Elli Barrie Examiner Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited 16 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario Robb PublisherGeneral Manager Wilson Advertising Manager Henshaw Managing Editor The Barrie Examiner Friday January 21 1977 For downtown study how about this idea Heres suggestion for some of that money collected from down town businesses on behalf of the Downtown Area Improvement Board Planning board this week found out that consultants work on secondary plan to revitalize the core could cost as much as $50000 Why not use some of the funds from the improvement area tax cof fers to defray part of the cost Trees and pretty lights can only go so far in improving the look of the core By allocating funds toward the study the downtown improvement board would be performing most worthwhile service Those downtown businessmen who object to the planting of those trees and stringing lights on them might feel this use of their tax dollars would be more worthwhile According to planner Rick Jones there is no provincial money available for the study subcommittee of planning board is looking into terms of reference and procedures for star tingastudy Council after prodding from the civic affairs committee of the Greater Barrie Chamber of Com merce passed an amendment to the official plan designating the core as the heart of the city and as the primary retail commercial cultural entertainment institu tional recreational and admin istrative centre The amendment calls for prepara tion of secondary plan to imple ment the designation What better way to spend down town improvement area funds than on study to help downtown We are aware the secondary plan area is larger than the downtown improvement boards area of jur isdiction but we feel portion of the cost should come from those who stand to benefit directly from study DOWN MEMORY LANE FIVE YEARS AGO IN TOWN The Barrie Examiner Jan 21 1972 Retirement reception held at Barrie Golf and Country Club for Macmillan who will retire Jan 31 as district manager of Bell Canada Mr Macmillan who doesnt plan to retire completely until die or cant move plans to start job as representative of Barrie Plumbing and Electrical Supply Company Ltd the next day Coroners jury wants speed limit on Highway 11 between Barrie and Painswick re duced to 30 from 50 mph Inquest followed Dec death of Inniswood Nursing Home resident Kathe Jans of Innisfil is reelected presi dent of Simcoe Centre Liberal Association Dave Hogben of Barrie is first vicepresident Sid Van Dyck of Bradford second vicepresident and Helene Winter of Barrie sec retarytreasurer Innisfil Chamber of Commerce spokesman Len Carr with assistance from Councillor Don Koopmans gets $500 grant from council for Innisfil Winterama Barrie public works committee recommends Ald Ross Archer act as chairman of special committee to deal with pollution problems Mr and Mrs Maruice Nelson of Napier Street featured in 50th wedding anniversary story Paul Placko and Gerald Verkaik of Bradford are local delegates to 113th annual convention of Ontario Fruit and Vegetable Growers Association Dave Raycraft scores four goals as Barrie Colts whip Bolton 133 in midOntario Junior hockey play Barry Turnbull scores 31 points as Brass and Glenn trounces Barrie Blues 9345 to win their 10th game in 11 county mens league starts LNLEERPRETING THE NEWS Cyprus move no surprise though off American path By GEORGE KITCHEN UNITED NATIONS CP Jimmy Carters decision to un dertake new US initiative in the Cyprus dispute comes as no great surprise though the Mediterranean island is somewhat off the normal American diplomatic path Cyprus has been source of disagreement between Greece and Turkey both allies of the United States and both mem bers of NATO the Western de fencealliance Greece and Turkey share border with Bulgaria key outpost in the Warsaw Pact de fence network and their dispute over Cyprus has weakened NATOs southern flank The dispute brought the two NATO allies to the brink of war in 1974 and NATO has been seeking to restore harmonious relationship Now Carter on his assumption of the US presidency intends to have try The dispute arises from the population mix of Cyprus Eh mam Examiner 16 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario Telephone 7266537 Registration Number 0484 Second Class Mail Return postage guaranteed Daily Sundays and Statutory Holidays excepted Subscription rates daily by carrier 85 cents weekly $4420 yearly Single copies 15 cents By Mail Barrie $4420 yearly Simcoe County $3400 yearly Motor Throw Off $3900 yearly Balance of Canada $3600 year yNational Advertising Offices 65 Queen St West Toronto 8641710 640 Cathcart St Montreal Member of the Canadian Press and Audit Bureau of ir culations The Canadian Press is ex clusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches in this paper credited to it or The Associated Press or Reuter and also the local news published therein The Barrie Examiner claims Copyright in all original adver tising and editorial material created by its employees and reproduced in this newspaper Co yright Registration Num r203815register61 which is inhabited by Greek and TrukishCypriots descen ded from immigrants from the two mainland neighbors Greeks outnumber Turks and fighting has been going on for years Open warfare developed in 1964 and the UN sent in peacekeeping force with men drawn from Canada and other countries to keep the two sides apart It is still there Trouble erupted again in 1974 when the Greekled Cypriot na tional guard overthrew gOV ernment headed by Archbishop