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tr Thursday Jun 16 1977 the examiner serving barrle and slmcoe county Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited 16 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario L4M 4T6 Elio Agostlni publisher NEWSROOM 7266537 CIRCULATION 7266539 ADVERTISING 7266537 CLASSIFIEDS 7282414 Queens jubilee binding iie Announcement of rograms in various communities in Simcoe County an elsewhere to celebrate the Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth calls attention to our British traditions Creemore will be among the county communities plan ning special jubilee program of events this coming weekend The Canada Day committee at Collingwood is currently completing preparations for reception for Ontario lieutenantgovernor Pauline McGibbon who plans visit on Friday June 24 to take part in that towns celebration Others are planning special July events to mark the 110th anniversary of Confederation The visit of Prime Minister Trudeau and former prime minister John Defienbaker to London to join the Silver Jubilee celebration also was noted with interest Despite controversy over the constitution Queen Elizabeth continues tobe recognized as the queen of Canada In Britian the Crown remains the strength of Britain which is struggling at the edge of economic disaster Many Canadians watched scenes on television of the greatest outpouring of patriotic fervor seen since the Queen was crowned 25 years ago Millions of Britons and visitors lined the parade route during the formal jubilee celebration and chanted We love the Queen We want the Queen It was remarkable spectacle which was aptly described as tonic for nation that has not had much to celebrate or be patriotic about in recent years The Crown is powerful working force for Canada too As pointed out in news columns what else could ever bring together Mr Trudeau and Mr Diefenbaker for such trip on the same plane To Britons the Crown exemplifies their loayalty to their country and its traditions To Canadians it is symbol of our British ties and what we owe to the mother country for our democratic way of living It has been truly said it gives Canada sense of stability at time when it is sorely needed down memory lane 20 YEARS AGO IN BARBIE From The Examiner June 16 1957 Simcoe County council ap proved the adoption of provincial manual as guide for reassessing properties in county municipalities report from the equalization com mittee showed the town of Orillia had the highest assessment with Barrie second Innisfil third and Midland fourth Barrie public school board agreed to try out school boy safety patrols on Blake at Johnson street when the Johnson street school is reopened in the fall Units of Grey and Simcoe Foresters comprising Owen Sound Barrie Durham Meaford Coll ingwood Orillia Midland and Parry Sound were advised to prepare for summer camp training at Peta wawa Ron Stewart first baseman for the Legion was leading hitter of the Barrie and District senior fastball league with an average of 429 Harold Darch was installed as new president of the Barrie Lions club for the 195758 term Art Webster was moved up to vicepresident Len Crawford secretary and Harry Nesbitt treasurer With six wins and no losses Barrie Flyers led the 11club South Simcoe baseball league with Everett second Creemore third and Your business By VINCENT EGAN Business and Consumer Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service The modest improvement in the unem ployment rate for May 779 per cent of the labor force seasonally adjusted down from post1940 high of 83 per cent in Aprilmay be no more than statistical aberration To look on the bright side however it could also be the longawaited evidence that tough economic measures notably the antilt inflation restraintsare finally paying off Should unemployment continue to decline during the next few months it will not only good news lor the jobless but also Vindication for Ottawas policy planners In his budget of March 31 Finance Minister Donald Macdonald resisted demands for massive makework projects although he did allot an additional $100 million to the Canada Works Program thus increasing it to $458 million And he also resisted the clamor to kill the antiinflation program coming from those who confuse the fools gold of inflation with real economic growth Macdonald promised to resist the great temptation to seek quick and easy solutions and instead to try to restore con fidence in the future of the economy The decision to go for growth to encourage Stroud in fourth place large display of exhibits made the first iris show sponsored by the Barrie Horticultural Society and town im provement committee at the town market an outstanding success Parsons president thanked all exhibitors for their assistance New Canadian prime ministerelect John Diefenbaker prepared to assume office after former Prime Minister Louis St Laurent tendered his resignation Earl Rowe MP for Dufferin Simcoe was mentioned for consideration as new minister of agriculture Reeve Leslie Borrow presided at meeting of Mat chedash council when tax rate of 408 mills was approved for residen tial and farm properties ADVERTISEMENTS Showing at the Imperial theatre was film Hollywood or Bust featuring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis The Roxy theatre presented Fear Strikes Out film starring Anthony Perkins along with Ingrid Bergman and Gary Cooper in For Whom the Bell Tolls The Granda advertis ed Audie Murphy and Barbara Bush in the World in My Corner with Rory Calhoun in second hit film The Looters The Huronia drive in presented Eve Arden in Our Miss Brooks Economic signs pointing upward industrial expansion through tax incentives may not have been the most popular one the government could have taken For the moment however it appears that persistence is starting to be rewarded Em ployment is up and unemployment downalthough the trend must be confirmed in succeeding monthsand the inflation rate has at least levelled off in May at 76 per cent after several months in which it had been gaining momentum Nor are those the only positive signs The rate of time lost due to strikes has been declining substantially in the past four months Wage increases as measured by new set tlements averaged 86 per cent in January March of this year as against an in flation rate of 77 