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Friday Fob 23 1979 NEWSROOM 7266537 CIRCULATION 7266539 the eXaminer serving barrie and simcoe county Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited to Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario LAM 4T6 Bruce Rowland publisher ADVERTISING 7266587 CLASSIFIEDS 7282414 Your choice for Citizen of the Year The greatest good citizen can do for the communi ty is to work unselfishly on its behalf Barrie is fortunate in having many such people They serve in many ways by Sitting on various civic committees performing serVice club work or through fundraising efforts Some are wellknown others work behind the scenes Some work individually others through social groups All help make Barrie better place to live And all deserve the thanks of everyone who calls Barrie home There is an appropriate way to honor these public spirited people That is by naming Barrie Citizen of the Year Each year since 1952 the citizens of this community have helped choose one of their number to receive the William Wright Memorial Award awarded as Citizen of the Year The Citizen of the Year is chosen from nominations on the basis of service performed during the year 1978 service during the last five years ct service in public office other information related to the nominee The primary consideration is service during the past year This year the winner will be chosen by panel of eight judges including The Examiner from nomina tions submitted no later than April The award will be presented at meeting sponsored by the Barrie branch of the Royal Canadian Legion on May Our readers are urged to help choose the 1978 Citizen of the Year award and say thank you to deserving in dividual by filling out the following nomination form and sending it by April to Citizen of the Year Award co Barrie branch N0 147 Royal Canadian Legion 410 St Vincent Street Barrie Ontario 1AM 4A6 IWe Nominate for The William Wright Memorial Trophy for outstanding service to the City of Barrie lieShe has contributed not financially out side of hisher normal occupation to Worthy causes as follows During the Past Calendar Year During the Past Five Years Service in Public Office Additional Information Nominated by Natne Address Telephone Use more space if necessary other nomination forms available from Royal Canadian Legion fill St Vincent St Barrie Your business By VINCENT EGAN Business and Consumer Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service The performing arts in Canada are running into even heavier financial problems than they are accustomed to because of com bination of inflated costs and tagging support from the public sector Theatrical and dance companies have never been financially selfsufficient amt never will be even though many of their artists perform for pay scales not much higher than unemployment insurance rates Their claim to public funds is based on the contribution that they make to society And they look to business for financial support in return for the part they play in making community more civilized and attractive to the people whom business employs But the economic slowdown and the public demand for greater economies have shown the vulnerability of the performingarts companies Grants which have never reached levels that would allow the companies to operate on more than handtomouth basis are being cut back even while the federal govern ment is offering to hand out millions of dollars to aid professional hockey the last bastion of unrestrained nineteenthcentury capitalism stilt surviving in Canada With the inflation rate at 89 per cent and rising the Stratford Festival Canadas leading theatre company has just learned from the Canada Council that its grant will be reduced by six per cent in 1979 THEATRE BALLET The Canada Councils cutback follows fiveyear period in which grants to the arts have been frozen or reduced The Stratford Festival derives 79 per cent of its total revenues from ticket sales Performing arts in cash squeeze Canadas three major ballet companies derive much lower share from the box office The lorontobased National liallct with top ticket priceof $1750 covers just over half of its expenses at the box office while the Royal Winnipeg $2 top and the Grands liallcts $10 top in Montreal earn about 40 per cent Tickets could hardly be raised again without reducing the audience and total reve nues and opening the dance to unjustified accusations of elitism says recent report of the Canada Council Subsidy is essential if the dance is to continue The Canada Councils own grants to ballets are intended both for general support and as an offset to losses incurred by the ballet companies in touring In the 197778 season its grants plus some from the department of external affairs to subsidize foreign tours accounted for 25 per cent of the Nationals budget 10 per cent of the Royal Winnipegs and 36 per cent in the case of theGrands Ballets Provincial and municipal grants com bined represented 10 per cent of the Toronto bascd companys budget eight per cent of the Winnipegbased com anys and 21 per cent of the Montrealbase companys IN SHOESTRING The performing arts have for years survived on shoestring And as the Canada Council says of the dance the shoestring is near to breaking Nevertheless federal government estimates of spending on arts in the 197980 fiscal year have been cut by 52 per cent from this year and the Secretary of States arts and culture program is being cut to $116 million from $171 million BUSINESS 7266537 NEWSROOM ADVERTISING Craig Eison managing editor Len Sevlck manager tan Mulgrew city editor SALESI Bill McFarlane Wire editor Dave Fuller sports editor Claudio Krause Lifestyle editor RE FORTE Carl De Gurse Stephen NIchoIIs Dennis Lanthier Nancy Figueroa Lori Cohen Richard Thomas Stephen Gauer entertainment Gary Forbes Betty Armer camera operator Dave Burcslk photographer Bert Stevens Julie Franks Ian MacLeod Aden Smith Steve Skinner Barb Boulton CLASSIFIED Freda Shinner Peggy Chopetl Janice Morton Ruth Blais supervisor Dana 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year kc Harms1L gt742 ll Hello Mr Rene Levesque please Parliament Hill By