NEWSROOM Dave Henshaw managing editor Sgan Finlay city editor Randy McDonald sports editor Bill Curran county editor Bill McFarlane wire editor Roseanne McCabe Iiiestyle Roll Kraiker photographer REPORTERS John Bruce Paul Deiean Richard Dunstan Pat Guergis Scott Haskins Sheila McGovern Sue Routlitle ADVERTISING Len Sevickmanager SALESMEN Dan Gaynor Lyall Johnson Barb Boulton Published daily except Sunday and statutory holidays Subscriptions WE EKLY by carrier 90 cents The Examiner is member of The Canadian Press CP and Audit Bureau of Circula tions ABC Only The Canadian Press may repubiish news stories in this newspaper credited to CF The Associated Press Reuters or Agence France Presse and local news stories published in The Examiner The Barrie Examiner claims copyright on all original news and advertising material created by its employees and published in this newspaper Copyright registration number 203815 regiSter 61 National advertising ottices 65 Queen St Toronto 8641710 640 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remxxxamtwwcéirï¬ AsWV vvlt relatively little mention Viewers reaction about pay tolls for more films also has yet to be heard Media council and ombudsman to be financed by tax payers through Parliament and answerable only to it was one suggestion The recommendation that this coun cil set up code of ethics emphazing fairness accuracy relevance and completeness might make some wonder about media freedom and access to news sources Many adult viewers might wonder if government appointed commission should interfere with what they are watching In giving emphasis to the much greater potential of television for educational purposes the commission made recommendations worthy of attention Although the report rejects outright censorship it favors strong controls over all broadcast and print media along with drastic overhaul of the television industry The nearly 500page report gets into vast range of problems many with farreaching implications which merit careful and studied consideration But regardless of good intentions there is great need for extreme care with any measures which might be used to interfere with the domocratic process and peoples right of choices The final power has to be the Canadian taxpayers and viewing public and what they want down memory lane 40 YEARS AGO IN BARRIE From the Examiner June 18 1937 Following complaints about spreading weeds Simcoe County council ordered survey to deter mine equipment needs for weed fighting program Henry Thornton district inspector for four counties was consulted along with Lashley provincial agri cultural respresentative native of Painswick Professor Oscar Hurst was appointed dean of the College of Pharmacy Toronto succeeding Dr Heebner who retired after 45 years in this position Reeve 0f Medonte George Barr Former Midland baseball pitcher Lavoie to discourage his defection particularly since party and believe in your vision of Canada Canada presented report to Simcoe Coumy Les Gerard was among the leading LaVOIev he myearomi doormdmr cam he had already lost Albertan Jack Homer to and in what you are proposing for defending COUHCil 0n the progress made in its hurlers in the Fort WilliamPort Ar paign3r Who Stunned the 90115185 by defeat the Liberals So he met several times with the the rights of minorities story reforestation and development mg Liberal Pierre Juneau In the Montreal unhappy Hochelaga MP and like his TRUDLAL KEEN program He said trees were planted in most of the rural school grounds in the county Plans for various developments to increase power supply and service in the Georgian Bay system were outlined to the Barrie commission The overall cost was estimated at $1500000 Protests followed move by Tiny Township council to reduce welfare allowances It was explained 10 per cent increase recently allowed was given on the understanding the government was going to increase its subsidy share but this had not been done Mrs Taylor of Maple Valley Womens Institute was elected president of West Simcoe district at meeting in Creemore with Mrs Fraser of Glencairn secretary treasurer proposal to Orillia town council to restrict parking on Market street and all highway streets in town was criticized by Ald Louis Stone who said it would seriously affect downtown business Estimated cost of new lighting system suggested for Orillias main street was placed at $22427 thur league in Northern Ontario ADVERTISEMENTS The Roxy theatre presented films entitled Personal Property starring Jean Harlow and Robert Taylor and Will Rogers in Dr Bull Another Hopalong Cassidy thriller Hills of Old Wyoming featuring William Boyd was the leading attraction at the Capitol The Imperial presented Buck Jones western Smoke Tree Range and also Rochelle Hudson in The Savage Girl Quebec economy Parliament hill By STEWART MaclEl Ottawa Bureau Thomson News Service Conservative Leader Joc Clark can be faulted on many fronts but dont think he should be asked to shoulder much blame for the defection to the Liberals of Jacques riding of Hochclaga has been an unhappy Tory for the last year Even if Clark had ad vocatcd moving the national capital to lloch elaga it is doubtful whether Lavoie would remain in the party The tiny Qucbcc wing of thc Conservatives now down to three MPs has been an unhappv offshoot since the partys leadership conven tion in February 1970 when Clark defeated Claude Wagner Friendships have been broken new allegiances formcd and there has been frequent bickering between Clark and Wagner Matters didnt improvc when the Tories were wiped out in five rcccnt Quebec byclcclions