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rams fifi Saturday Jun 10 1079 NIWSIOOM 726 6537 CllCUlAYlON 726 6539 the ner serving barrie and simcoe county Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited l6 Boytield Street Barrie Ontario UM 4T6 Bruce Rowland publisher ADVERTISING 7266537 ASSIHIDS 7282414 Closer look of herbicides Chemical herbicides and insecticides have been the centre of controversy since white chlorinated hydrocarbon known as DDT came under attack Today weed killer known as 24D is grabbing headlines and causing considerable concern The chemical is used by school boards across the province to eliminate weeds in playgrounds and schoolgrounds You pro bably use it on your lawn According to specialists at the ministry of agriculture its good harmless herbicide More harmless than aspirin they claim People especially in the Cobourngampbellford area of On tario are reluctant though to believe that They believe the weedkiller is toxic and this theyve been vociferous week danger to their children Because of demonstrating over the last Thats good The parents are taking the time to point out to the government that someone should be responsible for what happens in this province The parents want to know exactly what the herbicide is and what dangers it poses Unfortunately this sort of information is not readily available Environment Minister Dr Harry lariott says the chemical is safe if used properly and that to the best of his knowledge scientific data does not provide basis for nor support the claim that it is carcinogen llainly speaking he means hes not sure scientists are pro bany Sill per cent sure but no one has studied it long or hard enough to know for certain Thats good answer Better than the one offered by his specialists who are ready to accept the herbicide as safe bcaiusc the ministiy alloWs it to be used Thats putting the cart before the horse Dr larrott and his ministiy are facing more and more pro blems With chemicals in this province from merciin in Nor thern Ontario rivers and lakes to acid rain in the south Its modern fact of life When incidents occur such as the current controversy over 2511 it is imperative however for both sides to act rational ly and work toward finding solution No one is helped by parents deliberately exposing their children to toxic substances for the benefit of newspaper headlines or by ex perts issuing pronouncements that are easily misread That sort ofaction isjust plain stupid Dear Editor It has come to my attention that the traffic on Dunlop Street East has suddenly ceased which by the way kind of disturbs me but what can you do Where has the traffic gone Col lier St is certainly busier than before but honesty expected lot more traffic problems than we are ll fl EGAN Business and onsumcr flairs Anar horiislir ew ery ii ri rimr nrreasing their rate of be ralul llp this ycar perm rm parihasc of major iteni wrxl prices out of slgli FiLUlbf arc in ris fret thric months of 1978 and the griw trie ply onal loans out standing at new MM 511 hid llll2 END Oh Man There was iasory year jump of pr iii Eczcl of out standian coruncr Ill1 rir chartered banks in the January ilrir pr oi But loans madl unwr stallinint loan plans iiiir new 73 ng much faster at an annual Hit of 27 per cent during the first qua rtci Does that mean thal 1bll5 lilUfllfr are getting into debt thin iiiarr The banks which of routv aw it businch of making such loam pioft dont think so While the total amounts of ioiisiliiiii credit sccm enormous they haven llttl H1 currcd lccklcssly says tioidon llcll president of the aiiadiaii Bankers Association Personal savings deposits in banks letllli are more than double personal loans says thc BA hciid who is cxccutivc vici president arid chief general manager of tin Bank of Nova Scotia And the ratio of consumer crcdit to personal disposable income has rciiiaincd quite stable at about 22 per cent throughout the last decade lll DOWN One other fact helps to put into contcxi lhc big 1979 increase in consumer credit Thc firstquarter bulge in consumer illlll yrarto banks in we want your opinion Something on your mind Send Letter to the Editor Please make it on 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 vei ity 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 lama to the Editor The Enabler Pout Offiu lo 370 Milli Ont MM 416 letters to the editor experiencing would then suggest to all those in favor the widening of Dunlop St to Blake and beyond to take second look think any honest person would have to agree this widening is com pletely unnecessary John Tribble Barrie Consumer debt up sharply in 79 borrowing was much greater than the rate of increase during the preceding quarter that is October to December 1978 That was relatively low period in con sumer spending because retail sales taxes had just been restored to their earlier higher levels During the middle two quarters of last year when the temporary reductions in sales tax were having stimulative effect on purchases of socallcd consumer durablcs the rate of increasc in consumer credit at the banks was similar to the firstquarter 1979 rate It would be unrealistic to expect that the rate of borrowing and spending by consumers will continue throughout 1975 at the rapid clip of the first three months Whether there is recession or not con sumer spending seems likely to cool off if only because this particular activity tends to move up and down in well established cyv lical pattern WAY TO SAVE Economists poiiit out that when incomes rise as they do during inflationary times people tend to save more And from the point view of economic theory the purchase of ar or major appliance is an investment form of saving IThat isnt just theory The purchase of television set for instance leads to reduction lll family spending all other forms of entertainment as witness the number of lllOVlLilOUbtS that have been closed down be cause of poor attendance gcnclation or