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mu xm Monday Mar 19 1979 NEWSROOM 7266537 CllCUlATION 7266539 Craig Elson managing editor Ian Mulgrew city editor BillMcFarlanewireeditor Dave Fuller sports editor serving borrie and simcoe county Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited 16 Baytield Street Barrie Ontario L4M 4T6 Broce Rowland publisher Stephen Gauer entertainment PegovChape Gary Forbes Dana Homewood Betty Armer camera operator Janice Morton 7266537 7280414 7266537 Dave Burcsikphotoqrapher Recognition due to our farmers ls farming Simcoe Countys most forgotten industry Ifso it shouldnt be With farmers about to go back on the land for another crop season its important to remember that the farming in dustry is of vital importance to Simcoe ounty Farming along with tourism are the major revenue pro ducers in the county Simcoe County is beef milk and potatoes corn and pork producing region County farmeis produce the food that feeds our 200000 inhabitants The ounty is also an exporter of food primarily to Metro Toronto but across anada and around the world Elmvale Stayner Beeton Allistoii Suiinidale and Holland Marsh remain vital agriculture areas healthy agricultural area in turn spins off economic wellbeing to the many small towns and villages in the coun tv There may be fewer farmers today But good farmers in Simcoe have been able to produce more and better food us ing modern technology efficient methods and knowhow In recognizing the contributions of farmers We should not underestimate their problems Perhaps the greatst danger to farming today is the loss of agricultural land to expanding areas In five year period between 1966 and 1971 anadas towns and cities expanded over more than Iii1000 acres of anadas most productive soil The exact same thing is happening here witness Barries attempts to annex some 1500001 rural land in Innisfil hard look is needed at how much more prime farmland we can reasonably expect to lose and still retain our self sufficiency for food Good farmland is not infinite but the need for food will continue to crown We must not let shortterm goals alter our food produc tion potential In the long run food may truly be anadas greatest resource Lets not forget that as our farmers return to the land this spring Grand Trunk Railway locomotive and flatcar lead the Dominion Day parade through downtown Barrie in this photograph from the early I900s UearSir It is clear to most people that something is radically wrong with our school system Over the years there has been steady decline in educational standards The educators have lowered their stan dards and they expect parents of school children to come down to their level Giving the power to country school boards to create their own curricula has probably been the worst single influence upon school ing allied to the licence to print money in the form of ever increas ing school taxes Both have remov ed the need for economy care and responsibility and for any won thwhilc cducat ional standards 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 if you wish pen name will be used Include your telephone number and address as we have to verify 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 Exomhor Post Office lol no IAIRIE Ont NM letters to the editor Recently trustee Frank Prothero was quoted as saying regarding the publication of the Boards annual financial report is waste of time and money If Mr Prothero is truly interested in saving money or getting value for all dollars spent we would suggest that he recommends to the Board the elimination of the Human Itela tions oursc which so far has cost about $100000 Another $100000 would be saved by not having to rewrite the Human Itclations course which has come under heavy bombardment We appeal to the teachers to voice their thoughts without fear of repri mand on the quality of education in Simcoe Tounty Let us hear from the tiachers their thoughts on whether they teach or Ipiorcly dispenseinformation We appeal to the public to make their thoughts on education known to their trustees and members of parliament So speak out loud and clear demanding higher standards of education for our young people insisting on quality not quantity If loader is not found who is able to restore some responsibility and pride into our educational system the situation will continue to deteriorate where taxpayers will refuse to pay school taxes and chaos ensues Margaret Nixon Mrs Gordon Nixon Barrie NEWSROOM SALES Bert Stevens Claudia Krause Lliestyle editor We Hay REPORTERS Aden Smith Steve Skinner iBarb Boulton CLASSIFIED Carl De Gurse Stephen Nicholls ID Dennis Lanthier Nancy Figueroa Lori Cohen Richard Thomas Av vrvflxv 42 rainyIo 22w 92 per cent inflation rate cant be ignored any longer Your business By ITEI EGAN Business and onsumcr Affairs nalyst Thomson News Service As inflation continues to accelcratc up tliicco noniic longrtcrm future becomes almost 92 per cent in the latest 12 months unconceivablc But some conception can be draw from the calculations that David Perry of the tana dlan lax Foundation carried out in the course By DEREK iisox Queens Park Ilurcaii Ihomson News Scrv ll TiilttiNIti Government is heading for even deeper involvement in the business world particularly with regard to large multinational enterprises That theme is emerging loud and clear here from all three political parties as the legisla tive session begins to roll Liberal leader Stuart Smith has articulated the trend most clearly in couple of recent speeches and with questions in the House He has the knack of evolving his critics say sim plistic solutions to complex problems The basic point is to have foreign owned firms operating here commit themselvvs to code of corporate behavior They would undcrtake