The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

Monday Nov 28 1979 CIRCULATION 7266539 NEWSROOM 7266537 When saving costs us more The provincial social services department this week gave childrens aid societies what it pro mised more flexibility in dealing with local priorities But whether it gave the societies what they really need sufficient funding is something only the IAS can really answer In Simcoe County local CAS director Don Jackson expressed pleasure at the flexibility promise It would he said enable the society to put funds into priority areas where they can do the most good There remains however the question of funding Where the local society had initially asked for 24 per cent increase it will receive 735 percent lhat increase is in keeping with government attempts at spending rrlrstraint laudable step in princi But there must be realization at Queens Park that inadequate fun ding for social programs can actuallt the examiner sewing heme and simcoe aunty Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited lb Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario LAM 4T6 Bruce Rowland publisher ADVERTISING 7266537 CUSSIFIIDS 7282 BUSINESS ly result in bigger bills for tax payers By saving through cutbacks in socral programs we could end up paying that much more Theres no saving in human terms if childrens aid societies dont have the resources to keep families together and care for children And theres no saving in money if we end up paying the much higher cost of institutional treatment for disturbed children or jail sentences for those who turn to crime The fact is that childrens aid societies have an essential job to do Its fact too that each year the number of children needing care in creases to the point where one social worker is sometimes working with as many as 40 families at once The danger is that the CAS system always matter of fine balance will be pushed to the brink Its time the ministry stopped the games and provided the money re quired to do the job simcoe yesteryear This threshing scene shows harvesting as it looked in Oro Township 50 years ago Second from left is Norman Cook of Edgar now residing in Orillia if you know anyone else in this picture our photograph donor John Cook of New Lowell would like to know through the Examiner Discostarved Muscovites converge at Metelitsas MOSCOW iReuteri Like anywhere worth going to in Moscow it takes mixture of bnitc force and cajolery to get into the capitals top discothmue Metelitsa on fashionable Kaliiiin Avenue Io young Russians with pickets full of rubles the Little Snow Storm as the name translates is haven of style in city almost totally lacking in night life There are no signs on the glass doors to announce that you can dance to Western rock roll inside Brit the crowd of young people thinly clad in jeans against the searing winter colds is advertisement enough esterner expecting to be hustled inside by fasttalking doorman would be disaplt pointed On Saturday evenings after pm the doors are firmly bolted by uniformed guards who let in only the faces they know or those who can vheedle and push their way past The lines of downcast Muscovites are reminiscent of crowds outside New Yorks Studio 34 or the evertwipular Hard Rock Cafe in London but Metclitsa provides far less brash entertainment IIIOSlROlI The bright liiglrceilingtxl hall crowded with customers sipping Russian champagne and picking at ice cream is world away froiii the dives where twnagers mimic the Rind gyrations of screen disco dancers like John Travolta The star of Saturday Night Fever is known to few Russians and Metelitsas cramped dance floor gives then little scope to catch the fever especially on Saturday night Rock music and the discos that go with it are barely tolerated by the Russian 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 tors but it you wish pen name will be used Include your telephone number and address as we have to vorin 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 pogo Send yours to Letter to tho Editor The litother Post Office Box 370 Milli Out authorities who see them as sign of the Wests decline Russian radio stations broadcast diet of classical music folk songs and pop tunes usually with strongly nationalistic or otherwise uplifting tone The Little Snow Storm one of at least three places in the capital that Russians call discos is officially classified as cafe Public discos as any foreigner will be told by the state tourist organization lntourist do not exist in Moscow though students and clubs arrange some with restricted entry COLLECTION MAKESHIFT By stretching the rules little Metelitsas 2nthusiastic DJ has been allowed to set up his Disco Express put together from bits of iome hifi equipment and play at medium volume the Western pop that everyone wants hear He also has few colored spotlights and projector showing slides of Western stars which bravely competes against the bright overhead lighting There are no dark corners Long silences punctuate the music and the Russians say he is obliged to play certain proportion of socialist pop in between the JItI Western hits that make up his scratched collection of mainly imported records Most of the Western music comes in the early evening after five oclock when they play Fleetwood Mac and Deep Purple so that people come early one habitue explained Later on when its full there is more East European and Soviet music There is no doubt as to the preference of the ustomers mostly in their early 20s and many wearing expensive imported clothes When the obligatory