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7266537 Tuesday Sept 1978 NEWSROOM Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited to Baytield Street Barrie Ontario LAM 4T6 Bruce Rowland publisher CIRCULATION ADVERTISING 7266539 7266537 CLASSIFIEDS 72824 Good poi nts from meeting Whatever else happens in the human relations course controversy in Simcoe County the Simcoe County Board of Education had better get out into the county and explain all over again what the course is about And teachers in Simcoe County had better get out as well because some of the people in the county dont seem to trust teachers one little bit The board met last week with about 50 people about the course and that meeting provided enough material for dozen editorials We wont write dozen But we do have some corn merits where are the fathers and the men of Simcoe County All but two of the nonboard people at the meeting were women Maybe it is true that most Canadian men lose all interest in sex after child birth some Simcoe County residents dont trust teachers One criticism of the course was that it leaves too much room for the opinion of the teacher and as one woman said many students admire teachers and would adopt their moral values The implication of that is little frightening especially if you are teacher Are teachers different from the rest of us Are teachers moral standards such that teachers express ing their moral standards will start the decline and fall of our children Jean Grant of Barrie made what was probably the most intelligent comment of the whole meeting and the controversy My husband and are in the drivers seat as far as my childs upbringing is concerned but teachers help us out she said In that statement is wrapped up the whole philosophy of being good parent and the teachers part in the raising of children It is too easily forgotten that teachers are there to help children learn not to be expensive babysitters faithfully aping the moral standards and values of all parents And that is where the ancient and honorable profes sion of teaching has fallen upon evil times at least in Ontario Far too many parents are quite content to leave their childs complete and total education in the hands of teachers Those who teach do so because they enjoy helping other people Too many parents take advantage of that and dont do any teaching themselves in the home leaving the schools as the only place where human values can be learned one woman at the meeting made an odd sugges tion More religion courses are needed in schools she said and if there were more religion courses it would keep students off the streets Did she mean that parents and churches have failed to teach religion so now it is up to publicly supported school board tot ach religion Is the only function of schools to keep students off the streets Do the parents of these students on the streets know the students are on the streets And if they do know why dont the parents do something about it most interesting comment of the evening and perhaps the most provocative came from Jack Ram say the director of education for the board the church and the family unit have weakened and its up to the school to hold up until the others become strong again That comment takes the lid off great big can of worms Have parents and churches fallen down on the job so badly that it is up to an impersonal board of education with no real religious morality its foundation to be parent church and teacher We think Ramsay is right Most parents do bad job parenting churches despite weight of numbers are probably the weakest they havd ever been Tough lesson the examiner serving borrie and simcoe county BUSINESS NEWSROOM Sean Finlay managing editor Sheila McGovern city editar Bill McFarlane wire editor Scott Haskins sports editor Sue Burke lifestyle editor ADVERTISING SALES Bert Stevens Barb Boultun Julie Franks REPORTERS Brian Donlevy PatGuergis Ad on Smith Carl DeGursi Scv SK Stephen Nicholls Mr Dave Fuller CLASSIFIED Dennis Lanthier Ian Mulgrew Nancy Figueroa 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Oxford County is the need for compulsory immunizationinthiscountry The provincial health ministry moving with the glacial slowness its justly famous for is apparently considering some such program it should have been done long ago The basic reason we have healthy long lived population in Canada has little to do with your average doctor or the new technology of medicine instead it is the product of successful public health programs that took century of hard work and education to bring to fruit ion Laws against spitting for example werent for asthctic reasons but as part of the campaign to control tuberculosis SIIORIIIAIR Short hair wasnt originally hard hat symbol It was part of the effort to control lice For more obvious reasons dumping gar bage in the street was made illegal And water purification plants were set up to protect those of us who live in urban en vironments But it was iminunilation that came to our aid against the host of killer and crippling diseases that were and in fact remain the greatest threat to us all Only smallpox among all the worlds diseases looks capable of eradication AA LAM pulsory AllllAllVICS The dillyrdallying of the health ministry on the matter is travesty of decision making At present parents who want their children innnunixcd have to put their requests in writing The ministry is considering the reverse of that making people who want to opt out sign forms while the rest of us receive our shots automatically Whether people should be allowed to opt out at all is another question Compulsory medication alrcady exists in our society from fluoridated water supplies to the use of lifesaving equipment and drugs on people whove ex pressed wish to die MAJOR TIIRICAI Immunization is even more important since the person who opts out isnt just threat to themselves but could be source of danger to others the trigger that sets off an epidemic nc Queens University community health