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Elite Barrie Examiner Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited 16 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario Robb PublisherGeneral Manager Walls Editor Emeritus Hensbaw Managing Editor 4Tbe Barrie Examiner Tuesday Sept 21 I976 Farmers also skeptical over new tax reforms As might well have been an ticipated proposed Ontario tax reforms which are supposed to be introduced with new assessment based on sales valuation for proper ty taxations continue to be lively debated If as some people seemed to suspect the proposals were ad vanced in such way to cover pro spects of substantial tax increases not too many seem to be following the bait Those who felt that farmers might be impressed by the suggestion that the provincial government would full tax on all farmland and farm buildings except for the farmhouse itself must be having se Pay cond thoughts Like other taxpayers realize that the tax money has to come from somewhere and what they might save in the right pocket would be taken from the left The reforms promise lower pro perty tax for all residences but none would benefit more than farmers But since the taxation trend is going higher with everincreasing govern ment tax spending with little ap parent letups it just isnt being ac cepted as realistic To some it sounds too much like mere election bait particularly when coming at time when socalled restraint is in terpreted as meaning 10 per cent ceiling in spending increase At farm federation meeting in Thornton Peter Hannan first vice president of the Ontario Federation of Agriculture was the latest to warn caution As he sees it the pro posed tax reforms could affect rights of farm ownership and municipal autonomy itself It seems to be taxpayers nightmare and civil servants dream Mr Hannan summed up after criticizing the lack of informa tion about the effects of the reforms Much similar concerns have been echoed by Chambers of Commerce over the implications of some of the economy proposals with particular mention of heavier taxes on small business and the general effect on the Proposals that the province pay taxes on government property have farmers burdens been viewed with skepticism since it would be the taxpayers who would be paying the bills They agreed with Mr Hannan criticism over the lack of information given about the effects of the reforms on taxation Farmers and others would prefer to have the government foster healthier economic climate so that people generally could better afford to pay existing taxes And they know too that they are going to foot the bill anyway If the province is to pay part of their property taxes theyll have to pay the province in one way or another unless there was halt in runnaway tax spending with its substantial deficit budget financing and piling up public debt Under the suggested plan the pro vince would pay taxes on land until it is sold for nonagricultural use Then the farmer would face back taxes for the full amount up years That would make the sale of land and any subsequent develop ment financially impractical Like others cerned that no matter how the tax pie is cut its going to become greater burden on taxpayers and the only practical way to lower the to 10 farmers are con taxes is to reduce government spen ding READER FOR UM Perri explains philos0phy develOped over seven years Dear Sir read with interest the letter of Smith of New Lowell con cerning my philosophy of government and appreciated his observations One must always be prepared to have his philosophy chal lenged May take few lines to ex plain my philosophy as have developed it in the past seven years As an alderman one learns quickly that many interest groups have no trouble getting their views before council and decisions in their favor sup pose that the organization and objectives of these groups help this process and do not con demn it It is democracy But have also learned in my contacts with citizens at large that the vast majority of people believe that their interests are being represented by the elected My approach and philosophy has been to represent as best could the general community interest have taken the role of prob ing and questioning the minori ty requests to see how they can be related to the general good And if the conlusion is one of complementary benefits to both have supported them The critical issue here is that see my role as an unaffiliated participant not as anti business or antiwhatever group When talk about the common man Im referring to the general public because believe that in democracy the elected represent and should voice the opinion of that ma jority In fact conscientious alder man should be probing and uestioning the legitimacy of ese particular requests in the light of the general good The success of government or the efficiency of an elected person should be judged not on his popularity with any par ticular interest group but on his fair treatment to all PERRI What is there to pretzels about $150 million in US BLOOMFILD HILLS Mich AP Some people eat them with mustard other folks fancy them with ice cream or cheese spread They are sold hot and soft directly from the oven or crisp and crunchy in packages Pretzels food that dates back to the fifth century an nually compile sales of well Ehr iBarrir Examiner 16 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario Telephone 7266537 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 yNational Advertising Offices 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 Reuter and also the local news published therein The Barrie Examiner claims Copyright in all original adver dung and editorial material treated by its employees and reproduced in this newspaper Copyright Registration Num r203815register61 over $150 