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0th 18mm Examiner Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited 16 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario Robb PublisherGeneral Manager Walls Editor Emeritus DM Henshaw Managing Editor 4The Barrie Examiner Thursday Sept 30 I976 City should monitor bus system annually Municipal councils like to bet on sure things ing Ald Nelson Garrett tried this week to move the city in the direction of public bus service Council voted 93 against his to accept report showing how the city run system at less cost to recommendation the taxpayers Ald Garrett said the city could have saved $7000 on this year if it had operated the ser vice Mr Garrett has long been voice in the wilderness as far as public transit is concerned His arguments are becoming more persuasive 10 YEARS AGO IN TOWN railway vote since with curling 1a By JOHN HARBRON Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service Who are we The analyses continue as the United States bicentennial year comes to its close Canadians have been drawn into its deep selfobser vation as the other nation also created in part from the rebel lion of 1776 After the arrival here of the first Loyalists Canada strug gled to define herself and to emerge in different way than the revolutionary society to the south What emerges from the latest essays in the International Journal of the Canadian In stitute of International Affairs 1776 the US and Us is that the different value systems we have taken for granted in our separate nationhoods are up for questiOn The American Revolution in tending to be populist ended up preserving and expanding the status quo of the urban capitalist system transferred from imperial London to revo lutionary Philadelphia So says distinguished Toronto historian and socialist Kenneth McNaught Conversely Canadian foreign 3hr Iflarrir Examiurr 16 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario Telephone 7266537 Registration Number 0484 Second Class Mail Return tage guaranteed Dai Sundays and Statutory Ho idays excepted Subscription rates daily by 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held at Barrie Country Club during stead drizzle of Scotch mist and Englis dew Chamber of Commerce ar ranged event and President Ross Stephens welcomed visiting ser vicemen from two Borden courses Prizes presented by Pete West and Frank Hersey who sug gested this exchange of goodwill about decade ago carried on ever added in season Dr Frank Shannon honored by RVH staff after retiring from 31 years in practice of medicine Bar rie and Innisfil Army Navy and Air Force in Barrie received colors donated by Chuck Byron and Sid The bicentennial selfobservation But savings of $7000 on deficit of $255000 this year is not worth the gamble Council must be careful Public ownership of the system is worth looking into but it could should be in the form of an annual monitoring of the cost dif ference between the two The ministry of transportation and communications should be asked to analyze the 1977 paper operating costs If after next ears analysis it is found the ci could operate buses at significant saving coun cil should get serious about public ownership The bus company aware of monitoring hopefully would keep costs to minimum DOWN MEMORY LANE Justin with President Gard Hys10p Councils affairs scholar John Holmes says that conservative society laid out for Canada in the ar rival of thousands of Loyalists who were determined to re serve monarchy and ass structure actually emerged more humanitarian than the American one The reason says Holmes is that the British imperial system made changes through Parliament most notably the legislation of 1833 rather than civil war to expunge slavery This tradition placed Canada on route of implementing so cial justice through legislation which America would not hon estly ursue until the era of Frank in Roosevelts New Deal of the 19305 On imperialism Holmes the moderate actually sees Cana dian versions of it more domi nant than the muchrepeated American one McNaught as you might expect sees Ameli can imperialism in an historic rapacious role The lack of any direct conflict between expanding American im rialism at the end of the 19 century which was mainly in the Western Hemisphere and of the British Empire mainly in Africa and India gave Can ada the chance says Holmes to fill her own empty spaces peacefully Canadian railway magnates not American ones were the mad continental railwaybuild ers of the decade immediately before 1914 The Overlanders hadit tough By BOB BOWMAN In 1862 the Cariboo gold rush drew thousands of prospectors to British Columbia from all parts of the world number of hem had no experience in pros pecting or even living outdoors People who crossed Canada to get to British Columbia were known as Overlanders and they endured terrible har dships One group of 150 people from Scotland landed at Quebec and got to St Paul by train Then they travelled to Fort Garry in carts and by ferry down the Red River There was great celebration for them at Fort Garry but then they had to cross the Prairies There was great deal of rain that summer and carts and oxen bogged accepting for branch The Greta Munsinger affair subject of Royal Commission was creating big stir in Ottawa Toronto Planning Board report called for Barrie to become bedroom suburb in near future widely condemned by local citizens Division chairmen for Barrie United Appeal are Harry strong commercial Bob Story of CGE special names Dr George Leggett professionals man Leroy Rosser of Royal Victoria Hospital said Board would fight City plan to take over part Wellington