it gl the examner serving barrie and slmcoe county Tuesday July 19 1977 Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited I6 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario L4M 4T6 Elio Agostini publisher CIRCULATION 7266539 NEWSROOM 7266537 ADVERTISING 7266537 CLASSIFIEDS 7282414 Local control best for planning Discussion about proposals to transfer main zoning and planning powers to area and local levels have been receiving wellmerited attention County councillors and municipal members have referred to the subject at different times and here are good many who believe its advice Queens Park should follow Provincial guidelines for zoning and planning are understandable but it seems like common sense for representatives of people living in the area who are close to the situation to have the final say At one time this was considered community right When applications are made for government grants it is well recognized that the administration collecting the taxes and doling out the money should have rights in directing how it should be spent But as housing minister John Rhodes pointed out in recent address here in Barrie there have been too much redtape regulations which often caused unnecessary hearings and costly delays Much of this could be eliminated if the main control was kept at the area and local administration levels where it rightly belongs in democratic country Those who have advocated amalgamations of smaller municipalities may have some points in their favor But in the final analysis the ratepayers of the places con cerned should be making the ultimate decision In the village of Coldwater Reeve Earl Brandon has carried on commendable and favorable campaign in opposition to amalgamation with neighboring municipalities with strong local backing As an alter native Coldwater is striving to cooperate to help in the development of the builtup area in the nearby vicinity for which it is seeking logical annexation In the final analysis the people concerned who have to pay the taxes should have the ultimate influence on final deCisions I1Iltl stutter sr simcoe yester one1 xiiiiil Dunlop Street has changed considerably since this photograph was taken back in the horse and buggy era of the turn of tile Century The lady shoppers on the sidealk illustrate the change in fashion for summer wear The postcard photograph was provided by the raig family of RR Barrie By VINCENT EGAN Business and onsuiner Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service steadily growing interest in small fuel efficient cars is helping to push importedcar sales steadily higher In June sales of imports were Pipercent higher than year earlier Sales of North American cars declined eight per cent In the first nine months of the 1977 model year rrthat is Oct 1976 to June 30 1977 im ports increased their share of the anadian market to 18 per cent from 15 per cent in the 197576 period If the overseas carmakers are pulling ahead in the sales race in 1977 it would be lin wise to count out Detroit and its Canadian subsidiaries just yet Up until the outbreak of the energy crisis in 1903 Detroit had been content to let the for cign manufacturers have the smallcar share of the domestic market Profit margins werere and still are much higher on the full Size cars that North American makers have always specialized in But Detroits decisionmakers hadnt foreseen the fivefold increase that the Arab we want your Opinion Something on your mind Send us letter to the editor Please make it an original copy and sign it We dont publish unsigned letters although pen name will be used upon request Include your address and telephone number because we have to verify letters but we wont print your address should you prefer Weve found that short letters are the best read Because of space limitations public interest and good taste we sometimes have to edit condense or reject letters Letters to the editor run Wednesdays and Saturdays Send yours to Letters to the editor The Examiner Box 370 Barrie Ont L4M 4T6 Small car sales bigger than ever dominated oil cartel applied to world pet roleum prices as an economic weapon in the Arab war against Israel The sharp rise in gasoline prices suddenly expanded the demand for small cars and De troit has been busily trying to catch upa project that in an industry as huge as the automotive takes long time HOLDING Fl Even if Detroit was unprepared for the energy crisis the oVerseas manufacturers arent going to be able to run away with the North American car market The Japanese in particular have at last developed sensitivity to complaints about the flooding of North American markets with their steel motorcycles and homeentertain ment products Indications are that they will strive to limit the growth ol automotive ex ports to anada arid the United States As well the strength in the yen and the deutschemark and the relative weakness of the Canadian and US dollars throughout 1977espccially since June are bound to have dampening effect on the sale of popular imports by pushing their prices steadily higher The big price advantage that imports held over domestic cars back when the dollar was strong currency has vanished or even been turned into pricedisadvantage FIGHTING BACK With push from the oil cartel aiid an assist from energy conservation authorities in Washington and Ottawa the North American makers are moving toward the day when they will be offering an array of mediumsized by todays standardSI and small cars capable of greater fuel economy The industry giant General Motors took the lead in downsizing its product line with the 1977 models and in the process has Ill creased its share ol the anadian market to Sliper cent from 49 percent last year Ford is heading in the same direction but in the meantime has introduced in the Canadian market and will soon offer to US buyersva Germanmade subcompact called the Ficsts with front wheel drive for added interior space NEWSROOM Dave Henshaw managing editor Sean Finlay city editor Randy Mc Donald sports 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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 864 1710 640 Cathcart 51 Montreal The advertiser