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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1977-08-18, Page 7Good gvening. Tonight .tithe' news'• inZlatiori and unempk yrrrnent reaeh,,thelr., highest levels in recent ryeers and the Gar►adi,an dollar continued oz's downvgard trend town all time low today.-- Click! oday, Click! Depressing isret it? But.there may be a glinnmer'of hope from Ottawa as this week our Manpower Minister I3ud,Cullen was officially given a new title of Employment Minister, a m ve that marked his departments, Ig.ia,---iN"iLit^ iaier. G'iies.v'jf'iEiw. ;4,»a Insurance Commisswwn. But in the -face of spirallinginflation and severe unemployment is this move just another 'Clever ploy by our. Prime Minister and his 'colleagues to_create new jobs. Could it be that the P.M. while scaling mountain sides in Jasper Alberta with van e sons left word with our money n;ger Dona,ld,.Maedonald .that, in 'the ot,adversity to sim l makeup u p.,Y � p new tor, Canadians if he couldn't come ! honestly. h ;but their ploy has been discovered. Politicians should realize they can' outsmart taxpayers that easily. • • In'fact an informed source in thecivil service clairns that our finance,Minister took'Jhe PM's advice and will create several new Ministries. resulting In Minister. irithou t portfolio who will, be rewired„ to keep tabsonunemployed ministers without portfolio. Why the number of jobs that could springfrom•an appointment like that are staggering." It should take literally dozens of civil servants to . restack aol.,„,repile the pounds of paperwork" produced." he said. " "True but that still leaves some 800,000 in the UIC line." I explained n1if :ClVif Service j obs Why_ When in doubt..or.rn a tight "Macdonald thinks of everything. There squeeze increase the civil service. 'Ouraource claimed that there was j t is going to'be another "into problem; 'm •tny._ source replied. no end to the jobs that Macdonald couulsd controllers and other strikes that afflict government to handle postal, air traffic praduee and -his clever mind could provide some relief from the unem- ployment situation. "I understand there is to be a new our crippled nation. We are pretty good at strikes' you know." "Well, just try to imagine the number of civil servants who could get lost in the 0. 1M r�" ittrue, buti Current tinemplo persisted: "Right, But Bi`g.c ioulcln t there, No sireee! he claimed. "With these appointments .the -RC ..� will be forced' to beef up its staff to.keep '. up with bugging ,' and surveillance operations: There's no telling how. many .'. tellas will be needed to slip into the • •bedro saof 'irypo.4 t z an tO.fivg electronic 'bugging devices to record, conversations. And with the civil service increase just' think ofhow many sweet old retired French teachers can be called back work to teach posties in Saskatoon how to speak French." • Why there is just no end -to the jobs our government can come up with re a her su ca ndk a and alcohol are being used y hy at least 25 per cent of in Huron County according to a a Provincial body: ovincial study of alcohol and among Ontario students in 1977 the.County of Huron and in - at 25:1 per cent of the students s 7 to 13 had used cannabis na or hashish) in the past year. dy said that one quarter of the e daring the last12 months. The resented to the Huron County Education at a special meeting ge ev HERE stated that 89.1 per cent of the students had used alcohol during the past year. The Provincial study involved 104 schools across the province and claimed that users of most drugs used them in- frequently in the past year. The majority of users of glue, solvents, heroin, speed, pschyoactive drugs and illicit drugs INFORMATION, BACKGROUND AND OPINION AFT IN HyRC1N cent of the students and cannabis was used 10 or more times by 11.9 per cent of all students. Approximately 16 per cent of those questioned admitted to being drunk at one time and 2q per cent claimed to have had at least five drinks on one occasion in the preceding month. Alcohol con - reported using them only once or twice. sumption by high school students has become more prevalent across the " But understandibly the reported use of pfovince arid research by the Addiction cannabis, _alcohol _and tobacco reach-Qs—Researeh --Foundation- is -proving the The study revealed that drug use was• more prevalent among male students- -higher pro'portians and tildre frequent use. Addiction Research Foundation case. statistics said that alcohol was drunk at least once a week or more by 17.9 per but females dominated the use of tobacco. The sampling indicated that 52.1 per cent of females are now smoking, as opposed to 28.5 per cent of the male student population. ARF claimed that drug use was directly related to age and students in the 16 and 17 year-old age group were more frequent user§ of drugs than any other group surveyed. They also nailed a direct relationship on grades and drug use. - The report