St for traffic purpose Alderman Dorian Parker returned from visit to Ireland and presented greetings from Lord Mayor of Belfast to Mayor Lester Cook Cyril and Mike Leeper returned to St Josephs High School after atten ding music summer camp in Quebec to broaden knowledge of violin and guitar City Council plans public earings on flouridation Arm Chair The centralized Canadian banks followed the farmer the miner the town planner to con trol then as now different nor thern ec0nomy Holmes comments that in our own day the jingoistic Canadian press reaction to the testrun of the US super tanker Manhattan through the Northwest Passage in 1969 to 1970 concentrated on an im mediate Ottawa declaration of that international waterway as Canadian territorial waters In the long run most of these essays except the ones defining the vulnerable and small Fren chCanadian society in the mid st of these two EnglishCa nadian giants define two diver gent North American commu nities These are both built on com mon concepts of creating new mercantilist systems with their own tariffs duties and import laws not unlike the one London imposed on the colonies before 1776 RELATED EMPIRES Canada and the US are in tertwined commercial em pires This is an explanation perhaps why in the late 20th century Canada has painlessly become the largest national repository for American in vestment and hundreds of bran ch plant companies Who are we Canadians and Americans Closely interre lated at least and probably al ways will be down in the muskegs Members of the party who had never han dled axes iad to build bridges across swollen rivers Hudsons Bay Company men at Edmonton persuaded them to exchange their oxen for hor ses to get through the Rockies Eventually they consumed all their supplies and had to eat their horses as well as skunks porcupines and any other game they could get The Indians gave them salmon but they had come 700 miles from the Pacific and were almost rotten The final art of the tri was made on ra ts and num of people were drowned By some miracle the survivors included Mrs August Schubert who was pregnant and her three small children By BENTLEY The third article dealt with alternatives to annexation As in the other articles the point was that the people af fected should have answers to these possibilities and options But assuming for the moment that little attention will be aid to this writers thoughts ets explore some of the contradic tions and conundrums in the ci ty report Maybe by asking some of these questions of your local representatives you can understand and then let them know how you feel before the hearing takes place How will our fixed income people stand the strain of in creased taxes for the next 10 years with no increase in ser vices Barries population is 34000 The requested land is said to provide enough space for 125000 Approximately 60000 of these would locate in the Innisfil area and yet the submitted land use concept urogance arogans aroganc AMVEXA TION shows no provision for commer cial stores or access to shopp ing areas Is this realistic If the city policy is for in dustry that is irst class how will it supply an airport which is necessary for modern city of 100000 when no funds are available Is it true there can be no library expansion or other general improvements until 1987 What are the possible capital costs that the city can be forced to assume if the ap plication is accepted and what will this mean in tax increase Will the city have to stop the land acquisition program for downtown parking What is the dollar cost to date of annexation The real urgency is to ser vice industrial land and create an atmosphere that draws in dustry and provides jobs Does the annexation plan really solve this problem The protection and de velopment of the bay is needed answers Does the annexation help or retard this 10 The report written March 1976 states that the financial projection has resulted in deferment until 1987 to 1996 period of certain general ro jects representative of ich are new city hall $3000000 and the new library $2500000 Why did we bid on the civic tower when Council knew this 11 Will annexation restrict development of recreational facilities 12 Will annexation increase the already hi lot levies and thus increase cost of house ing 13 Why has the report been kept from the public until elec tion time Im only one taxpayer with some experience at how local government 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REALLY ASK YOUDOES THAT SOUND LIKE ME FROM PARLIAMENT HILL Francis insists would do it again By STEWART MachEOD Ottawa Bureau Thomson News Service Sometimes when politician makes spurofthemoment decision in the face of anger he will quickly regret his action But its been couple of weeks now since Lloyd Francis quit as parliamentary secretary to protest the lack of Ottawa rep resentation in the federal cabi net and hes more convinced than ever about his decision would do the same thing again There is no question about it From his Ottawa West con stituency Mr Francis claims the letters and calls are run ning about 101 in support of his action And he has been iven unanimous vote of co idence by his riding association Now the whitehaired 56 yearold economist is starting to work on series of speeches in which he will take critical look at some of the government policies that encoura ed his protest am going to more outspoken from now on and say some of the things that have to besaid There are those who ar that MR Francis really di nt make major sacrifice in giv ing up $5300ayear parlia mentary secretarys ition because his term wo have been up in few weeks anyway and in all