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Wodnooday0¢t as 1977 NEWSROOM 726 6537 CIRCULATION 7266539 theexaminer serving barrio and slmcoe county Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited 16 Baytield Street Barrie Ontario LAM 1T6 EllO Agostlnipublisher ADVERTISING 7266537 CIASSIFIEDS 72824 Responsibility not the rope Barrie City Council has decided against supporting call for national referendum on capital punishment Aid Ross Stephens in speaking against the national referendum pointed out it has not been proven capital punishment prevents murder He also pointed out most murders are crimes of pas sion We have all been conditioned by television which would have us believe most murders are carefully plann ed and murderers only caught after great difficulty The truth is far different Most murders are sordid and senseless If Canadians are really worried about the number of murders committed and we think most Canadians are only worried because they are told they should worry then there are two things which should be done First prevention prevention by imposing stiff penalties for violent acts prevention by imposing stiff penalties for acts involving weapons which might kill Second harsh penalties Life sentences which are sentences for life Prison terms which are terms in prisons which rehabilitate prisoners not prisons which are nothing more than graduate institutes for crime The problems of this society can be pinned on one thing people are not ultimately responsible for their own ac tions People must know that if they are convicted of violent act they will serve long term in prison Hanging does nothing but satisfy the regrettable evergrowing demands for vengeance in our society Demanding that people be responsible for their own ac tions will do more to curb the violence problem than the rope letters to the editor Welfare story cheap unethical Dear Sir read The Thursday Oct 19 Examiner with great disgust found it quite unethical the manner in which you reported the welfare incident of two women being kicked out of the city welfare office Oh yes you reported the facts as told to you no doubt but we read about the two womens story on page one taking up approx imately onethird of the page and find Mr Hines story on Page taking up maybe one eighth of page find this type of news coverage anything but fair more like cheap unethical and un just reporting of facts This is not the first time your paper has reported news in this manner Your business By VINCENT EGAN Business and Consumer Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service Canadian investors arent it turns out the most heavily taxed in the world It only seems that way An international comparison of taxation of resident individual investors indicates that Americans and Britons are socked more heavily thatn Canadians The number of variables in each case makes it necessary to qualify any con clusions but its clear that investors are hit hard everywhere write your mp 199 If you would like to write your Member of Parliament or Member of Provincial Par liament 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 if there is mat ter of concern that makes you want to write to your MP or MPP if it is not personal matter it should be of interest to your rfriends and neighbors too FEDERAL Dr Rynard MPNorth Simcoe Parliament Buildings Ottawa Ont Km 0A6 Ross Milne MPPeelDufferinSimcoe Parliament Buildings Ottawa Ont KIA 0A6 Sinclair Stevens MPYorkSimcoe Parliament Buildings Ottawa Ont KIA 0A6 Gus Mitges MPGreySimcoe Parliament Buildings Ottawa Ont KIA 0A6 PROVINCIAL George Taylor MPPSimcoe Centre Ontario Legislature Queens Park Toronto M7A 1A2 Gordon Smith MPPSlmcoc East Ontario Legislature Queens Park Toronto M7A IA2 George McCa or MPPDull or Simcoc Queens Park Toronto M7A lA2 Another good example was your article on the socalled police brutality incident in Angus in which case you also gave over twice the coverage to the alleged approximately 50 victimized youths and tucked the police side of thestorv away in the corner am sure there are many people who would find it quite refreshing to pick up paper and read similar incidents as have mentioned and see both sides of the story presented on the same page with at least close to equal space How unfortunate it must be to have to turn out newspaper publications in this manner in order to keep up sales Kenneth Kelly Barrie How tax collector hits the investor West German investors however fare con siderably better at the hands of the tax collec tor than do their counterparts in Canada the United States and the United Kingdom Canada ranks considerably better than is generally recognized say Hutchinson and Elliott who carried out the com parative study for Wood Gundy Ltd in vestment dealers Furthermore we are optimistic that Canada will show trend toward even more favorable treatment of resident investors because of the need to stimulate em ployment Canadas unemployment rate in Sep tember was 83 per cent of the labor force slightly higher than the US and UK jobless figures Germany has negligible unem ployment The Wood Gundy study shows that for every $100 domestic corporation earns before taxes the individual shareholder that is the owner of the corporation who is sub ject to the highest tax rate is allowed to retain $44 in Germany $3160 in Canada $1560 in the United States probably less when state and local taxes are taken into ac count and only $150 in the United Kingdom Until 1971 Canadian