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awayfivewssw 22 theexaminer Wednesday Dec 1979 servrng borne and simcoe county Publisned by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited 16 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario L4M4T6 Bruce Rowland publisher CIRCULATION 7266539 NEWSROOM 7266537 ADVERTISING CLASSIFIEDS 7266537 7282414 Give OPP strength it needs Its alarming to learn that provin cial police in this area are fighting crime in 1979 with 1972 police force Whats more revealing is that the police superintendent for the Barrie OPP area is willing to talk openly aboutit According to Supt Roy Burkettthe toomember district force has not added man in the past eight years But during that time crime traf fic and patrol requirements have all risen dramatically The result is the superintendent is openly admitting that the OPP dont have the manpower to keep up with day to day occurrances much less work on preventing crime Theres also human side to the story as overworked policemen become tired and discouraged When the police admit openly that men have had to resign because of nervous disorders stemming from their work its time to listen and act We wonder if our OPP district is much different than any of the other police coverage areas How many police across the province are in similarly overworked cir cumstances Thats question the Attorney General of Ontario would be wise to look into and see exactly what the staffing problems are what the psychological effect of understaff ing is and what support can be given to help our police depart ments By speaking out now the Barrie OPP superintendent has had the courage to raise the issue for the public to see Weve seen other police forces the city of Barrie is one which have received the additional strength they need to get on with the job of protecting the public If the OPP needs similar strengthening they should be heard and helped in their request This home at l05 Toronto Street was built about l885 for member of the Burton lumbering family it is constructed in style known as Second Empire or Mansard it is very decorative style with an especially distinctive roof line Examiner Photo information courtesy the Barrie Local Architectural Conservation Advisory Committee No evidence of unity for North South Korea By JOHN IIiLItIlItUN Foreign Affairs Analyst The two Koreas the capitalistic Republic of South Korea and the Stalinist llcnirXratie Republic of North Korea remain as far apart as they have done since the Korean War of the early 1950s In recent years both countries had at least one common feature strongmen holding supreme power the late General lark htmg Lee Ill the south and the mysterious Kiln ll Sung in the north Park of course was assassinated last month by senior aide and confidant tinder ll Cumstances still being investigated Kim Il Sungs health and political future are both undergoing the same microscopic observation by Asian watchers which was directed at omrnumsl hours late hair man Mao lsclung for years prior to his death Economically speaking the two Koreas are poles apart South Korea has become one ol the leaders among the handful of Asian states Japan Taiwan Singapore Thailand which have opted for the capitalistic system South Korean goods and services frotn bulk cargo ships and tankers to heavy construct ion teams cover the world Indeed South Korean shipbuilding now undercuts even the traditionally low cost Japanese industry on both price and delivery schedules while very competitive South Korean construction crews are busy throughout the Middle East building ports and town sites 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 if you wish pen name will be used include your telephone number and address as we have to vérify 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 yours to Letter to the Editor The Examiner Post Office Box 370 MINE Ont MM 4T6 SIIIIINIZIZISAII North Korea by comparison is still rcci pient nation for both Soviet and Thincsc technical aid and assistance It appears to be broke in terms if making any repayment on those foreign loans and credits which ll has managed to secure from Western and other Asian countries It no longer has major economic ad vantage over South Korea as source of much of the Korean peninsulas hydro power and of steel mill capacity built originally by the Japanese who ruled in Korea between 1910 and 1945 wThc busy and aggressive lark technrwrals are building sevoral nuclear power plants and more modern steel fabricating industry than the north now holds thanks to American and Japanese steel technology shared with the regime in the south The issue of reunification of north and south which surfaces from time to time is quiet one these days major reason other than the continuing deep ideological differences between the two states who hold Communist and capitalist values very deeply is the uncertainty of future leadership In the north Kim Il Sung has son who ap pears to be functioning as heir apparent to his father and is mentioned increasingly in the totallycontrolch North Korean media Whether or not there is cabal of North Korean senior army officers who want to raise up their own successor to Kim Il Sung is unknown In the south the leadership struggle is out on the open with an interim president ap pointed after General Parks murder until and if his authoritarian constitution is replac ed in 1980 There is much pressure from the selfsame community of business executives which Park encouraged and largely created to set tle for truly democratic government with an elected president NO KOREAN lNlTY Certainly there is no