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wifizssrwm Wtw mum NEWSROOM 7266537 CllClllAflON 7266539 the eXaminer Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited Proceed quickly with inquiry The sooner an inquiry into the Barrie police commission takes place the better for Barrie The inquiry be it through county judge or through the Ontario police commission is needed without delay What counts now is to clear the air following the conflict of interest charge against Barries police commission chairman Handing the matter over to the police commission is sen sible approach The Police Act says the commission can investigate the ad ministration of any police force Council should have no qualms about following this course of action Neither should Ald Gord Mills who raised the matter At this point no one is assuming anything about the mat ter Certain charges have been brought forth and those charges should be dealt with accordingly Letting the truth come out through an inquiry is the best route to follow The community will be best served if that inquiry is ar ranged with all due speed Mental wellbeing This is Mental Health Week The week is set aside to remind us of the impo rtance of mental wellbeing and the extent to which mental health is problem in Canada The seriousness of the illness is contained in the following statistics oMental illness strikes more Canadians every year than all other diseases combined oAlmost 50 per cent of all hospitalized Canadians are there due to mental disorders oOne Canadian in three will become disabled to degree through mental disorders As disease its important to keep in mind that mental ill ness can be treated Indeed most patients recover to live healthy normal lives We wonder however whether more Canadians couldnt do more on their own to combat this terrible disease Research has found there is ween mind and body no clearcut separation bet The old adage healthy body helthy mind would seem to apply By recognizing the seriousness of this disease and by ex amining our own living habits we can all do something to combat the problem Your business By VINCENT EGAN Business and Consumer Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service Although 87 years have gone by since Dr Rudolf Diesel patented his engine in Ger lnany the future of the diesel engine in North American cars is still being debated On the one hand the diesel engine is remarkably efficient and economical as shown by years of use in trucks farm equip ment and some models of passenger cars But the stumbling block is that the diesel engine emits particulates as does any engine Pureair campaigners have been op posing its use by auto manufacturers before the United States Environment Protection Agency The agency has yet to come to decision on request by General Motors Corp of Detroit which has gone much farther with diesels than other North American carmakers for modest easing of the EPA emission stan dards as applied to dieselpowered cars ENERGY SAVING The president of GM Elliott Pete Estes presented the case for wider use of diesel engines when he visited the St Catharines 0nt plant of GM of Canada ear ly this month Estes mechanical engineer by training told news conference that the energy saved by substituting diesel engine for gasoline engine is in the order of 25 to 30 per cent Putting it another way he said that this would be equivalent to reducing the weight of car by about 1000 pounds Looking at it from still another viewpoint Estes said that to achieve the same weight reduction and fuel saving through the use of aluminum castings would be twice as costly as substituting diesel engine and that to ac we want your opinion Something on your mind Sond Loltor to tho Editor Ploaso make it an original copy and sign It The Examinor doosnt publish unsigned lot tors but it you wish pon name will bo usod lnéludo your tolophono number and address as wo havo lo vorify lortors Bocauso of spaco limits public intorost and good taste iho Exominor sometimes has to odit condonso or roioct lottors Lottors to tho Editor aro run every day on the odltorial page Send yours to lotion to tho Ibo odor Post 0M lo Out 416 Detroit looking to diesel era complish it through the use of aluminum for body panels hoods fenders and the like would cost three times as much FOR BIG CARS The GM president emphasized that these savings would be best applied to the com panys sixpassenger and bigger cars The diesel engine is an extracost option on almost all series of Oldsmobiles and also to some Cadillac purchasers We think the last place it should be used is on the small end of our business he said The job right now is to cover the six passenger cars that are important to our business Volkswagen Canada Ltd has been offer ing dieselpowered version of its high volume subcompact Babbitt since 1977 Estes said We are all going to have to get used to having energy cost more adding that his company is about halfway toward its longterm goal of improving its corporate average fuel economy SUPPLY DEMAND Diesel fuel is inherently much less costly to produce than is