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Ac fim =vuum as Tuesday Aprll 24 1979 NEWSROOM 7266537 CIRCULATION 7266539 the am ne servingfbarrie and simcoe county Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited 16 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario L4M 4T6 Bruce Rowland publisher ADVERTISING 7266537 CLASSIFIEDS 7282414 Respect good fishing habits The final weekend of April heralds the beginning of the trout fishing season Simcoe Countys many trout rivers aiid streams will attract thousands of fishermen anxious to return to their favorite pasttime They will find some of the best fishing in Ontario right here in Simcoe If you know the spots the oldwater and Sturgeon rivers are as productive as the more famous and much more frequented Pretty River area The Nottawasaga River and its tributaries rounds out the Itig Foul trout rivers in this part of the province Good fishermen know more to fishing than catching the limit The good fisherman is also conscientious fisherman As such he avoids the four major Violations otlsing illegal fishing methods such as snagging or fishing in restricted areas oFishing over the limit five rainbows per person are usual but check your fishing guide oFailure to get permission from private propraty owners oNot cleaning up after the fishing is done Most fishermen take care to abide by the rules For those who dont ministry of natural resources personnel will be out in full force this weekend This weekend and throughout the summer do what you can to ensure good fishing habits are maintained eart simcoe yesteryear My how the times have changed since this unknown Barrie ladies hockey team posed for this studio photograph letters to the editor Dear Sir Mr Gord Mills recent attack on Mr Eldon Grcers character is ploy for political gain in my opi nion Mr Greer is one of Itarries outstanding citizens and has provrn himself on many occasions to this community as whole To be liken ed to dictator acting like Hitler is reprehensible Rogers iarrie Furniture Ltd Managing Director IearSir tip to this point the accident at the ThreeMile Island Nuclear write your mp 199 If you would like to write your Member of Parliament or Member of Provincial Parlia ment printed below are their mailing ad dresses If you send us copy of your letter it might be suitable for our Letters to the Editor columns After all it there is matter of concern that makes you want to write to your MP or MPP it it is not personal matter 77 it should be of interest to your friends and neighbors too noun or amid MP North Simcoe Parliament Buildings Ottawa Ont Ion Mlno MP sPoelDuflerinSimcoe Parliament Buildings Ottawa Ont Shdui Stevens MP YorkSimcoe Parliament Buildings Ottawa Ont GUI Milan MPeeGroySimcoe Parliament Buildings Ottawa Ont PROVINCIAL some Taylor MPP Simcoe Centre Ontario Legislature Queens Park Toronto Gordon Smith MPP SimcoeEast Ontario Legislature Queens Park Toronto Georgi McCoy MPPDufforin Simcoe Queens Park Toronto Power Plant has been remarkably nondisastrous have calculated that about three people will eventually die as result of the accident This is the only accident in 22 years of nuclear power in North America in which members of the general public may have been kill ed For the same amount of energy production coal would have killed about 28000 people from pollution and accidents and disease among miners nine miners were killed in Eastern Tanada just few weeks agoi In the past year there have been several natural gas explosions in Spain and Mexico killing hundreds of people and an oiltanker explo sion in Ireland killing 50 men In 1903 hydroelectric dam acci dent iii Italy killed 2000 people and left 50000 people homeless Thus nuclear energy 10000 times safer than coal The very last thing we should con sider is the abandonment of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes Dr McNamee Associate Professor of Mathematics York University Toronto is bou we want your opinion Something on your mind Send Letter to the Editor Please make it an original copy and sign it The Examiner doesnt publish 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and Ian Mulgrew clty editor SALES Dell5 Mllls 59 Kwanr 35 l°ea statutory holidays BlllMcFarlanewlreeditor Bert Stevens GaltMcParland Don Saunders WEEKLY by carrier Dove Fullersports editor Wayne Hay Vikki Grant Lorne Wass Kims Claudia Krause theslyie editor Aden Smith Brenda Woods will Cadogan REPORTERS Steve Skinner Stan Wray YEARLY by carrier Stephen Nicholls Barb Boulton CIRCULATION Bill Raynor Dennis Lanthler Blll Halkesmana9er Ed Allenby BVMNLBIME Nancy Figueroa Steve White assistant manager Janie Hamel Lori Cohen CLASSIFIED Andy Haughlon Susan Kitchen St Montreal Richard Thomas Terry Fields Stephen Gauer entertalnment Gary Forbes Betty Armer camera operator Dave Burcslk photographer Freda Shinner Peggy Chapell Dana Homewood Janice Morton Your business It thIZNT lItt Business and onsumer Affairs naly llitinison News Scry ice lake it or not the fact is that the condition of the economy has profound impact on anadas economic health and righl now the t7 economy seems to bc NIlttllllllltl Odds against fatalities Ruth Blots supervisor lAlva LaPlante Ron Glider iso Worry Barbara Strigi ialne Porter PRESSROOM Cheryl Alken Harris Blanchard Brian Marr Married onlq few clqu and Don Near toreman Fred Prince asst foreman SIMCOE COUNTY $3900 MOTOR THROW OFF $4150a year ELSEWHERE IN CANADA SALOanear all Then ever do is folk Ghoul even more poorly than gloomy foruasteis lliltlitllllllitltl In the first three months of this year American real iross National Product ltiNl the aliic of all goods arid services produc ed grew at an annual rate of only per ctlll Thats sharp decline from the annual Harrisburg accident what happens now llAltltlSlllltti la lAl vl its worst moments the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant accident exposed people wat ching froiii across the