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llursday Sept 27 1979 CIRCULATION 7266539 NEWSROOM 7266537 the examiner servmg borne and simcoe county Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited l6 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario LAM 4T6 Bruce Rowland publisher ADVERTISING 7266537 CLASSIFIEDS 7282414 Implement inquest jury suggestions fivenienibeijury has done itsjob and done it well in issuing recommendations following an inquest into last Januarys tragic bustruck accident on Highway 101 near Barrie Some of the recommendations are so basic its wonder they havent been common practice all along The jury for example recommended that bus drivers have at least two years driving experience before being permitted tomake highway trips lhats one recommendation wed like to see put into effect immediately Obviously theres major difference between driving bus on city streets to the hazards of highway lll irig esrwcially in winter llriving or more students over long distances is serious itsjmnsibility that should be handler by exlxirienced drivers on ly The inquest jury wisely pointed out the fact Testimony during the threoday inquest revealed that the bus driver involved in the fatal crash was not given special winter driving instruction The jury recommendatirn that drivers be trained in skid control and other emergency pro cedures makes good sense Another important recrmmendation involves teacher or adult having authority to call offa student bus trip once they are under way if driving conditions appear too hazardous The Borough of York has already adopted this idea and it is one that other school boards should follow Not all the jury recommendations may be so urgent The suggestion that school buses limit their speed to 33 kinhr in construction zones seems little too slow under normal cir cumstances The slow speed however would be appropriate when driving conditions are poor lheres no way of knowing of course if the recommenda tions could have averted the tragedy that cost foiir young students their lives last January But they do reduce the likelihood of such tragedy occur ring in the future Dear Editor Your editorial Middle ground on human relations Examiner Sept 24 at first glance seems fair to both parties STORE and the SCBE But do you realize that the guidelines set down by the ministry of education on moral and value education are not compulsory It is up to the local school boards to assess the needs of their jurisdic tion In recent interview regarding this matter the minister of educa tion said there has to be major difficiency and dire need for such program The primary respon sibility is with the parents The school is to give career and social guidance Also Dr Stephenson mentioned the most critical aspect of education is to take from it ap propriate values This is very dif ficult because of the diverse value systems Now STORE respects the parents rights to the kind of educa tion they wish for their children Ar ticle 26 United Nations STORE parents do not wish the human rela tions program for their children STORE seeks education that sees itself as an extension of the home and not the home as an extension of the school Your businesi By VINCENT EGAN Business and oiisumer Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service The accounts of waste in public spending during the Trudeau years are legion lts extravagance was probably primary reason for the Liberal governments defeat and not as todays government seems to think Joe Clarks promise of new way to waste billions But even though the Trudeau government has gone along with couple of its deputy fi nance ministers it has left behind legacyof stubborn dedication to billiondollar white elephants Nowhere is that plainer than in the case of the second airports for our two biggest Cities In his new book Paper Juggernaut Big Government Gone Mad McClelland and Stewart 207 pages $1495 former journalist Walter Stewart describes Montreals four yearold second airport Mirabel as the worlds largest white elephant Pickering the proposed srte of second lorontoarea airport is termed 35000 acre wasteland Mirabel is in operation its vast facrlities awaiting hordes of passengers who may never come Those who do come do so reluctantly because the govemment iriSists that some airlines use Mirabel rather than the much more convenient Dorval airport NOT DEAD YET The Trudeau government ostensibly etters to the editor It does not seem unrealistic to have the human relations program course completely separate from other subjects The following steps could be the solution Put forth in formation to all parents and students about the course Make them parents and students fully aware of who will be teaching this course and how Then if parents wish their children to be taught this course they sign up for it Why not challenge the SCBE to work firsthand with the parents to benefit those who could most the children Sincerely Nixon Dear Editor We would like to thank all the peo ple in this community who gave summer clothing bedding eye glasses and money for the people of the Dominican Republic left homeless by Hurricane David The response from Barrie people has been very gratifying and we are most grateful special thank you to the many volunteers who helped with the col lection and packaging of donated items Sincerely Mrs Judi Shields Barrie Airport madness tale of two cities abandoned the Pickering project in 1978 after the Ontario government said it would refuse to build access highways grumpy Pierre Trudeau shrugged and said typically that the hundreds of millions of dollars would just be spent elsewhere But the politicians and bureaucrats havent accepted