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FndayAuguot31 1979 CIRCULATION 7266539 NEWSROOM 7266537 Published by Canadian Newspopers Company Limited l6 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario LAM 4T6 Bruce Rowland publisher ADVERTISING 7266537 CLASSIFIEDS 72824 What happened to summer 79 This Labor Day weekend is bittersweet holiday Sweet because it affords most of us preCious long weekend with family and friends Bitter because we cant forget Labor Day traditionally narks the end of the alltooshort summer season Whatever happened to the summer of 79 It wasnt vin tage summer not in our view at least It started well enough with sunshine and heat in July But then it tailed off in the dog days of August The tan you sported in midnluly is likely already fading fast If you were lucky enough to get one in the first place that IS No summers do not seem to be what they once were Nor was this summer for nostalgia Doom and gloom perhaps It was the summer of Skylab of nuclear accidents recession inflation and governments not really in office The thing is all the worry came to naught Skylab fell without harming anyone or damaging anything The tatastrophy at Three Mile Island passed without anyone hurt And the country survived quite nicely without sitting government in Ottawa Yes we survived The only regret is that somehow the summer has ended before were ready to see it go But cheer up Mother Nature owes us sparkling Indian Summer And better summer next year This unusual house at 87 Owen St was designed by its first resident Mr Thomas Kennedy successful Barrie architect This home was begun in l875 and is collection of thencurrent architectural features The second story was added about I883 The house has unique rootline and porch treatment as well as lovely stained glass windows Examiner Photo From the legislature By DEREK NELSON Queens Park Bureau Thomson News Service TORONTO Led by York University sociology professor seven homosexuals tried to sitin AttorneyGeneral Roy McMurtrys offices here They were playing the old civil rights game complaining about abuse of powers by police and crown attorneys when it came to raiding homosexual haunts What they wanted was to be bodily removed by police while the television cameras caught it all for the six oclock news Two days later they left to find local columnist Claire Hoy who has an Anita Bryantlike view of homosexuality as depraved who called their sitin mince in While the incident itself is unimportant in broader sense it was just one more skirmish in political war that has raged in the fan tasyland world of downtown Toronto for sev eral years REAL FUSS At stake is recommendation by the On tario Human Rights Commission that discrimination on the grounds of sexual ori entation be made illegal Not that homosexuals here can ever show We want yoUr opinion Somothing on your mind Sond Lottor to tho Editor Ploaso mako it on original copy and sign It Tho Examinor doosnt publish unsignod lot tors but it you wish pon namo will bo usod lncludo your tolophono numbor and addross as wo havo to vority lottors Bocausool space limits public intorest and good taste The Exominor sometimos has to edit condense or roioct lottors Letters to the Editor are run ovary day on the editorial page Send your to lottors to tho to Tho huh Offico lo 370 MIN Olt to Another viewpoint gay movement much evidence of discrimination even when pressed for examples But since there should be human rights legislation put before the House this fall sexual orientation or homosexual rights is sure to enter the debate one way or another The NDP and few Liberals want it in the Human Rights Code most Conservatives and Liberals are against PRIVATE 0K What worries Hoy and others is not what people do in the privacy of their bedrooms but rather the claims by leading homosexuals that theirs is lifestyle equally valid to heterosexuality Carried to its extreme as for example already happens in San Francisco homosexual teachers could sell that line to school children The assumption here is that homosexuality is catching lifestyle choice by people too emotionally crippled to handle mature heterosexual relationship If true then sexual orientation deserves no place in the human rights code Human rights are to protect people against discrimination on grounds they can do nothing about such as their skin color or nationality 0n the other hand there is minority scientific view which states homosexuality is matter of genes natures way of telling someone they are failure and should not reproduce In that case there would be no need to worry about children being seduced by the homosexual lifestyle since you either are homosexual from birth or arent Sexual orientation would then deserve inclusion in the human rights code N0 REASON But until and unless the genetic theory of homosexuality is proven and it isnt yet there is no valid reason for treating sexual deviation with special status It would be equivalent to making alcoholism or Argonaut watching human 11 ht Tilven having genetic heritage wouldnt make homosexuality normal of course Mother Nature doesnt take seriously Iany culture which chooses way of life destined to bring biological extinction in one generation BUSINESS 7266537 the examiner servrng borrie and simcoe county EDITORS Craig Ison managing editor Ian Muigrew city editor ADVERTISING BIIIMcFarIane Wireeaior LES REPORTERS WayneHay Claudia Krause Aden Smith Sieve Skinner Barb Boultoo Calvrn Feleocnuk Stephen icholls Dennis Lanthier Nancy Figueroa Lori Conan Richard Thomas Stephen Gauer Betty Armor camera operator Terry ieid Peter Hsu Cathy Heather CLASSIFIED Feaa Shanner Dana Homewood Janice Morton