resulting in post campaign contest to sec who could pass the blame the fastest At that time Lavoie issued warning that unless the internal fighting was halted he would consider leaving the party But it should be noted that several months earlier Lung fire 10 Queen he also said he would consider joining the Lib crals unless Clark developed more effective economic policies N0 HEAVYWEIGIIT Even though Lavoie has not been con sidered one of the Conservative heavy weights Clark was understandably anxious frequent meetings with Wagner they always ended with both parties expressing loyalty and devotion But now that the break has been made both men are somewhat more forthright My experience has unfortunately been negative with the Conservative party says Lavoie constantly faced lack of interest and understanding of the problems of my region And as for Clark he says Lavoie didnt know what side he was on for months Hes been like chicken up in the air for long time flapping his wings Hes now decided on what side of the wire fence he will land Although the Conservative leader tried to take light view of Lavoies defection be ad mits he can scarcely afford to lose Quebec MPs This is the partys traditional weak spot and whilc Lavoie may not have made giantsized contribution to the Tory caucus Conservatives Quebec wing dwindles to three members he was clearly force to be reckened with when it came to campaigning Not many other Quebec Conservatives have defeated Liberal cabinet ministers In letter to Prime Minister Trudeau Lavoie said that associate myself without hesitation to the objectives of the Liberal Trudeau was so eager to get Lavoiac tually several Liberals had approached the Tory MP months ago inviting him across the floorthat he sent him welcoming telegram from England But the addition may not turn out to be bonus for the Quebec Liberals They had high hopes C11 winning back the Hochclaga seat in the next election and its iust possible thev would have better chance With dyedin thewool Grit than recent turncoat And as sitting MP Lavoie wont have the time to knock on doors as he did to defeat Juneau in that hyelection last year On the other hand with Lavoies departure the Hochelaga Tories are not exactly an organizational powerhouse If Clark had not involved himself in the Quebec organization and supported Roch LaSaile as provincial party head instead of Claude Wagner Lavoie might have remained within the party bit longer But that was seven months ago and in the meantime the heard that the people wanted minority government It is quite fantastic how widely this opinion is held You hear it almost as gospel from the politicians and the press On the surface of course such an assump tion is ridiculous It conceives some extraordinary osmosis whereby voters when marking their ballots say to themselves they will vote for minority government Such thing of course just doesnt hap pen consider thejr right of choice paIEgctors vote for either candidate or There IS little doubt there Will be geeneral agreement And taken as mass and in terms of in favor of some recommendations such as keeping un minority their vote at best shows that they suitable programs off the air during hours when children don like any one Party enough to 31V6 It majority However this assumed osmosis is one of the old if false traditions of politics When government for example has faced an election and has been returned it has been the practice for it to construe its mandate as an endorsement of everything it stands for And lot of the time this also is nonsense Mostly voters put in party because they feel it is best equipped to govern Not because they agree with everything it stands for TWO SIDES However this aside we now again have minority government Is this good or bad In many ways it is good Perhaps most important it means much more alive and vital legislature Both the government and the big bureaucracy behind it have to be on their toes and be much more careful about what they do and dont do Then the feelings of all sides of the house which means all sides of the community tend to be recognized in legislation and government and it must live or fall on how it administers this responsibility And in All good But then again there is the fact that basic principle of our political system has been that the responsibility to govern is given to government and it mist live or fall on how it administers this responsibility And in minority situation government is not given the power to really execute the responsibility Another shortcoming is that minority house with all sides particularly sensitive politically is wide open to pressure groupsnot welcome situation today when dogooders are becoming more and more prevalent in our society So one doesnt know what to really say about minority Perhaps spell of it is good But as long term state it would not be ideal Foes formed coahï¬on By BOB BOWMAN There have been number of bitter political rivals in Canadian history but none more so than John Macdonald and George Brown Yet they managed to join together on June 17 1864 and form coalition that led to Confederation in 1867 Ironically Brown was chairman of special committee of the legislature of Canada that had been studying the possibility of Confederation but Macdonald had voted against it He felt that federal union would Conservative leader has made every effort to not be Strong enough and that legiSlauVe our keep the Hochelaga MP in the 0d union was necessary That would give the As party leader Clark will be forced to central government practically all the power business The world as in Britain By