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31 th 3f right now Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited 16 Boytield Street Barrie Ontario ELIO AOSTlNIpubllsher MondayApIIl25 1977 NEWSROOM CIRCULATION 7266537 7266532 ADVERTISING 7266537 CLASSIFIEDS 7282414 Internal strife is hurting Tories The Federal Conservative Party seems to be becoming its own worst enemy With improved prospects of reganing power party squabbles may ruin its chances Certainly they have been setback With the Liberal government slipping after its record heavy taxation policies accompanied by deficit financing and mounting public debt the Conservatives are battling within their own ranks instead of concentrating on get ting themselves elected The present party leader Joe Clark has been involved in divisive battles with not only Jack Homer who has joined the Liberals but also Claude Wagner and David MacDonald Tory MP from Prince Edward Island Not few party supporters were upset to see Jack Homer decide to move over to the Liberal side The ac tion appeared to be the aftermath of an inside party fight with his leader While many no doubt feel Horner didnt use too good judgment in changing sides Joe Clark might have prevented the situation from happening with little diplomacy The Tory leader rubbed salt in another open wound when he stripped David MacDonald of his seat on the Conservative political strategy committee because Mr MacDonald followed his own conscience and voted against an immigration bill which both the Liberals and Tories supported Mr Clark has demanded that all members of his shadow cabinet follow the party line without falter Canadian voters on the other hand find no fault with the occasional revolt of MPs and often admire those who have the courage to vote according to their own beliefs down memory lane 40 YEARS AGO IN TOWN The Barrie Examiner April 25 1937 Barrie town council endorsed suggestion from its Coronation committee for planting of trees on vacant land in the western part of town MacLaren chairman of the committee presented the recommendationMember of the Ontario Legislature for Simcoe Cen tre Dr Simpson said he was solidly behind Premier Mitchell Hepburn in his stand on the Oshawa strike situation He spoke at Liberal rally at Stroud community hallAnnouncement was made by the Bell Telephone Company that construction was to start at once on onestorey and basement addition at the rear of the Barrie plant of the company on Elizabeth street The new building was to house loading and transformer equip ment Youngest member of Bar rie town council Ald William Garner congratulated Barrie Colts for reaching the junior OHA finals during the season just closed The Barrie team lost out to Toronto Nor voes in the final round large shipment of 300000 trees was received at the Ontario Forest Sta tion Midhurst made up ofvarious kind of pine for planting in this district Whites service station on Bradford street was held up by an armed thug who robbed the cash box of $20 in bills and change Na tional president of the Kinsmen club of Canada Douglas Crews of Town to spoke at dinner meeting of the Barrie Kinsmen in the American hotel ADS The Phantom Rider starr ing Buck Jones was the current at By LEONARD NOBLE This is the story that asks the question Can little girl who comes from wealthy family in British Columbis stay happily married to one of Canadas former most eligible wealthy bachelors Like they used to say on radio As we listen in Pierre is singing to himself in the process of packing his bags Hi Ho Hi iio Its off to California go lll ski all week lm no anti ue Hi Ho aw my little cabbage youre back from New York sooner than ex pected he said and stopped singing abruptly as Margaret suddenly entered the room Pierre darling wonder if youre doing the right thing by going away on holiday Margaret asked rather ruefully Aujourdhui domain next week what dif ference does it make my little rose petal Pierre asked with Gallic shrug Well Pierre replied Margaret you Digelmow what the newspapers will say that Were Splitting up or something awful like traction offered by the Capitol theatre in Barrie The Jungle Princess with Dorothy Lamour and Stolen Holiday with Kay Francis were listed as coming attractions At the Roxy theatre Earl Flynn and Anita Louise were starred in pic ture called Green Light with Ruby Keeler and Lee Dixon in coming attraction Ready Willing and Able The Imperial theatre adver tised Cary Grant with Mary Brian in film Romance and Riches Hoot Gibson and Harry Carey in western Powersmoke Range also was given large promotion New rate reductions were announced by the Bell Telephone Company in Bar rie where Smith was manager Sarjeant Company advertised low coal prices ranging from $975 to $1350 per ton Brookdale Riding Academy announced it was getting ready to open for another busy season bible thoughts And they crucified him and parted his garments casting lots that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet They parted my garments among them and upon my vesture did they cast lots And sit ting down they watched him there Matthew 273536 The death of Jesus was fulfilled prophecy and foretold love God so loved that He gave And they spit upon hitn and took the reed and smote hint on the head And after that they had mocked him they took the robe off from him and put his own raiment on him and led him away to crucify him Matthew 2730le While it may seem unbelievable that it could happen it is equally unbelievable that so many could forget it Christ died for our Sins Just wait till we meet again that Margaret sobbed noisily into her han dkerchief Dont cry my pet commanded Pierre let the newspapers say what they want In the meantime you do your thing with photography and do my thing with politics and like the song goes Well meet again some suny day Boolloo Bootioo cried Margaret You dont even care what the papers will say youre just awful Pierre Now now my little cabbage soothed Pierre this is no time for