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Friday Nov 16 1979 CIRCULATION 7266539 NEWSROOM 7266537 the examiner writing barn and simcoa county Pupilsned by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited to Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario UM 4T6 Bruce Rowland publisher ADVERTISING 7266537 CLASSIFIEDS 728 241 Population trend raises issue There are Itlttll questions than answers 111 toolLing at tile population of Slillioi tollnty and whele it is headed Weve all heard of the population preihetions loi tarrle in the next 30 11 and whether llarile as the first city lll Salliot oilnty will he I23tlllll or II by theyear 20H ollnty wide the population ap pears stable at least for now nialor reason is the decline in the number of newcomers arriving in Siliieoetounty llltheeally Ill7tls about ltooo iiiweoiiieis settled in the county each year In recent years llIttt that figure has droppedioilslilelilil ounty iiiweoiiieis last year totalled only about tttlll well under two pereenl of lllt county popula llonot 22itltlll There are behind the decline Energy is ill obvious one With higher gas llllt costs people simply arent tiling to live in Sim coe oililty and pay the price at roliimnliiu to work 111 Metro The general eeolioniie lllalalse is another lllll that restrains peo ple and indilsliy troiii branching III While Sinieoes population is stable Illtlt curious phenomenon at work elsewhere Major cities such as lolonto are actually epiiiiiiciiig loss in population llle tltllI ol the drain is still matter of dipilte llilt demographic lilllletin issued by the provincial giiyiiilllielit predicts Mtlltl could actually lose up to one quarter of its population In the en Itltlll loltheeelltiiry ltegloir surrounding loronto such as York IIIIIIIII1 and leel re alreain feeling the elfects ot pimillation changes llannels there are talking about doubling their population by the end of the cen tilry Will Simcoe do the same Its im possible to say Itll maximum growth should at least be the goal Our location one hour from Metro our attractive way of life our lower land and housing costs plus the trend away from cities all make Sinicoe natural growth area The problem is how to capitalize on that potential While we talk about growth too often we see municipalities fighting each otller instead of working out agreements on how to make the region grow Part of the problem may lie in the nature of our existing political set up Ill Simcoe ounty there is not one municipal politician able to work Illllvlllllt IOtlIt growth we need The best of the parttime mayors and reeves can sometimes persuade the province to help finance an in dustrial park or improve transpor tation links that are at the heart of growth But too often our parttime politi cians are unable to get the results we need Next year is municipal election year In Harrie the issue of full time mayor should be raised to give voters chance to decide il that is what our city needs to realize its growth potential Frosts lowkey appeal wins weirdest campaign By DON IIERN Queens Park Bureau Thomson News Service Leslie Frosts first major step after taking over the premiership and onservative party leadership was to make himself known throughout the province He spent more than two years at this scouring the province for hands to shake Then in the fall of 1951 he took his second major step He called his first election and like lot else iii these early days as Frost established himself it was quite remarkable It was remarkable in its results It was the biggest win in Ontario history with the government taking 79 of 90 seats It was further remarkable in that it established new style of lowkey elec tionecring in the province But lnost of all it was notable as probably the weirdest campaign the province had seen 0l NIRI Frosts single appeal his pitch in credible as this may seem now was the lustre of the province itself He gave practically the one speech throughout the campaign It had the one theme this fine old province an epistle of devotion to Ontario delivered with the obesiance of an evangelist towards God Those who would question it were traitorous and probably heathcns to boot The them prcnilcr was as prodigous campaigner as he had been handshaker Normally he was on the road before eight oclock In those days of course travelling by cart and as he travelled he would normally have half dozen local meetings during the day and lliain meeting at night Always the theme was the same the fine old or perhaps grand old province of Ontario And there would be scathing retercncc to those ho or they who would discredit It OPPOSITIth FIIISIIIATEII For those on the campaign trail with hilli it meant dull time But for those trying to op pose him it meant tltSpClttlt frustration Most trust rated of etc the Liberals alld the Toronto Star The leader of tile Liberals was Walter Thomson large flamboyant Toronto lawyer who had had large amount of his con siderablc financial success froln legal work for