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Elli Barrie Ex aminrr Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited 16 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario Robb PublisherGeneral Manager Walls Editor Emeritus Henshaw Managing Editor 4The Barrie Examiner Tuesday August 17 I976 Ald Arthur was against spending money on club It was with some dudgeon we commented in this space Saturday on the spending habits of th citys aldermen We accused all leave So it is with certain pleasure we re ort here today that not all al ermen view the public purse as bottomless pit Alex Arthur doesnt Alex Arthur does not think the taxpayers of Barrie should have spent to provide facilities for booster club for the Barrie Flyers at the Barrie Arena their money on Dunlop St On Saturday we reported in this space that Ald Arthur wanted to spend at least $8000 for the booster club And we have to say that we are glad that we were wrong Saturday Last Thursday night while his fellow alderman were trying to determine how much of the tax payers money should be spent on the booster club Ald Arthur had decided the question was not how much but whether any should be spent at all By ANN llNN OTTAWA tl few years ago lessica Mitford wrote bestseller The American Way of lleath that began to tinhingc the taboos restricting discussion about the cost of funerals llowevcr talking abotit death and burial is still difficult for many persons This difficulty often com pounded by grief otten promp ts the bereaved to spend much more money than they intend or can afford for funerals says Joan Kidd secretary of the Me mortal Society of Ottawa The society which has 20 chapters in Canada is part of an international nonprofit and nondenoniinational organizati on that tries to reduce funeral costs by encouraging people to face the problem and discuss it openly We offer an alternative to fancy highcost funerals says Mrs Kidd The society tries to promote the idea that simple dignified funerals do not have to be expensive lllIIJS RRIIEIS In ttawa the society helps members to arrange funerals that cost around $1140 some $200 less than the Saskatchewan so cial services department will pay for welfare funeral the modern day euphemism for paupers burial One reason for the difference is that the socier favors cre mat ion while the social services department costs include bur nil in cemetery Mrs Kidd said the best way to avoid costly elaborate tuner ails is for each person to decide exactly what kind of funeral he 01 She wants lhen friends or relatives to not have to try to guess the wishes of the dead person at timeof emotional stress Ihats our main project to get members to decide what they want ahead of time Mrs Kidd said The federal consumer affairs department otters similar ad vice department official said 5111 illarrir Examiner 16 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario Telephone 7286537 Registration Number 0184 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 $443 yearly Simcoc Count $3400 yearly Balance of Canada 3116 00 year National Advertismg Offices 65 Queen St West Toronto 8844710 640 Cathcart St Mon treat 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 it or The Associated Pness or Reuter and also the local news published therein The Barrie Examiner claims Copyright in all original adver tising and editorial material coated by its employees and need in this newspaper ogeyrright Registration Num 203815register61 the citys aldermen of spending your money with disregard most often found in sailors in certain state on shore So he pre ared motion to be considered passes would have meant no c1v1c council which if money for the booster club He sup persuaded Ald Bill Campbell to second the motion But Ald Campbell withdrew his port of the motion when he discovered what Ald Arthur meant was no money for the Flyers booster club at all Which left Ald Arthur out on limb with good idea and no sup port for it The motion died without being considered by the aldermen Ald Jim Perri and Ed Thompson presented motion which would keep the citys spending on the pro ject to $8000 rather than the $11 879 now needed for the project The rules of city council say that vote abstaining against motion is vote against motion column So Ald Arthur who wished to abs tain voted against the motion And wound up in the big spenders So there is at least one city alder man who has not forgotten the Fire hall and restraint There is at least one voice on council for the taxpayer Society trying to reduce cost of funerals in Canada each person should choose type of funeral and decide on burial or cremation SIIOlIJ WRITE After deciding set of ex plicit instructions should be written and left with friend or relative not in private place such as safetydeposit box or bank vault as