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a4hw gt Jaw vn 35 iwefitx fireaftnyfi Elie Titania Examiner Published by Canadian Newspaper Company Limited l6 Bayfiald Street Barrio Ontario Robb PublisherGeneral Manager Walls Editor Emeritus Honshaw Managing Editor 4Tho Barrio Examiner Friday August 27 W76 Tax reform proposals stirring apprehension Apprehension appears to be in creasing over the implications of the property tax reforms which have been proposed by the govern ment Fortunately commission has been appointed to receive submis sions both oral and written from local government representatives property taxpayers and other iii terested parties One such hearing has been arranged for Orillia on Sept and different councils of the area have discussed sending rep resentatives The 15 roposals are farreaching and if ai were adopted it would make tremendous change in the property tax structure Warden 0r ville llu hes who is recvc of West Gwillim ury perhaps made typical comment when he said he was much concerned but would have to have more facts on the en tire situation before giving com plete opinion Taxing of government properties sounds like more revenue for municipalities But who would be paying the bill The taxpayers naturally so what they might save in one bill would be paid in another and the latter could be considerably heavier Tax relief for farmers impressed the warden who is farmer himself But here too he said he would like to know where the loss of such tax revenue was going to be recovered by the government before commit ting himself The Chamber of Commerce at Orillia considered the proposals from another viewpoint noting the proposed increases in commercial and industrial assessment as well as business tax It was the Chambers feeling that the proposals would be detrimental to the small busi nessman and would cause economic hardship if they were implemented in their present form Alliston Elmvale treemore and other municipal councils of the area have been studying different as ects of the roposals The re orin lpackage icli was outlined in the ast Ontario budget covers the entire range of property taxes from schools to business Etobicoke Mayor Dennis Flynn is among those who believes tax aycrs have every reason to feel earful There is no doubt that the government is casting bread in the waters to see how the lic reacts he was quoted in telling of his apprehension They also want to see how much of tax increase the public will bear Taxing nonresidential property at residential rate such as vacant commercial and industrial proper ty vacant lands golf courses lodges and clubs stirred questions So did proposal to make property used for the purpose of business sub ject to an additional assessment of 50 per cent of market value for busmess taxes Taxing of public utilities govern ment properties and charity proper ties such as the YMCA Red Cross Canadian Legion and so forth also would be certain to bring reaction if as Mayor Flynn seemed to imp ly this is just roundabout way of justifying substantial increases in municipal taxation why not admit it and proceecd along the normal lines with the ratepayers as voters rendering their own judgement about whether they think this is what they really want Or is it just too much to expect in this era of easy government hand outs with budget dificit financing and mounting public debt that simple commonsense open ap proach be followed DOWN MEMORY LANE It YEARS AGO IN TOWN The Barrie Examiner Aug 26 1966 Barrie District Collegiate Band receives record four trophies at Canadian National Exhibition band com tition Made 63 first awards co egiate bands have won since 1944 says director Fisher Cast of twohour musical Up With Pe0ple serenades Mayor Cooke at city hall Ald Roberts chairman of councils finance committee says Childrens Aid Societies should he called upon to stay within budgets and not carry over deficits Direc tors should be made to answer to municipal councils if they do not he says Robert Jarman 28 of Bar rio appointed principal of King Ed ward School Started teaching at Minesing Mayor Cooke says municipalities are getting tired of requesting the same things year after year from higher levels of government and getting little or no reaction No Transport Com pany Royal Canadian Armoured Service Corps to relocate to Petawawa at the end of the month Walter Payne secretary treasurer of the Angus Legion says addition to hall most helpful to veterans group Charlie Miller Colin Scott and Ron Knight score as Barrie City junior soccer club makes debut with victory over Aurora AllStars at Barrie Fair Grounds IN EQRPRETING THE NEWS United States makes move to cool African tensions By BRUCE LIIVETT WASHINGTON itPi in seeking speedup of the inde die position or an avenue of compromise to cool blackwhite tenSions on the explosive Afri unequiviocai in pressing for Rhodesian solution before gue rilla warfare there spreads