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ThurIdIIy June 23 1977 NEWSROOM 7266537 CIRCULATION 7266539 the examiner serving barrle and simcoe county Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited 16 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario LAM 4T6 Elio Agostini publisher ADVERTISING 7266537 CLASSIFIEDS 7282414 Tax cuts would check inflation Although the campaign for lifting price and wage con trols has been gaining momentum many observers are still skeptical They feel the federal Progressive Conservatives should come up with much better antiinflation pro gram than has been suggested so far before they should count on general support for dropping the controls Joe Clarks fourpoint program as announced the other day doesnt go nearly far enough Certainly judgements already made by the Anti Inflation Board against excessive wage and price in creases should be respected But the suggestion that the power should be taken from the board and given to the consumer and corporate affairs department to reverse or disallow price or salary increases deemed excessive cant help but make manywonder if this would only weaken the effort to halt the inflationary trned Monitoring and making public any excessive increases in prices and corporate revenues would focus attention on this aspect There might be some value in the fourth point asking companies to give the government 30 days warning of planned price increases But many cant help but wonder about overall benefits which could materialize from an alternate program like ly to weaken the controls and the battle against inflation Lower interest rateshave been step toward reducing some costs but other important measures should be taken which would be similarly effective More emphasis also should be given to the need for voluntary restraint with sufficient time allowed to definitely show good response As preliminary move genuine program of cutting back excessive tax spending shoudl be implemented to reduce heavy tax burdens which have played major role in the inflationary trends If this were effectively done it would be fine example toward encouraging the muchneeded voluntary efforts down memory lane THIRTYFIVE YEARS AGO The Examiner June 23 1942 Christ Church at Ivy was filled with mourners when tribute was paid to Sgt Pilot Henry Davis 29 gallant young flier who was killed in active service overseas with the Royal Canadian Air Force re quest from the Simcoe County Farm labor committee for temporary release of soldiers for farm work was turned down due to the serious overseas situation on the fighting fronts Walter Haskins secretary if the Canadian Federa tion of Agriuclture Ottawa spoke at the annual meeting of the Simcoe County Federation Ottawa spoke at the annual meeting of the Simcoe County Federation held at the com munity park Angus Warden Albert Toner welcomed the guests Announcement was made that 90 100 trees were planted under the Orr Lake forestry tree planting pro gram during the spring season Need to save alvage material for reproduction was stressed in leading editorial In urging special efforts to increase production on the home front it said It is well to remember Singapore and Burma and Libya and the men on the ocean who are on duty 24 hours day There is no slacking there no rest no desire to take it easy They Your business By VINCENT EGAN Business and Consumer Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service Looking for an example of growth business in Canada Then consider the Shakespearean Festival at Stratford nt It may be crass to speak of the arts in general and the Bard in particular in terms of revenue and ex ansion But the festiva now into its 25th summer season is remarkable example of the growth of an innovative enterprise from scratch Heres capsule comparison of the 1953 and 1977 season In that sizzling summer 24 years ago audiences totalling 68B7 paid $206000 to wit ness 42 performances of two plays over period of six weeks extended from the originally planned five This year attendance will exceed 500000 at 342 performances of 10 productions in 22 weeks If current trends continue it appears that boxoffice receipts will approach $43 million By opening night June about 55 per cent of this years capacity had been sold vs 54 per cent at the same point last year The 5th season is not the only milestone being observed Any day now the Stratford Shakespearean Festival will record its seven milllonth visitor who will receive lifetime pass MUCH ADO That would have seemed inconceivable the story have job to do and are doing it Back here on the home front we have many jobs to do to support them long list of Simcoe County girls in training or serving as nurses in different hospitals received mention on the womans page Members of Simcoe County council stood in silent tribute to former warden Dan McKinlay of Oro who died since the last meeting in May grant was asked by the Barrie active service committee from the county council toward the cost of operation of