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the eXaminer serving barrie and simcoe county Wednesday Feb 28 1979 Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited 16 Boyfield Street Barrie Ontario LAM 4T6 Bruce Rowland publisher CIRCUlAIION 7266539 NEWSROOM 7266537 ADVERTISING 7266537 CLASSIFIEDS 72824l4 New structure for County CounciI Simcoe County Council has chance to do something too few of us do take look at itself And some members are discovering all is not perfect with that august body The selfdiscovery is prompted in report from Reputy Reeve Marjorie Dyer of Wasaga Beach which suggests membership be reduced from 54 to 38 Only recently George McCague MPP Dufferin Sim coe and former member of County Council made similar suggestion Few at the county level are likely to jump at the idea Thats not surprising when you consider some people might have to give up their council seats Indeed an obvious drawback would be to reduce or deprive smaller municipalities of voice on council However there is much to support the idea of smaller council Barrie city council for example with 13 members administers an annual budget in excess of $18 million The 54member county council deals with less than $4 million More important county council has an obligation to protect against the always present threat of regional government County council may be lot more efficient and democratic than the regional system At the same time it must show capacity for change when reasonable change is suggested Simcoe County council needs to seriously consider restructuring so it can meet its two responsibilities governing the county and governing the county with new ideas to retain local control Some suggestions act on the report to investigate reducing the number of councillors to workable size revise the allday meeting format which is dif ficult for councillors and the public hold council meetings at least twice month possibly at night or even on Saturday when coun cillors and the public can easily attend increase the stipend for the reduced number of councillors so they can take more active interest in its workings open up committee meetings wherever possible Closed committee should be held for only few specific reasons Dear Sir What sad comment on our coun try Iona Campagnolo Canadas minister of Fitness and Amateur Sport was recently quoted in the Globe and Mail as stating that the burning question throughout Canada is unity and everybody knows what makes our country tick Its hockey Unfortunately her feelings are shared by good many Canadians who felt that severe blow was dealt to our national pride when Caveat in emptor By LEONARD NOBLE Both Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau and the Honourable Leader of the Opposition Joe Clark were in Toronto last week to do little preelection campaigning As matter of fact while Mr Trudeau was speaking to an assembled audience of loyal Liberals at one hotel Mr Clark was doing ex actly the same to full house of Conservative faithful at another hotel just few blocks away The Prime Minister and his counterpart were singing the same tune pretty well words like This will be tough uphill bat tle or the results of this election will be the single most important act of this Century On top of that were the visits to factories ethnic gatherings and telephone talk shows by both men Undoubtedly an election an nouncement will come at anytime now to no ones surprise Perha the most significant item in one of last wee papers was the brief statement to the effect that President Jimmy Carter had accepted an invitation to meet the Prime we want your opinion Something on your mind Send Letter to the Editor Please make it an original copy and sign it The Examiner doesnt publish unsigned let ters but it you wish pen name will be used Include your telephone number and address as we have to verin letters Because of space limits public interest and good taste The Examiner sometimes has to edit condense or reject letters Letters to the Editor are run every day on the editorial page Send yours to letters to the Editor The Examiner hut Office In 370 IAIIIII MM letters to the editor they beat us in the recent RussiaNHL series When it comes to the greatness of our country when it comes to what holds country together when it comes to national pride dont we count such things as the natural beauty of the land our fine artists and writers the freedoms we enjoy that other countries dont our aid to less fortunate countries and our rich multicultural heritage If hockey is all that Canada tick God help us Mrs Katy Austin Elmvale Ont makes Come on back ye all hear Minister in New York on Saturday to discuss world problems and maltcrs between Canada and the United States followed by thcir mutual attendance at Concert by thc Win nipeg Symphony Orchestra to be given at Carnegie Hall No doubt there will bca lot of publicity as result of that meeting which should enhance the Prime Ministers image of rubbing shoulders with the President of the worlds most powerful country lcan imagine that the telephone call by the Prime Minister inviting the President to the Concert might havc sounded something like this Hello Jimmy this is Pierre Trudcau call ing Ilah Pieahr hows everything goin Not bad not bad at all Jimmy How