Siisqiichanna Rncr to the equivalent of chest ray an hour Other times radiation leaking troin the plant near here was barely detectable The accident sent 50000 pcoplc fleeing froin their homes caused evacuation of pregnant women and small children within an eight kilometre radius arid raised problems for the nuclear industry llic Nuclear Regulatory toniinlssion tNltti says the radiation release was so small that the odds are against even single person dying of cancer during the next years as result of the accident But olecr scientists say that lhc number of cancer deaths may not reflect lllt total number of cancers The state department of environmental resources has calculatixl that person living about kilometres from the plant received an extra 43 milliicins of radiation in the seven days after the March lll accident little more than chest ray rciii is the standard measure of human absorbed radia tion AMtllNlS VARY For comparison the background radiation froiii natural sources III the Harrisburg area is about tttl millirems year And in llcnvcr where the 1700 metrc high altitude reduces some of the atmospheric protection fioiii cosmic rays natural background exposes residents to 200 millircms year Peoplecight kilometres away from the plan received an average of IS inillircms those kilometres away less than six millircins and at It kilometres away people were exposed to only one third of millircm Despite the relatively low level of the releases measured to date the Three Mile Island accident is likely to have profoliiid iniiact on radiation standards set by the federal government The Environmental Protection Agency has iisit ir wrbosrmr it THE sans KNOW IT WILL HELP ON YOUR Itipiisil lowering the public exposure limit from nuclear plants to 23 millirems year from 7700 niillircms year The arter administration is also reported considering lowering the NRt standards for occupational exposure Those standards now permit worker to get up to 35000 millirems quarter and up to an average of 5000 niillircins year over his working lilctiinc hour plant workers exceeded the 3000 liiillireiii liiiiil while fighting to control the reactor tut they exceeded the dose before March ill aiid when new quarter began on April they went back to work The lift millirenis which the slate calculates was the worst possible case of exposure off the plant site is well within Nuclear Regulatory omnnssion limits The NR per liiits plant to expose large number of peo ple to up to I70 nnllirems year It is true that in temis of total societal ef fect ll lthe accidents effectl is probably go ing to be small said Dr Edward Radford an environmental epidemiologist at the University of Pittsburgh But the question is how much of an effect to each individual said Radford chairman of National Academy of Sciences commit tcc that is revising Ifsz estimates of radiation risk Itew nuclear workers actually approach the limits Itut Radford has said the 5000 niillirein standard should be cut to 500 The earlier standards were set when many scient isls believed there was threshold level below which radiation did no damage liew scientists still belicvc that Yet despite growing concciisus that any amount of radiation does some damage it is unlikely that any adverse health effect from the Three Mile Island accident will ever be mcasurtxl The reason is that If is impossible to distinguish radialioncaused cancer from any otherkind Soeven if the accident caused four or five cancers in the next 20 years they would be imiossible to locate among the cancers whici would strike one in four of those living near the plant anyway WRITE OFF separoliori oeporlion But DONT tile YOU CAft CLAIM IRAN As TOTAL 739 ill Poor US economic performance has profound effect on Canada growth rate of ii per cent in the preceding three months that is tlctobcr to December of I978 The extent of the slowdown came as sur prise to most economists Not long before the oinmerce Department announced the January March GNP figure economists at New Yorkbased itibank were expecting real GNP growth tthat is discounted for iii flationi in the range of two to per cent an nualied fairly typical of economists ex pcctations leading anadian bank economist iranl Reubcr of the Bank of Montreal now thinks that the Canadian economy in 1970 may iiol achieve even the 23 per cent growth that he had predicted earlier PIIHII IIIKICS Among the reasons cited by Reubcr for the downward revision are falloff in retail sales arid further decline lll real income per worker anada and the alike are feeling tltc impact of the cutback in oil production in Iran which has been virtually in state of ane rchy for several months and in the conse qucnt increase in the world price of oil as set by the rganilation of Petroleum Exporting Countries UllIt the Arab dominated oil cartel This represents transfer of wealth from the oilconsuming countries to the member countries of the cartel The end result of this development taken by itself would be higher general level of prices in this country and lower level of wealth and hence of potential real GNP at each point in time comments the economics department of titibank New York The more immediate result would be temporarin higher rate of inflation The Titibank economists point out that recession may yet be slaved off for while at least if the Federal Reserve Board lthc central bankl takes another turn toward monetary ease The consensus is recession in 1980 though few experts say forget recession and start thinking boom says Gordon McKih ben senior editor of Inc Bostonbased business magazine Add the troubled energy outlook the spec tre of mandatory wage and price controls if inflation isnt slowed and throw in the tin pact of an approaching presidential election year The message adds up to one word uncertainty McKibben adds that most executives of small US businesses are getting the message that they might to prepare for troir ble get rid of