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Ellie lfiarrir Examiner Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited 16 Boyfleld Street Barrie Ontario Robb PublisherGeneral Manager Wells Editor Emeritus Henshow Managing Editor 4The Barrie Examiner Monday August 16 1976 PrOperty tax plan target for debates The Ontario governments 15 pro posals for propert tax reforms are certain to be su jects for lively debates during the next few months as the full implications involved become better understood Businessmen are already ponder ing the future consequences of the recommendation that all real pro rty used for the purpose of figsiness be made subject of an addi tional assemment of 50 per cent of market value for business taxes The advantages if any of having public utilities subject to business assessment at 50 per cent of market value also may be questioned The idea of having the provincial government payin all taxes on farmland farm uildings and managed forests is another pro posal for farreaching change The sug estion that government property ould be subject to pro perty taxation is another new con cept Taxpayers can hardly be blamed for wondering if these elaborated new concepts is just another way of adding more and more burdens on them in efforts to keep up with the continued demands for constantly increasing government bureacracy and spending of their money While it is fully realized that the cost of essential services has been steadily acceleratin with inflation the need for many the greatly ex panded departments and agencies often with duplications is certain to be made subject to further question ing Many taxpayers already have been wondering how long this trend can be continued There was time when elected representatives of the people were considered to have prime responsibility of seeing that taxpayers received full value or all their tax dollars and it was used for essential services of general benefit Will adding to business and in dustrial taxes encourage the needed ex ansion of business to help ro vi much needed jobs to tree growing unemployment All these costs have to be passed on to con sumer products in the end which ultimately means higher prices and cost of living The question of whether tax yers generally will gain anything worn levying property tax on government property also has been stirring debate The city of Toronto with all the Queens Park facilities might be ahead somewhat on paper but taxpayers of the province will be paying for it including residents of Toronto for their share in the city of Barrie increased property taxes might be welcomed spending bodies on the one hand But will ratepayers be better satisfied How many will feel for example it is any real benefit to have the public utilities pay property tax and then add the cost to their electrical bills An Ontariogovernment appointed commission is holding series of hearings to obtain public views on 15 proposals for tax reforms Every municipal council and all ratepayers groups vitally con cerned shouldnt pass the op portunity to present comp ete briefs on their views OTHER EDImRS Have we progressed since days of Hitler There seem to be people who regard President Idi Amin of Ugan da as some kind of folk hero These misguided people would be wise to take hard look at Amin hie it is fair to be sympathetic to the nationalistic aims of many of the black nations in Africa Amins tac tics are despicable lot of people didnt believe Hitler was such bad fellow until they found out during and after the last war Dictators in foreign lands often dont concern us because were remote from the action and seem protected from their evils Amin certainly isnt the only modemday leader who has ar rested imprisoned and killed in discriminately But hes the one who comes to mind most readily right now Weve often heard it suggested that the world would never have tolerated Hitlers butchery had it been widely known what was going on sooner Well Amin has been slaughtering people for several years and get ting away with it Have we really progressed much since the days of Hitler Owen Sound SunTimes Harshest pressures yet on federal economic policies mar nun rnrss because of what President Rob centive for improvement of Federal economic polic1es came under the harshest pres sure in months during the fist week when three firms is Chernical of Canada Ltd Red path lndmtnes Ltd and M01 son Cornpnnies Ltd cancelled major expansion projects Dow went one step further and threatened to close its ma Ontario farility at Sarnia 6hr Barrie Examiner is Bsyfield Street Teleptuiem Mutation Numberom Second Class Mail Return tage guaranteed Da Sunda and StatutoryH idays excepted Subscription rates daily by carrier 85 cents weekly $4420 hlv Single copies 15 cents nil Barrie 41 yearly Simcoe County $3400 yearly Balance of Canath $3600 year ly Nsbnal Advertising Off ices Queen St West Toronto 1710 so Cathcart St Mon trenl 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 