an active ser vice club and canteen Plans were made for the observance of Army Week June 29 to July Pilot Of ficer Ralph White of Orillia was rescued after crash in the Libyan desert in North Africa fighting zones when he was picked up by another plane ADVERTISE MENTS Films shown at the Granada theatre included Conrad Veidt and Ann Ayars in Nazi Agent of man who double crossed Adolf Hitler and Franchot Tone in This Woman Is Mine The Roxy feature film starred Carole Lombard and Jack Beeny in To Be or Not To Be Held over at the Im perial was The Falcon Takes Over with George Sanders and Lynn Bari How Shakespeare helped Stratford quartercentury ago Donald Gordon then chairman of Canadian National Railways had decided to close the CNR shopsthe citys biggest employer In the meantime however Tom Patterson was going to work on his idea for summer festival of Shakespeare native of Ontarios Stratford he had discovered StratforduponAvon while on active service in the Canadian army in England during World War II By 1952 he was working at an editors desk on Civic Administration trade magazine at MacleanHunter headquarters in Toronto just few feet from my desk on The Finan cial Post at the time and was obviously still bitten by the Shakespearean bug Although outwardly quiet and unremarkable man Tom Patterson roved to have drive comparable to that 10ton truck in his quest for money to launch the festival At home in Stratford he would tell every potential donor that the Toronto people were right behind it and contributing generously Back in Toronto he would proclaim that all of Stratfords people were backing the festi val and Torontonians mist not let them selves be outdone In the end enough money was scraped togetherincluding key eleventhhour anonymous private donation of $10000and the festival opened July 13 1953 with Alex Guinness as Richard III in performance that has yet to be matched 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 SALESMEN Dan Gaynor Lyall Johnson Barb Boulton Dana Graham Roll Kraiker photographer John zarecky FOR TE RS John Bruce Paul Delean CLASSIFIED Richard Dunstan Ruth Blais supervisor Pat Guergis Lesley Young Scott Hasklns Sheila McGovern Sue RoutliIIe Freda Shinner Karen Atkinson Peggy Chapell Parliament 33 By STEWART MacLEID Ottawa Bureau Thomson News Service In suggesting that Conservative Leader Joe Clark should not be faulted for the loss of Quebec MP Jacques Lavoie to the Liberals expressed some mild surprise that the Grits would want to accept the unhappy Tory And now as we learn the Hochelaga Liberal riding association which is being asked to embrace the new member wasnt even con sulted am even more surprised The man ner in which the federal Liberals acted in this case would ive one the impression they were desperately lding on with minority gover The world today By JOHN IIARBRON Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service It is no longer popular to extol great scien tific achievements We are supposed to worry about their effects on the environment the hazards for humanity they will generate the great cost of building them But this week as the oil from the north shore of Alaska starts to flow or rather ooze its way along 800 miles of pipeline across the centre of this rugged and desperately cold terrain am enthused and filled with ad miration for another accomplishment of man versus the environment The oil that is at the top of the system this week will not reach Valdez pronounced Val deezl until about month after this column is written And even thm the longest part of its jour ney in supertankers from icefree Valdez to the American west coast will still have to be made Probably by midAugust the oil making its way across over and under Alaskas tundra mountains and bleak valleys will start flowing into the California terminals assigned for its arrival When it is fully on stream by the fall about 15 million barrels or about 15 cent of total American consumption oil will be delivered every day into the domestic American system PROTECTION PARAMOUNT Some of that 800 miles of continuous pipe is buried underground with special fill pad ding and zinc electrodes to prevent electro chemical corrosion of the pi Much of it is elevated aggve ground with more devices installed to prevent the hot oil moving at about 130 degrees Fahrenheit from thawing the permafrost underneath The Alaska oil pipeline which could be the first of several oil and gas pipelines for the north or conversely the only one is great ADVERTISING Len Sevlck manager BUSINESS Marian Gough accountant Betty Armer Dorothy Bowland Gall McFarland Vikki Grant CIRCULATION Jon Butler manager David Jenkins asst manager Andy Haughton Judy Hickey Alva LaPlante Elaine Porter Marg Scartl mitt RUSH ME Published daily except statutory holidays WEEKLY by carrier MOTOR THROWOFF ELSEWHERE CANADA Sunday and Subscriptions EARZgfgvzurier created by its employees and published in this newspaper $4680 Copyright registration number 203815 register 61 BY Mfiagariei National