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the examiner Tuadaynruiy 31 1979 serwng borne and simcoe county Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited to Baytield Street Barrie Ontario L4M 4T6 Bruce Rowland publisher NEWSROOM 20 653 CIRCULATION 76 6539 ADVEITISING 726 6537 CLASSIFIEDS 7282414 Dont delay any longer For almost five years now Barrie and Innisfil have been bickering over proposal to give the city land for growth The dispute is becoming comical The Ontario government has already made clear in its policy decisions of the last decade that it believes Barrie needs the disputed area On top of that the Ontario Municipal Board has ruled Barrie should be given the land the annexation approved Innisfil has made point of claiming population figures us ed in arguing for annexation may not be accurate or founded The township could be right In the future Barrie will undoubtedly need the annexed area There is little doubt about that the question is one of timing Innisfil does not want to see the land handed over before Barrie needs it The township is asking to have the move justified All that is well and good Indeed that is the proper course of events What is happening now though is ludicrous Innisfil has had several months to get ready for supreme court hearing its arguments should have been prepared long ago yet it claims it is unable just now to file the information needed to hear the case Whos kidding whom If the township doesnt have the in formation to give the court what has it been arguing about for the last half decade By stalling or merely appearing to stall Innisfil has tarnished its image dispute that appeared to be headed for resolution with both sides acting in good faith is jeopardized If Innisfil isnt acting in good faith cant file the information or isnt prepared to find fair solution it should drop the whole mat ter Too much time and effort has already gone into solving the problem without one party stringing the other along Give company chance to explain Hayesllana Corp is to be commended for acting promptly to investigate reports that its new plantunder construction in Innisfil Township is adversely affecting wells of nearby homes Ten homes on Huronia Street near the new plant report problems with their well water eight say their wells are dry while two others find their water is muddy Its easy to understand the homeowners concern not only are the residents inciinvenienced but they could face con siderable expense to restore proper water to their homes What is difficult to understand is why HayesDana was apparently unaware of the situation until after it was raised at Innisfil Council Unfortunately the council story was then widely reported without contacting HayesDana for their side of the story The Examiner did contact HayesDana before it printed the story to give both sides their say And when it was contacted the company made it clear that was the first they had heard about the matter HayesDalia is rightly concerned not only for the residents wellbeing but for the adverse publicity Without the chance to defend itself As company spokesman said HayesDana is concerned and doesnt want to have people running out of water Surely the company should have had the opportunity to say that from the onset Since locating in Barrie Hayes Ilana has earned the reputation as responsible corporate citizen Now it is expanding providing important local job opportunities Reporting problem at Hayesllama or anywhere else without chance for rebuttal is not our idea of fair play Your business VINCENT Ith Business and onsuntcr Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service interest rates in Canada as recent headlines proclaim have reached record high but theres no guarantee that they into not gocvcn higher The Bank of Canada increased the bank rule largely symbolic by onehalf of percentage poml to 11 75 per cent ctlcctivc ltll 23 ilicforc the latest series of eight such Ill creascs began the record high had been percent from March toNovcmbcrol 1971 Canadas chartered banks as usual havc acted upon the signal lrom tlic central bank and liIISttl their prime lending rate by ball point to 13 per ccnl This is the interest chiirgcd on loans to the banks most credit worthy business borrowers 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 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 years to button to the Editor Tito Examiner Put Office Box 370 MIRIE Ont MM Interest rates Is this the top That means that costs to be faced by any anadian borrower are going to rise by the same amount apart frotn slight variations reflecting local conditions or the borrowers bargaining position and that interest paid to savers and investors should also increase by half percentage point To the professionals of the money market the latest increase in interest rates comes as no surprise whatever It had been clearly foreshadowed by the rapid rate of growth of bank loans in Canada General loans have