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wk MW mm camwen an WWW up Barrie scene summy July 23 1979 NIWSIOOM 720 353 CiICUlATION 776 6539 the examiner servmg barrie and Simcoe county Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited lo Bayiieid Street Barrie Ontario L4M 4T6 Bruce Rowland publisher invnmmo CLASSIFIEDS ausmrss 1335 $333333 7266537 72824l4 Cathy Heather Crack down on drunk drivers Provincial police have moved step closer to finally eliminating the wanton carnage that occurs every year on our roads The government announced Friday that more than 200 roadside breathtesters will be distributed to OPP detachments and more will be ordered so officers can quickly determine the amount of alcohol motorist has consumed Until now police had to use their judgement when they stop ped motorist If driver staggered or slurred his speech he was taken to the station and given the breathalyzer test If not he was allowed to go on his merry way How many of those drivers allowed to drive home murdered someone Drinking and driving dont mix They never have never will Automobiles are machines that need to be carefully controlled by people in complete command of their senses and reflexes Alcohol dulls persons reaction You may have drink or two and feel fine youre not Any splitsecond delay in reac ting while behind the wheel could leave people injured maim ed or crippled For too many years now police have been hampered by the lack of reliable portable equipment to aid them in their fight against the impaired driver The government should be com mended for its latest announcement But niore can be done Too often police have the ways and means of preventing and eliminating problem but are frustrated by the courts The time has come and the issue here for the two to work in tandem Those convicted of drunk driving should be penalized to the fullest extent of the law jail them if necessary Light sentences not only encourage people to flout the law but also make it dif ficult for police There are thousands killed yearly on our roads because of the stupidity and irresponsibility of few This must be stop ped The situation is unacceptable as long as one person is kill ed by drunk driver unless its the drunk Dear Editor Your Monday July 23 edition con tained picture of historic plaque unveiling at the Simcoe County Jail It correctly identified the Warden and the Mayors of Barrie and Orillia but failed to note the presence of two members of Parlia ment Mr Stewart MP who was recognized by nearly 30000 voters By KEN wxus Sunny Skies Thats title of famous musical comedy presented by Lions Club of Barrie Nov 2425 1937 on stage of Barrie Col legiate auditorium That was Barries first and only high school in those days Its now Barrie District Central Collegiate Institute raised copy of the program was provided to this writer by Lion Warren Wilgar and my atten tion at once Pianist was King Edward school principal William Bill Bell Orchestra was Bob Powells Melody Men Also an advertisement by The Barrie Examiner which stated Home of Good Printing and Profitable Advertising The musical was produced by US pro company John Rogers Sunny Skies was timelisted as The Present which of course would be the memorable Thirties the hungry depression decade The place enacted in song and dance plus plenty comedy was Plantation in Old Kentucky CAST 0F CHARACTERS Let us now list the cast of characters all Barriettes Morton Knox Alfred Shepherd Jean Kearns Mildred Walls Bert Lougheed Helen Luck Maurice Park Douglas Stead man Warren Wilgar Ted Tyrer John Woods Dorothy McKnight Horray Opening Chorus girls were Jean Keeley Jean Clark Dot Curtis Mary Clark Doris Hawkins Edna LeGear Lillian Appleton Marion Wisdom Jean Campbell Toots vicks and June Thomson soloist Little Country Town Girls chorus included several of those listed above plus these sweeties Norma Livingston Dorothy Wiles Jean McKay Phyllis Matthews Betty Grant Peggy Rogers Catherine Higgins Marion Reid Go Into Your Dance girls were Eileen Walker Jean Hutchinson Florence Houn somc Audrae Nixon Betty Smith Helen Butler Alice Wysoglad and Laura Roach Rhythm Girls Jean Fraser Mary Liv ingston Mary Smith Norma Amott Laura Minnikin Marion Allsopp Catherine Delaney Helen Lavery was trained by Examiner editor MacLaren in the 30s that names make news Thats why all the names are in this column Bill Bell pianist was charter member of Lions Club of Barrie which came into existence in 1931 Just look at the present ominence of that club in community af girs The Bob Powell orchestra of that time played during summer at Minets Point Pavilion very popular for swingers and all age lovers of dance Members all Barrie natives were Gib Wiley bass violin and sousa hone Archie Barth drums Bob Powe Gordon King Elton Parker and Alf Shepherd saxophones Pete Sinclair trom bone Orval Flettham and guy named Walls trumpets letters to the editor in the recent election and Mr Gor don Smith MPP long standing member for Simcoe East were pro minent in the picture although ap parently unknown to your cor respondent Sloppy reporting Yours truly Caldwell Barrie Sunny Skies in dirty thirties The Ladies Auxiliary of the Lions Club known as Lady Lions sold candy during in terniissions The Lions