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Oillaid AAnII 94 112 Barrie fixamitwr Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited 16 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario Robb PublisherGeneral Manager Walls Editor Emeritus DIM Hensbaw Managing Editor 4The Barrie Examiner Thursday October 1976 Council made decisions thats What its for City council to its credit is going to have traffic lights intalled at Codrington and Mulcaster For years the intersection has been the worst in the city and now prompted by group of parents of children who attend St Marys school council is doing something about the intersection It was tough decision and there have been thousands of words writ ten and spoken about the situation But hopefully another civic pro blem is out of the way Who says city council cannot the rails Council Dec down sponsorin grant an Everyone including aminer has had his say If things do not work this year then its back to Saturday make decision The Santa Claus parade is back on had decided to give the Jaycees their $2000 the parade will go on We hope the controversy dies The Ex But council was wise enough to give it chance DOWN MEMORY LANE 60 YEARS AGO IN TOWN Barrie Examiner Oct 13 1916 Constables Lambie and Sweeney requested more pay because of in creased living costs Robert Simpson Barries first mayor presented by Mrs Phee Arrangements made to house entire 177th Battalion at balmersundertakers chbishop Photo of Mc Barrie Armoury for winter Extra accommodation at town hall as recruiting increases strength Weeks casualties overseas Tom McMillan of Mary Sgt Frank Knight Street Lt Kenyon Lount of Maple Avenue In recent provincial exams Ald Min nikin took high honors for em Ltd terminal overseas bought Samuel Lount property on Maple Avenue now Gray Coach Ar McNeil of Toronto of ficiated at Rite of Confirmation for 40 candidates St Marys Church assisted by Mayor John Craig called meeting up banquet for members of 157th Battalion before their departure Rev Dean OMalley of Barrie of committee to set William Ada mson who purchased all other property through to Bayfield Street Two Minesing men Pte Ronald Orchard and Pte William Young wounded in France The waiting is What kills Isaacs says of Death Row By MIKE SILVERMAN ATLANTA ltAPThe wait ing is what kills man said Carl Isaacs who may be one of the first to die if capital punish ment resumes in the United States Isaacs and 30 other men wait on Death Row in Georgiaone of three states whose death penalty laws were ifically upheld in landmar US Su preme Court ruling July Death Rows in the two other states Florida and Texas house an additional 116 men and one woman Hundreds more are under sentence of death in states whose laws are being tested in lower courts to see whether they meet the high court standards The question uppermost in the minds of many of them was asked by Charles Proffitt con demned in Florida Whos go ing to be the first to go Prison officials dont know who or when but those ex pecting executions soon are gearing up Authorities in Texas sent crew of elec tricians to check the electric chair at the state prison in Hun tsville after years of disuse EXECUTION SOUGHT In Florida state prison Supt Bobby Leverette said he was looking for parttime execu tioner the man who pushes button and pulls lever to gen erate power in the electric chair The former Officeholder wore black hood and earned $100 per executionthe last two were carried out in 1964 Justice Lewis Powell who sided with the Supreme Court to2 majority in reimposing capital punishment issued temporary stay of that ruling July 22 saying the prisoners were entitled to have he full Elie IBarrir Examiiirr 16 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario Telephone 7266537 Registration Number 0484 Second Class Mail Return tage guaranteed Dai 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 iy National Advertising Offices 65 Queen St West Toronto M1710 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 Renter and also the local news published therein The Barrie Examiner claims Copyright in all original adver tising and editorial material treated by its employees and reproduced in this newspaper Co yright Registration Num r203815register61 lvlv court decide whether to recon sider its ruling While they wait for the court to reconvene some prisoners are resigned some still hopeful try real hard to get it out of my mind and sometimes can said Mark Morton Moore 24 who waits on Death Row in Texas He was convicted of rap ing and killing woman If thought about it all the time It would run me crazy STOPPED IN 1967 It has been nine years since the death penalty was carried out in the US Between 1930 when reliable records first were kept and 1967 3859 per sons were executed The Supreme Court ruled in 1972 that existing deathpenalty laws gave too much discretion to judges and juries to be equally applied Most states then wrote new laws and the courts July rul ing specifically upheld three that allow judges and juries to consider mitigating factors be fore imposing sentence The court struck down statutes in North Carolina and Louisiana that made the penalty man datory for certain crimes Georgias Isaacs said Id rather go ahead if theyre going to burn me This cell gets smaller by the day Isaacs 22 is one of three men sentenced to die for the 1973 slaying of six members of family at their farm In an in terview he discussed his feel ings about dying and how he re acted to the news of the Su preme Court decision COMPLAINS OF DELAY know that the crimel was convicted of is heinous crime he said Im paying my debt to society by sitting in that chairSociety and the jury said nothing about making