the federal Liberal government He was convmced he was the destined Moses for the Ontario Liberals and the Star tended to agree If Ilindmalsh the fabled managing editor of the Star man ho had some aw of himself as political mastermind assigned both reporter and photographer lunhea rd of ill those daysi to the Thomson campaign and inserted Behind Honderich as chief strategist llondcrlch then top reporter and we want your opinion Something on your mind Send Letter to the Editor Please make it an original copy and sign it The Examiner doesn publish unsigned let tors but if you wish pen name will be used Include your telephone number and address as we have to verity letters Because of space limits public interest and good taste The Examiner sometimes has to odt condense or reiect letters letters to the Editor are run every day on the editorial page 50nd yOurs to Litton to the Editor The Examiner Post Office Box 370 MIRIE Out LOOKING BACK today chairman of Torstarf the holding company of the Star was the constant companion of Thomson and made the balls the leader tried to throw CREAM PUFFS IN FOG It was an exercise in absolute futility Thomson and Honderich came up with proposal after proposal and attack after attack One proposal recall was plank to take education to the people and have modernized little red school houses at every crossroads And one of the attacks was vague charge of skullduggery in the medical staff at the provincial hospital in Hamilton But they might as well have been throwing cream puffs in fog They never found target Frost completely ignored them and their attacks Not once did he mention Thomson during the whole campaign letting him cast himself to the pariahs the sordid ranks of those awful theys As an utterly desperate grand finale on election day the Star took its entire front page except for one column and ran in it picture of the most strained and wrinkled old lady it could find in its files under the caption in huge type THIS COULD BE YOUR MOTHER The inference was that if you were going to leave your mother to the beneflcence of the Frost government the leavings would be pretty lean BRITS OVERWIIELMED Ontario however was apparently not very troubled about its mothers that day Frost got the biggest vote Ontario had ever seen The ThomsonStar Liberals were reduced from 15 to members Today such an election would be in mncelvatile Any government leader that went to the country with the sole plank that Ontario is great place would be over whelmed But in 1951 it was probably the best of all possible strategies For the simple fact was that 111 Ontario then there was very little to criticize The province was hog fat The economy was booming as it worked at building back the physical plant let lag during the still recent war everybody was working anti there was no audience for preachers of doom Also Leslie Frost gave it bill of political goods which it liked and which it continued to buy avidly for the rest of his yeais in power This was essentially trust in God approach with the govemmcnt being god Theie was variations on the thean in future years bilt the basis of the Frost appeal always was trust Leave it to inc havent let you down and never would The theme was combined with homespun benevolence The man who had gone through the factories quietly shaking hands carried the downtoearth tempo into campaigning and all his other public contact ox TillI LEVEL There was one little point in his cam palgning simple point bill key to his style Traditionally at political meetings there always had been platform It the meeting was in hall there was normally stage If it was outside platform was erected Frost changed this and took the floor If the meeting was in hall there would be semicircle of chairs on the floor and facmg the audience Chth tor the dignitaries lt it was in the open air it was from the ground This was the man of the people speaking with his feet on the ground to his fellow citizens Importantly of course he always was to Hit centre of that semicircle and the focus of all attention IIISINESS 7266537 COMPOSING ROOM Published daily except ADVEuTisiNo BUSINESS ock KemevJoreman 5Wynd run Wt Home Len sewn manager Marian Gwen ICCWNN Glenn Kwan asst foreman mutton holidays swo mam rineaia 5M5 D5 W5°U°° weeer carrier ha no 5m vino Grant Lorne Wass 95 envu 59097593 wovenlav Mew WIICDOOOO Sirann ch nails Shane YEARLY by carrier SLthWI WHWHMOY aillRavnor Nunv =avert Cam flinch RanGiIaer BVMAIL some Ii pmro ac on mm SI Momma UL Hml am mom WWI manage is Knufw StMCOE COUNTY cu nnMn ramraooeratcr CLASSIFIED lorry FNIU Cam Heater Jal etanl uquuu Roman Catholic Church drops $80M in real estate deals By JOHN IIARBRON Foreign Affairs Analyst Last week the chairman of the board of what has to be the worlds largest real estate empire held meeting of his board of directors to tell them the head office is $20 million in the hole The news of its deficit was an unexpected as the meeting itself the head of this organ ization being none other than Pope