The world today By JOHN HARBHON Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service The unusual activities of Andrew Young the retiring US delegate to the United Nations will have repercussions affecting both political developments in the Middle East and domestic ones in the US Mr Young began by admitting to sub stantive talk with Zehdi Labib Terzi the Observer of the Palestinian Liberation Organization to the UN after earlier saying he had no such private talk Then as the outgoing President of the Security Council he had to chair crucial meeting during which resolution was ex pected giving United Nationss support to the legitimate rights of the Palestinians to their homeland The United States was duty bound to veto such resolution because it has refused to deal directly with the PLO until that body accepts the existence of the State of lsrael But by vetoing the resolution the United States was also running the risk of an tagonizing those Arab states which supply the Americans with 60 per cent of their oil im ports However the resolution did not come to vote since the Kuwaiti Ambassador in whose Interpreting the news Len Sewck manager Peggy Chapeli supervisor COMPOSlrG ROOM BUSINESS Jack Kernev foreman MarianGough accountant Giannxwan as Oreman Delve MHS Don Saunders Vikki Gram Lornewass Connie Hart Wt Cadogan Jean Bass an at Raynor Ron Gilaer EdAIIenb IRCULATION JameHanxe Bill Halkes manager Steve White assistant manager Brno Howcrott Alva Laplanie Lisa warrv Eiaine Porter Cheryl Aiken Susan Kitchen yyonne Sierps p555 Al Hansen foreman Fred Prince Kim Pattenden tr Andrew Young affair carries international repercussions home Mr Young had chatted with Dr TeIZI proposed its withdrawal as mark of respect for Mr Young Meantime leading black groups religious as well as political angered at Youngs res ignation found themselves supporting the content of the UN resolution in favor of supporting Palestinian homeland rights BLACKPLO LIAISON They went further than this publicly contacted the PLO and went on radio and TV in big way to state their position The domestic repercussions of both the Young resignation and these curious moves by key black organizations will affect President Carters chances for reelection next year if he runs for second term Andrew Young and his powerful and supportive black organization had delivered the black vote to Carter in 1976 as the saying goes But it is the PLO which comes out of this bizarre exercise in personal manoeuvrings smelling like rose Its observer acted with fine diplomatic style showed restraint when Arab nations proposed the resolution for supporting Palestinian homeland be withdrawn Dr Teni was not sent to New York to be firebrand but rather to act with calm Don Near asst Ioreman Tho barrio laminar is mombor ol Tho Canadian Pro CF and Audit Iuroou Circulation AIC Only tho Canadian Pros may ropublish now storm in this nowspopor croditod to Tho Associatod Pross loutou or Aron Tanco Pros md local nows storios publohod III Tho Barro Exominor Published daily except Sunday and statutory holidays WEEKLYby carrier 95 cents YEARLY av carrier S19 40 BY MAIL Barrie 549 40 SIMCOE COUNTY S3900 MOTOR THROW OFF $41 503 year ELSEWHERE IN CANADA SAI 006 year odvomsomont Mont sense of quiet purpose and willingness to articulate the PLO cause to whomever will listen He is meant to be the counterweight to the much more contentious Yaser Arafat who sent him there and whose pistolpacking visit to the UNs New York headquarters in 1904 is remembered as only contentious move In fact the Andrew Young affairs points up what everyone has known all along including the Israelis that the PLO as force cannot be ignored and will not be represented in their claims by others including other Arab nations If another and muchless militant organization were spearheading the Palestinian homeland cause and one which accepted Israel it would have begun negotiations with the United States long ago The Israelis constantly refer to the mur derous role of the PLO and about shooting their way into the United Nations But Israeli spokesmen forget this was the identical way in which they won United Nations support in 1947 Many in the world were also appalled at the violence of such Jewrsh terrorist outfits as the Irgun Zvai Leumi in the late 19405 The PLO at the UN wish to repeat history but in their favor this time Diplomatic battle over Vlasova affair By GLENN SOMERVILIJ WASHINGTON CPI The mudslinging is starting in earnest now that Soviet ballerina Ludmilla Vlasova has returned to Moscow after convincing United States authorities she didnt wish to remain in the US with her detector husband Both the Americans and Soviets claim victory in the fourday diplomatic duel that started last Friday after Soviet airliner with the ballerina aboard was delayed until US authorities could interview her outside theaircraft The affair shows the political tensions between the two superpowers at least as much as any real concern over human rights Some of the claims officials of each country now are making seem almost comic The Soviets so far havent admitted the voluntary defection of Vlasovas dancer husband Alexander Gudunov during the Bolshoi Ballets US tour The Soviet newspaper Literatumaya Gazeta says he disappeared after US agents tempted him with mountains of gold and sea of whiskey On the US side officials find it hard to believe that ballerina Vlasova really wished to return to the Soviet Union and leave her husband behind ALEXANDER GODUNOV defected The talks with the ballerina in non coercive atmosphere portable lounge still attached to the Soviet airliner were necessary to uphold the principle of the right of an