me suffer before sat in that chair They didnt say take all his stuff and make him sit up there with nothing and make humbug out of his mind before you burn him Isaacs said he has feeling Im goingto be the firstthey fry in this place but added Im not saying Im just going to walk up there and sit down Im going to fight like tiger all the veziiy Aint no way they can ate me enough to sit down in that chair on my own Rat rate high in India BOMBAY CP1For the residents of the south Indian village of Shivalli it was full blown emergency The rats had returned The village had been almost ratfree after twoyear eradi cation campaign to the great relief of the farmers who had lost nearly onetenth of their crops to the rodents every year At meeting organized by the village elders campaign was launched to wipe out the in truders within six months All over India the war against rats has been stepped up by lo cal government officials Offi cials estimates place the coun trys rat population at around six billion six rats to every hu man being Some estimates ut their number as high as il lion Every year they destroy be tween 20 and 25 million tons of grain of total production of about 115 million tons If the menace were controlled says The Times of India the country would not need to import YOUR BUSINESS Scarcity ahead in sand gravel By VINCENT EGAN Business and Consumer Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service Heres another item to add to the list of raw materials that could become scarce Aggre gates or sand gravel and crushed stone Often overlooked aggregates are major element in Can adas mining industry In dollar terms value of production of aggregates is exceeded only by nickel copper and zinc But industr peo le fear that sprawling ur an evelopment and increasing pressure from environmentalists will reduce su plies to the vanishing pomt Fsolated pockets of aggregates were created throughout Canada as result of the melting of glaciers near the end of the ice age As the glaciers receded they pushed before them enormous quantities bf soil sand and gravelthe modernday Sites of quarries that supply raw materials to the construction industry In some cases however other users got to the land con taining the aggregates first before the quarrymen For example says the Aggre gate Producers Association of Ontario the airport at Sudbury Ont and the University of Guelph both sit atop deposits of aggregates that could have been removed before the land was put to presentday use According to the Ontario associations estimates known and useable deposits in the province will be exhausted by the end of this century OTHER SOURCES What then Nobody knows for sure No doubt some new deposits will be discoveredbut unless they are within 50 miles of the point at which the aggregates will be put to use they arent economically feasible One drastic means of keeping up the supply of raw materials is to demolish existing struc tures and recycle the aggregate material Thats happening more and more in Europe where the shortage of aggre gates is becoming critical Alternative materials are being tested but with scant FROM PARLIAMENT HILL OW fourday conference for Canadas postal users Hy STEWART MacLIIOI Ottawa Bureau Thomson News Service Today Ill let others talk about the new session of Parlia ment and the future of Ion federation am so excited about the salesmanship of our post office department that simply cant concentrate on anythingelsc About month agol mounted strong defence against our muchmaligned post office paying particular tribute to those senior officials who an THE WORLD TODAY The story behind Cubanas DCBs By JOIIN IIARBRON Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service Aviacion Cubana Cuban Aviation or just plain Cubana is the name of Castro Cubas state airline and the same one which last year leased two 008 jets from Air Canada The agreement signed in late September 1975 in Ottawa was meant to beef up the Cuban airline then operating mainly with aging shorthaul Russian turboprop aircraft It also was part of Prime Minister Trudeaus close rela tions with Fidel Castro ce mented you might say in February of this year when he visited Castro and made con troversial speech That was when he shouted out enthusiastic vivas for Castro his revolution and CubanCanadian friendship These vivas have resounded among his political enemies here Many powerful Americans are already sure success so far It was he that fly ash and glass woul serve as substi tute but results have been un satisfactory and the quantity in any case below requiremen ts Another drawback is that glass itself is composed mostly of nonrenewable materials and its production is threatened by the potential shortage of silica sand The solution seems to be to make intensive use of known depositssince growing population cannot simply prac tical selfdenial where con struction is concerned But if that solution is to work there would have to be some selfrestraint on the part of people who find the operation of quarries and pits to be objectio nable Such position has already forced closing or down grading of many aggre ate minin operations throughout Cana RECYCLED LAND The only way to extract sand gravel and stone from the ground is to dig it up in fully Canada is in the hands ol white collar Castro But back to the IC8s and we find they are already gone both destroyed in air accidents The first one was written off last March 18 after midair acci dent over Havana International Airport with an approaching Soviet jet transport Two Air Canada senior pilots were on board training Cuban crew five of whom were killed in the accident even though the Air Canada team com plimented the Cuban pilot for coolness