million wholesale in the United States alone says the National Pretzel Bakers In stitute One person who can attest to the popularity of pretzels is Julius Young an enterprising Russian immigrant who par layed small stall into 130 stores selling soft pretzels in Shopping malls in 24 states He has since sold the chain Young born Joseph Jag niatinsky arrived in the US in 1938 Two years later he changed his name got tired of spelling Jag niatinsky over the phone he said To tell the truth had trouble pronouncing it myself After studying psychology and serving three years with the US army in the Pacific Young sold surplus army coveralls until the supply of merchandise petered out VENTURE FAILED For want of something bet ter to do designed con traption with tea bag sus pended from plastic disc that was put over the cu to keep the water hot until tea was steeped he said The in dustry did not beat path to my door Young was at loose end when he went to Atlantic City to compete in bridge tour nament in 1965 He saw line at boardwalk booth and joined it out of idle curiosity It was concession for hot pretzels baked in machine with 13 ro tating shelves like the com mercial toasters used at lunch counters never had seen hot pre tzel and didnt go for the taste of it Just between us Im not crazy about pretzels except as business proposition figured dough that if people were willing to stand in line for something theremustbc moneyinit BOUGIITMACIIINE Young invested few hun dred dollars in pretzel machine and rented small stall in the shop ing mall in Livonia suburb of Detroit calling it Hot Sam at the suggestion of his daughter The stand was opened on March 24 1966 and instant dis aster loomed The first pretzel came out of the machine stickly white blob instead of golden brown delicacy Since didnt have razor to cut my throat rushed out of the man looking for good highbridge could jump off Two hours later returned and saw long line in front of my stall No one had told me the machine needed 20 minutes to warm up properly Young 55 sold the chain to Genera Host Corp and now has more time to induldge in his hobbies of collecting art jade antique match boxes cigar cut ters pipes and hundreds of ob jects made in the form of pret zels The recipe for pretzels has remained unchanged for 1500 years Rev Francis Weiser of Boston College who has writ ten book on early Christian legends traces the origin of the retzel to monk in northern taly To reward pious children at Easter he took stri of for Lenten bread olded them in the shape of the crossed arms of raying child and sprinkled on the dough af ter it was baked He called it preticolaa little reward in the idigm of the region WW if RyJOIIN HARIIRON Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service The next African region to seek indcixzndcncc called the Transkei makes such an an nouncement Oct 26 with an ex cellent chance it will face im THE ORIflLQQAl When the Transkei mediate boycott from all other black African countries This curious course of events in continent which wishes to be free of every vestige of ex ternal rulc relates directly to the nature of Transkei indrL pendence and who is granting Wind energy technology could help right now WINNIIPZtl ttPi The use of wind as power source was widespread in Europe for 650 years until the bcginning of the 19th century when windmills fell into gradual decline out side of the Netherlands But with the recent realiza tion that the earths supply of fossil fuels is not infinite wian power may be on the verge of comeback Although windmills were used to generate elec tricity as early as 1890 man now is just on the threshold of exploiting the wind on large scale report to an international solar conference here in mid August by the Lockhcclti Corp said current technology is more than adequate for wind energy to make an immediate contribution to alleviating the energy crunch Ixickhced said study it con ducted under the United States Energy Research and Develop ment Administration showed that the potential of the wind is far greater than previously estimated asa means of su ple menting electric energy rom fossil uel and hydroelectric sources CITES OBSTACLES While asserting that energy from the wind can be obtained on an economically competitive basis with fuel oil the Lockheed report cautioned that several major obstacles block the immediate widespread use of wind power Simply ut the roadblock is the lac methods and tools which will reliably assure the buyer that the best site has been selected the energy generated will be as predicted and the cost of finding the site will not be prohibitive The only large scale wind generator now operating in the nited States is in Sandusky Ohio The lookilowatt pro totype built for the National Aeronautics and Space Ad ministration uses the most common wind turbine generator Called Stuart mill or hori zontal wind turbine generator it operates on the same prin ciple as barnyard weather vane except that the energy produced from the turning pro pellers is used to power gen orator wind direction sensor keeps the two 1875mctrc propellers facing into the wind atop 30 mctrc tower ANADA EXPERIMENTING Canada has also entered the field of wind turbine generators but with different type of machine vertical axis wind generator that resembles huge hoop is to be installed this fall in joint effort by Quebec Hydro and the National Research Council on the Magdalen Islands in the Gulf of St Lawrence Dr Rangi of the NRC estimates the ZOOkilowatt $235000 machine can reduce the islands dependence on diesel fuel by 40000 gallons year The turbine 160 feet high represents Canadas biggest ef fort to harness the Winds energy and will be the largest machine of its kind in the world Dr Rangi said One of the reasons the Mag dalens were chosen for the proj