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Eli Earth Examiner Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited 16 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario Robb PublisherGeneral Manager Walls Editor Emeritus 4The Barrie Examiner DAM Henshaw Managing Editor Erid9YQCt 29 1976 Kempenfelt Kiwanians are on the right track What does service club do Plenty if it is one of the clubs in Barrie and area Earlier this week The Examiner featured story on Morton House detention and observation centre for local juvenile offenders It is pro ject of the Kiwanis Club of Kem penfelt Bay The pur se of the home one of the first its kind in the province is to provide family atmosphere fqr young offenders in place of the traditional detention centre Judge Morton of the ju venile and family court the house is named after him says the tradi tional detention route is not only depressing but unnecessary in the majority of cases jPlacing soned offenders first offender home atmosphere is better than putting them in contact with sea Society Youngsters stay weeks while they are evaluated Then some go home others training school and still others to permanent group homes Community services such as this are most worthy of praise Any project which re laces little love and affection wit Paul and Olga Ufford are the parents They work to deaemphasize the detention aspect while providing temporary accommodation for de linquents charged with offences ranging from running away from home to shoplifting or drug offences and also for youngsters awaiting plaCement by the Childrens Aid about three go to traditional methods of dealing with juveniles is ina to be lauded Thanks to the work of the Kempenfelt Kiwanians start has been made in our home town INIERPRETING THE NEWS Few went to the party for Transkei independence By JOHN HAY LONDON iCPi Africas new state Transkei celebrated its formal independence this week but yirtually no one went tojhe party as the national flag was raised over the capital of Umtata Transkei has been ostracized by every country except South Afjica because it marks fur ther entrenchment of South Af riqan apartheid and because its real independence from white ruled South Africa is widely doubted The four million whites of Soyth Africa have decided to parcel off the countrys 18 mil ion blacks into socalled home lands of which Transkei is the first to be granted status de scribed by the South Africans assovereign and independent Canada and the rest of the United Nations have spurned the homelands policy as merely tactic to perpetuate white su premacy in South Africa FREEDOM DOUBTED And most outside govern ments doubt that tiny Trans keisurrounded on three sides by South Africawill be able to govern itself or pursue for eign policy free of South Afri can influence As part of its separation agreement with South Africa Transkei was forced to accept as citizens 13 million people of the Xhosa tribe who live and work in white South Africa many of whom have never even seen the territory called their homeland 0f the two million people who live in Transkei an area about the size of Switzerland 360000 spend most of the year working in the white republic contrib uting an estimated 70 per cent of Transkeis internal revenue With little industry and few job opportunities Transkei ap pears destined to remain what many observers consider pup pet of South Africa What has repelled most coun tries from recognizing Trans keis independence is its role in the intemationaliycondemned system of race division in South Africa LSED AS DODGE The homelands program is used South Africa to justify its re usal to grant normal rights of citizenship to blacks Blacks who live in white ruled South Africa are instead given citizenship in one of the homelands depending on their tribal background Thus the vast magority of the country is excluded rom taking part in the political or indus trial management of South Af rica Instead they are made citi zens of homelands they may never have seen and which comprise only 13 per cent of the land area of South Africa Transkeis first prime minis ter Paramount Chief Kaiser Matanzima says his country is the victim of an accident of history If Transkei had been British colony rather than swallowed up in the Union of South Africa in 1910 its independence Would have been welcomed with promises of aid and seat the UN he says As it is Transkei has been left to rely on South Africa for itslivelihood asitalways has Britain develops technique for mine radiation safety LONDON CPI Britains Health and Safety Executive has developed simple tech niques to protect miners in Britain from radiation risks These same techniques are ap plicable to mines of any kind anywhere in the World The hazard comes from ra dion radioactive gas formed naturally and continually from the radioactive element radium in the earths crust Inhaled radon itself can be health risk and so can the products of its decay Radon soon breaks down into radio active solidspolonium bis muth and lead These are po tentially more harmful than ra don because dust containing them can be caught in mucus in the nose and throat and so cause continued exposure to ra dioactivity Eor many years doctors in several parts of the world have been accumulating evidence to support the idea that there is link between working under ydund for long periods in ill ventilated mines and higher thannormal risk of death from lung cancer Indeed the link between such working condi THE PICK OF PUNCH tions and high incidence of chest disease was first