investors were not taxed on gains they made through investing their capital at risk Since 1972 Canadians have had to full income tax on half of their capita gains Whether coincidental or not the investment market has been depressed most of the time since 1972 and economic growth has been faltering In West Germany there is generally no tax on capital gains realized on securities that have been held at least six months In the United Kingdom there is no capital ains tax on the proceeds of disposals under 1950 nor on certain government securities Otherwise the maximum is 30 per cent and past losses can be applied without limitation to offset capital ains In the United tates full personal tax rate is applied to gains on securities held less than year until 1976 the period was six months Longterm capital gains are taxed at onehalf rates Losses may be applied against gains without limitation The rates of rsonal income tax which determine the cvy that is extracted on capital gain vary widely among countries Here in Canada the maximum is 60 to 68 per cent depending upon province of rest dence on income over approximatel $90000 Americans face maximum eral rate of 70 per cent on income over $100000 However married cou les can file joint in cometax return in ich case the top rate isnt reached until joint income exceeds $200000 BUSINESS 7266537 2fter ADVERTISING zusmsss Published dolly except limiting editor Len Sevick manager arian cough accountant Mdo and Randy McDonald city editor SALESMEN Betty Armor statutory day news storlos published in The Examiner tltleliéa MiGovern lament city edil0t out Gaynor ltsorothy Bowlond yymu by an on ncoun ilor ailMc Pariand WNW Bertie Sports editor 52 31120 Vikki cm gzmhr by its omptoyoos and published In this newspaper llll McFarlanc wire editor Graham so girls Montgomery lifestyle john zka km Copyright registration number sorts rogistor orlno Quallrocch it fiEponrensg °°°°°° cuncuumou moo John Brucc cussmEp Jon Butler manaser SIMCOE COUNTY Montreal Paul Deleon Ru ems menu Linda Hoikes asst manager £3650 Richard Dunstan Lesley Young AMY HaUtlmon Moro mowers Pol Guergts Freda stunner Judv HCl mo yoor 5W 69005 Karen Atkinson AV Fume uscwstcarm CANADA Rudlelgh MocLoan Peggy Chapell Em P°° mood your Sue Burke ramblings By BILL KNOWLES There has been debate throughout the coun try regarding capital punishment and am not going to add to it at this time despite my wellknown views There is another related debate however delayed By LEONARD NOBLE There is trite but rather true saying that justice delayed is justice denied An example of this came to light recently when the Press reported that an individual in Ottawa had pleaded guilty to minor criminal charges in order to avoid being held in custody awaiting his trial due to over crowdin of the Courts When pleaded guilty he was assessed fine of $50 and put on probation for 60 days Since he had already spend nine days in jail awaitin his trial and since it would have meant possibility of four more months un til his case was reached the decision to plead quilty and get it over with was not surprising even though the accused felt he was not guilty and even though it resulted in conviction be ing registered against him As matter of fact the accused in that case is but one example of what is happening in countleSs Provincial Courts around this pro vince daily In actuality the small amount of monc that the Province of Ontario pays for the ministration of justice is disgraceful Some Provincial Courts are makeshift ar rangements such as community halls where the acoustics are simply impossible or tiny meeting rooms in local town halls where the majority of the accused the Police Officers the witnesses and the general public must stand leaning against the walls of the court room until their respective matters before the court have been disposed of It isnt as though AttorneyGeneral Roy McMurtry were not aware of the problems that exist Letters have been written to him from any number of judges lawyers and county bar associations all complaining about the same mg And what does Mr McMurtry do about it exactly nothing other than to make speeches about overhauling the existing court system In reality there is nothing wrong with the criminal court system as it exists today that more judges more crown attorneys and more suitable court rooms could not resolve im mediately If Mr McMurtry continues to rocrastinate over matters concerning the ministration of justice as fundamental as hereinbefore referred to he will not only do himself disservice but disservice to the people of the Province of Ontario If there is to be respect for the law the law must respect the individual As someone once said law was made for man man was not made for the law The handwriting is on the wall as see it If the AttorneyGeneral refuses or neglects to act immediately to correct this deficiency in the court system the problem will only et worse and trite saying or not justice delayed is justice denied Gory Pringle and think there is merit on both sides But there is more merit on my side thats that the issue of retention or abolition of the noose should be decided directly by the people of Canada Directly and not through the medium of their elected representatives know that this opens up large can of worms and the nonsupporters will question why you should have elected representatives if you are not going to accept their judgments Well say that there are small number of earthshaking