John Paul II the meeting consistory of the 121 car dinals of the Roman Catholic Church The news was released that the Rome headquarters of the Church is in debt and the churchs equivalent of secular corporation board its college of cardinals met in very unusual conclave to discuss church finances On the surface you would think an organization with the real estate holdings of the Church of Rome thousands of churches schools homes many of them revenue producing could do nothing but show profit To lose money on global boodle like this suggest truly bad management What wasnt released from the meeting of the cardinals called by the Holy Father is further fact that the Vatican may have lost $50 million to $80 million on secular real estate deals made through failed Italian financier VATICAN BANKER GONE He is the Sicilian banker Michele Sindona ragstoriches Sicilian who has disappeared from sight for the time being and whose worldwide financial empire has crashed around him The Vaticans own secular real estate enterprise has had investments all over the world including Canadian holdings which has nothing to do with the ownership and management of the churchs own vast real estate holdings It would now appear that the selfsame Peggy Chapetl superwsor Freda Stunner Janice Morton IacMacMuchv Doug Be PfiESSRODM Alva La Ian At Hanson lareman Lisa warrv Elaine Burton Fr Prn Cheryl Aiken Catholic dioceses around the world will be asked to increase their socalled Peters Pence contributions for the Popes private fund to help meet the announced deficit Church sources also admitted the Peters Pence fund dropped sharply during the pontificate of the late Paul VI and that Vati can operating expenses will fall short again during 1980 Each diocese and each parish in such episcopal church structures as the Roman Catholic Anglican and Lutheran is supposed to be selfsustaining Such worldwide organizations with dioceses in both the richest and the poorest countries of our globe show great range of ability in making ends meet Dioceses in wealthy countries are expected to support themselves and their institutions as well as meet some of the cash needs of their brother structures in the many poor nations But neither the Anglican or Lutheran churches are called upon to support the operations of head office as is the case with the Roman Catholic Church FEWER PEOPLE FEWER FINDS In that church congregations have been declining and along with them parish revenues The Holy Father has classic management problem in finding ways to secure the revenue which his churchs particular system needs to keep the Vatican solvent Davis insists on necessity of padding oil price hikes By DEREK NELSON Queens Park Bureau Thomson News Service TORONTO Premier William Davis had some important things to say at the first ministers conference on energy in Ottawa He mentioned the need for cushioning the impact of oil price hikes on lowerincome consumers and the necessity for national energy selfsufficiency But most important he spoke of the long term financial impact of the westward shift of dollars as result of rising oil and natural gas prices There is no question the provinces own natural resources However royalties ac cruing to provincial treasuries cannot be isolated from the national interest he said When massive and unprecedented inter regional shifts of tax dollars threaten to distort the economy and enfecble the capacity of our national government to meet its national responsibilities thcn provincial royalties are of legitimate national concern llt MONEY There is an ironic twist to this whole question of royalties as they affect Ontario Were entitled to receive back share of the cash that flows west because of the long standing federal equalization formula The theory behind the formula is that the richer provinces will help the poorer prov inces raise the level of their service to the puhhc by giving the havenots some of the haves money The payments are calculated by the federal govemment on the basis ot provincial revenue and that partially includes natural resource roya ll nos In the pin Ontario because of its in dustrial wealtt together with Alberta and isriiisll Columbia were have provinces and other TYtl receiving money Blti II iI But the ssivo wetward shift in cash flows cailsed all and natural gas price hikes have tI med Illl ovalty tigures to where Ontarl ltlI lll Il not provinces ll Ln tct Ir rer Frank Miller told the Ir Salute tl lilarim viculatcs it is owed tn ltllllltlll lo in Noahanon payments hasnl them much to the con FROM THE LEGISLATURE sternation of the opposition Liberals in the legislature Millers cbjection is philosophic The existing formula is archaic and needs thorough overhaul he said Ontario is rich province its people much better off than most elsewhere in Canada and there is no reason it should be considered havenot province under the formula At the same time all Canadians should be able to benefit from the flow of wealth to the west rather than just provincial