13hr 715mm Examinrr Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited 16 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario SEVICK Advertising Manager ELIO AGOSTlNl Publisher andGeneral Manager HENSHAW Managing Editor The Barrie Examiner Tuesday March 15 I977 Saccharin gets the axe from our Big Brother Is nothing sacred If it tastes good or feels good or is pleasing to the eye so there wants it banned The latest example of the this is not good for you thing is the popular sugar substitute Canadian federal health officials have issued ban on the stuff as the result of threeyear stu rats The US followed suit mediately Government is doing good job at studying things that might harm us and likes to call big ferences to announce the findings Last week we were told meone out It must be stressed that the sac charin dose used in this study ex ceeded average human exposure by saccharin dy done on almost im at least 800 times No cases of human cancer at tributable to saccharin have been identified Action to restrict the use of sac charin by the general public is being taken as precautionary measure in the interest of prudence Well well all this after study in which rats were fed the stuff at news COD levels of 800 times average human exposure Ever get the feeling Big Brother is watching over you DOWN MEMORY LANE 15 YEARS AGO IN TOWN The Barrie Examiner 1962 Army wins The Barrie Ex aminer Trophy emblematic of the curling championship BordenNoeI Stephenson chair man of the Barrie Public School Board presents past Jack Gable with morating Barrie Flowers plaque comme Mr Gables term in of ficeArthur Harris proprietor of is elected vice president of the United Florists of Canada at the associations annual meeting in Toronto Simcoe Coun March 15 of Camp County chairman Junior chener YOUR BUSINESS March 31 budget Time for decision By INENT EGAN Business and onsumer Iffairsnalyst Ihom son News Service Its been long time20 years ThlllSlIIC9 Canada has had takecharge finance minister one who tried to do more than simply survive from one crisis to another Some have managed to ap pear competent thanks to the coincidence of prosperous economy When times arent propitious however finance ministers and their advisors have the greatest difficulty in coming up with plan to control government spending to maintain growth economy and to foster price sta bilitysimultaneduslyx An impossible combination It seems to have become so in our era If the government or parlialt ment as whole has ever had any urge to restrain the growth of public spending and to keep it in some kind of balance with sensible tax load that urge seems to have been crushed un der the weight of bureaucratic inertia As for economic policy not even the legions of highly paid Eh Barrie 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 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beyond the amount paid for such advertise Elli Co yright Registration Number 203815 register 61 government economists have been able to put forward means by which inflation could be restrained and reat economic growth encouraged at the sametimc INFLATION BLDGEI March 11 has been chosen as the date for this years federal budgetAthe major economic and financial blueprint of the year Most guesses among econo mists outside the government are that it will be stimulative or expansionary Some are forecasting reduc tions in personal income taxes while others predict that busi nesses will be offered direct in centives to invest more capital in new plants and equipment The rationale is that such an approach will lift the economy out of its slump Latest figures show that in the last three months of 1976 real Gross Na tional Product declined slightlyan annual rate of 06 per centwhen inflations ef fects are discounted Assuming the forecasts are correct what are the effects of such stimulative moves likely to be They wont necessarily stimulate those businesses that are faced with construction costs and borrowing charges that are at least onefifth higher here than in the United States Personalincometax cuts are politically popular but we al ready have builtin tax reduc tions in the form of indexed BOOK Qle EB ty Health Unit director Dr Scott issues warning concerning the contamination of septic tanks and wells in the county Simcoe clerk Fred Hunter said to day he feels Simcoe County stands good chance of landing ternational Plowing Junior Farmer curling rinks are representing South Simcoe at the Farmers GuelphBarrie Bantams spot Kit chener two goals then fight back to gain 44 tie in the first game of their OMHA playoff series at Kit the 1967 In Match Two bonspiel in personal exemptions that rise each year in proportion to the inflation rate One thing seems sure The March 11 budget wont help to restrain inflation Trudeau Macdonald and company ap pear determined to abandon an tiinflation soon without giving it the three years that they had said it would need ASII NEEDS The budget also is the plan for the coming years revenues and expenditures