 NEXT BIG ONE The time when the space shuttle can be adapted for regular commercial tran sportation isnt just around the corner ex actlyvbut the orbiter does look like the next major development in public air travel Once in orbit the space vehicle is free of Published daily except YEARLY by carrier MOTOR THROW OFF ELSEWHERE IN CANADA The Examiner is member at The Canadian Press CP and Audit Bureau of Circula lions ABC Only the Canadian Press may re publish news stories in this newspaper credited to CF The Associated Press Reuters or Agence France Presse and local news stories published in The Examiner Sunday and statutory holidays WEE KLY by carrier 90 cents $4680 BY MAIL Barrie Copyright registration number 203815 register 61 630 National advertising offices 65 Queen St Toronto 8641710 640 Cathcart St SIMCOE COUNTY Montreal $3650 $39 year $3850a year Doubt whether government spending on study was wise too much expense However am beginning to stray here My riginal concern today is that $21000 study that tells us there is rather uncertain future forinsect experts NOT APPRECIATEI And here is some of the valuable in formation gained from that $21000 unv dertaking Despite the general aura of pes simism said to exist among the en tornologists some optimism was reported that their expertise will ultimately be appre dated Its the first time have ever heard that their expertise was not appreciated But having learned this am certainly ageeable to sukpporting bekindtoyourentomologist wee In supporting this study government publication says it was seen as providing useful model that could be employed by other scientific disciplines to assess the supply demand situation in their professions Now just sit back and watch other un solicited proposals roll in With that kind of invitation bet the government will be swamped with suggestions for $21000 studies into the career opportunities of every discipline from sword sharpening to eel skinning Furthermore bet the government will buy the suggestions What was once preposterous now appears to be attainable the earths gravity In effect it would take off from say New York wait for Australia to come by then reenter the earths atmosphere and touch down Of course it isnt that simple One big problem is bringing it in to landthe space shuttle Enterprise makes its final landing approach in much the same way as glider which wouldnt be practical in regular ser Vice Computers might eventually solve that problem just as they have dealt successfully with so many other obstacles to orbital flight bible thought For the Holy Ghost shall teach you In the same hour what ye ought to say Luke 1212 The Holy Spirit will surprise you with wisdom that you never dreamed possible Careful that you dont take credit for it To God be the glory The Examiner claims copyright on all original news and advertising material created by its employees and published in this newspaper The advertiser agrees that the publisher shall not be liable ior damages arising out of errors in advertisements beyond the amount paid tor the space actually occupied by that portion of the advertisement in which the error occurred whether such error is due to the negligence of its servants or otherwise and there shall be no liability for noninsertion of any advertisement beyond the amount paid for such advertisement Queen park All factors interwoven By DON HEARN Queens Park Bureau Thomson News Service TORONTO Economics certainly are going todomfnate the coming year We have been in an economic era for the past halfdozen years But this year it is going to reach new high in concern With unemployment at its highest point in more than 35 years and inflation on the rise again and despite what somc experts forecast we have to assume it will continue to rise until there is evidence otherwiset the public has begun to appreciate just what serious and complex situation we are in With this there has been the spur to government to try and solidly tackle the situation BIG MINDS Almost certainly we are not going to see any substantial permanent improvement this year About the best we can hopc for is that the community of government can produce some minds that are big enough and strong enough to grasp the problem in its entirety and per haps start us on some first steps towards meetingit Chances are that these steps could even tually be somewhat radical For anada and the world are facing situation that is new and more complicated than anything they have had to try and face before MANY ELEMENTS There are at least five prime factors in the economic problem Markets automation and technology productivity the Third World and distribut ion Along with these there are number of spinoffs such as tariffs and protectionism the need for balance between production of goods and production of services and rationali7alion of the real value of individual work These are all factors and there are others And they are all interwoven To face the hope of solutions is to face discouragement And one has to concludc that instant even early answers are not possible Certainly not answers that are arrived at through deliberation and applied action The way of civilization has been to move ahead through evolution rather than con trived approaches to force itself ahead mainly through stress And in the end this almost certainly would seem to be the path at which we will arrive at the new social structure which seems inevitable For now however thcrc seems hope that we may finally start taking some concrete steps toward the changes What we have seen to date have been grab bag answcis addressed to one or perhaps two of the many parts of the problem from political leaders economists and other academics labor spokesmen and others who have blundcred in ill briefed to sound off What is obviously needed is to try and look at the situation as whole to methodically study it and then to try and come up with some answers There wont be all the an swers but there may be some There is to be first ininisters conference in February From early outlines it will be at least veering towards this approach It is the first glimmer of light to appear since Canada first landed in the economic Bermuda Triangle Canadas story Slave for sale By BOB BOWMAN On Janii 1802 the following advertisement appeared in the Niagara Herald For sale negro slave 18 years of age stout and healthy has had smallpox and is capable of service in the house or outofdoors The ter ms will be made easy to the purchaser and cash or new lands received in payment En quire of the publisher The advertisement seems crucl today but it marked the closing days of slavery lIl tan ada John Graves Simcoc the first lltllltllillll governor of Upper Canada took the lciid Ill abolishing slavery Ihc importing of slaves was prohibited in 1703 but pcoplc who already had slaves mostly lnilcd ITmpiie Loyalists were allowed to keep them However legislation pIOVItlttl that children would be free when they become 25 years old The boy in the advertisement would have been rec seven years later Lower anada and thc Muriliincs did not pass antislavery legislation but courts of law refused to recognize the rights of masters over slaves and this had the same effect There was no slavery in British North America after 1832 In the meantime slaves from the southern US escaped into Canada by the underground railway It was not railway but system of passing them along from one pliitt of refuge to another until they arrived in tnniidii It was estimated that 10000 slaves escaped into Canada by 1050 They scttlcd chiefly be tween Windsor and Niagara with an im portant ttltllt near tliolhiim Ont founded Josiah Ilcnson Ills chxiicnccs inspired the writing of Uncle Toms tibiii OTHER N2I EVENTS 1x00 Altoiiicyiiciicrail Whilc and tlcrk of ouncil Small of Ontario fought duel at Toronto and White was killed 1802 Three hundred Highland Scots settled at Sydney