VINCENT EGAN Business and Consumer Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service The latest increase in unemployment in Quebec at time when the crossCanada jobless rate is diminishing is another small but worrisome indicator of that provinces economic trends The unemployment rate rose to 10 per cent of the Quebec labor force in May from 98 per cent in April For Canada as whole it declined to 79 per cent from 83 per cent the previous month The Parti Quebecois has been con centrating its efforts on encouragin the growth of laborintensive sectors the provincial economy Without those efforts the Quebec job outlook would probably be much darker More than onequarter of Quebecs total manufacturing production comes from the food textile and clothing industries all em laying relatively large numbers of workers Those industries showed good growth last ear but have been somewhat weaker so far 1977 although that may change as result of recently introduced PQ tax incen ves t1In the field of primary resources minin lactivity is slow because of internationa softer in spots market conditions while the demand for Quebecs forest products is fairly strong because of the high level of activity in the United States housebuilding industry HOUSING MARKET In Quebecs own housing market 1976 was banner year with an unprecedented 68700 starts but the 1977 total could well be 10000 lowerpartly because last years high level of starts has temporarily saturated the market and partly because of the over supply of older houses on the Montreal market That metropolis is suffering serious and continuing loss of successful business people man of them movin their families to Toron to weekly letin of one English speaking Montreal church last week an nounced coffee party in honor of departing members of the congregation listing the names of more than dozen familiesr nearly all bound for the Ontario capital While some find that they cannot face the future in Canadas only othIally umlinguiil province large number of Englishspeaking Quebecers are staying put in the only home they and their forebears several generations back have known Nevertheless separatist leaders are mak ing political capital out of the departure of the Englishspeaking business people today By JOHN IIARBRUN Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service The human rights issue which was such an important part of the Helsinki sccurily con fcrcnce in 1975 is the major one at the present security conference in Belgrade And at the top of the list of European nations who have flagrantly denicd these to their people is as always the Sovict Union the worlds largcst and most unbcnding lic tatorship The Helsinki security conference was largely the child of the Soviet Union leader ship Many Western counlrics viewed any kind of detentc with Kremlin leader as more of their familiar windowdrcssing which used to be called disarmament talks and the peace movement The Russians and their Eastern European satellites promised to ease off on dissidents permit more freedom across borders and generally try nd behave in spite of their ope pressivc and cruel regimes little like Western European democracies Well forget it The USSR has received more bad press about the way it treats dis stdcnls by imprisoning thcm sending ihcm off in forced labor in Siberia declaring them Belgrade issue insane and locking them up in psychiatric centres One wonders if the words human rights can be translated into Russian and whether the regime will ever give damn about the humanity it mistulcs Lcts catalogue some of the latest develop ments with the dissidents The Soviet Union of course first The Helsinki Watch Group formed in Moscow with great peril to its academic press and professional membership is just about decimated through arrests and im prisonments Yuri Orlov chairman of the group is in prison somewhere So is Alexsandr Ginsberg ne of the group was permitted to emigrate and tells the story on those who did not Andrci Sakhurov remains the leading and so for an unmolestcd Soviet dissident un doubtedly because of his immenso prestige as Soviet scientist and one of the creators of the Soviet nuclear weapon In Poland leaders of the Workers Defence Committee committed to the use of freedoms explicitly outlined in the Polish Communist constitution as they ale in the new Russian one have al50 been detained or cannot publish bear some blame but in this particular case dont think he deserves it MR TRUDEAU pleased However the same day Macdonald voted against Confederation his government was defeated in the legislature In two years there had been three governments and two general elections Now it seemed another election would be necessary The Canada of those days was falling apart owing to lack of political stability It was on June 17 that George Brown leader of the Reform party made his move He invited Macdonald and Gall to meet with him and they went to his hotel at 11 am Their discussion lasted until pm when they had to go to the legislature In that time they had managed to reach an agreement that Brown would form coalition govern ment with Macdonald provided that Mac donald supported Confederation bible thought My little children these things write un to you that ye sin not And if any man sin we have an advocate with the Father Jesus Christ the righteous John Dont give up go to Jesus He is at the right hand of the Father interceeding for us The blood of Jesus Christ Gods Son cleanseth us from all sin Whether we are coming to Him to be saved or to say that we are sorry for our sings even after remember He loves you and He cares