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mAfi the examiner ThursdayJanhz 1978 serving barrie and simcoe county Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited to Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario L4M 4T6 Elio Agostini publisher ADVERTISING 7266537 NEWSROOM 7266537 CIRCULATION 7266539 CLASSIFIEDS 7282414 BUSINESS 7266537 Civic Centre needed now Barrie City Council meets tonight to make the final decision about the Fir hall If there ever was an opportunity for some hold thinking and bold action by city council this is the time The issue of cultural centre for Harrie is in reality very small part of much larger issue There is almost no disagreement that liarrie needs and can support cultural centre The Fireball committee has not labored in vain Barrie also needs new city hall lhc city needs new library lhe Farmers Market should also be replaced The city has been concentmting on the cultural centre when it should have been concentrating on the larger issue of Civic Centre for Barrie The city owns the land on which the Fireball the Farmers Market the Adult Library the Childrens Library and the present City Hall stand The concept of having Civic Centre containing all civic services is there Now in Barries 125th anniversary year is the time to make the dreams of the past the reality of the future City council tonight should form select committee to come up with financial and architectural plans for Civic Centre which will contain all municipal offices for Barrie as it is now and the city of 125000 people Barrie will be 20 years from now The Civic Centre should include new library suitable for city of 125000 people The Civic Centre should include an arts and cultural centre for city of 125000 people 125000 people whose arts and cultural interests include live theatre films concerts dancing and art for both participants and spec tators The Civic Centre should include Farmers Market which will be the Showplace for the farmers of Simcoe County The select committee should be made up of men and women from this county who are not political hacks but who are people of vision sound oldfashioned common sense people who can take dream and make it reali ty The select committee should be given deadline of six months and the staff and resources to make the job possi ble so work can start on new Civic Centre for Barrie by years end Pedestrian minds and negative thinkers will oppose the idea of Civic Centre preaching doom and gloom and disaster and all the other catchwords of those fearful of the future Barrie is city which is getting biggerand bigger It is city of proud people who want nothing more than to be proud of their city Lets give the people of Barrie ourselves some thing to be proud of Lets put an end to doing things on the cheap and trying to make 19th century office building and fireball serve as cultural centre for Barrie in 1978 Lets get started now on Civic Centre for Barrie and the right start right now is forming committee of able men and women committed to keeping Barrie On tarios most progressive city down memory lane Jan 12 1952 Evans and youngest son Brock of Bradford were both named Kings Counsel joining two other members of the family Graham of Toronto and Charles of Bradford who had previously been named KCS Coutts longtime clerk of Vespra Township and prominent citizen of Barrie died at Royal Victoria Hospital Ernest Bell and Ross both Barrie residents Saunders write your 99 If you would like to write your Member of Parliament or Member of Provincial Par liament printed below are their mailing ad dresses If you send us copy of your letter it might be suitable for our Letters to the Editor columns After all if there is mat ter of concern that makes you want to write to your MP or MPP if it is not personal matter it should be of interest to your friends and neighbors toot FEDERAL Dr Rynard MPNorth Simcoe Parliament Buildings Ottawa Ont KIA 0A6 Ross Milne MPPeelDufferinSimcoe Parliament Buildings Ottawa Ont KIA 0A6 Sinclair Stevens MPYorkSimcoe Parliament Buildings Ottawa Ont KIA 0A6 Gus Milges MPGreySimcoe Parliament Buildings Ottawa Ont KIA 0A6 PROVINCIAL George Taylor MPPSimcoe Centre Ontario Legislature Queens Park Toronto M7A 1A2 Gordon Smith MPPSimcoeEast Ontario Legislature Queens Park Toronto M7A 1A2 George McCague MPIlufferin Simcoe Queens Park Toronto M7A 1A2 formed partnership to buy the Barrie branch of Durance and Associates Ltd an insurance ad justing firm Reeve Smith Campbell and deputy reeve Lloyd Scott were returned by acclamation in Cm as was Reeve Arthur Downer of Tiny Township Rcv Beech was inducted as the minister of Burton Avenue United Church Mayor Mrs Marjorie Hamilton presided over the in augural meeting of Barrie town council On council were Reeve James Hart deputyreeve Heber Smith and aldermen Clarence Corbett Thomas McCaroll Otto Williams Eldon Greer Herman Osborne Robert Bibby Arthur Girdwood