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acy4lina rlIflOIIJ Aunulfl¢ msyueove aozoangouroouugq Wednesday Nov a2 1978 WM 7266537 CIRCUMle 7266539 the examiner serving barrle and simcoe county Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited l6 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario LAM 4T6 Bruce Rowland publisher ADVERTISING 7266537 ClASSIFIIDS 72824 BUSINESS Are meters necessary Are parking meters necessary That question hasnt been asked let alone answered in the continuing downtown Barrie Parking Saga Its question which must be asked And we believe the answer should be No Barrie first installed parking meters in the early 50s to prevent allday parking downtown and as way of ensuring that shoppers would be able to park downtown not merchants The city has not yet succeeded in preventing allday parking downtown and in its attempts to free park ing spaces int he downtown core it has succeeded only in convincing most people that there is problem find ing space to park downtown While the city and the Downtown Board concentrate on the real or imagined threat of the meter feeder raise parking meter rates and set tougher and tougher enforcement regulations the negative features of parking in downtown Barrie are emphasized The parking problem in downtown Banie is mostly problem because city council after city council and downtown merchants are convinced there is pro blem In fact there are 978 metered parking spaces in downtown Barrie and five free parking lots There is parking downtown That simple fact has been hidden in discussions of other problems connected with parking What downtown Barrie needs is not endless wrangl ing over the problems but solid promotion showing there is parking downtown letters to the editor Responsibility for Queens Park Dear Sir As sometime member of Barrie Council was interested to hear of the proposal to use an acre or so of the beautiful southeast corner of Queens Park for parking lot for the Seeder Project department store that may come in the uncer tain future or as connection with the proposed Toronto Street exten sion to the Bayfield Mall which will make any new downtown retail outlets redundant In 1951 or 1952 in the absence of full Council resolution was passed to sell the southeast corner of the park from the Armoury to Toronto St to public institution Aided by outraged neighbours and the public support engendered by Radio Station CKBB and the then weekly Barrie Examiner Ald Girdwood retired principal of Cen tral Collegiate and the writer were able to have the resolution rescind ed and the famous old park kept whole still happen to have copy of the original deed which obtained at that time It is dated the 10th day of October 1868 from Archibald Thomson Lumberer and his wife Sophronia to Thomas David Mc Conkey and William Davis Ar dagh upon trust nevertheless for the Corporation of Barrie their successors and assigns to be used by them solely for Public Park or Square This deed includes all the land bounded by Small St now Parkside Drive Ross Toronto and Park Streets except lots and East side of Small St upon which the Armoury is built The Armoury land never formed part of Queens Park As lawyer realize that the City Council if it so desires can either by itself or with the help of the Pro vincial Government at Toronto avoid the legal consequences of this Trust However the question arises Is the Council prepared to slough off its moral responsibility for the Trust Yourstruly Hebchmith Barrie Question Why shop downtown Dear Sir In reference to your headline in the Nov 16 Examiner regarding TWOHOUR LIMIT ENFORCEI ON DOWNTOWN PARKING HERE this is another decision made by civil servants on our behalf Question WHY SHOP DOWNTOWN must congratulate Mayor Ar cher for having the guts to state his position and agree with him The downtown businessmen and shop pers are being pressured to move out and shop in the malls Those elected should remember that part of their salary through taxes is paid for by the downtown businessmen but only by customer support People will meter feed do However in my line of business must have car at my disposal at all times and not parked three blocks away do not park on Dunlap Street during business hours Customers pay my salary too To enforce law made up in 1967 that is out and out harassment is ridiculous The meters were just changed to quadruple the price of meter parking now the civil ser vants tell us they are going to chalk and tag any car that is at meter more than two hours at $5 whether the meter is expired or not Is this legal Is this Canada What happens if customer wants to shop at several stores downtown go to the dentist lawyer or have his hair done What about tourists The downtown businessmen and civil servants that support this move have their own parking spaces Their position is cut and dried The city is discussing downtown redevelopment Is there going to be any parking spaces