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112 we if lt business MyJuno11 1979 NIWSIOOM 726 6537 IICUUTION 7266539 the examiner serving barrie and simcoe county Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited 16 Baylield Street Barrie Ontario LAM 4T6 Bruce Rowland publisher ADVERTISING 7266537 ClASSIFIEDS 72824 New airport needed here As Barrie grows so do its horizons With our interest in developing industry and with more emphasis on tourism we must be able to reach out for our im mediate area to major centres in the province and the nation For this we will depend increasingly on air service Yet our facilities here are at best inadequate Barrie is served by small antiquated airport with 2000 foot grass runway Despite its size traffic volume is high In 1978 there were 46166 landings and takeoffs at the airport The figure at Toronto International Airport was 260877 only about six times greater than Barrie These figures suggest we badly need the regional airport promised for our area Ion Fish Barrie airport operator recently said of the Situation Its the only city Im aware of in Ontario with comparable Size and importance that is not serviced by an adequate airport Barrie recognizes that need So too should surrounding muniCialities who could expect to benefit from such facility The subject of new airport is now under study by the air port advisory committee Important questions remain about any new airport notably where it should be located and how much should be spent But the experts have little doubt about the need for new airport itself Full support is needed for getting better airport for our community barrie landmarks The Old Firehall was built in 1875 with easterly wing added in 1904 This Victorian building was council chamber town lockup police court and town offices for most of century before these functions moved into the remodelled market building and new firehall By l975 the empty building kindled raging controversy concerning its use as community resource Drawing courtesy LACAC Committee Your By VINCENT EGAN Business and Consumer Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service If you are an average Canadian your tax bill has increased since 1961 by consid erably wider margin than any other major area of your living costs food clothing or shelter Since 1975 the tax bill appears to have stopped rising but thats because govern ments have been borrowing more heavily than ever and thus in effect deferring the increases in tax bills that you would other wise have had to bear Those are two prime conclusions of report on an assessment of the Canadian tax system just published by the Fraser Institute of Vancouver an economic research organ ization The authors Michael Walker director of the Institute and Sally Pipes calculate that all taxes levied by all three levels of government amount to 316 per cent of the average Canadian familys 1978 income down from 333 per cent in 1974 When borrowings of the three levels of government are taken into the calculation however the 1978 tax bite was 375 per cent only slightly below the 1974 rate of 378 per cent To the extent that Canadians have been made to feel betteroff by the decline in tax rates they have been subjected to massive 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 it you wish pen name will be used Include your telephone number and address as we have to varin letters Because at space limits public interest and good taste The Examiner sometimes has to odlt condense or reject letters Letters to the Editor are run every day on the oditorial pogo Send yours to letters to tho Illa Tho tumbler Post Office lo 370 MINI Out Tax hikes outstrip other living costs fiscal illusion says the report DEFERRED TAXES The tax bill of the average family has in creased 302 per cent since 1961 or 336 per cent when government deficits or deferred taxation are taken into account Average expenditures including indirect taxes on food have increased 172 per cent in the same period on clothing 200 per cent and on shelter 255 per cent The allitems Con sumer Price Index increased 134 per cent between 1961 and 1978 The reason the rate of increase in taxes stabilized after 1975 say Walker and Pipes is that governments have increasingly engaged in deficit financing The bonds that governments issue to cover these deficits are in effect deferred taxation since tax revenue must ultimately be raised to pay the interest and redeem the bonds The need to reckon with these deferred taxes is becoming increasingly important as the size of the federal deficit reaches un precedented proportions The Fraser Institute study also showed that the average Canadian familys 1978 income taxes of $3134 represented only about 42 per cent of the familys total taxes Tlie other $4352 consisted of wide range of taxes from those related to cars and petroleum products to amusement and property taxes WllO PAYS MORE comparison with US tax rates which had to be based on 1976 data the latest avail able indicated that on average Canadians tax rates are 32 percentage points higher However the difference varies con siderably depending upon income level 58 percentage points higher for Canadian family with income of $10852 in 1976 for example but only 03 percentage point higher at an income level of $46120 The analysis also shows that Canadian families in the top 30 per cent of income brackets that is those earning upwards of $21494 in 1976 paid 665 per cent of all taxes levied by all Canadian governments in that year Back in 1961 the top 30 per cent paid 609 per cent of all taxes It should be noted that governments are redistributing the wealth to much greater extent today than in 1961 Expansion of various benefit programs for the unemployed mothers of children the over65 and so on has led to higher taxation to pay both for the extended benefits and for the greatly expanded number of public officeholders administering the programs BUSINESS 