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publisher Stephen Gauer CLASSIFIED Steve White assistant manager vvonne 50795 $3900 by WWW cl advmoment in which the error occurred whether wcti ov Sue Bowen camera operator Peggy Chapell supemsov Doug Boni Hyman MOTOR THROW OFF ror due to rho nogtigonu of in servants or oihnmiu and thorn tell he no ld 260 SWIM Alva LaPtanto Hanson woman sea year my tor nqn IHIMIOH of any advertisement beyond the amount paid for such Cathy 68mm Jance Morton inmon Marv Dean Elzalriggdnon 2015 10mm ELSEWHERE CANADA 1h Publiihu rumv5 tho right to If revn cloudy or roioct on odnriirr Cheryl Aiken KT Paen loo Year mt my The pratfalls of publishing Simcoc County Council is trying to deal with the problem of what to do with two books on county history The problem is that the two books The History of Simcoe County and The Recent Past re not selling and the county has some 10000 copies on its hands Faced with an inventory of $64000 sitting idle the countys solution is to cut the selling price to blow cost and hope the bargain books will be cleared from bookstores The solution makes some sense even if it will cost taxpayers who paid for the books in the first place As Allan McLean of OH Township said better the books are sold at loss than sitting in the vault The county is learning firsthand the pratfalls of publishing where nothing is certain but uncertainty itself Certainly the solution may be logical one at this point And one cant blame the county if the books did not sell as quickly as an ticipated The countys motives were right in the having the books published especially with the dearth of Sir Congratulations to Tony Panacci for his story on Bep Guidolin Examiner Oct 15 Particularly interesting was the fact the Barrie Minor Hockey Assoc did not con tact Hep at the start of the season and ask his assistance with the teams this year Surely one of the innumerable members of the BMHA executive would realize that Bep was available to help out What con tribution this man would make to our minor hockey system certainly the most qualified individual ever available to BMHA tremendous gain to Angus and genuine loss to Barrie Recently Hep indicated his willingness to help out at practice with BMHA team who is presently without full time coach Bcpts interest was discussed with the involv ed executives When mentioned Beps name the convener said WHO After outlining Bcps background it was still Bep Who Now you know why BMHA never ap proached this man Hell most of them dont even know who he is The article quoted Bep saying The NHL is real buddy system Try the BMHA Heres the original buddy system Youre in the executive this year then your buddys coach Reverse it the next year or two letters to the editor historical books to be found on the county The County however may be paying now for what some said was an initial mistake on one of the books That book The Recent Past was critically attacked when it first appeared in print 18 months ago Local historians and longtime residents were upset that the book written by nonresident contained inaccuracies and ommissions Council approved that book with little input about the who how and why of The Recent Past Perhaps if it had listened more carefully coun cil wouldnt be faced with the cur rent problem Were not so sure however that the books dont deserve better fate Theres many fine hours of en joyment to be found in The History of Simcoe County and some good points as well in The Recent Past Ours is tremendous history history that many people and par ticulary children arent completely aware of On that level the books deserve chance And besides the price is right your son and his friends make the same old team and daddy is either coach manager or on the executive Shades of the Family compact They are not all wrong We have good minor hockey system but not very democratic one Most parents are afraid to speak out They know if they do their little Johnny will be cut and relegated to the house league system Too bad the executives of BMHA resent any new blood being involved They tend to overlook veteran locals as Bept and Pete Panagabgo guys with NHL experience and super kids like Wayne Dusome and Rick Bowman who would love to be involved can name 20 others from Barrie with top pro and amateur experience They should ask these people to become involved They know 1000 per cent more about hockey and how to coach the game than many of BMHAs coaches strongly suggest the BMHAs coaches and managers become more aware of qualified people available to help in the system look closer right at home under their noses rather than far afield as has become their custom lately Yours for better sports Peter Puck Some lines acted out as legislature resumes By DEREK NELSON Queens Park Bureau Thomson News Service TORONTO The autumn resumption of the legislative session here has had about as much impact as jello dropping on to feather pillow It was as though the summer recess had never occurred the actors returning to repeat the lines they used during the spring sitting The Liberals took only 26 minutes for example to label the government kissing cousins of the Ottawa Conservatives nice reversal of the charge Bill Davis Tories used to level daily against the provincial Grits Davis took even less time to accuse the Liberals of flipflopping on position this time the new Grit opposition to teacher strikes What the players are really doing is fen cing searching for thrust that will gore one party to the quick so the other will have an edge going into the next election Because none has yet been found were unlikely to troop to the polls before next summer at the earliest and pOssibly as late as 1981 which would be the normal fouryear spacing after the 1977 contest GOOD lliE The problem with an election now is that one cant see any winners emerging from ll oiin losers The voters seem content with the Coir