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Monday April 1977 MOON CICIILATION fiGC 7266539 ADVIITIING 7266537 the examiner serving barrle and slmaoe county Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited to Baytield Street Barrie Ontario ELIO AGOSTINIpubfisher CUSIIKDS IIISINSS 72874 Care is needed in decontrols In announcing that price and wage controls wont be lifted until union and business leaders voluntarily agree to temper demands for increases Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau has perhaps eased some of the deep concern over what was likely to happen to the cost of living if this is done too soon People could hardly be blamed for feeling skeptical about the moves to end the controls for this would cer tainly mean more inflation and higher living costs for the majority of Canadians After year and half of some restraints through these controls there would be surge of price increases and wage demands that could have decidedly adverse results on the econotny Even with controls the average wage in Canada in creased by 14 per cent nearly double that of the United States The cost of labor per unit of output in Canada has doubled since 1972 The figures also show average wages in manufactur mg in Canada are now the highest in the world The trade deficit on manufacturing alone last year amounted to $10 billion Canadians also are faced with the largest foreign debt in the western world Even with controls the trend of recent years has given Canada the world record for hours lost per thousand wo kers through labor disputes and strikes The record is five times as bad as Britains in this regard On top of all this the unemployment rate is now over seven per cent All this has been accomplished through period of compulsory wage and price controls If the controls were suddenly lifted the floodgates would be open for soaring prices and wage demands with contract disputes and other economic difficulties in which those least able to afv ford it would be hardest hit In the end Canadians would have problems that would make seven per cent unemployment rate separatism and current trade deficits look like good times Of course the wage and price controls were never in tended to be cureall for inflation They were merely to give the breaking space for government to institute other policies that would reverse the inflationary psychology in anada down memory lane lit YEARS AGO IN TOWN The Barrie Examiner April ll tom 7in council decides to locate 25 senior citizens housing units at Lions Park despite objections from local residents who fear loss of open space Both Barrie performances of the Canadian Armed Forces tat too are sold out in advance Georgian Bay Region of Ontario Hydro wins firstever General Managers Safety Award Ron Mossop vice principal of Central Collegiate invites members of Kiwanis Club of Barrie regardless of age to consider career in teaching Essa Township Council approves pay increases for its police department and roads superintendent CoOp Midgets lose to Brantford in finals of midget tournament at Brantford Civic Arena David Reid and Greg McKnight score Barrie goals in final ADS The Quilter Memorandum is playing at the Imperial and Doc tor Zhivago at the Roxy Red and White in Allandale has Grade chickens on sale for 33 cents pound and Swifts rindless bacon for 79 cents pound Stock liquidation sale at Jacksons features 1964 Ford Country Squire wagon for $1499 Rexall fluoridated toothpaste is sell ing threetube pack for $109 Canadian Imperial Bank of Com merce is advertising 31 per cent in terest on savings accounts higher than any other bank Great talent Dear Sir On March 27 my family friends and made our ycarly pilgrimage to Massey Hall in Toronl to scc Gordon Lightfoot The historic beauty of Massey llall savcd from the wrcckcrs hammer and the Canadian pride of Gordon Lightfoot made it musical memory shared by all who attended After thc thunderous applause had died down and an encore had rekindch our spirit we bade him filltWtll for another year As we filed out of the half we remembered that great man who sang of Canada and its people The winning performance and the personal contact llt had with his audience left us all feeling that grcat anadian pridc As for the Oscars theyll have to try little harder to compctc with this great anadian talent Yours truly Ilarris Blanchard Poor taste Dear Sir would like to comment on the article rc thc death of the little Shcardown girl at Shan ty Bay School large glaring article was totally in poor taste Such tragedy and its surrounding events should be played down rather than magnificd out of respect to the feelings of all concerned family school officials schoolmates ctc In my humble opinion scnsatioimlist frugnrting hclps no one except perhaps your circulation and thc voyeur Sincerely PEGGY ROGERS Eds notc lficrc arc ZtiJllli students enrolled in clcmcntary schools run by the Simcoc County Board