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Wu Elli Iiarrir Examitwr Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited 16 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario Robb PublisherGeneral Manager Walls Editor Emeritus DQM Henshaw Managing Editor 4The Barrie Examiner Friday Sept 17 1976 Some questions asked about Wayman Fairweather City hall employees had better be at work on time If they arent they will be fired That message has been made loud and clear during discussion of the resignation of Wayman Fairweath er city planning director No reasonable person really believes for munite that being for work is justification for asking for the resignation of senior employee And the whole performance gives rise to several questions The usual routine to answer is that the death But this is an election year and we hope that ratepayers who are concerned about their city will de mand that the questions answered The questions Mr Fairweathers departure from the city has been rather quick in fact that replacement for Mr Fairweather has not even be considered by council So who is going to replace Mr Fairweather Is there going to be an acting director until replacement can quick so be found If so who Who first started talking about Fairweather to getting Mr resign and why Which councillors supported the resignation idea and why Mayor Dorian Parker and city administrator Gerry Tamblyn were major supporters of Mr Fairweathers when he was hired Yet the same two ap parently worked strongly to have Mr Fairweather resign Why the change of heart Mr Fairweather is the second planning director to leave the city in two years and the second forced to leave by city council Why what were the real reasons for Mr Fairweather being asked to resign And please were all adults her Thirtythousand dollarayear men arent usually required to be at work right on the dot of 830 And not with the number of night meetings the planning director has to attend Did the request from devel that Mr oper Lou Kozlov in asking politicans questions they dont want questions are ignored and left to die peaceable Fairweather resign have anything to do with councils ac tion Is there any connection bet ween Mr Fairweathers resigna tion and the meeting held Thursday night on the Chamber late of Commerce proposed amend ment to the official plan for the downtown core Did Mr Fairweathers resignation have anything to do with Mayor Parkers comments about the Donald Street town houses being dis race and slum Mr Fairweat ers staff it will be remembered took the minutes of the planning board meeting at which the mayor be made the remarks Mayor Par ker demanded that the minutes be changed the planning staff and board said the minutes were correct and Mr Fairweather backed his staff and made it stick tion Did Mr Fairweathers com ment and opinions which often differed from the ma ors have anything to do with resigna How does the resignation of Mr Fairweather affect the citys annexation bid which will be dealt with at an Ontario Mu nicipal Board hearin month Is Mr Fairweat er not next as much in favor of the annexa sions tion as his political masters Mr Fairweather had difficult job as planning director The phrase being thrown around is that Mr Fairweather as plann ing director had high profile lanning director is highly visib public servant whose deci sooner or later affect everyone in the city The lanning directors job is not pubic relations ob Planning directors are not osen in per sonality contests nor are they ex pected to behave as though they are Guy in personality contests But there is the suspicion that the reason council asked for Mr Fairweathers resignation is that some alderpeople would prefer slick public relations type Wayman Fairweather was hired as planning director not Mr Nice Some councillors have apparently forgotten that DOWN MEMORY LANE 10 YEARS AGO IN TOWN The Barrie Examiner Sept 17 1966 In an effort to revent any fur ther threat of frost amage tobacco growers with late harvesting have been working with their from early morning until late at Employees of Brewers Warehousing in Barrie back at work after the company agreed to raise the age ceiling for hiring permanent workers to 45 from 40 School children will plant 5000 trees in Lake Simcoe district to help mark night BIBLE THOUGHT Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee jeremiah 1910 Some broken bottles today could go long way in mending lot of lives and the healing of broken hearts Elir Barrie Examiner 16 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario Telephone 72€r6537 Registration Number 0484 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 $4420 yearly Simcoe County $3400 yearly Balance of Canada $3600 year 13 5523 National Advertising Off ices 65 Queen St West Toronto 8641710 640 Cathcart St Mon treal 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 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 reproduced in this newspaper Copyright Registration Num r203815register61 Canadas centennial Exhibitors primers first By BOB BOWMAN Sir John Macdonald was prime minister of the Dominion of Canada from 1867 until he died in 1891 with the exception of late 1873 to 1878 He was out of office those years because he was defeated in general elec tion following the Canadian Pa cific Railway CPR campaign funds scandal Macdonald was really fortu nate as was Mackenzie King when he was defeated in 1930 Alexander