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Barrie Examiner, 26 Apr 1979, p. 4

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Trailwow AprIIVZO 197B NEWSROOM 7266537 CIRCULATION 7266539 that fact spending for 1979 cil approval budget decisions implications these kinds of problems Dear Sir Anyone who has known Dooley Greer for the 30 years that have known him or anyone who care to ask would find the following That he has great many friends is widely known and greatly respected in Barrie That he has long record of public service through his Church his service club his fraternal order and in the political life of our com munity That he has great personal in tegrity On the other hand your newspaper and the other media have widely circulated the allega tions of Alderman Mills would expect that responsible From the legislature By DEREK NELSON Queens Park Bureau Thomson News Service TORONTO Underlying the criticism here of the provincial governments man power training programs is something much more fundamental an attitude Canadians have developed towards bluecollar work In the legislature the Specific issue is why General Motors has to advertise in England for 350 skilled workers when we have 319000 unemployed The opposition have zeroed in on that aspect criticising the governments ap prenticeship programs in particular and manpower training in general And obviously the Tories being in power here for the past 33 years hear good chunk of the blame for any hobbling effect lack of skilled workers has on our industry In particular they can be attacked for failing to respond quickly enough to crisis that has been brewing for decade But the real problem goes much deeper and the opposition are as guilty as the govern ment for creating it IVORY TOWERS It is psychological Tories Liberals and NDP especially NDPi have persistently followed the line that education should be some kind of voyage of selfdiscovery by youth rather than the acquiring of basic skillsthat will bringa job The liberal arts the humanities and we want your opinion Something on your mind Sand Lotta to tho Editor Please make it on 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 verily letters Because at space limits public interest and good taste The Examiner sometimes has to edit condense or reject letters Lottars to the Editor are run every day on tho adltorial page Send yours to lotion to the Editor The Examhar Post Office Box 370 IAIIIE Ont MM AAAAA the eXa Those meetings will give Moreover no library offic meeting to speak on its behalf Next years series of budget meetings should eliminate Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited 16 Boytield Street Barrie Ontario LAM 4T6 Bruce Rowland publisher AOVEITISING 7266537 CLASSIFIEDS 7282414 New budget approach taken Running the city of Barrie is big business This years $20 million city budget amptly demonstrated Yet council met just 10 hours to approve that amount of Thats too much trio fast for even the best prepared coun Next year theres new and better approach Beginning next January council will hold series of weekly budget meetings leading up to the final budget ouncillors time to better con sider spending priorities and to avoid any last minute Ald Jim Shirley who introduced the motion said this years budget left insufficient time for decision making The Barrie Public Library is an example The library had its budget request trimmed by some $10000 money the library ne Yet the alderman representing the librarys interest had little time and insufficient background to finally realize the eds to maintain services ial was able to attend the budget growing budget for growing city demands and will get new budget approach We give council full marks for recognizing that fact The lessons learned this year should augur well for Barrie budgets in the years to come newspaper like the Barrie Ex aminer would undertake some in vestigations concerning the value of such statements in addition to reporting them It is disappointing to me that Chief Snider who seems to con stantly seek media publicity and to be more than ready to take his concerns to the media and who should be aware of the cir cumstances of this matter has been so silent do hope that your newspaper will give as wide circulation to the results of these charges as you have to the original statements Yours truly WK Caldwell Barrie Canada lacking skilled workers knowledge for knowlcdgcs sake have twen the passwords to success In the minds of many if not most Ontario parents And with all three parties cheering Ontario built university after university to meet those expectations The status of bluecollar work sank low in the public mind and we re now paying the price for that NI WANT As Education Minister Bette Stephenson put it in reply to an opposition question The placrs for training are there limit it is not the position of this government that we should go out and coercc people into the trainingprolram In the schools the government is starting propaganda campaign in favor of the skilled trades as appropriate career choices for our young people Their current failure to do so is matter of very real concern T00 OLD What is really needed is important