AB - Wednesday, August 25, 1982 - North Shore News

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Let us PAY to speak!

Dear Editor:

Bravo for your editorial
“Let them speak.” To say
that nuclear war is not of
municipal concern is
-amusing. No aggressor is
going to be bothered
targeting the unpopulated
areas of this planet, and civil
defence is the resonsibility of
municipal governments. Not
only is North Vancouver
District part of the Greater
Vancouver area, we are also
close neighbours of the
Trident Submarine base,
acknowledged to be one of
the most advanced first-
strike weapon carriers, and
obviously a prime target.

It is interesting to note
that the city of Cambridge.
Massachusetts, when
presented with a plan by its

Restore tax referen

Dear Editor:

I see that Betty Griffin
takes exception to what she
refers to as education
cutbacks. Perhaps Ms.
Griffin or the School Board
which she helped to elect,
can explain to the taxpayers
why teachers’ salaries were
increased by 17% this year
and why the cost of
educating each pupil in the
school system increased by

department of civil defence
to evacuate its citizens to a
suburb 20 miles away, in the
event of nuclear attack,
decided that the whole idea
was absurd and that there is
no defence. Instead, council
launched a campaign to
educate their people on
prevention of nuclear
holocaust through political
action. The pamphlet en-
titled “Cambridge and
Nuclear Weapons: Is there a
place to hide?’’ was
distributed to every
household in September,
1981. The leaflet received
overwhelming response not
only from the citizens of that
city, but from much farther
afield, and is now in its fifth
printing.

As Alderman Crist

more than 22%. The rate of
inflaton was a mere 14% in
1981 and is running at less
than 12% for this year. In
the past the School Board has
claimed that the rate of
inflation plus 1.6% was a
reasonable increase in cost
per pupil and had the School
Board kept within its own
guidelines the Budget would
be down by more than three
million dollars and _ the
alleged cutbacks would not

pointed out in his earlier
letter, Mr. Vander Zalm is

have decided, and this is
what District Council is up
against. We can spend a lot
of time and energy arguing
the point and lose sight of
the real issue: the
referendum and the urgent
need for the people to ex-
press themselves, before the
computers controlling the

nuclear monstrosities
outsmart the irrational men
at the top.

If the leaders won't lead,
the citizens must. Let us pay
for the referendum _our-
selves.

Maureen Simmonds
North Vancouver

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be necessary.

Before the NDP
Government took away the
right in 1973, the local
taxpayers enjoyed the liberty
to agree or disagree with the
spending proposals’ of the
school boards. I do hope that
Ms. Griffin will join me in
demanding a return of the
referendum for school taxes.

Ernie Sarsfield
North Vancouver

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