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at WW Ellie tfiarrir 15x simmer Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited 16 Bayfleld Street Barrie Ontario RobbLPublisherGeneral Manager Henshaw Managing Editor Walls Editor Emeritus 4The Barrie Examin er Tuesday August 31 1976 How Will the farmer regard provincial tax proposals Ontario government proposals for tax reforms have been receiving in creasing attention with many of the critics skeptical of any advantages to taxpayers The Barrie and District Chamber of Commerce showed its concern over the effect on the economy of roposals to increase the tax urdens on commercial and dustrial pro erties The bene its if any which would result from taxing the Barrie public utilities commission buildings also was questioned Such procedure might help boost local municipal revenues for council to handle but the cost would of necessity be added to utility rates which already have increased for householders as well as business been sharply and industry Taxing government roperty also would add to municipa revenues for councils to spend but who would be taxed for the money Liberal leader Stuart Smith referred to letter he said was sent to other provincial 10 treasurers by Darcy McKeough say ing he will recommend provincial incometax increase of four per cent if the federal government goes through with its intention to cancel revenueguarantee program No wonder taxpayers are ap prehensive Some felt farmers might be pleased with the proposal to exempt farmland from property tax by hav ing the provincial government pay the bill GIOANIA Brazil Reuter Brazil is moving inland and 00yearold vision is becoming reality It is here in Gioania and else where in the vast central hin terland that one can feel the ef fects of the new federal capital of Brasilia rather than among the futuristic monumental buildings of the 16yearold city itself In those 16 years almost 12 500 miles of paved and unpaved roads with Brasilia as their fo cal point have radiated across the central plateaux into the Amazon jungle to the west and to Belem on the mouth of the Amazon River to the north In 1960 only about 20000 people lived along the 1375 mile BrasiliaBelem axis With the construction of the road this population has grown fiftyfold to more than million mostly farmers The dream of siphoning off the population from the coastal strip where the great majority of Brazils 110 million in habitants live into the vast un developed interior took more than 60 years to get under way The vision contained in the first republican constitution of 1891 was linked to the founda tion of new federal capital in the interior away from Rio de Jaiieiro and the sea It was only in 1955 that Presi Warden Orville Hughes of Simcoe County himself farmer was skep tical explaining he would like to know where the lost revenue was go ing to be made up before giving an opinion in ing Under Gordon Hill president of the On tario Federation of Agriculture ap pears to share the wardens ap prehension In an interview he said the Ontario proposal wont save farmland He then added the warn Many farmers feel that municipal officials may get bit loose under this plan and it will lead to runaway spending in the municipality the proposal muni cipalities would assess farmers for the full value of their land with farmers receiving rebates from the provincial government which the taxpayers ultimately have to pay anyway Homes on farms would not beincluded Farmers would have to pay up to years in back taxes if farmland was sold for nonagricultural use Hill doubted that farmers would be impressed by the proposal He said farmers believe the govern ment should provide healtheir economic climate so they can better afford to pay existing taxes The adjustments in assessments called for on property also have stir red further concern with wide spread feeling that it is all going to mean even higher taxation than todays heavy levels Brazil is moving inland Vision becoming reality dent Juscelino Kubitechek made the foundation of Brasilia the cornerstone of his presiden cy The site chosen was on brushland plateau in Gioas state some600 miles inland On April 21 1960 the unfin ished capital was inaugurated In the 16 years since then its population together with that of its satellite towns and slums has reached over 750000 mak ing it the fastestgrowing city in the country The city itself is geared mainly to administrative func tions It is in the interior of the host state of Goias that one can notice the raison detre of the new capital Goiania 19 years older than Brasilia is second only to the capital in its growth rate Its population has soared from 150000 in 1960 to more than 600000 CITY FLOURISHING Some 160 miles southwest of Brasilia Goiania presents the image of pioneer boom city Laid out on triangular grid system it now boasts several skyscrapers rising from its treelined streets Cavernous shops whole block deep full of television sets washing machines and other consumer goods serve the local population