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53 Was 10 the examiner Thursday Jun 1977 At thanksgiving service Briotains Queen Elizabeth II and her husband Prince Philip kneel in prayer Tuesday at St Pauls Cathedral in London during thanksgiving service in honor of the Queens Silver Jubilee the Zfith year of her reign AP Photo Ombudsman began as clerk HALIFAX CP Harry Smith started his working life taught lectured cajoled and retirement and more writing as clerk in the dusty work shops of prewar Halifax clothing manufacturer He saved from his meagre salary and put aside all of his onepercent commission toward future education Later he went to Paris to study at the Sorbonne but with the German invasion of France in 1940 he beat hasty retreat back to Canada where he joined the Canadian navy and served in convoy duty in the North At Iantic Later with PhD from Laval University he was for 10 years dean of the French department at Royal Roads Military College in British Columbia That was followed by the presidency of University of Kings College in Halifax For the last six years he has been this provinces ombuds man This is rewarding he says matteroffactly Its good to make contact with people in your province You get to know them and ap preciate them and respect them And they respect you even when you say youre not going to be able to help them You tell them why and they know that the ombudsman is not political person They dont go flogging that and asking you to do political favors N0 POLITICAL FAVORS cant do anybody political favors Im not in position to know nothing about politics Smith has tiny staff of four which has already taken on thousands of cases lost some7 including provincial Supreme Court battle with steel corn panyand won others make it clear have noth ing to do with policies he says of his work in region where political contacts through riend politician or even some onewhohasafriendwho knowssomeonewhocanfixit are everything At one time Harry Smith was the only ombudsman in the country dealing with municipal complaints For five years he retained that distinction and the voluminous work load that came with it Normally the ombudsman gets the answers from the top He cuts through the cheese and gets the answers whether or not they are those the com plainant wants to hear CALLED MEDIATOR Smiths view of how he fits in to the system and how he relates to Nova Scotians is tell ing Some come in quite dis traught One is obliged on the to be an amateur psy ologist to be tactful while firm when necessary but un derstanding am what the French call mediateur am in between the government and the people and in some cases am catalyst between the two Harry Smiths interests are broad extending him at one time onto the socalled short list for the job that eventually was given to Keith Spicer as Can adas commissioner of official languages At that time being bili ngual anglophone felt able to sell the two official languages say to the Western provinces the fluently bilingual Smith says Other people in Ottawa didnt see it that way For the man who sweated in dingy clothing plant escaped from France owning only what was standing in wrote 89de Like no extra charge for installation The parts are nothing less than the best And fully guaranteed And the whole thing comes with all the Somebody treatment were famous for We may never get anyone to laugh over new set of shocks But we won be happy with anything less than smile Standard Replacement Shocks Normal driver Normal cor Unconditionally guaranteed as long as you own the car $2750 pair installed the next step is Certainly caused few tears Margaret raps press repo rti ng NEW YORK CP Marga ret Trudeau Wednesday con demned what she described as sensationalized reporting of her activities before and after the breakup of her marriage to Pierre Trudeau saying the press certainly caused few tears The prime ministers es tranged wife made her first public comments on their sepa ration since it was announced in Ottawa May 27 talking for about 10 minutes on ABCTVs Good Morning America show trifle nervous at first Mrs Trudeau quickly fell into the role of guest performer She said publicity surrounding her during the last two months didnt affect her as much as the trauma of realizing that the marriage wasnt working As the wife of the prime min ister she had been public fig ure in her OWn right and was used to lot of attention But knowing that marriage is on the rocks is something en tirely different FACED MAJOR CRISIS The tremendous trauma the devastation of making decision to separate and break down your marriage is very personal thing and for me really wasnt affected by the press It was you know sort of the realization that good mar riage wasnt working any more that affected me kind of keep the press at distance you Cars and engines in the US getting smaller DETROIT AP Americans are not about to give up their cars and the lifestyles their automobility has created but the motoring public and the industry which put the nation on wheels are slowly changing course Cars and engines are getting smaller and if President Jim my Carters controversial gasoline tax is approved by Congress people may drive fewer miles The trend toward smaller lighter less powerful and more fuelefficient vehicles has been major industry goal for dec ade It was spurred by the Mideast oil embargo in 1973 and is being accelerated again by federal fuel economy laws By 1985 industry forecasters say the average new car will be about the size of todays com pact16 to 17 feet long little more than 112 tons in weight able to seat four or five adults comfortably and with light weight fouror sixcylinder en gine electronically controlled to deliver more than 25 miles to the gallon of gasoline There still will be some big familysize cars in 1985 They wont be as large as todays roadhogs and theyll be pow ered by efficient diesels or other newlydesigned engines Their bodies may be composed of exotic lightweight materials ELECTRIC CARS POSSIBLE Electric cars may be the principle mode of tran sportation in the 19905 if light weight battery able to hold long charge can be developed Electronics will replace heavy spacewasting mechani cal components with small lightweight and precise min icomputers and micro processors controlling steering braking acceleration New fuels may replace gaso line as petroleum becomes scarce Among those now being tested are water propane hydrogen alcohol and even peanutoil Detroits futurists all agree the automobile will remain the dominant form of tran sportation in the United States for the remainder of the cen tury Some forecasters say Car ters energy program will dam pen newcar sales by about 300000 units year between 1978 and 1980 to 11 million The record of 114 million was set in 1973 Industry optimists say even with increased government regulation car sales might ap proach 14 million by 19 and the number of vehicles on the road will rise 20 per cent from todays levels to 120 million Smallcar sales have 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priced the big car out of many Americans reach They turned to lowpriced im ports many now from Japan Detroit countered with its sub compact Gremlin Vega and Pinto Before the oil embargo in 1973 small cars held more than third of the newcar market In 1975 in the aftermath of the energy crisis and recession small cars had taken more than half the market It was tem porary aberration exaggerated by hysteria over long lines at gas stations skyrocketing fuel prices fears of future gas shor tages and recession which pinched consumers pocket books In 1976 traditional bigcar buyers who sat out of the mar ket for two years showed up at dealers while smallcar buyers who rushed out and bought fuelstingy model during the mid705 had no plans to trade for new car for another few years As result the smallcar share of the market has drop ped to about 45 per cent know Idont react to what they say react to what feel But at another point she said of the press Yes well not only pointed they can be very 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