individual to express her views claimed US diplomat Donald McHenry In Washington state department officials say they have shown US determination to protect anyone from being taken out of this country against his will and put the Soviet Union on notice it cannot circumvent US laws But in Moscow officials say their stead fastness thwarted an American plan to convince the ballerina to refuse to return to the Soviet Union by using threats and blackmail Soviet citizen Vlasova was backed by Soviet law and effective measures of the Soviet government bodies defending the rights of the citizens of the USSR reported Tass the official Soviet news agency Tass said US attempt to entice or bully Vlasova into renouncing the Soviet Union col lapsed in the face of the ballerinas un shakable allegiance to her motherland Aside from these mutual assertions about human rights neither the Soviet Union nor the US had much to gain from the con frontation at New York But they had lot to lose Tho Barrio hornnor claims copyright on all original nows and odyortising motoriol crootod by its ornployoos and publishod in this nowspopor Copyright rogistration numbor WIS rogistor 6i Thoudvortisor ogroos that tho publishor shall not bo lioblo tor damaqos arising out of orrou in odvonisomonts boyond tho amount paid for tho spoco actually occupiod by that portion of tho advisomont in which tho orror curred wholhor such or ror is duo to tho woolgonzo of its soryonts or othorwiso and thoro shall In no llobtltfy for non insortion of any odvortnomont boycnd tho amount paid for such Tho Publishor rosowos the right to dl royiso classin or roioct an odyortiso Costs killing big hands By VINCENT EGAN Business and Consumer Affairs Analyst Thomson News Senice The bigband business once major segment of the entertainment industry is eroding from economic pressures and the passage of time Within recent days two of the handful of prominent band leaders still active Stan Kenton and Ray Eberle died Kentons will explicitly forbids the continuation of an or chestra using his name But ghost bands bearing the names of such longgone leaders as Guy Lombardo Duke Ellington Glenn Miller and Tommy Dorsey continue to tour the United States and occasionally play in Canada In the case of the Miller and Dorsey bands the link with the originals is in name only al though Lebert Lombardo charter member of the Royal Canadians from London Ont is still active in that or chestra Other holdovers out of the hundreds of orchestra leaders who rose to prominence during the bigband craze of the late 19305 are Count Basie Harry James Sammy Kaye Woody Herman and Freddy Martin In Canada only three or four alumni of that era are still working regular schedule of six nights week leading small combos in the dining rooms of major hotels BRUTAL FACTS The memorable musical names of the Swing Era mean little to younger dancers today The older fans who do remember them are less eager to go out dancing The economics of bigband touring are brutal name band with perhaps 15 musi cians on regular payroll needs to earn $30000 US or more per week to break even Under special circumstances bigname may be available for less Torontobased Strand Holidays is operating performing arts cruise in early December from Tampa Fla to Montego Bay Jamaica featuring maestro Peter Duchin singer Helen Forrest and jazz pianist George Shearing The Duchin orchestra of six or seven musicians has agreed to comparatively low fee of $5500 plus $3000 expenses the musicians spouses are accompanying them To bring the same Peter Duchin orchestra to play one evening four hours in Canadian city would cost about $7500 US Too rich Then you could probably engage big band of the Miller Dorsey or James type for about $5000 more on weekend and with extensive travelling involved less in midweek and if they are in the vicinity already LOCAL TALENT If on the other hand you were to choose an equally good Canadian orchestra with less well known name the cost for an evening of music would probably be between $75 and $100 multiplied by the number of musicians weekend engagement would be at the high end of the scale That tends to limit the amount of work for big bands in Canada to such occasions as tradeassociation conventions corporate anniversary celebrations and the like Frank Bogart prominent maestro in the Toronto area since 1940 fulfilled 460 engage ments last year feat he accomplished through having as many as four small groups each bearing his name working simultaneously on Saturday night at golf clubs private wedding receptions and so on Out of those 460 engagements Bogart estimates that fewer than 15 would have involved an orchestra that is rhythm section saxophone section and brass section The most popular combination because it is the most economica is piano bass and drums For some years to come there will probably be profitable niche for troupe such as Lawrence Weiks and for di minishing number of other bigname bands write your mm It you would like to write your Member of Parliament or Member of Provincial Parlia ment printed below are their mailing ad dresses If you send us copy ol your letter it might be suitable for our Letters to the Editor columns Alter all if there is matter ol concern that makes you want to write to your MP or MPP if it is not personal matter it should be of interest to your friends and neighbors too TIDEIAL MSTEWAIT MPSimcoe South Parliament Buildings Ottawa Ont GIBMITGES MPGreySimcoe Parliament Buildings Ottawa Ont 0W6 LEWIS MPSimcoe North Parliament Buildings Ottawa Ont MIN KITTY MPWellingtonDuflerinSimcoe Parliament Buildings Ottawa Ont PROVINCIAL 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