pendence process for Namibia or SouthWest Africa the United States may be edging closer to the United Nations majority View while risking alienation of South Africas Vorster regime It also may be seeking mid 5hr Barrir Exaininrr l6 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario Telephone Tar6537 Registration Number 0484 Second Class Mail Return tage guaranteed Dai Sundavs and Statutory Holidays excepted Subscription rates daily by carrier 85 cents weekly $44 20 yearly Single copies 15 cents By Mail Barrie $44 It yearly Simcoe ounty $34 00 yearly Balance of Canada 836 00 year iv National Advertising Offices 65 Queen St West Toronto $44710 640 tathcart St Mon treal Member of the Canadian Press and Audit Bureau of Cu culations The Canadian Press is ex elusiver entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches in this paper credited to it or The Assocmted Press or Renter and also the local news published therein The Barrie Examiner claims Copyright in all onginai adver tising and minornil material treated by its employees and need in this newspaper opyright Registration Number 203815 register 61 can cont ment The UN wants independence for Namibia by the end of this month South Africa pro moves leading towar in dependence by the end of 1978 Without giving unqualified support to the IN deadline the has however said the South African proposal does not go far enough Our position generally has been that all political group should pairtitipate iii the ulti mate solution state depart ment spokesman said Nam ibias blacks he said should be free to express their views on their future The position has corneas disappointment to the ruling National party of South Africa One faction had felt the coun terproposal might be enough to convmce the to stand with them in seeking IIlOdllItiillnll of the stern lN deadline The fact that this did not hap pen appears to have set the stage for another meeting be tween State Secretary Henry Kissniger and South Africas Prime Minister John orster Such meeting likely would explore not only the Namibian issue but the Rhodesian racial conflict as well Kissm er has been preswing South rica to tighten its conSiderable eco nomic pressure on neighboruig Rhodesia to grant majority rule to the black population there in general Washingtons pol icy toward South frica has been less defined than its atti tude toward RhodeSia The LS is on good terms with most of the black African countries supporting majority rule in Rhodesia and has been AGAINST RACISM 0n the other hand the policy toward South Africa stip ulates that the regime there lS ii duly constituted African gov ernnient although the is steadfastly critical of Vurster racial policies There is some speculation here as to whether the new position on Namibia may gin Vorster new cards to play pos Sibly offering greater efforts to ward at Rhodesian solution lot promise of stron tl sup port for South rich in what appears to be coming con frontalioii With the l7iiitetl Na tions The eye of this political hurri cane is IIlllltIultltll territory facing the Atlantic Ocean It has been lll years since the lN repudiated the League of Na lions mandate that gave South Africa control over the former German possession at the end of the First World War South Africa however has continued to treat it as an ex tension of its own territory Nl UFRUMNHW 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 audienticated by Phone cannot be published For the sake of space public interest and good taste The Examiner reserves the right to edit con dense or reject letter THE WORLD TODAY Where terrorism is outofhand By JOHN HARBRON Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service The worlds worst outbreak of terrorism is not in the Middle East but in Argentina where murders and executions by right and left wing terrorists are now outofhand Last week 47 Argentincs with left wing and Peronista political persuasions were executed by right wing outfits with alleged Argentina army connections Since the leftist regime of for mer president Senora Isabel Peron was overthrown by the armed forces last March 24 674 have been ambushed kid napped and killed in this des perate country Curiously too the end of the hopelessly chaotic second exlt gerimcnt with Pcronism rought sigh of relief to country desperately embattled by its bad leaders and declining economy Lieutchn Jorge Vidcla Ar gentinas current army presi dent is an incorru tible puritan of man He is etermincd to bring back domestic stability and international support to South Americas once most prosperous republic While the illings continue the economy has started to re cover few days ago the Buenos Aires stock market had its best day in history Large fullpage ads in The New York Times by the Argen tine American Chamber of Commerce promise new era and new hope for foreign in vestment If God had really wanted us to grow wheat Boris he Would have let us