local variety comes on the dancers saunter back to their warm wine and melting ice cream Despite the Western music the atmosphere is typically Russian As 11 oclock closing time nears customers badger the waiters mire insistently and girls dance with each other as their male companions snap toasts back at the tables There is no bar and it is almost impossible to get waiter to bring anything except spar kling wine and ice cream bottle and four ices can come to rubles i823 but high prices and painfully slow service are no deterrent Its hard enough to find waiter and get him to bring you something said one Russian ho confessth to coming about twice aweek bible thought For where eiiiying and strife is there is confusion and ev ery ey it work James l6 Never expect harmony where no one is willing to play second fiddle 7266537 EDtYOBS COMPOSING ROOM ADVERTISING BUSINESS Jackeme oreman Pubtisheddaity except Craio Elson managing editor 53y manaoef Man 6W9 Wnrani Genn KWan Sunday and Stan Dudlbahs city eatol Dem um 53 no statutory holidays DD 000 Grant wEExcv by carrier Aoen Smith Lorne mass Epomns Waynean CON WtICaaogaii StenhenNicholis Steve strum Sanwra YEARY um 3222é° Wm on Raynor 50 er Lori COhtan 0d cavm Fflepwu R0 Glde 8V MAR Barrie mepanvac veterCtarii cwcmfiro EOAllErtDy mm StMonQa BillHalles manager 53 K101 SIMCOE coumv Stephenoaner gtASSIFtEO Anoyrtauqhton assmtantrwaflager Yvonnes 95 $3900 Sue Bowen amrra operator F993 599 DSVV Doug Bent PRESSRSOM MOTOR THROW OFF TerryFietn Inne Cathy Humor JGHtCC Morton flr At Hanson pm $41 50 year Maereianey MMMUCVV Emma on DonNear asst foreman ELSEWHERE iNCANADA Fred Prince SH ooayear err lien Kim panenofl Doomsday scenario warning that our ways must change By JOHN HARBRON Foreign Affairs Analyst The new Doomsday scenarios are emerging from our economists and business leaders cutting close to the bone as the oil and political crises of the Islamic world continue to grow These are not the kind which the Pentagon feeds to the White House military alter natives for shortterm action if Iran tries or executes any of the American diplomatic hostages in Tehran Rather they are coming from experts who previously avoided prognoses of gloomy longterm future bearing in mind the pro fessional futurists themselves have largely offered positive view of the road ahead we all face The latest of the new scenarios comes from Gerald Cole chief economist for the Boston based Arthur Little Inc one the worlds leading consulting firms with business ex perience in most of the nations of our globe Mr Cole speaking few days ago in Montreal warned that the United States may have to impose economic controls along with system of oil allocation and policy of tight money restraint if Iranianstyle crises affecting world energy supply continue to happen COMING CLOSER Iran has driven us closer to that point but people are still hoping we dont have to go down that road he continued But then he became even more ominous with prediction that we mUSt be prepared to deal with financial system that teeters on collapse They are being made in carefullyprepared public statements based on current realities and forward projections from important people in public life You may remember the famous and totallymisunderstood speech by former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau at the end of 1975 when he wamed Canadians their lifestyle will have to change the sillyminded among us accused Trudeau of virtual subversion and of trying to destroy our wayofliie Perhaps because he overintellectualized the crisis at time when we were becoming more disillusioned with him for other reasons Trudeaus message was rejected Since then it has returned in different forms and from different speakers But the underlying theme remains unchanged We have come to the end of the period of unlimited growth and consistent productivity which justified our era of conspicuous con sumption and product demand The conservation scare which began few years ago and has been renewed with real worries about nuclear power plants and acid rain suggested we would have to find non economic alternatives for our future society Doing without many of the heavily polluting elements in our society would mean doing without many of the products and services whose manufacture creates them WE NEED SCARE But in the long run as in most human endeavours where radical change in our goals and lives are essential it is the Doomsday scenario in terms we can understand which brings us to harsh reality And certainly nothing will do it as con vincingly in our northern and basically cold countries than these extended wamings about the uncertainty of an assured energy supply for all of us Almost no one understands property tax reform idea By DEREK NELSON Queens Park Bureau Thomson News Service TORONTO The public in general might be excused for believing only three people in Ontario understand property tax reform One is an obscure clerk in the Treasury Ministry building across the road from the legislature here The other two are researchers specializing in finance in the back rooms of the Liberals and New Democrats Unfortunately all three disagree While obviously just story there is smidgen of truth in such tale Mention property tax reform and con nected items like equalization factors or market value assessment and peoples eyes glaze over and snores resound almost im mediately It is all so incredibly complicated And yet the basic principle behind property tax reform is extremely simple So too is the reason why the govemnient is having so much trouble