govern ments as Davis made very plain in Ottawa As all prices go up equalization payments to the various provinces also escalate for in stance Quebec receiving 10 per cent of its budget in such manner in 1978 Its unfortunate that this debate over revenue has tended to get lost in the political shuft Ic over oil prices bible thought Lav not up for yiiUrselves treasures upon earthdw here math and rust doth corrupt and where thieves break through and steal Iliit lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt and where thieves do not break through or steal Matthew 6151 10 Its the Christians holdings and the chili ches that are some of the great hiiiileranrl at world evangelism today In view of this must be hard for the world to set that emergency exists An all wise God knows how much of whatever we call our own really belongs to Him in unpaid tithes and oilerinib These are some of the old accoui that needtobesettled Andy Haughton assistant manager ymm 5m 00 Near OSSI tcman Kim Pattenaen MOTOR THROW OFF 500 year $41 00 year tisement By STEWART lacIEOD Ottawa Bureau Thomson News Service Last weekend Liberal Leader Pierre Trudeau was photographed entering New York discotheque his fingers securely elit willed around the fillgers of girl named Linda Presumably she has sumame but thats neither here nor there Anyway the former prime minister looked to be in remarkably good health By stildying the picture you got the impression he was in absolutely fine fettle Now me one of sound mind could possibly object to the 60yearold Liberal leader having good night out on the town He hasnt been having good year what with being humbled by the voters perhaps feeling somewhat humiliated by his wife and no doubt being perpetually uncomfortable as opposition leader If there is one guy who deserves frockingly fling on the disco floor with leggy Linda one would agree it is Pierre Trudeau He needed good night out Okay whats the problem Well its like this When the good Liberal folks in British Columbia decided to hold policy seminar in Vancouver last weekend they thought reasonably enough it would be great idea to have the national party leader in attendance Since the leadership issue hangs over the party like great grey cloud it would be marvellous opportunity to examine it in the company of Pierre Trudeau Its no fund conducting the examination in his absence WOLIJ COME The British Columbia party therefore in vited Pierre Trudeau to come to Vancouver for the weekend seminar and the word is that he was delighted to accept He looked for ward to this rebuilding programs aides said And Heaven knows the party needs healthy dose of rebuilding in British Columbia But then US President Jimmy Carter announced he would be visiting Ottawa last weekend And he not only wanted to have hearttoheart talks with Prime Minister Joe Clark but he also proposed to give equal time to Clarks predecessor Pierre Trudeau And the good Liberals of British Columbia were duly informed Naturally they understood perfectly These things happen in politics and it was obviously more important for Tnldeau to bend Jimmy Carters car than to dissect the Examiner member at The Cbnadlan Pm CP and Audlt Bureau at Circulation tABC Only the Canadlan Press may republish news stoma In thls credlted to C9 The Associated Press Reuters or AW France Press and local news cries published in The Examiner The Examiner claims copyright on all original news and advertising mmi created by its employees and published in this my $19 40 Copyright registration number 20315 register 51 National advertising otticcs Queen St Toronto I64 1710 nun The advertiser agrees that the publisher shall not be liable tor damages arts 0° ing out 01 error in advertisements beyond the amount paid tor the space tuattv occupied by that portion at the advertisement in which the error oc curred whether such error is due to the negligence 01 its servants or other wise and there shall be no liability tor non insertion at any advertisement ELSEWHERE IN CANADA beyond the amountpaid tor such advertisement The Publisher reserves the right to edit revise classlty or relect on adver Disco dancing Pierre irks British Columbia Liberals PARLIAMENT HILL dark cloud in Vancouver 80 the BC Liberals made plans to procede without him Then at the last minute Jimmy Carter called off his trip to Ottawa Like Trudeau he experiences unexpected conflicts and this time it was the PS hostages in Iran who required his attention IIOIES RISE When the Carter cancellation was an nounced hopes soared again in British Columbia Now it was assumed Trudeau could calne after all And he could deal directly with those qilestionaire respondents actually they totalled onethird of the total who want new leader But disappointing news came back from the nations capital The Liberal leader was it It was disappointed Shirley McLaughlin who happens to be president of the BC Liberal Association who went before the delegates to announce that the national leader couldl come after all He was suffer