gasoline refined from petroleum the price of which is set at lofty levels by the international oil cartel However diesels price advantage is offset in some jurisdictions such as Ontario by discriminatory taxing designed to make it as expensive as gasoline at the pump One question mark is whether the supply of fiesel fuel will be adequate as more cars are built by diesel engines Estes says that 13 per cent of new GM cars will be so equipped by 1983 vs about five per cent currently North American refineries are geared to produce gasoline Diesel fuel is derived from the production of distillate as are domestic heating oil kerosene and aviation turbine fuel and the output of distillate is governed by the amount of gasoline produced and that is going to drop To provide substantial increase in diesel fuel production North American oil refineries may have to be totally redesigned with an emphasis on production of distillate That will be an extremely expensive under taking bible thought For the Father loveth the Son and sheweth him all things that himself doeth and he will shew him greater works than these that ye may marvel For as the Father raiseth up the dead and quickeneth them even so the Son quickeneth whom he will John52021 Jesus was capable of doing what the Father could do By His grace we can do what He said we could if we will only believe As my Father hath sent me even so send you NEWSIOOM DVERTISING Crllo Elson menacing editor Len Sovlck manaoer ion Muiarew city editor SALES Bill McFarlane wire editor fisfififis Dove Fuller sports editor wéYne Hay Claudia Krouso Lifestyle editor Adm 5mm servmg arrle and Slmcoe county REPORTER 5m gnéhmmcwls Barb Boulton Dennis Lonthlcr Bay Id AM T6 Nancy Figueroa Lasglrilso ie treat arrie nlario LorICohen ssuperv sor Richard Thomas Freda Shinner Bruce Rowland publisher Stephen Gauor entertainment Poesy Chane Gory Forbes Dona Homewood 0VBIG CLASSIFIEDS BIN Betty Armor camera operator Janice Morton Dave Burcsik not re or 7266537 7282414 7266537 °° Helce Sean Finlay By SEAN FINLAY of The Ottawa Bureau Thomson News Service OTTAWA The political clamor leading up to May 22 may sound familiar but some of the rules have changed since Canadians last went to the polls in 1974 The changes affect who can vote and when and election spending by candidates For the first time in Canadian general election British subjects who are not Cana dian citizens cannot vote Immigrants who were not British subjects had complained of the differing treatment he World today By JOHN HARBRON Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service growing problem in international protocol is the future of the Shah of Iran who doubtlessly will never again return home He has moved from Egypt where he was given immediate asylum by President Sadat to Morocco with an uneasy asylum from that countrys King Hassan II to the Bahamas and the estate of wealthy white resident Now the Pindling Government in the Bahamas which one would not expect to be friend of the errruler would like to see him move on or so the rumors g0 An obvious place for his permanent set tlement is the United States where he has been denied entry so far by twitchy Carter administration worried about its present and future dealings with now revolutionary Iran on oil supplies Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger who went to bat at his old place of employ ment the Department of State in an un successful attempt to secure him visa said after he failed man who for 37 years was friend of the United States should not be treated like Fly ing Dutchman who cannot find port of call NEW VIEW Now before total castigation of the Shah of Iran goes on again in your mind and mine we should remember as major editorial in The Wall Street Journal reminds us that it was only on New Years Day 1978 that President Carter warmly embraced him outside the White House The Wall Street Journal of April 23rd last continues The shah is scarcely one of the boat SCOOPS iF LINDA RONSTADT AND JERRY BROWN EREAK UP SHE couw sue HIM FOR HALF or CALIFORN lA sto he psl We just IUSINESS COMPOSING ROOM published danyexcep Circulations ABC Only the Canadian Press may re publish new 0595 in Marion Gouphmccounioni 43 KHnevloreman 50nd and this newspaper credited to CF The Associated Press Reulers or Agence Delve Mills 59 KW 855 foreman saumy and France Presse and Iccal news stories published in The xaminer Gall McFarland 90 Saunders WEEKLY ca Vikki Gram Lorne Wass 9° The Examiner claims copyright on all original news and advertising material Kslnle Mitchell Will Cadosan created by its employees and published in this newspaper Sianwray YEARLYbycarrler ngglliglgrn Raynor $4680 Copyright registration number 203815 register 61 Steve White assistant manager ffflflge BY MAL same National adverilsn offices as sv Andy Haughm $4600 uee oron 0861 17W 640 Cathcarl Susan Kitchen St Montreal Alva LpPlante Ron Gnae SIMCOE COUNTY iéllzqryggrgm Samar 5mg 900 rue advertiser aarees that lne publisher shall not be home ior damages ans Cheryl Aiken pnsssnoom MOTOR THROWOFFi me out or errors in advertisemenls beyond