decisions that the electorate has right to speak on through the ballot directly Capital punishment is one of these There should be referendum at the next federal election on whether we want the noose rctum ed or not Additionally there should be direct input referendum on whether we in Canada want our brothers and sisters in Quebec to leave out Conferderation Additionall see no problem in letting your elect municipal officials vote on issues such as this this is what ha pened in Barrie recently Council defeated resolu tion from small town that wanted the mat ter put on the federal ballot Whats wrong with that resolution After vote throughout Canada on the noose or not know the result will be to bring it back Who wants to bet otherwise END OF ITS DAYS And when it comes to abolishing the Fireball or not it looks like it is seeing the By JOHN HARBRON Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service The warning signs of deep and perhaps chronic trouble in the Canadian nickel in dustry before the end of the 19705 have been around for some time The chief reasons are not the current over supply of nickel in world markets caused in part by too many producers nor the drop in nickel used in the depressed American steel industry It was the decisions of the mid19605 chiefly by Falconbridge and International Nickel lnco to move into Iateritic nickel mining and phase out in part from Canadian deeprock operations This meant longterm planning and in ternational bank borrowings for new mines in such countries as the Dominican Republic Guatemala and Indonesia Also earnings from the stillbig Canadian mines would be channelled in part into the new and lessexpensive Iateritic sites Lateritic nickel lies close to the surface in subtropical regions of the world thereby permitting openpit mining operations com ared to mining several thousand feet down lln NorthernOntario hard rock for nickel ore In addition the lowercost package of star ting Iateritic mine from scratch permits the bi com tries to include full or rtial refining acilities as part of the overa plant Falconbridge was the leader in tropical nickel mining when Falconbridge Dorninicana SA went on stream as far back as 1969 Inco had to continue to wheel and deal with successive Guatemalan governments some of them strongly opposed to such big operation in small republic Meantime other new roducers moved into Iateritic nickel mining ench Japanese and American should be at next election end of its days now The place has deteriorated to point that it seems to me to be irrepairable Too bad The place is haven for the pigeons and vandals have broken most win dows and the rain is doing the rest still love the place but enough is enough guess 82 POUNDS Sandra Elizabeth Currier Knowles lovely pound redhead arrived at Royal Vic week ago at 1045 in the morning Five fingers and toes and as beautiful as the Mona Lisa if the Mona Lisa had red hair that is Thanks to Doctor Bmce Henry and Dr Dick and the greatest nursing staff in the world am now the proud parent of this little tyke As she will no doubt become famous lawyer or brain surgeon someday will glad ly consider proposals from parents with new sons that have similar futures This is going to be short column as have to run Guess why Yep the little angels cry ing and needs her daddy ONE LAST OBSERVATlON But cant resist one last observation This one on the goinson at Queens Park Why dont the politicians of the opposition rties quit trying to dream up reasons to lame Bill Davis for the International Nickel layoffs in Sudbury and for once grow up and get together with the Government to try to help the men who will be laid off Davis didnt lay the men off the company did Quit trying to make political hay out of this tragedy Nuts to you who play politics with human beingsii OK Sandra here come Warning signs have been around Oversupply of nickel into the 19805 is likely to continue for another reason the future mining and distribution of seabed nickel nodules which will require long and complex international negotiations between countries Nickel nodules could contain greater reser ves of the mineral than either Canadian or lateritic facilities now on stream Hard bargaining between the industrial nations that contain the multinationals in the mining industries and have not Third World nickeluser nations must come first They are insisting on the plication of the common heritage principe that sea bed minerals within the many new 200mile territorial water limits become the property of the worlds peoples and not only of large private corporations All this bodes for an even worse time in Canadian nickel production These develop ments are now emphasized by the stern decisions of both Inco Ltd and Falconbridge to lay off large portions of their Sudbury Ont and Thompson Man work forces The severelydepressed American steel in dustry perhaps the largest single user of worl nickel both lateritic and hardrock is going through crisis that will not be alleviated even within months Obsolescence of many US primary and secondary steel mills and plants in com petition with postwarbuilt units in Japan and West Germany combined with growing foreign steelshape imports into the US have forced severe cutbacks in nickel uses None of these gloomy international assessments face positive change in the future And in Canada the eneral downturn of the domestic economy deep decline in North ern Ontario makes reallocation of the suspended nickel industry work force