Mackenzie Canadas first Liberal prime minister encountered four years of economic depression and Macdonald sat back and watched him struggle as Mackenzie King watc ed Bennett from 1930 to 1935 The next election was on Sept 17 1878 and that was the end of Alexander Mackenzie and the Liberals until 1896 Macdonald was prime minis ter again and remained so until his death Althougi the election was decisive acdonald had doubts until the votes were counted Ontario as in elections since was the key but it turned in fa vor of Macdonald although he was defeated in his own con stituenc of Kingston He was given seat for Victoria BC which he represented for four years although he didnt see Victoria until 1886 The ac tual margin of victory was Con servatives 146 to Liberals 60 from Thornton make good showing in vegetable competition at 108i annual Cookstown Fair Mrs Schaly Robert Fisher and Grace Elliott all of Thornton garnered James Peter Allen 21 monts of Bae Borden dies after car backs over him urgently needed in Meaford area National Employment Service says Wayne Carleton 0f Beeton at Leafs training camp in Peter borough Apple picklers CANADAS STORY Macdonald against the secret ballot The 1878 general election was the first in which the secret bal lot was used Until then people had voted nly Macdona was opposed to the secret ballot and said that men should not be ashamed to stand and be counted Women didnt vote in those days OTHER SEPT 17 EVENTS 1674Quebec Council fixed prices HosMarquis of Vaudreuil became governor of Canada 1792First legislature of Up per Canada ned at Newark Niagaraont eLake 1814US force was defeated at Fort Erie 1843Suspension bridge over Chaudiere Falls Ottawa was opened 1951First election was held in Northwest Territories 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 public interest and good taste The Examiner reserves the right to edit con dense or reject letter soon martin GIVE HIM leE MOREROOM if illu FROM PARLIAMENT HILL Massive shift surprise in View of past record By STEWART MaclEOl Ottawa Bureau Thomson News Service In view of Prime Minister Trudeaus traditional approach to cabinet shuffles and in light of the government riding re straints program massive shift in portfolios has come as somewhat of surprise It was less than month ago that the prime minister damp By VINCENT EGAN Business and onsu mer Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service Anyone looking at the current state of the Canadian economy might come to the conclusion that shuffling the federal cabi net portfolios is something like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic Not that the economy is on the point of sinking out of sight 0n the other hand it certainly isnt moving ahead at full steam The figures are in now for the AprilJune quarter and the show that Gross National Pr net the value of all goods and services produced neither ad vanced nor declined in real noninflationary terms In the previous three months January to March GNP had been increasing at real an nual rate of 108 per cent Perhaps the only comfort to be taken from the secondquar ter national accounts is the re duction of $2120 million in in ened speculation about large scale shuffle referring to such move as oneday wonder He thought that the effects of shifting ministers was greatly overrated and that day after shuffle most people have forgotten about it They still blame the Trudeau government when things are not right and praise the Trudeau government when YOUR BUSINESS Growth rate healthier than gOgo activity ventorieswhich had increased in value by $2960 million in the first quarter Big inventories are normally drag on the economy When the inventory overhang is shar ply reduced as it was in the second quarter the prospects are that stocks will soon have to be replenishedwhich is stimulus to economic activity SLOW PACE Some other economic in dicalors however have been showing an unfavorable trend The index of average hours worked in manufacturing was down It declined at an annual rate of 45 per cent in the second quarter And corporate pretax profits were down by 32 per cent an nualized Robert Ba uley senior economist of Royal Bank of Canada says that the pace of economic recovery already slow will likely continue to be slow in the second quarter of the year The Canadian economy THE PICK OF PUNCH We used to live in shanty town just outside 30 Paulothen we moved into the Lost Tribe business about four years ago things are good dont think most people stop and think who is on the team In light of these opinions it was surprise to hear Mr Trudeau announce that 16 min istersmore than half his cabi netwould be moved around And with all the current empha sis on costcutting it was also surprising to hear the prime minister announce an ex may in fact fail to achieve the five per cent economic growth rate that most forecasters have predicted for 1976 Our leading indicators of fu ture economic activity have slowed sharply in the first six months of 1976 compared to the strong increases observed throughout 1975 Economists at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce of fered slightly different fore cast The economic expanSion seems likely to continue for some time although the rate of real economic growth is still forecast to be moderate Data pertaining to the third quarter are still very frag mentary and so far somewhat less encouraging than the sec ond quarter BELOW POTENTIAL