emigrate to America 7A VEAT EMITOR 10 Little Indians Hy LEONARD NOBLE The to premiers of the respective provinces of Canada met in Edmonton last week at the annual premiers con ference in my minds eye rather got the picture of it lndian chiefs Sitting around the cam fire determing whether err should be war or peace with Oi tawa As we listen III we hear the Chief othe Oil Sands talkiiig The Chief of the Ottawas speak with forked tongue lie promises heap plenty wanipum or all the chiefs of the ma federaly but gives nothing but small talk The other chiefs grumbled in mutual agreement at the com ments made by the chief Then the Chief of the On tarioariarios spoke The Chief of the Uiiawas not olil speaks with forka tongue he is pikei lie refuses to ukhdld the treaty between thei itawas and us to give us more federal aaistaiice This makes for terrible hardship on all Ontariariarios and means that we must put our own tax on our pwple There was turthcr grumbled assent to what the Chief of the Ontariariarios had just said TillI lSlAI The Chief of the llochelagas then spoke llis complaint was the same as it had alw ays been dont care what you fellows decide as long as you decide in French is well as in English After considerable heated discussion it was finally ed that the llochelagans coult con mine to speak in their own native tongue at the conference whether anyone else un derstood The meeting of these dyspep tic chiefs then turned to the miistitutional issue of the tribes that made up the confnleracy loosely known as the Canadians The thtet of the kestern Shores muttered out loud We people of the Western Shores will demand from the thiet oi the Ottawa veto lime iii any amendment made in out miistitutioii Just as the And Economics Minister Martinez de la Iloz steel cattle and financial magnate has given the international banks their first positive hope about this country in almost decade And yet the killings continue at an accelerated rate the for cign branch plant executives in the recent past having been one of the guerrillas main targets Since the late 19603 more than 100 British American IJu ropcan and Argentine managers of multinational companies have been kid napped ransomcd or murdered in this country Today the trend seems to be more toward right wing terror ism than from the left the charges being that the army now in power encourages them to go after the leftist guerrillas The opposite charges were made before last March by the army against the Socialist Per onista regime that it was sup porting the left wing guerrillas There is probably justification in both charges Senora Perons regime had been split down the middle by socalled old shirt followers of her dead husband who were right of centre And since the late president Juan Domingo Peron had set up his first Peronista dictatorship in the early 1950s younger ex tremists had emerged in his party Their orientation is neo hfarxist like the left wing guerrillas What is positive is the deter niination of President Videla to clean up his country the Hochelagans have or any two Eastern Shore tribes have and Ontariariarios and any two tribes of the wheat fields All OR NOTHING To this the newly powerful and wealthy Chief of the Oil Sands added if the Chief of the Ottawas wishes to make any change in our treaty of con federacy then all to tribes must be in agreement or else no change can be made This statement created great deal of argument amongst the chiefs and in the end the chiefs were unable to agree on amending formula As matter of fact although their campfire burned long into the night as they discussed the pros and cons of many of their common political problems the only unanimous decision that could be made out of their week long powwow was that none of them agreed with the polimes of the chief of the Ottawas and the likelihood would be war rather than peace with the Ot tawas YOUR BUSINESS Coordinating role will be By VINCENT EGAN Business and oniiumrr AffalrxAnalyut Thomson News Service Canadian business executives lierrc Trudeau has discovered are inconsistent According to Fortune magn zine which is never wrong the prime in in later said that businessmen object to governments actions and in tcrvcntions in some curses yct ask for government protection in others What else is old Canadians including executives have al ways had the democratic right to criticize the government for what they consider to be its sins of commission and to urge it to rectify what they think are its sins of omission Now however that lnCOflSlSl encyif thats what it is has become in Mr Trudeaus View reason for imposing govern ment coordinating role in economic planning Maybe its premature to speculate on the form the governments coordinating role will take But from all in dications its dollarsto doughnuts bet that it will be essentially negative The federal and proVinCial governments alike seem to have grown blind to the uses of growth