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NEWSROOM Dave Henshaw managing editor Sean Finlay city editor Randy McDonald sports editor Bill Curran county editor Bill McFarlane wire editor Roseanne McCabe litestyle Roll Kraiker photographer FORTE RS John Bruce Paul Delean Richard Dunstan ADVERTISING Len Sevick manager SALESMEN Ian MacMurchy Dan Gaynor Lyall Johnson BUSINESS Marian Gough accountant Betty Armer Dorothy Bowland Wendy Bowser Gall McFarland Published daily except Sunday and statutory holidays Subscriptions WEEKLY by carrier 65 cents YEARLYbv carrier $4420 BY MAIL Barrie same year SIMCOE COUNTY S3Aa year MOTOR THROWOFF $39ayear ELSEWHERE IN CANADA $36a year The Examiner is member at The Canadian Press CP and Audit Bureau oI Circula tions ABC Only The Canadian Press may republisn news stories In this newspaper credited to CF The Associated Press Reuters or Agence France Pressa and local news stories published in The xamlner The Barrie Examiner claims copyright on all original news and advertising material created by Its 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McGovern Sue Routlille ELIO AGOSTINIpublisher CIRCIIIAIION ADVERTISING 7266539 7266537 NEWSROOM 7266537 CLASSIFIEDS 7282414 BUSINESS 7266537 One question settled bigger one still there The only thing left for the OMB to decide on Barries bid for annexation is how much from whom The provincial government wants to deal with one municipality in this area Darcy McKeough said that in letter to the OMB last December Annexation opponents went to the Supreme Court ofOntario with that letter claiming the OMB hearing should be stopped because McKeoughs letter did not give them chance at fair hearing The three Supreme Court justices said McKeoughs let ter is government policy The courts decision has settled the major question about annexation yes Barrie will get lands from neighboring townships It has not answered the question of how much from what townships And bigger question remains Annexation to create larger Barrie is government policy So why have Barrie Oro Vespra and Innisfi been put to the expense of an OMB hearing Surely it would have been easier on the taxpayers of this area for the provincial government to say one large municipality is wanted and leave details of how much from what townships to negotiation Taking care of friends The porkbarrel is an ancient and dishonorable political tradition Sinclair Stevens the YorkSimcoe MP is outraged about the discovery that the Liberal government uses mostly Liberal party supporters as census commis sioners Where does Stevens think these commissioners come from The good fairy It takes lot of friends to get government in power and no Canadian government has ever been accused of ignoring its friends Why even the Conservatives in one of those brief periods when they were in power used the same system Then of course the system was merely reprehensible not wicked The interesting thing is that these census commis sioners are responsible for the Statistics Canada inva sion of privacy Canadians are told answers to census forms are con fidential We wonder how much confidentiality can be expected from census system that relies on political hacks for manpower The problem with the census is not that the Liberals are taking care of their friends what else are friends for but what might happen to the answers to all those questions By RICHARD lltNSIAN Its an odd experience listening to guy telling you yourre jerk and finding that you cant help liking him anyhow That was my experience this week as followed federal agriculture minister Eugene Whelan on his tour of the Barrie area and listened to what he had to say about separatism farm policy andwgaspi the news media We wordsmiths print and electronic havent made too good an impression on the honorable Gene and he doesnt mind letting LB know about it He had the odd comment to make on the subject several times during his visit and really laid it on with trowel during his afterdinner speech to Barrie Lions and Kiwanians Some of his complaints seemed minorthe tress didnt jump to report commendation voted to him and his government by the Cana dian Horticultural Societybut others were more serious The Canadian Magazine he said had 22 factual errors in its recent story at the troubles of dairy farmer and the financial Post was dead wrong in attributing 1512 per cent increase in cheese consump tion in Canada to imports 0h yesithclan Catholic says he did NOT say Jesus Christ was outdated state ment attributed to him in another story in the Canadian Magazine He doesnt take misquotcs lightly either He tapes his speeches just in case and when interviewed him in the hallway at Elmvale District High School an aide taped both my questions and his answers Highly flattering that great for the ego dont agree with Whelans claim that only bad news gets printedtry counting the good news stories in The Examiner on typical day and youll see how far off base that old chestnut is but beyond that dont intend to we want your opinion Letters submitted for publication must be signed by the writer Please include your street address and telephone number although they will not be published Letters which cannot be