agrees that the publisher shall not be liable tor damages arising out ol errors in advertisements beyond the amount paid for the space actually occupied by that portion at the advertisement in which the error occurred whether such error BUSINESS 7266537 Sue Roullilte Peuev Cbapell Elaine Porter More Scar ELSEWHERE IN CANADA $3850 Year ust Joe Clark addressing the partyfaithfulu Parliament hill BY STEWART acIICOI Ottawa Bureau Thomson News Service My money is still against fall federal elec tion but must agree that Prime Minister Trudeau is doing magnilicent jobof keeping hisopl ions open And in view of the latest public opinion polls this isnt surprising Miile Trudeau continues to say that he isnt planning fall vote he is careful to add that an early election is still possibility and now he seems to be developing an issue with which he could try justifying campaign He is talking about possible constitutional changes to protect minority language rights And in the face of Quebecs controversial language bill which limits lanlishlanguage instruction in the province this could be popular proposal in other provinces We are still hopeful that the Parti Quebecois government will see its way clear to change this very serious inlraclion of the right of anadians to move across the coun try Trudeau recently told Parliament In By JOHN IIARBRON Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service Portugal in the summer of 1977 is country that appears to have exhausted itself after three years of intense political change and nearrcvolul ionary government Its not only that the economy is in bad shape result of the upheavals since 1974 but also because of the loss of Portuguese Africa whose substantial raw material cxr ports represented big part of Portuguese foreign earnings This does not mean that Portugal is preparing for future crisis either political or economic but jlist trying to cope with the mes she has The power balance sits agreeably between President Antonio Ramalho Eanes lplonoun ccd Ehahneshl and Prime Minister Mario Soares pronounced Sohahresh the head of the majority Soeialisl party President Eaiics is not ambitious for more power nor intends in any way to see the army intervene in the political system Prime Minister Soares who does not have complete majority in the Portuguese parlia ment must rely on both the ommiuiists and the centre parties to make up coalitions to have measures passed The ommluiists are the most restless cer tain couple of years ago that they were the wave of the future and would bring Marxist system to this languid and delightful nation Alvaro Cunhal the leader of the Com munist party is an oldfashioned hardliner loyal to Moscow and therefore out of step with the lIliitxmninuiiisl trend explained at length in this column few days ago As such he does not get the full support of fellow Communist leader Santiago Carillo in Spain next door Carrillo is member of the democratically its present form it looks as if if the Parti Quebecois is net ing as though it were already separated This is point of view wc most seriously deny and attack lNITY ISSlE It is generally assumed that the broad question of national unity will dominate the next campaign but up until recently there has been little apparent disagreement bel wcen the federal parties and no sign of any new initiatives which might be placed before the voters But now the prime minister is developing one If the Quebec language legislation becomes law lrudeau says his government will get the provinces together and try and obtain from them some guarantee for their linguistic minorities and if not press for constitutional amendment that will give us the authority to intervene on behalf of minorities Then later at press conference the prime minister added the rather significant com ment that his government could not act unilaterally in seeking constitutional amen Portugal hit by upheavals elected Spanish parliament and is not taking orders from Moscow Portugals main problem is her economy where inflation has been running at about 10 per cent and unemployment at 25 per cent Thousands of white exiles from the former African colonies who owned farms and plan tations and managed industry are managerial pool of many skills that Portugal needs but cannot employ Those who can are emigrating many to Brazil also within the Port uguesospcaking world and where managerial talent is in great demand On the other hand foreign investors are returning tourism is booming again and foreign fluids are flowing into the slow moving economy These come to about billion dollars $750 million from consortium of foreign banks another $150 million American loan as requested of ongress by President Jimmy Carter At the beginning of the 19705 both Spain and Portugal were still ruled by longlived and op pressive dictatorships the Portuguese regime beginning in 1927 and that of the late Generalissimo Francisco Franco in 1939 aftei his Spanish Civil War victory Today these two countries which along with tiny Andorra are in the Iberian Penins sula have rejoined the rest of democratic Europe with their two fragile democracies determined to survive The next move their leaders want to make is the request for future membership in the European ommon Market though Portugal presently is member nation of the European Free Trade Association Spain under Franco was barred from doing so because she did not have free trade unions or democratic government But these barriers are gone Options still left open on federal fall election dinenl without mandate from the elec torale And it might also be considered ralhcr significant that all of these comments came on the heels of the latest public opinion polls which show the Liberals were supported by an astonishing 51 per cent of decided voters while the onservatives had slumped to an embarrassing 27 per cent month earlier the Liberals were supported by 47 per cent while the onservatives were at 32 per cent Its not difficult to understand why the strategists behind the prime minister par ticularly those who could claim credit for victory are pushing him toward an early election CANT ONTINIIC He is being constantly reminded that his governments