Estimates of the govern ments cash requirements for the next fiscal year are already very large in the neighborhood of $5 billion even without any tax reductions or special ex penditure increases says Iestrain vicepresident and economic advisor Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce Another economist Keane of Midland Doherty Ltd estimates the federal govern ments cash requirements at between $55 and $6 billion in the fiscal year beginning March an increase of about 10 per cent over 197077 The government will have to turn to foreign capital markets to borrow substantial part of the cash it will need The current decline in the value of the anadian dollar to less than 95 cents US means that borrowing will be more ex pensive It also speaks volumes about the international assessment of Canadas economic manage ment and policies Age of guerrilla is about to end By JOHN IIAY LONDON tCP Arab ter rorists and urban freedom fighters still make headlines but the great age of the guer rilla is about to end That is the provocative con clusion to Guerrilla written by British historian Walter La queur and published in London by Weidenfeld and Nicolson In 409page study ranging from the 15th century BC to the terrorism of the Palestinians and the Northern Irish Laqueur has tried to sift myths from facts reality from glamor in the long history of irregular warfare He finds that more than most kinds of war guerrilla war defies generalizations or sweeping theories Each case seems unique and significantly different from others in both causes and effects But he also concludes that guerrilla strategy is not nearly so successful as its proponents wish or its opponents fear 0N DECLINE Guerrilla war may not en tirely disappear but seen in historical perspective it is on the decline together with its traditional foes colonialism on the one hand and liberal dc mocracy on the other the au thor says This is not to say that the conditions that once favored its rise may not recurrv following major war or natural catast rophe or the weakening of the authority of the state for some other reasons But at present the age of the guerrilla is drawing to close The retreat into urban ter ror noisy but politically in effective is not new depar ture but on the contrary the endofanera His exhaustive survey sug gests that 19thcentury guer rillas won their objectives only when supported by regular ar mies domestic or foreign Second World War guerrilla movements in Europe had lim ited successes against overex tended enemy units and consol idated their power in the post war political vacuum powerful impetus was given to guerrilla war after 1945 with the disintegration of c010 nial empires The colonial pow ers no longer had the will to fight and even if guerrilla operations were militarily uite ineffective to combat em became so costly that the imperial power withdrew its forces PARLIAMENT HILL With 25 years in Parliament they cant guess election time By STE III laclIIOI Ottawa Bureau Thomson News Sen ice The chances of spring election have certainly 111 creased says Allan McKiniion tIr Victoriai am inclined to think there wont be an election this spring says Marcel Lambert If Edmonton West Iogetlicr these two men have been in Parliament for total of 23 years both View the election possibilities from the vantage point of thesamc party and still they fundamentally disagree You have to put yourself in lPriinc Minister lrudcaus po sition says Mr McKinnon With the polls going the way they arc he would want to pick the best time to seek mandate to take on Itenc Levesque He wants to be seen as the best man to save anada There are lot of reasons why he would want to go to the people in say liine still think it will be next year says Mr Lambert Much will depend on when Quebec holds that referendum but ldont think Irudcau wants an early election Now lets see what the prime minister has said himself can see arguments on both sides he remarkul recently do not think Would be in clined to choose late right THE WORLD TODAY Amin not only modern monster IDI AMlN fanaticism By JOHN IIAIIBIION Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service Ugandas brutal President Idi Amin is an affront to humanity cruel as have been no other contemporary African leaders most certainly mad and probably suffering from social disease Yet monster of this kind does giVe us the chance to as scss otir attitudes and the value systems with which we view Afr rim and the poor world which surrounds us The first is to disabuse our selves that only African states closer to the stone age than we think can produce leaders like Aniin If we huff and puff about the btiffoonery of an Amin we should remember that Eu ropean civilizations of our time has produced monsters who have outproportioned the crazy Ugandan leader INTERPRETIN THE NEWS Belgiums political woes somewhat similar to ours By JOHN IIAY LONDON tCPi Lingering disputes over language rights the constitution and govern mentunion relationsall familiar to Canadianshave thrown the