noted in central Europe in 1546 However the connection with lung cancer was not discovered until 1913 and it was only after the Second World War that British scientists identified radon as the cause In fact surveys showed that radon posed little threat to health in British coal mines be cause they were sufficiently well ventilated to eliminate harmful concentrations of the gas and its daughtersas the radioactive products of radon are known But some mines had levels that were just potentially harmful and priority program was carried out to improve ventilation in these Meanwhile the risk to health can be eliminated by altering working patterns so that the time spent by any miner in an area with abnormally high lev els of radion is strictly limited The report also defines safe and unsafe levels of exposure SITUATION VARIES In fact the risk of contracting lung cancer due to radon in Britain even in the mostaf Its got good reputationa high percentage of the pupils go on to get jobs fected mines was never more than the equivalent of smoking one or two cigarettes day But in some other parts of the world the situationis different Recent surveys have found extremely high levels in New foundland iron mines and in North American uranium mines and strong measures are being taken in Canada and the United States to reduce the risks to miners And there un doubtedly are many mines in other parts of the world where the levelsand risksare as high or higher but have not been measured The work done by Britains National Radiological Protec tion Board which organized the surveys made the recommen dations and prepared the report for the Health and Safety Exec utive will be extremely valu able to mining communities Such communities need to know the danger levels of radon and its daughter products in the mines how these levels can be simply quickly cheaply and reliably measured how they can be reduced to safe propor tions by ventilation and what degree of ventilation is required All these questions are an swered in the report and more details are available from the National Radiological Protec tion Board as are the methods used to sample radon lead bis muth and polonium The differ ent ventilation techniques also are described with their respec tive advantages Finally the report explains holv by altering working pat terns cumulative exposure times can be atly reduced without much oss in working efficiency BIBLE THOUGHT Then asked they hlrn what man Is that which said unto thee take up thy bed and walk John512 Some people are ood for religious argument Jesus was above the tree tops and giving the last call for Heaven Never mind about who is doing what if they are doing anything for Jesus bid them Gods speed and try to catch them QUEENS PARK Audition BOARD Critical issue for Ontario is the Petrosar situation By DON OHEARN Queens Park Bureau Thomson News Service TORONTO Though it hasnt been getting much atten tion one of the very critical is sues facing Ontario is the Pet rosar situation in Sarnia Briefly Petrosar is building $500 million plus petro chemical plant The feed stock for the would be Alberta oil When the plant was started few years ago it had assurance plant By VINCENT EGAN Business and onsumcr Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service When the cartel of oilproduc ing countries succeeded in quin tupling the world price of crude oil three years ago they gave other overnments similar ideas ut the prices of their natural resources One of the many govern ments that developed exaggerated ideas about what the market could bear was Saskatchewans That province is the only place in Canada where potash is minedand its deposits may be the largest in the world Last year some $350 million worth of Saskatchewan potash hr marrir Examittrr 16 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario Telephone 7266537 Registration Number 0484 Second Class Mail Return tage guaranteed Dal Sundays and Statutory Ho idays excepted Subscription rates daily by carrier 85 cents weekly $4420 yearly Single copies 15 cents By Mail Barrie $4420 yearlyz Simcoe County $3400 yearly Balance of Canada $3600 year 1y National Advertising Offices 65 Queen St West Toronto 3541710 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 Reuter and also the local news published therein TheBarrie Examiner claims Co yright in all original adver tis ng and editorial material created by its employees and re roduced in this newspaper ogeyright Registration Num 1203815 register 61 of these fuel supplies But at the opening of the Al berta legislature some days ago Premier Peter Lougheed made statement that was somewhat murky but indicated that Petrosar could have diffi culties in getting oil SHOW ARD This has to be read here as the Alberta premier playing his showdown card These days Lougheed has two key goals To either secure or keep YOUR BUSINESS The potash case risks are high was produced to supply 23 per cent of the world market tfor use as fertilizer That makes potash the fifth most important nonfucl mineral produced in Canada although less than five per cent of Canadian potash production is used domestically Last November the Sas katchewan government an nounced that it would be taking over at least 50 per cent of the rovinces potash industry rom controlling shareholders mainly in the United States This was the culmination of simmering feud with the in vestors who had developed the mines Both government and in dustry sought fair return from potash In the vovern ments case that meant first prorationing fee and second