and absolutely necessary changes in public atti tudes towards the skilled trades she said Itll be tough About 73 per cent of current tradesmen are immigrants who came here in the 20 years after the Second World War decade ago we changed our immigration laws to favor Third World arrivals and since they tend to be skilltrade poor the result has been rapid decline III the number of young tradesmen in Canada One survey says only 27 per cent are under 35 years of age So now were in deep trouble froin lack of skilled labor and getting dccpcr pposition criticism of government dillytallying is fair but so too is governments response that youth arent partial to bluecollar work And were all to blame for that bible thoughts But as it is written Ilyc hath not seen no car heard neither have entered ilito the heart of man the things which God Iiath prepared for them that love liiln Bill Bod hath reveal ed them unto us by his Spirit for the Spirit searcheih all things yea the deep things of God 0rInthiansZztt lit The Holy Spirit knows what all God has for us in the future and the present and yet so many of them remain closed unti we open up to Him Jesus said the Holy pirit ould guide us into all truth and show ughi to come Hi miner serving barrie and simcoe county BUSINESS 7266537 NEWSROOM ADVERTISING Craig Elson managing editor LO SGVICK manaoer Ian Mutqrew city editor SALES Bill McFarione wire editor Bert Stevens Dave Fuller sports editor Wayne Hay Claudia Krause Litestyle editor Aden Smith Steve Skinner Barb Boulton REPORTERS Stephen Nicholls Dennis Lanthler Nancy Figueroa BUSINESS Marian Gouoh accountant Gall McFarland Don Saunders Vikki Grant Larne Wass Brenda Woods Wilt Cadogan Stan Wray CIRCULATION BiIlRaynor BIII Halkes manaaer Ed Allenby Steve White assistant manager Janie Hamel Lori Cohen CLASSIFIED Andy Haughton Susan Kitchen Richard Thomas Roth Blais supervisor Iva LaPiante Ron Gilder Terry Fields Freda sninner Isa Warry Barbara Strigl Stephen Gauer entertainment Peagv Chapel loine Porter pg ROOM Guy Forbes Dana Homewood beryl Aiken Don Near toreman batty Armor camera operator Janice Morton Dove Burcslk photographer By RUSS Alttlllfllt Mayor of Barrie For the past few weeks this coltllnii has been dealing with the fusibilitics of the various city departments The following has been prepared by Mr lary alvert Administrator of Social oer vices The Social Services Department is located on the third floor of city hall arid consists of four employees the administrator the assis The world today By JOHN llAItBlttIN Foreign Affairs Anal st Thomson New Sen ice Are we on the verge of new time of terror more terrifying than what has gone before in the 1970s to date This must be on the minds of llulopcs police forces with the news item in West ierman daily that West German terrorists are training with the PLO in Lebanon learning among other things how to conduct vmloglcal warfare The latter catchall expression has so many devastating possibilities for the large urban centres of the western world that it makes aircraft hijackings and tlympicstylc assassinations tame by comparison Biological warfare could mean old liifslllitltttl bacteriological warfare putting microbes to work to attack population It could mean the immensely harmful use of chemicals against populations and societies It would be truly monstrous terrorist outreach of the PLO if true Yet something more than the small raids against Israel one of which failed in its mission on April 2lst was anticipated by the PL after the signing of the IIgyptlsracl peace treaty Another veiled offering from that organization was to assassinate Egypts President Anwar Sadat who becomes most vulnerable leader after his open negotiations with Israel since late I977 It is impossible to verify the West German newspaper report which is suptmscd to be based on irrefutable sources IIIIUIAIS NDI IItlll But if they came from the PLO itself then we can have some hope it wasnt true or was trial balloon The PM is not monolithic organization but one with its own substantial internal divi sions and different viewpoints for carrying out its policies The Palestinian Front for the Liberation of Palestine tIFLPl is most militant and Marxist branch of the PLO in charge of WHY IS NE AYATOLLAllfi i1 YEAR0L9 BRIDE red Prince asst tonman Harris Blanchard Brian Marr Mayors report Four types of financial help in general welfare program tanl administrator field worker and secretary The Social Services Department has many functions the most important being the issu ing of general welfare assistance to any one who may face temporary financuil need because of illness unemployment disability the loss of spouse or some other misfortune icncral welfare assistance provides people III such situations with basic necessities Ap plication must be lnade at the Social Services World on verge of new terror George Ilabbash It is the branch of the PLO responsible for the bnital attack on Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic Games in August tlth The small group which attacked Jewish apartment blocks near the Mulltcrranean shore at Nahariya may have been from the Illl The Palestinian Liberation Army is the overall organization arming