ect was wind speeds that aver age 314 kilometres an hour nearly double the speed consid ered the minimum for making wind machine economically practical Other parts of Canada with potential for wind machines are areas near the Great Lakes Hudson Bay the Maritimes and the southwestern Prairies near Lethbridge Alta USED IN NORTH Two smaller versions of the vertical axis wind generators have been built by Bristol Aero space Ltd of Winnipeg One was installed in the Beaufort Sea in June to power satellite telecommunications station Manitoba Hydro bought and installed the other near Gillam in Northern Manitoba While wind machines are un likely to supplant traditional methods of generating power Lockheed estimates wind energy can so ply nearly 19 per cent of the ectric power de mand in the United States by 1995 if current consumption trends continue This is an equivalent saving in fuel oil of over two billion barrels per year the report says At toda price of over seas oil the alance of ments would be improvedpgzs billion peryear It The donor is none other than the racist white government of the Re ublic of South Africa in whose rders sits not only the Transkie but other socalled African homelands designated by the South African government for ultimate independence And now you can see where the trouble begins with any ac ceptance at all of the Transkei within the orbit of new black African states In brief there wont be any Transkei has already been de clared pariah among legiti mately independent black Afri can states creature of apar theid an attempt by the Vor ster government to give the im pression it is offering independ ence to blacks Economically and geographi cally the Transkei region is rich and potentially prosperous It has population of three mil lion mainly from the Xhose tribe about the same as Is raels 150 miles of Indian Ocean coast line and size ap proximating Denmark The Xhoses are progressive and dominant black tribe in South Africa with their own leaders who will cooperate it would seem in the formula for independence Oct 26 NO FUTURE Among existing African na tions the Transkei already hs automatic economic advan tages And unlike several exist ing African countries it will have the essential sea coast for worldtrade But in spite of all this the Transkei will not be accepted Its future is most cloudy that ofa nonnation The region is victim of his tory It should have been de clared protectorate like the other three so declared by Brit homeland gajns independence what then ain in 1910 when the Union of South Africa was formed Stam collectors will remem ber suc protectorates as Brit ish Bechuanaland one of the three new and fully accepted African states on South Africas border of Lesotho Swaziland and Botswana Instead the Transkei like other similar regions heading to South Africangranted in dependence was integrated in to South Africa As that country responded to world pressures it became part of the homelands policy which established separate par ts of the whiteruled republic as black enclaves If the British had made the Transkei into protectorate its inevitable course into nation hood along lines accepted by the rest of black Africa would not have placed the Xhose ple in the bind they now ace Instead the inde cndence law will make them al new citizens of their nonnation and lose for them their South African citi zenship stateless people in their own country This dilemma continues while South Africa remains in the news with continued racial riots in Soweto and Cape Town On the one hand the Vorster governments formula for ele vating homeland to nation status wont work And on the other neither will more repres sion against unemployed and young blacks by white police WILL BLACKS All At the same time it will be interesting to see what other black countries will do to aid an im rtant South African tribe an its neighbors when they be come stateless Oct 26 to large degree because such na tions refuse to accept South African nationhood formula THE PICK OF PUNCH He was great chef YOUR BUM Winter travel may cost less By VINCENT EGAN Business and Consumer Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service It hasnt taken long for the Canadian travel industry to act on the recently announced rules on foreign package tours broad range of new pack ages will be available this win ter at low rates that are made possible by Canadian Trans port Commission decision last month The most significant element in the CTC decision was the per mission for tour operators to set minimum adult fare on In clusive Tour Charters that would be equal to the actual perseat cost of the air charter plus $15 per night $750 for children under 12 Until now the tour operator has had to set minimum price that was 15 per cent higher than the cheapest regular airfare between the two points in volved Since the minimum fare in the popular winter travel sea sonmidDecember to mid Aprilis substantially higher than during the rest of the year such package tours in the past have been priced beyond the reach of all but the most af fluent travellers ISLAND HOLIDAYS New charter class holidays just announced by Air Canada in association with number of wholesale travel agencies will be applicable from Oct 31 until late April for travel to the Caribbean to the Bahamas and to Bermuda The package pricethat is airfare plus accommodation airport transfers tips and taxesto some destinations is to be lower than the regular economy airfare In other cases the package price is higherbut may still represent saving when set against the cost of paying for travel and accommodation sep arately Here are some examples sevennight package tour to the Caribbean island of Bar bados will have minimum price of $489 from either To ronto or Montreal com with regular economy airfare of $512 Similar