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NEWSROOM ADVERTISING ausmess Published daily except The Examiner Is member of The Canadian Press CP and Audit Bureau oi Circa Dave Henshaw managing editor Len Sevick manager Marian Gough accountant Sunday and tions ABC only The Canadian Press may republish neWs stories in this newspa 566 Finlay city editor SALESMEN Betty Armer statutory holidays credited to CP The Associated Press Reuters or Agence France Presse and tocal Randy McDonald sports editor Ian MacMurchy Dorothy Bowland Subscriptions news stories published in The xamlner girégpfacru¥rd$or gargzrxgge 29333 izwlgd WEEKlézéggtgam The Barrie Examiner claims copyright on all original news and advertising material Tm serving barrle and simcoe county Roseanne McCabeI New Lya Johnson YEARLY by cam created by Its employees and published In this newspaper Rolf Kraiker photographer Barb Boulton $4420 Copyright registration number masts register 61 PUblShed by cancdon Newspapers componY Limied $3335 SRgukflm 34 32 National advertising ottices 65 Queen St Toronto 8641710 640 Cathcart st on er maria er Boyfeld Street Barrie Ontario PautDelean David Jenkmmsgy manage SIMCOE COUNTY MWEBL Richard Dunstan CLA55FED Andy Haugmon $34 Year The advertiser agrees that the publisher shalt not be liable tor damages arising out ELIO AGQSTINlpublisher cecuunoii ammo MN 7266539 macaw 7202414 7266537 The economy election key The chances of the Ontario Conservative Party of win ning their ninth consecutive victory in late spring or early summer election could depend great deal on the new provincial budget which is due to be presented to the legislature in April While various other policies no doubt will be raised the state of the economy and the provincial governments role is almost certain to be the key election issue Taxpayers who have been bearing the heaviest tax burdens ever could hardly be blamed for looking to their governments for some relief but with inflation and higher costs there are problems Economists who have warned there should be halt to deficit financing in government budgets have in mind the longrange good of taxpayers Mounting public debt means greater carrying charges at todays high interest and it is the taxpayers who have to pay The net provin cial debt is said to be approaching $5 billion According to reports from Queens Park the Ontario governments budget financing for the current fiscal year which ends March 31 may show decline in deficit of some $16 billion from the previous year to around the billion mark While this is an improvement it is still far from sound pay as you go policy which many feel should be ef fected by practical cutbacks in tax spending rather than adding even more to the record high burdens for the future The fact that the federal government is running con siderably higher deficit makes an interesting political comparison but this is not likely to make the provincial budget deficits any more acceptable to those concerned over mounting public debt and carrying charges for tax payers to meet Further financial assistance from the federal govern ment which collects the income taxes might help the provinces but it must be remembered that it still comes from the taxpayers pockets At the provincial level administrative costs have risen with the inflationary trend During the past five years it has jumped over 200 and continues to soar The higher taxes necessary have played part in the increased costs and inflation Sharp increases in Ontario Hydro rates also hayc bccn another factor in raising living costs for the average family Heavy borrowing by the Ontario electrical system was prime factor The money was borrowed to finance much needed new sources of power and assist ex tensive research for new developments While different economists have reflected contrary views on the present state of the economy and futurc outlook it is perhaps significant there have been morc warnings of the need for spending restraint and caution than for some years There is no question but that reducing taxes could play an important part in helping to contain inflation but such measures have to be carried out in practical and sensible way with the general overall good constantly in mind Simcoe yesteryear With thc way the community has biin growing large number of liarric and arta residents are unawari that large post office building and tho Grand Trunk Railway iiipot were both located at but is now Mcmorial Square Ihc railway iiipot was the first to go then the post office when tiic goHrnincnt opimd iiiw facility on tollicr Street This postcard was submitted through the courtesy of the riiig family interpreting the news His beleagured Labor party gets breathing space only By BRUCE LEVETI LONDON CP Prime Minister James Callaghan by arranging for Britain the nearest thing to peacetime coalition in more than 40 years has won breathing space for his beleaguered Labor party However in the words of Peter ShorcmCaliaghans own environmental secretaryreiabors pact with the Liberals is shortterm solution which will bring long term problems Shore is one of four cabinet ministers saying in effect either were Socialist government or we shouldnt be government at all Dennis Skinner leftwing Labor member says The first job for every decent Labor politician is to fight until this socalicd agreement is dismantled Some experts are already drawing bible thought How arc the mighty fallen and the weapons of war perished Samuel i27 History is full of nations and people who have paid the price of war because we have ig norcd the prince of peace He said my peace give unto you parallel between ailaglians agricmcnt and that of lrlini Ministcr Ramsay MacDonald which brought the Libcrals into bed with Labor during be itiiitts The split which developed in the Labor party lost it tin1937i gcncral clcction and sent the party into it ycardccliiic lUSIlIVIISifiNS However even as charges