7266537 EDITORS ADVERTISING Craig Elson managing editor Len Sevick manager lanMulgrew city editor SALES Bill McFarlanewre editor Bert Stevens NEWSROOM WGYM HyY Dave Fuller Aden Smith Steve Skinner Barb Boulton Calvin Feiepchuk Claudia Krause Stephen Nicholls Dennis Lanthier Nancy Figueroa Lori Cohen Richard Thomas Stephen Gaucr Gary Forbes Betty Ar mer Terry Field Peter Hsu CLASSIFIED Fredn Shinner Dans Homewood Janice Morton Take note By ALEX MANJURIS Children are the forgotten segment of our community Well not really forgotten just taken for granted That they are there are growing up and will someday formulate their own thoughts and be recognized In our haste to provide lot of childrens individuality is overshadowed by the adults anxiety to develop the child maybe in their own image and for their own ego Take good look at your children Stop and listen to them Look at them as they really are Then you can guide them and mould them without destroying or distorting their natural evolution Recently have had the pleasure of meeting Leonard Johnston who attends Prince of Wales School He is an 11yearold boy who is very clever and vibrant in dividual One of his interests is what is going on around him in the political scene was very interested in having look at our com munity through Leonards eyes So will you The following are his impressions in his own words WANTS TO KNOW Why is an 11yearold interested in politics Well its my city After all have to live here even at my age want to know about things like who is running itwhat they are doing and how they are doing it am also Interpreting the news Peggy Chapell superviso Lisa warry BUSINESS COMPOSING ROOM Marian Gough accountant J6 Kerncy toreman Delva Mills PM Kwan asst toreman VikkiGrant Don Saunders Brenda Woods Lorne wass Jean Bass Wilt Cadoqan Stan Wra cmcuufdfii Ram Bill Halkes manager Ed Aflonbv Steve White assistant maager Janie Hamel Susan lichen Roncitdcr Barbara Sinai PR 55 00M Don Near toreman Brad Howcrott Alva LaPlante Elaine Porter Cheryl Aiken LEONARD JOHNSON kids are interested looclwbe Next step is to slop referring to tilt dummq PM and his bunch of incompde diflgolirigs Published daily except Sunday and statutory holidays wEEKLYbycorrler YEARLY by carrier $1940 BY MAIL Barrie $1940 SIMCOE COUNTV St Montreal MOTOR THROW OFF $4150a year utooa year moment An 11yearold speaks up Barrie is my city too interested because when am 18 will be able to vote note like in some countries So want to know how it works What do think of the present council Well its better than the last council Its good one but its not the best One thing is annexation Council is not willing to give little think Barrie has to grow as long as it doesnt turn into concrete jungle The Old Firehall The Last Council let it be torn down The present council didnt do anything but they didnt have much time The Eldon Greer situation There is possible conflict of interest but why wasnt it brought up before What would like to see in future councils is this one that doesnt listen to special in terest groups ahead of its people such as the Seeder project yet still talks to industry and business to provide jobs One that will settle the annexation dispute so that more factories will come to Barrie One where the coun cillors are not thinking of just themselves One that helps children with more than just parks So now you know why am interested in politics think more people should be in terested You may disagree but this is my opinion am just glad am able to say it Jerusalem stand crown of thorns for Canada on internoti UNITED NATIONS CP Prime Minister Joe Clark has fashioned crown of thorns for Canada at the United Nations by indicating readiness to give diplomatic recognition to Jerusalem as the capital of Israel This move means that Flora MacDonald now is faced with her first political crisis says UN diplomat referring to Canadas first woman external affairs minister who succeeded Don Jamieson It is clear that Clarks pledge to move the Canadian Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv without guarantees from the Israelis that the holy sites will be safeguarded will not be fulfilled for some time Miss MacDonald said in Ottawa that while the embassy shift remains goal of the new Progressive Conservative government it will not take place in the immediate future But damage already has been done to Canadas position in the UN by Clarks reversal of what has been Canadian policy for 32 years SUPPORTED PARTITION As one of the original members of the UN Canada supported the partition of the Holy Land in 1947 including creation of separate entity for Jerusalem under international supervision However the partition that ended the British mandate in Palestine brought war between the Arab states and Israel and led to it FLORA MACDONALD faces first crisis the creation of the Jewish state in 1948 Three more ArabIsraeli wars and the new IsraeliEgyptian peace treaty still have not settled the status of Jerusalem taken over completely by Israel after the ixday 1967 onal scene conflict Diplomats who negotiated the Israeli Egyptian peace pact which is not sitting well with the Arab world and the UN in general deliberately avoided the question of Jerusalem because it is so inflammatory By moving its diplomatic activities to Jerusalem Canada would in effect be giving recognition to the Jewish occupation of East Jerusalem the old Arab sector so holy to the Moslem world MOVE lLLTlMED The Canadian move is seen at the UN as ill timed and illadvised because in reality the new peace treaty is still not much more than piece of paper The move does not help the Egyptians who still must negotiate with the Israelis equitable rights for the Palestinians It also takes away lot of the creditability Canada has earned in the UN during its lengthy role of peacekeeping in the Middle East For Canadians it took ears to crack the Arab market and now en lucrative con tracts are