dis tches in this paper ted to it or The Associated Press or Renter and also the local newspublished therein in origin ver ger and editorial material coated by its employees and regroducedinthisnewspapu ogeyrright Registratio Num 203815 register 61 ert Naegele described as the governments constantly clungi rules We not understand what the folks in Ottawa are trying to do he said in speech in Sar nia adding that doing business in Canada is similar to playing in rigged poker game Thats the kind of game were playing in Canada The rules are always changing ow has called off plans to expand in Canada affecting nearly 20 projects ranging in cost from $500000 to $5 million If Dow had not already invested $100 million in trochemical project near Deer Alta he said it would have aban doned that program as well Theres no sense taking risk if youre not going to get any rewards REDPATII AlTlOlS Redpath announced it was de ferring new investment in Can ada because of the confusion caused by new rules of the Anti inflation board announced in the federal budget last May Neil Shaw Redpath president said in letter to shareholders that the company is not convinced the confusion will be resolved before the fiscal year end As result new capital ex penditures in Canada will be temporarily deferred until properdecisionscanbetaken Molson meanwhile said the ed changes in the antiin ation rum has reduced busi ness confidence to the extent that its own investment in ad ditional facilities will be de layed similar criticism came from retailer Thomas Bolton ident of Dominion Stores td who told shareholders meeting that government policy has discour ed in vestment and remov any in operations SMALL DOLLAR Dominion earned only 91oths of cent per dollar of sales in the latest quarter compared with 06 cents year ago not enough to allow expansion He said the fact that food prices in Canada are on the de cline is due more to the iii dustrys competitiveness than to the antiinflation controls Mr Bolton said the growth in government spending is incon snstent with the restraint pro gram and is downright puzzl ing to me and am sure to most other Canadians Meanwhile two other moves by governments in the past week came in for some atten tion The Saskatchewan govern ment announced the purchase of the potash mining operation near Saskatoon of the Duval Corp for $1285 million In St Johns Nfld Premier lYank Moores unveiled plan to provide 15000 new jobs in province with the highest unemployment rate in the nation In Saskatoon Premier Allan Blakeney said the purchase of the mine is first step in im plementing the NDP govern ments policy to take over all or part of the industry EYE TWO MORE Negotiations are continuing for purchase by the govem merit of two other mines the Alwinsal Potash of Canada Ltd mine at Lanigan and the Sylvite mine owned by Hudson Bag Mining and Smelling Co Lt If the government is success ful in acquiring all three it will own 30 to 35 per cent of the provinces potash potential Premier Moores said the province needs 25000 new jobs in the next five years FROM PARLIAMENT HILL Difficult to figure out what to be gained Oct 14 By STEWART MacLEOI Ottawa Bureau Thomson News Service Perhaps something will be gained from the Oct 14 na tional day of protest but at the moment it is difficult to fig urc out just what it might be According to Joe Morris president of the Canadian Labor Congress full working day will be involved as union members hold parades and meetings to protest the im position of price and wage con trols exactly one year earlier And we are inviting the par tici ation of senior citizens stu ents farmers and people from all walks of life to join in the protest he said The cost to the Canadian Brezhnevs motives confused on detente By JOHN HARBRON Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service Only the naive and those with proSoviet leanings really ex pected the totalitarian jugger naut called the Soviet Union to honor the promises for broader dissemination of information and freedom of movement it promised at the Helsinki Con ference last year After all the Helsinki Confer once held last August 35na tion gathering was the dream child if thats the word of Russian Communist Leader Leonid Brezhnev Mr Brezhnevs motives as head of the worlds largest dic tatorship still remain con fused Whatever the Russians intended with detente to ob tain genuine reduction in ten sions or to create classic smoke screen Comrade Brezhnev saw the Helsinki Pact as the formalization of detente But the Western countries in Europe with their freedom of information and free movement of their citizens had their own demands to make Brezhnevs concept reality In 1973 they persuaded him and the Soviet monolithic lead ership to accept conference agenda which would examine all possibilities of cooperation for contacts between people and for the solution of humanitarian problems END RESTRICTIONS Such roadblocks as exit per mits for those