and for whom if were all at malls The city should supply more park ing area for downtown business and customer shopping With the outrageous increase in meter park ing there should be more than enough money Wilson Barrie Article an unfair opinion Dear Sir We the undersigned owners and residents of houses in Surrey Place feel that the enclosed article taken from your newspaper of Oct 25 represents an unfair opinion of our houses in general and our develop ment in particular without first at tempting to verify the facts Surrey Place is comparitively young project still in the stage of construction but we feel it im proves with each and every new family that moves into our little community In our opinion an appropriate ac tion on your part would now be to visit Surrey Place yourself see the houses talk to the people and then produce an article which would ac quaint the people of Barrie with Sur rey Place in order that they might form their own opinion of our development William Eby George Mason Barrie Ont 7266537 nswsnooM ADVERTISING Sean Finlay managing editor Len Sew manager sheila McGovern city editor SALES Bill McFarlane wire editor Be sevens Sue Burke litestyle editor June Franks Dave Fuller sports editor Brim Dome REPORTERS Ade 5mm Carl De Gurse We Skinner Stephen Nicholls Brenda Woods Dennis Lanthier Ian Mutgrew CLASSIFIED Nancy Figueroa Ruth Biais supervisor Lesley Clutt Freda shinner Stephen Gauer entertainment Peggy Chapeli Lori Cohen statt photographer Dana Homewood Betty Armor camera operator Janice Morton Gary Forbes sports Greall Ill call qa when she sells The movie rights lllIll Parliament Hill By STEWART Maclllt ll Ottawa llurcau Thomson News Sch ici Had anyone bothcrcd to ask inc in advance would have authomtiicly declared that Finance Minister Jean lirclicn would ccr tailin reduce income taxes on budgct night Why would have added its as obvious as the nose on your face Never had there bccii such glorious political opportunity for finance ttiinislcr Here we are nearing the end of llll govern mcnts mandate and facing certain 1979 general election pcrfcct lllllt for bit of vote priming And not only that but for lllt tirst llllll iii if Caveat emptor Ry LEONARD NORIJ While people were either praising or damn ing the implications of Finance Minister lcan Chretiens latest budget far more insidious monetary problem was rearing its ugly head Finance Ministers havc no problems in knocking billion dollars off budget here or there and thats par for the course par ticularly in an election year But ill the same newspaper that brought me the budget highlights was an article the contents of which may revolutionizi our whole way of life The article conccrncxl itself with the sale of air by service station operators and machine that is capable of givitig four minutes ofairat cost of twenty fivcccnts Its hard to believe but service station free air may go down in he annals of nostalgic conversation that goes remember when you could pull up at scr vice station alid get all the air you wanted for nothing bet me hasten to add that this is not an ad monition against the service station operators heaven knows they have enough problems My concern is that we must never take for granted the things that we have always assumed were our right It wasnt that the compressed air given away by the service station operator didnt cost him anything it was simply free service to have you come in and fillup or whatever The same theory was applicable to ree road maps which have already become as extinct as the DoDo bird However air is the thin edge of the wedge If we lose the battle of free air then we might as well capitulate SGOOPS WM lllE PRESIDENFS FGIEIGN POLICY MR VAN lrs AlIOlllER earsrote lo cameosmo ROOM BUSINESS Jock Kern toreman grilrkfifswhi chmm Glenn Kwan asst toremalt Don Saunders Gail McFarland Lorne Wass Vikki Grant wilt Calico Marlon Cyopeck Stan Wray Bill Raynor CIRCULATION nflpririel eill Halkes manager Susan Kitchen Steve White assistant manager Randy Fielding Ron Glider Alva LaPlante Barbara 5mm Pal Merson PRESSROOM Elaine Porter Don Near torcman Cheryl Aiken Fred Prince asst toreman Harris Blanchard Brian Marr modern memory practically every rcsponsi blc ccolioinic organization in the country had been recommending tax cuts to stimulate the economy Even the Economic touncil of anada not to iiicntion the prestigious oii lclcticc Hoard lll aiiada was suggesting it was good tune to rcdiicc tltc tax burden on us lsiially liiialicc minister have to fly in the face of outside advice when they reduce taxes ltut this time hrelicn could have givcn us an extra $12 billion dollars and if lllllt was any criticism he could havc blamv the opposition and most outside wonoinisis Air matter weighty one The next thing that will happen will be giznto lllat will give you so much time in the rcst room for price after which time the door will open aild you will be automatically cjcctcd But let us not