even harder to plan The Examiner is member at The Canadian Press CP and Audit Bursaupt Circula tlona ABC Onl the Canadian Press may republish news stories in this crodltlod tolcP The Associated Press Routers or Agonco FrancoProm on local The Examiner claims copyright on all original news and advertising material created Notional advertising ottlces Queen SI Toronto 64 IO 60 Cathesrt $1 The advertiser agrees that the publisher shall not be liable tor damages arising out errors in advertisements beyond the amount paid tor the space actually occuplod that portion of the advertisement in which the error occurred whether such error lo due to tho nogflgonco of Its servants or otherwise and there shall he no liability for nonlnsertton at any advertisement beyond the amount paid tor such advertisement Canadas story Indians saved day By BOB BOWMAN One of the reasons why cowboys and In dians programs have been so popular on US television ma be because Americans were terrified of ians in the old days This quirk in the American character enabled Canada to win some notable battles during the War of 1812 The capture of Detroit and the victories at Beaver Dam and Chateauguay are notable examples The Americans made strong effort to cap ture Montreal in 1813 Gen Wilkinson moved 8000 troops down the St Lawrence from Sackets Harbor on Lake Ontario At the same time Gen Hampton moved towards Montreal from Lake Cham lain with 4000 men including cavalry and 10 ield guns It did not seem possible that Montreal could besaved Wilkinson was harried all down the river and defeated at Cryslers farm He crossed to the US shore and held his troops there until he learned about Hamptons progress from Lake Champlain Both generals were in competent Hamptons army was defeated at Chateauguay on Oct 26 1813 The com mander of the Canadian troops was Col Charles de Salaberry member of famous family in Canadian history De Salaberry only had four companies of his own Voltigeurs some militia and 170 In dians However he was able to establish strong defensive position where the only road through the woods led to ford across river The attack began on Oct 25 and continued through the next day Voltigeur sharp shooters were able to delay the Americans at the river ford and de Salaberry sent the In dians and number of his own buglers into the woods When the Americans heard the sound of the bugles and the war cries of the Indians they thought strong reinforcements were arriving from Montreal They began go panic and fired on each other during the confusion Gen Hampton decided to retreat and gave up the campaign His 4000 troops had been gefeated by 400 French Canadians and the In ram When Gen Wilkinson heard the news he also decided to abandon his campaign So Montreal was saved OTHER OCT 26 EVENTS listsBrandy parliament met at Quebec IntCongress invited people of Canada and Nova Scotia to join US colonies in op position to Britain 18480ttawa University opened 1850Capt McClure of the Royal Navy discovered the Northwest Passage while searching for Franklin expedition 1908Liberals led by Sir Wilfrid Laurier won general election interpreting the news El ate safe havens WASHINGTON CP West German is basking in world praise after winning gerous gamble to end terrorist hijacking through spectacular commando raid The West German antiterrorist squad pulled off the cleanest fastest rescue in hijacking history early Tuesday freeing 86 hostages aboard Lufthansa jet and killing three of the four hijackers in raid that lasted just minutes The daring move to end the five da of terror in which the jet pilot was to ered earned swift praise from President Carter who congratulated West German officials for the courage of their decision West German official with the memory of the 1972 incident when Palestinian terrorists slaughtered 11 Israelis at the Munich Olympics announced that the move provided very serious lesson for some people around the world on how to deal with terrorism The comment may also have been directed at Japan which bowed two weeks ago to the demands of Japanese Red Army hijackers for $6 million ransom and the release from prison of six terrorists TWO SUCCESSFUL Japanese Justice Minister Mitsuo Setoyama embarrassed about his countrys decision to yield to terrorist demands agreed that the raid showed how to prevent hijacking In the aftermath of the Mogadishu raid the world undoubtedly may consider armed as saults the only solution Commando raids on hijacked airlines have succeeded twice at Mogadishu and at En tebbe Uganda in July 1976 although two of the 102 Entebbe hostages were killed But such precision raids can be risky One wrong move and many hostages may die Whether other countries will follow Israel and West Germany in the use commando raids remains to be seen Some may still c0n sider whether the risks may be greater than they may be willing to take safer and probably more pemianent solution to terrorism would be to eliminate safe havens for airline hijackers The Mogadishu raid probably will result in new push to prevent such countries as Algeria which accepted the Japanese terrorists and is unwilling to return them for trial from offer ing sanctuary to terrorists bible thought But say unto you that every Idle word that men shall speak they shall give account thereof In the day of judgment For by words thou shalt be justified and by my words thou shalt be condemned Matthew will 37i rds he ere spower nwo reforowe to be careful to speak positive ones ought