tears this is time for laughter and rjoicing Just think 10 day holiday from Joe Who and Ed ltroadsword Ill even get todo to Disneyland But what about me creid Margaret Arent you even going to miss me little walled Margaret But of course will my silly pigeon Your Pierre will miss you every minute he is alone reassured Home as he went back to his packing Soon he Was singing again Im no antique Ill peck your cheek Hm Hm Hm Hm BUSINESS 7266537 when MAW MM NEWSROOM SA ESMEN Bill McFarlane wire editor Roseanne McCabe lifestyle Rolt Kralker photographer REPORTERS John Bruce Paul Delean Richard Dunstan Pat Guergis Scott Haskins Sheila McGovern Sue Routlllte Lyall Johnson Barb Bouiton CLASSIFIED Virginia Klos Freda Shlnner ADVERTISING Len sevick manager Dave Henshaw managing editor Sean Finlay city editor Randy McDonald sports editor an Mummy 8ill Curran county editor Dan Gaynor serving barrio and simcoe county Dana Graham Ruth Blais supervisor Joan Shenstone BUSINESS Marian Gough accountant Betty Armer Dorothy Bowland Wendy Bowser Gail McParland CIRCULATION Jon Butler manager David Jenkins asst manager Andy Haughton Judy Hickey Alva La Plante Elaine Porter Marg Scartt Published daily except statutory holidays Subscriptions WEEKLY by carrier YEARLY by carrier BY MAIL Barrie SIMCOE COUNTY MOTOR THROW OFF ELSEWHERE IN CANADA Sunday and as cents $4420 70 Montreal 534 year $39 year floatear mmmmmmmWMWmm nnnnnnn Wummnwwwmommrww ERENCH Alta EttGLlSH APE EQUAL Parliament hill Ry STEWART acLEOl Ottawa Bureau Thotnson News Service Its very difficult for me to write column in defence of the press largely because am embarrassed by the amount of time we all devote to this particular project But in the light of Jack llorners conversion or defection to Liberalism along with the recent criticisms of the Conservative party by Quebec Tory MP Jacques Lavoie think its fair to say few words on behalf of the media You see the press has been taking quite battering for alleged rumor mongering as the principals in these cases toyed with various forms of denials have heard callers to openline radio shows say all sorts of horrible things about irrespon sible reporters in the last few weeks Whats our press coming to some would ask Imagine how any intelligent reporter could suggest that Jack Horncr could possibly become Liberal Sometimes the caller would snicker Other times there would be anger at the way the press kept persisting despite statements from Mr Homer and Prime Minister Trudeau that there were no plans for conversion or defection And know the reporter who wrote story in the Ottawa Citizen on March 23 about the possibility of Homer becoming Liberal cer tainly became the victim of some highlevel sneers OTHERS FAULTEI So now that this particular case has been settled and Homer is Liberal cabinet minis he world today IIy JOIIN IIARBRON Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service An Ontario university professor of geology tells me one of the reasons he quit long ca reer in the oilbusiness was because he was appalled that Canadian oil pumped out of the hard ground of Western Canada in 15 below weather was beating the swimming pools of rich urban Californians That was the kind of marketing planning which goes on in the international oil in dustry regardless of Canadian needs which he maintained were of little interest in the boardrooms of the United States of the oil giants He also reminded the lack of response and fer dont think it would be unfair to review fcw highlights of the drama liltotlrsc it will be mere coincidence if we happen to itnply that all the irrcstwisibility doesnt rest with the media When ilorncr called press conference on April 20 to announce that he could make grcatcr contribution to anndn by becoming Liberal he was asked when he had first been approached by representative of Prime Minister lrudcau had phone call from lim toutts tlrudeaus principal sccrctaryt at tny ran ch llorner said the date was March 10 He went on to say that he met outts again two or three days later and be frightened the daylights out of me with suggestion that the longtime rightwing lory take walk across the Commons floor liorner then went on to relate how painful and soulsearching the decision process had been lie was obviously heavily ptcoccupicd with the issue after that March lffth phone call On March 24 he was asked to comment on the Citizen story that he was actually consid ering an offer from the Liberals dont know what its all about he replied And as the Toronto ilobc and Mail reported be vigorously denied reports yesterday that he is thinking about leaving the Conservative party He said he Wouldnt entertain the idea MORE DENIALS The following day full two weeks after lrudeaus principal secretary frightened the daylights out of Homer with his even the overt hostility to the eastlwcst on pipeline to supply Montreal as long as they could do it with Venezuelan crude These kinds of global attitudes as opposed to national ones the reasons in effect that all other oilproducing companies in the world created state oil cortxualions had large part in the formation of our own Petro Canada bill for the establishment of Canadian government oil corporation with authority to penetrate most of the activities of an in tegrated oil corporation was in the works in 1973 The catalyst to move it was supposed to have been quick visit between former energy minister Donald Mucdonald in EECEPT fktit ttiii is non tollta gt tart suggestion the prime Ininister was asked this question at news conference Have you or anyone on your behalf asked Jack llorner to cross the floor of the House of Commons and invited him to join the cabinet No am afraid not replied Trudeau heard the rumor He said one of his staff members had talked with llorncr on the basis of friendship and no other but this was common practice with opposition Mls Meanwhile llorncr was saying the rumors might have been planted by the Liberals just to sow disscntton in Conservative ranks Naturally the