per cenll down sharply from the prerestraints high of 188 per cent in secondquarter 1975 The Canadian dollar has drifted down to the area of 947 cents US thus giving some stimulus to our exports UPIIIIJ FIGHT It will still be an uphill struggle however to restore real economic growth and pros perity Powerful forces in both labor and mnagement are trying to blow the lid off in flation restraints BUSINESS 7266537 NEWSROOM Dave Henshaw managing editor Sean Finlay city editor Randy McDonald sports editor Bill Curran county editor Bill McFarlane wire editor Roseanne McCabe lifestyle Roll Kraiker photographer POR TE Rs John Bruce Paul Delean Richard Dunstan Pat Guergis Scott Haskins Sheila McGovern Sue Routlilie SALESMEN Dan Gaynor Lyall Johnson Barb Boulton Dana Graham John Zarecky CLASSIFIED Lesley Young Freda Shinner Karen Atkinson Peggy Chapell ADVERTISING Len Sevch manager Ruth Blais supervisor BUSINESS Marian Gough accountant Betty Armer Dorothy Bowland Gail Mc Parland Vikki Grant CIRCULATION Jon Butler manager David Jenkins asst manager Andy Haughton Judy Hickey Alva La Plante Elaine Porter Marg Scarlt Published daily except Sunday and statutory holidays Sunscrlptions WE EK LY by carrier YEARLYby carrier BY MAIL Barrie SlMCOE COUNTY MOTOR THROWOFF ELSEWHERE lN CANADA 338503 year 90cents The Examiner is member oi The Canadian Press CPI and Audit Bureau of Circula tuons ABC Only The Canadian Press may republish 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 all original news and advertising material created by its employees and published in this newspaper $4680 Copyright registration number 203815 register 61 680 Montreal National advertising oilices 65 Queen St Toronto 8644710 640 Cathcart $1 53650 The advertiser agrees that the publisher shall not be liable for damages arising out $39 year SWICllY PRECAUllONARY MEASURE YOUR MAJESW HE HAS AlEPRlBLE HABlT OF RUNNING AROUND AND REMOVING THE COAI OF ARMS FROM EVERYTHlNG lN SIGHT Parliament By STEWART MaclEOI Ottawa Bureau Thomson News Service used to run around with this funny idea that understood the political process that appreciated the significance of winning or losing and that elections were relatively straightforward events in which the party winning the largest number of seats was the victor and the other parties were in varying de ees losers ut in the altermath ot the Ontario election can no longer make this claim Not only am in state of total confusion have also lost my confidence might be forced to quit this business The change occurred the morning following the election when breezy commentator on the CBCwho was probably paid $75 for his knowledgeannounced that the only clear The world today By JOHN IIARBRON Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service The long equipment drought is over for the Canadian armed forces For the first time in decade they will be receiving new generations of weapons first the Leopard IWest Germanys supertank128 of them for our NATO forces then the new longrange patrol aircraft Down the road is some kind of successor warship to the four DDII 2805 which are ex tremely sophisticated warships built for the stillstrong possibility of submarine war in the north Atlantic Several hundred army personnel carriers have also been built and introduced for the Canadian armed forces raising private worries that so many have been bought for some future and ominous domestic useperhaps aid to the civil power in Quebec emergency The Centurion tanks of the Canadian armed forces were ofnicially assigned to limbo June after 25 years of truly yeoman service and such patience from tank crews who watched their wards clank their way into obsolescence while other NATO armies besides Canadas were modernized earlier The Aurora LRPA replacements wont be in service probably until the early 1980s even though there will beonly 18 of them winner in yesterdays election was the Liberal leader Dr Stuart Smith assumed my hearing was affected from all that screaming heard from television decision desks the previous evening But then picked up the newspaper and there it was again If there was any winner in Thur sdays election it was Dr Stuart Smith And then this became the prevailing viewpoint in every publication saw know some of you will laugh at my naive view of politics but actully used to think that any clear winner in election cam paigns had to increase his partys Seats But Dr Smith managed to emerge the clear winner by winning fewer seats than his Liberals did in 1975 My immediate reaction was that Iremier William Davis must therefore be in state of dclerious delight af ter his Conservatives returned with six ad ditional seats Canadian forces gel new weapons And that means the old Argus thlAs which came into service as far back as 1958 will somehow have to continue the burden of aerial surveillance MILITARY REJUVICNATION This new equipment will rejuvenate the traditional roles of our military in an estab lishment reduced by about 40 per cent from what it was in terms of manpower in the ML cvon decade of the 1950s But there are other commitments both preSent and potential which the arrmed for ccs have maintained and might have to in crease in the future the chief of these being its role in the north For the moment this seems to have been downgraded with the removal of the airborne regiment from the big Edmonton base to Petawawa ne of its roles is defence of the Canadian Arctic from which it is now removed by the shift to eastern Canada to link it up with the mechanized forces already based in the east Recently Gen Jacques Dextraze chief of the defence staff spoke out about this Arctic role calling for larger one There is of course northern command minisculc by comparison with some of the other military commands but carrying out an integrated role with other federal and local government agencies in the north who wit fillN Conservative voting gains overlooked in some reVIews But again merely exposed my old fashioned View of politics There on the front page of newspaper was picture of the On tario premier managing smile despite the election results would hate to think of the poor mans con dition if he had lost seals But perhaps am displaying my outdated viewpoint again because sec that Dr Smith spent post election day cheerfully clipping his roses as he basked in his oneless seat victory And oh yes saw