authenticated cannot be published For the sake of space public in terest and good taste The Examiner reserves the right to edit condense or reject letter Letters to the editor run Wednesdays and Saturdays on Page Burn our ears its worth it shoot back at him We presstypes dish it out petty well and we have to learn to take it too In any event dont know enough about farming to say whether thlan is good agriculture minister but hes certainly an engaging human being Despite his limited education selfstyled peasant background and innbility in the words of story he is always telling on himsclf to speak either of ficial language correctly he is obviously man of considerable wit and even has distinctive gift for the language he says he dicsntspeak It was fun listening to his account of how Quebec dairy farmers throw that nutritious food at their best friend reference to his muchpublicized milk shower and to hear him say my family background is very hum bio and Im proud of it More important his naked love for his country embracing both Anglophone and Francophone along with all the ethnic groups so richly represented in his own family could well serve as model for many of us Say what you will of him hes one guy who wont let Canada go down the tubes because of ill will or failure to appreciate the advantages of being Canadian Keep talking Gene you may burn our ears occasionally but its worth it bible thoughts Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly nor standcth in the way of sinners nor sitteth in the seat of the scomful Psalm Find man who is well disciplined at these three points and you will find real disciple of God though he may not say word And there he found certain man named Encas which had kept his bed eight years and was sick of the palsy And Peter said unto him Eneas Jesus Christ makcth three whole arise and make thy bed And he arosc immedatcly Acts 933 34 Jesus is the great physician who often prescribes human instruments to carry out His calls and cures To God be all the glory Hath not my hand made all these things sss WSS sss Notes and comment By SEAN FINLAY ity Editor have always liked hotels Until last weekend hotels to me were the one place left in this world where nothing could go wrong As long as you have the money you can get just about anything at good hotelfrom shocshinc to wakeup call at in the after IIOOII followed by breakfast of champagne and caviar That lifelong faith was shaken last weekend Last weekend was the one weekend sup pose that it should have happened to me Examiner reporter Paul Delean photographer Rolf Kraiker and myself went to Kitchener for the Western Ontario Newspaper Awards dinner The three of us were winners in the 23rd an nual WONA competition We checked in at the Valhalla Inn in Kit chcncr at Saturday afternoon We carefully put our luggage in our rmms and went down to the hotel watering hole to fortify ourselves for the awards dinner We then went back to our rooms to change for the dinner The dinner was joy The food was superb and all three of us found it nice being on the receiving cnd of the picture taking The plaques we received for our efforts were noticeable without beingostentatious Altogether tasteful cvcing After the dinner there was party at tho Valhallzis swimming pool indoor for award winners and such Deleon Kraikcr and myself decided to go We also decided to put our plaques in our rooms floatedwhen you have just won an award you floatt0 my room Got there and put the key in the lock The key wouldnt go in The Valhalla is thoroughly uptodate downtown motor hotel It has those hotel roomlocks which lock automatically But if youre insecure there is little button you push from inside the door making the lock impossible to work thought might have pushed the little but ton Ihadnt The elderly man in my room bad What do you want he asked What do you mean what do want lask ed meeting his opening remark brilliantly want to get into my room said NOT YOUR ROOM It isnt your room he snarled as only 82 yearolds can snarl at those under 60 Im in it arent Aha said you may be in it but have the key to the room Tell him to go away said the female voice from the depths of the room Go away said the old man Award winners thought dont get into vulgar brawls with the elderly in hotel cor ridors at night Clutching plaque in hand went down to the front des There was the young woman who checked me into the hotel You seem to have made mistake told Cheapshof Dear Sir should like to come to the defence of your newspaper over the charges of sensation alism made in recent letter to the editor over the story of the young child who was kill ed on school playground at Shanty Bay Your correspondent suggested that you should have deemphasized the story out of consideration for the childs parents and others involved Though the argument was based on con sideration find certain callousness in the suggestion and that for tor two reasons First don not know whether your cor respondent is parent but am In fact have daughter roughly the age of the victim and can well imagine how would feel if she were killed It is preposterous to suggest that grief already so great could in any way be increased by pro mincnt headline over perfectly