popularity cant continue to rise indefinitely and once the upward momentum is lost it is more difficult to generate party enthusiasm And as we lear ned during the last six months popularity polls can be reversed with surprising speed But was surprised at the optimism displayed by Conservative Leader Joe Clark when in the face of the latest polls he predic ted he could win fall election That would require reversal of stunning speed Having advanced arguments in favor of fall election still thinkbut am not SUIBlhal Trudeau will continue to resist the pressures and wait until next year have always said that we should not have an elec tion unless there was good reason to go to the people he says As far as am concerned just because one is convinced he is going to win the election is not good enough reason to go to the people But bet its one of the reasons By developing this constitutional issue that could be used in campaign the prime minister could argue that all the necessary reasons now are in place But he might have trouble convincing Ontario voters who were already subjected to one unnecessary vote this year And for this reason alone Ill still bet on 1978 election But wont go over $1 MR TRUDEAU ready is due to the negligence oi its servants or otherwise and there shall be no liability tor non insertion of any advertisement beyond the amount paid tor such adVertisemem Unique securhy system LONDON CP unique secret recognition system that camiot be forged or erased and can be incorporated into band card credit card passport or any other iden tification document has been developed in Britain The system is the product of much research and development work by the EMI company Its essential feature is magnetic tape that looks similar to that used on many bank and credit cards but is fundamentally different Ordinary magnetic tape consists of needle like iron oxide particles adhering to plastic tape When passed continuously under an electromagnetic recording head the varying electric current from microphone produces corresponding magnetic changes in the par ticles If the tape is then passed under another electromagnet vary current is in duced and this can be amplified and passed to loudspeaker reproducing the sound recor ded on the tape This is the essence of magnetic tape recor ding as used in cassette and reeltoreel tape recorders short piece of such tape can carry name or number in code and this form of identification is widely used for example on bank cards In such systems the needlelike particles adhering to the tape are aligned parallel to one another along the tapes length CAN BE CLEANED If powerful elect romagnet is passed over such tape it eradicates the varying in tensities of magnetization so an identity card incorporating coded name can be wiped or cleaned This type of identity card or document can be forged The EMI system operates differently The particles are still needlelike but they are not aligned along the tape axis They are parallel in groups some along the axis and others at right angles across the width of the tape When passed under reading head the lengthwise groups magnetic effect is much greater than that of those ranged across the tape If for example there is one group lengthwise followed by one group crosswise and another lengthwise the signal received is highlowhigh This lends itself to what is called binary arithmetic Everyday arithmetic uses system based on 10s but numerical system can easily be based on twos In such system any number is written as sequence of ones and zeros If words are to be encoded each letter of the alphabet is assigned binary number PARTICLES MAIOVABLE With individual identity codes numbers are deposited on the tape which is then baked or cured so the alignments of particles become permanent No amount of elec tromagnetic wiping or superimposition of other codes can move the solid particles out of position The aligned particles go through the entire thickness of the oxide film Up to 40 binary digits or bits can be stored on one cent imetre of ape Canada story They settled at Winnipeg By BOB BOWMAN Although the first Selkirk settlers arrived at presentday Winnipeg in August 1812 the experiment to develop agriculture on the prairies was precarious until 1817 The colonists from Scotland and Ireland were driven from their homes several times by members of the North West ompany and Metis who resented them They realized it meant the end of the fur trade if the prairies were converted to agriculture The North West Company offered the settlers free land in Upper Canada and some of them accepted One of the worst attacks on the Selkirk set tlemcnt took place in June 1816 when Goverlt nor Sample and 19 of his men were killed in skirmish at Seven Oaks Many settlers fled down the river to Lake Winnipeg and stayed there Fortunately lord Selkirk had planned trip to Red River and arrived early in 1817 af ter capturing the North West Company post at Fort William now Thunder Bay He had brought soldiers with him and they recap tured Fort Douglas in January 1817 The settlers who had sheltered at Jack River were brought back and arrived at their old homes on July 19 1817 Lord Selkirk stayed with them most of the summer and re organized the colony The settlers faced severc hardships for number of years after that but they were hardships of nature The North West Com pany had shot its bolt and amalgamated with the Hudsons Bay Company in 1821 However as the fur traders had feared it was the beginning of the end of the old life on the prairies TIIICR JULY 19 EVENTS ltiZtlKirkc brothers at Quebec gave the widow of Louis llebert Negro boy as slave Iti95llie first sawmill in New Brunswick was built at Nashwaak notThe Iroquois deeded to England hun ting grounds north of Lake Ontario and west of Lake Michigan bible thought And Jesus said unto them Because of your unbelief for verily say unto you If ye have faith as grain of mustard seed ye shall say unto this mountain Remove hence to yon der place and it shall remove and nothing shall be impossible unto you Matthew 1720 Ile is saying that we need to speak up to our mountains instead of running from them he shall have whatsoever he sayeth