of ljudcalion We felt thc story was important reading for thc 50000 or so parents who cntrust thcir children to the school systcm The story was factual reporting not scnsa tionulism ssM Lady Tweedsmuir Dear Sir It was with sadness that we learned of the death of Lady Tweedsmuir wife of the former fiovcmorrGcncral of Canada She din at her home lll England on March 55 His Ilxccllcncy Lord lwecdsmuir was fiovcrntancncral from ltliifi to lift Lady lwccdsmuir will long be rcmcmbcrtd by Womens Institute members as it was she who introduced the idea of preserving the history of our homcs our farms and promi nent members of our organization in what is known as lweidsmuir Histories So accurate are these books considered to be that the ministry of cducat ion has dccrccd that they may lawfully be used as an authen tic sourcc of historical information Lady Iwctvlsmuir started this practice III the Womens Institute branches in England and We are so thankful that she broung this idea to Canada and organized the systctn hcrc Without thcsc historics so much of our hcrit age would be lost LOUGIIEED Secretarylrcasurcr Simcoc Arca Wl Survey comment Dear Sir Iwo comments regarding your publishing of rather negative result concerning your recent Readers Survey of which did not partake give you more than too per cent for air ing somc very negative views views that you did not appear to cover up In this day and age it takes very honest individual or group to own up publicly to their own shortcom ings IIthtVtl do rcspcct your right to res pond lo lhcsc charges which dizl not notice present in your paper would assume then that it was not your intent to do so but more to give an honest display of reader at titudc compliment you and your staff on your very honcst approach DANlAMIIiELL Randy McDonald sports editor Bill Curran county editor Bill McFarlane wire editor Roseanne McCabe lifestyle Roll Kraiker photographer PO John Bruce Paul Deleon Richard Dunstan Pat Guergis Scott Haskins Sheila McGovern Sue Routliile Dan Gaynor The world today By JOHN IIARBRON Foreign Affairs Analyst Ihomson News Service The small but vociferous task forces of leftrwing groupies claiming to represent organizations like the Anglican and United Your business By VINENI EGAN Business and onsuincr Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service Remember the old story about an ex ceptionally lotig and boring speech in the French Chamber of Deputies At one point the longwinded parliamentarian declared propos of something There is difference bet ween men and women That was the cue for backbenchcr to chime in with the line that took its place in history Vivcla difference La difference may not live long however in the face of the current trend in legislation number of provinces have passed human rights legislation that prohibits dis crimination on the grounds of sex as well as age and marital status in several areas of business In US states with similar legislation one of the most controversial of hose areas is em ployee benefit Under moneypurclnisc plan for exam ple if male and female employee have each accumulated the same number of dollars at retirement then each would have to be provided with the same annuity if the anti discriminalion laws are carried to the ex tremc Ordinarily the woman would have received smaller annuity not because business is discriminating against her but because statistics show that she would probably have longer life in which to collect the annuity than would the man If an employee were taking the benefits as cash rct iring allowance or as payment from profitsharing plan the amount would of course be the same regardless of sex which believes the accusat ion of discrimination GROUPPRINCIPLE One fundamental of insurance is that for rating purposes insured people must be grouped xiuitably All people in the same class of risk get the same benefits for the same price and no class subsidizcs another tan MacMurchy Lyall Johnson Barb Boulton CLASSIFIED Ruth Blais supervisor Virginia Klos Joan Shenstone Freda Shinner NEWSROOM ADVERTISING BUSINESS Dave Henshaw managing editor Len Sevick manager Marian Gough accountant Sean Finlay city editor SALESMEN Betty Armer Dorothy Bowland Wendy Bowser Gail McFarland CIRCULATION Jon Butler manager David Jenkins asst manager Andy Haughton Judy Hickey Alva LaPIamc Elaine Porter Maro Scharit Their new target is an old one good old Published dailyexcept statutory holidays WEEKLY by carrier YEARLY by carrier SIMCOE COUNTY MOTOR THROWAOFF ELSEWHERE IN CANADA Noranda Mines one of our few Canadian owned multinational corporations for negotiating with the admittedly brutal Chilean generals Annuity benefits are they sexist Sex age occupation and health are the primary factors in dcterminingthc ratings that determine the cost of insurance bcnefit US actuary writing in the Employee Benefits Journal notes that the mortality dif ference in favor of wotncn has actually