advertising offices 65 Queen St Toronto sumo 640 Cathcart St SIMCOE couury MOW $3650 The advertiser agrees that the publisher shalt not be liable for damages arising out $39ayear $3850 year THIS HAS to BE Dotti SYSIEMATlCAtW nment and could justify recruiting any ad ditionalmembers for the good of the party But it wasnt that way at all At the time the Liberals had 141 members compared with only 95 for the Conservatives Fur thermore the lorieshad just been wiped out in five Quebec byelections and its difficult to see what the Grits could prove by getting another Conservative to jump over the back fence Yet several Liberal MPs had meetings with Lavoie urging him to cross the floor And at the same time Joe Clark and his followers had even more frequent meetings with Lavoie urging him to stay put Oil flow slow from Alaska technical achievement of the late 20th cen tury Fraught with all the delays imaginable from climate serious supply problems in efficient construction methods the opposition of environmentalists and native peoples it has been almost decade in the building sin ce North Slope oil was first discovered in 1968 In many positive ways it has made the state of Alaska welltodo beyond previous imaginable levels About $1 billion was paid to the native peoples in land claims before the overland pipeline was begun Much of this has filtered into the Alaskan economy and into new industrial services The native Aleuts as this column observed recently have been able to join the Alaskan economy as full participants in most in stances The negative effects have been to change forever the parochial and lesshectic nature of Alaskan life Unemployment is nearly back to where it used to be with about 20000 outof work construction hands from the completed facility The true longterm effects of all that hot oil moving over the tundra close to stillvital reindeer herds and over permafrost which has been there for centuries must be seen from the actual oil passage And there is the concommittant maritime environmental crisis of su rtanker disaster at sea pouring millions gallons of oil aIOng Canadian and American coasts We know what these can be like from the many previous ones in the busy oceans of our world The gloomsters wait almost wishing for it to happen for disaster rather than suc cessfrom Alaska The wartime Seebees who seemed to have raised new airfields from the beach the morn ing after the Marines captured the next Pacific islands never built like this But their American tradition of conquering the elements and making things work is just as strong if LINNl Myst3 11 WJ Hochelaga Liberals hesitate about supporting Lavoie The Hochelaga MP must have felt wanted to say the least And despite his present claims that he is at last comfortable within the Liberal fold wonder whether he still feels wanted DIFFICULT SWITCH Its not easy to change an allegiance without getting hurt especially when one has campaigned with the enthusiasm of Jacques Lavoie to get elected as Tory In or der to knock off Liberal cabinet minister Pierre Juneauno mean featLavoie had to knock on virtually every door in the riding saying many uncomplimentary things about the dreaded Grits Yet as it turns out while he was assuring his Tory colleagues recently that he still hadnt made up his mind about his future af filiation he had already written to Prime Minister Trudeau with some complimentary remarks about the Liberals associate myself without hesitation to the objectives of the Liberal party and be lieve in your vision of Canada and in what you are proposing for defending the rights of mi norities When Jack Homer quit the Conservatives to make quick transition to Liberal cabinet minister many Tories were critical of the way Clark handled or mishandled the situ ation With little more effort some thought Homer could have been convinced to remain on the Tory benches But there has been no such sentiment ex posed with the Lavoie defection It is generally recognized that Clark was not to blame and instead of further weakening his leadership this latest defection is serving to strengthen it At the caucus meeting following Lavoies departure Clark received the loudest ovation since he first attended such meetings TWO SIDES But what about the other side Should Trudeau have been so excited about gaining new member that he sent him telegram of welcome from England Well Lavoie certainly didnt receive any such telegram from the Hochelaga Liberal riding association which must either decide to adopt the former Tory or risk creating devastating division within the constituency And things were going to be difficult enough as they were with redistribution slicing up the riding and turning over big portion to MaisonneuveRosemont now represented by Liberal Serge Joyal bible thought But Jesus took him by the hand and lifted him up and he arose Mark 927 He is still in the all important business of lifting people and He is in search of helpers Father in Jesus name help us to be the hand extended through you to lift up