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Thumbs up To those who gave blood this week at the Red Cross clinic with special mention to those high school students whose competiton made the clinic suc cess To the Barrie Minor Baseball League for introduc ing Ball to the city The sport will fill gap for girls and boys aged 58 years To Les Cook 60 owner of Cooke Cartage for his spunk in bicycling to Toronto to celebrate his com panys 40th anniversary To the Barrie Kiwanis Club which has taken as project for 1978 the job of alerting the public of crime prevention To the Association of Municipalities of Ontario for calling for legislation aimed at allowing greater public access to municipal government information To organizers of Hoofbeat 78 for yet another outstanding event Thumbs down To those few reckless clowns who think owning boat is licence to show off at Centennial Beach To Campers and hikers who are spoiling the great outdoors or others with their litter To the city for forgetting how absurd Christmas tree lights look in the summer time at Memorial Square To Harold Ballard new owner of the Hamilton Tiger Cats of the Canadian Football League who it seems will say anything in an attempt to sell tickets letters to the edito ug Would like to see Firehall preserved Dear Sir We as people seem devoid of respect or It would appear by The Examiner of Tues day May 30 that our Alderman Ernie Rot man is determined to have our old Firehall demolished This is another example of our Canadian at titude of if historic piece of property cannot be exploited for fast buck get rid of it Its alarming how many notable and charming buildings are destroyed for parking lots or ex press ways Our Fireball is excellently located in the core of the city for various cultural usages for now and the future When that structure was built century ago Barrie am sure numbered less than handful of thousands It is amazing how large this public building is for then small farming community Talk about faith in their future growth The world today By John Harbron Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service We forget that the reason for many of the bitter rivalries and mindless bloodbaths in African politics reflect the stillstrong tribal divisions of the continent Ugandas Gen Idi Amin the brutal buffoon of president is responding to vicious tribal differences in his country when he massacres villages or executes and assassinates political opponents The political opponents are often ac tually tribal opponents in country where Gen Amins tribe represented in strength by his army is minority tribe We remember the cruel Biafran War that began decade ago temporarily splitting Ni write your mp mpp If you would like to write your Member of Parliament or Member of Provincial Parlia ment printed below are their mailing ad dresses lt you send us copy of your letter it might be suitable for our Letters to the Editor columns After all if there is matter of 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 EEDERAL Dr lynord MPNorth Simcoe Parliament Buildings Ottawa Ont Iou Mliio MPPeelDuflerinSimcoe Parliament Buildings Ottawa Ont Shchlr Stevens MPYorkSimcoe Parliament Buildings Ottawa Ont Gin Mltgu MPGreySimcoe Parliament Buildings Ottawa Ont PROVINCIAL Ooorgo Taylor MPPSimcoe Centre Ontario Legislature Queens Park Toronto Gordon Smith MPPSimcoeEmt Ontario Legislature Queens Park Toronto George McCogiio MPPDuttorin Simcoe Queens Park Toronto reverence for our early buildings If it were in Savanal or Richmond or Philadelphia or hun dreds of lesser towns in the United States how different This lack of regard and faulty planning is also apparent when they are going to destroy hundreds of acres at Maple for honkytonk midway Funlad for farmland Dollars vs sense would hope when Alderman Janice Laking is acting mayor for June she can exercise some powers to preserve this landmark almost as old as the town itslef It would sure iy be grevious mistake to lose it Simcerely Paul Martin Barrie Bitter battles reflect division geria east against north and west Almost miraculously and in manner the rest of Africa still resists after the war Nigerian administrations healed the wounds and brought the warring tribes together in key govcmment posts The muchvaunted South West Africa iii dependence movement which is on world publicity binge comes from the Ovambo tribe not the largest tribe in South West Africa but the most powerful It is believed that in March Ovambo tribe members killed leading tribal chief of the region who came from the larger Herrcro tribe TROUBLE IN NAMIBIA Efforts to bring Herreros and Ovamhos together in joint black workforce schemes in the region failed when members of the two tribes refused to cooperate This suggests the same kind of internal bioodbaths for black and inde ndent South West Africa when it becomes new nation of Namibia In the harsh leadership of many central African black states the leader his army and oneparty government often impose the rule of one tribe over the others This has been the case in such stormy African states as Togo Mali and the Central African Republic Occasionally in more settled nations like Zambia or Tanzania which we consider to be free of tribalism there are outbursts of resistance to relatively enlightened rule In Zambia few years ago fun damentalist sect was ended allegedly for murders committed by its female leader but also probably because it originated from an opposing minority tribe In whileruled Rhodesia the black populations failure to change Mr Smiths mind also reflects tribal differences Cecil Rhodes British imperialist and African colonizcr exploited the two main black tribes in what would become Rhodesia in Matabeleland and Mashonaland Mr Rhodes dcalth with the