fair tasteful story underslancl Mn Pretlitlenl We are no longcrttearms merchanf oi as letters to the editor her checked into the hotel at this after noon and you gave me room 230 waved the room key in her face to prove it There now seems to be someone else in the roomand the room has my luggage in it Do something She checked those mysterious card indexes all hotels seem to have Mr Finlay youre in room 232 she said said that was impossible had my lug gage in room 230 had showered and shaved in room 230 had key to room 230 and had plan ned on sleeping in room 230 No she said was in room 232 Impasse Solved by what any hotellover would recognize as the voice of salvation AH THE SWISS Swiss assistant manager Nothing thought could go wrong Swiss hoteliers dont allow this sort of thing to hap pen Im safe have room after all explained my problem He tuttutted assured me the whole thing was dreadful mistake on the part of an inexperienced desk filerkl brought in temporarily from youth oste He gave me bell hop key to room 232 and assured me that not only did the hotel regret the mixup but he didas did the whole Swiss nation The bellhop and went back up to room 230 He knocked on the door The 82yearold opened the door Tell him to go away said the female voice Go away he said The bell hop explained the problem and asked if the gentleman would give me my lugs gage He had it ready He kicked it out in the hall Tell them to go away voice We did To room 232 The bell hop kn0cked at room 232 No answer We entered The place was littered with luggage Noneof it mine ANOTHER PROBLEM He called the desk There was whispered conversation He hung up the phone There seems to be problem he said Iagreed But he said smiling his best smile we do have another room for you Wanna bet asked in the accepch trenchcoat reporter manner The Valhalla Inn is built in square around the various recreation facilities at the hotel The elevator to get to the various floors of the hotel is at the northwest comer of the building My new room was at the southeast corner The bellhop and walked be carrying my luggage plaque And we wal ed And walked As we approached the room there came un to my nostrils an odor The odor of institutional kitchens An odor that oncesmelled is never forgotten have read George Orwell Visions of cot said the female story emphasizing the painful details of her injuries etc might be different mat ter but this is not what The Examiner printed Secondly know somethin about newspapers and their duties an in par ticular know that the headline story on any given day is supposed to be the most impor tant story of the day for residents of the com munity served by the paper How can your correspondent suggest that something more important happened that day than the tragic needless death of small child on facility paid for by our tax money under cir cumstances which could just as well have happened to your child or mine The Examiner has deserved its criticism on occasion but not this time The letter was textbook example of cheap shot against responsible journalism Sincerely James Glendower tried to keep the faith then hit the Valhalla Inn above the kitchen danced in my head We reached the room The bell hop knocked No answer He used pass key to get in The room was huge no doubt to make up for its distance from the elevators and prox imity to the hotels mens staff locker room There was no luggage in the room took the room went back down to the front desk got the key the apologies of the assistant manger the nervous smile of the desk clerk GONE FISHING went to the party and talked with pretty young things married and otherwise talked wisely with fellow award winners all of us agreeing what fine chaps we really are and dropped gentle hints to publishers and managing editors that they really couldnt live without my services at certain price Came metallic voice into this room of glory beside the Valhalla Inn swimming pong Finlay is to report to the front desk IMMEDIATELY No please or would about it Just be there Finlay Now Award winner or not went My friend the Swiss assistant manager was there at the desk He was not happy and appeared to be the cause of his unhappiness Mr Finlay he announced We became curious as to just who was in room 232 Room 232 was my second Remember We found drivers license in the room It is yours This is not very funny joke asked what name was on the drivers license WILLTIIE REAL Finlay was told of Hamilton Ont Aha said ever mindful that award winners do not make scenes am Finlay of Barrie The assistant hotel manager looked disbelicving That he said is impossible started to become less mindful of the stricture that award winners do not make scenes showed him my drivers license He wasnt too sure grabbed an old frienda man have known since was 14and saidplead edwwith him to tell the Swiss assistant hotel manager that am who wasor at least who thought was He did The Swiss assistant hotel manager was satisifed went back to the party secure in the knowledge that was who said was and had room for the night The night unfolded as such nights will Sunday morning Time to leave Kraiker Delean and checked out Went down to get the car The Valhalla Inn as do most downtown motor