wishing to leave socialist paradises like the USS it Poland or the Ger man Democratic Republic Would presumably be easy to obtain after Helsinki The fees charged for travel decuments an insidious method used by Communist dictatorships in restricting BIBLE THOUGHT And that be was buried and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures and that he was seen of Cepbas then of the twelve After that be was seen of above five bun dred brethren at once of whom the greater part remain unto this present but some are fallen asleep After that be seen of James then of all the apostles And last of all be was scenofmenllo nsofoneborn out of due time Corinthians 1544 Thank God for the resurrec tion Jeers said Because live ye shall live also UMPED IN POPULARITY Dominoes and Chequers with handmade pieces were popular 19thcentury games in Canada with uers being particu larlypop arin Quebec movements while saying the candidate was free to go were to end or be eased The reduction in these charges were matched at the same time by very high in creases in duties charged on gift parcels imported from overseas These parcels are used by Soviet citizens seeking exit visas who lose their jobs when their intention to immi grate is revealed The onus to abide by Helsinki is largely on the USSR and the Sovietbloc countries Democratic European nations and other Helsinki signator nations like Canada and the United States do not have the bureaucratic and secret police overburden of Communist states We do not restrict our citi zens journalists and profes sionals from moving around going where they wish The travesty of Helsinki if it doesnt work will be Russian one not Western Some idea of what travesty it has already become was the silly attitude of the leaders of the Soviet Olympic team faced with the defection of 17year old Russian athlete economy will be enormous if the CLC is successful in encour aging majority of its 23 mil lion affiliates to remain off their jobs for that day But what about the benefits that might flow from this general strike From all indications there arent any The government it appears is willing to accept the They accused Canadian au thorities of brainwashing the young man who they also charged didnt know his own mind Brainwashing and de claring dissidents as psychiatric cases is the Russian way of crushing those who dont like the system not ours To charge Canadian author ities with anything as struc tured as brainwashing young Russian wouldbe detector is an especially stupid charge Soviet officials on permanent diplomatic duty here are fully aware how passive we are in security matters com red to the Russians own p0 ice sys tem HELSINKI ANALYZED The Helsinki Declaration of Aug 1975 also included clause calling for review of compliance to its terms The Russians now could start com plying anywhere within their vast security surveillance and sombre human control appa ratus Their Eastern bloc allies could begin with East Germany tearing down the obscene Berlin Wall which they not the West raised up 15 years ago this past Aug 13 YOUR BUSINESS Lower inflation unlikely to last long By VINCENT EGAN Business and Consumer Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service For the first time in years Canadas inflation rate has fallen below the unemployment rate Consumer prices rose 68 per cent in the 12 months ending in July And last month 73 per cent of the labor force ad justed for seasonal actors was unemployed and looking for work It wont be long before some oneprobably from one of the groups that benefit the most rom inflationproclaims that this proves its time for refla tion in order to create more jobs But if theres one lesson that recent history has taught its that inflation isnt the way to beat unemployment It works theotherway Nor can anyone prove that in flation has been beaten by cit ing the current rate of 68 per cent vs 78 per cent in the 12 months ended in June Still to be felt are the cnlde oil price increases of last month and the further increases that are almost certain for March and Sept of next yearaf fecting an extremely wide range of products and services As well food pricesup only moderately in the last 12 mon thsseem sure to be pushed up sharply by the upward pressures that are visible on world commodity markets FAR FROM HARSH Thats the background again st which some of the finest 19th century minds in the country are planning general oneday strike The governments antiin flation program for all its shor tcomings has been far from harsh on wage settlements Multiyear contracts calling for wage increases two or three times greater than the inflation rate were left unchallenged if they were signed before Oct 13 1975 In contrast corporate profit margins were first frozen and now are being rolled back by 15 per cent The AntiInflation Board nas been apprrmng wage increases averaging 115 per cent year higher than the highest rate of inflation recorded in any month since the restraints