just aim our sights at the ser vice stations of this world lilunicipalitics are constantly trying to figure out how to get more revenue for their programs Consequently can see picnic tables in our parks that will require to be fed moncy otherwise the tables will twist from horizontal to vertical position Swings and teeterotters will be locked securely unless the opcn scsamc of the coill sets lhcm free The list is endless and could give you inorc examples but Im sure Ive made my point So for all of you who are oncctned about the possible loss of frec air and its horrible ramifications now is the time to do something about it not when it becomes reality Heres what to do Write letter of thanks to Mr Chretien for the wonderful budget that he has im plcincnlcd This will get him in good moodl lhcii point oiit to him your concern over the possibility of the loss of free air and its implications as previously poiilicd out Demand of Mr Chretien that should anyone attempt to sell free air that he will impose such burdensome tax on the seller that it will wipe out any gain The battle must be won Leonard Noble is ollingwood resident who writes weekly column for The Ex amincr Published daily except Sunday and statutory holidays WEEKLY by carrier 90 cents YEARLY by carrier $4680 BY MAIL Barrie $4600 National advertising ottices as Queen St Toronto 0641710 cum SIMCOE COUNTY St Montreal $1650 MOTOR THROWOFF ma year ELSEWHERE IN CANADA 50a year What minister could resist this opportuni tv ANOTHER IREIIHTlON And there was something else was certain about The minister would obviously do something to offset the political mileage be ing chalked up by the Tories with their plan to deduce mortgage interest payments from in come tax It was widely accepted that this one program played major role in the re cent byclections in which the Liberals managed to get humiliated And since then Liberal MPs have been talking incessantly about the need for similar progra wasnt so sure about what else might be in the budget but had no doubt about the mor tgage plan aild the cut in income taxes Fortunately no one asked for my opinion in advance As we now know the minister brought down budget which managed to leave the come taxes virtually untouched and didnt mention mortgage interest payments And as though general election were the last thing in his mind hretien directed call his atten tion toward the corporate community Our most immediate challange he said is to hold the gains we have been making in our competitive position Perhaps the cut in federal sales taxes will benefit consumers but its doubtful whether all the savings will reach the retail level And in any event inflation will help fill the gap so that we wont realize any spectacular savings So all things being considered this doesnt appear to be an election budget Only the Tories and New Democrats would seem to benefit as they continue to call for tax cuts But now that the budget has been presented and some influential public ser vants have had an opportunity to offer their private opinions it may be that Chretien knows exactly what he is doing in relation to the next election The No one priority says one finance of ficial is to be responsible to build the cott fidencc of investors And the immediate in dication is that the business community sup ports the budget Having achieved this continues the of ficial there will be very great pick up in business activity The upfront statistics may not be that impressive but there are other very encouraging indicators which suggest things could look very very encouraging by spring If this happens it could be far better material for an election than thenforgotten tax cut And if we dont experience this ex pected economic upswing the government will still appear more responsible than it would with all even bigger deficit And perhaps our economic performance will exceed even our most optimistic expecta tions Just imagine what Chretien could do with all earlyspring budget in those cir cumstances wish had thought of this myself The Eximlner Is member The Canadian Press CPI and Audit Bureouol Circulation ABC Only the Canadian Press may re publish news storios in this newspaper credited to CF The Associon Press Reuters or Agence FranceProne and local news stories published in The Examiner The Examiner claims copyright on all original news and advertising material created by Its employees and published in this newspaper Copyright registration number 203015 register at The advertiser agrees that the publishershaii not be liable tor damages arls lng out at errors in advertisements beyond the amount paid tor the space ac tuaily occupied by that portion at the advertisement in which the error no curred whether such error is due to the negligence at its servants or other wise and there shall be no liability tor noninsertion at any moerilumem beyond the amount paid tor such advertisement The world today Old trappings for new Africa By