huring humanity leading them to the Saviour May the Holy Spirit give us an understanding heart as to how we can do this and as quickly as possibly Amen The Examiner is memberot The Canadian Press CP and Audit Bureau at Circula tions ABC Only The Canadian Press may re publish news stories in this newspaper credited to CP The Associated Press Reuters or Agence France Presse and local news stories published in The xaminer The Barrie Examiner claims copyright on all original news and advertising material of errors in advertisements beyond the amount paid for the space actually occupied 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 nonlnsertion at any advertisement beyond the amount paid for such advertisement tario Womens Liberal Association John Queens park Wild romp by LaMarsh By DON OHEARN Queens Park Bureau Thomson News Service TORONTO Judy LaMarsh has never been one to look on mandate as corset Years ago Judy was president of the On Wintermeyer was party leader One morning close to an election Win termeyer opened his paper to find that his party or at least the womens end of it was in favor of sale of beer in grocery stores Judy had given an interview favoring store sale In View of her position this was taken as party policy Wintermeyer was aghast In no way was this party policy And for months he had to struggle to try and knock down the belief that it was FREE SPIRIT couple of years ago Judy was named to head provincial royal commission The mandate was specific To study the possible harm to the public interest of the in creasing exploitation of violence in the com munications industry Well now quite bit more than million dollars later we have had the findings of the commission And Judy is still the old free and un contained spirit ROMP She obviously looked on her mandatein this case the terms of referenceas star ting gun for wild helterskelter romp in the functions and responsibilities of the com munications field She even entered the broad responsibilities and functions of the pressnot of its handling of violence but of its handling and attitude towards news generallysomething that her commission not only was not charged to do but in no way had the competence to do Her findings in the area were su rficial and unrealistic as was to be expect Unfortunately this also applied when she and her commissioners concerned them selves with violence per se They produced an extravagant dream for bold restructuring of the Canadian television industry And most notably dream For it paid little attention to practicality Most pertinently when the commission was first announced in advance of an elec tion it was apparent that probably its greatest problem would be how to cope with the United States television stations which are watched by the large majority of Canadian viewers and which are beyond Canadian control After million dollars worth of brain strain the only solution the commission was able to roduce was that Canadian trans mission switched to system that would require sets that could not receive US telecasts step the public would never ac cept Dont think that there arent some good things in the LaMarsh rt There are Generally it is at leas thoughtprovoking and some of its less spectacular proposals seem worthwhile But not million dollars worth Perhaps thousand or ten thousand Maybe even hun dred thousand But million No Canadas story Atrocities by raiders By BOB BOWMAN It is often said that North America wouldbe Frenchspeaking today if fiance had attack ed the British colonies along the coast with enough strength Instead of ding armies the French sent guerrilla raiders who committed frightful atrocities but made no effort to retain territory they at tacked However it mmt be remembered that those former British colonies attacked Canada with large armies in 1775 and 1812 and were defeated There was one ambitious plan by the Fren ch to drive the British from part of the Atlan tic coast It was organized by Governor Fron tenac and Pierre LeMoune Iberville would have played an important part leading troops by land and sea The Canadians aided by 15 ships of the French navy commanded by the Marquis de Nesmond were to capture Boston and then sweep up the coast to occupy the New land colonies planned major attack was preceded by series of raids designed to terrorize New England inhabitants One of them was on Durham NH on June 23 1694 It was led by Claude de Villieu clever tactician who knew how to turn the Abenaki Indians against the British He managed to start the Indian allies of the British fighting among themselves The people of Durham were asleep when de Villieu attacked and 104 men women and children wre killed in their homes or as they tried to esca in their night clothes Twenty houses were urned Then another group went to Groton and massacred it It was about this time that the major attack on Boston should have taken place The population was 7000 but many of the men were away at sea and it was felt there were only 800 could fight in defence of the city