and the small loss of life DESTROYEI HY BOMB The second one was lost last week in what was probably sabotage when the other DC8 went down five miles off Bar bados after her captain said there had been an explosion on board Miamibased Cuban exile terrorist outfit called Condor said it placed the bomb on board In the meantime Trini mechamzed operation The aggregate industry cant do much about that What it can do is to plant more trees and use more landscaping so as to diminish what environmen talists call visual pollution The industry is required in most jurisdictions to restore used quarry sites to other uses rather than abandoning them and moving on Of such restorations the most notable is the famous Royal Botanical Gardens in Hamilton Other quarry sites have been converted to trout ponds golf courses and the like Thats the only way to make quarry thing of beauty Its impossible during the period of active exploitation Yet the aggregate industry cant pick itse up and move to areas as remote as those used by the basemetals mines for example Transportation already represents more than half the cost of the aggregates bought by the construction industry nounccd postalrate increases with the enthusiasm of an automobile dealer unveiling an exciting new model Remem ber how they called that press conference with twofoothigh model of the new Iiicent stamp and stared at it with the pride of firsttime parents And remember how John Mackay deputy postmaster general looked at the picture of the Queen on the stamp and said that if you look at it enough you tend to appreciate it and become empathetic At that time also paid trib ute to the post office for being the first department to imple ment the governments public relations program on spending dad police have arrested two Cubans allegedly involved in the sabotage As result Cubana will have to return to its aging and in efficient Soviet Illil turboprops to operate an extensive Carib bean service This extends all the way from Georgetown Guyana via Port ofSpain Trinidad Bridgetown Barbados and Kingston Jamaica to Havana The future of the newlycom menced Cubana MontrealHu vana route also is in jeopardy since it was using one of the DCHs with plans for Cubanas service to be enhanced by an additional one from Air Canada This has not yet begun and may not be Cubanas solo in tercontinental passenger jet is giant Russian 62 But it is mainly used by Castro for his personal junkets to Third World conferences the USSR and the Soviet bloc Meantime here in Canada several Conservative members of Parliament have gone off the deep end demanding from Prime Minister Trudeau the de tails of the air agreement and charging the leasing of the DC Bs released Cuban aircraft for the big Cuban troop airlift to Angola last winter Well here are the main do tails of that agreement It was called dry lease meaning Cubana had to supply crews for aircraft training In addition the two DCBs bought by Air Canada in the early 19605 for about $6 million each had been written down to their residual value before leas ing to the Cubans They had to buy insurance policies on them however with Air Canada still owning the pol icies and receiving pa ment for any damages Term the lease was to be two vears As for the Angola airlift charge Cuban troops were sent to Angola either by Soviet ship ping or in giant Antonov 22 in tercontinental military jets which have been on regular run between Lima Havana and Moscow for some years Cubanas Russian shorthaul aircraft can hardly make their way around Cubanas Carib bean service never mind to far offAngola Those Tory MPs and OttaWzi columnist Richard Jackson who gave them publicity should do their homework on Cubana Airline restraints This occurred after IF Osbandeston secretary of Treasury Board asked deputy ministers to do better job of explaining just how serious the government is about saving moncv He suggested that whenever new program is an nounced there should be ref erence to more expensive al ternative that was scrapped in the name of austerity And the post office obliged when it announced the new $1 charge for redirecting mail to changed address Officials said $2 too had been considered but this plan had been scrapped to save us money thoughtful gesture NOTIMIILSIVII just mention this back ground to indicate that todays outburst of admiration for the post office is not mere im pulse have felt it for more than month But the other day when senior government official slip ped me letter written by Mr Mackay about Canadian Postal Users Conference in Toronto just couldnt stop talking about those wonderful people who move our mail They seem to think of every thing Imagine fourday confer ence for postal users If this catches on we could have con ventions of unemployment in surance users car users chair users and washroom users And we can thank our friendly post office Mr Mackays letter indicates that this is no bushlea con vention either 28 iffercnt clinics workshops and panel sessions have been carefully planned to present you with the facts about postal service im provements how to improve your mailing results and to an swer your questions That should do it am not going to be nasty enough to comment on the gov ernments spending guidelines which say that whenever pos sible conventions should be held in federal buildings There is probably darned good rea son why the post office is hold ing this meeting in Torontos Sheraton Centre hotel As Mr Mackay explains the gathering it is to continue the open and constructive dialogue between our customers and the post office And you will never guess what the post office is offering the convention goers Yes folks if you go to this con vention you will be treated to