two ago thcre was tllillll stigma attached to the concept of per sonal dcbt People made it point of pride to get the money together first before going out to buy new furniture and the like Today attitudes have changed lramatically Consumer installment credit has become the mainstay of the markets in cars and appliances and vice versa Thats why the Canadian Bankers Association is working with teachers on major project to introduce consumer edu cation to elementary schools and is organizing consumer affairs conference for next spring on the role of consumer credit in tanadians daily lives and on possible im proveiiicnts in the system Some 532 per cent of Canadian families arry some form of consumer debt of which 27 per cent is bank debt according to figures compiled by Statistics Canada in the spring of 1977 and published recently bible thought But seek yc first the kingdom of iod and his righlcollsiicss and all these things shall be added unto you Matthew ti l1t All of His abundance follows automatically when we put Him first BUSINESS 7266537 EDITOQS ADVERTISING Craig Elsan managing editor Len Sevick manager tanMularew city editor SALES Bill McFarlane wire editor Bert Stevens Dave Fuller sports editor Wayne Hay Claudia Krause Lifestyle editor Aden Smmi REPORTERS StevbSkinner Stephen Nichotls Barb Boulton Dennis Lanthier Nancy Figueroa Lori Cohen Richard Thomas Stephen Gauer entertainment Gary Forbes Betty Armor camera operator Terry Field Peter Hsu Calvin Feleochuti CLASSIFIED Freda Shinner Dana Homewood Janice Morton HiII By STEWART MaclEOI Ottawa Bureau Thomson News Service After just few weeks in office there is every indication that the new Conservative government is learning that the view from the inside is vastly different and far more complex than the view from outside It was so easy from the outside to say that Tory government would demonstrate Is raels right to exist by moving the Canadian embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem And it was easy to promise the privatization of PetroCanada or the end of LotoCanada It also seemed relatively simple matter to chop personal taxes by $2 billion year The boatrocking list was long one And it remains there as total party commitment but Joe Clarks new ministers not to mention Clark himself are quickly realizing that some things are easier said than done The Liberals in power for 38 of the last 14 years had unexcelled experience in the complexities of implementing new policies For the new Tory government its crash course And already some Conservative ministers are beginning to display an uncanny likeness to the Liberals they replaced SAME STAND Remember how the Tories used to poke fun at Liberal cabinet ministers whh went into the seclusion of Gatineau Hills cottage for their think sessions Well guess where the Tory cabinet held its second meeting Thats right The same cottage At the cabinets first meeting the top item on the agenda was the West Coast longshoremens strike And if this were year ago there would be opposition demands for immediate government action so the grain industry would not be threatened SCOOPS MR LEVESQJE WERE HAVING mount wmi THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION or ms REFERENDUM Peggy Chane superVism Brad Howcrotl COMPOSING ROOM The Examiner is member at The Canadian Press iCPl and Audit Bureau at circulations ABC only the Canadian Press may re publish news stories in this newspaper credited to CF The Associated Press Reuters or Agence France Presseand local news stories published in The Examiner The Examiner claims copyright on all original news and advertising materia created by its employees and published in this newspaper BUSINESS Jock gem lawman Published deily except Mara Gouqh actouman Glenn Kwan asst loremarl Sundav and NV M5 Don Saunders Statutory holidays Vikk6rm Lorne WaSS wE LY by carrier Cadoaan 95 cents ea YEARLY by carrier 49 40 Ron Gilder CULATON Ea Allenby Migtfiga 5i Montreal Janie Hamel amq Susan Kitchen SIMCOE COUNTY stevewnite assistant WWW Barbara Strlgl $39 on Wessnoom MOTOR THROW OFF nt lAI Hanson foreman Sci 50 year ElainePbrter iDaa55°m ELSEWHERE IN CANADA cherviAiiieii 9° PM su cos you Kim Patienden JOHN CROSBIE finance minister This time Labor Minister Lincoln Alexander emerged from the cabinet meeting sounding for all the world like his predecessor The government he announced was keeping an eye on the situation And Defence Minister Allan McKinnon emerged from the same meeting to question the proposed move of the veterans affairs department which he also heads to Charlottetown But short time later probably after conferring with his bu reaucracy he announced that the Liberal conceived move would go ahead as schedule The Liberals could have said that just as well tisement 17th SUN mmm padmmen Conservatives quick to learn difference of being in power Earlier McKinnon had asked for review of the investigation into alleged kickbacks by the Boeing Co of Seattle in relation to sales in Canada Thus first emerged last winterwhen the then solicitorgeneral JeanJacques Blais said the RCMP found no grounds for laying charges This didnt satisfy the Conservative MP5 who wondered about possible coverup So when the government changed McKinnon had SolicitorGeneral Allan Lawrence go into the matter again N0 ACTION Once more Lawrence came out sounding like predecessor lam satisfied as result of pretty intensive police investigation that there is no action that requires any sort of prosecution he said Blais couldnt have put it any better Meanwhile Finance Minister John Crosbic has been busy wrestling with the countrys fi nances and his partys pledge to cut taxes by $2 billion while introducing business in centives and abolishing some capital gains taxes When the new minister got through describing some of the difficulties being faced the only commitment for the first Tory budget is that mortgage deductibility plan And so far as that Israeli embassy move is