are things with you Well Pieahr if youve got couple of hours to listen Ahll tell you mah problcms Theres everythin from the loss of Iranian oil to mah brothah Billys behaviour or lack of it Sorry asked Jimmy Let me change the subject What are you and the missus doing Saturday Night Well gosh Pieahr not darn thing now that you ask We were just gonna sit home watch some television and maybe nibble on few peanuts Then how would you and your good wife like to be my guests on Saturday Night in New York Whadidja have in mahnd Pieahr Lets make real day of it Jimmy Well have little talk about world problems as well as domestic issues and then take in Concert at Carnegie Hall in the evening the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra is appearing Sounds gorxl Pieahr Wed be delighted to accept yohr invitation Only one thing Pieahr theahs gohnta bc lotta publicity over us gettin togethah like this and Ahm not unmindful that yohr due for an election this yeahr So ahll Ahm sayin Pieahr is that those folks in the audience ahr gonna be nawnty nahn pubcent American and they cant vote in Canadian election NEWSROOM Craig lson managing editor Ian Mulgrew city editor Bill McFarlane wire editor Dave Fuller sports editor Claudia Krause Lilestyle editor REPORTERS Carl DeGurse ADVERTISING BUSINESS Len Sevick manager SALES Bert Stevens Julie Franks lan MacLeod Aden Smith Steve Skinner Brenda Woods Delva Mills Gall McParland Vikki Grant Kathie Mitchell CIRCULATION Bill Halkes manager Marian Gough accountant COMPOSING ROOM Jack Kerney toreman Glenn Kwan asst foreman Don Saunders Lorne Wass Wilt Cadogan Stan Wray Bill Raynor Ed Allenby Published daily except Sunday and statutory holidays WEEKLY by carrier 90 cents YEARLY by carrier $4680 The Examiner is member of The 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British Columbians with cavalier indifference provincial elite of politicians and local businessmen mismanaged the province with bad government and classic disregard for British Columbias latent development needs in the postwar boom The Pacific Great Eastern Railway PGE meant to service the lagging interior went no where bankrupt and delinquent in its role to move men and supplies into province waiting for expansion And one made his way between the lower BC mainland and Vancouver Island by the grace and favor of the schedules of the Canadian Pacific Steamships which pleased no one Those who can will remember the nightly departures from Vancouver at one minutte before midnight to make the less than 80 mile sea crossing to Victoria in an almost dead slow overnight seven hours SCOOPS BIG BEN THE HISTORIC wrsmmsrza CLOCK Ruth Blais supervisor Dana Homewood DID NOT $TRIKE Steve White assistant manager Andy Haughton Alva LaPIante Pat Merson Elaine Porter Cheryl Aiken Janie Hamel Susan Kitchen Ron Gilder Barbara Strigl PRESSROOM Don Near foreman Fred Prince asst loreman Harris Blanchard Brian Marr Tth with the provincial election of 1952 came the whirlwind two decades of Social Credit rule by th latc Premier WAC Ben nctt elected in sweeping victory to get the province moving And how he moved it not as demagoguc or socialist innovator but as political leader who came from business and said govern mcnt is business MADE Il WORK As well as making it viable for new in dustries to settle in BC Mr Bennett grabbed hold of the public sector turned it around and made it work for all British Columbians He created dynamic and completely modern ferry system with the newest kinds of ships built insBritish Columbias lagging shipyards with new lerminuses and advanced scheduling These permitted businessmen tourists and truck traffic to move back and forth easily and quickly between mainland and the islands The PGE was placed on business basis supplied with public funds made into work ing railway The interior he opened up at last with superb highway system which few easterners knew about until it could be linked with the slowlybuilding TransCanada highway When the scnior managers of the privately TODAY WORtiERS BY MAIL Barrie 80 National advertising oltices 65 Queen St Toronto 864 l7lo 640 Cathcart St Montreal SIMCOE COUNTY 53650 The advertiser agrees that the publisher shall not be liable for damages arts MOTOR THROW OFF SINayear ELSEWHERE IN CANADA 38 50a year Ing out of errors in advertisements beyond the amount paid tor 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 at its servants or other wise and there shall be no liability tor non insertion of any advertisement beyond the amount paid for such advertisement Legacy of WAC Bennett empire builder in the west owned British Columbia Electric refused to expand their facilities to meet his economic growth plans he took it over in 1961 He nationalized the outfit if you like to meet the needs of an entrepreneurial premier Then WAC Bennett miffed all the ac countants across Canada and his nonplussed opposition in Victoria when he announced in the late 1960s that his province was debt free In the classic sense it wasnt of course given the great expansion in the public sector which be instituted But the wily Bennett called Wacky for this reason and others as well as for the popular linkage of his initials just shoved the debt load on to the Crown cor porations They were making lots