servatives and comfortable with Davis but they dont appear Otllltl111ttl by hiiii ei ther we want your opinion Something on your mind Send Letter to the 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 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 Post Office Box 370 Milli Ont MM FROM THE LEGISLATURE The Liberals are holding strong with Stuart Smith and maybe even making additional impact outside the Liberal wasteland of Metro Toronto Michael Cassidys personal image is atrocious but whether it is hurting the party is doubtful New Democratic Party sup porters are much less swayed by leadership than Tories or Grits An election today would probably look much like rerun of the 1977 sawoff The problem all three parties face is to come up with policies or approaches that will shake the electorate out of their status quo mould And that is going to be tough NOT READY People are in no mood for big spending programs and extravagent promises from politicians which tends to limit their usual routine of bribing people with their own money Knowing this the Conservatives are fostering the image of good administration of overall restraint but of giving extra money where it is really needed like the employment development fund to lure in dustry And that may be what people want At least no great discontent at such an approach is visible The opposition have to find way to crack that shell and it is hard to criticize govern ment for not doing more when the public appear not to want it to do more llElTllRII The NDP have come closest with their continuing assault on what they see as the government disemboweling of the medicare system assidys first question this sitting for example dealing with supposed shortage of hospital beds at hospital here But whether the publics unease over how the medicare system is evolving can be trans lated into holy crusade which rent control became in 1975 is still open to question Most people also believe health costs have been rising far too fast The Liberals have not really focused their attack on one issue as the NDP has but con tinue probing the government on several fronts from teachers strikes Smiths first question this sitting to Ontarios Hydros planning to radiation exposure in Port Hope gStoggering mineral needs require massive spending By VINCENT EGAN Business and Consumer Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service The longplaying public debate on energy supply and demand has tended to overshadow the equally important issue of supply of non fuel minerals The mining industry however is going ahead with major capital expansion projects and being urged to expand much more vigorously if long term demand is to be met complicating factor here as with energy and other industries is the impact of inflation including rising interest rates on the cost of expansion The recent increase in interest rate levels is not expected to deter major mining pro grams already under way says com mentary by Moss Lawson and Co Ltd brokers Most mining company managements are taking the attitude that higher interest costs will be reflected in the runup in metal prices that has already occurred The level of activity appears to indicate not only the demand for wide variety of metals but the degree of optimism in the industry as whole That optimism is reflected not only in the primary projects but also in the major acquisitions that are taking place at the sec ondary level In the most notable recent example cash rich Brascan Ltd has paid about $190 million to acquire roughly 105 per cent of Noranda Mines Ltd and rumors suggest that Brascan will seek bigger stake in Noranda STAGGERING NEED Raymond Mikesell an expert in mining economics concludes in newly published study that major shortages of nonfuel minerals are possible unless the world mining industry dramatically increases its in vestment South Africa winds down oppresive apartheid policy By JOHN IIARBRON Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service The whites only signs on all public buildings in South Africa are coming down The laws prohibiting intermarrlage and sexual relations between blacks and whites will soon be gone Restaurants in this most racist of modern industrial nations will no longer be able to re serve places for blacks and whites The unbelievable is taking place under orders from South African Prime Minister Pieter Botha who has turned out to be somewhat unbelievable himself When he was elevated to the Prime Ministership last year at this time the South African government was teetering from major scandal with international ramifications Prime Minister John Vorster was forced to resign over major misuse of public funds to develop global propaganda mechanism for the South African government The estimated $100 million involved had included the founding and publishing of governmentowned daily newspaper overtures to buy control of the financially ailing Washington Star personal ex propriation of such funds by public servants appointed to administer it Other than the enormity of the scandal the whole exercise was meant to sanitize the record and performance of government determined at heart to perpetuate apartheid MlSJLIGEMENT Presumably Botha who had been the hard Iine antiCommunist Defence Minister would be the man to keep South Africa on the straightandnarrow racist path while cleaning up the scandal The former he has not done Instead he is deep into the process of unwinding historic apartheid to the detriment and anger of rightwing Afrikaaners who wish the op pressive system left untouched The measures listed above affecting some of the most acute racist laws in the country are only part of Bothas planned swift changes YOUR BUSINESS fStaggering is the word used by Dr Mikesell of the University of Oregon to de scribe both the global need fornew mining and processing capacity and the amount of money that will be required to create that