the camps and which fights against the Lebanese Syrians It was the major attacks of the PLA against Lebanese hristlan groups and the complete disintegration of Lebanons own army which brought Syrian military occupation of Beirut in late 1077 Whichever branch of the PLO may be committed to wider and worso attacks of international terror the PLO itself has more than enough resources In cash and trained manpower to mount new phase major report on the PLO as an institution iii Time magazine few years ago estimated its net worth at $15 million Sources of its considerable funding are unknown But they could include important cash tribute from antiPLO national leaders III the Arab world who nevertheless support the cause of Palestinian state The root cause for the PLOs existence aild its bitter hostility is the failure of all con tcrncd to find the formula for the earliest formation of an independent Palestinian state on the Jordans West Bank For the Palestinians who do not recognize Israels existence in the first place the proposed autonomous West Batik entity of the amp David Peace Treaty is travesty lhc PLO must concede to Israels existence before any real negotiations from anyones side can begin But even this roadblock is not the main issue it is the continued displacement and disenfranchisement of the Palestinians in that part of the Middle East which is their historic home This must be met and solved or else lnorc terror may be our lot EVER SINCE THE AYATOLLAH COMPOSING ROOM Jack Kerney Ioremon Delve Mills Glenn Kwan asst loreman ctrcuiailons ABC Only the Canadian Press may re publish news stories in II Pabmshfidzay av up this newspaper credited to CF The Associated Press Reuters or Agence aunt and France Presse and local news stories published in The xaminer WEEKLY bY WI The Examiner claims copyrith on all original news and advertising material 90 CW created by its employees and published in this newspaper VEARLY by carrier $4680 Copyright registration number 703315 register at BY Autoer National advertismg attices 65 Queen St Toronto 864 t7l0 640 Cathcart St Montreal SIMCOE COUNTY $3900 MOTOR THROWOFF LSD your ELSEWHERE IN CANADA LN office and only those people who reside within the confines of the City of Barrie may apply There are four types of financial help in the General Welfare Assistanco Program general assistance special assistance sup plementary aid and incentive allowances To day we will look at some of the aspects of general assistance SEEKING EMPLOYMENT General Assistance is often referred to as welfare It is issued to those in financial need to provide ordinary living expenses person qualifying for GWA will receive the difference up to prescribed limit between budgetary needs and income if any An applicant is eligible for welfare if he or she is in financial need and if able is actively seeking employment whether it be fulltime parttime or casual The applicant must also be making reasonable attempts to secure all such employment and person under the age of 18 is not eligible unless there are special circumstances Financial need is defined by legislation which comes from the Provincial Govern ment and person is in financial need when he or she does not have enough money for necessary expenses The municipal welfare administrator takes into account three things to determine whether someone is qualified to receive assistance first the total of the per sons liquid assets second what budgetary needs include and third monthly income if any Liquid assets are assets owned by an ap plicant or dependents that can readily be con verted to cash such as bonds stocks or deposits in banks Budgetary needs are calculated according to the legislation with amounts for ordinary needs shelter and fuel if it is not included in the shelter costs In calculating income earnings from employment are included as are pension ayments and net income from any business lJInemploymcnt Insurance Benefits are counted in full as are pensions and generally most money received that is not specifically excluded is counted EXEMITIONS POSSIBLE Causal gifts donations from religious or charitable organizations family allowances and casual earnings of dependents are not classified as income If income is earned from roomers or boarders exemptions are given to allow for the cost of earning such iii come If the recipient or spouse has job part of the gross earnings may be deducted froln the calculation of income as an incen tive for the person to work As mentioned beforehand General Welfare Assistance is governed by legislation of the government of Ontario and includes other types of financial help besides welfare Besides the other three items aforemen tioncd the Social Services Department of the city of Barrie looks after applications for homes for the aged applications for homemakcrs and nursing services as well as applications for day nursery service wherin the city will subsidize the cost of the care of children in lay care centre should the work ing parent or parents be unable to pay the en tire cost SHES 5EEN AFRAID HELl LEAVE HER FOR The Examiner is member oi The Canadian Press CP and Audit Bureau at The advertiser agrees that the publisher shall not be liable