The head of Canadas largest manufacturing enterprise also takes cautious view of the prospects for economic growth There is every indication that the economic growth will continue to increase at slow but sustainable rate says Donald McPherson president and general manager of General Motors of Canada Ltd We are estimating that this growth rate will be 45 to five percentage points One bright spot Cited by the GMC head is consumer con fidence Consumers have savmgs available and credit is in good supply Mr McPherson said We are going to have super year with antiinflation con trols but we would do better in free market If the current rowth rate of the economy is ndeed falling short of its potential its not necessarily disaster of Titanic proportions Slower growth is consistent with the goal of lower rates of price inflationand both will probably make for more stable economy That may not be as exciting as the gogo economic boom of few years ago In the long run though it is much health eirand it probably accounts for the current mood of con sumer confidence pansion of portfolios which will inevitably lead to an increase in the bureaucracy around them NO SURPRISE It was no surprise to see that Len Marchand the 42ltyearold MP from KamloopsCariboo was invited into the cabinet but bet no one guessed correc tly that this agricultural re searcher would end up in new rtfolio dealing with small usiness Mr Marchand is dogged worker and will probably do fine job as sort of assistant to the minister of industry trade and commerce but am not sure why the prime minister de cided that small business re quires specific spokesman was also surprised to see that new ministry is being created around fitness and sportpreviously relatively small arm of the health depart ment Iona Campa nolo the at tractive member rom Skeena who becomes the minister in charge has served as chairman of the Prince Rupert Athletic Committee so she undoubtedly has keen interest in the sub ject But again it seems like an inappropriate time to begin ex panding government operations We now have 31 ministers serving us After five ministers quit cabi net in the last months the prime minister had lots of room to manoeuvre without creating new portfolios But during the last month he obviously became convinced that this shuffle had to be far greater than mere manoeuvring And he may have been influenced by the latest public opinion polls which showed that only 29 per cent of Canadians now favor the Liberals SECOND DEPARTURE thOught the least surprising move in the entire operation was the resignation of Post masterGeneral Bryce Mack asey He now has quit cabinet twice over policy disagreemen ts with Mr Trudeau and has threatened to do so on other oc casions This time he feels the Liberal part is moving menac ingly towa the right He was also understood to be decidedly unhappy with the prime minis ters suggestion that he become minister of consumer and cor pgrate affairs department he been heading on an actin basis since the resignation Andre Ouellet Incidentally sources around the East Block still say there are plans to bring Mr Ouellet back into cabinet after he clears up his court proceedings He is appealing contempt of court conviction relating re marks he made about court hearing into alleged price fixing in the sugar industry So far as the existing minis tors are concerned it is becom ing increasingly difficult to dis tin ish between promotions an demotions But there is no doubt that Don amieson is con tinuing his uninterrupted climb as he moves into the external affairs portfolio READER FORUM Thankyou teachers for work as aldermen Dear Editor The headline in your Sept 10th Examiner Urges review of having three teachers on Council Council prompts me to write you As communityminded citizen of 39 years active par ticipation in Barrie may say it is humble opinion that Barrie had excellent ser vice on council from the tea chers that serve on it God Bless them Few kind words are said about teachers today sad to say Aid Arthurs efforts re the noise bylaw alone would win myrespect If you lived on Wellington Street you would know why Ald Lakings efforts to save the fireball are commendable Ald Brucker on public works takes his ob most seriously Stewart Fisher is con cerned about the job these peo ple are doing as teachers hes in the place to do something about it am most surprised he is that concerned for the well being of Barrie or its people After the many years In own husband spent on school board and listening to the blings about council min ing school board business instead of their own it would now seem the shoe is on the other foot It makes me very tired to be told whom we should elect and whom we shouldnt elect Cant people think for themselves anymore To the teachers on council this last term say thank you all Am sure you feel that things that concern you students are rooted in the com munity as well as the class room wish more people felt that way Sincere Mrs Jean able Barrie Willing to pay to keep Barrie the way it is DearSir On Sept an unsolicited let ter to the editor was printed from Pittsburgh cou le who claimed to have travel ed lot and have made annual visits to Barrie They spoke highly of the neatness of the city the friendliness of its people the excellence of the parks ad ministration the careful cit planning and the apparent hig type of administrative leader ip They seemed to feel that Bar rie was model city to