the amount paid lor one space Do Near oreman 50 V23 iually occupied by that portion at the advertisement in which the error Fred Prince asst foreman ELSEWHERE iN CANADA curred whether such error is due to the negligence at its servants or other Harriseumhard Lonavear wise and there shall be no liability for non insertion at any adverlsemeni Erian Marr pm awmv under the former rules says JeanMarc Hamel chief electoral officer The change removes this discrimination and gives more meaning to Canadian citizen ship In addition to being Canadian citizens voters must be 18 years old on or before May 22 election day and living in Canada Urban voters those in areas of 5000 or more people are still treated differently from rural voters Urban voters must have their name on the voters list to be allowed to vote while rural voters are given more leeway to Shah of Iran people his millions aside His is not case of the US failing an ally but of an ally failing the US and the West more generally Whether or not the Shah comes here we ought to precisely understand where he went wrong This was according to the moderate con servative Wall Street Journal that he at tempted to do with forceddraft measures what we in the West often arrogantly insists Third World nations must do modernize and function more like us The Shah in effect was not rightwinger in the sense of letting private industry do the modernizing but monarch in charge of vast state apparatus of state companies regulatory agencies secret police and huge military establishment The shah continues the Wall Street Journal tried to develop not by opening opportunities for his people but by imposing the trappings of modernity from above That same paper makes the very in teresting point that in these ways Shah lteza Pahlevi was progressive and that the true reactionaries are those who follow the Ayatollah Khomeini and the other fundamen talist ayatollahs of Iran The editorial was not written to upgrade the former Iranian ruler after his monstrous crimes against his own people but to point up the dilemma of Americas major allies in au thoritarian regimes when their time to rule comes to an end usually violently In every instance such termination is so messy with corruption facesavin and powerrpolitics like the last presi ent of South Vietnam living in luxu in London that no clear answer to the ilemma may ever be possible SHED NEVER idked the latest polls beyond the amount paid for such advertisement as wtv WWMWMW my magma Sent ml WWu¢Muofivzwlt um Election rule changes affect voters and candidates alike Voters lists were posted in each urban poll ing division April Returning officers will also be mailing urban voters copies of the voters list by April 28 An urban voter missed by the enumerator or whose name does not appear on the posted voters list or who does not receive list in the mail must call the returning officer for his electoral district before May to get his name on the voters list If you do not get your name on the voters list there is no way you can vote says Forrester chief of information and train ing for the Chief Electoral Officer NOT AS TOUGH The rules arent as tough for rural voters whose names arent on the voters list They can go to the poll on May 22 and get someone to vouch for them says Forrester The rural voters vouching privilege doesnt apply for advance polls They must be on the voters list If they arent they must contact the returning officer by May to be put on the list In this election Canadas 3lst since Con federation there will be three advance poll days not the usual two Advance polls will be open from noon until pm Saturday May 12 Monday May 14 and Tuesday May153 Voters unable to vote at advance polls or on May 22 dont lose their vote In this election for the first time they can vote at the office of the returning officer from May to May 19 by signing an affidavit saying they wont be ground for advance polling day or election ay Changes also affect election spending The basic formula for spending limits canaidatc to $1 for each of the first 15000 names on the voters list in his riding plus 50 cents voter between 15000 and 25000 and 25 cents name for the number of voters over 25000 PARTY LIMITS If we consider an average district with 50000 names on the preliminary list then candidate in that district would be limited to election spending of $26250 by this formula says Roger Dube director for election inanc mg Spending limits are also set for registered political parties those parties either represented in the House of Commons or with candidates nominated in 50 ridings Each party is limited to spending 30 cents for each name on the preliminary list of elec tors where the party has candidate Registered parties and candidates can be reimbursed for part of the campaign ex penses Candidates must either be elected or get 15 per cent of the vote to be reimbursed Candidates will be told at least 30 days before election day what their spending limits are Then within four months after the election each candidate must file report with the returning officer setting out expenses and