and deaf to the future needs of Canadians for ade quate food and energy supplies instead as Mr Trudeaus in negative terview with Fortune showed governments have become something like broken down traffic lights always rod or timber but never green NEUAIIVIZSIANFE Granted the rtd and timber lights are jUSi iih necessary in economics as in traffic The federal gchrnnitni ac tcd Wisely yci negatively last October in imposing restric tions on biotincss and labor when inflation was lhrlmltIIIIIK to go out of control Where is the Wisdom though in its restraints on the irodur lion and development oil and gas in Canada ln their efforts to make sure that the foreigncontrolled corn panics dont get away With making exceptional profits tal though they may take cx ccptional risks the govern ments in Ottawa and the oil producing provmccs have rear ted so negatively that the future security of our energy requtrements has fallen into serious doubt Substantial dcpoSits of natural gas have been demon strated in two areas of the Arc tic and the Athabasca oil sands have been shown to be one of the worlds biggest depoSits of oil But for years now govern ment policy has been stalled Yes it would be nice to have an assured supply of gas but we cant abide pipelines Maybe if we dither long enough someone QUEENS PARK Hams mine probe to involve others By 005 HEARN Queens Park Bureau Thomson News Service TORONTO The Ham report on health and safety of workers in mines could have great impact on working con ditions and inCidentally on in dustrial relations in the provin ce Although Dr Hams in uiry was specifically cenir on mining his findings and recom mendations inevitably will in valve other areas of indmtry in fact early in his report the commissmner says the prob lems of the health and safety of workers in mines discussed in this report are probably not pe BIBLE THOUGHT But God who is rich in mer cy for his great lose wherewith he loyed us Even when we were dead in sins hath quickened us together with Christ by grace ye are savedi Never forget who saved you andhcw andwhy culiar to the miningindustry Generally the baSiC recom mendations of the report are that there be an obligation on industry to be more open about working conditions and safety records and that there be more worker pamCipation in safety and health matters SpeCificaliy Dr Ham recomr mends certain records of pollu tion personal contamination etc that should be kept by mines and be open to the pub lic that there be workeraudi tors who would monitor safety and health matters and that there be new txcupational health and safety authority which would apply to all in dustry ADOPTION CERTAIN The overnment will almost certain adopt these recom mendations at least partially And the overall con sequences will be an enforced further degree of public respon sibility on the part of industry and step into worker par ticipation in management in in dustry One dangerous development we may see and in fact prob wlil think of mew way to bring out the giis In the Athabasca and Peace ltiver artms people have known about the oil for nearly 200 years ltui at our present rate of progress the soul searching could go on for another two centuries before any substantial volume of oil lh extracted ENERGY SHORTUSE To the fat cats in govern ment the threat of energy mai nutrition is pretty remote its good deal lciis rcrnotc and becoming alarmineg closer you by year to millions of ordinary Canadians who face the threat of cold homes shut down industries gamlinc iihor tagcs and power blackouts decade from now Hut the warnings of future mnrgy problems comr from two of Canadas largest oil com units Therefore in Mr Tim caus view of things they must be suspect Whats needed iii an open mind atxiut business Its fineto do all the negative things like keeping lid on profits and ui ting bigshot executives in or place It would be much better how ever to turn on the green light in other words to prtivide industry with little more incentive to achievement The time for positive action is long overdue and most Jana dians realize it Too bad Mr Trudeau doesnt ably Will from the report is Widening of the present gap between management and la bor If management takes snap and narrow position and sees ominous threats and other ghosts in the report and labor and the MW in turn gloat over their success the con seguence could be injury in our in ustrial relations which might more than offset any gains which result from the oommtssxm Dr Ham himself strand that adversary attitudes were most to be avoided if there was to be good success in improving health and safety But the first reaction was not encouraging Some press reports said the commissioner had accrued in dustry and overmnent of risk in minm ives ishedid notdo Thetoneof his report was not accusatory Then there vs quick release from the United ted workers saying the report was ahorrorstory You cant get much hope from that