professor Dr Robert Steele already has warned that it is only matter of lliU before there is major epidemic of polio or lip theria Weve become complacent because our memories of the dcvastat ing epidemics of the past are gone he said So true Meanwhile the health ministry takes forever to reach decision even if its only the decidedly inferior optingout choice The world todoy By JOHN ll ARIHCON Foreign Affairs nzilyst Thomson News Scry icc anadzi has become major participant in thc multimillion dollar bidding war for the many big new plants planned by the liiitcd States car industry for the limos The anadians have just signed one of the biggest deals with the Ford Motor to build hallbillion dollar cnginc plant ill Windsor Ont That anadiiin city is of course the auto nuinufacturiiig centre for lS auto com panics which still dominate anadas Your business Hy INIII lift Business and onsiinicr Affairs Analyst Thomson New Service When North Americas oil and gas supplies run oiil much of our csscntial energy will have to conic from nuclear generation That prospect is giving some people the becbicrjcebics They see hobgoblins wlicrcvcr they look in the nuclcarrenergy field even though nuclcars safety record has been good So some psychologists have been turning their professional attention to the public conflict ovcr nuclear energy group of them llil concluded that psychology should have an important role in the shaping of energy policy because public attitudes and values appear to be over shadowing tcchnological issues That was the consensus of four psychologists and sociologist from the liattclle Human Affairs Research cntres in Seattle Wash who took part in symposium the other day at the American Psychological Associations convention in Toronto attended by more than 10000 psychologists SIN FAVORIII One participant Barbara Melber described the findings of comprehensive review of more than 100 surveys of public atti tudes toward nuclear power and of her energy questions The data indicate that solar energy is favored by the largest majority of the public she reported Nuclear energy is consistently supported by plurality coal is the lciisl preferred energy source allernatch and majority of the public supports conservation Preference for one alternative however doesnt necessarily mean opposition to all others she pointed out SCOOPS THAT TRUDEAU ilE DONT KNOW WHAT HE iiIAitT5 Attem domcst ic market llic iinadmns ttlllltlfl lltt city ol lillilii Ohio loi llll liilLil ncu cnginc plant becausc the federal and ltntnrio goycinincnts icrc picpnicil to clinic up lll lllt lurgci SlillSllitS of $70 million lord says ll lltttlS to start the facility ill iilillitliilllilillltl As Usual llll such dcals iliirc IS strong local political input iiimcl lllt lliltlili drop ill support troni llillliSIIHll Ontario llll tl high llllllliltilliilll for tlic lriiiliiiu goicriiincnt and lllt litillllll this could change llli llic motor new plant gunr aiiteiiniI tltllltl ooo iiiv iobs Nuclear worries cant be ignored Another participant lllltlli Rankin said that lllltlliil policy lilitlxll liilll ciiiiitlti ltlll only ittllllll tcclinicil infoi motion but ilm lllllllilll value dilfciciicis ll llicy illl to gziin flic public illtllillltttl it iiiiclcni choice He noted that supporter and iippiliitiilx of nuclear energy pcrciiu llltlliStlt is seeking idciilical lllittlll world pcacc family sciiirily and national security SIIIIVIIIM Ill it isnt easy for nuclear scicntists engineers and economists to accept tlic need to consiilcr social tlliitS as seriously as they dotlicirprimarydisciplines To most of them the issue is tltill cut lhc facts are that nuclcarcncrgy has attained ill exceptionally high dcgrcc of safety do the extent that they themselves iic actuarially safer oii lhcjob than at homer and that then is no alternative to nuclear reactors as source of the energy that we ill need in ever increasing volume tut that isnt enough to dispel the tears harbored by people whose technical knowledge is limited but whose iinagitiut ions are prey to all kinds of fears fear of it llOlllll likc explosion iiinpossiblc barring nuclear war ltill of ilttltltlllill ltltiiSt of radioactivity which might have results similar to an earthquake or it major tirci and soon IllltlrltONtlIIQNS lhosc fears even though scicntist would call tliclii irrational miisl ltt taken into ac count At the SIlli time however our vital and growing needs for elcclricily will have to be taken into account by the coiiscrvzitionists and ecologists lhcir vague reliance on solar energy or windmills or ocean tides wont stand up to realisticexamination oi PAY its stuttii THE QUEEN pts to get plants risk as Liberals switch policies lthOlll lllSlllIl The new car plants represent the largest llltlllilfll by the car industry in its history to build the lightcr tmly fuelefficicnt and lcsspolluting automobiles of the mid ittitos llic coinixtition to win new plants is just as tough for the other states in the American Midwest who find they are not only cont pcting against cach other but with the foreign gmcrnmcnts of lrclzind Britain anada and llitilli Rico For iiniidu the Ford announcement mines ii the same time that public opinion poll on foreign ownership indicates 53 per cent of iiniidtiins want major antiditin ownership of the many industries owned by foreign niiillinat llillitl firms That figurc has jumped from 48 per cent during the last such polls The results viii plinsic st rong paradox tiniiliin opinion appeals to be moving away iroin cont inucd major foreign control of our industries at time when the economy iimains lll tlcip slump needs all the foreign llltlllitlll ll can get and certainly has no HNilllitS for llliijttl branch plant buyouts Yet no modern industrial statclias so much oi its manufacturing and natural resource industries controlled by outside interests as docstanada lhc anadiiin auto industry is EITXltttil foreign owned by the Big Four car makers icncral Motors Ford hrvsler and American Motors