sign whatsoever that single Korean state is ready to emerge anymore than we can expect unified Ger many in Western Europe in the period im mediately ahead BUSINESS 7266537 EDITORS ADVERTISING Croig Elsun managing editor Stan Didlbalis city editor Bill McFarlane wire editor REPORTERS Stephen Nicholls Dennis Lanthier Nancy Figueroa Lori Cohen Tony Panacci Richard Thomas Sue Bowen camera operator Terry Field Cathy Heather Mary Delaney Peter Roberts Alison Merkel SALES Aden Smith Wayne Hay Steve Skinner Marion Hearty Calvin Felepchuk Peter Clark CLASStFIED Freda Shlnner Janice Morton Ian MacMurchY By VINCENT EGAN Business and Consumer Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service To be happy at home is the uItimate aim of all ambition said Samuel Johnson the end to which every enterprise and labor tends Thats as true today as it was when Dr Johnson spoke those words two centuries ago And thats why one of the most difficult decisions to face couple at retirement age could be whether to try to maintain the family home on what will probably be reduced income or to move out Circumstances such as health or family responsibilities may make the decision easy and straightforward the other hand it can be an agonizing choice The author of newly published book Senior Side Of Living John Wiley and Sons anada 1td 159 pages $695 urges close look at the options before deciding Irene Crawford suggests that the first step should be to calculate the yearly total of house expenses such as taxes fuel in surancc utility services and the like Its prudent for any homeowner of whatever age to keep such records and to be aware of the trends of the various expense items For convenience divide by 12 and compare the resulting figure with whatever it would cost to live elsewhere Remember that the figures on both sides of the equation will rise with inflation BALANCE SHEET Make estimates of the price you would receive on selling the house and of the yield you could earn by investing that money Investment yields are the highest in living memory at present but so are rental costs If your potential investment yield wouldnt cover the rental of satisfactory ac commodation youd be farther ahead to stay put the author points out Another alternative if your home is large would he to rent it and move to smaller quar tcrs In wcighing any of these alternatives its Len Sevick manager Peggy Chapell supervisor WSINE SS Marian Gouqh occwntant Delva Mills Vikki Grant Connie Hort John Shunk CIRCULATION Bill Halkes manager Andy Haughton assistant manager Doug Boni Alva LaPlante Lisa Warry Elaine Burton Cheryl Aiken Don Saunders Lorne Wass Wilt Cadogan Stan Wrav Bill Raynor Ron Glider Ed Allenby Janie Hamel Susan Kitchen Yvonne Sierps PR ssn 00M At Hanson foreman Don Near asst foreman Fred Prince Kim Pattenden Question for retirement to say put or to move YOUR BUSINESS necessary to make assumptions about the fu ture One point to remember says Irene Crawford is that although homes belonging to people of retirement age are usually free of debt they may well be approaching time when expensive repairs will become necessary The life of roof is about 20 years and by that time plumging and wiring will also need fixing With only their pensions and small inflationeroded savings account seniors havent got the money to cope with costly improvements SOME AID Hardpressed retired homeowners can however obtain some forms of assistance depending upon local policy and availability Some municipalities grant rebates on education taxes But when the house is sold the rebate is reclaimed by the municipality The Ontario Home Renewal Program gave assistance with home repairs to home owners with annual incomes of under $12500 Up to $4000 of the repair costs would be an outright grant the rest lowinterest loan Different veterans organizations off er assistance for home repairs to veterans of the armed forces and their families Some cities have programs that pay students to help clean and maintain the homes of older people and even to assist with the shopping However the author says such programs tend to be shortlived The author quotes US figures indicating that almost 70 per cent of people over 65 pre fer to stay put Another 25 per cent move but stay in the same general area Only five per cent move completely away Home is where the heart is she writes and seniors heart is in his or her own home Iranian army displays years of US By JOHN HARISRON The paradox of any lranianAmerican conflict is that the Iranian armed forces will have to fight with the residue of the huge amount of US military hardware which has been supplied by Washington over the last decade to the departed Shah US Defense Department estimates suggest what is left of that hardware buildup IS in great disarray run down without spare parts and proper backup facilities Moreover morale in the once allpowerful Imperial Iranian forces has fallen apart The desertion level during the revolutionary upheavals of this year has been as high as 50 per cent No part of the vast military establishment With its weapons support facilities and training background fed by the Americans had remained loyal to the Shah when the end came There was to be no Praetorian Guard of army or air force officers equipped with the most modern weapons supplied not only by the Pentagon but also by British weapons makers SHAIIS ARMY FELL APART In fact the imperial military edifice disintegrated in short order with automatic weapons handed out by the thousands to both Khomeinis followers and the equally ex tremist fedayeen proPalistinian groups recent American TV news item showed hundreds of