sevennight pack ages from Montreal to the French islands of Martinique and Guadaloupe will be priced as low as $431 and $408 respec tively Those prices are $57 and $36 respectively below regular economy airfare week in the Bahamas ei ther at Freeport or Nassau has package price of $299 from Toronto or $25 higher than economy airfare alone LOOK IT OVER As always travellers should think carefully before com mitting themselves week in Bermuda at an in formal guest house has char terclassholiday price of $322 from Toronto and $294 from Halifaxor $94 and $80 respec tively higher than regular economy airfare And those package prices are confined to the period of No vember to February inclusive the four months when travellers would be less likely to find the warmth and sun shine they might expect on an island farther south The popular oneweek pack age to Havana originating in Toronto now will be priced at $455 according to Air Canada Thats $215 igher than the yearround excursion fare valid for stays of seven to 21 days Unlike socalled charter flights to other international destinations these liolidays arent encumbered by any ad vancebooking requirement But anyone planning to buy package toursespecially one thats priced below the regular airfare or one scheduled for the Christmas holiday period mgglht to book as soon as pos sr lN EQRPRETING THE NEWS Bella lost her bid to become senator By BRUCE LEVETI WASHINGTON CP The United States Congress just wont be the same without Bella Abzug the noisy bighatted Democratic representative from the tough part of New York City Daughter of Russian immi grant butcher and Jewish mother Bella labor lawyer charter member of the peace movement defender of womens rights owner of raspy Bronxaccented voice that could cut marble has lost her fight for her partys nomination for seat in the US Senate She was one percentage point behind Daniel Moynihan in Tuesdays Democratic primary margin that will remove from Congress one of its most colorful and effective members During her years in the House of Representatives Bella Ab zug has been one of the most ad miredand one of the most des pisedwomen in US politics EARNED RESPECT At one point in her career when big Bella was fighting for an issue on the floor of of the House the Speakerpintsized Carl Albert of Oklahomatook her arm and said Bella you have the respect of lot of the members here She snapped back Dammit CANADAS STORY Just the ammo Borden needed By BOB BOWMAN The general election on Sept 21 1911 was one of the most amazing in Canadian history It marked the end of Sir Wilfrid Laurier as prime minister of Canada after being in office for 15 consecutive years record as yet unequalled When Laurier called the elec tion the Liberals had 134 seats in the House of Commons to 87 held by the Conservatives This ition was exactly reversed the election on Sept 21 1911 The Conservatives returned 134 members and the Liberals 87 The astonishing reversal was due in part to reci rocit treaty Laurier had ma wit the US Reciprocity had helped the British North American col onies when it was in effect be tween 1855 and 1866 but since then Canada had become na tion from coast to coast The CPR and other railways had been built and efforts were being made to have trade flow east and west instead of north and south So the reciprocity BIBLE THOUGHT Honor they father and thy mother that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God glveth thee Ex odus 2012 Never get too big or too busy to tell your parents you love them and show that you mean it In so doing you are in har mon with God word and He will onor you for it Carl dont want respect want action Among the 100 senators in the US Congress there is not one woman Bella was trying to break that situation in Tues days primary She lost to Moynihan former United Nations ambassador and flamboyant Harvard professor Moynihans cliffhanger vic tory was good news for the Democratic regulars who are convinced that the towering tarttongued Irish Catholic of fers his party the best possible chance of unseating incumbent Senator James Buckley hardright Republican PRIMARY LEFT SCARS But the Democratic primary was nasty brawl from start to finish and has left scars that may be difficult to heal before the Nov general election Abzug for many the person ification of the womens liber ation movement tried to be less strident during the fight Still she spoke her mind bluntly and forcefully on every issue and slashed vigorously at Moynihan comparative political novice Moynihan chopped right back accusing her of bad man ners when she said initially that she would not support him even if he won the primary treaty was opposed by powerful industrial and financial inter ests in Canada To make matters worse for Laurier number of prominent Americans began redicting that the treaty would ead to Canada becomin part of the US President said publicly that Canada and Britain were at the parting of the ways Cham Clark speaker of the iiouse of representatives said We are preparing to annex Canada is was just the ammunition needed by Robert Borden and the Conservatives Canadians were told that voting for the Liberals reciprocity treaty would be treason that bar ters our birthright for the gold of the kings of the south The result was the landslide victory for the Conservatives OTHER SEPT 21 EVENTS nutFirst naval battle of American Revolutionary War was fought on Lake Champlain 1812Gananoque 0nt was raidedb Americans 1818 rd Selkirk went on trial for breaking into North west Company headquarters at Fort Wil lam now Thunder Bay tanGrand Opera House opened in Toronto loosFirst Grand Trunk Pa cific train left Winnipeg for the West 1928Canada introduced air mail stamps looDestroyer Ottawa was sunk with 118 lives lost 1963th des Arts concert hall opened at Modtreal