tanadas oil and natural gas industries in boom phase not shared by other industries in the countiy this summer and source for strong nationalism about foreign ownership in other hemispheric countries such as Mcxno and Venezuela are about 7urixrrccnf forcignownixl lltlll2lllRNBOlI With hard times all around and his public promise at the recent Bonn Economic Summit to try and bring five per cent in crease in gross national product in ourstallcd economy Prime Minister Trudeau has abandoned his earlier nationalistic policies in place of them he has resumed the traditional contiiicntalism of the traditionally frch adc Liberals national election is due this fall and lrudeau wants to expand his present and shaky mandate beyond his present 10 years in power orporate deals such as the arrangement with Ford Motor to appear to be part of his future elect ion strategy But coiitincntalism al election time has toppled more than one earlier anadiain prime minister because economic natioir alisiii has always been more than skin deep in the country as the new polls indicate lor lrudeau such deals also can be calculated risks iii THE NEXT HES ciiutit crown cottottAtiom Interpreting the news Space safety on UN agenda UNITED NAllONS Ili When the UN General Assembly begins its fall session on Sept 19 it will have chance to deal with Canadian concern over nuclear safety in outer space The Canadian governments position on the matter of crashing satellites carrying nuclear power packs solidified this summer when the Soviet Union agreed in the main UN space committee to the principle of advance notification when there is malfunction By consensus the 47country space body called on the General Assembly to include in its draft resolution on outer space key paragraph saying The General Assembly requests launching states to inform states concerned in the event that space object with nuclear power sources on board is malfunctioning with risk of reentry of radioactive mate rialstothcearth fanada pushed for Soviet agreement on notification after Soviet Cosmos satellite powered by small nuclear reactor disin tegrated over the Northwest Territories last January spreading radioactive debris The cleanup has been costly well in excess of $12 million so far TOOK SOMIC DOING We worked hard to get the Soviets to adopt that says anadian delegate Erik Wang di rectorgeneral of legal affairs in the external affairs department They resisted it initially They have not been in the habit in the space program in the past of announcing publicly what launching activities theyre going to be undertaking They have not up to now recognized any obligation to inform other states of their activities although from time to time they have issued information about ongoing activities Wang feels that the Soviet switch represents significant beginning in setting rules for nuclear safety in outer space The main space committee also adopted another anadian recommendation calling for working group of experts to study the technical aspects of nuclear safety in the peaceful uses of outer space This group would come under the scientific and technical space subcommittee when its meets next February in New York PROBLEMS NIIIIII STlllY Wang says the anadian government hopes that when the working group meets next win ter the experts will be able to examine scientific and technical problems associated with advance notification prediction of the area of impact and perhaps develop further guidelines for the launching states If something goes wrong we think that the launching state should warn the in ternational community Wang says Now this is something new and the fact that the Soviets have accepted it as part of the con sensus is positive step While it is recommendation and not binding international obligation it goes beyond any existing international con ventions governing outer space Its concept of responsibility that state should fulfil Wang says Its not couched in legal language yet It may ulti mately be developed and transformed into legal language Spys secrets sensational By Ht lB BI WMAN Recent events have recalled Sept 1945 when lgor iouzenko left the Russian em bassy in Ottawa for the last time and walked to his apartment in nearby Sandy Hill Hider his shirt he was carrying secret documents that would startle the world iouzenko was terrified but brave The last Russian agent who had defected and sought refuge in anada was murdered Late that night iouzenko took his documents to the Ottawa Journal where an editor advised him to talk to the Royal Cana dian Mounted Police Then came 30 hours of cloakanddagger activity with tioiizenko moving between the louriial the RCMP and the department of justice lt scented as though his story was too hot to handle Journal reporter told him Nobody wants to say anything but nice things about Stalin these days Members of the Russian embassy tried to capture ioulenko in his apartment but he had anticipated thii ind found shelter with neigb ioi TI the ROM took iouzenko under tlieii rotection but the true story was hidden for six months The secret documents con tained information about Russian spy ring operating in Canada the US and Britain and an identified number of the leading agents Prime Minister Mackenzie King went to London to talk to Prime Minister Attlee and obtain information at first hand about conditions in Europe generally llis true purpose was to tell Attlce about the Gouxenko revelation King also paid weekend visit to Washington and gave President Truman the information Secrecy was preserved and it was not until Feb 15 1946 that the first arrests were made The Russian spies included leading British scientist the private secretary to the British High Commissioner in Ottawa Mciill scientist who had developed new explosive and Fred Rose member of Parliament The traumatic effect of the Gouzenko nvelatioiis was dangerous because the cold war followed Most people were shocked to learn that there was so much distrust among the ulllcs 0f ll Second World War