Iranian air force rankandfile still wearing their USstyle flight jackets with squadron badges shouting and raising their fists in support of the Ayatolah Kho meini influence In terms of actual weapons available the situation has to be chaotic The former Imperial Iranian Air Force of 100000 had been supplied with 190 F4 fighters not unlike our famous and aborted Avro Arrow 105 and 186 FS Freedom jet fighters About 75 of these were never airborne before the world fell apart in Iran The hundreds of American technicians serving that air force are long gone And the resident aircraft manufacturing firms chiefly Bell Helicopter which had fullyintegrated Iranian facility also closed down months ago Whatever the Iranians could still fly would only present nuisance value to any invading American air power Moreover there is still considerable cadre of Iranian military pilots under training in US air force bases who came to North America during the Shahs era and cannot go home The former Imperial Iranian Army had full strength of close to 300000 in the Shahs heyday These were organized into three infantry and further three armored divisions The infantry was equipped with West German rifles and Israeli automatic weapons mainly of the worldfamous Uzi ty LARGEST TANK ORDER The very old Korean War vintage tanks were being replaced by an order of 1000 new British ones the largest single sale of tanks to foreign power since World War Two The revolutionary government also cancelled this order aalong with more new aircraft COMPOSING ROOM Jack Kerney foreman Glenn Kwan asst toriman Published daily except Sunday and statutory holidays WEEK LY by carrier 95 cents YEARLYby carrier The Examiner is member of The Canadian Press CF and Audit Bureau of Circulations ABC Only the Canadian Press may republlsh hm stories in this credited to CF The Associated Press Reuters or Apence France Press and local news stories published in The Examiner The Examiner claims copyright on all original news and advertising material created by its employees and published in this newspaper $49 10 Copyright registration number 203815 register of MAIL Barrie St Montreal SIMCOE COUNTY National advertising offices 65 Queen St Toronto amino Cathcart The advertiser agrees that the publisher shall not be liable for damages arls $3900 ing out of errors in advertisements beyond the amount paid for the space ac MOTOR THROW OFF 541 50 year $1100 year tlsement Pierre Trudeaus exit blunts Levesques attacks By STEWART MacLEOD Ottawa Bureau Thomson News Service Quebec Preexperiencing immense political frustrations as he prepares to enter the referendum campaign without an obvious enemy He must look back fondy on the good old days when he had Pierre Trudeau to kick around With Trudeau constantly commenting on the alleged sins of Levesques Parti Quebecois government and losing no op portunity to needle the premier there was always highly visible target in Ottawa for the separatists to attack The former Liberal prime minister generally took tough un compromising approach to federalprovicial relations and whether he has right or wrong was largely beside the point What was im portant was that Trudeaus unwavering ap proach toward constitutional reform along with his determinaton to maintain strong central authority provided the Quebec premier with weekly opportunities to goint at the straightjacket effects of federalsim Every war requires an enemy and Pierre Trudeau was virtually custommade for Levesques campaign ENEMY DISAPPEARS But suddenly on May 22 the enemy disap peared replaced by young Joe Clark who an nounced that it would be his licy to prove by needs that flexible eralism can be made to work And with the exception of the current energy negotiations which mainly in volve the producing provinces Clark has avoided all confrontations with the provinces so far Not since the election has Premier Levesque heard resounding no from Ot tawa In fact there are some who think that Prime Minister Clark may be going too far in re maining aloof from the Quebec referendum campaign He has said he didnt want to ap pear to be interfering in the Quebec affair rather questionable comment from the Prime Minister of the entire country But that aside there is no doubt that Clarks lowprofile apparently ac commodating approach to Quebec is proving frustrating to the provinces premier who tualty occupied by that portion or the advertisement in which the error oc curred whether such error is due to the negligence of its servants or other wise and there shall be no liability for noninsertion of any advertisement ELSEWHERE IN CANADA beyond the amount paid for such advertisement The Publisher reserves the right to edit revise classify or reiect an adverr PARLIAMENT HILL desperately needs federalist enemy outstae his borders This frustration now has erupted with the premier producing list of Tory shortcomings which he said indicate the current regime is no better than the previous one It make little difference that the alleg ed sins are largely residuals from the Trudeau regime they are in the view of the Parti Quebecois better than nothing Lashing out at stalled federal projects in the province the premier said that Quebec has lost hundreds of millions of dollars in investments He mentioned the cancellation of data centre the planned Guy Favreu Building in Montreal and the longplanned $360million heavy water plant at La Prade He also returned to those wellaged com plaints about lack of federal financing for the Quebec Provincial Police and the fact thah more federal research money is spent in On tario than in Quebec In general he said he new Tory