beginning to pay off the shift of embassies might prove to be counter productive and costly if the Arabs wish it For one thing Saudia Arabia will never accept Jerusalem as strictly Jewish city They regard it as the third most holy place in the Moslem world next to Mecca and Medina Egyptian President Anwar Sadats own position is that the Arab halfiof Jerusalem must come under Arab sovereignty The Examiner is member ot The Canadian Press CP and Audit Bureau Circulations ABC Only the Canadian Press may republish news stories in this newspaper credlted to CF The Associated Press Reuters or Agence France Presse no local news stories publlshod 1n ngxomlnor The Eumlner claims copyright on oll orlgtnol news and advertising material 95 Ms created by Its employees and puthst In this newspaper Copyright registration number 20315 roglster 51 Notional advertislng offices 65 Queen St Toronto 9641710 640 Cathcart The advertiser agrees that the publisher shall not be liable for damages arts 53900 lng out of errors in advertisements beyond the amount paid for the space oc tuolly occupied by that portion of 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 tor nonlnsertlon of any advertisement P° 555 ELSEWNERE lN CANADAZ be and the amount paid for such advertisement he Publisher resorst the right to edit revise classify or Fulfilan adve Backgrounder spartan conditions of CP Airs first nofrills Sky Bus flight to Edmonton on Friday night may have been hard to take magazines provided during the Illahour flight as the airline cut expenses to the bone and Amy Lambert 62 of Brechin 0nt it was anythitig but nothrills experience said Mrs Lambert impressed with the comfort of 417seat Boeing 747 You only feel something once in while On train or bus youre bumping back and forth the pair were attracted by the low cost $7950 to Edmonton or Calgary from Toronto and $9450 to Vancouver from Toronto They were not concerned with the fact they would not receive meal Are there meals served on other flights Marvellous Mrs Lambert ate before boarding while others brought lunch with them FREE COFFEE Alcoholic beverages and soft drinks were sold Toronto who was on her way to Edmonton with her twoyearbld granddaughter had couple of cups of tea and that was fine had been flying between Toronto and Ed monton every two weeks for the last year as marketing representative for computer manufacturer paying about $170 for each trip sooner Smith said The iiiarid today Swing the right By JOHN HARBRON Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service The conservative trend seems to be everywhere these days This includes the United States Congress where newlyselected liberal leaders of the major committees are running up against growing consarvatism among its members Such liberals who have waited in some instances as long as 15 or 20 years to secure chairmanships of what are very powerful functions of Congress are being sandbagged by reactionaries In such important and very controversial areas as the allcomprehensive medical plan for Americans reduction in recordhigh defence outlays foreign policy and energy needs the new chairmen are in trouble Senator Frank Church Democrat from Idaho one of the bestknown such congressional chairman abroad and leading exponent of reopening American relations with Communist China has himself become somewhat conservative With the AmericanChinese relations well cemented again Church who is chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee now wants legislative protection for Taiwans security Representative Henry Waxman Democratic member of the House of Representatives from California and chair man of the House subcommittee on health has been unable to win committee agreement on hospital cost control proposal STYMIED CHAIRMEN Mr Waxman beat out two other candidates with strong labor and consumer organization support but now feels he is being stymied by conservative rank and file in the House Representative Morris Udall another Democrat from Arizona is the chairman of the House Interior Committee His Alaska wilderness bill was defeated by vote of only 22 to 21 in favor of measure backed by developers which preserves 35 million fewer acres of Alaskan wilderness The trend shtould lbe nfiticed but not necessarily fav bly in Ottawa where one of the lesserpubliglged promises of the Clark Tories on the campaign trail is to strengthen parliamentary committees Our parliamentary committees are not as powerful nor asimportant part of the legis lative side of government as in the US Much of the thrust which traditionally takes place or is impeded in the congressional committee takes place within the cabinet in our system This is because all our cabinet members are elected and must sit in the House of Com mons with all other elected members In the American system cabinet members need not be elected and often are not They come under the executive branch of govern ment in manner of speaking as personal choices of the president In fact the Conservative wish is to see our parliamentary committees assume some of the power of their American counterparts as balance to secret decisionmaking in cabinet TRUDEAU THE IMPETUS This was result of the reduced role of committees of parliament during the Trudeau decade and his general feeling of contempt for any preemption of cabinet powers by the committees But Mr Clark must know that in party which has both left and right wing the trend to the right cannot rule in any new powers given to our committees of Parliament Air bus riders love no frills TORONTO CP For some people the There were no meals no movies and no But for firsttime fliers Mildred Muir 63 cant believe that flight is like this Like many of the other 364 passengers This is wonderful said Mrs Lambert Some passengers like Mrs Muir and Coffee tea and milk were provided free Who needs food said Lyn Bark of George Smith of Jasper Alta said he only wish theyd started this Sky Bus