reasonable proportion of their research development here reject mandatory purchasing from lllili parent company bc able to export tiitariodeveloped products into their parent firms domestic market have boards of directors with anadian majority should haveprofits ploughed back into the fanadianoperation In addition all corporations whether foreign or doiiicsticowiied should acknowledge reijiiisibilily for where they operate both to the community theyre located in and the work force they employ Industry and tourism ministry Larry irossnian as befits Iory pragmatism hasnt laid out as detailed theoretical framework asSmith But the thrust of his arguments are the same even to the affect company has on community and employees SCOOPS ADVERTISING Len Sevick manager Peggy Kavanaoh Ruth Blais supervisor Freda Shinner PREMIER HUA SAY 50Rl7£R WAR TEACHING VIETNAMESE LESSON BUSINE 55 Marion Gouoh oCcountant Delve Mills Gail McFarland Don Saunders Viklerant Lorne Wass KothieMltchell Wilt Cadooan si CIRCULATION fjill Raynor tAlienby Janie Hamel Susan iii iiir Ron Gilitir Barnard Siriql PRESSROOM Bill Halkes manager Steve white assistant manager Andy Haughton Alva LaPlante Lisa Warry Elaine Porter Cheryl Aiken nn Near toriman red Prince asst toriman Harris Btanrtmid Brian Marr COMPOSING ROOM Jack Kerney ionman Glenn Kwan asst toriman Published daily except Sunday and statutory holidays WEFKLY by carrier 90cenls YrARl Vbycarrier $46 30 Copyright registration number 703815 register 61 BY MAIL Barrie $46 an National advertising otiices 65 Queen St Toronto864 mo Camca HIMCOf COUNT 536 50 im advvihslr ioreis that the publisher shall not be liable for damages arIS MOION IHROW Oil Sltii year liIthf Hf 1N CANADA 11 501 ycnr sexlt thenww wwwxax WIMkamam WovMu Vo lt at em onuwzmm of study of the anada Pension Plan and its iiitiirc To be conservative Ierry assumed an annual growlh of only per cent in yearly maximum pensionable earnings defined as average industrial ages and salaries This is the ligtirc on which the II con tribution is deducted from your earnings It stood at $0400 in IllTll and the maximum deduction was $100 20 Move ahead in imagination to llll lmal Foreign industry needs reviewing My coliccrii is that they do not abandon community for reasons other than good biisi ness and that lliey give govcriiiiicni every opportunity to assist them in relocating the workforce and the workers and coiiiiiiunitv involved every chalice to adjust to tliit change irossnian said HOW ININII To enforce the governments will both Smith and irossman speak In terms oi jmoral suasion Buy anadian policies and financial incentives Ihcy differ on details rallier substantially in fact but both their approaches incaii greater goveriiiiienl involvement Then too there was revealing incident at the last oiiscrvativc annual meeting where leading anadian business executive told workshop that if multinationals didnt do more research and development licrc voluntarily they should be required to do so by law The audience all onscrvativcs showed no iiicliiiai ion to disagree NIH IIUI Another indicator of the interventionist drift by goveriiiiicni is the staiiceof tlie NII As the Tories and Liberals drill Left do use the popularjargon the NII have had to run to keep ahead of them After decade of increasing mixieration thcNII have reversed direction to primeval sixialism wanting to chain companies to their current locations in kind of corporate feudalism under state orders The tendency is unmistakable No political party seeking or holding power is going to let nlario lapse iiilo dc industrialiation as result of foreign firms business methods Instead they are bound to intervene one way or another to ensure the continued prosperity of aiiadas industrial heartland year of this century By 2000 an annual ft per cent growth in income will have in creased the average workers earnings to $10500 and the maximum pension in $10985 lly the year 3023 maximum pensionable earnings will have reached $177300 and maximum II benefits $1033 And by 2030 average earnings will be $070i100 more than two thirds of million dollars and Ilie maxunum pension 3159900 RISK IllISMUN liitliinkable Not at all The assumplion of percent annual increase in the average industrial age could well be too low liven today with unemployment running at $1 per cent of the tanadian labor force and ItKllItllll iiiiprinements slight anadas railway workers have just won wage iii crease of 10 per cent Wagi increases are by no means the only factor contributing to the current speedup in inflation Another is the rapid escalation in oil prices by the iiileriialional carth The inllitioiiary impact of this trend will be severe particularly because new price in creases meet with consumer and producer price indices says Ictcrt avelti avclti senior vice president of Guardian lliisl Toronto thinks that recession could start as early as this fall The ncxt few nionllis will likely be dominated by frightening price escalation and continuation of inventory buildups he believes IIIJN Prime Minister Iieirc Trudeau however thinks the economic prospects look good illI addition to high inflation and uiiem ployiiienl and low dollar our losses through work stoppages more than doubled last year Iiiicct time losl due to slrikcs and lockouts rose 10 7400030 IIIilIIfliIyS from 33014010 in I107 And even Finance Minister Jean lirelicir who is expected to have more direct interest In the state of the economy lliaii the prime iiiinislcr has seems to think that anadians must be prosperous because so many of them are taking wintcr vacations inflation wont be checked as long as our policy makers refuse to recognize its existence The longer they delay dealing with the problem the worse it becomes and the harder it will be to bring it under coiilrol