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WoA pA Lillie Barrie Examiner Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited 16 Boyfield Street Barrie Ontario Robb PublisherGeneral Manager Walls Editor Emeritus Henshaw Managing Editor 4The Barrie Examiner Monday Oct 1976 Today garbage pickup tomorrow the ballot There are secondclass citizens in Barrie And Dorian Parker wants em out These scalawags have committed the unpardonable sin as far as Bar ries mayor is concerned They havent bought single family dwellings Dorian has come up with subtle method of getting rid of these people She is going to drown them in their own garbage No municipal garbage collection for these folk says Dorian Never mind that these people pay taxes just the same as the rest of us who have our garbage collected Until Dorian decides she doesnt like our houses Never mind that these people pay to have their garbage removed twice once in taxes to the city and again for private garbage con tractor Mayor Parker opposed city planning board recommendation which would have extended twice weekly garbage collection to the townhouse can see it leading to all sorts of things she said vote Like snowplowing Or getting to Dorian is out on limb on this one limb some people would like to see sawn off The townhouse units just didnt happen They were approved by the city and the province The city charter does not say taxpayers are equal except for tax all payers in townhouses vices The city townhouse dwellers are to pay all taxes other residents return are not to get the same ser doesnt say that pay but in Its silly stand Dorian You may think townhouses are slums and disgraces But garbage is garbage be it from townhouse or $65000 house And if people pay taxes the should get their garbage remove Twice week Whether they live in townhouse apartments singlefamily dwellings or the ivory towers Mayor Parker seems to live in DOWN MEMORY LANE Later there was street dancing 30 YEARS AGO IN TOWN Barrie Examiner Oct 1946 Mayor Peter Sinclair still very much alive and residing in his home town and Reeve George Clark won consolation prize in logsawing con test at first annual Farmers Day sponsored by Barrie Chamber of Thousands of rural Commerce Hall downtown with music by Stroud Mountaineers and Mount Albert Hillbillies attracted largest oneday crowd in 94year history at Mitchell Square Meeting of musicians at Legion planned to reorganize Barrie Citizens Band depleted by second Oro Worlds Fair folk were attracted to town for this World War enlistments Lloyd event in which township friends Tufford resumed posrtion as were entertained Sixteen pairs organist and chorrmaster at Collier competed in horseshoe pitching con Street United Church after servrng test won by Ellsworth Crawford of Minesing and Oscar Rowe of Sun nidale Fans jammed Queens Park in early evening after picnicking for softball game between town and county allstars Home runs by cat cher Jack Dyte and outfielder Fred overseas dy Norris helped locals win 62 IN iIERPRETIN THE NEWS British pounds drop in value surprise to many bankers By JOHN HAY LONDON CP Some Brit ish bankers have expressed sur prise by the extent of the latest drop in the British pound Tak ing all of Britains problems in to consideration they still be lieve the currency is under valued In sense the British pound has been underwritten by bor rowed funds The heavy deficits in British foreign trade have tended to drain the countrys of ficial reserves Now Britain must again go to the Inter national Monetary Fund IMF for another line of credit How are these huge loans ever to be repaid Belttightening appears the only answer But Britains mili tant unions are beginning to rebel against current restraints and there is limit to what Labor government can demand Still some bankers say they are baffled by the extent of the pounds drop which occurred in thin currency exchange market and with the Bank of England standing on the sidelines refusing to buy up 119 Barrie Examiner 16 Bayfield Street Barrie 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slightly clos ing at $163 Thursday The par tial recovery was attributed to the government announcement that it will seek loan of $39 billion from the IMF One banking authority said the partial recovery also showed that some currency tra ders realized they had gone too far in driving the ound down However some ealers sug gested earlier that unless there is major turnaround on the trade frontshowing trade sur pluses instead of deficitsthe pound may start drapping again The Labor government be lieves that with current re straints on wage demands the British economy is geared to with Royal Canadian Medical Corps Teen Town dance at Barrie Arena drew 1500 junior citizens Ken Robinson towns new recreation director and