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BUSINESS Pew HS JanCe Morton lame pone Don Near assuweman LSEWHE IN CANADA 720 053 776 6539 726 6537 72824 7266537 COMY Heather Cnnryi Aiken Fred Prince 54 00 year Its fall fair time We dont wish for moment to think that summer is over but signs of fall are in the air No surei sign than the Barrie Fall Fair The Barrie fair beginning Tuesday and running for six lays heralds the beginning of fall fans in Cities towns and hamlets throughout this area Something about the fairs makes them retain universal ap peal Started generations ago the fair was an opportunity for faimeis to show the fruits of their summers labor and get together with the neighbors Much has changed since those times and the Barrie fair celebrating its 126th year has grown greatly in size and sophistication of events Yet the falls go on retaining much of the flavor of those earlier times There are still the wonderful exhibits of pro duce home cooking and livestock displays And whileits motor vehicle world horses still reign supreme at the fair For many the best part of the fair is simply getting together with friends chance to take breather and enjoy the season The hardworking people who plan months ahead for the fall fair time help make it possible to preserve these grand old traditions Over the next weeks there will almost certainly be fall fair in your community Beginning with Itaiiies ever growing and more cosmopolitain fair smaller fairs Will be staged in Zlnivale oldwater ro Rama Severn Bridge Midland and so on The coming autumn season isnt complete without day at one of these fine fall fairs Take note By ALEX MANJURIS For long time the Barrie Downtown Im provement Board has been conspicuous by its absence from the downtown scene That is except when it was time to collect the annual assessment levied against the downtown mer chants Like ghost in our midst but it neednt be It could be and should be the voice of all the downtown merchants With few changes it could turn into another Incredible Hulk The Downtown Improvement Board has not been able to incite its membership to become active rather than passive The fact that the Downtown Board executive is appointed by city council does not sit well with many members They feel that there is an obliga tion there which interferes with the operation of the board so that communication and ideas flow from the board to council rather than from the board to its members So why not use the democratic process and elect the board executive Then the voice which was heard would be one expressing the ideas and needs of the membership Distinct geographical boundaries should be Your business By VINCENT EGAN Business and Consumer Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service Dont think that inflation is being wrestled to the ground simply because consumer prices rose at 81 per cent in the 12 months ended in July vs 89 per cent in the 12 months to June In the first place the very fact that some people think that an 81 per cent rate in dicates progress is proof in itself of the severity of the inflation problem Second the monthtomonth change is misleading The increase in consumer prices for July alone was 08 per cent or an an nualized rate of 96 per cent And all signs point to higher and higher rates of inflation in the future The most obvious reaSon starts with the fact that petroleum prices in Canada and the United States are only about half the world level which is constantly being raised by the oil cartel As our prices are moved up toward the world level the impact will be re flected in wide range of consumer prices at home And organized labor will demand as always wage increases to more than offset these reductions in our net national wealth WAGE DEMANDS Bell Canadas 15000 installers and repairmcn for example are on strike because the telephone monopoly whose selling prices are in part regulated by government agency is offering them in 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 unsigned let ters but it you wish pen name will be used include your telephone number and address as we have to verify letters Because of space limits public interest and good taste The Examiner sometimes has to edit condense or reject letters Lattors to the Editor are run every day on the editorial pogo Sand yours to letters to the Editor no Iranian Post Office In 370 Milli 0M Advisory body needed downtown set out as to the area from which the membership would be selected These boun daries should be publicized reviewed and ad justed accordingly The need for strong leadership has been evident but that will only come from an elected body who is responsible to those who put it into office not from one appointed by council There should be an advisory board made up of all different levels of the population youth adults disabled senior citizens business people outside the designated area professions You have to take into consideration it is these people who spend their money in the downtown area and keep the merchants in business Their input would be invaluable They know what they want and need in order to br ing them downtown and into your places of business Think about it Downtown Improvement Board which would break the shackles of ap intment and become an elected body free to come involved and think for itself Inflationprone economy weaker creases that will put their wages as of Sept 19m at level 289 per cent higher than they were year and eight months earlier The installers and repairmen arent ex pected of course to work any harder or to be any more productive to earn an increase In the United States auto workers at Chrysler Corp who like their counterparts at Bell Canada are already highly paid have refused even to consider suggestion that they continue to work at wages they had already accepted so as to improve the chances that Chrysler will survive and con tinue to provide them with em loyment Labor bargains are powe ully influenced by what has happened in the preceding months and years to the cost of