tour of the Gateway Postal Facility in Mississauga At the new plant youll see why your mail must be prepared to standards if it is to receive the fastest processing READER FORUM Surely other issues rate higher than this parade Dear Sir Ive been following with in terest the articles on whether the Jaycees should or shouldnt be having Santa Claus parade this year on Sunday At the risk of being repetitious would like to state my opinion The Jaycees are trying to have parade for the en joyment of the Barrie people especially the children see no harm whatsoever in conducting parade on Sun day as more people will be able to enjoy it as many dontwork Sundays and it is late enough that it does not interfere with QUEENS PARK Waisberg report should be helpful By DON OHEARN Queens Park Bureau Thomson News Service TORONTO The Waisberg report on the Laurentide Hospi tal in Sudbury should end with valuable influence whic will extend far beyond the Sud bury affair One certain area in which it will mean improvement will be in hospital financing Judge Waisberg of course was quite critical of the govern ment for not having had much stronger financing controls and Health Minister Frank Miller indicated this would be looked into immediately There is an old story here for construction of new hospitals has long tended to be pretty loose affair remember back in the late 1950s when Dr Mackinnon Phillips was health minister he complained that there should be much more standardization and control At the time he cited new hos pitals of pretty well the same standard which had been built in Kitchener Ont and the Sud bury area One had cost $17000 bed and the other only $8000 The situation certainly is much better since then but as Judge Waisberg made clear there still is lot of room for improvement LOCAL CONTROL Another area which may get CANADAS STORY Mackenzie King holds the record By BOB BOWMAN William Lyon Mackenzie King was prime minister of Canada for more than 21 years record for the entire British Commonwealth However it was not 21 years of continuous service because he was out of office for three months in 1926 and five years between 1930 and 1935 Arthur Meighen was the prime minister who served three months in 1926 and Bennett was prime minister from 1980 to 1935 Sir Wilfrid Laurier holds the record for continuous service 15 years between 1896 and 1911 Sir John Macdonald was prime minister for 19 years but they were interrupted by Alex ander Mackenzie from 1873 to 1878 Mackenzie King became leader of the Liberal party when Laurier died in 1919 and represented constituency in Prince Edward Island until he won his first general election in 1921 when he ran in Toronto North York He was successful again in 1925 although he needed the support of the Pro gressives to control the House of Commons There was an other general election in 1926 following the Meighen interlude and King became prime minis ter again He suffered his only serious defeat in 1930 when Ben nett led the Conservatives to victory This was probably for tunate for King because the next five years were night mare of economic depression On Oct 14 1935 King began THE PICK Makes me feel church or Sunday school at tendance Personally do not feel that Will turn into heathen by taking my irls to see Santa Claus para on Sunday What about other religions who do not call Sunday their day of rest really think the ministers of Barrie could find other issues much more important to be concerned about the Whats wrong in letting public know their good deeds Why keep them secret Sincerely Mrs Betty Hubbert close look is that of givingso much control to local groups And this probably wont be or at least shouldnt be confined to hospitals It has been our custom in On tario to have Iocallyappointed people running institutions and pro rams in great many fiel shospitals childrens aid societies community colleges the list is long one Historically as pattern this wasjustified For originally these were all locally inspired and supported projects hospital for example was built through local fundrais ing campaign and its annual op erating deficits covered with 10 cal funds And there was great deal of volunteer work involved often including the administrative di rection But today the picture has al most completely changed Hospitals of course are al most entirely financed with provincial funds And even libraries and art galleries and like projects are substantially governmentfunded If only for the reason that 10 cal people are going to be more free in spending government money than they are in spend ing money they have to raise themselves there is less reason for the old patternA local in put yes we dont want statism But dominance no what might be called his last lap as prime minister when he was returned to office following general election His lead ership of the nation was contin uous from that day until he re tired Nov 151948 OTHER OCT 14 EVENTS 1652Iroquois were defeated near Montreal l747Admiral Hawke de feated French fleet bound for Canada 1844J ohn Macdonald was elected to Parliament as mem ber for Kingston Ont 1866Fire at Quebec de stroyed 2129 homes 1952L Pearson was elec ted president of United Nations Assembly 1957Queen Elizabeth was first reigning monarch to open Parliament of Canada 1966Mayor Drapeau opened Montreal subway Bl THOUGHT Wisdom is the principal thing therefore get wisdom and with all thy getting get understanding Proverbs 47 If we go to man for the final word in anything we cut ourselves off from the real source of wisdom There is knowing that defies human knowledge and it comes only from Him who knows every thing The Lord wisdom hathfoundedtheear OF PUNCH so damn overmanned on the transAtlantic run