risen by 203 percent in the 12 months to midl979 but at the annual rate of 332 per cent in the month of June alone Such big rise in borrowing by business and industry might give the impression that economic activity is expanding pro portlonatcly It isnt Residential construction is weak lzirin borrowings are lower theres no boom lll capital spending projects and consumer credit and retail sales are relatively flat That just leaves one explanation for the heavy borrowing activity Business and iii duslry are building up their inventories probably in anticipation of more rapid in flation as well as of strikes and scattered shortages Todays inventory accumulation is tomorrow slowdown when the warehouse is bulging company is likely to stop buying and to live off its stock on hand until its time tor the inventory cycle to begin all over again As with every increase in bank rate and prime rate the Jilly 23 move has been another occasion for politicians either to deplore or to cxplain away with the cliches that are expected each limc this happens The truth however is that the Bank of anada had no choice but to raise Canadian interest rates when the United States British and Japanese authorities are gorng the same Failure to have raised our rates would have brought still turther drop in the value of the Canadian dollar BUSINESS 7266537 EDITORS Craig Elson managlng editor lanMulorewclty editor SALES Bill McFarlane wire editor Bert Stevens REPORTERS Warnerlav Dave Fuller Aden smith Claudia Krause Steve Stunner Stephen Nicholls Barb Boullon Dennis Lanthler Nancy Figueroa Lori Cohen Richard Thomas Stephen Gauer Betty Armor camera operator Terry Field Peter Hsu Cathy Heather CLASSIFIED Freda Stunner Janice Morton Parliament Hill By STEWART MaclEOD Ottawa Bureau Thomson News Service Just because new government has come to power since we last paused to ponder the wondrous ways in which our money is spent we are happy to report that nothing has changed Our bureaucratic ingenuity for pinpointing peculiar projects obviously transcends all electoral disruptions In our last glance at cash outflow we were clearly impressed with two contracts totalling $151000 which would produce additional informatio in connectio with the By JOHN HARBRON Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News 89 The several eff industrialization by the Peoples Repuun ef China since its foundation on October 1949 all failed because China refused to accept large role for Western technology in her planned mod emization It is true that selected major projects chiefly the nationwide dambuilding programs of the 19505 and 19605 were com pleted with massive use of manpower in place of machines This was an astonishing accom plishment which was publicized on film by the Chinese American earthmoving equipment of the kind used in China prior to the Communist Revolution chiefly to build allied air bases during World War Two was what China needed but could not buy Not only was there bitter cold war bet ween Washington and Peking during those decades but China did not have the large reserves of hard currency needed to purchase foreign machinery As result the muchpublicized Great Leap Forward of the late 19505 was farless successful in industrializlng China than Peking admitted at the time Communist Chinese industrial thrusts were also upset substantially by the internal ideological upheaval of 196768 called the Cultural Revolution N0 WESTERN TIES Many of the Chinese leaders who could have brought Western technology into China were hounded out of office and accused of edisloyalty to the Communist system The chief reason for this was their earlier DOIlT COUNT THAT DROVIll KID OUT UNDERSTAND HES THINKING 0F ADVERTISING Len Sewck manager Calvin Felepcnuk Peogy Cnapell SUDQFVISOY an Howcmy Dana Homewood BUSINESS Maian Gough accountant Delve Mills Vikki Grant Connie Hart Jean Bass Don Saunders Lorne Wass Wilt Cadoqnn Stan Wray Bill Raynor Ron Gilder Ed Allenby Janie Hamel Susan Kitchen Yvonne Sierps CIRCULATION Bill Halkes manager Steve WHITE aSSlSanl manaaer PRESSROOM Al Hanson foreman Don Near asstloreman Fred Prince Kim Pattenden Alva LaPIame Lisa Warrv Elaine Porter Cheryl Aiken lit Perils was gas wminwagnmlldw slamming dynamic interaction between railway train and its tracks There was also another contract to produce night oil slick finder not to mention that $2500 contract for an analysis of winter habitat use by moose Well in the latest batch of outside con tracts the one that first caught my eye and the one that proves our spending ingenuity is undiluted gives suburban Ottawa firm $218000 to conduct slamming experiments on warship hulls Quite apart from the fact there isnt warship hull will issile range of suburban China looks to the West education in the schools and universities of theWest But now all has changed The new Chinese leadership has opened the doors to outside technology and management method because it is determined to see China become modern industrial