began Latest available figures on average weekly earnings show them running 129 per cent ahead of yearearlier earnings Labors share of national in come was at one of its highest points at the time the restraint program was established disruption of production and services for one day and then carry on with its current pro gram of price and wage con trols In recent meetings with the CLC Prime Minister Trudeau and his cabinet appar ently made no headway in ar guing that organized labor is actually benefitting from the controls dont know what more we can do the prime minister re marked to some friends after the meeting The CLC has locked itself into position of staging day of protest and dont think any amount of ar guing will change it LABOR BENEFITS He had gone into the meeting armed with statistics which in dicated that workers are so far the real winners in the gov ernments antiinflation pro gram While prices continue to rise he said wages have been increasin at an even faster rate an the latest figures available indicate that the gain in real earnings is 37 per cent ahead of this time last year Mr Trudeau had expected more favorable response from labor when he roduced his im pressive set of igures But the die had already been cast At the May convention of the CLC its executive had been authorized to stage oneday work stoppage if and when necessary to protest the price and wage controls And since then the governments view was that such protest would be made regardless of the suc cess or otherwise of its antiin flation pro am Mr Tru eau was re rted to be highly frustrated ollowing his meeting with the CLC Lust couldnt get any answers complained to an associate They the CLC want to elimi nate our controls but re lace them with another type con trol and cant find out what they have in mind contends Labor Minister John Munro It was about 73 per cent of national income in 19751 Any wage increases that trade unions have negotiated Since last October have been built on high plateau of labor income ALWAYS MORE What then will be the pur pose of the national day of protest Probably to demonstrate sup port for the unwritten rulecall it the Gompers Morris Principlethat wa rates must rise willynilly greater percentage in each year than in the war before According to that unwritten rule any drop in the inflation rate any decline in produc tivity and any recession are im material Wages have been keeping well ahead of inflation during the 10 months of antiinflation as they were before the re straints began Labor leaders will gain noth ing not even sympathy much less return to super inflation by their costly gesture of one day national strike CANADAS STORY UEL immigration made great change By BOB BOWMAN There have been several fruitful immigration drives in Canadian history but one of the most important was the arrival of the United Empire Loyalists during the American Revolutionary War This resulted in great changes Canada was almos entirely Fftfltfllflpetlklnfl until the Loy nllsts provided an almost equal number of Englishspeakln tritium Their arrival soon 1e to the formation of Upper Can ndn in 17111 large number of 14 alists also wont to Nova Start and Prince Edward Island This led to Now firoil being divided in to two colonies on Aug 16 17114 11149 new urea was originally culled New lrelood but was changed to New Brunswick from the arrival of the first llreutonunt ivernor Thomas Carleton other of Sir Guy Carleton the wivcrnor of Jan ado The first capital was Saint John which calls itself the In nllut City and bi Canadas Olf out lncorporalred city How ever the capital was moved to St Annes Point now Fred erlcton in 1785 Although Saint John lost the capital it became great iihlp first building city and seaport In the days of wooden ships and iron men Saint John had the four th largest number of registered ships in the world One of the most famous was the Marco Polo which broke all speed records between Britain and Australia HER AUG 16 EVENTS 1611vDuchess of Aiguillon gave 224001ivres for hospital at 1654 Port Royal surrendered to force from New England 1750 German immigrants arrived at Lunenburg MS 11112 Gen Brock and indian Chief Tecumseh captured De troll 1327 Jet John Franklin lfllhr loot 1h Arrtici placed stone of Hideau Canal locks at Ottawa 11151 Imprisonment for debt was abolished in Canada 111511 First cable message from Britain to was scat via triofinindlnnd 111 Sir Wilfrid Laurier pened Pacific National 4Xhlllllllnl at Vancouver 1951 Canada and US agreed on use of nuclear warheads ms Canadian jockey John ny Llle won but Ninth rare at Vancouver INT IIERPRETIN THE NEWS Sabrerattling eases between Greece Turkey By Al COLLETTI UNITED NATIONS CP Sabrerattling between Greece and Turkey over mineral rights in the Aegean Sea has eased somewhat since the UN Secur ity Council entered the picture Airing of the dispute at the UN is helping to take some of the sting from the bitterness which has existed between the two