claimed that as drug use increased grade averages decreased. Over 40 per cent of the students in the lower academic' standings reported use of canabis while only p per cent of the students in higher academic standing reported any use of the drug. ARF has also linked alcohol con- .sumption with academic performance and reported lower grade averages among frequent drinkers. There is more frequent use of drugs, such as cannabis and LSD, alcohol and tobacco among students in Northern Ontario while the -Midwestern region has the lowest rate. In other board business, Blyth trustee' John Elliot resigned as chairman of the educations budget committee after he om im ive 11 re wi tha of Toronto has taken up a new against sex shops in that city included the hiring of special forcement officers and a $100 wyer. han 20 bylaw enforcement rmed with a city hall mandate ial writs against sex shop gan hitting Yonge Street last n -a massive crackdown on Chairman,- Paul Godfrey the city that the action will eginning of the end for the sex hat scarred Toronto. Godfrey PRCIVINCIAL POINTS also announced the hiring of special prosecutor, Morris Manning, who will seek injunctions to close the sex shops. Neither Godfrey nor Manning were willing to give any specifics on how their campaign woUld close sex shops the city but they did say they would use court injunctions and operate within Metro's 7 -present powers under the Municipal Act. To date charges have been laid against the sex shops for individual bylaw violations but the cases have dragged on before the courts for. months and the shops, continue to operate. Most his le they get' better things always t worse. s annual inflation rate by the cost of living has d over eight ,per cent for the in 14 months. cs Canada reported last that the inflation rate from to July 1977 is now 8.4 per cent; se from last months figure of t. s Canada reported in its review that runaway food hed the index up iiinth-tenths cent last month. The figures operators charged with bylaw violations usually escape with fines and continue their opera:don. All of the nearly 50 body -rub parlors in Toronto are subject to licensing by the city and although tough laws govern the parlors and nude encounter centres many operators have avoided prosecution by calling their establish- ments public baths or sexy en- tertainment spots. For the past month the city has been working closely with police to gather evidence of bylaw infractions. In the crackdown bylaw officers have been posing as customers to prove prostitution. Since police have been working actively in the' Yonge Street district more than 330 charges have been laid in the past- month. Much of the evidence used in the criminal cases will also be used by Manning in a series of court battles beginning next week. Manning and Metro's legal staff have been busy preparing writs that allege bylaw infractions and order the owners and operators ta appear in court this week to show cause why their licenses should be continued. If the owners cannot defend the CANADA IN SEVIEN were depressing for the government who had set a goal to an inflation target of six per cent for this year. Finance Minister Donald MacDonald has already conceded that the target will not be met. With the jump to over eight per cent MacDonald and Prime Minister Trtideau will now likely pbstpone any thoughts they had about lifting wage and price controls. The only other time the inflation rate rose to over eight per cent was in May 1976 when the index peaked to 8.9 per cent. The latest increase was the largest in two years. The inflation figures just add to already depressing economic picture as unemployment figures published just a week earlier shaVepl fhe country with an unemployenent rate of 8.1 per cent compared with 7.2 per cent a yearago. Almost two thirds of last months in- crease can be attributed to rising food prices and over-all consumers were paying 2.1 per cent more for food in July than in June, Higher prices for beef and pork were most pronounced but there were also increases in the cost of fresh fruit, coffee, tea, bakery, fats and oil products and restaurant meals. Rising housing costs and the increased sales tax on tobacco products in Ontario also pushed up the index. Lower prices for many fresh vegetables and sugar helped to offset the increase. After a steady decline last year the over-all price of food has been !rising rapidly during the year. However the Anit-inflation board predicted that after the figures were released that a halt to food prices and lower insurance rates would help slow the inflation rate. Food prices are not controlled under the price prosecution the court can, grant Metro permission to close down the premises through an injunction. Godfrey claims this method will go a long way in cleaning up the pr blem i Toronto. However the and its legal must take a cautious app h to combating the problem and ensuring that public rights are protected. Manning