and the ranchers in the neighboring cattlelands In 1960 there was only one small university Now there are two universities and technical college The state government is seek ing investments for industries and mining as well as further cattleraising and farming But there have been negative effects from the fast growth mainly because of the influx of immigrants from the impover ished northeast There is an excess of un skilled labor There is also brain drain since there are as yet insufficient jobs for the uni versity graduates who flock southward to the major cities of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo The federal government has created development program for what is known as Brasilias geoeconomic region covering some 115000 square miles more than twothirds of it in Goias There are plans to set up in dustries providing 200000 new jobs by the end of the decade It is hoped with irrigation to double the states grazing land and increase its farming land by 40 per cent Mining development projects are also under way Authorities say 250 million tons of nickel have already been discovered the largest such deposit in South America The cherished numbers under fire in Britain LONDON illenteri One of Britains status symbols the personalizixl licence plates is under threat of government ac Elir Barrir Extiiiiinri 16 Hayfield Street Barrie Ontario Telephone 76537 Registration Number 0404 Second Class Mail Return postage guaranteed Daily Sundays and Statutory Holidays excepted Subscription rates daily by carrier 85 cents weekly $4420 yearly Single copies 13 cents By Mail Barrie $44 an yearly Simcoe ounty S400 yearly Balance of Canada 00 year iv National ltlfllllg Offices 65 Queen St West Toronto iii171710 640 athcart St Mon treat Member of the Canadian Press and Audit Bureau of ir 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 Press or Renter and also the local news published therein The Barrie Examiner claims Copyright in all original adver tising and editorial material created by its employees and roduced in this newspaper opyright Registration Number WIS register 61 WW tion aimed at stopping grow ing craze for them Under draft law before Pill liameiit the transfer fee for low or unusual numbers which may spell the initials of son or organization wont be increased to about $130 from 90 Ilr John Gilbert the lltlllS port minister said in Parlia ment that transfer applications were running in the 19605 at about 5000 year but by 1975 demand had increased to 50000 year the 1976 estimate was 6001l He estimated that last year 100 officials spent their working time making the 50000 trans fers Each official processed two numbers ii day Licensing officials are camr paigning to make the transfer illegal because of the danger of bribes and corruption in trans actions involving the socalled cherished numbers which sell privately for between $270 and 35400 Sometimes the plates convey humor Visitors to the House of Commons often see car bear ing plates tagged ANY NABBED LOW NLMBERS And the late Sir Gerald Na bane Conservative member of Parliament had string of cars dmignated NAB NAB etc The government department nes nsible for registering ve hic es said the practice of transfeng numbers almost certainly led to corruption It leads to attempts at bribery and threats because of course theres lot of money involved spokesman said However position on servative mem rs of Parliae ment have accused the govern ment of trying to cash in on flourishing business Dealers specializing in the transfer of low or unusual numv hers said that the rise in fees would not affect trade lurid Kempson secretary of an association dealing With per sonalized numbers said trans fer fees should be kept to the ac tuat cost of the work involved figure of 8180 does not bear any realistic relation to the cost of the transfer he said We would reckon on fee being between $18 and $36 PROFITS GREATLY The Sunday Times news per chief advertising mar fit for the numbers is said to earn about 3270000 annually from number dealers and pri vate sellers WE Nl YOIR OPINION Letters submitted for publication mist be original copies signed by the writer PleaSe include your street ad dress and phone number although they Wlll not be published Letters which can not be authenticated 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 Bernhard opens chink in armor By JOHN HARBRON Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service Respectability reliability familial life style not unlike that of most of their subjects have become the fixed hall marks of Europes surviving monarchies From time not too long ago when many of Europes crowned heads ran roughshod over their kingdoms indulged themselves in high living wen ching expensive pastimes con temporary kings and queens and their families seem almost like the rest of us This change has been true of monarchy in Britain the three Scandinavian countries Bel gium Luxembourg Holland and now would also appear to be so with the new Spanish monarch Juan Carlos and his