government shows no more pro mise than its predecessor and we all know what he thought of that regime But if the premier wanted to refuel the historic OttawaQuebec City fired he must have been disappointed by Clarks predic table reaction We have decided tht it was very important to cool the atmosphere bet ween Quebec and Ottawa said the prime miniter We intend to continue tha course uninfluenced by the statements Mr Levesque has apparenty made As for federal spent ding in Quebec we are now pursuing our goals given the priorities that were discussed with the province Its that flexible federalism again Apart from the inherent danger of appear ing indifferent Prime Minister Clark can scarcely be faulted on this issue It would be very difficult to pinpoint anything he has done so far that could even loosely be con sidered as an assist to the separatist cause Famed Billingsgate market forced to new location ALAN HARVEY LONDON Renter Europes oldest fis market is moving soon After 1000 years Billingsgate Market is bowing to traffic pressures Next summer twolane thoroughfare is due to impinge on its riverside setting in the commercial heart of London forcing it few kilometres along the river to the dockland area It is traumatic moment for Billingsgates fishmongers in their bloodsmeared smocks and the porters in their brassstudded basin shaped leather hats Their eyes grow moist at the thought of leaving legendary Billingsgate the worlds biggest inland fish forum But there may be an element of theatre amid the pathos Sad as it may be it is inevitable says Gerald Watkin the chief fishmonger The weed for move is urgent Billingsgate on the left bank of the Thames near London Bridge has rich historical asso ciations Painter William Hogarth 16971764 called it dirty place notorious for ribaldry not worth relating HAS COLORFUL HISTORY It was noted for strong smells and interpreting the news language to match Dramatist Ben Jonson 15731637 wrote in The Devil is an Ass of bawds and roisterers dining at Billingsgate on claret and oysters Others spoke of stinking fish and the visitors nostrils twitch on arriving at ad jacent Monument station The aroma seems incongruous in what is predominantly business district The market casts its nets widely Claiming the largest variety of fish in Europe it has turnover of £70 million $174 million an nually On sale are squid from California live lobster from New Brunswick salmon from the Pacific and supplies from Japan China South Africa Kenya Hong Kong and Pakistan From nearer home imports pass into Billingsgates antiquated Gothic building with its ironwork roof and ornamental weathervane from Denmark the Netherlands Belgiucheland and Spain Normally some 250 tons daily move through the market Wholesalers say the leading ex porters include the Republic of Ireland Greenland Denmark and Italy US foreign policy presidential battle By GLENN SOMERVILLE WASHINGTON CPI Pity reeleclion in 1980 in the midst of one of the most serious crises faced by any US president Almost since election in 1976 Carter has been plagued by the passions and pelitics of Persian Gulf states which now pose direct threat to his chances for winning the Democrats nomination for president next year These forces are behind the spectre of military conflict that hangs over the US because of the hostagetaking in Iran And it is the petroleum politics of the Persian Gulf countries that have led to the high inflation and energy shortages felt painfully by Americans as the 1980 election year starts These events have let loose some dangerous emotions Some politicians equate belligerence with restoring US prestige and few want military ad venture to set things right in the Middle East Carter has shown great retrain about using US military or economic power against Iran but his political opponents are chipping away at his stand In his news conference last week Carter appealed to the other presidential contenders to rec ognize the danger in promoting the use of military might We are strong and getting stronger not weaker Carter said Even if anybody thinks we an dominate other people with our strength military or political strength or economic strength theyre wrong Thats not the purpose of our country FIND EASY TARGET Unfortunately contenders like Senator Edward Kennedy who also seeks the Democratic nomination find the Carter administrations foreign policy record handy target Supporting the deposed shah of Iran is an example of policy thats bankru Kennedy said on the weekend Repu licans like Texan John Connally seeking his partys presidential nomination take harder line on artcrs foreign policies Every signal weve sent around the world in thelast years has been signal Jimmy Carter announcing his campaign today for JIMMY CARTER announces candidacy of weakness and appeasment Connally said recently promising to change that Ronald Reagan front runner for the Republican nomination charges that the vacillation the weakness of the foreign pol icy of this administration is responsi le for the situation in Iran to begin with Carters performance in the face of the Iranian provications this nation will never yield to blackmail is probably his administrations finest hour But because he also recognizes the limits of US ability to return to an era of military domination Carter is called weak leader In fact there is considerable courage in arters policy toward Iran Des he the urging several Capitol Hill coleagucs last week the president refused to set deadline for Iran to release the American hostages without US military intervention Evcry peaceful means to free the hostages must be exhausted first Carter said