chiefs of the Matabele in the British formula for protectorate and then control of the region we know today as Rhodesia and Zambia About 80 per cent of the present black Rhodesia is Mashona Bishop Abel Muzo rewa one of the black leaders working with Prime Minister Smith on raciallymixed government The most cynical mani ulation of tribalism in the continent is Sout Africas socalled formation of black nations or homelands from its overwhelming black population By removing large tribes of blacks from their immediate Jurisdiction this racist natitpn claims it has no black population as suc Your business By VINCENT EGAN Business and oiisunicr Affairs Analyst Thomson New Servici Much is written each year to gmdc travellers and some of it lS read usually year or so later when the publishers finally ublish it and the information can no longer relied upon Nevertheless theres steady market for guidebooks Thc farther afield one travels the more one tends to rely upon printed ad Vice in coping with the unfamiliar One problem hiWVl is that the guide book authors havent necessarily succeeded in coping with the unfamiliarity of country thats foreign to them ias well as to usi despite the usual air of authority that they exude In addition things change in this world Everyone knows that prices quoted in guide books are always lower than in rcality but other things change too llotcls go banknipt restaurants burn down schedules are altered my Opinion How many times have we heard two wrongs dont make right The welloiled adage has hollow ring to it these days following the decision by the Crown Employees Settlement Board which ordered the reinstatement of Samucl Johnston who was fired last November from the Iluronia Regional Centre Oriliia for kicking retarded woman in the face The 29yearold woman was kneeling in punishment position when the incident oc curred The charge stood in court and Joiinstoii was found guilty of common assault and fined $m0 He also lost his job as resident counsellor at the Cent rc It seemed justice had been served This was not to be the case The Ontario Public Service Employees Union launched SCOOPS Watts WHERE YOUR FRIEND 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SIMCOE COUNTY MOTOR THROWOFF ELSEWHERE IN CANADA The Examiner Is member at The Canadian Press CF and Audit Bureau at Circuit tions ABC Only the Canadian Press may ropublish news stories In this manger credited to CF The Associated Press Reuters or Agcnce FranceProne and local news stories published in The Examiner Sunday and 90 by Its employees and published In this newspaper YEARLY by carrier 630 Copyright registration number 203815rogistor ol BY MAIL Barrie $4680 National advertising onices as Queen St Toronto wizio no Clthcart Montreal $3650 5393 year $3850 year The Examiner claims copyright on all original news and advertising material created The advertiser agrees that the publisher shall not be liable tor damages arising out at errors in advertisements beyond the amount paid tor the space actually occupied by that portion otthe advertisement in which the error occurred whether such error is due to the negligence of its servants or otherwise and there shall be no liability for noninsertion of any advertisement beyond the amount paid tor such advertisement The result may be that guidebook could be an instrument for spoiling part of your vacation by scnding you on wildgoose chases rather than improving it unless its authors or editors have an extraordinary talent for timeliness and the publisher can print and distribute book much more rapidly than most Since tastes in travel vary as Widely as tastes in fool travel guidebooks are becoming as spccializcd as cookbooks But even the ideal matching of guidebook and reader interest doesnt necessarily ensurc perfect results Lets look at some typical 1978 guides for travcllers The Good 0th Iuidc larkc Irwin 238 pages $1125 British editor Hilary Rubinstein has compiled directory of 320 hotels in Britain and western Europe that have been recomiiicndixl by presumably dependable readers of The Observer an English newspaper The emphasis is on small Villtliplilltl grievance which an arbitration board upheld and Johnston was ordered reinstated in March The reinstatement triggered public out cry and vehement objection from the One tario Association for the Mentally Retarded Majory McPherson association president says it is not just case of insubordinaiion incompetence or irresponsibility Shc coni plains that Johnston has been found guilty of criminal act against another human being which he had responsibility to help rehabilitate treat and care for The arbitration board may have satisfied the unions demands but its highly unlikely tht Johnston can expect to be returned to his former status at th Centre He is reported to be working as laundry sorter The arbitration board cited Johnstons tloilDEfl Wilt WitLP ATTRACT HER ATTElfltiil T0 POMI Guide books have helpful hints which can spoil vacation hotels that maintain the personal touch as opposed to the chain hotels that are all too likely to treat travellers as numbers because they are overwhelmed with tour groups That doesnt mean that the hotels recommended here are necessarily inex pensive In fact both ends of the price scale arc well represented But the personal nature of the comments will probably give the reader clearer idea of what each hotel offers than do the more conventional guide books Putting this guide to personal test last month stayed at two of the recommended hotels Each had originally turned down my rc ucst for reservation because of being ful booked quite possibly because they were recommendtd in this book but in each case an opportune cancellation occurred The first hotel lived up to its recom mendation although