likelihood he would go back to his basic parliamen tary income of $34900 FUTURE AFFECTED But assuming he will be in Parliament for some time this glilBLE THOUGHT am the vine ye are the branches He that abideth In me and in him the same br Ingeth forth much fruit for without me ye can do nothing John 155 The greatest thing that can happen to us is to realize that we are helpless but that God is Almighty can do all things through Christ which streng theneth me move could certainly affect his career opportunities Prime Minister Trudeau is not the type to offer cabinet appoint ments or other goodies to indi viduals who walk out on snit For months now Mr Francis has been expressing quiet con cern about the governments al leged lack of consultation with elected representatives on mat ters affecting the capital region He says that 20000 jobs have been moved out of the region without local MP5 being consulted Furthermore thousands of federal jobs are being moved across the river to Hull The former deputy ma or of Ottawa had expected to in vited into the cabinet during this recent shuffleapparently Mr Trudeau drop some pretty strong hints this ut no area MPs were involved So Mr Francis took pen in hand and let the prime minister now how he felt Mr Prime Minister do not believe that can any longer serve you as arliamentary secrets and as toberelieved of my uties The letter fell with thud in the neighboring riding of OttawaCarleton where Liberal candidate was alread involved in an uphill battle osucceedJohnTurner am sorry about that said Mr Francis but didnt pick the timing Mr Trudeau did that with his cabinet announce ment Since he quit as parlia mentar secretary to the presi dent treasury board Mr Francis has spent week in Washington studying local gov ernment in that federal district And he plans other similar trips Washington is moving to democracy after findin it was impossible to govern 518 city un er federal district But were moving the other way giving unprecedented powers to he National Capital Commis sion and bypassing elected rep resentatives am going to be very out spoken in my views on this and have whole series of things want to say about the govern ments bilingual bonus pro gram He will be starting within few weeks when he de livers his first such speech to an Ottawa service club have more freedom now and there is just no way can just sit here silently and not say anything If the government is not interested in getting an Ot tawa viewpoint within cabinet then will provide it from out side This might prove to be good for the city of Ottawa but it could be embarrassing for the government Mr Francis has some pretty strong feelings to vent not all of them designed to bring Nobel Prize to Mr Trudeau And that poor guy who is trying to win for the Lib erals in OttawaCarleton prob ably wishes to vote was today instead of Oct 14 Its unfortunate says Mr Francis READER FOR JIM Drop an American program and return Sesame Street elected officials are taking us My conclusions are It will increase costs to Barrie tax ayers It wil increase costs to Vespra taxpayers It will increase costs to In nisfil taxpayers It will increase taxes without increasing services to the annexed taxpayer It will raise the cost of housing in annexed areas The resultant higher taxes and service limitations may impede industrial growth It will benefit city politi cians who want more control The hearing should be deferred and Innisfil Vespra Simcoe County Barrie Orillia and the Ontario government should sit down and negotiate prior to hearing In particular full disclosure should be made of finance needs and debt responsibility Tax implica tions should be known believe strongly in the need for growth in controlled and acceptable manner Dear Sir Many thanks for printing mv lengthy letter and questionr naire regarding Sesame Street have received few respon ses in the mail and must assume that CKVR has received several more Thank you As you are probably aware the Simcoe County Board of Education the Simcoe County Roman Catholic Separate School Board and the Huronia Chapter of the Registered Nur ses Association have already supported the return of Sesame Street CKVR must consider that it is privileged enterprise that does not have to be concerned about the opinions of its con sumers It has always been my un derstanding that the media tries to provide service to the public However CKVR feels quite free to do grave disser vice to significant percentage Youngsters have lost not because of themselves Dear Sir must take exception to your lead editorial Saturday re churches To set the record am pro duct of an earlier era when the church had influence went to central Toronto public school later went to high school and we didnt even have locks on our lockers and never lost or gained an article sang in the church choir for 18 ears Maybe didnt always ike it but today 40 years later still address in su riois with Sir In school ac ers were sir or mam police were sir Today our youngsters have lost all these values not because More involved than parade Open Sunday disturbing Dear Sir Thank you for your editorial Association mistaken on parade question which air to some of the issues which should concern us all would however like to clarify few points which you have introduced Hopefully in so doing will be able to assuage some of your concerns You will already be aware by the advertisement place Sept 22nd that it was the in tention of the Ministerial Association to voice our collec tive feeling of opposition to the Contradictions that need believe Barrie can be selec tive in its industry but it must stay com titive with other communities and