concerned we can quietly forget that What seemed like such simple votcgetting proposition froin the outside of government turned out to have horrendous complications when viewed from within On this issue the Tories are treading water in the finest Liberal tradition And how about those persistent reports many from the inside of the Tory party thatmany senior bureaucratic heads would roll under the new administration Former cabinet minister vBudi Drury now head of the National apital Commission was consulered prime candidate for the axe Copyright registratiori number ZOJGIS register ei Nationatadvertising ottces bsoueen Yoromo so 1710 610 Cathcarl The advertiser agrees that the publisher shall not be liable tor damages aris ing out at errors in advertisements beyond the amount paid for the space or lually occupied by that portion at the advertisement in which to error oc curred whether such error is due to the negligence of its servants or other Wise and there shall be no liability for non insertion of any advertisement beyond the amount paid tor such advertisement The Publisher reserves the right to edit revise classin or reicct an ava bymmé 5119 blow 5m WT WHAT ABOUT THE REFERENPUM Marties book fascinating By DON OHEARN Queens Park Bureau Thomson News Service TORONTO Most people in Ontario today would know of Dr Morton Shulman As member of the legislatj re for Toronto High Park from 1967 to 1975 for eight years Dr Shulman was the darling of the prms and might well have received as much publicity as the other members of his party combined Now the doctor has written book about those years Member 01 The Legislature Fitzhenry and Whiteside 226 pages $1095 When he was around Queens Park it was never too clear just what slot you should put Dr Shulman in He represented the New Democratic Party but he was in no way an NDPer He had been lifelong Conservative and through his party connections had been made chief coroner of Toronto But he had made such fiefdom of the coronership investigating everything in which he felt there might be some wrong that the Robarts government fired him As reprisal he vowed to get into the legislature the NDP invited him in under its umbrella and he was elected But he was and still is an unrepentant capitalist In the house he made little effort to hide that he didnt think all that much of his party colleagues So he was oneman show separate and apart from everybody ALWAYS COLORFUL The word show is probably good one for the doctor What were supposedly the issues of the day couldnt have concerned him less He fought injustice And this was in justice on his terms The Mafia in these terms was very big injustice He spcnt lot of time on the Mafia Then there were cases of personal injury or death particularly if these happened to involve the Workmcns Compensation Board or the government directly or indirectly in some other way And above all he was against skullduggcry imagined It was constant crusade if that was what it was And it was all good show biz The doctor had his own private investigator on his payroll and had an always steady stream of causes to unveil and defend The unveiling and defending were always done with color and flair aiid above all were consistently entertaining ENJOY IT This follows Legislature Dont expect it to tell you what the life and activities of the normal elected representa tive are like house of 125 Dr Shulmans would probably have to be put away for safe keeping But if you want to know what one member with lance at the ready can do and in this case did then this book will tell you He describes some 50 of the incidents in his legislative career They or the book are not to be swallowed whole The doctor was always bit fanciful about his own importance and had considerable imagination about his impact He claims for example that John Robarts put off an election in 1963 because of him Mr Robarts would not be inclined to agree But the book is good read There are in it some examples of the more background of politics which not too often actual assumed or with Member Of The subtle become public David Lewis approached Shulman he claims to have him run NDP By all means enjoy it But read it to enjoy not as credo Backgrounder Hypnosis helps relieve anxiety LOS ANGELES AP ev Hypnotism onetime parlor trick thats becoming medical tool can help millions of Americans who are terrified of dentists says dental hypnotist The fear often is so intense dentists say that needed treatment is avoided toothaches are endured and even painless therapy becomes psychological ordeal Dr Richard Ruhe says hypnosis almost always relieves this dental phobia and can often reduce postoperative pain and improve healingaswcll Weve had patients who havent been to dentist in 30 years because of their fears and with hypnosis they are changed around to where they are completely comfortable with it the Huntington Beach dentist said in recent interview Hypnosis is finding modest but growing acceptance among United States dentists doctors and psychologists because of evidence that it can among other things remove anxiety reduce pain and help control bleeding according to William Hoffman Hoffman is executive director of the 3400 member American Society of Clinical Hypnosis based in Des Plaines lll We know of at least 1000 dentists around the country who are using hypnosis and Im sure there are more that we dont know about he says Psychologist Ernest Hilgard who has been studying the procedure for 20 years at Stanford Universitys Laboratory of Hy osis Research says hypnosis has proved va uable in number of medical procedures and has been accepted as legitimate treatment by the American and British medical associations It certainly is finding acceptance but there is not widespread enthusiasm for it he says The dentists have made about as much use of it as anyone What we do with hypnosis is change that front page We put positive page in there and build on that with positive experiences air