Makarios and installed re gime favoring union with Greece Turkey invaded the island with 40000 troops to pro tect the TurkishCypriot minor ity who make up 18 per cent of the population The Turks widened their con trol occupying 40 per cent of the land The result was mass displacement of GreekCypriot and TurkishCypriot po lations refugee camps and bit ter charges by Greece that the Turks were committing atro cities and misusing US aid Turkey which still has 12000 troops on the island says it wants two separate Greekand TurkishCypriot states to re place the former patchwork of Greekand TurkishCypriot communities Washington sources dis closing the US initiative this week said Carter plans to have VicePresident Walter Mondale discuss Cyprus on European trip which begins Sunday IN EASTERN EUROPE Pulp paper project business breakthrough VANCOUVER CP A$937 million pulp and paper project under construction near the town of Kwidzyn 0n Polands Baltic Sea represents break through Canadian businessmen and diplomats have been seek ing in the newlyindustrialized countries of Eastern Europe The Polish development gained $50million design and project management contract for Vancouverbased Si mons International Ltd consultingengineering firm Canada also won $500 mil lion financial protocol with Poland during the negotiations under which Poland will work through Canadas Export Development Corp to increase purchases in this country The only visible sign of the breakthrough in Canada is steady stream of Polish engi neers visiting Simonss offices here to work on design of the massive pulp project The con tract means 800 manyears of work or Simons Macdonald viceprcsi dent of Simons Over seas Ltd said recently that creation of single corporate entity to handle the Polish con tract was important to his com panys success Mr Macdonald told semi nar on export trade with East ern Europe that Simons Over seas tries to take the whole project and buy services from other arms of the Simons or ganization EB WORLD TODAY Afrlcan empires in this age are risky propositions indeed By JOHN HARBRON Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service The antics of some modern African leaders ranging from buffoonery to sheer barbarism are enough to convince hard pressed taxpayers in the indus trial world that aid to these clowns is sheer waste of money and resources Of course no one in the West that is is giving much to Ugan das psycopathic military president Gen Idi Amin The Russians recently re placed his air force of MiG jets destroyed on the ground by Is raeli aratroopers during the Enteb eraid The latest piece of incredible news if true to come from Amins brutalized and rostrate country is that he will uild headquarters at the United Nations to exceed that of the United States Unbelievable is the Ugandan plan to erect such an edifice on 45th Street near First Avenue within stones throw of the main United Nations building itself It will be three floors higher than the understandably large building housing its large mission and cost about $135 mil tion In remote and landlocked African state called the Central African Republic one Salah Eddinc Ahmed Bokassa its president declared himself an em ror early in December an his remote and poor nation an empire Gen Bokassa who was also recently converted to Islam rules about two million people in nation the size oflexas and whose main products are agricultural and diamonds EMIIRE WITH II There also are oil and urae nium reserves in the Empire of Central Africa As you might have guessed nationalistic Gen Bokassa nationalized the facil ities of Mobil and Texaco The newlyproclaimui em XOUR BUSINESS This shouldnt be banner year for primaryresource industry By VINCENT EGAN Business and Consumer Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service Taking tour dhorizon of Canadas primaryresources inv dustries leads inevitably to the Berrys World 1977 by NEA Inc Sir suit manufacturers are storming the gates conclusion that 1977 isnt going to be banner year We often are told that Can adas greatness rests on its nat ural resources This year at least the hopes that always help to sustain developers and investorseare becoming as dim as the memories the development booms of the 1950s and 1960s The gloom in the metals busi ness is so general that vice president of one large mining and fabricating conglomerate would even put positive inter pretation on it Citing the theory of contrary opinion he says that if every body expects things to be bad maybet eyllim rove more genera feeling in the primary and processed metals industries however seems to be that labor strikes are the only hope of bringing excess in ventories down into reason able balance with weak de mand This view is usually qualified by the hope that the strike will be at the competitors oper ation not at ones own METAL MARKETS Here is an overview of some of the major primaryresource industries of Canada and the United States Zinc is in oversupply which will tend to stiffen em ployer resistance in the labor contract negotiations that will be under way throughout much of the industry during firsthalf 1977 The prospects of strike will become clearer next mon th after union leadership con OUNTRVTMONTIS ijb ALL DEE pire came when it did ac cording to the new emperor because he did not want to hold the title while Ethiopias Em peror llailc Selassie was still in power and alive Well the very longlasting Haile Selassie was overthrown few years ago llis feudal cm pirc was replaced by chaotic nonMarxist military regime Ilc also died full of years