former Canadian middleweight boxing champion was MC meet major competition in world markets The sharp drop in the pound over the last 18 months helped increase that competitiveness since it re duced the price of British ex ports in relation to foreign cur rencies But it also increased the cost of vital British imports in cluding oil from the Middle East The British oil bill will jump sharply this year al though some oil is starting to be delivered from North Sea dis coveries INFLATION REDUCED Britain has experienced heavy inflation over the last two years but the current an nual rate of some 13 per cent is about onehalf of what it was year ago social welfare spend ing is being reduced Canadian residents drafted in Yugoslavia SARNIA Ont CPlThree Sarnia men who had returned to their Yugoslavian homeland to attend their mothers funeral had to slip across the border illegally to leave the country fourth brother stayed be hind Momir and Vojko Suvajac who hold dual Yugoslav and Ca nadian citizenship and their brothers Luka and Rade both landed Canadian immigrants left Sarnia Aug 12 to attend the funeral in the Yugoslav town of Banja Luka Momir 30 and Vojko 29 held Canadian passports Rade 23 and Luka 20 still carried Yugoslav papers On arrival all four were told they would have to do their compulsory military service and their passports were con fiscated While Vojko elected to stay behind the other three brothers travelled the 300 miles from Banja Luka to the Austrian bor der in 28 hours by bus train and foot They hiked through moun tains fordin streams and finally siippe across the bor der elduing army guards JAILED BY AUSTRIANS When they reached Austria Aug 29 the paperwork began The Canadian Embassy in Vienna quickly replaced Mo mirs Canadian passport and he was able to fly home three days later For Luka and Rade not yet Canadian citizens there were complications Embassy offi cials had to obtain information form Ottawa to establish their identity with Austrian author ities and they spent five days in jail over the Labor Day week end while the matter was being cleared up Eventually they received Austrian alien assports and were allowed to back to To ronto where they arrived Sept 10 When they called home the telephone was answered by Vojko the fourth brother He had been relegsod by the Yugo slavs after signing paper promising to return in two years to do his army service and had arrived in Sarnia week earlier Rade who had been 18 when he emigrated from Yugoslavia said he had returned twice pre viously without runnin into any difficulty They tod me the rules changed in 1974 he explained The brothers said they have no plans to return to Yugoslavia unless the rules are changed again Next time we want to see President Tito well invite him over here said Vojko So whats the good word FROM PARLIAMENT HILL Crowes free trip no bargain Hy STEWART MaclEOI Ottawa Bureau Thomson News Service had no overwhelming desire to continue nattering on about Marshall Crowes fourday fish ing tri to the Arctic but these littlet ingskee croppingupto kcepthcissuca ivc For instance have been busy reading what the prime minister had to say about po tential conflicts of interest three years ao and Mr rowes travc certainly werent suggested by Mr Trudeau And we now have representative of the Com mittee for an independent Canada saying that Mr Crowe refused to meet with that organization despite his claims tothe contrary Obviously the whole affair can easily be blown out of pro portions but it is fascinating to see how highlyplaced in dividual can become snarled in such an embarrassing situation just by accepting an invitation and making an odd careless comment What Mr Crowe did of cour was to have accepted an in vitation from Panaractic Oils Ltd to fly into the Arctic and spend five lays fishing for Arc tic char as guest of the com pany We would all love such an in vitation OPINIONSIMPORTANT But Mr Crowe happens to be chairman of the National Energy Board and Panarctic happens to be planning to ask the government for permission to build $5 billion northern pipeline Mr rowes opinions would be important when de cision is made There seems to be clear conccnsus that the National Energy Board chairman dis played baii iiidizmciil in accent By BOB BOWMAN if Canadians were asked what is the stormiest month of the year one of the winter mon ths would probably get the most votes However study of this coiumns Other Events on this Date indicates that the worst storms have taken place in Oc tobcr For instance there have been three storm disasters on Octo ber in 1851 Prince Edward Island suffered great damage In 1866 the SS Victoria sank in hurricane She was the ship that carried the Canadian dele gates to the Charlottetown Con ference in 1864 Then on October 1922 the ilaileybury area