in the future Public policy shouldnt rest on easy judgments about winter vacationers If the government is going to be guided by surface impressions let it look around little more widely at for instance lliosc prudent people who have been saving what they could and investing in pension plans life insurance and the like It inflation continues on ils present course those savings will be so badly eroded that the savers will one day with that they too bad blown their money on vacations instead of The Examiner is member 01 The Canadian Press CP and Audit Bureau ot circulations ABC Only the Canadian Press may re this newspaper credited to CF The Assocsled Pres France Presse and local news stories published in The Examiner The xaminer claims copyright on all original news and advertismg material created by Its employees and published in this newspaper publish news stories in SReuters or Agence today Peace treaty within reach By JOHN HARHRON Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service At long last we are very near one of the most important international treaties of our era the peace treaty between Israel and Egypt Egypt has already approved it having won support of both President Sadats cabinet and the rubberstamp Egyptian parliament In Israel Prime Minister Menachem Begin has said publicly any efforts at rejection in his cabinet or the elected Knesset Israels free Parliament would result in his resignation But as an open democracy this most im portant document in the countrys stormy history must be acceptable to the Knesset when it goes this week The opposition as well as most of Begins Ilekud party have already indicated accept anceol the treaty The major opposition to Mr Begin is not coming from the Labor Party which was the party in power for most of Israels life and during her many Arab wars but from the Herut religious rightwing of his own party Meantime the many preliminary moves prior to Signing probably in Washington are under way Israeli and Egyptian defence ministers are in Washington to work out maps for the phased Israeli withdrawal from the Sinai SELLTIIIISAIIHS More important is the visit of Carter senior team including his national security adviser Mr Brzezinski to Jordan and Saudi Arabia to try to sell them on the treaty Support of the Saudis even if only tacit or in private is vital for the Egyptians who rely heavily on that country for major loans and economic resources In fact President Sadat could not pay for the E15 US jet fighters he has been promised without the Saudi loans and source of funds The appeals to both SaudiArabia and Jordan but especially to the latter which is more of dove on the peace treaty is to wait and see if the posttreaty negotiations on selfrule for the Palestinians would be ac ceptable to them At present they are not Indeed if Prime Minister Begin lays Israels security on the line through some of the terms of this treaty Sadat lays his security on the line because the Aral world so far rejects his negotiations with Israel on the West Bank From Israels pointofview even if the Egyptian treaty is finally signed 50 per cent of her borders still face enemy Arab States which resolutely refuse to accept the treaty Back in Washington President Carter with this apparent great victory to his credit must sell ongress on an aid and military assistance package estimated at between $5 and $10 billion This will be used to supply both Egypt and Israel with frontline jet fighters to build an alternative military airfield in the Israeli Negeb for the one it will give up to Egypt in theSinai Once again as in Israels case free parliament must agree to the money package as the Knesset must agree to the treaty itself Congress is not likely to balk on this vital treaty TREATY AT LAST And so the Middle East and the world which has seen the Aralrlsraeli dispute continue as the only unresolved international crisis since 1943 face the signing of the first peace treaty between Israel and an Arab state Its importance simply cannot be un derest him ed Interaeting the news Loaded question asked in Iran Hy liltltE LEVETT LONDON itli new struggle for supremacy may be building up in Iran as referendum day draws near Iranians are being asked to vote on the question Do you approve of an Islamic republic Its loaded question to put before Moslcm electorate and the clash that is developing is between followers of Islam who believe Iran has become too modernized now to turn back and those who feel the economy can be run successfully on strictly Islamic lines Experts here suggest the Ayatollah Khomeini is trying to ram through the referendum scheduled for March 21 while the fervor which surrounded the fall of the shah still is evident Political experts in Tehran have estimated that if the referendum could be pushed through within inonlh 85 per cent of the electorate would support it postponement of three months would cut the supporters perhaps to 65 per cent while delay of six months might prove fatal to the referendum Against background of influential protest government spokesmen in Iran insist the referendum will go ahead as scheduled They say also that it will be presented unchanged Observers here arent so certain The logistics of the operation are seen as daunting in country subjected to such devastating upheaval The longer the delay they say the better the chances re that the quest ion may be soft ened to give Iranians wider choice In the meantime position to the referendum in its present orm appears to be developing into clash between tradition alists and modernists The issue also involves some strong antiesterii feelings par ticularly Khoiiieinis own sharp criticism of tliillS Even if the Itftltildllm goes ahead on schedule most of the political voices in Iran will have made their points