family The chink in the European royal armor has turned out to be Prince Bernhard of the Neth erlands husband of Queen Ju liana whose resignation from no less than 300 public and private posts has now taken place because of his in discretions at high levels The original charge was his taking bribe of $11 million from the Lockheed Corporation in his powerful capacity as in spector general of the Dutch ar med forces This alleged action by the prince was revealed by wit ness during the lengthy hear ings in Washin on on Lockv heeds worldwt bribery ac tivities which have seen for mer Japanese prime minister and several senior Japanese in dustrialists indicted for bribery The Dutch and indeed Euro have been waiting for mon for the result of the parlia mentaryinspired study of the princes activities This has taken some time given the extremely wide scope of Prince Bernhards military business and intellectual inter ests since the last war In addition to his senior mili tary post the prince was on the board of the KLM Dutch Airlines and of VWFFokker GermanDutch aircraft manufacturing combine His trade and industrial de velopment activities gave Dut ch industry new business ven tures all over the world His famous and closed annual Bildeberg Conference brought together the highest world leaders for private talks about their goals and the worlds future They were highly regarded with invitations sought after by Euro and other world lead ers the nod did not automati cally come from Prince Bern RPRETIN THE NEWS dEstaing reasserts oneathelm philosophy By ROD URRIE LONDON iCPi President Valery Giscard dEstaing in picking politicallyltin experienced economist as new rime minister has reasserted is philosophy that there is room for only one man at the helm as he guides France on slightly leftward course Raymond Barre 52 succeeds Jacques Chirac head of the powerful Gaullist party who res signed in anger and frustration at being denied greater share ui national political power Giscard elected by whisker in 1974 and with five years still to serve thus has finally brought months of litical un certainty to an en But some observers suggest his calculated risk may return to haunt him In challenging Giscard Chi rac has greatly enhanced his standing in his Gaullist Union of Democrats for the Republic UDRl party by far the largest in the National Assembly Chirac 48 was the est prime minister of the Eifth public His ambition matches his skill and he may well have his eye on the preSidency Many observers feel his tation has been strengthen by his break with Giscard But for the moment the con servative Gaullists who with Giscards independent Republi cans and the Centrists form the coalition government will have little choice but to accept Gis cards liberalizing ways Giscard in his flamboyant style has already annoyed Gaullists by introducing capi tal gains tax More con troversial his pronouncements on defence place greater em phasis on conventional forces and seem to downgrade the countrys independent nuclear strike capacity This is widely interpreted as an attem to realign France with NA contrary to the teachings of the late president BIRI THOUGHT And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the lrlt of uwilltloin for Moses laid hoods upon him and the dfldnn of Israel heartened Ito him and did the Lord commanded Moses Dea Myst with yin used the In on of but as transfer of power and as divine direc tives the Lord hard And now his downfall by com parison is mighty one in fact the end of the career of one of Europes outstanding business men and promoters of na tional economy The parliamentary report on him released by Dutch Prime Minister Joop den Uyl said he allowed himself to be temp ted to take initiatives which were completely unacceptable and which were bound to place himself and the Netherlands procurement policy in the eyes of Lockheed in dubious light What will happen to him and perhaps more important to the Dutch ruling house Ap parently the parliament and the Queen have worked out quid pro quo the immediate removal of the prince from all and every public activity no further investigation of his Lockheed misadventure and the Queen to keep her throne In addition the princes per sonal life more or less in the open of allegedly keeping an ex nsive mistress flies in the ace of traditional Dutch mid die class morality and perhaps even stuffiness about man and his chosen companion for life This aspect of Bernhards lifestyle must also be resolved byhim Charles de Gaulle who with drew France as military at liance partner Critics of Chirac say that what he really wants is to be sort of powersharing Vice presidency able to stifle some of Giscards ideas even before they reach the National Assem blv Giscard would have none of that As much as the president de sires the support of solid par liamentary majority he appar ently believes such majority can only be maintained if there is shift leftward In he is responding to the powerful challenge from the Communist and leftist parties in advance of