of political shotgun wedding and the strangest pairing sincc Sodom and Gomorrah wcrc bcing iiurlcd against lllt latist LaborLibcrai alliance thcrc Wirc positivc signscmcrging For the country it means there will be no immediatc general election which would have sent tiii olcctoratc trooping to the polls for third iiinc in little more than three years The agrccincnt also tilSllltS that phase three of the incomes nolicy wagi icsliainl will be negotiated by present government Analysts fch Labor government has tbi best chance of reaching agreement with the unioiis Even should the negotiations fail it is felt there would be less political and eco nomic damage undcr labor For the Labor party the alliance buys imc to build up its image before calling general election in its own good time Pat Guergis Scott Haskins Sheila McGovern Sue Routiitie Virginia Klos Joan Shenstone Freda Shinner The world today By JOHN ll Ii itltltth lItilllull ffairs iial st Iliomson iws Scriici llii anailian Armid Forces iii maimir of speaking will soon be run by naval ol ticir prospcit which llll naval cIiiiiint in our military clearly viiws ith illlltll pitusuri icc Admiral Robcrt ll Falls 32 scainan who litgait as an aviator bill has had plcnty ol coiinnand ixpiricnci at sca will bccoinc tlic liiil ot lllt iiitcnccStall iitl Sept Your business By ViNtlINi litiAN Business and onsuinir Affairs Analyst lliomson News Servici You say youve had it with taxes Youre fed up with thc rat racc lhcn consider Sark it may sound like an Alllitthlitltlltilltl placinamc but its an honcsttoltgoodncss island with no income tax no capitalgains lax not even sales tax And the pressures of daily life are minimal as you might judge from few minutes spent with the top Sarkcc placid former aircraft design engineer named John Michael Beaumont As the 22nd Scigiicur of the Veil Ilaubcrt of Sark title that goes back to Elizabethan times he represents the British crown on one of the tiniest of tinbanncl islands lie and Mrs Beaumont on recent visit to Canada their first took time to tell inc of life and the absence of taxes in Sark ihe Beaumonts are so thoroughly relaxed that it is only later that you remember to be astonished that there exists in l077 civilized place with no bureaucracy no pressure roups noil forms in fact almost none of encumbrances that seem to have become essential to daytoday living in Canada course there are few differences bet ween Canada and Sark The island is 35 miles long by 15 miles wide and so there is no Air Sark no Sark National Railways British Airways flies to nearby iueinscy from five cities in the United Kingdom Ruth Blais supervisor Jildy Hickey Alva LaPlante Elaine Porter Marg Scharit He succeeds itll Jamis ilcxtiac soldiers soldier gallant iiattlctcstcd and muchdccoratcd liumaiiii arian officer The deputy iillillSltl of national dcfcncc civilian of course Douglas Nixon is ncv crtliclcss ritircd captain from the former ltoyal ianadian Navy titan who could havi casin made it to rear admiral The new commandant oi the National iletcncc oiicgc in Kingston tint tlic imlitarys scnior think tank is Rcar Ad miral arl Ross openly pleased with his ape pointinint income tax in Sark Sark has no carliccncc fees becausc it has no cars Public transixirtalion is chicfiy by borseandcarriage although visitors can usually hitch ride on tractordrawn wagon up the steep iiarbor iiill from the boat ian ding at Masclinc Harbor to the plateau that covers most of the island lbat piatcau is home to some 600 Sark residents in the summer season the ac commodation for 400 overnight visitors is al ways fully booked and as many as 1500 visitors make the nine mile trip across chop py Channel waters from Guernsey for the day Even Sark is not entirely free of taxes liun ds must be raised to pay thc salaries of the islands doctor two fulltime teachers and one parttime tcachcr Each visitor pays levy of about 14 cents bicycles are taxed at about 23 cents year and imports of tobacco and alcohol are sub ject to small duty so small that bottle of tsScotcli costs only about $180 and wine about Then there are what the seigneur describes as crude forms of property tax and wealth tax How crude dozen elcctid officials the douzaine sit down and assess what tax CV erybody should pay Proceeds are used for road maintenance and assistance to the poor N0 COMPANY LAW With such benign laws Sark should be as attractive tax haven as Jersey and Guer nsey its larger neighbors in the Channel islands MOTOR THROWOFF ELSEWHERE IN CANADA $39 year $36 ayear it combines my intellectual and professional interests he told this columnist icccnt ly And the armed forces information boss job never before filled by naval officer is Commodore Lawrie Farrington who began his service career in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War Siltthl IliJ ADMIRAL And finally to guild the lily about the navy at last given the chance to run the military ViceAdmirai Falls will be pro moted to full admiral only the second we have had in the anadian navy The first was the late Admiral Percy Nellcs boss of the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War incidentally at least two retired Canadian navy rcar adinirals Stevens and Mainguy have sons in the prescnt forces who now are rear admirals This is far cry indeed from the famous revolt of the admirais which took place in moi65 as the former Royal Canadian Navy RUN bitterly resisted Paul iiellyers unification program But coming down to earth the armed for ces will continue to be administered by senior officers of all three forces with the air force and army representatives still pre nderant The new vhicechicf of the dc ence staff the executive vicc prcsident if you like of the military will be Majten Ramsay Withers now in command of our NATO forces Withers who is theoretician and ad ministrator to match Admiral Falis many fighting unit commands will be promoted lieutenantgeneral