Club wishes to thank the program advertisers more than 70 firms remarkable for depression years the mer chants who loaned stage equipment the cast the choruses and orchestra the Knights of Coiumbus for use of their hall for rehearsals and all others who helped make this produc tion big success STILL ACTIVE Of the advertisers these firms are still in business today mean 1959 are Stransmans ReadytoWear Wright Cleaners Stevenson Insurance Malcomson Insurance Queens Hotel where the boys meet Clifton Hotel Garners Mens Wear American Hotel Valley Taxi Clarkson Hotel Craig and Sons Wellington Hotel Canada Life Assurance Co And there were Compliments from Duncan McCuaig MP for Simcoe North Edwin Wilson Dr of Osteopathy Reeves Jewellers Dixies Corbett Smoke Shop Robert Paynes Smoke Shop The Sarjeant Co Fuel Insurance and Supplies Cancillas fruit and vegetable store Mickey McBrides Barrie Wholesale Jennett and Lloyd Funeral Directors Cecil Norris of Bar rie Creamery Scotts coal coke and wood Harry McCulloughs Grocery Sim mons and Co Chittick Motor Sales Bakogeorges Olympia cafe and candies Urry Bros Smith and Co funeral directors Harry Armstrong hardware Bar rie Flour Mills lnesons Lakeview Dairy Albert Smiths furniture and stoves Hodges Dairy Bali Planing Mill Riviera Tea Room Walkwel Shore Store Wright Cleaners Herb Robertson and George Caldwell Drug Store Sasos Roxy Theatre Garretts Capitol Theatre and Art Crapper of Excelsior Life In conclusion have the nerve today to tell remark made to me by friend It was January about decade ago very cool win dy day in Beautiful UNO where said who would want to miss curling and Barries wmter to go south My friend from he Memorial uarc Senate quickly said Oh Balls Walls Correction An editorial in the Friday July 27 edition of The Examiner quoted Ald lord Mills as say ing municipal politics was dull and in teresting The quotation should have read dull and uninteresting The worl today EDITORS oneeiismo BusmESS C°MP°5mGR°°M Craig Eison managing editor Len Sevick manager Marian Cough accounqam JGalcit Krneyiorerianm ianMulgrew city editor SALES 09 Mills 009 wx °re BiliMcFariane wire editor Bert Stevens Vkk GYM REPORTERS Wayne Hay Connie Hart Dave Fuller Aden Smlh Jean 8655 gagsvrx Claudia Krause Steve Skinner Bill Raynor Stephen Nicholis Barb Boultan Ron Gilder Dennis Lanthier Calvm Feleechuk Ed Alienby Nancy Figueroa Lori Cohen Richard Thomas Stephen Gauer Betty Armer camera operator CLASSIFIED Freda Shinner By JOHN HARBRON Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has embarked on the most drastic program of spending cuts and denationalization of govemmentowned industries in the history of the British welfare state The Tory program calls for an un precedented $9 billions reduction in govern ment spending at all levels Sectors affected included public housing passenger railroad services local government and educational funding and the operations of the BBC Many famous British firms will be denationalized These include the British Aerospace Corporation which will be sold to the private sector and British Petroleum in which third of the British Govemments interests will be offered to private investors British Airways will be partially denationalized through sale of 49 per cent of its stock to employees and outside investors The British National Oil Corporation established by the previous Labor Govern ment will remain in government hands as watchdog agency over British oil and gas interests in the North Sea The Mayors report it By ROSS ARCHER Mayor of Barrie This past Monday July 23 1979 council adopted bytav amending our zoning by law which when approved by the Ontario Municipal Board will pave the way for our downtown revitalization project This has been widely publicized project which has stimulated much conversation and debate However when we proposed our course of ac tion for revitalization in 1976 the entire pro gram as geared for massive public input to help shape the future of our downtown core Council can not be faulted for following and encouraging the democratic process with public participation This project will be good for Barrie and am confident it will bring new vitality and life to our city core and our approval in dicates to everyone that this council is seriously and deeply committed to our downtown We realize that with every major pro gressive venture the numerous long term positive rewards are accompanied by an in itial short term penalty In this case the relocation or demolition of small number of good calibre residences constitutes that penalty City council regrets this loss and the resulting discomfort caused to the respective owners and occupants Every effort will be made to minimize the impact of that negative aspect The inclusion of residential units within the Peoov Chapeil supervsor CIRCULATION Bill Haikes manager Steve While assistant manaaer Brad Howcroli Alva LaPlanle Lisa Warrv Elaine Porter Cheryl Aiken Janie Hamel Susan Kitchen Yvonne Sierps PR ESSROOM Fred Prince Kim Panenden But it will no longer function like an in terventionist state oil corporation as under the socialists British Shipbuilding the staterun naval and merchant ship construction corporation also formed by the previous Labor govern ment in 