Norman Dougher ty Regina Ayres Frank Johnson Gordon Spring and Earle Williams The clerk was Ernest Burton and the treasurer Walter Gigg Morrison was reelected chair man of the Barrie District Col legiate Board Members of the board were Rev Ernest Lewis Flynn George Johnston Vespra Blair Harry Mc Cullough Irwin Luck Oro William Warnica Innisfil we want your opinion Something on your mind Send Letter to the Editor Please make it an original copy and sign it The Examiner 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 rtch letters Letters to the Et lor are run every day on the editorial page Send yours to Letters to the Editor The Examiner Post Office Itox 370 BAIIRIIT Ont IAM 4T6 53V NEWSROOM Sean Finlay managing editor Randy McDonald city editor sheila McGovern assistant city editor Bill McFarlane wire editor Werner Bergen sports Claudia Krause IIIestyle Marina Quattrocchi photographer SALESMEN Don Gaynor Barb Boulton REPORTERS John Bruce Poul Deleon CLASSIFIED Richard Dunstan Ruth Blals supervisor Pat Guerols Freda Shinner Scott Hasklns Rudlelgh MacLean Sue Burke ADVERTISING Len Sevickmanager Lyall Johnson Dana Graham John Zarecky Karen Atkinson Pegnv Chapeli Dana Homewood BUSINESS Marian Gough accountant Betty Armor Dorothy Bowiand Gail McFarland Vikki Grant CIRCULATION Jon Butler manager Linda Haikes asst manager Andy Haughton Judy Hickey Alva LaPIante Elaine Porter Gary Prlngle StyliSlop Do 04 know we féce The generics crisis of our fitness Parliament hill By STEWARI MaiLEO Ottawa Bureau Thomson News Service There are bound to be enormous political repercussions from the decision of Sun Life Assurance of Canada to move its head office to Toronto from Montreal but would hate to predict what they might be Ever since the election of the Iarli Quebccois government 14 months ago we have been inundated with oirtheonehandv butontheothcr hand explanations of the economic consequences of every develop ment And now that this biggest yet 3149 he world today By JOHN IIAIIBIION Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service Canada is the latest hemispheric nation about to rcarm itself This will not be done in the tradition of Peru which has an air force filled with modern Frenchbuilt Mirage jets though its bankrupt or in the expansionist style of Brazils burgeoning military Rather we are planning to restore our hiin visibility as NATO nation able to hold its own against the Soviet Union sub menace in the North Atlantic and to engage in effective aerial surveillance of our coastal waters The latter involves not only surveillance of USSR subs but guarding against any for eign fishing vessels operating inside the countrys new ZOOmile economic sczi zone Canadas other major defence commit mcnl linked to NATO is her joint role with the United States in NOltAl the North American Air Defence agreement first signed in 1950 and which requires new jet fightch for the Canadian Armed Forces The Canadian defence department has announced three major new purchases of uipmcnt in the last year to total about $115 bi lion in new weapons These will include small but powerful fleet of six new iintisubmnrinc destroyers with capability to ojwratc in Arctic ice replacement for the 20 yoiirold Argus long range patrol aircraft lIJllAs now operating over the North Atlantic and Canadian Arctic bible thought ltecclvc my Instruction and not silver and knowledge rather than cliolcc gold For wladom III better than rubies and till the things that may he desired are not to be com pared toll Proverbs 810 11 Not many of us will spend ii great deal of time in pm in for wisdom though in it is in cluded all ei ings we are so busy pursuing plus what God has ordained that we put first If any man lack wisdom let him ask of the Lord who giveth to all men liberally development has occurred things are no different From the beginning Prime Minister IYUdeau had pleaded with Canadian cor porations to maintain their offices in Mon treal You are not going to win the battle of national unity by folding up your tents and running away he said Stay and fight for your rights And at the same time members of his cabinet were wanting the Parti Quebecois that if it continued to make things difficult for Englishsmoking firms these firms would quit the province Various federal ministers were gleefully trotting out figures to show Were latest in rearming and new allpurpose jet fighter the exact one yet to be chosen The PA and jetfighter aircraft will be contracted from major American airframe and acro engine manufacturers The agreements with them will be tough ones because about 60 per cent of the actual construction must be done here through contracts with Canadian suppliers The new Canadian warships like the present antisub fighters called Dim2805 will be designed and built in Canadas de pressed shipbuilding industry with perhaps some of the latest armament 0r sonar equipment coming from the United States