living rather than what is happening currently to the demand for labor says Alfred Kahn who is US President Jimmy Carters special advisor on inflation Similarly businesses respond to increases in wages and in prices of other inputs almost regardless of what is happening to demand for their products by simply passing through their increased costs And so the problem continues to feed upon itself Kahns Canadian counterpart was Harold Renouf chairman of the AntiInflation Board which has been disbanded within recent days The final AIB statement summed up the problem clearly The Canadian economy is subject to pressures from prices set outside our borders such as oil coffee and many fresh fruits and vegetables If we choose to adjust our money incomes to cover these foreign price increases we build these increases into the cost of other goods produced inCanada We get caught on the inflation treadmill and wind up no farther ahead And AIB had one last counsel for the Clark government too To review such con tributors to inflation as subsidies to in efficient producers monopolies and income support plans that discourage work It would take an unusual degree of political courage to make changes in those areas despite the obvious urgency of doing so That kind of political courage was con spicuously lacking in the inflationprone Trudeau govemment which was content to watch the Canadian economy slide into its current slump The verdict isnt in yet on the new lnrk government although it at least appears ready to allow the natural process of attrition to trim some of the fat from the well paid federal bureaucracy The world oday By JOHN HARBRON Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service Andrew Young the former United States delegate to the United Nations and in that po sition member of the Carter cabinet was not the only US diplomatic official who has been talking substantively to rep resentatives of the Palestine Liberation Organization The American Ambassador in Austria has also admitted to some formal but unauthorized talks with PLO persons in Vienna In fact it would appear that many American diplomatic persons of stature around the world have done what cost An drew Young his job talking to the PLO President Carter himself has said some astounding things about the PLO by com paring that terrorist outfit recently to the civil rights movement in the United States And he is on record favoring Palestinian homeland which is the major goal of the PLO He has not stated categorically that it should be on the West Bank of the Jordan and in Gaza where the Palestinians want it It would appear that American foreign policy in the Middle East inspite of the EgyptianIsrael treaty which is supposed to cope with the Palestinian issue is now orientated to some new and maybe secret accommodation with the Arab world That accommodation reflecting the vulnerability of the United States where Middle Eastern Oil imports are concerned Interpreting the news Kim Pattenden ANDREW YOLNG called British chickrn has to do with the Arab worlds insistence about Palestinian national home SRAEL IS WORRIEI The Israelis have deep and probably justifiable suspicions about all this and see Andrew Youngs PLO contacts as part of subtle behindthesccnes shift in Washington Israel justifiably concerned over US overture to PLO Way411an Why then was Andrew Young let go by his close friend President Carter after he resigned on August 15th Part of the reason was that Mr Young on his own admission had lied about his PLO contact first saying to the media he met the PLO ambassador to the United Nations only informally then admitting to planned contact with him The major reason was probably that Young had clearly become liability to the Carter administration so soon after the President had already moved and shifted five other cabinet members Young was never diplomat in the classic or any other sense He spoke out and often wildly on very contentious world issues He called the British chicken over their relations with the former whitedominated and racist govemment of Ian Smith in Rhodesia He said the major Cuban military and economic presence throughout Africa represented stabilizing influence He called Irans dictatorial Ayatollah Khomeini saint Of his own country he once said it was filled with concentration camps not unlike the kind the British created in the days of their imperial rule around the world If all this was tolerable to the President it certainly was not to key leaders in Congress whom the President is trying to woo Senator Byrd the Democratic majority leader in the Senate made it clear hours before Young resigned because of his PLO contact that Young had to go CanadaUK in airport dispute LONDON CP The longfestering Gat wick Airport confrontation between Britain and Canada may be affected by an unex pected diplomatic development Britain wants Air Canada to move from Heathrow Airport where the airline was pioneer tenant down to the onerunway Gat wick about 40 kilometres south of London Air Canada backed by the Canadian government has refused despite pleas by British officials that the move which in volves other airlines is necessary to reduce congestion at Heathrow Now comes the embarrassing part Britain and China have signed agreements which will allow CAAC Chinas national airline to fly from Peking to London beginn ing next April And the Chinese also want no part of Gai wick OFFER REJECTED The department of trade suggestion that the Chinese should at least come and look at Gatwick has been politely turned down Under normal circumstances Britain would probably back down and declare the Chinese service special case pointing out that developing relationships with Peking is an important consideration Under the Labor government deposed this spring by the Conservatives all new services into London were pointed toward Gatwick In addition such old customers as Iberia TAP Portugal and Air Canada were asked to pack up and move south As much as Britain might want to make special case out of the new PekingLondon