of Northern Ontario was swept by hurri cane that also caused forest fire More than 40 people are known to have been killed The Miramichi NB fire on October 1825 was one of the worst in Canadian history tornado and fire at Rainy River Ontario killed 42 people on October 1910 On October 13 1962 there was storm along the Pacific coast that killed 46 peo le in British Columbia and nor hwest United States Hurricane Hazel killed 82 people and caused $24 million damage in the Toronto area on October 15 1954 Part of Canada was shaken by an earthquake on October 20 1870 Another famous storm took place on October 1869 It struck the Bay of Fundy area of New Brunswick and became known in history as the Saxby ing hospitality from company he regulates its interesting to note what Mr Trudeau had to say on this general subject when he in iroduccd conflict0finterest guidelines for public servants in l973 We believe that there is an obligation to act in manner so scrupulous that it will bear the closest public scrutiny Public servants therefore must not place themselves in position where they are under obligation to any person who might benefit from special con sideration or favor on their part or seek in any way to gain special treatment from them Mr Crowe is not technically public servant but the prime minister made this reference to members of judicial and regu latory agencies The nature of the duties per formed by these officials with few exceptions set this group apart from the rest of the public service and require that more stringent rules apply to them in dealing with their personal af fairs if were the chairman of regulatory agency and read that statement think would be inclined to forget the fishing trip dont think anyone seriously believes that Mr Crowe could be influenced by mere fishing trip but bet it doesnt sit very well with those people opposing Panarctics proposed pipeline MEETS OTHERS Mr Crowe maintains he has social contacts with all sorts of interests Why he told one newspaper he had social lun ches with such organizations as the Committee for an Inde pendent Canada and the Wild life Federation Both are op posed to the Mackenzie Valley pipeline proposals But by saying this Mr mee appears to have simply en larged his embarrassment The statement brought quick re sponse from Robert Page chairman of the ClCs task for ce on pipelines Not only had the ClC repre sentatives never had lunch with Mr Crowe he said but they couldnt even get to see him to discuss procedural difficulties over board hearing So now we have situation in which the chairman of the Na tional Energy Board has spent four days fishing with officials YOUR BUSINESS Bureaucracy to blame for high land prices By VINCENT EGAN Business and onsurncr Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service They are going to do yet an ANADAS STORY Worst storms hit in October Gale More than 120 ships were sunk or driven ashore and far ms wcre flooded it is not known how many people and animals were killed The storm was called the Saxby Gale because it was re dicted by Lieutenant SM ax by of the Royal Navy Ten mon ths before it happened he wrote an article for London newspaper pointing out that the sun and the moon would be pulling in the same direction October and something dras lie was bound to hap Unfortunatley no paid any attention to the warning OTHER OCT EVENTS I764Ordinance regulated foreign currency lawChurch union as plan ned at meeting at Pictou NS l909Cornerstone was laid at legislative building Regina 19llNew customs agrree ment with US went into effect 1920RCAF began first flight across Canada 1950Pipeline ened bet ween Edmonton an Regina l954Colombo Plan delegates from 17 nations met in Ottawa fiiiiiil THOUGHT Do this now my son and deliver thyself when thou art come into the hand of thy friend go humble thyself and make sure thy friend Proverbs This is the first thing we ought to do and yet the last thing we want to do For this reason we drift from God and each other other study of the high cost of housing The federal and provincial housing ministers have agreed to launch sixmonth in vestigation of the cast of ser viced land all across Canada its another windfall for con sultants lawyers and other pro fessionals Another bonanza for trans lators paper salesmen and printers And another report to rest on the crowded shelves of the vari ous housing ministries If studies built houses Can ada would have the best hous ing in the world Surely the armies of bureau crats in the federal and provin cial housing departments al ready have more than an ink ling of the reasons for the high cost of serviced land Chief among those reasons is the bureaucratic process itself Under existing law its illegal to create single building lot without full set of planning provals both provincial