The need for new Canadian weapons most of which wont be on stream until the mid llitllis is long overdue And it represents major turnaround in policy by the Trudeau government which in the late 19605 seriously downgraded the armed forces and placed long freeze on new equipment purchasing In March 1009 less than year after his first federal election victory Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau cut Canadas NATO air and army units in half announced Canada would concentrate more on hemispheric defence less on European military involvement That sliifl from Canadas strong postwar policy of working closely with the NATO na tions raised domestic argument about foreign policy here that has never subsided And when the prime minister gave priorities to official visits to the USSR China and Cuba between 1970 and 1976 his growing number of critics accused him of deliberately placing Canada on neutralist and antiAmerican direction WIIY TIIUIHZAU CIIANGEI The Trudeau turnaround on defence took place for several reasons The Europeans seeing Canadas growing troubles in securing European Common Market export business offered aid in this regard only if Canada would modernize its armed forces and perk up its NATO role And Canadas growing domestic difficulties with the prospect of forestalling an illegal Quebec separation could mean the use of the armed forces in that possibility Published daily except statutory holidays WEE KLY by carrier YEARLY by carrier BY MAIL Barrie SIMCOE COUNTY MOTOR THROW OFF ELSEWHERE IN CANADA The Examiner is member of The Canadian Press CP and Audit Bureau oi Circula tions ABC Only the Canadian Press may republish news stories in this newspaper credited to CF The Associated Press Reuters or Agence FrancePresse and local news stories published in The Examiner Sunday and 90 cents $4680 $4680 Montreal $3650 $39 year $3850 Year Canisal Ida Misfer Humci few bars zinc71866 whaTI can do Contradictory reactions to Sun Lifels departure how many firms had left the province The fact that many of these companies werent even big enough for private telephones didnt seem to matter It was difficult to know whether the separatist cause was being helped or hin dered by the movement of companies from Quebec And when Sun Life announced that it would move its 1800cmployce head office to Montreal the confusion seemed to linger GIVEN LP Liberal MP Martin OConnell who represents the Torontoarea riding of Scar borough East condemned the move It seems to me that if the strongest of com panies that has been there for over 100 years pulls out its signal for others its sign that theyve given up on unified country think the company would not be welcome in Toronto because it has behaved as poor corporate citizen by giving up on Quebec But another Liberal MP Lloyd Francis of Ottawa West obviously doesnt share this viewpoint He immediately invited Sun Life to relocate in Ottawa where he said there is four million feet of office space going at bargain prices He seemed enthusiastic about the prospects of getting Sun Life into his area And it wasnt only at this level that con tradictory reaction was felt While the Positive Action Committee was calling on Sun Life to remain in Montreal to emphasize the citys role as leader in international business and finance the president of the Federation of Independent Business was talking about Montreal being an economic sewer President Rowland Frazee of the Royal Bank of Canada said Sun Lifes planned move would have significant adverse impact on the citys economic life while John Paul Champagne president of the St Jean Baptiste Society said it wouldnt amount to much All the move basically means is that Quebec will lose some of its unilingual anglophone population he said This isnt surprising its normal development LANGUAGE ISSUE And while many people interpreted the move as an indication that Sun Life had given up hope that Quebec would remain in Con federation the company president Thomas Galt was saying that we dont anticipate as probable the separation of Quebec from the ml of Canada The issue he said was Quebecs controversial language bill We can no longer believe that it will be possible for us to recruit or to keep in Mon treat or to bring there from outside of Quebec sufficient number of English spcaking people with the qualities and the competence required for the daytoday operations of the company Nonsense retorted Quebec Finance Minister Jacques Parizeau He said the company wanted to pull out because it had just been revealed at Sun Life took $400 million more out of Quebec than it invested in the roviiice The game was he said and went on to refer to Sun Li as one of the worst corporate citizens that Quebec has known Gait of course denies this In light of all the contradictory and sometimes sterical reaction perhaps We should just stt back and let our political and economic leaders come to some agreement before we assess