is often the case the spokesman said If no previous instructions have been left then whoever is making the funeral arrange ments should take along per son such as clergyman re moved from the intense emo tional stress to ask straight forward questions and make cleanhcaded decisions The consumer affairs depart ment also advises that provin cial laws governing funeral di rectors be examined carefully For instance in Ontario the law specifies that funeral director must show customer min imum number of caskets usu ally the single most expensive item in any funeral Caskets vary greatly in cost and come in wide range of styles and materials the de partment says Some even come equipped with mattresses and box springs Differences in provincial regulations may account in part for wide discrepencies in the average amount spent on funerals It varied from high of $794 in Quebec to low of $469 in British Columbia in 1972 the last year Statistics Canada did special study of funeral ex penditures Consumer affairs also ad vises anyone arranging funeral to look for hidden costs For instance the cost of cemetery plot may not include the price of opening and closing the grave upkeep of the groun ds or the marker for which some cemeteries have special rules Memorial societies help to make these choices easier by outlining various funeral plans from which to choose and lining up cooperating funeral direc tors Members of the society in clude people from all walks of life Mrs Kidd said We have members of Parliament and we have plumbers The societys head office is at 5326 Ada Blvd Edmonton What to do with Rock still presents problem JOHN IIAGAN SAN FRANCISCO AP Thirteen years after Alcatraz was closed as prison the fed eral government still is trying to figure out what to do with the grim rock that for 29 years was the steelbarred home for 1576 of Americas toughest criminals Former Mayor Joseph Alioto thinks giant monument sumbohzmg Justice should be built on the outcropping mile off Fishermans Wharf sort of West Coast counterpart to New Yorks Statue of Liberty baiid of American Indians who occupied the island for 19 months before they were ousted by federal officersv wanted to turn it into an Indian cultural centre goal still ment ioned from time to time Also among the suggest ions privately developed hotel convention and shopping com plex ne developer wants to build gambling casino But the most popular notion according to the National Park Service is to continue the pub lic tours which started three years ago and are tentatively scheduled to continue for at least two more years ATTRACTS TOlR ISTS About 1500 tourists walk daily through the grim corri dors and crumbling cellblocks where the likes of Al Ca no and George Machine un Kelly paid their debts to society Since the public tours began in October 1973 about 12mil lion peopleincluding 20 one time Alcatraz prisonershave taken the Zlghour excutsion to the infamous former federal penitentiary that now is part of the Golden Gate National Rec reation Area They walk through ancient fortifications and see the In dian Land graffiti and shells of buildings destroyed by fire during the occupation by repre sentatives of 30 Indian tribes Visitors are invited to close themselves insideone of the pit chblack solitary confinement cells completely lined in solid steel and furnished only with toilet hole in the floor In the same cellblock are two decks of steelbarred isolation cells with milliondollar view of the Golden Gate They in clude the one where Capone was moved at his own request after fellow convicts tried three times to kill him Alcatraz history goes back to 1769 when it was first sighted by Spanish ship and got its name Isla de los Alcatraces Island of the Pelicans The island became military fort in 1853 housing Civil War prison ers and later Indian prisoners In 1909 Alcatraz became military prison switching in 1934 to the status of maximum security lockup for tough federal convicts The oncebustling dining hall is bare now except for board listing the menu for Easter Sun day 1962 fried chicken sage dressing snowflake potatoes giblet gravy buttered aspa ragus rolls butter cranberry sauce pudding fruit coffee In the main cellblock is the main corridor the convicts called Broadway the western corridor called Park Avenue with its view of the Golden Gate and the eastern corridor dubbed Michigan Avenue Tourists stare up at the soar ing ceiling above Times Square the mustering area bet ween thc threetiered cells and mess hall They peer through the four portholes once covered with threeinchthick bulletproof glass where convicts were allowed to see but not touch oc casional visitors Guides tell them about the humdrum neverchanging rou tine of prison life lights on at 61 am 20 minutes for meals work in the prison laundry or furniture