an municipal Its estimated that about 100 such approvals are required for the typical housing project and that would take developer three ears to obtain them In United States in con trast single approval from the local municipality is all that is normally required IDLE CAPITAL Three years interest on de veiopers investment in idle highpriced land is lot of moneyand it accounts for substantial part of the final price of the developed property Thats no secret even to the federal government that has been putting unprecedented pressure on Canadas supply of ousing by encouraging arge scale immigration to Canada from less develo countries with surplus opu ation Granted public interest must be protected and proper housing standards maintained Nobody wants instant slums 0n the other hand too many municipalities not only cause interminable delays but also set standards of construction space etc that are so high as of company which wants pipeline while officials of an organization opposing the pipeline claim he wont even ta tothem It would be interesting to know whether Mr Trudeau feels this will bear the closest public scrutiny If not those could be expensive Arctic char QUEENS PARK Davis approach is nothing neW By DON OHEARN Queens Park Bureau Thomson News Service TORONTO Is there new Bill Davis lot of the Toronto press seems to think so They held roast dinner for the Ontario premier in his Brampton riding And the next day some of the local papers were full of gee whiz There had been new Bill Davis at this meeting they said He had taken the gloves off and made real gutsy polit ical speech He had named names and swung free had let go from the hip and actually appeared mad SAME GUY Golly golly gollyand non sense What these reporters and his audience saw was Bill Davis that has been seen many times before When you take the wraps off the premier have him speak strictly from the lip without text and put him before an ar dent political audience he can let go with the best of them The trouble is that the poo ie dont see him very often is way Even in election campaigns he almost always gets tied down with text and like most other speakers he just isnt the same with text as he is when he is wingingit GET NDP Where there has been some change in the premier how ever is that he has switched his attack bit and now it appears will be concentrating more on the New Democratic Party In the past his political strategy has been to largely ig nore the NDP and to focus on the Liberals using derision as his main tool In his roast speech he blasted Opposition Leader Stephen Lewis though saying as he always did that person ally he likes him and his party He talked about socialism and particularly accused the NDP leader of having no value for the profit system This presumably will be the Progressive Conservative par ty line through the next elec tion How well it will work remains to be seen The NDP is pretty careful these days about proposing spe cific socialist steps From time to time it mentions nation alizing some industry or other but there is the feeling this is mainly to keep its extremists happy As for the profit motive the government may not be able to make much headway with this The ordinary voter probably doesnt care much about it THE WORLD TODAY Brazil scores trade coup By JOHN HARBRON Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service Has Brazil beaten Canada to the punch in working out ma jor trade package with Japan for the next decade Within two weeks of the prime ministers announced visit to Japan for hardbargain ing not protocol we are told the Brazilians have pulled off the kind of coup which Canada now will not duplicate Why the competition from Birdsong time cut by antinoise bylaw LAKEFIELD Ont CP The author of an antinoise by law which limits the length of time birds can sing says he has been receiving phone calls from reporters across Canada won dering if the law really men tions birds its getting worse Earl Cuddie village clerktreasurer said Thursday two days after council approved the bylaw The antinoise bylaw prohibits birds from singing for more than 30 minutes from 10 pm to am and for more than 15 minutes from am to to rule out housing Its hardly likely that the lat est study just announced by federal Urban Affairs Minister Barnett Danson will move mu nicipal politicians to correct the longstanding problems of bu reaucratic delay and unrealistic building codes Land developers too are sometimes at fault Saskatche wans housing minister Gordon McMurchy contends that develo rs often have govern menta approval for lands that they leave undeveloped TAX LOOPIIOLES The federal government cant seem to make up its mind about whether its proper for anyone to make money out of housin Until 1972 Canadians in er occupations could invest in