live in and their letter ended by saying Keep it that way Then on Sept 13 an article appeared indicating that Wile lard Kinzie will run for mayor His campaign platform seems to be based on attractin business and industry whic indicates policy of general growth He appears to sum up his thoughts by his comment We filled Barrie with industry before and think it can be doneagain tend to agree with the thoughts expressed by the Pitt sburgh couple in the first paragraph think that despite some problems that Barrie is pretty great place to live also feel that the ad ministration which is involved cannot be quite as inept as Mr Kinzie makes it out to be Another plea to CKVR Obviously however the wish of that letter to keep Barrie ever that way is not possi ble It must grow it has been growing and it will continue to grow But am not in favor of rush policy to make it as large as possible as quickly as possible filling the city with industry What Mr Kinzie does not mention is that each one of these new industries means an increase in population bit more pollution littel more traffic congestion and whole lot of other small things which will tend to make Barrie bit more like big city would prefer an administra tion willing to grow slowl one which says no to no uctive growth and one ich says es only to these model in ustries which will live up to those condition which the city lays down Looking around at our new in dustry it seems that this is what council has been doing And while question whether in the long run larger city has lower taxes still would be willing to few dollars more if tax base was higher to keep Barrie the same type of place described in the com limentary Pittsburgh let ter escribed above Yours truly Tim Brown Barrie to keep Sesame Street DearSir Sesame Street Please Come Back Abruptly it was brought to my attention one rainy morning recently when my two re schoolers tried to tune in eir favorite and only daytime TV program Mr DressUp and Sesame Streetthey werent on After some finagling with TV guides and channels we were eased gently out of this dramatic crisis by Channel As we live in the country understand our viewing was due only to our high tower and rotor Although we are among the few country people to get this rece tionlam concerned hate to be invaded each morning at 1030 by one or many country friends to have their youn ters benefit from this valuab viewing feel any oung child who cannot enjoy is programming is missinga great deal Perhaps an alternate time slot would justify CKVRs presenting Sesame Street and Mr DressUp How about or 530 pm slots to assist mom over reparing dinnerthe most acci ent prone time for preschoolers Thank you Sharon Pallapson RR20rillia Businessmen are good as Perri may learn Dear Sir Regarding Mr Stewart Fishers concern over the pro spect of Mr Perris being halftime teacher and arttime mayor wish to conso Mr Perri has announced that he is the representative for the common man and that he himself fits that mold 1f has to teach part time the administration could arrange to give him only children of the common man and hope that as Blacksmiths still busy HALIFAX CP In an age of airconditioned farm tractors and highpowered 20thcentury forest industry technology there still is breed of man in Nova Sootia who does things the way theyve always been domL with hammer and bellows The blacksmith the trades man who once kept the coun trys transportation system and its indust on wellshod feet still is ixture in the Mari times in spite of the pressure of new technolo In the has six years 150 blacksmiths have graduated from basic training course at the Nova Sc0tia Agricultural College in mm Rocky Irons is one of the vet erans Irons can remember the days of Ed Ogilvie the man who taught him his trade and how unique some of Mr Ogilvies ex enceswere remembers for example seeln ilvie hoist wild and untra lumberindustry hor se into the air on slings so it could be controlled long enough for new shoes to be hammered into place result of his tutelage none of his students become prominent citizens The rest of the students could be taught privately by Mr Kinzie who will have time on his hands Mr Perri has alread said intend to win May it is possible for mayor to represent only one sector of society but this at titude would have to be tempered if applied to the classroom am surprised that anyone aspirin to be mayor of the fine city divisive comments about the body he hopes will effect his election to office There are lot of pretty fine businessmen in Barrie whose parents and associates might be termed common man there are lot of common mens offspring in Barrie who might be aspiring to become businessmen Whatever Mr Kinzie will certainly fall heir to some of those votes that Mr Perri has chosen to snobbily throw away The only thing worse than rich snob is one and if there is anything worse than that it is someone who preten ds to be poor but isnt havent met the teacher yet who can represent common man but Ive met the good ones who have one thing in common each of them seems to have an em thy for man in general exercises degree of in fluence because of it Mr Perri mi like to take another look the problems that confront businessman in todays complicated society because if he becomes mayor he surely is going to have to work with them while servin common man As for me havent found it all that bad they are pretty good people ac Smith New Lowell Barrie would utter