capacity gt Global investment in minerals may have to rise from $2 billion per year in recent years to an average of $125 billion per year from now to the end of the century he estimates in report published by the Howe Research Institute Montrealbased non profit fthink tank All values are stated in 1977 dollars Ac tual requirements would therefore be con siderably higher Dr Mikesell estimates that 40 per cent of this annual total would be needed for new capital investment in socalled developing countries that have large unexploitcd reserves of minerals In recent years however the multinational mining enterprises have shown tendency to shift much of their exploration and development away from such countries and into the more developed parts of the world HOSTIIE HOSTS Obviously foreign investors will not be attracted to deve10ping countries unless the investment climate improves substantially says Dr Mikesell Currently government controls and excessive taxation and the threat of contract violations probably constitute greater de terrents to foreign investment than does outright expropriation Others include scrapping all laws which have reserved senior positions in government and industry to whites the almost total in tegration of South Africa sport allowing blacks to form trade unions The simmering black communities of South Africa remembering the devastation police killings and butchery of Soweto in 1976 are just as staggered at Bothas complete turn around as are extremist racists Both sides are reacting this way for dif ferent reasons the blacks because it is hard to believe genuine end to their bondage is at hand the extreme racists because the old order may be going at last Botha was perhaps the most unlikely senior member of the racist National Party to move this way as man of hardline views irrascible temper and sharing Afrikaaner paranoia about blacks ever taking over The change apparently reflected other strong character traits in the man new use of hat one observer calls his blind courage and his administrative skills What ever the impetus was to give this man his personal conversion kind of Afrikaaner RoadtoDamascus vision South Africa with the modern worlds worst racist record appear to be changing forever This does not mean that Mr Botha still very much aware of the threats to his country from the black and proMarxist Patriotic Front will let down the countrys defenses WILL AID RHODESIA He has told the black Rhodesian Prime Minister Bishop Abel Muzarewa that South Africa will intervene militarily in Rhodesia if the selfproclaimed independent country at any time faces overwhelming invasion or the possibility of defeat from Patriotic Front gierrilla forces By STEWART MaclEOD Ottawa Bureau Thomson News Service Considering the difficulties encountered by Prime Minister Joe Clark in the im plementation of his campaign promises the Israeli embassy move and the proposed $2 billion tax cut being the most notable perhaps it isnt surprising that hes deter mined to pursue the socalled privatization of PetroCanada He probably feels he cant enter another election campaign without some of his major promises being implemented and its sure bet that such commitments as the embassy move and the tax cut wont be in place by then But the privatization or at least the partial privatization of PetroCanada is practical possibility and the Clark govern ment will probably pounce on it And if this decision is made there is no doubt that the government can succeed Both the Liberals and New Democrats boast that they will fight to the finish to prevent such move but we all know where that finish line is It is on the safe side of an election thats where NV1CTION ular as their PetroCanada cause may neither the Liberals nor the New Demo ats want an early election an election which would almost certainly see the return of Tory government perhaps with majority Before another election is called the New Democrats desperately need an in fusion of cash and there are good many Liberals who feel that their party before going back to the people needs new infusion of leadership Its worth noting that shortly after Liberal energy critic Marc Lalonde said his party would fight the Tory proposals with every means at our disposal that 10 Liberals found it necessary to miss crucial Commons vote on the question It will happen again and if necessary again No there is no doubt that Clark despite all the brave challenges from the opposition has free hand to do pretty well what he wants with PetroCanada And now that he has task force report recommending partial privatization he probably will follow this course PetroConoo dismantling could be giant blunder PARLIAMENT HILL Originally Clark has pledged to dismantle PetraCanada Crownagency he once de scribed as turkey But after this the organization began gaining in popularity as Canadians with some good reasons worried about overseas fuel supplies being left in the hands of multinational corporations And besides this PetroCanada was becoming in volved in some worthwhile oiI discoveries Public opinion polls indicated that an overwhelming majority of Canadians wanted the agency left alone The Clark government established task force on the subject just as it appointed oneman commission to find an escape route from that dumb proposal to move the Canadian embassy in Israel ESCAPE ROLTE The task force to the surprise of no one came up with complicated scheme that would permit the government to implement its privitization pledge while maintaining Crown agency to negotiate statetostate contracts for oil and to promote exploration in highrisk areas of the country PetroZanada would in effect be split into two with Canadians being given shares in the profitable side while the government pumps the necessary funds into the other side to en courage exploration research and other immediaterunprofitable ventures We wouldnt even have to buy