repercussions The Examiner claims copyright on all original news and advertising material created by its employees and published in this newspaper Copyright registration number 203815 register 61 National advertising offices 65 Queen st Toronto 8641710 640 Cathcart St The advertiser agrees that the publisher shall not be liable for damages arising out at 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 oi its servants or otherwise and there shall be no Ilablmy tor noninsertion of any advertisement beyond the amount paid for such advertisement Uniformity tough issue By DON OHEARN Queens Park Bureau Thomson News Service TORONTO The Ontario government has heavy cloud hanging over its head It has brought out still another paper on uniformemarket valueassessment of prop ert Xnd no matter what it does about this it seems that it will be in deep water politically Uniform assessment has been an active issue for more than decade We are still far from seeing it But it is trouble even now And by the time of an election whenever that may be it should be hard issue for the government to meet FIRST SIMPLE As originally conceived the case for uniform assessment was simple The basis for the need was to get equity in provincial grants These grants which have been growing since the war and now represent big share of municipal revenues have been based mainly on each municipalitys assessment Assessment was poor criterion though as approaches and practices of assessing varied widely from municipality to municipality As result some municipalities were getting more than they should from the province and others not as much TAXES UP If it had just stuck to the point of correcting this basic situation the government perhaps would not have been in much trouble The municipal taxes of some local property owners would have changed but the changes probably wouldnt have been widespread or substantial enough to cause great disturb ance But the government expanded beyond grants and the tax base It decided to also include more equity in taxes And one of the decisions in this has been that apartment units have been overtaxed and that their assessments should be lower This is going to mean that in communities where there is large number of apartments taxes on singlefamily homes will probably go up when uniformity is brought in And this of course means political trouble Probably even more trouble than with consolidation of schools or even regional government which has been so bitterly objected to The government is already in trouble for it has given out what the new tax approach would mean in some twothirds of Ontario municipalities Most of the larger areas are still to come but figures for Metropolitan Toronto were re leased and the increase in single homes would be substantial there And presumably the same will follow at last to some degree in the other large urban areas when the figures are released And again as we have seen in schools and regions the government will find it an almost impossible issue to explain Canada story Schoohng was rough By BOB BOWMAN Marguerite Bourgeoys deserves lugh place among the women pioneers of Canada She was brought from France to Montreal by Sieur de Maisonneuve in 1653 to become one of Canadas first school teachers She was 33 years old and presentday school teachers will appreciate her fortitude in being able to survive until her death Jan 12 1700 Marguerite Bourgeoys founded the first school in Montreal and also inspired the set tlers to build the church of Notre Dame de Bonsecours This led to the founding of religious order the Sisters of the Congrega tion Her first school was the attic of the hospital that had been built for Jeanne Mance outSide the fort It seems strange that patients and pupils would be exposed like that to attacks by the Iroquois There was not only danger but great discomfort The attic was cold and drafty In the winter snow would swirl through the walls There was only small fireplace for warmth The students usually with blue run ny noses used raised planks for desks but their hands were often so numb that they would not write Jeanne Mance and Marguerite Bourgeoys went to France together to raise money to im prove both the hospital and school They were successful and entrusted 20000 ltvres totbe tax collector of La Fleche for safekeeping When the were at La Rochelle ready to sail for Cana they asked the taxcollector how they would receive the interest on the money the had invested with him He replied God willlook after you He had already spent the money to reduce his own debts YIHER JAN 12 EVENTS linoSt Boniface College was founded at Red River Winnipeg rimJohn Ingle founded The Island in Prince Edward Island lassConservatives held convention at Montreal Supreme Court vested federal government With control of liquor licences 1961Federal rovlncial conference at 0t tawa agreed on anges to 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