in his late 80s The fate of that African cin pcror legitimate monarch might add should impress Cm pcror Hokassa that African ems pires in the modern age are risky cxiwrimcnts indeed By comparison we should not write off the uneasy and res tless African continent with told you sos about dangerous and screwball leaders like Bo kassa and min Some of the Third Worlds most impressive and most ra tional leaders are African no tably Tanzanias President Julius Nycrcrc and Zambian tests are over and the position of union negotiators emerges oppcr demand is tending to firm up but only modestly lead is in slightly stronger position although no dramatic increase in demand can be expected Uranium has had strong price advance and there seems to be little prospect of further progress Nickcl tends to follow the general trend of the market in other metals Aluminum supplies are not excessive and demand is firm enough to be encouraging Gold has gone through se vere speculative shakeout and returned to an equilibrium price just over $130 an ounce that is generally thought to be consistent with its value in the jewelry trade and other in dustries The sixth ln ternational Monetary Fund gold auction Jan 26 will have strong influence on bullion price trends in the months ahead FOREST IRIU IS Outlook for the major seg IBLE TOU The Spirt itself beareth witness with our spirit that we are the children of God Romans ti 16 The Holy Spirit serves as con firmation of our regeneration The Spirit will tell you now how you stand with the Lord mgr N11 am President Kenneth Kaunda The two new leaders of the new republics of Angola and Mozambique are proving to be statesmanlike as they struggle to create new societies from the long restrictions of Portu uesc colonial rule and the blood aths of guerrilla wars Perhaps it is an over simplication to say as it has been observed before that much of Africas troubles re tales to the fact her political en tities reflect colonial boundary making and not to the realities of tribal geographic regions COLONIALHINIARIES Nearly all modern black Af rica states hold to the artificial boundaries carved out by the European colonial powers Most of them in this sense are artificial states requiring strong men with mainly an ar my behind them to hold the political unit intact At the same time this does not excuse the rise of ldi Amins ments of the forestproducts in dustry in Canada is clouded de spite the advantage the in dustry is enjoying through the decline in the foreignexchange value of the Canadian dollar ne overriding industry problems remains the high cost of all the elements of produc tion and processing in Canada relative to costs facing our US competitors Newsprint inventories at mills and in publishers hands appear to be excessive having been rebuilt after an early1976 strike Price softness has devel oped and demand seems likely to remain slack during the early months of 1977 Pulp processors have been losing ground in Europe and Ja pan to their Scandinavian com petitors Inventories remain high but so far there has been only limited pricecutting in bleached softwood kraf pulp Plywood sales have been depressed by the slowdown in Canadian housebuilding and by increased competition from imports of US plywood Fine paper is similarly af fected by import competition from the US where production costs in some cases are dramat icall lower Paperboard shipments and prices have been weakening Recovery hopes are pinned to the prospects of an upturn throughout the economy Lumber sales have been in creasing in response to the up surge in US housebuilding which is expected to extend into 1978 tfl1ARLIAMEllT HI Not your average provincial govt By STEWART MacLEOD Otawa Bureau Thomson News Service After he was sworn in as pre mier of Quebec Rene Levesque reassured his constituents that until referendum is held on in dependence his Parti Que becois government would oper ate as any other provincial government And after going through an election campaign in which Mr Levesque sort of dismissed sep aratism as question for the future this seemed like rea sonable approach But perhaps it was too much to expect After all the main reason for the PQs existence is for the separation of Quebec from the rest of Canada and certain factions within the par ty wouldnt enjoy seeing Mr Levesque spend the next four years operating as any other provincial government guess Mr Levesque might not enjoy it too much himself In any event the Parti Que becois government in its first two months has not been oper ating as your average provin cial government The new pre mier and his ministers have been too busy demanding con trol over communications the elimination of federal provincial agreements the removal of the RCMP from the province the establishment of Quebec merchant fleet and other assorted independence goodies FOREIGN CAPITAL One of his ministers even managed to refer to Ottawa as foreign power This came shortly after the PQ govern ment reneged on its campaign promise to abolish language testing for school entry No think its fair to observe that Quebecs new adminis tration is not your average pro vincial government To some extent you can sym athize with Mr Levesque who as these various factions to satisfy And its probably lot more fun talking about things like Quebec flags on merchant ships than dwelling on bleak economic outlook But there is no excuse for de liberately aggravating other governments and Quebec Fi nance Minister Jacques Pa rizeau managed to do this quite nicely by deciding the PQ gov ernment would no longer en force wage