of money like his new state ferry service This kind of thing infuriated his political enemies and won him contempt from the smooth eastern Canadian politicians and intellectuals who couldnt understand his empirebuilding But Bennett knew how to build province as the eastern politiciam had done with na tion in the last century but had forgotten how to do so in the present one Bennett once said the whole eastern crowd of politicians and bureaucrats couldnt run peanut stand and make money And now looking at who runs the Ottawa store he was so right gym 81153 B£CAUSE THE UNITED GUILD 0F MAINTENANCE From the legislature New session raring to 90 By DEREK NELSON Queens Park Bureau Thomson News Service TORONTO The almostterminal boredom that overwhelmed the legislature in its fall session here doesnt look like itll be duplicated when it reopens March With two byelections scheduled for April both ogposition parties are raring to have go at government few favorable headlines prior to the opening of the polls would do both the Liberals and New Democrats good And the Tories would like to stack the decks so they could chalk up their third and fourth byelection victories in row following on the heels of last falls successes in ChathamKent and Sault Ste Marie The new contests are in Scarborough West Toronto suburb and Wentworth Ham ilton suburb Both are NDP strongholds and to lose either would be humiliating for fledgl ing NDP leader Michael Cassidy BUDGET TIME So the first month in the legislature should be rife with manoeuvres and politicking as the three parties jockey to capture media attention The Tories have the inside track in that the Speech From The Throne where they outline their legislative intentions is the first item of business and usually gets good play Then too they can time introduction of bills to make the best impact on the public Theres also rumor here that the new treasurer Frank Miller will be bringing down an early budget If true you can bet it wont be loaded with any nasty surprises to pull the rug out from under Conservative standardbearers More likely though well see an April budget just after the byelections And wont the opposition howl at that IIC FARES Not that the Liberals and NDP wont have targets to shoot at in the House One item of particular importance in Scarborough West is whether the province will give additional grants to the Toronto Transitggmmission to preventt fare hike Both opposition parties are working their support for further subsidies to death The Liberals with strong local candidate are hoping to make dent in what for them has always been the wasteland of eastern Toronto Theyll still run third but theyre trying hard Tory opposition to more grants wont help them much but they still have shot at the seat BEST CHANCE But most observers think that if the Con servatives are going to grab riding from the NDP itll likely be Wentworth where theyve nominated popular local mayor One major problem for the government is what to put in the Speech From The Throne In time of restraint theres just not much new in the way of programs and promises that they can lay out before the electorate Instead well likely see concentration on the Tory view of how to handle our economic problems with talk of incentives and tax changes to help industry Plus few goodies in the social sphere such as amendments to the Ontario Human Rights Code Danger is ever Herbie is okay TORONTO CP The worst anxiety is over for the parents of sevenmonthold Her bie Quinones after delicate threehour operation Monday corrected problem with his windpipe that had threatened to kill him The New York infant was in fair stable condition in Torontos Hospital For Sick Children late Monday and surgeoninchief Dr Robert Filler said his chances of leading normal life are good However it will take three weeks of close observation before doctors know if the opera tion will end the choking spells caused by pressure on the babys windpipe from the aor ta and esophagus Were really happy with the results said father Herbert Quinones 21 after the opera tion But we were little fearful He said he and his wife Leticia 24 had slept with Bible the night before praying for their son The parents did not see the operation but were able to see Herbie minutes after it was over Thank God the danger is over Herbie will beokay they said Donations from Metropolitan Toronto residents made it possible for the Quinones to bring their son to Toronto for the operation after waiting for six weeks for help under New York States medical insurance pro gram for the poor bible thought She hath done what she could she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying Mark I428 Never mind about what others are doing there is danger in getting duplication and dedication confused We are to do in obe dience only what we can do When we have arrived at this point God will show us what He can do And he took the damsel by the hand and said unto her TaIitha cumi which is being interpreted Damsel say unto thee arise And straightway the damsel arose and walk ed for she was of the age of twelve years And they were astonished with great astonishment Mark 54142 There is no telling what will happen once we let Jesus take over He can do anything Is anything too hard for me saith the Lord