shop lights out at 930 pm AttorneyGeneral Robert Kennedy closed down the Alcat raz prison in 1963 calling it in humane YOUR BUSINESS Wellknown investment advisor tours Canada to get opinions By VINCENT EGAN Business and Consumer Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service Next fall as you watch the TVmovie of Arthur Haileys novel The Money Changers no tice the character portrayed by Kirk Douglas He is an investment advisor called Lewis dOrsay and Hailey created him in the im age of his OWn favorite finan cial counsellor Harry Schultz of Lausanne and of Dusseldorf Amsterdam and Hamilton Bermuda The International Harry Schultz Letter appears every three weeks its six tightly filled pages crammed with highpowered investment ad vice and highpressure com ments nearly all negativeon politicians bureaucrats and bankers United States treasury of ficials are Treacherymen and banditraitors Subscriptions cost $225 year personal consultation with Dr Schultz costs investors $1250 an hour twice that on weekends payable in advance This month Harry Schultz is fulfilling longheld urgedriving across Canada from Halifax to Vancouver and hoping to learn what Canadiansare thinking If youd like to try to spot him on the road dont look for Kirk Douglas type Harry Schultz looks more like early Frank Sinatra or Skinnay Ennis apologies to readers under 40 with moustache And unlike the fictional Lewis dOrsay you wont find him smoking cigar One indication of his views on that subject His European cable address is Nosmoking WINNERS AND LOSERS Dr Schultzs antipathy to ward tobacco is exceeded if possible only by his impatience with those people in govern ment and finance who are in his view promoting inflation Congolese government reforming economics By FRANCOIS GAKOSSE BRAZZAVILLE Reuter The Congolese government in an effort to overcome economic stagnation has begun to reform its proliferating state enter prises Trying to inject new dy namism into development in crease output and overcome maladministration Prime Min ister Louis Sylvain Goma has surrounded himself with young technocrats Goma 3yearold engineer and graduate of Frances elite Saint Cyr military academy took office last December One of the governments ob jectives is to modernize agriculture so that this west African county can finally produce more than it con sumes Attempts will be made to im prove irrigation and mecha nization the first financed by China and the other by Swiss loan The magnitude of the task is shown by the fact that in the last five years production of cocoa coffee and peanuts has dropped by about half Banana production has fared even worse largely due to the absence of any coherent mar keting program SEEK SOLUTION Seeking solution the gov ernment has concluded agree ments with Romania and Bul garia to further mechanizc agriculture France is also helping through studies and the provision of equipment and agreements are expected with Yugoslavia and Cuba Although the government ex ercises control over many areas of the economy some tWothirds of its national budget comes from the activities of foreign oil com panics Frances Elf and Italys tp which exploit off shoreoil iclds In this key sector the govern ment has begun talks with the companies to try to increase state participation There are now some 20 state enterprises responsible for energy water surface trans port internal air transport uel forestry banking insur ance and other activities major task for economic reform will be streamlining them improving work stan dardsandtryin toendthemis opriationo funds fforts to develop industry and to run nationalized firms have also run into problems Firms taken over from private ownership suffer from anti quoted equipment and lack of planning Last years target for cement production was over 72000 tonsjust over 48000 tons were produced HIRE TOO MANY Overstaffing is problem in newly created enterprises big Chinesebuilt textile com plex at Brazzaville was origi nally planned to have staff of some 700 At last count it had 1419 employees Similar problems afflict match factory at Betou in the north Japanesefinanced record factory in Brazzaville and glassworks built with British loan at PointeNoire The authorities will be looking to reduce staff limit overtime cut out prestige spen ding in favor of productive in vestment ensure regular finan cial control set up special procedures to ensure supplies and spare parts and reform the administrative organization of the enterprises Despite the problems new in dustrial projects are going ahead The most important for the countrys economy is its fir stoil refinery scheduled to begin operations this summer at PointeNoire Tourism and city planning are also to get investment public health program foresees the use of all medical resources and an already