and price controls in the province The Liberal gov QUEENS PARK Rent ceiling six per cent By DON OHEARN Queens Park Bureau Thomson News Service TORONTO One of the key questions bothering the govern ment is just what to do about rent control It has decided that it cer tainly must continue it At least until AntiInflation Board controls are lifted And if there hasnt been an election by then at least until after an elec tion But deciding on the principle and the policies to be followed are two different things WHAT RATE For example at what level mould be the permissible rate level without an appeal be set This year it was eight per cent But this was the AIR ceil ing Next year the A18 ceiling tar get will be six per cent So should the provincial rental ceiling also be lowered to six per cent If so who would be hurtthat is who would potentially be mad enough to politically turn against the government This comes down to the fact of who are landlords these daysand this means essen tially people in the big cities But while we tend to think of these principally as large cor Reciprocal trade meant prosperity By BOB BOWMAN From 1855 to 1865 Canada and the other British North American colonies had recip rocal trade deal with the United States that brought prosperity The Americans refused to re new it after 1865 partly because they were annoyed at Canada for having sheltered escaped prisoners and saboteurs from the Southern states during the Civil War After Confederation many ef forts were made to try to get similar deal with the US but they were not successful Even Sir John Macdonald would have scrapped his national policy if he had been able to arrange rectprocal trade with the Sir Wilfrid Laurier became prime minister in 1896 and won election after election for 15 years He seemed to be unbea table Robert Borden leader of the Conservative party had hopeless task trying to defeat ernment of Robert Bourassa had signed an agreement with Ottawa to administer federal guidelines over provincial publ ic servants Quebec also enforced the anf tiinflation program for the con struction industry If any province decides to end some federalprovincial agree ment its normal to discuss it at an appropriate federalpro vincial conferencein this case the next meeting of finance ministers If the matter is too urgent to wait there would be no harm in the provincial min ister coming to Ottawa for chat about the problem But you dont normally go around breaking agreements without some pretty heavy con sultations N0 WARNING Mr Parizeau not only decided against any heavy con sultations he decided against even mere chat In fact he decided against mentioning it at all to Ottawa must say that cant un derstand this says federal Fi nance Minister Donald Macdo nald There were no in dications of their planning to abrogate their agreement Mr Parizeau can argue case for abolishing the provin cial antiinflation board since the previous Liberal govern ment had already exceeded the guidelines with threequarters of the workers under the boards jurisdiction Maintain ing controls he says would be unfair to the other onequarter of the workers But Mr Macdonald would probably have few things to say about unfairness One quarter of Quebec construction workers now may get more money but all privatesector em loyees in Quebec are still un er federal controls So the inequity is even greater than it was before There is difference though The Quebec government now can say that Ottawa is solely responsible for holding down wages And that as Mr Le vesque might say has nice ring to it What Mr Parizeau has done is to start the dismantling of price and wage controls in Can ada and regardless of litical objectives it would only common courtesy to mention it to Ottawa But perhaps certain factions in his party might con strue this as kowtowing porations actually there are good many small landlords in business Many enough to be an important political considera tion So the government would want to give them as much as possible But then what about the ten ants There are many more of them than there are landlords And also more and more of them are getting organized into political action groups So lord oh lord which way do we swing WHAT RETURN Another major problem with rents is how do you realistically set an equitable return to prop erty owners Presumably this should be fair rate based on the market value of the property But there is great big bitch in that the market value of property has grown so absurdly in recent years To give owners return based on this market value rather than return based on their actual investment ad justed to allow for some growth would seem to be not only inflationary but far beyond any need or equity to ten ants Which brings us to one of the problems of controls At heart they can be so really uncon trollable Laurier and wanted to resign There was another general election due in 1911 and to Lau riers delight President Taft of the US sent word secretly that he was prepared to negotiate trade deal with Canada The minister of finance Field ing met laft secretly and an agreement was made con firmed by an exchange of let tersonJan 211911 There is story that Fielding left information regarding the deal in text when he retumed to Ottawa When the news was released Bordens hope of de feating Laurier scented more remote than ever Then there was miracle from the point of view of the Conservatives laft and other American leaders predicted puhltcally that the trade deal would lead to Canada being taken over by the This was the ammunition needed by the Conservatives