1977 will be shrunk by third NATIONALIZATION HORRORS The Labor Government had nationalized the entire British shipbuilding industry with disastrous results Instead of building ships which could compete with those from Japan South Korea and Western Europe na tionalization perpetuated the featherbedding practices of the many shipyard unions Such labor practices and wildcat strikes helped increase the cost of building ships in Britain and delayed delivery dates Finally the previous socialist governments program of incentives for depressed indus trial regions of the British Isles Northern England Wales parts of Scotland will be cut by one third The exception will be Northern Ireland where sectarian violence has accentuated severe economic decline British Chancellor of the Exchequeur Sir proposed complex will offset the loss of ex isting units in numerical sense by wide margin This constitutes another step in our objective to make downtown Barrie People Place INVOLVES RISK We should understand that in any business ventur either by private enterprise or govern ment or combination of both there is always risk factor In the seeder project the risk factor exists along with the very real pro bability of it being an unqualified success The way to make it success is by public ac ceptance and support and that support should be noticeable and vocal Letters of support to the Hon Claude Bennett Minister of Hous ing Queens Park Toronto Ontario will let the province know that the silent suffering majority are letting their wishes and desires be known The statements put forward by the citizens group contain some unfortunate inac curacies That Barrie ratepayers will be fac ed with an increased tax burden because of the seeder project is entirely false 0n the contrary the debentures which will be issued to underwrite the citys share of the in vestment will be paid off from our share of the increased revenues Recovery ofprovincial funding and paying off municipal debentures will be accomplish ed as follows Revenue from leasing the land to the developer will be divided 23 to the province Al Hanson foreman Don Near asstforeman EVERlNS FiNE diMMV NICE FELLA NAME KENNEDY CAME BY YESDAV AN GAVE YO BROTHER Bitix SPANKiN NEW SIGN FO THE PEANUT PLANT Published daily except Sunday and statutory holidays WE EKLY by carrier 95 cents YEARLY by carrier $49 40 BY MAIL Barrie 54 40 The oduriiur ogrooc that tho publllhnr Ihail not bo liable for damago orising out of Irron in odvonllomonh beyond tho amount paid for tho spoco actually occupied 539 00 by rhol portion of tho advertisement in which tho orror occurrod wholhor such or ror is duo to tho nogllgonco of its sorvonn or olhorwiu and thorn shall no liobility lor non insertion of any odvoriisomonl boyond tho omouui paid lor wch SIMCOE COUNTY MOTOR THROW OFF soayear ELSEWHERE IN CANADA $4100 year advertisement ment UK Tories slash Spending unprecedented $9 billion Geoffrey Howe calls all this the cure His use of that word tells the British that the changes planned by the Tories are ideological as well as political Yet this chronic seesaw between Tory and Labor governments since 1945 has remained the single most disruptive factor in British public life Continuity in all aspects of public policy has been difficult to maintain from govern ment to government Economic growth social service needs foreign trade and corporate investment have all been 31 peded and Britain has fallen far behind her world competitors in the export of manufactured goods Denationalization followed nationalization and tax cuts came after tax increases when Tory governments succeeded Labor ones during the three decades since the war RECORD CHANGES PLANNED But this time the changes announced and about to be introduced with vigor by the Thatcher Tories are greater than ever before Mrs Thatcher and her colleagues are determined to reduce permanently the role and place of socialism in Britain Voice support for downtown revitalization project and 13 to the City lncreases in municipal tax revenue from the project will be divided 13 to the provmce and 23 to the city Existing tax revenue from the site will calculated and only the increase will be divid ed according to the above formulae once the seeder development is underway The total repayment to the provmce for both principal and interest is 110 per cent of the provincial loan After the provmce is iid back the 110 per cent the city obtains of the revenue from the lease and all increases in taxes It has been estimated that provm cial funding and the municipal portion Will be paid off in approximately 20 years And in about 5060 years the entire project will revert to the city with value at that time which is impossible to calculate now tried to make this pomt clear in my article printed in The Examiner last month However there seems to be destre on the part of the critics to ignore this fact and carry on with their inflammatory statements of cost to the taxpayer urge every citizen who has strong destre to see the city of Barrie grow and propser to write to the Minister of Housing your Mr George Taylor and to your mum representative Let them know that you want this revitalization project to get started Dont leave the responsibility to someone else Write