largely success ful literacy campaign is to be pushed further debasing currencies and court ing credit crash That position has led him to become one of the most widely known advocates of investment in gold And that in turn has some times left him with egg on the face as he conceded when he took halfhour out of his cross country tour the other morning for an interview no charge On visit to Canada last Oc tober when gold was trading at $143 US an ounce he said that new gold bull market had begun and described the pre vious months under$130 price as onceinamillion change to get rich quick What happaned Gold went to about $147 in November then reversed itself and touched low of 5107 last month Recent price about $113 Undaunted Dr Schultz re called the times he was right particularly when he recom mended selling gold as it ap proached $200 in late 1974 And the experience gives him the opportunity to repeat his maxim that people shouldnt hold financial assets but rather should trade them Flexibility means you are never wrong for more than two weeks he contends UPS AND DOWNS His assessment of the current outlook Stock prices are due for strong advance He holds to his prediction of last October that the DowJones average of New York industrials will reach record 1200 by late 1976 It was 850 last October and was 993 at the time of our interview His view of the Canadian stock market remains negative He believes now as he did 10 months ago that Canadian stocks wont match the performance of US stocks But gold is due to advance Dr Schultz thinksalthough normally gold prices go down when stock prices rise His hun ch is that midAugust marks the beginning of an upturn in gold And if the International Monetary Fund should accede to growing international pressure to cancel its planned series of gold auctions every six or eight weeksas he believes it will then he is certain gold would move up quickly COMMODITY BOOM The big opportunity for the small investor at the moment however is in commodities says Dr Schultz Oversold conditions exist in most commodities he said think they are about to break loose on monstrous move on the upside Dr Schultz describes buying opportunities as favorable in silver copper soybeans wheat coffee cotton cocoa op tions and plywood As always however he em phasizes the need to stay flex ible ready to reverse ones po sition when circumstances change And some time in 1977 he be lieves markets will come apart We can no longer look for ward to 101015year bull mar kets as in the 19505 and 19605 We will be lucky to have one year upswings in the future Unfair laws blamed for deserting husbands TORONTO CP The public should not point an ac cusing finger at deserting husbands says Ed Ryan com missioner with the federal law reform commission Much of the problem is the result of unequal and oldfash ioned laws which because of their adversary and quasi criminal nature make the husband feel like villain and criminal he said In Ontario deserted wives may seek family court order for maintenance payments by their husbands for themselves and their children under the Deserted Wives and Childrens Maintenance Act Yet often orders for mainte nance arent worth any more than the paper they are written on Mr Ryan says Many deser ting husbands simply cant or wont pay up Default on maintenance or ders happens in as many as 75 per cent of all cases recent federal study on enforcement of maintenance obligations found To get court order for pay ment wife has to prove that shes been deserted or prove adultery or cruelty or failure to provide basic support Mr Ryan said Its common forthe husbandtoseethemain tenance obligation as penalty imposed by law upon him because he is bad man and has been roved so by the testimonyo his wife Thats exactly the wrong psychology to use to get men to pay money Britain may mine for heat if research program pays off LONDON or By the 1995 Britain may be mining for heat The department of energy plans to start up thrceyear program of research into the possibilities of exploiting geo thermal energy extracting energy from hot spots under the earths surface The program will cost about £840000 $15million and the depart ment now is negotiating for rt of the money to be supplied the European Commission The project program arises from report on the prospects for geothermal energy in the UK In general there would be two sources of energy to tap One is hot waterheated from the earths core and 3p pearingas hot springs Hotwater reservoirs eXist or could exist in BritainBath Cheshire Worcestershire and Hampshire The report says the Hampshire basin looks the most promising The other main type of ten tial heat source is hot me such as in the Durham area But the snag with hot rocks is that the technology for extracting heat from them is not yet developed though