Belgians into an early election campaign With his coalition govern ment splitting at the seams Prime Minister Leo lindemans announced parliamentary dissolution and called an elec tion for April 17 rather than struggle toward the end of full term next spring Iindcmans helped bring on the collapse by dismissing two cabinet ministers of the Ras scmblement Walton because they openly sided with the un ions in their protest against government tax and employ ment policies That led the 10 Basscmblc ment Walton Mls to desert the government and left the cabinet with only minority sup port in parliament As in Canada Belgium has for generations been vexed by conflicts between language groupswthe Dutchspeaking Flemish majority of the north and the Frenchspeaking Wall oons of the south When the Rassemblcmcnt Walton was evicted from the Social ChristianLiberal coalition the cabinet was seen by Walloons as Flemish dominated regime operating against the interests of the unions which have been sta ing series of oneday stri es This impression has been fos tered by the opposition Social ists who have supported the un ions and refused Tindemans in vitation to join the coalition in order to arrange for con stitutional changes The changes are widely re garded as essential to complete regional and language policies enacted in the early 19708 Still unsettled is whether Belv giumshould be divided into two lindguistic regionszallonia an Itlanderswas urged by the Flemings PRlNT tie 8006EI MONEY FIRST THEN srAizi ON me now and say will hold the elec tion then regardless of the date of the referendum So if two veteran Con servatives cant agree and if Mr Trudeau himself doesnt seem to know whats the point of an outsider trying to guess when we go to the polls IIBIIIIISIBHI Incidentally all this arises because of the latest Gallup Poll which shows that the Lil erals for the first time in year have again surged ahead of the Conservatives The Feb ruary survey showed that from one month earlier the Liberals gained six points while the onservatives lost eight and Hitler and Stalin with their concentmtion and death cam ps the retinue of 50 million dead from the war which the first started and the second per petuated remain the worst legacy of the allegedly civilizing European continent The second is to recall that Amin in power was partly the result of cynical power politics both by the great powers and Ugandas stilldocile neighbors WHY AMlN AME lhc urbane and leftward leaning Milton bote who was overthrown by Amin in 1971 was viewed with suspicion by European powers and Britain at the likelihood he would move Uganda to the left botes highlyrespected neighboring heads of state Dr Julius Nyerere and Kenneth Kaunda the Zambian president were not prepared then or now to attempt Amins overthrow Their decision comes under the heading of noninvolvement in the internal affairs of fel low African state But since Amins military forces have been beefed up with new squadrons of Soviet MiG jets after the Israeli destruc tion of earlier ones at Entebbe Tanzania in particular does not wish to antagonize the Ugandan leader Among the many ominous elements of Amins ruthless re ime is an understanding of his anaticism as Moslem His closest ally in Africa is Libyas President Col Quadafi who is the most fanatical Moss lem leader among the worlds many Islamic states and also borders on some kind of mental instability His wellarmed troo make up goodly portion Amins personal guard and shock troops Were they as well as the Ugandan president involved directly in the murder and present harrassment of that countrys Christian leaders Uganda has always been an historic ground for the Christian missionary The Anglican church had ordained several bishops within the coun trys political structure Black African Christians are held in respect and with deep devotion by comfortable Chris tians qt the West ELECTION SlGNS now 41 per cent of the popu lation favors Trudeaus party while Joe Clarks party has only the support of 37 per cent Last August you might re member the Tories led the Grits by percentage score of 47 to 29 Thats when the panic buttons began ringing at Lib eral headquarters Now the same noises are coming from Tory headquar ters although no one cares to admit it Politicians and their backroom strategists never ac knowledge consternation about an apparent drop in popularity year ago Senator Keith Davey commanderinchief of the Liberal campaign was ex plaining that the drop in Liberal popularity was totally predictable since the Con servatives had new leader in Joe Clark and he had great deal of television exposure dur ing the leadershi convention He wasntworrie Now Mr Clark is saying he is not concerned with the latest poll And by recoining re coined phrase he said the only poll that counts is the one held on election day But think we can safety as sume that any party leader who sees his relative popularity slipping is bound to be bit conlt ccrned And any leader who sees his party suddenly surge ahead of the opposition is bound