general elections in 18 months while offering reforms he feels thcpeople want But to Chirac this amounts to encouraging the enemy Rather than be linked with success pol icies he left Giscard to run it his own way Under the new setup Gis card will handle the politics and the new prime minister mem ber of no political party but with towering reputation as an economist will concentrate almost exclusively on fighting inflation and restoring the value of the ranc THE CONSTITUTION PM likely will be forced to act Without provinces OTTAWA CPi Prime Min ister Trudeau likely will be for ced to act without provincial consent if Canada is to claim its underlying constitutional law from Britain during his current term of office Federal officials say they doubt provincial premiers will be able to put together con stitutional package that suits them all during scheduled early October meetings in Toronto Those meetings were called after talks by the provinces bogged down in mire of con flicting proposals for con stitutional change during Al berta sessions last week While the prime minister will wait until after the premiers meet before making any deci sion he has made it clear in the past he wants the constitutional impasse settled before the ex pected 1978 federal election If the provinces cannot agree on method of transfering the constitution he has said the federal government will act alone to see that it is done CREATES CONCERNS The apparent inevitability of unilateral federal action has created number of concerns among officials and observers here The most rominent cen tres on the possi ility that Can ada would end up with dead or iinamendable constitution should Mr Trudeau have the British North America Act transfered without provincial approval The act 109yearold law of the British Parliament that es tablished the Canadian con son nowny Over the years anada has been through waves of smuggl ing that were almost sport For instance there was an active llr licit trade in rum from the West Indies and cigarettes from the Hell make nice pet if you dont mind him going on about TRlIilIAI wants it settled federation and divided powers between Ottawa and the prov inces can only be amended at Westminister Amendments have been made in the past at the request of anadian govern ments and do not need unani mous approval from the prov inces Should the law be brought to Canada without formula for future amendments the coun try likely would only bc able to change it with unanimous con sent from all provinces and the federal government And if the provinces cannot agree on methods of amending CANADAS STORY Teasmuggling almost spo But in the 19th century be fore railways were linilt the most popular smuggled produvt was tea lntil 1823 the British insisted that all the colonies must import their tea from them The British liked mild black tea but anadians pre THE PICK OFPUNCH this buried treasure all the time the constitution now the argu ment goes they would be even less likely able to agree if the law is brought home over their objections SIRPRISESOFFICIALS Though long accustomed to the upanddown nature of con stitutional negotiations the lat est problems come as bit of surprise to federal officials When the premiers last met with Mr Trudeau in June number said new willin ness to solve the 50yearol di lemma liad arisen among them think the time has ripened to bring the constitution home just as it did to settle on new national flag Premier Gerald Regan of Nova Scotia said at thetime The optimism that surfaced in June was largely the result of private discussion by premiers and the prime minister at the latters official residence here Mr Trudeau apparently made moving case for resolving the matter and the premiers appeared to buy it day after the constitutional discussion however Mr Trudeau and the premiers were once again at loggerbeads over federal decision to scrap massive revenue guarantee program to the provinces The ill feeling created by that decision heightened during the summer and when the pre miers met in Edmonton last week they made it clear they were in no mood to accept any federal initiative that might versely affect them ferred green tea which was im ported from the East by the In order to get this ty of tea from New York honest it was necessary to have it ship ped from the US to Britain and then to Canada which made it more expensive So teasmuggling became al most sport It was estimated that about threequarters of the tea in Upper anada was smug gled from the L3 often by people of the highest rank Jus tices of the peace and officers of the militia were systematic teasmugglers It was joke to say that some prominent citizens were ardent protectionists by day and prac tical freetraders by night The Situation became so farcical along the New Brunswick Maine border along the border of the eastern townships of Quebec and up the St Law nence to Lake Ontario that Brit ain decided on Aug 31 1825 to allow Indian tea to be shipped directly to British North Ameri can ports This ended the smuggling