NATO artners since Tur key invad Cyprus two years ago Turkey still occupies 40 per cent of the island populated mostly by Cypriots of Greek descent Greece and Turkey have sent their foreign ministers to the UN to present their side of the argument Greek Foreign Minister Di mitrios Bitsios accused Turkey of jeopardizing peace in the area while the crisis over Cyprus still is unsettled Last month Turkey sent re search ship Sismik into wa ters close to Greek islands to search for possible offshore oil deposits Greece urged the council to order Turkey to step the activity CHARGES IIARASSING Turkey told the council that if there is threat to peace in the area it is Greece that should be blamed for harassing the unar med Turkish ship outside Greek territorial waters Greece took its case to the council following strong domes tic pressure to do something about the situation short of us ing military force Greek and Turkish naval shi are cruising in the Aegean an their air forces also have CAVEAT EMPTOR Between friends Once upon time two animal nations lived side by side with common frontier The animals on the one side were composed of large cats The animals on the other by contrast were tiny little mice The cats mind you were somewhat boisterous and ex troverted The mice were rather quiet inhibited beings who were of ten kidded by their neighbors across the border for being so consenativeintheir outlook Because the cats bad flare for taking flyer by game bling on some untried in vestment the mice would often visit across the border in order to borrow money on ventures that none of the mice en trepreneurs would lend them money for As the years went by the cats found it to their advantage to incorporate companies in the land of the mice selling manufactured commodities to the mice such as cheese but taking back the money to the land of thecats The mice did not appear to mind until one da wise mouse pointed out if the mice were to build manufac turing plants and sell their commodities at home and abroad not only would there be full employment but the monies would remain in their wn land which would be to their ad vantage And so it was that stricter laws began to emerge preven ting the cats from taking over the mice economically To top it all off shortage of milk arose in the world It is of course no secret that cats like milk Tus it was with grave concern to the cats when the shortage continued and began to beset them The mice on the other hand who by the way also like milk had more am Dle supply than did the cats The cats resumed that the mice would et them have their been patroiiing the area All these and other military moves have led to fears that in such situation it would not take much to start shooting war The Greeks are reported pri vately to be seekin council resolution that woul call on the Sismik to end its seismic soun dings for oil seek resumption of GreekTurkish negotiations on the issue and endorse Greek initiative for the world court to take up the legal as pects of the dispute But some council members have indicated that the council would try to steer clear of resolution that would favor ei ther side and instead seek resolution that would be worded in such way to ease the fric tion between the two countries Some diplomats say they feell the lowkey approach of the dis putants might help defuse the danger of military conflict PLANS MEETINGS US State Secretary Henry Kissinger in New York to meet with key delegation leaders at the UN Conference on the Law of the Sea plans to talk with the Greek and Turkish foreign ministers during the weekend in an attempt to reconcile their differences The Aegean dispute is direc tly linked to the sea law talks because number of the issues involved are being negotiated on more general level by the 157 countries attending the fifth session of the conference The right of coastal states re garding their continental shelves is one of the most con tentious and important issues at thetalks surplus milk Since after all haw much milk can mane l5laciivever the king of the mice decreed that until the worlds milk supply returned to more normal levels there would be no exports of milk outsrde their own land Of cow59 the cats became 319 anoyed at this saying the mice were not being fair to the cats After all said the cats are we not your best friends Do we not live in harmony across vast unguarded bor der Have we not invested heanly in your domain Thus were the many and un ceremonious cat calls But the mice held their ground and refused to back down on the demands the cats made over their milk As one one mouse said There is no sense in you cats crying over spilt milk And so the interferest bor der rippled in ever increasing hostility on the part of the cats over the PVPr increasmg demands for independence on thepart of themice MORAL True friendship emlnntes from mutual respect not from domination of one over the other WE WANT YOUR 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