defeat at Pickering and it seems like that they will try to revive the proposal one ay Theres team at the department of Transport team of architects planners developers designers whose sole survival is based on building bigger and better air ports former Air Transport Board chair man Paul Davoud has said Mirabel was classic case They had to have an airport and that was that Granted air travel was growing rapidly during the 19605 when the bureaucrats started to push for second airports at Mon treal and Toronto But the nature of the airline busmess was also changing Airplanes were bigger and had longer ranges and the market servedby the Toronto airport at Malton was expanding much faster than the Montreal travel market Yet the bureaucracy ignored IIIOCOSII lessons of earlier expansions first at Gander later at Halifax both completed just in time to be useless to the longerrange airplanes that had no further need to refuel at those airports IIISINESS 7266537 the Born Examiner Is member at The Canadian Frau CF and Audit Iunou ol Circulations ABCI Only tho Canadian Press may ropublish new storm in this newspaper credited to The Associated Frau Routers or Agonco Franco Praise and local new storms published In The In Examnor sorrows ADVERTISING BUSINESS 332333513 Published 15in except Craig Elson managing editor Len SeVick manager Mafia G0th MWmanl 09 KW yoreman Sunday and 53 ommahsywvwno Delve Mills Don Saunders statutory holidays BItMcFarlane wire editor SALES vtkkrcrant Lumewass WEEKLVIDV can REPORTERS WayneHav CMNH wilt Caaogan 95cents StephenNichoHs Aden Sintin Jean Bass Wrav YEARLYM came Dennis Lanthier Steve Skinner BIII Raynor Nancy Figueroa Barb Boulton Ron Giloer Lori Cohen Calvin Felepchuk Ed Alum By MAIL Barrie Tony Panacci Peter Clark CIRCULATION Jame Hamel Richard Thomas Bill Halkes manager Susan xntnen SIMCOE COUNTY Stephen Gauer CLASSIFIED Steve White assistant manager Vvonne Sierps $39 00 Sue Bowen camera operator Terry Field Cathy Heather Mary Delaney Freda Stunner Janice Morton By JOHN IIARRRON Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service The economic and social crises facing the United States in the 1980s are clear to view and constantly analyzed This is not true of the internal affairs of the USSR the other superpower in our unsettled world The fact is the Soviet Union like the United States goes into the 19805 with deep concerns about leadership economic growth an adequate work force and enough national defense Present senior Soviet leadership is aging ailing and may no longer represent the aspirations of the millions of Russians born in the decades since World War Two There is no sign the younger Russian masses will ever rise up against the harsh Communist system under which they live because that selfsame system offers educational and job advantages to millions of them But the 1970s have shown clear indication by Soviet youth for example to have some of the freedoms to travel share firsthand the best and perhaps even the worst of other culs tures Soviet economic performance like that of Peggy CnapeII superwsor Doug Bani PRESSRCOM Va Lapame Al Hanson loreman Elfin3850 Don Near asst toreman Fred Pr nce Cheryl Aiken Kim Pattenden the United States and Canada has declined from the per cent averages of the 1950s During the 19605 the annual growth rate had slipped one per cent and by the mid1970s was down to 35 per cent SOVIET GROWTH DROI CIA study on the Soviet future predicts this figure will drop to about 25 per cent in the early 1980s Sound familiar The USSR does face problem with her work force which is substantially different from the Canadian While our labor force will grow during the early 1980s the Soviet one faces slowdown Part of the reason given by the Soviets themselves is the immense death toll of World War Two this was in excess of 20 million Russians who might have been the parents of larger group of children in their twenties and late teens Another item from the major CIA study is that reservoir of peasants and women who did menial work in the 1950s has now aged retired and disappeared not to be replaced The Soviet Union also anticipates reduction in oil output which still remains large and with enough to meet all domestic needs Again the study suggests the industrial CAN 0ND SAY AT Tilt ilk1E 11m MR NKOMO HA SHrFfED trio ftfililttt it it silt tttcotittirissiztsitt MOTOR THROW OFF 541 Sanear ELSEWHERE IN CANADA 541 00a year advertisement mom Soviet Union heads into 805 with serious economic woes slowdown predicted by its study for the mid 19ttos will result in the need to import oil The lA portion of this study which was prepared for NATO needs was augmented by intelligence analyses from the defense ministries of some NATO nations on future Soviet military strength Here we see pattern of present and future growth unprcctxlcnted by any great power and not likely to change Soviet output of tanks missiles nuclear submarines and longrange bombers already outstrips the combined American and NATO member resources in these areas This greater outpouring of weapons before and during the SALT ll treaty discussions in the US Congress is major reason so many American legislators are balking at giving this treaty for arms limitation the support it needs for acceptance In fact major reason for predicted in dustrial downturn in the USSR in the 19805 and the present beginning of that trend which Moscow does not deny is the immense Soviet outlay for armaments During the 1970s between 11 and 13 per cent of gross national product GNP of the USSR went to the military with staggering 70 per cent of that large total for research and weapons testing simcoe yesteryear Barrie council was in 