press took all the blame for spreading thcsc malicious rumors Even the Globe and Mail made an editorial reference to rumors and halluciimtions as it pondered the possibility of Homer sitting next to Tran sport Minister Otto Lang We wouldnt put it past the Liberals said the newspaper but wewould put it beyond Mr Homer We will say no more on that The case of Lavoic is Inuch shorter He said he would consider joining the Liberals if the onservatives didnt adopt Inoro effective policies But day later following friendly chat with onscrvative Leader Joe Clark he issued statement saying he had been mis understood lle had been quoted correctly he said but the quotes had been misunderstood Let lll think about this for while In the meantime dont think the press should suf fer from any guilt complexes New oil problems for Petro Canada Caracas with his thenVenezuelan coun tcrpart ORDEREDIIANGIC The burden of that visit was the Venezuelan announcement that oil nationalization would be moved up from 1983 to 1975 and that coun try would prefer in the future to deal with Canada on oil exports on governmentto gtwcrnment basis Prior to Venezuelan oil nationalization the Venezuela and Canadian subsidiaries of Shell and Exxon supplied Quebec with crude oil Venezuela still does but now through its new state oil corwrations in spite of the many stories Petro Canadas crisis remains mystery The Examiner Is member of The Canadian Press CP and Audit Bureau of Circuit tions ABC Only The Canadian Press may republlsh news stories in this newspaper credited to CF The Associated Press Reuters or Agence France Presse and local news stories published In The Examiner The Barrie Examiner claims copyright on alboriglnal news and advertising material created by its employees and published in this newspaper copyright registration number 2036i5 register National advertising offices 65 Queen St Toronto 8644710 uo Cathcart 51 The advertiser agrees that the publisher shall not of errors in advertisements beyond the amount by that portion of the advertisement in which the error occurred whether such error is due to the negligence of its servants or otherwise and there shall be no liability for non Insertion of any advertisement beyond the amount paid tor such advertisement tmmsawsWmeW be liable for damages arising out paid for the space actually occupied Hill faces difficulties By DON OIIEARN Queens Park Bureau Thomson News Service TORONTO Election notes The New Democratic Party has what would appear to be an excellent candidate in Mid diesex Gordon Hill has long been prominent in agriculture in Ontario He was founding member of the old 0n tario Farmers Union He has served on multiplicity of govem ment boards and marketing boards He has been vicepresident of the Canadian Federation of Agriculture and from 19701976 was president of the Ontario Federation of Agriculture There hasnt been more prominent far mer in Ontario in recent years and on his stature he would seem to be shooin in Mid dlesex which today is one of the few dominantly rural ridings in Ontario FARMERS ANTI However apparently it is not this simple For one thing Hill doesnt live in the riding he is being parachuted in And then farmers tend to be antiNDP and Hill has been CCFNDP all his life In fact Bob Eaton the incumbent Progressive Conservative member says he welcomes Hills capacity His main opposition he says has been the Liberals and will bethe Liberals And he figures that Hills candidacy will cut into the Liberal vote not his The NDP of course would do practically anything to get strong farm member in the house They know that without cutting into the rural vote they can hardly form govern ment But though Hill is probably the strongest rural candidate they have ever put forward their hopes of rural representation still would seem to be dim LIBERAL ORE And the Liberals despite their apparently low estate manage to retain some optimism They dont expect to improve or even hold their own but they do expect to retain solid core representation One veteran goes so far as to say they will hold 25 of their present 34 seats This would seem bit too hopeful But it wouldnt be surprise to see them come back with 20 members Exports hit by problems By BOB BOWMAN These days there are problems between Canada and the United States over the export of oil natural gas hydroelectric power automobile parts and other products There have been similar problems over the years which have been solved without serious troublceserious enough that is to lead to war About 100 years ago fishing rights caused great concern and almost led to fighting There was an unusual situation that arose after April 25 1910 when Quebec prohibited the export of pulpwood The reason for the restriction was not because of scarcity but an attempt to induce other nations to build paper manufacturing plants in the province The US was hardest hit and retaliated by raising the duty on paper imported from Can ada Perhaps the Quebec policy paid dividends in the long run because many of the leading newsprint plants in Canada were built by US interests Some of the most famous news papers in the US including the New York Times Washington Post and Chicago Tribune are printed on Canadian paper There was period in early Canadian history when even the export of wheat was prohibitedbut that was case of scarcity OTHER APRIL 25 EVENTS lowHunting permits had to be obtained from the governor of Canada ultstEnglisitspeaking Canadians in Mon treal burned down Parliament building protesting Rebellion Losses Bill l858 First prospectors from US arrived at Victoria for British Columbia gold rush IsisIcelanders began settling at Gimli Man mittWomen in Quebec were given trans chisc to vote in elections and be members of Parliament Mfr Conference to create United Nations opened at San Francisco with Canada playing leading part 1950Agreemenf was reached to build TransCanada Highway we want your Opinion Letters submitted for 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