STEWART Iuc IItllt Ottawa Bureau Thomson News Sen ice With all those convoluted explanations about sovereignty assixiation and renew ed federalism It has been somewhat ht ficult to detail the differences between the platforms of Rene Levesqucs Iartl Quebccois and laude Ryans Liberals At times you could gain the impression that the ultimate goals were similar except that Levesque wanted to negotiate new deal with the rest of Canada from outside the letter ation while Ryan wanted to do it from within liut gradually this perception is changing From the legislature Hy ERICK NELSON Queens Park Ilureau lhoinson News Scri icc It Rt lNlt Two images of intario llydro are abroad in the land The general public holds favorable view of our governmentvowncd utility particularly In regard to its ability to deliver fast and efficient service Yet among considerable section of our political leadership there Is deep and abid mg suspicion of the corporation In his latest comment on llydro action Mll Julian Reed llalton liurlingtom contends there is something very very wrong with the corporation llydro is not accountable to the people of Ontario he said lnaturally laying the blame on the government But lory MII Mickey llcnncssy tlt lort Willialm was just as harsh hen Hydro delayed accepting rccommcndaiton of the legislatures llydro Affairs committee lftttSIlIUNfi The simple fact is they run an iutonomous body and nobody no elected official can do anythingalmut Hydro They say what they want done and that is the way it is going to be done because they have so much power and influence llcn nessy said Simply put the Reed and Ilcnncssy statements are variation on common theme one hears about Ilydro from its critics both political and otherwise that the utility is out of control The iron here is that llydro was far more independent and arbitrary in the past than it Is today The prime mover in the founding of llydro Sir Adam lieck was man whose word about the utility was sacrosanct and who could scoops tilt CAREER COUNSELOR 54m REALLY ONLY HAVE TWO GHOIGS OVEN 10 ME More and more sovereigntyassociation is being defined as outright independence with perhaps common market arrangement with other provmces And even without such an arrangement the larti Quebecois clearly favors Quebec sovereignty Now more and more renewed fixlcralism is being displayed as Canadian unity movement new constitutional arrangement that would be negotiated with the overall interests of the country up pcnnost in nnnd laudc Ryan may be slow In defining his vision of renewed federalism but as his ideas slowly seep out it becoming clear that Quebeccrs will be of Differing views of Ontario Hydro topple governments by his presence or ab sencc lNIlI RECENTLY lIis successors didnt have quite that power but until about 1972 llydro was show on to itself following its vision of providing power at cost to Ontario Ilydro Affairs committee chairman Mll lionald litacltonald Nlll York South who has less criticial view of llydro than Reed or Ilcnncssy said rapidly rising rates have triggered changes The Ontario lincrgy Hoard now reviews certain llydro decisions the legislature has llydro Affairs committee and several commissions tlortcr Solandti have examined aspects of Hydro policy MacDonald also points to the lan ap pointment of Hugh Macaulay who just happens to be one of Premier William Davis closest political advisers and confidants as intario llydro chairman lZNIZIIUY POST The theory is that Davis is attempting to make IIydro even more reijnisivc to political direction in short to bring it under control The one flaw in the ointment is the energy ministry to which llydro is nominally responsible although there are conflicts be tween their respective legislat ivc acts More than once an energy minister has risen in the House to defend Ilydro policy that hes been told nothingabout by Hydro Whether lVlacaulays appointment will help straighten out the lilies of authority or whether the ministry will rcmain short circuited by llydro is something that bears close watching At the same titnc hell have to work hard at iifusing the hostility of the Reeds and Ilen nessys ME 100 WHICH ARE YOU GOING TO HCK Choose Quebec and Canada Ryans commitment to country fcrcd distinct choice in the next election And hopefully the choice will also be clear in the promised referendum on Quebecs future But this will depend great deal on the wording involved tlNTRY FIRST As part of his methodical process of defining renewed federalism Ryans Liberals have brought out booklet called hoosc Quebec ANI Canada and while it does not spell out the constitutional changes the party has in mind this will come in the autumn it contains comforting com mitment to the country as whole The document is largely the work of Ryan him self Additional powers should go to the province says the booklet in generalization but these powers should not be allowed to jeopardize the federal system And the Liberal leader said that while provinces have the rights to natural resources these rights should be subordinate to the good of the country as whole Wealth should be shared by the entire country he argues The book is chock full of praise for Canada and the advantages of the federal system And while he wouldnt rule out some special status for Quebec the Liberal leader would prefer that all provinces be given the same authority lie resists the temptation to appeal to the nationalist instincts of Quebecers Taking leaf from the strategy book of the Pinch Quebecois Ryan proposes to blitz householders with the booklet which he said will prepare the minds of federalists for detailed constitutional proposals Matty of the Ito pages are devoted to debunking the claims of the Iarti Quebecois Qucbcccrs should not confuse sovereignty associaiion with any form of Confederation says Ryan It means Quebec independence And with independence he says Quebec would lose equalization payments its present level of prmluctivity its present standard of living and all the social benefits that flow through Ottawa Montreal would decline as an economic centre business would flow from the province and there would be no guarantee of arty trade and economic