service diplomatic step of this kind would be guaranteed to bring howls of outrage from Air Canada and the others So far all the trade department will say is that the question of which airport CAAC uses still has to be decided in the light of the governments consideration of the Heathrow Gatwick move The entire policy department spokesman says is under review Such soothing diplomatic tones were not in evidence the last time the department discussed the Air Canada Situation One high department official who asked that his name not be used said it was no longer question of whether Air Canada made the move to Gatwick but when He predicted that the m0ve may be made next year The Chinese however may have bit more diplomatic clout in this situation Not only are British officials anxious to get the LondonPeking service off the ground but they also have negotiated deal whereby other flights may be routed over Chinese ter ritory Provided passengers stow cameras and binoculars in the luggage compartment the Chinese have agreed to open an air corridor for the British between Kunming near the Burmese border and Canton Flights to Hong Kong from Dubai Dacca Bombay Calcutta and Delhi will be able to take shortcut which should save 15 million gallons of fuel year The dilemma now facing the British is whether to jeopardize these new agreements by insisting on Gatwick for the Chinese Circvifllkww Alf only N40 on may to publish nova norm In this mpg unlitd lo the Anatqu Pm lwtorl or Agoan Franco Pm aid local new slum whitMi in its Ionic lamirwi Tho lorri hammer itoirm ropyrtqtui on all rmqmoi ntwt and advertising Muriel created by it employ and outwitbod in this hflfiIWW ppyuth registration mintyr rm wanti Mum not itmi tho publnhar lholl mi hoot tor donoon arising our oi ou in odVIIVIIOMOflN byumi the amount paid im ihl wac actually 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TWO POINTS While Davis spoke of Ontarios position as basis for discussion rather than final plan his policy program also said this First that recycled oil revenues from Alberta and Saskatchewan should not carry some specific future obligation to repay on behalf of the citizens of Canada In other words we take their irreplaceable oil and dont pay for it which when you think about it is pretty meanspirited approach Secondly it should be well understood by the federal government that it is charged with the responsibility and has the legitimate constitutional authority to avert an in tolerable economic and social danger In other words Ottawa should force Alberta and Saskatchewan to ante up the proceeds from their oil resources HERE FIRST There is precedent here one exception to the basic rule that the provinces own their re sources Ontarios uranium is in federal hands taken over for strategic reasons in the Second World War and never returned Can anyone seriously doubt that oil hasnt achieved similar level of importance today Reports from the premiers conference indicate Alberta rejected the Davis position outright noting Alberta already subsidizes Ontario by not charging world price for oil Some premiers thought Davis was just working up an election ploy which may be true but doesnt mean his view isnt sincere One wishes that Davis would accept that we are going to the world price perhaps by 1982 in stages and that Alberta and Saskatchewan deserve to be paid the going rate for their oneshot wealth But other than that hes entirely correct GREAT STRAIN The fiscal resources flowing west are enormous likely $1 billion next year which as Ontario Treasurer Frank Miller once said is probably bigger danger to Confederation than Quebec separatism This puts incredible financial strain on the country in general and Ontario in particular What makes it worse is that Alberta isnt usmg the money in productive manner As Davis says to relieve the strain on the eastern economics portion of it should be recycled to the consumer with of course some assurances of longterm benefits for Alberta What we in essence need is redifinition of equalization the system whereby Ontarios wealth has long flowed to aid the poorer parts of Canada Now Ontario has slipped into havenot position and turnabout is fair Tycoon tramp dead at 66 YORK England CP once wealthy businessman 66yearold Roy Rohan died alone and almost forgotten in centuriesold tunnel beneath the cobbled streets of this ancient cathedral city It was far cry from the spacious home in South London where he lived as prosperous financier operating successful insurance agency In 1971 his business collapsed broken by transaction that lost him thousands of pounds in commission Bitter and disillusioned Rohan sold his house and belongings packed small suit case and set out to tramp the country lanes of England Soon after he arrived in York city Rohan moved into the entrance to an ancient tunnel hidden behind screen of bushes in the museum gardens Even there his lifestyle was genteel His three suits were hung on hangers hooked to nails in the wall His spare shirts and un derwear were carefully wrapped in polythene and stacked behind his bed SET ROUTINE He rose at 8am washed and shaved in public toilet nearby and 30 minutes later walked around the corner to small hotel where the staff served him breakfast By 9am he was walking the city streets but most mornings he spent at least an hour in the public library He usually returned to the tunnel around 3pm two hours before the gardens were locked says John Dickinson custodian for the area He was always gentleman polite and courteous Social workers and charity people tried to move him into home but he was happier living outdoors always looked into the tunnel to say good morning and see if he was all right He never complained but one morning found him dead He looked very calm and peaceful Police say Rohan drew social security benefits from the government and had us £7 and 50 pence in his pocket when he died In another suit was an empty wallet and cheque book last used in 1972 Nearby was dailv newspaper open at the financial page