areservestax The producers retaliated with court actions against the gov ernment to protect their inter ests The producers retaliated with court actions against the gov ernment to protect their inter ests The provinces position is that it was taking over the potash industry to ensure con tinued expansion and retention of Saskatchewans share of the world market But the politicians and bu reaucrats may find that suc cess in potash industry doesnt come as automatically as they had assumed new study by the Howe Research Institute in Montreal Wests that Saskat chewan may encounter some marketing problems es pecially in the US which takes 70 per cent of the provinces potash production and where consumers have been alienated by the provinces tactics On the world market potash inventories are excessive and high production rates keep add ing to the stockpiles and depr essing the price of the com modify Under the circumstances re turns to the provinces are un likely to justify further ex pansion control over his provinces natural resources This is behind his position on the con stitution to give any province veto This would give him power to knock out any change in the present conditions of the British North America Act which gives the provinces responsibility for natural resources To bring industry to his province and particularly pet rochemical industries In line with this second pol icy he tried to bring Petrosar to Alberta But manyof its customers for both its chemicals and the resi due oil which it will have in large quantities are in the Sar nia area where it can supply them through pipelines and he was unsuccessful TWO CASES Economically Petrosar has strong case Not only is Sarnia the logical distribution centre but many of its competitors in the United States are using nat ural gas as heir feed stock And as today this is cheaper process than oil It must take advantage of every efficiency that it can But it also is an excellent ex ample for theAlherta premier CAN ADAS STORY Few prepared for catastrophe By BOB BOWMAN Was there ever more ex citing period in Canadian his tory than The Roaring Twen ties Movies became big time radios and gramophones were miracle of home enter tainment many peogle bought their first automo iles and household appliances like re frigerators electric stoves and vacuum cleaners Thousands of people were getting rich on paper by playing the stock market There were brokers offices galore and even little old ladies sat there for hours every day knitting while they watched the everchanging figures on the boards and bought and sold on margin It seemed that Canadians and Americans were going to be rich forever Some people began to worry Oct 24 1929 when 12894000 shares were sold on the various markets Few were prepared for the catastro he that occurred Oct 29 The ottom dropped out of the market Between 1929 and 1931 even giltedged shares be came almost worthless Brazil ian Traction drop to 12 from 82 BA Oil to eight from 36 Cockshutt Plough to four from fiWinnipeg Electric to 10 from The total value of Inter national Nickcl shares dropped nearly $1 billion and CPR ost half billion Imperial Oil was down $800 million Brokers called on their clien IMO ovatin CNN He can build case around it which will not only be easily un derstood by his public but which also could arouse it Thus the showdown card Ontarios position of course is for national energy policy which would see resources available to all provinces And this is vital question for the provinces future FEDERALAPPROACH Almost certainly final federal policy will take the national ap proach But in this there equally will be some special consnderations for the home province of the re sources concerned And with this in mind we can regard Lougheed as bargaining for the best deal possible The uestion of the moment is how ard and how far he in tends to bargain Here our natural preference would be to see the question set tled through negotiation But it would seem likely that eventually if not immediately the question will end up in the courts which will have to give definitive finding on just what ownership the provinces have of their resources and par ticularly just how far this ex tends ts who had bought shares on margin for the money owing to them How could anyone who had bought shares on margin at $100 each find money to pay the balance when those shares were perhaps $10 each Many people had to sell their homes and possessions Some were driven to suicide Should people have been able to read the signs Interest rates had risen to 20 cent in some cases The heat Pools had carryover of 100 million bushels Weak po sitions were protected as high cost producers were kept in production by tariffs and sub sidies About 400000 Canadians were unemployed OTHER OCT 29 EVENTS lossRadisson escaped from Iroquois and sailed for France ismStanley Park in Van couver was dedicated by Lord Stanley 18991st Canadian con tingent for Boer War sailed fromQuebec wooR Roblin succeeded Hugh Macdonald son of Sir John as premier of Manitoba lozsBluenose defeated US challenger Columbia by one minute 1925General election result was Conservative 116 Liberals 101 Progressives Labor and Independent 30 MHZInternational Joint Commission approved Canada US power development on St Lawrence River READER FoalM Congratulations for editorial DearSir Referri to the editorial on Page of ndays edition of our aper entitled Public of lce iming limited to an elite Iwish loam awful you for the comments hat were this editmial would like to $0ng to those people that have