that New Democratic Leader Stephen Lewis whose party lost five seats was describing the onservative cam paign which produced six additional seats as outrageous and preposterous If the NDP had conducted that type of campaign he said we would have been decimated few days later Mr Lewis announced his resignation This of course gives rise to the question of what might have happened if the Con servativcs had conducted an NDItype can paign Anyway this is only the beginning of my confusion Whats really bugging me is that somehow never managed to get tuned in on what Ontario voters were trying to say in this election In fact it never occurred to me they were trying to say anything SIMIIJSIH IIIW Again am forced to admit to holding this oldfashioned view that you vote for the can didate of your choice for any number of reasons and as result of this process one party ends up with the most seals and wins all the marbles But apparently have been missing all the conspiracies According to what have been reading and hearing the people of Ontario had got together and decided to deliver all sorts of messages to Queens Park The people of Ontario made it clear they dont want majority government was one editorial comment had never occurred to me that the steelworkcr in Hamilton who voted NDP and the lumber worker in Kenora who voted Liberal not to mention the Ottawa civil scr vanl who voted Conservative were all in cahoots about maintaining minority govern ment But perhaps its good think didnt know because wouldnt know who to sup port for minority government llul wail Dr Smith is saying the message from the voters is actually something else that politicians should put away their tillerences tor wnnc mtu even be ler thing didnt know alxmt this agreement because again Wouldnt know how to ex press my feelings lerhaps am just getting too old for elec tions So think will concentrate on the Senate Queen park 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 of its servants or otherwise and there shall be no liability for nonrinsertion of any advertisement beyond the amount paid tor such advertisement Leadership now issue By DON WHEARN Queens Park Bureau Thomson News Service TORONTO The big talk here these days of course is about leadership The most immediate impact of the election has been to put the question of party leader ships up in the air The continuation of Premier William Davis as onservat ive leader has to be questioned After failing to receive majority in two elections the prcmiers position is shaky On the rules of the game he at least should have to face convention and get new en dorsement To date he has tended to handle the situation tenderly He has indicated that eventually he may be retiring but that perhaps he will hang in until the referendum in Quebec is out of the way One has the impression Davis is sitting back and sizing up the situation before com mitting himself in any way Stuart Smith of course was the one leader not faced with decision As the new leader of the opposition he doesnt have to worry about his position as head of the Liberal party Ilis problem now is to show the people he really does have something To date the tario public has had only limited glimpses of Smith on which to judge him Now he will be full front and centre all the time and that will change NEW LEWIS The New Democratic Party of course is the party that has the immediate iob of restructuring ahead of it Stephen Iewis has announced his retir ment and it has to face the unwelcome task of replacing him And this isnt going to be easy The party has to face the fact that there is nobody in sight who is even close to Lewis in stature and ability There certainly is nobody in its caucus There doesnt seem to be anyone there with even moderate leadershin notential And to date at least there are no outstan ding prospects in the outside ranks Walter Pitman of leterborough who con tested the leadership when Lewis won it and who would be good choice apparently is no longer interested The best prospect at this point could be John Harney 46 onetime secretary of the provincial party and for one term federal member Harncy contested the federal leadership when Ed Broadbent won and made good im pression lle undoubtedly has ability but there is question whether he could win provincial convention As for Lewis he will be missed Just how solid contribution he made to the progress of our province and particularly its economy can be debated But he had stature and color and ability and his retirement creates void which will not be easily filled Canada story Oil Springs first well By BOB BOWMAN Although the first oil in North America was brought into production at Oil Springs near Petrolia Ont in 1857 anada had to import 90 per cent of its oil until 1947 Then the Leduc well came into production in Alberta followed by other important discoveries The presence of oil iii Alberta was known for many years The Edmonton Bulletin reported on June 16 1892 that oil had been found at St Albert The story said Whether or not the tar is sure indication of profitable petroleum field there is no doubt of thc genuineness of the find and as little doubt that it is not confined to that single 10 calitv Kootenai Brown one of the most colorful characters in anadian history found oil along Cameron Brook in the Waterton Lakes area in 1886 He used it to grease machinery on his ranch MI wells were brought into production in Albertas Iurney Valley before the First World War and their development continued until the Second World War when more than 300 had been in operation However the big producing area turned out to be crescent from northeast to southwest of Edmonton after more than $17 billion had been spent in exploration It took 27 years of searching and Situated before Leduc was discovered The company responsible drilled 13 dry holes on the prairies before it was suc cessful bible thought exliort therefore that first of all sup plications prayers intercessions and giving of thanks be made for all men For kings and for all that are in authority that We may lead quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty Timothy 12 It is not only the responsibility of our elected officers to lead us but ours to pray that God will guide them Tor forsake them at this point is to ignore the Word of God to in cur His displeasure and to work hardship on ourselves