corporate debt tighten budget controls improve cash management cut back operations quickly when big order is cancelled and so on Those are good business practices at any time whether the economy is tending upward or downward The Examiner claims copyright on all original news and adverbsno material created by its employees and published in this newspaper The advertiser agrees that the publisher shalt not be liable for damages aris ing out of errors in advertisements beyond the amount paid for the space ac tually occupied by that portion at the advertisement in which the error oc curred whether such error is due to the negligence of its servants or other Wise and there shall be no liability tor non inserton at any advertisement beyond the amount paid tor such advertisement The warld today GATT changes affect Canada By JOHN HARBRON Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service Canada too has had to make concessions under the new round of tariff cuts by GATT the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade Commencing Jan 1980 our industrial tariffs on most imports will be reduced in eight planned stages These will bring the average rate of Canadian industrial tariffs to nine per cent from the current overall level of 14 per cent The really difficult products textiles clothing and footwear which are now made competitively to any price we can match in Taiwan Japan South Korea Hong Kong Pakistan and Malaysia are not affected Indeed one of the classic crises facing the longsuffering Canadian delegation at GATT of the kind facing all industrial nations was the extent to which local politics would con trol our agreement to comply with GATT pro posals In the case of textiles much of this industry at both the primary and secondary levels is in Quebec When Jean Chretien became minister of industry trade and commerce in 1976 be guaranteed both tariff protection and some subsidylike aid to our textile in dustries Other Canadian industries which were not going to obtain this kind of relief in spite of GATT requirements saw it as pure politics to keep Quebec happy at time when separationthinking was in the air The British too have had the same kinds of difficulties with their noncompetitive textile and shipbuilding industries VOTES BEFORE GATT But many of the industrial regions where such goods are made have been traditionally strong Labor Party ridings with votes that have to be nurtured as the Quebec ones are here by the Liberal Party In nontariff barriers to international trade such as codes and export subsidies Canada has had to make concessions In fact before the current rouan of GATT talks began in earnest the tnited States had accused as often of violating our part on the agreement by subsidizing plant construction for new industries in havenot provinces liketheMaritimes ften such plants were built to mainly ser vice American export markets and to com pete with 28 domestic producers case in point was the Michelin car plant in Nova Scotia for whom grants were seen in an angry ongress as outandout government subsidization anadas place in the new GATT agreements on vital farm products is more complicated to explain in few sentences tiur cheddar cheese very much in demand in the domestic markets of the consumerrich European Economic Community nations is guaranteed fixed tariff set against the EEs many and different levies on agricultural product imports lther dairy products beef and veal which run up against high tariffs abroad as well as in the United States will find future prices negotiated via socalled forums and ad hoc needs for our farm goods Iliit overall safeguard codes against one nation dumping an industrial product or farm products on foreign market have not been settled in the GATT agreement signed few days ago in Geneva As mentioned in yesterdays column the period of time for negotiations has extended over five years frustrating and often inad dening period of time for all concerned In anadas case because we are not unitary nation like the other major industrial states but have provinces with their own ideas of tariff protection and internal sub Sldllilllnll tanadian national position was hard to achieve at Geneva Backgrounder May 22 election Quebecs last By FRANK IllKEY QUEBEC Pi This could be the last federal election for Quebec While thats not certainty its sure thing that the electoral coast is clear for Quebecs referendum on independence once the May 22 federal election is out of the way Several signs including creation of special nine member referendum unit in the premiers office seem to point to fall referendum If thats the case the earliest possible date would be Nov 12 under existing laws arid conditions Government plans to push legislation through this spring establishing permanent voters list could change that permanent list would eliminate the annual voter enumeration set for Oct 14 this year whose timing would affect the date of fall referendum We are few months away not very many froiii referendum that will affect the future of Quebec Premier Rene Leves que said in the national assertiny March 27 Reinforcing the sense of urgency is the fact that two Quebec writers were told to make it fast when they recently discussed with levesque how they could best contribute to the referendum effort lxvesque and others have said the choice is between the fall and next spring laude Morin intergovernmental affairs minister and one of five ministers including lAvcsque on the Premiers Referendum Committee tlRtl said last week that the fall is technically most probable inc sign that the cabinet wants its hands free for the fall came on Feb 23 when Leves que announced that all bills to be introduced in the assembly next fall must be approved by cabinet by June 15 Interestingly enough rumors that cir culated in the civil service more than year ago that Environment Minister Marcel Leger would become referendum minister recently resurfaced