list of contributors who gave more than $100 ll SHED PROBAMY WAIT UNTlL llE BECOMES PRESlIDEilT The Examiner is member of The Canadian Press CP and Audit Bureau at From the legislature The problem with polls By DEREK NELSON Queens Park Bureau Thomson News Service TORONTO We can all relax about the current federal election campai The Gallup poll says the Li rals are in their customary first place with fivepoint lead over the Conservatives And the polls cant be wrong can they Why bot er going out to vote We now know the results There is one slight problem CBC Carleton University poll gives the Conser vatives twopoint edge How does one explain the contradiction Well defenders of polls say they were taken at different times Besides we all know polls are only ac curate within three or four percentage points 19 out of 20 times Which means for example that the Con servative spread could be anywhere from 34 to 44 per cent of the vote the difference bet ween being wiped out and forming majority Tory administration DOES INFLUENCE This kind of crystal ball gazing would be grounds for mirth more than anything except for the theory and it is partially documented that polls affect voters And thats dangerous regardless of whether they stay home come out or change their vote as result of the poll As one critic of polls said they put the em phasis in the election on the wrong place on who is thought to be ahead rather than what the candidates propose and rather than what their election might mean There is also tendency especially in the media to treat polls as predictions rather than what they are records of past opinion And not always very good records at that as the clash between the Gallup and CBC results show NOT GOOD Politicians and party workers are also deeply influenced by polls and it was Winston Churchill who once said nothing is more dangerous than to live in the tempermental atmosphere of Gallup Poll always feeling ones pulse and taking ones temperature For these reasons it is too bad the provin cial government is continuing to dither on law that would ban polls during the 37 days of provincial election much as BC has already done Such legislation wouldnt do much to help the national scene but maybe Ottawa would follow if Ontario set good example Unfortunately deputy premier Bob Welch told backbench MPP John William PC TorontoOriole that while the government is giving very serious consideration to bann ing no definite decision has yet been taken What triggered Williams question in the House is that one year ago resolution pro posed by MP George Ashe PC Durham West and calling for exactly that serious consideration unanimously passed the legislature Liberal and NDP members including MPP George Samis NDP Cornwall who in troduced the first bill to ban polls endorsed the Ashe approach So far the government cant make up its mind and the stumbling block appears to be the definition of poll But BCs bill works so why not just adopt it Interpretingthe news Trade gap hurts USJapan ties WASHINGTON CP Growing United States unhappiness about huge Japanese trade surpluses threatens to trigger trade war that might destroy years of effort to stabilize world trade The whopping 112 billion advantage Japan held in its 1978 trade with the US has brought relations between the two countries to their lowest ebb in years Despite growing evidence and even acknowledgement by Japanese leaders that trade losses are seriously threatening US economic stability Japan has resisted all of forts to persuade it to accept more US goods As result business and labor leaders are demanding action by PreSIdent Carter to curb the volume of Japanesemade goods flooding US markets Sentiment in Congress is strongly antiJapanese on trade matters Japans Prime Minister Masayoshi Ohira is trying to defuse some of this feeling with state visit to Washington this week but there is question about how far he is willing to go In interviews with American reporters before he left Tokyo Ohira made it clear Japan resents the suggestion it must be punished for its success Canadian trade officials are watching the situation closely even though the trade situa tion with the Japanese is different for Canada In 1978 Canada had an $1110 million trade surplus with Japan mainly because of huge exports of raw materials and semi processed goods such as coal and lumber Canada wants greater access for its manufactured goods in Japan and is concern ed about the implications of larger dispute involving the worldwide tariffcutting agree ment signed in Geneva in midApril That agreement which took five years to negotiate under the General Agreement on Tarriffs and Trade GATT has yet to be ratified by the US Congress Tokyo has received warnings that Congress might reject the whole package unless Japan agrees to measures to cut the US deficit Besides proposing mutual lowering of tariffs on nonfarm imports averaging 33 per cent over eight to 10 years from next Jan the Geneva agreement chips away at varie ty of nontariff barriers such as exclusive pro duct safety standards countries use to keep foreign products out