to let election thoughts cross his mind BACKBOOM IDEAS In talking with one of the so called backroom boys at Lib eral headquarters came away with the idea that perhaps we overrate all the various calculations that go in to the selection of an election date by the prime minister You guys write about redist ribution byelections and all the other factors involved in cluding whether or not the prime minister likes cam paigning and where we happen to stand on the popularity polls and then you pick date Its not like that though Polls are big factor but only because they develop an elec tion psychology within the par ty and this is the most imv rtant force at work Once this begins and there are scattered signs of it right now the prime minister may be forced into decision whether he agrees or not If you have 264 candidates saying they can win in June but probably not in 1978 and if the whole party machinery is psyched up for an election Mr Trudeau may not have much choice but to call it Remember not all the gen crals favored the Dieppe Raid but the knew when troops de mand action This mans predictions spring election still unlikely but prospects increasing And am not going to argue with that BIBLE THOUGHT Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for your food and multiply your seed sown and Increase the fruits of your righteousness orlnthlans 910 The Lord not only gives us Idart with seed to plant but guarantees us sure crop On with the planting plenty will follow Land holdings the latest By DON OIIEARN Queens Park Bureau Thomson News Service TORONTO Well the latest hubbub is over the govern ments silomillion land holdings in HaldimandNorfolk And frankly cant get too ex cited about it dont know about the pur chasing methods used and the disparity in price from $700 to $3000 an acre Government purchasing ap proaches have been suspect for years However the ombudsman is going to look into these My point is the principle in volved ADVANCE PREPARATION The government assembled this land for two planned towns ites The HaldimandNorfolk area is going to undergo tremendous industrial expansion There will be an influx of thousands of workers And the government when John White was treasurer de cided to prepare in advance for the housing of these people It knew the housing wouldnt be needed for some time But it decided to get into the market before the speculators got there first and to buy up the land while the price was still reasonable AN DAS STORY Indian allies made some raids By BOB BOWMAN It is interesting to wonder what North America would be like today if the French in Can ada and the English to the south had cooperated instead of raiding each other Sometimes both sides encour aged their Indian allies to do the raiding An Abenaki attack on Haver hill Mass March15 1697 had an amazing sequel Mrs Dunstan was at home with onedayold baby when the Indians raced in killed the baby and took Mrs Dunstan as prisoner even though she could hardly walk Nevertheless she Mrs Neff and young boy were made to accompany the Indians on their trek north Althou Mrs Dunstan was very wea she struggled along for 250 miles Mrs Neff also was ex IOW And so it conducted its huge land assembly TIIE ARG LMENTS Now there is criticism that the government is holding land for which it is paying large carrying cost and further criti cism that it shouldnt have been planning townsites at all On the first charge it can be said that the government got bargain land If it hadnt gone ahead with its quiet assembly it probably would have ended up paying two or three times as much Even with the carrying cost it probably ended up with bar gain Those who argue about the townsitesincluding lot of lo cal peoplesay that rather than setting up new towns the government should have ex panded existing communities Against this there are obvious advantages to new townone of them being that it could be properly and modernly plan ned And then there is the question that if the decision had been made for expansion of present communities the cost of the necessary housing almost un questionably would have been much more Even the land alone being near existing com munities would have cost more All in all to me Whites deal was good one hausted and the Indians did not bother guarding them at night They fell asleep around their campfire while the two women and the boy were made to keep away from the fire and huddle with each other to try to keep warm Mrs Dunstan Mrs Neff and the boy soon made plan When the Indians were aslee they crept to them grab their hatchets and killed all but young boy Then Mrs Dunstan scalped the dead Indians and the three of them set out for Haverhill with 10 scalps dangling from their hands They ot back safely and were pai £50 for the scalps So Mrs Dunstan had revenge for her baby who had been killed Fortunately her husband and seven other children had been able to race to safety when the Indians at tacked Berrys World ©1977byNtAlnc qzh cant understand him any more He will only talk to me in CB jargon