implementing it REAL POINT The province wanted everybody and still does to pay property taxes in the same fair and equrtable way The government was tired of assessors in one municipality undervaluing property be cause friend owned it or overvaluing someone elses place through incompetence Not to mention whole batch of historical inequities in taxation that have developed over the years such as the First World War veterans lots that remain taxed at lower rates no matter who owns them now So the province took over assessment from the municipalities and set out to judge houses apartments and basinesses acro Ontario on the same baStS The decision was made to use market value NOT RItiHT But it didnt work out that way And the reason is the peculiar reaction public and politiCians have had to property tax reform FROM THE LEGISLATURE The idea behind reform is that the total amount of taxes tand grants remains the same only the distribution changes to put it another way the money pie is just as big but the slices are now to be cut equally What happened however was that people or municipalities who heard their taxes would rise reacted like wounded bulls shown red flag while those who would gain from reform remained strangely silent The opposition parties adopted an anti reform stance in reaction and with minority government it became political suicide for the Conservatives to introduce tax reform as legislation N0 BREAKS Revenue Minister Lorne Maeck summed up the government dilemma rather neatly in the House one day during brief exchange with Brian Charlton tNDP Hamilton Moun taint Everybody is saying get it all straightened out but dont change anybodys taxes Dont let there be any shifts from one property class to another dont let any of that happen but make it all equrtable Now ask you how does one do it lt is impossrble Any program we bring in if we admit there are inequities out there now will involve shifts If we are not gomg to have any shifts then we might as well forget the whole thing We are apparently satisfied with the way things are he said tisement The Examiner is member of The Canadian Press CM and Audit Bureau at circulations ABC Only the Canadian Press may re publish new stories in this newspaper credited to The Associated Press Reuters or Adence France Presse and local newsstories published in The Examiner The Exammer claimscopyrionton all original news and advertismq mam created by its employees and published in this newsoaoer Copyright registration number 203815 register 61 National advertising ottices 65 Queen St The advertiser agrees that the publisher shalt not be liable tor damages on ma out ot errors in advertisements beyond the amount paid tar the space ac tuallv occupied by that portion at the advertisement in which the error oc curred whether such ermr is due to the negligence at its servants or other wise and there shall be no liability tor non insertion at any advertisement beyond the amount paid tor such advertisement The Publisher reserves the right to edit revise classity or reiect an adver TOFOMO 06 mo WCQMCBF Likely Trudeau successors noncommittal for moment By STEWART MaclJIOI Ottawa Bureau Thomson News Service All of those leading Liberal lights now been touted as likely successors to Pierre Trudeau must have had some enormous political preoccu ations in the last six months lncr ibly none has had time to en tertaining passing thought about becoming the new Liberal leader havent given it any thought says Vancouver MP Art Phillips who has been consistently mentioned as possible Liberal leader since he came to Ottawa in May havent thought about running said MP Lloyd Axeworthy an upandcoming Wing nipeg representative who must have read on at least dozen occasions that he might be future leader havent had the opportunity to think about what happened said former finance minister John Turner And here we all were assuming that Mr Turner had spent the last decade thinking of nothing else No havent thought about it said former treasury board president Robert Andras Liberal finance critic Herb Gray said he now will begin considering the possibility of running indicating that until now thr thought hadnt occurred to him Even former agriculture minister Eugerit Whelan while saying he hasnt thought about the leadership now is joining the new thinkers group ALL THINKING Never have so many Liberals been im mersed in separate think tanks Even former finance minister Donald Macdonald who has been asked about his leadership in tentions on weekly basis for the last two years is beginning to rethink his earlier thinking As he put it think it is fair to say that will have to stop and reflect Other newlyconfessed thinkers include former finance minister Jean Chretien and onetime trade minister JeanLac Pepin Naturally they like all the others havent had time to think about the leadership up until now And the same obviously holds true for Francis Fox the former solicitorgeneral who felt obliged to resign from that law upholding office after forging name on an abortion application But his name keeps cropping up The only person who seems to have given the matter fleeting thought is Liberal House Leader Allan MacEachen and he says he has decided not to take second crack at the leadership Makes you wonder what immense concerns PARLIAMENT have imprisoned the minds of all the other hopefuls in the last six months doesnt it OTHER THOLGHTS Since the May 22 general election most Liberals have generally been preoccupied with the partys future leadership And cant recall one story on the subject that in one way