ren tal accommodation and apply any depreciation losses against their other income Then Ottawa decided that this was loophole and closed it The result sharp drop in funds available for apartment construction Later it reopened the so called loophole temporaril for apartments commence be tween Novqmber 1974 and the end of 1977 That hasnt stimulated apart ment construction however Investor confidence parently cant be turned on an off like ta Also in 1974 the federal g0v ernment initiated the concept of the mortgage investment corporation as device to channel private individuals savings into residential mor tga es concept is sound but it hasnt attracted much res rise from savers grown wary gov ernment schemes Now Mr Danson would allow tax deductions for mortgage in terest payments above cer tainlevei somewhat similar plan has been in effect for several years in the United Kingdomwhere it has so stimulated the demand for housing but not the supply that house prices on average have trebled since 1966 that or dinary families can afford 10 pm It also prohibits humans from yelling whistling and singing as well as parades and street gatherings Reporters have been phon ing me and asking if the bylaw really spelled out birds Mr Cuddle said Ive got to come to my defence and tell them there has to be common sense applied Mr Cuddle said he hopes to draft new bylaw as quickly as possible The bylaw was requested by residents who complained to council about noise loitering and littering in the community Antiloitering and antilittering bylaws also were approved These stamps now valuable LONDON CPif this reaches you safely the stamp will be valuable some day LtCmdr Kenneth Mackenzie Grieve wrote to his mother be fore setting off from New foundland in May 1919 to fly theAtlantic lie and Harry Hawker were attempting to win Lon don Daily Mail prize of £10000 for the first transatlantic flight But their plane was forced down about 1500 miles out to sea and the prize was won the following month by Sir John William Alcock and Lieut Whitten Brown who landed in Ireland ironically the socalled Hawkers stamps specially prepared by Dr Alex Rob ertson postmastergeneral of Newfoundland for mail carried on the earlier attem now are more valuable than Alcock Brown stamps Recently two Hawkers were sold for £3000 $5400 and £3 800 at Stanley Gibbons Inter national Ltd auction here whiie an AlcockBrown stamp brought only £500 at the same sale All were bought by deal ers ii THE PICK OF Piotr Brazil As has been said before in this column Brazil is in development phase not unlike the Canadian one with massive capital requirements for new resources development plus overseas markets for what we both produce Brazil like Canada has im mense areas devoted to iron ore pulp and paper she has sugar and coffee we have wheat and other feed grains Both have growing primary steel industries Brazil like Canada is sub continent in the Western Hemi sphere relying massiveiy on foreign technology to expand and modernize secondary in dustries established across her vast geography But the Brazilians see them selves more like Japan than Canada in effect as second Japan in South America with the hope they will be largely in dustrialized by the year 2000 In any case Brazilian Presi dent Gen Ernesto Geisel is back home in Brazil after sign ing trade aid and develop ment agreement with Japan one of the biggest of its kind ever signed by the Japanese MANY INVOLVED Japan will participate in 16 large Brazilian Growth projec ts similar to ones in Canada$14 billion in an aluminum smelter $100 million new port facility $60 million in agricultural projects and another $120 million in new iron ore mine In turn resourcesrich Brazil will guarantee resourcesshy Japan many of the raw materials she will need to keep her economy booming into the 805 including iron ore pellets cellulose and agricultural products It is huge coup for both countries and both partners are rejoicing mightily over the agreement What will be most worrisome for Canada is that Japans for eign trade policy has included the socalled ABC raw mate rial resources program the initials meaning Australia Brazil and Canada The Australians have also beaten us to the punch in Tokyo this year the Australian prime minister having been there in June to sign the same kind of agreement but with much less scope than the Brazilian coup It should be pointed out that Brazil has another advantage over Canada which we are un likely to take into con sideration This is the historic open immigration policy which Brazil has always exercised for Japanese immigrants com pared to our mainly closed one In Brazils present population of 100 million there are 800000 Japanese all mainly in in dustry or selfemployed agrarian pursuits UN CH li B3 That at least is commendable