it is being worked on in some countries and the depart ment of energy hopes to carry out development in collabora tion with them EARTH YIELDS HEAT One forecast is that by the end of the century the UK could be getting energy from the earth every year equivalent to £4million Worth of coal and that there could be improve ments making it worth even tually 10 times as much Whether or not such forecasts prove accurate depends on more information which it is hoped the threeyear program will ield Much of the UK is bla on the map as far as geo thermal data go On costs the report makes some rough estimates For hot rocks it comes to the con clusion that heat could be ex tracted at cost of about six pence therm based on last years price for drilling heat exchangers and so on This is about half the cost of heat from imcported oil now Hot water for istrict heating scheme pro vided from underground sour ces could work out at about threepence therm The report has been roduced by the energy techno ogy sup rt unit based at Harwell It ints that there may be more than oil in the North Sea Drill ings there have shown steep temperature gradients and one borehole has been reported as having bottom temperature of 160 degrees Though there would be many difficulties to overcome it might be possible touse such heat when the oil and gas fields are depleted Great day for Yukon By BOB BOWMAN This is the greatest day of the year in the Yukon com memorating the beginning of the famous gold rush of 1896 The original strike was made Aug 12 by George Washington Carmack and two Indians Skookum Jim and Tagish Charlie Carmack registered the claim Aug 17 which has become the official day of celebration However the man most re sponsible for the gold rush had more reason for tears than cele bration He was Robert Hender son son of Nova Scotian light house kceper whose ambition was to find gold from the time he was small boy He became rospector and searched for god in California Australia and eventually the Yukon In the summer of 1896 he found some gold in creek run ning into the Yukon River and went to Ogilvic to register his claim On the way he met Car mack an old friend and told him about his discovery How ever Henderson did not like In dians and warned Carmack not to bring any of his Indian frien ds Despite his name George Washington Carmack wanted to be an Indian himself and lived with them as much as possible He arrived with Skookum Jim and Tagish Charlie but left whcn Ilen derson insulted them They were going along Rabbit Creek when they suddenly found small uantity of gold which led to ar greater iscoveries They told other prospectors who rushed to the creek and made ortuncs They did not tell Robert Henderson who was working not far away and so he failed to make any money after all his years of searching Eventually the Canadian gov ernment provided him with pension of $200 month and there is memorial to him in the Yukon Rabbit Creek became the fa mous Bonanza Creek OTHER AUG EVENTS 17587 British force led by Lord Rollo landed at Port Ia Joic to capture llc St Jean PEI 11111 Royal William first ship to cross North Atlantic by steam left Pictou NS for Britain 1889 Canada College of Mu sic opened at Ottawa 1901 Ford Company of fair ada was incorporated 1911vOntario Dc artincnt of Instruction dccrcct that Fren ch was not to be used in schools beyond Grade 1936Union Nationalc won its first election in Quebec 1940 Prime Minister Mack enzie King and US President Roosevelt made defence agree ment at Ogdensburg NY 1951 Prince Philip attended British Empire Games at Van couver where Bannister and Landy broke the founminute mile Japanese evacuation centrepiece of book By FRANK MORITSLGL During 1942 something ter rible and traumatic happened to group of 21000 people in Canadawthc Japanese Canadians Men women and childrenAthey were all forcibly moved inland from their homes on the British Columbia coast by federal order enforced by the RCMP The evacuation was an ex perience shared by no other Ca nadian racial group Naturally it becomes the centrepiece for The Enemy That Never Was by Ken Adachi McClelland and Stewart Ltd 448 pages $1495 the first history of the Japanese Canadians During the 1939 to 1945 war resident aliens of German and Italian origin were also inter ned But in the case of Canadas Japanese the expulsion the resulting incarceration the continuing violations of civil liberties the confiscation and dubioust handled sale of their properties were thrust upon them allnot only upon the nonnaturalized immigrants but also on the Canadianborn the citizens PERSONAL ROLE Why was this particular group treated differently from others in Canada In author Adachis answer wartime hysteria is more an ex cuse than valid reason Adachi was personally involved in the removal because his fam ily