or another failed to mention the name of John Turner or Donald Macdonald MACDONALD PHILLIPS Its rather strange then that both of these gentlemen seemed somewhat stuck for words about their own futures And since MIs like Art Phillips have been so vocal in advocating new leader with western sympathies its passing strange they havent thought about their own leadership aspirations Here was thinking that most MP5 are ambitious creatures always looking for that top rung thought that if elected representatives saw the possibility of possibility of promotion they would grab it with glee Furthermore thought that if the media constantly mentioned someone as likely leader particularly if that someone had previously sought the leadership that he or she would have given the matter just teeny thought But strange as it may seem there doesnt seem to be one probable candidate who has given the matter even cursory consideration Id just like to know what has preoccupied them with such totality during the last six months Doubts mortgage rate tall cure for housing market Mortgage interest rates in Canada con tinued to come down from their record heights this week but real estate spokesman doubted the descent would bring an early cure for the ailing housing market Michael Galway executive director of the Canadian Institute of Public Real Estate Companies said there still is too much economic uncertainty facing builders and buyers The action is going to depend on how the economy shapes up in the US he said The drop in mortgage rates confirms how our state ol affairs had reached such serious point in the first place Even with the drop in rates people may put off buying in hopes that this is the start of continuing lower trend he said Galway cited political factors which he said also add to the uncertainty of the housing market FEAR CHANGES One is the fear that the Progressive iona servatives mortgage deductibility plan may not go through or be rescinded if the Liberals gained power By SEAN FINLAY Of The Ottawa Bureau Thomson News Service Most men would be complaining as they talk of 100 to llOhour work weeks since June Not John Wise The lean elegant agriculture minister accepts the long working hours as part of the price of being new minister in new govemment Since being swornin as Canadas 22nd agriculture minister since Confederation Wise has met with minimum of three and maximum of 10 groups day And Ive probably given more speeches than all my colleagues put together The long hours says Wise also go hand inhand with what he calls his constituency the 10 provinces the two territories and the more than 700 farm organizations in Canada Its going to be little easier down the mad he says once the federal agriculture department is reorganized and once farm organizations ease demands for meeting with him ENERGY INPLT Down the road are Wises plans for major new farm legislation and two issues im portant to Canadian farms energy and high interest rates Were working on great deal of input on energy policy he says Thats very important as it relates to agriculture Agriculture is very high energy consuming industry says Wise as well as being an industry with heavy labor needs and high capital requirements What happens to energy costs is going to be very significant he says Action for the farmer on energy and interest rates will probably come in the budget Dec 11 says Wise and how the government deals with energy and interest rates is important for farmers One major piece of farm legislation Wise plans is beef import law beef import law was campaign promise But it wasnt cranked out by any blue and white machine somewhere says Wise That whole agricultural policy was put together after months and months of consultation with those in the farm in dustry The beef import law would be very similar to one in the now says Wise llOhour work week norm for agriculture minister The law would recognize normal trade patterns and levels and work on counter cyclical basis The law would exclude live cattle Beef imports into Canada would be high when domestic supply cant meet market demand and low when there is enough Jomestic supply for the market Wise set up committee under Bert Hargrave PC Medicrne Hat to look into beef import law The committee which is still working on its final report came up with two concerns says Wise The General Agreement on Trades and Tariffs GATTi negotiations which guaranteed imports of 1392 million pounds of beef to Canadas trading part ners and the growth factor built intoGAfT The committee found that if we accept the guaranteed minimum access level and the growth factor were really going to be introuble Our beef import law would not be as effective as wed like it to be Hargrave is now dealing with federal Industry Trade and Commerce experts to see what can be done to lower the growth factor before making report to Wise GATT signed this summer by the Canadian government does two things with Canadian agricultural products says Wise It prowdes greater equity and equality in international market places for Canadian producers As an example Canadian corn exported to the CS was subject to duty of 23 cents bushel corn coming north had an eight cent bushel duty GATT has equalized that duty to eight cents Still being negotiated is the question of whether the equalization will come into effect over three or eight years So it opens up opportunities in export sales says Wise But opportunities do not guaranteed sales he adds quickly HEESE FOR ELROPE Canada he says used to export 35 million pounds of cheese to the United Kingdom mean