arrangements with other provinces or other countries Ryan cant seem to find one good thing to about sovereigntyassociation What is most appealing about this latest Liberal offering is its strong proCanadian flavor which in Quebec politics has often been overpowered by provincial interests And until recently there was every in dication that these interests would hi hlight Liberal proposals fora renewed federa ism Perhaps this is yet to come But in the meantime its nice to see Quebec provincial politician stand tip and without any apparent embartassntcnts or apologies start talking about the oVerall interests of Canada suspect good many Quebecers have been waiting forthis The Examiner claims copyright on all original news and advertising material 90 ens created by its employees and published in this newspaper The advertiser agrees that the publisher shalt not be liable for damages ans ing out of errors in advertisements beyond the amount paid for the space ac tually occupied by that portion of the advertisement in which the error oc curred whether such error is due to the negligence of its servants or other Wise and there shall be no liability for non insertion of any advertisement beyond the amount paid for such advertisement The world today Ali Bhutto faces death By JOHN HARBRON Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service Pakistan formed 32 years ago as the national state of the large Moslem population of the Indian subcontinent remains nation faced with the crisis of separatism Such crisis in 1971 ended in the disastrous war with India and the loss of East Pakistan to become the new and impbverished Islamic republic of Pakistan But major sectional interests have remained in West Pakistan in effect what was left of the country first formed in 1947 In the north along the frontier with Afghanistan now run by its own Marxist Islamic military regime Punjabis seek larger identifiable role in the Pakistani state But the major potential for final breakup in what one US magazine has called less of country than an idea for Muslim republic is desolate Baluchistan which also extends into eastern Iran The Baluchs hold to traditional tribal values not unlike those still found in Saudi Arabia Oman and remote parts of Iraq and Iran Like the others their life is rugged sur vival dominates their hard lifestyle and yet they show political presence apparently far advanced compared to their social and economic structure LONG CRISIS In 1972 former Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto then in elected office conducted major military campaign against rebellious Baluch tribesmen with help from the armed forces and military equipment of the next door Shah of Iran Today with that civilian Pakistani leader facing the death penalty Pakistans new military ruler General Mohammed Zia has the identical problem with the Baluchs how to merge them into an Islamic state which is supposed to serve their interests in the first place But the Supreme Court conviction of Mr Bhutto based it would appear on the regional origins of the judges bodes for even more separatism in Pakistan Mr Bhutto who comes from northern Pakistan was given death sentence by majority of the judges who come from southern Pakistan In fact the reason for the death sentence the alleged charge that Mr Bhutto in office planned the murder of political opponent fades in comparison to the issue of domestic conflict it arouses In the meantime General Zia who was made chief of the armed forces under Mr Bhutto as prime minister appears ready to continue the shift of this regime from purely military to part civilian He has made the same guarantees of all modern military presidents who seize power to bring about open elections again He has imposed harsh Koranic Law on his country the same kinds of decrees which were carried out the other day in Saudi Arabia when thief faced the loss of hand for several thefts And the military Islamic ruler whose country has traditional friendship with Communist China must now watch the ac tivities of Afghanistan on his northern frontier with its proSoviet military regime With all these new crises facing Pakistan the traditional enemy of India not only plays no part in the Islamic countrys troubles but Indias Prime Minister Mr Desai requested mercy for the former Prime Minister Bhutto who fought India in the 1971 war Pakistan therefore faces future more fraught with dissension and internal upheaval than at any time since her for mation Interpreting the news Overthrow shifts balance of power By ATIIY MCKERCIIER WASHINGTON CP Ripple effects caused by the overthrow of the shah of Iran have apparently spread as far away as Camp David Md where Egyptian and Israeli ne gotiators are resuming their quest for peace treaty The setting theme and major characters involved in the talks that began Wednesday are familiar to those who followed the peace process from its successful conclusion at the Camp David summit last fall to the break down in negotiations few months later The balance of power in the Middle East however has changed dramatically in recent morlgths largely because of the ouster of the sha Analysts say the changes in the Middle East situation followed by Egypts offer to fill the shoes of the shah are certain to be felt as State Secretary Cyrus Vance tries to brin Egyptian President Mustafa Khalil an Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan closer together The new round of negotiations is not ex pected to result in resolution of the major stumbling block to peace treaty the question of autonomy for Palestinians in areas occupied by Israel during Middle East wars Analysts note that neither negotiator has the authority to commit his government Instead the talks will be viewed as success it the negotiators are able to clear the way for President Carter Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat to seek another summit Carter whose foreign policy has come under increasing attack mainly because of the Iranian situation is reported reluctant to hold another summit unless there is good chance it will result in treaty The revolution in Iran cost both Israel and the US their best friend in the Arab world