hotels has garage beneath the hotel When you get to the hotel you park your car and give the keys to garage attendant asked the garage attendant for the keys He couldnt find them couldnt find my car cursed the Valhalla Inn Gently but curs ing nonetheless He cursed the night garage attendant The four of usmyself Kraiker Deleon the garage attendantfound the car Blocked Artistically by five other cars The problem was simple Find the keys to my car the five other cars move the five other cars and Deleon and Kraiker could be on our way to Barrie The keys to my car were found The keys to the other five cars were found The attendant began to move cars He came to the last one an MGGTBs about as big car as the average threeyear olds pedal car He got the keys in the door The key wouldnt turn He made comment agreed with him So did Deleon So did Fraiker The ke turned Heco dnt find reverse Deleon suggested we pick the MG up and moveit The attendant grinned He found reverse and moved the car out We three award winners left the Valhalla Inn laid rubber all through the garage and was out of Kitchener in three minutes Its nice being an award winner IOOIII Forall seasons Spaceships are next By TRAYNOR MCFARLANE Toothache is the hell diseases Robert Burns Imagination is This powerful force affliction has made menand broken men So far it hasnt done either for us There were times however when travell ing in planes trains buses when we closed our ears to the conversation of companions as our hypersensitive brain lobes roamed the ether waves When fl ing we used to imagine what would happen the usually middleaged pilot became ill and the huge jetliner thundered uncontrollany through the air We would jump at the stewardess plea for help dash through to the pilots compartment an take over the controls tortuous pull back on the giant steering wheel steering wheel and we pull the troublesome jet out of its deathdealing trailspin After we landed the piffling thing wed be inundated with hugs from sensuous women passengers and handshakes and pats on the ack from the lesser male passengers Strange but in this fantasy we never seemed to think of the copilot he was pro bably in the toilet or something at the time It was the same with buses We are hurtling along the highway at 70 milesanhour when the driver takes an ulcer attack He slumps over the steering wheel and the lives of 50 or so passengers are in jeopardy Nothing daunted we jump up and using the knowledge gained from watching the drivers movements while everyone else was daydreaming we steer the big bus to smooth stop on the soft shoulder More accolades Same with trains Engineer incapacitatedconductor rushes frantically through the speeding Limited ask ing if anyone could drive train Having secret degree in engineering we say OK Wheres the trouble Usually it was up front Gently we close the throttle and bring the quartermile long monster to hissing halt Another 200 lives saved The nearest any of these fantasies came to reality was on bus in small alpine town few miles from Monte Carlo There are quite few was or hornets in those European countries an where we were was one of them Frelon Frelon We turned at the cry from woman passenger and saw one of the biggest hornets ever on the inside of the window where we were sitting Were not to fussy for creepycrawlies but we couldnt run in terror it wouldnt look nice Wheres our imagination now Pilotless jetliners trains missing engineers and buses without drivers we could handle but this wasthe real thing By this time the bus was humming with sympathetic mutterings and few hysterical ones too Had to do something so we grabbed about halfpound of paper tissues preferred by passenger and started to stalk the twoinch long insect We checked wind direction how the man dibles moved from east to west and at which angle the poised stinger would enter our quivering body Finally pounce with the tissues quick grab and poof the whole lot was out of the window We sat back exulted while the passengers as one showered us with congratulations There was even spasmodic round of ap plause Theyre dangerous said one dear old lady to us Deadly you mean we replied haughtily We still gloat over that tone All this of course was few years ago but strictly between us we havent changed that much Were working on spaceships now Canadas story Longboat greatest By BOB BOWMAN Recently one of these stories mentioned some outstanding athletes over the years and as expected brought flood of letters about omissions One was Tom Longboat great Indian runncr from Brantford Ont Longboats Indian name was og WitGee He was member of the Onondaga tribe and was born and died on its reserve near Brant ford He bcgan to attract attention as runner in 1906 when he defeated horse over l2mile course Then he entered the Toronto marathon of 15 miles and won it three years in succession longboni probably reached the height of his career in 1907 when he won the famous Boston marathon of 25 miles in record time For several years he was recognized as the champion longdistancc runner of North America He was still going stroneg in 1912 when he established record in wmning the Toronto Marathon for the fourth time It was his last important race