been widening despite the growing similarity in lifestyles of the two sexes That says Barbara Lautzcnheiser makes sex fair and equitable classification for the pur oseof insurance and annuities to contrary argument is based largely on US court rulings that individuals must be considertxl individually not on the basis of characteristics generally attributed to group From this prctnisc its argued that the up plication of averages to individuals is unfair and discriminatory and that this could somehow be corrected by applying the averages to larger groups made up of both sexes UNISEX TABLE In those US jurisdictions that have ruled that insurance benefits and annuities must be equal regardless of sex the tendency has been to adopt nosex unisex table of mor tality in which the data on both sexes are pooled to produce single mortality table According to actuary Lautzenheiser such tables will decrease the cost of insurance for males and increase it for females but have the reverse effect on the cost of annuities It would appear to me that instead of sub stituting effects for appearances the nosex unisex table substitutes appearances for fac ts shewritcs The reason for different tnonthly benefits for each sex sa the lorontobastxl coir sulting firm of Wi liatn Mercer Ltd is not dual mortality tables but dual mortality Like tnosl good things antidiscrimination rules can be carried to absurd extremes says Mercer It should be legal to provide pensions either of ual value or equal amounts to males and cmales recognizing the natural differences in mortality rates Sunday and Subscriptions 85 cents 5447 ear Montreal $34 year $393 year suavear Use vociferous new groups for leftwing propaganda Churches of Canada universit ics and student groups are on their familiar warpath again Smart wellresearched booklets are being distributed about Noranda as they were few years ago on Brascan in Brazil Falconbridge in Nambia and the Dominican Republic Their spokesmen win the ready support of many radio and television talk show hosts who cant tell leftwing tyrant from right one except we know that left is beautiful and right is youre right fascist These young people on their distorted missions are smart enough and welleducated enough not to be hypocrites But they are They know better than the readers of their tracts and the talk show hosts they confuse that many of the raw materials needed by the industrial world and which also are the major source of income for the poor one are mainly in countries ruled by dictators TYRANTS ALL None of them will ever tell you that while Noranda must leaf with cruel Chilean generals to increase world copper capacity it also must deal with Sekou Tourre the black tyrant who has made Marxist Guinea into an African prison nation on bauxite mining Nor will the pamphlets of these mainly tenured dogoodersvministers professors school teacherstell you that all the com panies they accuse of immoralities for cavor ting with the nasty generals of Latin America also do business with Castros Cuba where human rights also are nonexistent Incidentally all the Canadian or American multinationals attacked by these politicized groupies do business with the Peoples Republic of China as big dictatorship of the proletariat as India since March 15 has become the worlds largest democracy of the peasantry Incidentally while on that topic have you read the latest release from these groups rushed to press in time to support the retum of democracy to India Did you read of their enthusiasm that 350 million Indians cast ballots in the democratic process in the Third Worlds most populous nation and even we in the West told ourselves it would be inhibited by ignorance illiteracy and rigidlyvheld customs But from the task forces as Third World experts not word on Indias phenomenon Soon they will start the propaganda mills churning again about southern Africa The new guerrilla armies in training again st white and racist Rhodesia will assume in their biased publications the righteousness of the fortncr Frelimo guerrillas Today they are the rulers of Mozambiques oneparty Marxist dictatorship NOIIIINGON AMIN Will these outfits especially the ones claiming wide church allegiance in Canada produce pamphlet condemning President Idi Amins senseless murders of Christian ministers and the destruction of the Christian churches of Ilganda The Examiner is member of The Cnnndlnn Press CP and Audit Bureau of Circula tions ABC Only The Canadian Prev rnny ro publish news stories in this newspaper credited to CF The Associated Prom Voulori or Agence France Presse and local news stories published In The xmnlncr The Barrie Examiner claims copyright on all oruuirml niws and advertising material created by its employees and publtulwd in lhmncwupnpcr $4420 Copyright registration number 70ulli uuiitir bl BY MAll Baffle National advertising olllcm Queen St Toronto 864 I7I0 640 Cathcart St The advertiser agrees that