Dear Editor:

Hang in there, Mr.
Vander Zalm. The children
need you. Maybe, just
maybe, they will finally be
able to read, ‘spell, and do
mathematics.

I was educated in a one-
room prairie schoolhouse in
which the teacher had to
administer to sixty pupils in

“eight grades. Every one of us

advocating a return to the
one-room schoolhouse, but I.
am pointing up the fact that
present-day teachers are
paid very well for what they

was given a very good do.- We all know about

education. Now, [m not

young people who graduate

_ ALRT costs well inline

Dear Editor: -
Surrey Ald. Bab Bose says
that a ride on ALRT will cost
$16.00 in the late 1980s. He
bases this forecast on ‘two
assumptions: one, that
ALRT to New Westminster
will cost $1 billion to build;

_Disarming
not logical

Dear Editor:

I cannot help but question
the logic of holding a
referendum on _ world
disarmament. In my
opionion it would be folly for
the west to disarm, for we
can never be sure that other
nations will do the same. I
suggest that, unfortunately,
we must keep abreast of
other countries regarding
armaments as this would
appear to be the only
deterrent against aggression

from foreign nations — and .

not necessarily Russia.
Similarly, I feel that
capital punishment is_ the

only. deterrent against
murder. Perhaps a
referendum on capital

would: be more

and, two, that there will be 6
million tickets issued an-

nually.
Let’s try it again.
Assuming that ALRT’s

capital cost is $718 million
and that the ridership in a
full year is 30 million, as the
GVRD and B.C. Transit
economists tell us; then the

cost per ride works out to
$2.40!

“That's not bad, especially
in the late 1980s.

Remember, a bus ride today

costs $2.25. Adult fares are
75 cents. The rest .is subsidy
now. So ALRT costs per
passenger will be as good or
better than that of our buses
a few short years from now.

Hon. Jack Davis, MLA.
North Vancouver-Seymour

State killing business?

Dear Editor:

It does seem strange.
North Vancouver City
council recently blocked our
rights to vote our opinions
about world wide nuclear
incineration. This, it
seemed, was beyond their
jurisdiction. Now this same
august body, speaking with

our voice be it noted, has -

decided to urge the return of

the noose upon our féderal -

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murdered than annihilated
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