now Tho barrio Exomlnor mombor oi Tho Conodion Pro CP and Audit BurGU ol Circulation AIC Only the Canadian Prou may rotpublish now clarion in this Wpor cndnod to CP The Alcociolod Prou Roulorc or Agonco Franco Prou aid local now florlos published in Tho Barrio Examinor Tho barrio Exomlnor claims copyright on all original now and odvlrising motorioi crochd by its employo and pubihhod in this newspaper Copyright registration number zooms rogistor oi Th Publishor ruorvu tho right to odit roviso clonily or roioct on advertise Life love and then By TRAYNOR MCFARLANE The subdued roar of the city was all around him on the summer air as he sat on the suburban verandah He thought of the comparative quiet of the home in the country where in his youth hed sit on just such an evening and the only sounds were the natural ones birds and the sigh of the wind He grunted in his elderly way and reached for his pipe Why had he moved in the first place Why abandon the tranquility for the ratrace of the city It had been her idea of course She was raised in the country as he was but always said she longed for the excitement of the big city Hed given in and theyd moved Their three children now in their 205 had been raised in the city and now had city ways but he and she had always kept the country pace in their lives That is until in her gentle way shed died three months ago leaving great void in his life He had been mulling over the situation since then alone and lost in the citv even though the youngsters were there But they had their lifestyle and he his Should he retire to the rural life he loved so well The country waythe only way Mind made up he went inside the silent house and phoned the children one by one They didnt like the idea at all but he was adamant After the phone calls he sighed and stretch ed at the complexity of life He thought about the fair sum hed theyd saved over the years and remembered the small house about mile from where he was raised was on the market month later he was ensconced in his new home It was now August and he took to sitting on the front porch of an evening chatting to her memory and revelling in the silence and green evermoving world around him Often hed bring out the souvenirs the old photographs letters and the like and pore over them for hours at time One night he felt strongly hed like to see her again Sitting there on the porch he felt sleepy and his head began to nod As the moments passed he felt himself sink ing into something much deeper than sleep sort of deathly lethargy The photographs tumbled from his lap onto the verandah floor as so many discarded moments of time He was very still but smiling few minutes later he arose from the chair and slowly crossed the lawn toward the big maple where she was waiting interpreting the news Uneasy truce over energy WASHINGTON CP The United States and the Soviet Union seem to have worked out truce over the prickly issue of respecting one anothers Middle East oil supplies Both countries are clearly trying to wipe out the spectre of war over oil and natural gas sup lies raised by the world eneig shortage These fears were heighten by news earlier this month that the US was con sidering forming Mideast strike force as part of contingency plans for seizing Persian Gulf oilfields if vital US interests are threat ened But in the last few weeks state department officials have been playing down the likeli hood of US intervention These officials also confirm the state department has received complaints from Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries about the public discussmn of US contingency plans The Soviets indicated this week they too are worried about the talk of confrontation ovvr Middle East oil and offered reassurances they would not provoke clash The Soviet government would certainly not interfere with Western oil supplies from the Middle East whether this were done by intimiating the oil producing countries or by strangling the sea routes the director of American and Canadian studies in Moscow told the Washington Star Georgy Arbatov said the Soviets realize such actions would be seen as hostile For their part US state department of ficials have adopted similarly conciliatory tones but do not deny US intentions of adding to its military presence in the Persian Gulf where small US fleet already oper ates While US Defence Secretary Harold Brown says the US would commit its military forces if necessary to defend oil supplies there are quick assurances from state department spokesman Hodding Carter that this is ii highly unlikely contingency What the US is considering is an increase of one or two destroyers in its permanent Middle East force of three ships more frequent cruises by navy task forces and occasional flights of US military lanes to friendly countries in the Persian Gu This is mnsidered sufficient to demonstrate the US has vital interests there bible thought Lo this is the man that made not iod his strength but trusted in the abundance of his riches and strengthened himself in his wickedness Psalm 51 No wonder riches are referred to as deceit ful if God has blessed you Will what belongs to Him in the first place put them in their right place and use if for good before it uses iyou for evil