the publisher shall not be liable for damages arising out of errors in advertisements nEyoho ioE amount paid for the space actually occupied by that portion of the advertisement in which lhl error occurred whether such error is due to the negligence of its servants or otherwrsc and there shall be no liability for noninsertion of any advertlscmcnt beyond the amount paid for such advertisement Right to news for taxpayers By DON OHEARN Queens Park Bureau Thomson News Service TORONTO Freedom of access to in formation will be one of the key controversial matters at this session It has been simmering for the last few years The New Democratic Party particularly has been pressing for Freedom of In formation law For the last two years it has introduced model Freedom of Information legislation But this has only been debated in private members hours and then dropped Premier William Davis has never been more than lukewarm towards the legislation But then last year Progressive Con servative association meeting voted 68 per cent in favor of freedom legislation and the government had to give it new attention with the premier promising that something would be done about it This pledge was repeated in this years Throne Speech TIIE APPROACH But the question and the argument now is what the approach should be Davis has insisted that he wont go ahead before there is an inquiry into what the legislation should cover and he has ap pointed threeperson commission to make thisinquiry The opposition though it would like to see legislation right away is not death against an inquiry But it would like to see this made by select committee and will be raising rum pus on the question before too long TOLCHY MATTER One has to have certain sympathy with Davis There has to be some criticism of the com mission he has appointed The chairman Carlton Williams retiring president of University of Western Ontario admits he knows nothing about government informatiOn and has frankly said he doesnt know why he was appointed But on the question of the inquiry itself there is little question that it is needed and that it probably is better nonpolitical Government information can be touchy matter This particularly applies to inner departmental and to some extent to inter departmental communication minister or deputy can ask an official for an assessment of an individual Or they can ask some secondlevel official for an opinion on situation This opinion may or may not be good but this would hardly be taken into consideration if it were to be public and get into the political arena good deal of the brown envelope in formation which has been leaked to op position parties in fact has been of this nature One obvious hazard is that if this type of in formation were to be automatically public then there could be breakdown in ad ministrative communication as there would be tendency not to ask for necessary infor mation at least in writing It obviously is complicated subject and does merit full study Study groups kept busy By DEREK NELSON Queens Park Bureau Thomson News Service TORONTO The latest political fad to hit this country via the United States is freedom of information Thats catchall phrase used for legislation that would give individuals access to full objective and timely information about programs and policies being studied or adopted or implemented by government The Ontario legislatureeall partiestwice endorsed the principle of freedom of infor mation act when it debated private mem bers bill from the New Democratic Partys Donald MacDonald on just that subject As usual with private bills of that nature it never came to formal vote Conservative policy convention has sup ported freedom of information leading fed eral Conservative MP Jed Baldwin is foremost adVOcate and defeated Tory pro vincial candidate Frank Vasilkioti drew up draft bill that apparently received serious consideration in government ranks at Queens Park Under that kind of growing pressure the cabinet has had to make some kind of respon se Predictably theyve decided to move with truly Conservative glacierlike slowness in bringing about change Another study group has been set up this time Commission Inquiry into Freedom of Information and Individual Privacy The New Democrats are outraged As NDP leader Stephen Lewis said during the response to the Throne Speech it just doesnt make senseyou have all kinds of laws to chooso from that already exist MacDonald resurrected the apt phrase that once again the Tories are studying an issue to deAth so as not to have to do anything about it bible thought Jesus answered and said unto hhn Verify verily say unto thee Except man be born again he cannot see the kingdom of God gohn 33 Ever since Nicodemus came at night to ex Iore the subject of the new birth man has en trying to explain it It is the same today gas then Take Him by faith count it as done believe it forever Him that cometh to me lwlll in no wise cast out