nation in the 19805 The Peoples Republic of China admits publicly to record trade gap from buying both equipment and expertise in large quantities from the United States Western Europe and Japan Last June Chinese VicePremier Yu ChiuIi announced the trade gap could rise to record $26 billions to finance imports Trade figures released by the Chinese for the first half of 1979 show deficit of $15 bil lions to date At the same time Chinese exports are at record high $62 billions for the first six months of 1979 or about 30 per cent higher than in the same period last year Both coal and oil output have increased as well as textile production commodity which is one of the countrys major exports to the West and to Asia China must increase her export potential to meet the massive new payments for so much imported technology most revealing aspect of this current development is the openness of the Chinese in releasing trade and production figures where none of an exact or accurate nature was released before MUST GO PUBLIC Part of the reason has to be the necessity of the Peking Government to publish its per formance figures at time when China is also openly seeking large foreign bank and indus trial loans combosmo ROOM Jack Kerney foreman Glenn Kwan asst foreman Ill CHAPPAQUIDDICK FOR THE AUTHOR OF BRIDGE T00 PM The Barn Examnor is mambo of Tho Canadian Pro CF and Audit Bureau of Published daily except statutory holidays WE EK LY by carrier Circulation ABC Only the Canadian Frau may ropublixh now toriu in this SuncaV newspaper croditod to CF The Anotth Pms Imion or AW pram pm ind local now storiu published in Tho Barrio Examinor I75 Cent The Demo Extorninor claims copyright on all original now and odvmising motrial YEARLY by carrier S19 40 Bv MAIL Barric croatod by its ornployou and publishod in this nowspapar bpyright ragishotion numbor mars rogistor $49 40 The odyortisor agrees that tho publisher shall not be liablo for damages arising out SIMCOE COUNTY of OWNS in advertisements beyond tho amount paid for tho spaco actually copied $39 00 by that portion of tho advertisement in which the orror occurrod whothor Iudt MOTOR THROW OFF 541 Sanear ELSEWHERE IN CANADA $11 00ayear advertisement mom Ottawa am not clear on why these hulls should be slammed anyway Might be better to patch them up and see if we can get another year out of them OUTDO THEMSELVES In our last examination of these contracts thought our bureaucrats had gone as far as they could with insects awarding $103000 project for feasibility analysis of the pro posed Canada biting fly centre But under rated their persistcnce They are back this time with $35000 contract for the preparation of illustrations for manual of Canadian wolf spiders Just whatwe need Another one that appeals to me is an $11000 contract awarded to Saskatoon man for the design development and im plementation of management trainee courses covering wheat farming in Tanzania If the Tanzanians get tired of growing wheat perhaps we can interest them in correspondence course on hull slamming see that Vancouver firm has picked up an $11000 contract for the thermophillic conversion of wood waste into animal feed while Fredericton company gets $38000 contract for the development of process for the conversion of cull potatoes and potato waste into liquid molasses Before all this money is spent it might be an idea to feed the potatoes to the animals and see whether we can get molasses out of wood Actually wasnt aware we needed to find an alternate source of molasses Solar energy yes but not molasses QUIETER CHIPPERS Why the government would spend $5000 for the procurement of floppy disc system beats me but that is mere chickenfeed compared with the $139000 being spent for the development of nondestructive testing techniques for ceramics That in turn is mere chickenfeed compared with the $480000 for an investigation of noise control techniques for wood chippers That kind of money would buy good man ear muffs When it comes to pure scientific projects its very difficult to know whether we are getting good value for our money For all know that $10000 contract for an in vestigation of impulsive micropulsation activity associated with substorms in the midnight sector might be the bargain of lifetime And considering the fact that few months ago the government spent $38000 for study into the behavior of whelping harp seals in the Gulf of St Lawrence its amazing that we now are getting seabird atlas of Britiin Columbia for mere $250 But then there never has been any consistency in these spending projects as we learned early this year when it was revealed that $410000 was being spent on the development of an analysis system for the detection of trace pollutants in exhaled breath rot duo to tho nogligonco of its servants or otborwiso and thorn shall no liability lor non innrtion at any odvortIsomont beyond tho amount paid for wet Tho Publisher rosarys tho right to odit rows classify or royoct on odvortiu Lets have