it must first consider the well being and the ability to pay of its own citizens At present the lines are being drawn for the hearing battle As it is an adversary approach the general tenure of the township and county ar guments will be that Barrie wants too much Should these arguments prevail Barrie will be awarded smaller amount of land and the real problem of land plann ing will be put aside In another five to 10 years another annexation fight will arise after uncoordinated grc has caused another Bay stri Planning land use of the area atthecoun level as rt ners is less cos more lexi ble and in the best interests of all the taxpa ers of the area Regretfuly these articles seem an attack on the present of the preschoolers in Simcoe County The issue at this point is not whether Sesame Street is the best educational program nor is it whether our children should be exposed to Canadian content support Canadian content and would be very happy if Canadian producer could come up with program of similar quality and interest to children as Sesame Street have watched the American version of Sesame Street and it is far different from the Canadian version The main issue at this par ticular time is that there is group of Simcoe County children perhaps 50 to 80 per cent who can and probably do watch Sesame Street on dif ferent channel and there is another group perhaps 20 to 50 per cent who are unable to receive Sesame Street because of channel 3s action When these two groups of children en ter kindergarten there will be of their fault but rather the fault of their parents and par ticularly the press and radio TV who over the past 30 years have eroded the morals of the nation to the point that now we have uncontrolled vandalism parks ruined schools damaged trees broken uncontrolled drugs 21 times the broken marriage homes and children left with single parent or no parent We have to hire doctors counsellors to try and straighten them out Its not their fault The fault lies because they have no guidance dont know Mr Waldock but assume when he says church he means all religious training All faiths have something to plan of Sunday parade rather than campaign for protests As leaders of the Christian community of Barrie we felt it our responsibility to make positional statement Certainly there is more in volved than Sunday parade The whole trend to an open Sunday in Our Christian Society is disturbing but the parade issue happens to be the oneathand The ministers of Rarrie have considered this matter very carefully discussing it with the Heres pictorial letter to the editor Mrs Lorne Som mcrs of RRIII Barrie says that with the controversy Over the core of the city this PICTORIAL LETTER TO THE EDITOR photograph of the former CN station at Memorial Square might be of interest She said the large area of washrooms and restrooms were at one time real blessing She hopes it will be considered in planning administration and council but am deepl concerned that the questions report has raised have not been openly discussed The present stance that it cant be discussed because its before the Ontario Municipal Board is hogwash The complications and the seriousness of the hearings will robably mean no decision fore the election for one would like some answers before vote How about you Mr Bentley will be making presentation at the Ontario Muni cipal Board hearing on Barries annexation proposal He welcomes ideas and thoughts on the subject He can be con tacted at 56 Woodcrest Barrie great gap in the knowledge and skill these children possess This is going to create problem for both the children and the teachers Preschoolers make up large percentage of the am to pm television viewers If CKVR must limit the childrens programs to two hours onehalf hour of which is repeat of the am program then please give us choice of all the best programs that are currently available would gladly give up some adult American content programs so that my children could have the advantage of Sesame Street Unfortunately feel that the group of people who are most affected by channel 3s action are the type of people who do not write letters to the editor Public outrage is the only thing that will move CKVR at this point Sandra Bates RR Orillia contribute not found in pool hall or beer parlor You state some people do not believe the church has the answer Well who does An editors licence should give you the privilege of raising morals and ethics not tear them down to the least common denominator The only time some people go near church is to get married or buried or for free handout which they may not have needed had they some ethical training and had lived life that could be normal which they could have passed on to their children SLISCUMB members of their congrega tions Dialogue was begunwnh the Jaycees early last spring when it was brough to our attention that their plans for the parade included changing to Sunday Speaking to your concern that the churches seem to be dealing only with secondary issues may say simply that for the most rt we have taken our lead rom Jesus Christ who when he had performed ser vice to someone said Go and tell no man Were busy even if we dont broadcast We were encouraged to learn that you agree with our stand on the parade issue and look forward with interest to your editorial which expounds your different reasons Yours fora better Barrie Gary Venables Captain WE WANT YOUR OPINION Letters submitted for publication must be original cepies 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 TRANSPORT RY WATER The Inland Passage coastal water transportation route from Seattle Wash to Ketchikan Alaska is 760 miles long