Ior damages ans ing out oi errors in advertisements beyond the amount paid tor the space ac tuaily occupied by that portion at 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 at any advertisement beyond the amount paid tor such advertisement Old retrain in election By LEONARD NOBLE must confess that up to now have not become excited by any of the election issues that the respective Federal leaders have brought to the publics attention Pierre Trudeau appears to be singing an old refrain that quite frankly Ive gotten weary of Joe Clark in my opinion is trying in vain to demonstrate his ability to show his strength as leader but cant help but feel that hes acting the part Meanwhile Ed Broadbent wants to na tionalize everything in sight as panacea to better Canada and thats an old refrain too Maybe thats the reason the polls stand as they do with neither of the two main par ties having clear cut majority Nobody real ly has anything new to offer the people of Canada and the people therefore have re flected their indecision in what seems to be rudderless Country LOOK AT NEWS As matter of fact in order to find anything really exciting that has happened in this last while one has to look at the news in Dade County Florida Whats so exciting in Dade County you ask Well let me tell you Police radar have clocked trees houses and sundry other sta tionary items at speeds of more than 86 miles per hour Yes you read it correctly trees and houses No the radar operator hadnt been drink ing nor was there some gigantic windstorm or the incredible Hulk moving these items It seems that radar machines are no longer as accurate as they once were Apparently radar of some 25 years ago worked better than it does today because it was non moving piece of apparatus that clocked the speed of things moving passed it Now with radar being used in moving police car the device is no longer as accurate as it once was and therefore falsely records speeds of nonmoving objects such as trees and houses PROSECLTII SPEEDEBS Im rather delighted with what has oc curred in Dade County Its not that want to see the police put down or embarrassed As citizen Im just as anxious as anyone else is to see that the laws of this Country are upheld and that Speeders iii particular are pro secuted What pleases me about this whole episode is the fact that machine has finally been proven wrong For example anyone who ever has had any experience with dunning letter sent by computer when you know youve paid the bill knows how exasperating it is to receive un friendly reminder after unfriendly reminder demanding payment forthwith By the same token what defence did have up to now against the oversolicitous police of ficer who wanted to invite me back to have look at the radar scope in his cruiser if doubted that had not exceeded the speed limit If it should ever happen in the future perish the thought perhaps will be able to say with equal solemnity That wasnt me you clocked officer Didnt you see that fast moving hydro pole pass me Interpreting the news Labor Tories running scared By BRUCE LEVETT LONDON tCP Britains two main parties Labor and the Conservatives are accusing each other of running scared Denis Healcy chancellor of the exchequer says anxiety amounting perhaps to panic is developing inside the Conservative ranks and they now are retreating from some of the promises they made Margaret Thatcher in her campaign to become Britains first woman prime minister says scared parties tend to run scare campaigns Healey says there is an unprecendented nervousness about Mrs Thatchers personali ty which is betrayed in the orchestration of articles and leaders editorials about her in Conservative newspapers Sir Geoffrey Howe Conservative treasury spokesman snaps back that any economic forecast from Healey should be regarded as having rather less authority than sermon on democracy by expresident ldi Amin Labor candidates have criticized Con servative promises to cut direct income tax by raising tax thresholds challenging the Tories to state where the lost revenue will be madeup Healcy has promised new Labor government will take million people out of the tax net altogether by increasing in come tax thresholds If there is solid issue in this election it appears to revolve around the power of unions VOTERS ONCERNED After winter of strikes which saw schools close ambulance men refusing to answer calls garbage collectors permitting rubbish to pile up in the streets and food locked on the docks behind picket lines its situation which has voters on both sides concenied Mrs Thatcher has said the Conservatives can work with big unions but that certain re strictions might be in order Prime Minister James Callaghans labor forces say only they can work with the unions despite the disruptions of recent months and that vote for the Tories is vote for union bashing Backing Conservative contentions are such powerful figures as Lord Denning master of the rolls and Sir Robert Mark former head of the Metropolitan Police Lord Dennings remarks during at memosin Westemgltario ndon Ont that trade unions now are alifiost vs the law have brought swift rebuttal here

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