ing from readful cold she announced So the meetings went ahead without him And according to all reports the question of leadership dominated all the behindthescenc conversations Some even said that Trudeau seemed uncaring others said the revival of the party in BC was contingent on the election of new leader Others said it was too bad he was ill Then on Sunday the delegates picked up their newspapers and saw that photograph of Pierre Trudeau and lovely Linda entering the New York discotheque Its not difficult to envisagethc reaction know nothing of what might have hap pened within Trudeaus office prior to the weekend dont even know whether he was aware of the Vancouver meeting of the ex cuses of the cold itself Perhaps he was deathly ill for time But do know that for man whose party won only one of 28 seats in BC and who claims he hasnt thought of retiring Trudeaus weekend activities would appear on the surface at least to be bit misdirected 750yearold cathedral winning battle of beetles By ROBERT TRAUTMAN YORK England Reuter York Minister one of the finest examples of Gothic church building north of the Alps is surviving its second attack of old age in decade The latest scourge to visit the 750yearold cathedral is the woodboring death watch beetle It struck in the ceiling of the south transept But exterminators were summoned the beetles are dead and the scaffolding put up for the kill will soon be dismantled Then the minster with its celebrated stainedglass windows will once again be an unobstructed view for the half million people who make pilgrimages to the church every year The beetles were discovered last year when workmen were cleaning the 60foothigh ceiling Restoration and rebuilding is ex pected to cost £50000 Although this cost is minor compared with the £2 million spent between 1967 and 1972 to INTERPRETINQ HE NEWS strengthen the minsters slowly cracking foundations extermination of the beetles was no less vital CEILING ENDANGERED Their slow but steady work could have brought down the oak transepts carved beams and its panelled ceiling The earlier attack of old age the weakened foundation was discovered by architect Bernard Feilden on routine inspection of the church made shortly after he was named its surveyor of the fabric He spotted fresh cracks in the buildings heavily loaded central piers and called in con sulting engineers They found deep within the foundation cracks of between and two inches as well as severe settling The minsters central tower the jewel in its crown would have fallen within 15 years if restoration work had not been undertaken immediately Feilden said Tehran hostagetaking could have been foreseen By GLENN SOMERVILLE WASHINGTON lCPi One of the unexplained mysteries of the current hostagetaking crisis in Iran is that the United States knew in advance it was likely to happen Throughout the summer administration officials and LS diplomats in Tehran discussed possible repercussions of per mitting the ailing shah of Iran to enter the United States Captured US documents released in Iran last week and admissions Wednesday from White House aides show that the conclusion was that theohahs move to the CS likely would cause fanatical followers of the Ayatollah Khomeini to hold some of the Americans in Ira as Last July the 335mg ambassador to Tehran BFuce Laingen warned Washington in memo We should not take any steps in the direction of admitting the shah until such time as we have been able to prepare an effective and essential force for the protection of the embassy White House aides are more blunt We knew something like this would happen But its too late now ARTER ALGIIT The Carter administration wascaught in dilemma caused partly by campaign for the shahs admission to the US that had been started this summer by former secretary of state Henry Kissinger and by board chairman David Rockefeller of the hase Manhattan Bank When it became apparent in late October that the shah then in MEXICO was seriously ill from lymph gland cancer and gall bland disorders Carter had to admit him to the for medical treatment or suffer po lit teal consequences at home aides say Even then US state department of licials who had been told the shahs entry to the was not acceptable were trying to sullen the impact State department otfimils flew to Tehran on Oct 22 but were told again that the Iranian govemment felt there would be undesirable consequences from the Shahs arrival day earlier in New York City AYATOIJAII KOIINIEINI fanatical followers Only 12 days later the consequences became known when Iranian students allegedly armed only with 10 pistols swarmed into the embassy in Tehran taking its marine guard without shot fired and taking 62 Americans hostages The Carter administrations arent misjudging of the Iranian lea ership complicates the current negotiations for the hostages release The problem is that most of the options for putting pressure on Iran are painful only to the Americans and offer no guarantee of changing Iranian policy