shares in the profitable side of PetroCanada the task force suggested that they be distributed to Canadians free of charge Actually the task force provides the government with remarkably easy method of implementing its campaign promise And with little to fear from the opposition war nings Prime Minister Clark will probably go along with the recommendations Canadian hog producers could face price collapse OTTAWA CP The number of hogs on Canadian farm has increased almost 20 per cent from last year despite dire warnings that pig producers are expanding themselves into major price collapse While it could mean even lower pork prices in the grocery stores it could spell bankruptcy for young farmers with higii overhead costs Statistics Canada reported this week that the estimated number of pigs at July was 86 million up 19 per cent from the same time in 1978 However the federal agency had bad news for beef fanciers The number of beef cows and heifers is down one per cent from last year That means there has been no increase in the number of cattle kept by farmers for breeding slowing down any increase in the national beef herd which could bring relief from high beef prices The agency found there was also only minute increase in the number of steers which are the source of steaks and prime cuts I948 leadership contest cliffhanger all the way The convention electing Leslie Frost as suc cessor to George Drew was cardstoclose tovest contest until George Doucett played his key card Don tliieain tells of the crucial campaign in his Looking Back series today By DON OHEARN Queens Park Bureau Thomson News Service The Conservative convention that named successor to George Drew not only had an important influence on the future of the province it was also cliffhanger of cliff hangers From the time that Leslie Blackwell broke traces with his statement three days after Drew had won the national leadership there was tension and behind the scenes fancy work Blackwell wasnt knocked out by the statement far from it He was tremendously popular and respected by both politicians and the public and particularly in the lower ranks of the party Tracebreaker or not he was accepted asthe man to beat But there were two interests dead set against him One was the party establishment The second major opposition was Drew Above all the provincial Tories at that time had superb political machine while the federal group sharp distinction was kept between the two was shambles Drew desperately wanted to blend this machine into Ottawa and he knew he wouldnt stand chance of this with his former attorney general as leader The opponents knew they needed time Blackwell would probably win an early con vention so the first thing they did was put the contest off for full six months to late April in 1949 Next the antigroup had to find candidate This wasnt that much of problem The two main points needed were that he have some stature and most importantly that he could be controlled be pliable The choice of Leslie Frost was almost automatic This seems strange now in view of his later great prominence but in 1948 Frost was largely unknown man in Ontario politics He did have some standing for he had been in the house since 1937 and treasurer and minister of mines since 1943 However putting him in office was another problem and hard one THE KEY There was unique situation at the time in that highways and public works minister George Doucett had extraordinary political power He controlled the two patronage por tfolios which meant most private members and party stalwarts in ridings the PCs didnt hold were in his debt It was conceded that Be could win the leadership himself in walk if he wanted it If he didnt want it he could nrobablv steer LOOKING BACK enough votes to elect pretty well whom he liked Doucett played it absolutely cool and wouldnt commit himself in any way For long time there was scuttlebutt that he would himself run And at one point he probably did consider it but he at least knew himself Though he was powerful man and had powerful presence he knew he wasnt leader at the provincial level It finally became known he wouldnt run But it also became known he wasnt throwing his dice with anybody either He didnt have all that much use for Frost who was his opposite and whom he considered fuddyduddy And when Blackwell saw him though he didnt say no he also wouldnt say Blackwell would have been his logical choice They had good many similarities in temperament Blackwell had been farm boy but he would have been afraid of the attorneygeneral who had so dominated the government DOLLETIE SWLNII The six months wore on and Doucett didnt commit himself The Frost candidacy was formally announced couple of others Kelso Roberts and Dana Porter later to be attorneygeneral and chief justice also got in And the organization work was going on But there was an atmosphere not seen before or since Everybody knew Doucett was the key and he wasnt opening the door There was talk of support here and blocs there but the overwhelming tone was uncertainty Then came convention time It was to open on Thursday with voting on Saturday at the Royal York in Toronto On the Tuesday the word spread Doucett had made up his mind he was going to throw for Frost And he did Even then it was no walkover On the day of voting Drew was down on the floor lobbying furiously Upstairs Doucett had spent the night campaigning The pressure was on right to voting time For some strange reason Frost didnt appear until the lastminute Though all the effort pushed through win it was only by 25 votes and at that there was talk of ballotbox stuffing After the vote the leaders of the party machine beamed with satisfaction and George Drew was never so affably pleased few days later it was announced there would be new office in the provincial government There was for the first time to be deputy premier The incumbent would be George Doucett