its high price bore no relationship to that quoted in the book The second was dingy cramped noisy lace that ought never to have been describe as good hotel Reinstating fired counsellor damages credibility of union seniority his clean record at the Centre his contribution and the fact that he had confess ed his wrong doing to the hearing as well as his economic hardships as having bearing on the assault Johnston has been found legally guilty of assaulting handica pcd person This is strictly against the po icy of the Centre and for this he was fired His reinstatement may have appeared the public service employees union but it weakened its credibility ilANtlNG AROUND The secrets out The Examiner is hard in training for the Big Brothers Big run for Little Brothers June 16 We will be entering our relay team in the event for moral support for Mayor Archer and few other dignitaries partici ting in the iiimile run from Barrie to Strourlla lTS Millllll BECAME OF Tilt IETTUOE NlOti at Canadas story Pushed men to limit By BOB BOWMAN It was on June3 1789 that Alexander Mackenzie left Fort Chipewyan on Lake Athabaska to explore the river that bears his name Although on 25 years old he was an established fur tra er of the Northwest Co and had been in the Athabaska area for four years First it was necessa to paddle 230 miles to Great Slave Lake an there was still ice in the Slave River Mackenzie was accompanied by an Indian guide called English Chief It was believed that the river the were going to explore flowed into the nort Pacific and Mackenzie carried rubles in case he found himself in Russian territory Great Slave Lake is igger than Lake Ontario or Lake Erie and it was still frozen when Mackenzie arrived They were able to begin the descent of the river Julyl and Mackenzie pushed his men to the limits of their endurance They began paddling at daybreak and kept going until late afternoon There were swarms of vicious mosquitoes although the weather was cold and it often rained heavily His men and the Indians thought he was crazy It took until July13 to reach the com plicated estuary of the river that Mackenzie realized was the Arctic Ocean when he took observations for latitude This was great disappointment and then he had to lead his party up the river again to Great Slave and then home to Fort Chipewyan He arrived Sept12 having travelled more than 3000 miles in 112 days In those days Mackenzies exploit added only some useful knowledge He would be amazed to see how important his river and valley is becoming today Four years later he became the first man to cross the North American continent by land OTHER JUNE3 EVENTS iGZORecollet Fathers laid cornerstone of church in Quebec insJames Knight expedition was wrecked in the Arctic HTSFirst issue of Montreal Gazette Gazette Litteraire 17991516 St Jean was proclaimed to be Prince Edward Island iSIOMBritish Columbia delegation arrived in Ottawa to discuss Confederation 1887First Mormon settlers arrived at Cardston Alta where there were eight inches of snow Wilfrid Laurier became leader of the Liberal party l909WL Mackenzie King became minister of labor in Wilfrid Laurier govern ment HillsBritish Columbia unemployed began march on Ottawa Federal government passed Prairie Farm Assistance Act interpreting the news Simmering exasperation By CATHY McKERCHER WASHINGTON CP Recent develop ments in Africa appear to have brought to the surface simmering exasperation felt by President Carter and some other White House officials over congressional restraints on the executive branch of US government in foreign operations Carter expressed his frustration last week complaining that he has to operate under very tight restraints in Africa while the Soviet Union and Cuba expand their influence quickly Shortly after Carters comments were made ublic the state department released an ei tpage list entitled Restrictions on presidential authority to provide assistance to foreign nations and to conduct foreign operations At the top of the list was legislation sponsored in December 1975 by Senator Dick Clark Dem Iowa which blocks any US aid direct or indirect for military or paramilitary operations in Angola without explicit congressional approval LIMIT OPERATIONS The legislation was an attempt to cut off covert US assistance to antiMarxist guer rillas then fighting in Angola where Cubans supported by Soviet equipment first made their appearance in Africa This month rebel group based in Angola invaded Zaire which the Carter ad ministration considers friendly country The Clark legislation was one of the legacies of the war in Vietnam Congress rebellious about being left in the dark on covert US operations in Southeast Asia sought more controls over the executive branchs power to order such operations in an attempt to prevent Vietnamtype war from erupting in Africa But what worires Carter and more par ticularly his national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski is that such controls might hamper the ability of the US to aid friendly countries who feel threatened by the Soviet Union and Cuba which continue to spread their influence throughout Africa So far Carter has made no attempt to have the congressional controls loosened FACES OPPOSITION But if he should do so he would face major fight not only with Congress but within his small circle of advisers Senator George McGovern Dem SD perhaps best summed up the attitude of Congress when he said the executive branch has just got to accept the fact that Congress is partner in foreign policyand major partner Meanwhile the discussions about ap ropriate US responses in African conflicts as clearly demonstrated the deep ideological split between Carters two major advisersBrzezinski and United Nations Am bassador AndrewYoung