will only admit that' various remedies are being investigated and documents are being drawn up. Toronto is looking for Provincial' help in cleaning up the sex shops but until then will exhaust all The July price increases were recorded early last month and the subsequent weekly monitoring of food prices by the anit-inflation board has indicated a reversal of the upward trend. But the easing of the rise in food prices is supposed to absorb some of the pressure and shock of higher gas and fuel oil prices in September resulting from the rise in the Canadian price of oil on July 1. The Consumer price index measures the precentage increase in the cost of purchasing a constant basket of goods est dragnet -in the history of New York Was called off last n police announced they had on of Sam after a year long erkowitz, 24, an unemployed rker was charged with the r Stacy Moskowitz and the murder Of Robert Violante. was the sixth person slain e o Wings and seven e Wounded, Y Police traced the .44 calibre ugh a $35 parking tisket that r. WORLDWEEK was issued on a car parked too close to a fire hydrant near the scene of Son of Sam's last killing. "You got me,"- Berkowitz told detectives who pounced on him as he stepped outside his "apartment building in suburban Yonkers at 10:30 p.m. last Wednesday. After a complete night of questioning, Berkowitz, grinning broadly while cameras flashed in his face, was led to the.8fith peecinct station in Brooklyn to be- charged with the murder. Police were forced tO take et.• traordinary precaution in guarding Berkowitz because of public emotion. He was given a six -car police escort when he was moved to Brooklyn to be charged. John Kennan, chief of detectives, said police had found a .44 calibre Bunke , revolver,,in the suspect's automobile and a case of weapons in the trunk, including a submachine gun, a shotgun, a .22 calibre pistol aad more than 300 rounds of ammunition for each weapori. When asked where the )gun was Berkowitz replied: "You mean my friend? He's in a brown paper bag in the car." 13ullets taken from the .44 calibre gun matched those in the Mosknwitz shooting which police said earlier matched all previous shootings carried out by Son of Sam. In the car police also found a can of Lysol spay, a cornPass, maps of lower Westchester and Long Island, an empty soda bottle and maps showing recreational areas on Long Island. POlice sources also said that Berkowitz had made a statement in- dicating he had planned to go to the Hamptons, an exclusive area of Long Island, for a final shoot-out. Berkowitz -told police that he was Son of Sam and subsequent to questioning explained that Sam is Sam Carr who talks to him and tells him what to do through a dog. • Police followed hundred§ of leads including those who had received parking tickets in the vicinity of the recent killing of Moskowitz. Berkowitz's car had been parked at the fire hydrant the night Moskowitz was killed near the scene of the shooting. Police then traced the car to Berkowitz's apartment in Yonkers and objected to the board's approval of three field trip applications which he claimed were unbudgeted expenditures. Elliot said that the approximately - $440 -needed for supply teachers was an unbudgeted expense and that trying to set an accurate budget' was an in- surmountable task for the budget comm ittee. Director of education; D.J. Cochrane said the m9ney was budgeted tor in _the supply teachers budget and board based this budget in the previous year. The board approved the three applications for field trips. courses of action under city bylaws. All city officials were pleased with the appointment of Manning to handle the special prosecution and will be looking for immediate resluts. Manning graduaked from the University of Toronto law school in 1965 and articled with the attorney -general's ministry. He was called to the bar in 1967 and worked with the ministry until last year. Manning is chairman of the criminal justice ,section of the Canadian Bar and services across the country. The base for these goods and services was started in 1971 when the cost was $100. Today the same goods and serVices are costing $161.80 and increase of over 50 per cent in a six year period. MacDonald has no new plans to spur the economy aria has rejected suggestions of a new budget to,help deal with unemployment and inflation. He claims that businessmen just aren't taking advantage of tax concession to make jobs provided for in the last budget. detectives John Longo and Ed Gig° made the arrest. Life was returning to normal for the young people of the Big,Apple following the arrest and frightened parents were breathing easier. But for the neighbours of Berkowitz the news that the young unemployed postal worker was arrested as Son of 'Sara was stunning. The residents of his apartment building described him as a nice young man and just an ordinary person with curly hair. Police described his top floor Studio apartment as filthy.