JOHN HARBRON Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service Africa is the home of the new imperialists Cubans Russians East Germans and the return of one of the old imperial powers France In fact the direct military presence of Cuba and France throughout Africa is reminder of the longgone day of British military garrisons in Egypt and the French Foreign Legion dominant in French North Africa The Cubans are the new foreign legion ser ving their own ends as well as frontline troops for the Russians The East German presence is almost en tirely rebirth of economic colonialism dominating as it does many of the needs of the new African states for inexpensive and workable technology In way the recent arrival of the East Ger mans is also new old imperialism since the imperial Germans before 1914 had large and rich colonies throughout Africa In fact there are rumors that East German weapons specialists are working with SWAPO South West Africa Peoples Organization in common Marxist cause toward the forma tion of an independent Namibia That would be paradox indeed Communist Germans of our contemporary era assisting former subject native peoples of German colony of an earlier era to achieve political self rule The unseen imperialists are the Russians with no frontline forces apparently on duty in any number anywhere in the continent The major new imperialists remain the Cubans in Africa for the first time and the French who have come back or who in many ways never did leave The State Department current estimate of Cuban military forces and civilian aid teams throughout Africa comes to record 40000 French troops numbering close to 10000 linger in Chad Its not only uraniumrich but susceptible to invasion by the fanatical Islamic colonel who is the Libyan leader next door and to the north small French military force lingers too in the new Djibouti Republic the former wedge of very hot and almost totally unproductive desert once called French Somaliland But it is strategically very important con taining Marxist Ethio ias main outlet to the Red Sea while the Et iopian port at Asmara remains under seige in the endless war with Eritrean guerrillas The Cubans though playing an outwardly imperial role for the Russians appear to be quite different in the eyes of the Africans The soldiers and civilian experts from Fidel Castros Marxist revolutionary society are not seen as aggressors and imperialists but as fellow Third World leaders who have liberated themselves from colonialism When Cuban team of doctors social workers or house builders goes to work the inference is that art African nation not unlike Cuba in racial mixture can only benefit from what Cubans have taught themselves during the now 20yearold revolutionary era Finally the sudden and totally effective French and Belgian paratroop intervention after the Shaba massacres last spring was done more to protect good oldfashioned copper mine one suspects than the remain ing whites facing butchery The cynical Russians and revolutionary Cubans who are frying their own ideological fish in Africa were quick to see the Shaba af fair this way Africa as in the Nineteenth Century and the height of oldfashioned colonial empires remains the pawn of outside nations Their purposes are just as selfish as those of long forgotten European monarchs and their military and economic missions to the Africans Interpreting the news Did Soviets affect deal LONDON CP Britain has negotiated the framework of huge trade deal with China amid questions on whether the deal might have been larger had not the spectre of Soviet displeasure hovered in the background The deal would increase trade between the two countries to $12 billion by 1985 about 40 times the current annual total Under terms of the agreement which still requires formal approval by the Chinese government Britain will sell sophisticated commercial products and technolo to modernize the Chinese economy suc as railway equipment irrigation systems ships and farm implements The Chinese however want more than tractors and railway cars They want missiles and Hawker Harrier jump jets and these they did not getat least not yet Prime Minister James Callaghan told the disappointed delegation from Peking that North Atlantic Treaty Organization NATO alllies would have to be consulted on such sa PRESERVE RELATIONS One element in the British reticence ap pears to be desire not to im ir relations with the Soviet Union which his sought to prevent arms sales to China However sources here say it seems likely thatbecause of the magnitude of the over all dealthere is an implied undertaking to provide at least the military aircraft the Chinese are seeking Soviet concern has been voiced here by en voyGeorgi Arbatov who has been quoted as saying that if China becomes military ally of the West the whole situation would look different to us If such an axis is built on an antiSoviet base then there is no place for detente