was evacuated from Van couver to the Slocan valley in the British Columbia interior when he was child Sub sequently he has been an Eng lish lecturer at the University of Toronto and is currently Toronto newspaper man It is Adachis professionalism that shines through this work although obviously his personal involvement enhances the re construction of the experience His tone is cool his research thorough his style eminently readable And what he preSents is convincing and stinging in dictment of the racial bigotry political opportunism and ac companying amorality that sul lied our country at the time when we were enjoined in war to preserve democracy and freedom YNICAL HISTORY Adachi details his story with telling facts and pungent irony He traces the long and cyni cal history of antiOriental dis crimination on the Pacific Coast on both sides of the bor der and how it eventually fo cused on the Japanese For example in British lumbia special legislation enacted in the 19th century pro hibited all Canadianborn resi dents of Japanese Chinese and East Indian origin from holding the franchise This was not res cinded until 1948 three years after the war ended He shows how British olum bia politicians on various lev elsfederal provincial and municipalmounted constant pressure on the federal govern ment to move the Japanese Canadians in early 1942 after the shock of Pearl Harbor and the entry of Japan into the war These efforts were backed by many British Columbia organ izat ions and groups WE WANT YOUR OPINION Letters submitted for publication must be original copies signed by the writer Please include your street ad dress and phone number although they will not be published letters which can not be authenticated by phone cannot be published For the sake of space mic interest and good taste Examiner reserves the right to edit con dense or rejecta letter The Canadian military ault tliorities did not feel that an adas Japanese residents were security risks But that cut no ice Years later Prime Minister Mackenzie King was to admit that no Japanese Canadian had done anything dishonorable to the country but even that statement was almost grudgingly made And not only did the King government knuckle under to the pressure to move the Japs out but it allowed property to be confiscated and sold in ques tionable ways And as the war neared its end Ottawa introduced cal lous repatriation plan under which Japanese in the British Columbia interior had to accept or otherwise move cast of the Rockies This for group of whom more than half had been born here and had never seen Japan particular bonus of this his tory is the opening chapter Adachi goes back couple of centuries in Japans history to trace the background that created the psychological and cultural makeup of the immi grants who came to Canada His descriptions of the Japa nese ethic of social obligation and interdependence of the earlytaught acceptance of things that must be of the in sistence on behaving in groups rather than individually throw keen light on why the Japa nese especially the Canadian bornre did not resist more strongly against the injustice of the evacuation orders war time emergency or not And in bringing the history to 1970 Adachi draws warnings from the parallel of still an other federal government em ploying the same War Measures Act to violate the civil rights of large mass of people during the October crisis in Quebec Because Adachis history is so thoroughly researched there is one surprising omission in the recounting of the resistance and welcome by other parts of Canada to the moving of evacuees into their midst The controversial Mitchel Hepburn former Liberal pre mier of Ontario did invite the Japanese Canadians from Brit ish Columbia to his prov1nce iii the later war years Further he set personal example by em ploying many of them on his St Thomas Ont farm This reviewer has firsthand memories of this gesture llis Citybred family was among those who came to Ontario as workers for Mr Hepburn at his famous oniongrowing show place With his prizevwinning Iydesdales And it was his Holstein milk cows that forced us up at an ungodly hour each day helping us acclimatize to the new world of Eastern anada Frank Moritsugu former Toronto journalist was born in British Columbia and evacuated in 1942 Thonisoii News Service BIBLE THOUGHT She hath done what she could the is come nforehlnd to annolnt my body to the burying Verlly say unto you Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world this also that she hath done shall be spoken of for memorial at her Mark1489 God will honor us and the world will remember 05 not for what we couldnt do but for what we could and did God bless our Mothers in Jesus name Mothers prayers have followed you If she is still with give her call and tell you loverher