become ramvoters in civic elections to read your editorial and get out and vote in this coming civic election but before markin their ballot take thorou look at the candidate of their dance Yours truly THOS JACKSON Simcoe Rescue Squad thanks its friends DcarSir On behalf of the Simcoe Rescue Squad would like Lo take this op rtunity to thank the people Simcoe County for making our demonstrations at the Midhurst Village Fair on Oct huge success Many individuals involved with commercial and industrial outlets donated time personnel and materials to demonstrate the aims and purposes of the Simcoe Rescue Squad The fact that our project is nonprofit organization operated by volunteers from fire departments law enforce ment agencies and medical per sonnel all over Simcoe County ensures our project as ben efiting all the residents in Sim coe County The participation of all who have helped so far ensures the success of the rescue squad Each person who believes in our aims and purposes of the Simcoe Rescue Squad and helps us in any way is as important as that person or organization who is operating the rescue tools in saving life Our project is operated by PARLIAMENT HILL Will they work personnel from all parts of Sim ux unity to serve the people of the county Again very big thank you to all those who helped on Oct to make our demonstration of our rescue tools such success Without the support of every one this project ooudnt pro coed Yourstruly BARBARA RICHMOND Secretary Board of Directors Simcoe Rescue Squad WE WANT YOUR OPINION Igftters submitted for pu ication must be ong mal copies 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 eon dense or reject letter with Bourassa By STEWART MacLEOD Ottawa Bureau Thomson News Service This girl who works in the prime ministers office was talking the other day about how Jean Marchand and Bryce Mackasey will be missed around Ottawa now that they are off fighting for federalism inQuebec We discussed how both men were so colorful unpredictable and emotional and the fact that each resigned from the cabinet twice and threatened to quit on several other occasions when there was policy dis agreement And you guys only heard about the obvious cases said this girl who knows what goes on around the prime minister You should see the filesthey are loaded with threatened res ignations Then she added wonder how long it will take Mackasey and Marchand to disagree with Bourassa This conversation occurred on the day that Mr Mackasey announced he was resigning his federal seat to fight Rene Le vesques Parti Quebecois in next months provincial élec tion He would speak for Eng lish Quebecers at time when the future of federalism is being debated Mr Marchand had already started defending federalism as he had entered provincial poli tics few days earlier PRAISES PQ Anyway after this girl had wondered about the com patibility of the Quebec premier and the two former federal ministers picked up news aper and read that Mac asey makes debut as Quebec Liberal by praising No one else but Mr Mack asey could get away with it But there he was in Montreal on the opening day of his campaign tearing strip off the Liberal education po icy and sayin that the Parti Quebecois ha the only logical position The former minister simply hates the governments language proficiency tests for immigrant children What he proposesand he differs with the party he just joinedis for everyone now in the province to have freedom of choice regarding the lan guage of instruction in schools But immigrants arriving in the future would be told in advance THE PICK OF PUNCH that their children would be at tending French schools If they want English schools they go to British Columbia he explains If they want French schools they go to Quebec But they should know this before coming here When told that his views con tradicted his leaders policies and were in line with the policy of the separatist Parti QueL becois Mr Mackasey was unim ressed So what he ask Id be the last one to say that Mr Rene Levesque is always wrong Meanwhile at the same time in Cowansville Premier Bou rassa was telling another au dience that Mr Mackasey will be great candidate and will increase the strength of the Lib eral team PROPER ASSESSMENT Actually the premier is rightproviding no rifts de velop And there is certainly no indication of any so far What Mr Mackasey said is con sistent with his traditional viewpoint and resumably Mr Bourassa is ully aware of them Its just amusing how Mr Mackasey can get away with opening his election cam paign by criticizing the policies of the party he just joined And there are going to be other statements made in the next few weeks by Mr March and and Mr Mackasey that will perk up some cars in other par ts of the country because fighting for federalism in Que bec requires different tactics than in the rest of the country For this reason many politi cians who have moved from federal to Quebec politics have appeared inconsistent As ederal minister Mr Mackat could merely issue broad appeal or understanding by both English and French speaking Canadians But within Quebec its important that he reestablish some basic creden tials And that is why he now is emphasizing that all English Quebeceis should speak Fren ch that future immigrant children should go to French schools and that it should not be forgotten that Quebec is French province He isnt changing his view points its just that Quebec pol itics requires different em phasis The trick is to make the shift successfully without bringing on resignation MhE