33jp reloxed mood when this photograph was taken back in i906 Council members were top row left to right Lovering Clerk Donnell Garden Chief King Lowe Alex Cowan Se cond row left to right Turner McMoron Geo Wilson Mayor Ross Beardsley Strange Watt Front row Horsfield Stephens Photo courtesy Simcoe County Archives Th Barrie Examiner claims copyright on all original now and advertising material created by employees and published in this newspaper Copyright registration number WIS register odnrtnor agrees that the publisher shall not be Itflbl for domogts oming out at orrou OdVInISCMOHN boyond the amount patd for the space actually occupied by that portion at the advertisement in which the error occurred whether such rm due to the negligence ol tIS servants or otherwise and than shall be no liabilty lor non insertion ol any advisomer bade the amount paid to such IN Publisher reserves the Vth to edit CYIS cloudy or tact an advertn From the legislature Program adds $95 monthly By DEREK NELSON Queens Park Bureau Thomson News Service TORONTO To understand the principle behind the provinces new work incentive program for welfare recipients anobservcr has to grasp only one fact The province has financial problems person who moves into the work force at the minimum wage could gain $100 month additional income under the scheme while saving the government $272 in support payments Not that the government is portraying the program in those termer Community and social services minister Keith Norton said the new initiative reflects the governments desire to reward self sufficiency and independence for those wan ting to reduce or eliminate their dependence on social assistance Basicallyit gives cash benefit of between $95 and $185 month depending on family size forup to two years for those who take fulltimejobs NOT BAI It is major break from traditional in come security programs which create dependency This initiative is aimed at removing disincentives to work Norton said All very true but it took the current financial crunch government faces to finally convince community and social services to do something that should have been done and was suggested two decades ago None of this is to say the new scheme is either bad or should be scrapped But it is little too soon to shout hosannas from the rooftops either waitandsce attitude is the best ap proacli One has to be somewhat sceptical about how many of the 110000 people on welfare really want to work WELFARE LMS The Family Benefits Work Group welfare pressure group has already taken jaundiced view of the incentive program Only the parent is in position to decide when to enter the labor force and she should not be forced into that decision Any work or retraining incentive must not lesson the im portance of the staysathome role the youp said There is in fact an excuse for those with preschool children in that there is shor tage of day care facilities But for those with older children that reason doesnt hold water If any excuse holds water mind you OTHER SIDE Several letterstotheeditor in newspapers here are from women who note they not only raised their children while alone but worked fulltime as well They rightfully resent that others lack their pride and require cash bribe to seek work Is it not enough to work for yourself and your child one woman asked Still with all that said the program is important for one segment of welfare recipients Those discouraged in the past from taking lowpaying jobs because they can do better financially not working will now have the chance theyve been seeking If for no other reason that makes the program plus interpreting the news French party shows strength By BRUCE LEVETT LONDON CP The splintered Rassem blement pour la Republique party in France is showing signs of new unity as Jacques Chirac breaks his long silence to return to the political stage Chirac projected conciliatory image unusual for him in his address to the partys central committee The speech was his first major appearance since his Gaullist party held their painful postmortem on the Euro pean election three months ago His new quiet approach is seen as bid to bring the Gaullist movement and public sup port behind him with view to providing credible Gaullist candidate in the presiden tial election to be held in 18 months The approach contrasts markedly with his earlier fierce attacks on the French govern ment for which the Gaullists provide the largest body of voting support in parliament Chirac lost the support of influential party members who distrusted him He now concedes errors may have been made in the partys campaign for the Euro pean election The Gaullists hit rock bottom with only 16 per cent of the votes fewer than any of the countrys three other major par ties FIRED ADVISERS After the election he fired two of his closest advisers Pierre Juillet and Marie France Garaud who were influential in the party Chirac was confirmed as leader but his tac tics were sharply criticized Chirac who was President Giscard dEsta ings first prime minister says his party needs reform in its structures habits methods and language to reinforce internal cohesion His campaign toward this end however will not be directed against the government in parliament he Says The political changes we seek cannot come from political manoeuvre in which the Socialist and Communist opposition would participate in pursuit of different objec tives he says However there is no indication that Chirac and his party will ease their pressures on the government insofar as policy is concerned He speaks of increasing exasperation in France and warns this could provoke some brutal reactions His new appeal goes directly to the people