lriiingual in French and German as well as English Withers is fondly remembered in Ar ctic Canada for the innovative ways in which be increased the commitment of minuscule Northern Command to northern development projects as its commander The new team will direct Canadian military establishment which has emerged from period of austerity and budget restraints to major weapons modernization program the first of its kind since the mid 19605 NEW IANKS This began last year with the purchase of West Germanys Leopard heavy tanks for NATO the 18 LRPAs Long Range Patrol Aircraft for North Atlantic surveillance ready for 1981 700 personnel carriers for the army Further down the line is future generation of warships The new wave in the armed forces will be navy wave and the naval community inside the military and in retirement are sayingat last of errors in advertisements beyond the amount paid for the space actually occupied by that portion at the advertisement in which the error occurred whether such error is due to the negligence oi its servants or otherwise and there shall be no liability for non insertion ot any advertisement beyond the amount paid for such advertisement Insensitivity in the office of ombudsman By DEREK NELSON Queens Park Bureau Thomson News Service TORONTO Something is radically wrong with Ontarios almost twoyearoid ombuds mans office Set up under widely admired lawyer Ar thur Maloney it is supposed to hear grievan ces from the ordinary citizen who feels the bureaucracy either deliberately or through indifference has given him the runaround Instead the impression is forming in many minds that the ombudsmans office itself is composed of insensitive fatcat bureaucrats of the least competent kind Reporters have taken to labelling Maloney himself as King Arthur for what they see as his aristocratic ways and some observers are sure the bloated ombudsmans staff delegations to Queens Park committee meetings arrive by walking on water What is one to make of stories of $23000 chauffeurs $200 worth of ashtrays or 647 page annual report which must be the largest waste of paper in provincial government history BAD iMAGE However justified and the chauffeur at least is really an executive assistant they dont do much for the offices image The growing dislike of what the om budsmans office has become is most intense among the people who unanimously approved its establishment the MPPs The first blowup came last summer when thenhousing minister John Rhodes damned Maioneys report on North Pickering land acquisitions as biased and unfair In the resulting fight the ombudsman suf fered technical knockout in the third round the matter now is before judicial inquiry But the strongest indictment so far has come from somewhat inarticulate old fashioned backbench Liberal Frontenac Addington MPP Earl McEwen His analysis which Maloney sat through and didnt object to said the ombudsmans office has rectified only 166 complaints out of 3656 addressed to it or 45 per cent GOOD HELPER Ewen claims one MPP with good secretaryassistant at combined salary less than half what Maloney alone gets could find solutions to 3500 of the 3656 complaints without lot of fuss and bother He contends that the $2 millionplus 100 personplus ombudsman operation merely duplicates the services of the government citizens inquiry branch and the routine ser vices of MPPS That kind of judgment should logically lead to demand the office be abolished but like every other critical MPP McEwen ritually prefaces his objections with support for the concept Maloney caught the point He said the com ments fell into the category of debating whether to have an ombudsman or not whether there should be an apolitical voice at the core of government Maybe Maioneys right Maybe its time the issue was raised again The offices track record leaves something to be desired Canadas story Chompln convincing By BOB BOWMAN Britain could have owned Canada in 1629 The Kirke brothers captured Port Royal and Quebec that year and took Champlain to Lon don as an honored prisoner Champlain stayed in London for four weeks and contended that the capture of Port Royal and Quebec had been illegal because the war between Britain and France had ended before the actions took place Some historians claim that the Kirke brothers knew this and were acting as pirates However it is possible that they did not know owing to lack of communications in those days France did not care that Canada had been captured but Champlain urged the French ambassador to Britain to protest He was then allowed to go to France where he wn able to convince King Louis XIII and Car dinal Richelieu that Canada could be developed into wealthy colony He also emphasized the work that had been done by the missionaries to convert the In dians into Roman Catholics if Britain were to take over this work the indians would surel become Protestants In act the British who had been in Quebec since 1629 already had driven out the priests wrecked their stone house and even bum Champlains habitation They also had built fort on top of the cliff capable they believed of holding the settlement against 100 ships and 10000 men So the French began negotiations with Charles to return Canada Charles need money and France owed him about 400 crowns for his having married Princess Hen rietta Maria The money was part of ha dowry Charles was relatively easy to persuade and France regained Canada and Acadia by the Treaty of St GermainenLaye March 29 1632 Chain lain left France for the last time in 1633 an returned to Quebec where he died two years later OTHER MARCH 29 EVENTS unisSamuel Lount and Peter Matthews were hanged for their parts in the Upper Canada rebellion 1843Charles Metcaife was appointed governor of Canada mittNiagara Fails ran dry owing to an ice jam ismQueen Victoria gave BNA Act royal assent and named July as the date for Con federation tainProhibition ended in Ontario wrfium a4a