poll By LEONARD NOBLE Much as it is summertime and things political are pretty well lying dormant in the summer heat the Ontario Government ap pears to be proceeding with its plan to ban publication or broadcasting of information received from public opinion polls during 0n tario election campaigns Typically some politicians are in favor of polls whereas others are opposed to them feeling that rather than assessing the current position of the voters the polls act as per suasive influence in the way people will vote 0n the other hand the argument is that providing people with information is part of the democratic process and that to ban opi nion polls during election time would be blow to that freedom of information Much as Dr George Gallup feels that he started the whole system of polls in 1929 for the purpose of gauging public opinion polls in one form or another have been with us for longtime For example the spectators in the ancient Roman Forum were asked their opinion on whether gladiator should live or die by holding their thumbs up or down Sorry Charlie says the Forum super visor to the fighter youre just not crowd pleaser Ijust got the count from the Thumb Counters and there are more down than up so off you go to the lions EASED POLLS Mind you the banning of polls in Canada is not unique The Province of British Columbia has had that kind of legislation since 1965 when the late Premier Bennetts Social Credit Government put stop to elec tion polls This didnt prevent mans ingenuity to do what he wanted to do despite the BC legisla tion It seems that an enterprising Vancouver restaurant named its hamburgers after the candidates and then kept score of how many burgers were purchased in the name of the respective candidates Although it was quite an accurate poll it erred in the riiost recent BC election even though it sold more Barretburgers than Benncttburgers As you know Bill Bennett won the election Neverthcless the Gallup Poll in Canada has been exceedingly accurate in that it has only missed once in the last 21 years of predicting the outcome of Federal election It goes without saying that the Ontario Government is going to have to treat careful ly in the event that it decides to ban opinion polls during election time in view of the diverse opinions held by the Countrys leading politicians SHOWS CONCERN In addition William Davis and Company do not want to be accused of stifling free speech particularly since his Government has spent some $40000000 of public money on 23 polls for public opinion on number of items that the Government is concemcd with can just hear Bill Davis and Roy McMur try discussing the problem as the telephone rings at Mr McMurtrys cottage Hi Roy exlaims Bill exuberantly That you Bill inquires Roy Yah acknowledges Bill Sorry to inter rupt your vacation Roy but wondered if youd given any more thought to introducing legislation to ban opinion polls at election time Dont worry about the interruption think weve got to be careful on the legislation Theres going to be lot of blecding hearts who are going to shout Freedom of expression if we move too fast can hear Stuart Smith and Michael Cassidy now Yell yuh what Roy wty dont we run poll to see if we should do away with polls Interpreting the ne Carter remains in deep troUble WASHINGTON lCPl Jimmy Carter is still much in political trouble as the presi dents own Democratic party members like to let him know Despite positive reaction to proposed new appointments for Carters reshuffled cabinet the odds against the president parlaying his tough new image into successful 1980 presidential renomination bid seem long in deed One of the most damaging thingsfor Carter is that the strongest criticism he is receiving comes from his own party members who at the same time claim they fully support him Senator Henry Jackson DemWash did it again during the weekend commenting that he has never seen similar situation for the Democratic party where the opposition is as pervasive as it is to the president The veteran senator an influential Capitol Hill voice also said Carter is in real trouble and accused him of firing his best people in the recent cabinet shakeup Jackson went on to say he supports Carter for renomination as the Democrats presi dential candidate in 1980 but repeated his belief that Senator Ted Kennedy of Mgssachussetts is the partys best backup bi Kennedy also claims he supports Carter But the help the popular Kennedy and Jackson offer is probably more effectively cutting the ground from under Carter than anything the opposition Republicans might say Even Itosalynn Carter the presidents wife indicated during the weekend she will play down her future role as the presidents righthand woman because her power is being exaggerated She has been labelled Mrs President POLICY BATTLES That seems to be what Jimmy Carter is doing as well settling down for some battles on energy policy and plotting some economic direction for the current business recession