el,

NEWS VIEWPOINT
Your shore

raging through the rest of this
country and consider how the North
Shore fits into the whole scheme of things.

Because if you think about it carefully,
it doesn’t. Fit in that is.

The North Shore is a place unto itseif.

We have our own history, our own
culture, our own sewage plant.

We have the mountains; we have the
rivers; we heve the waterfront; we have the
reservoirs.

We are Suwilders of ships, shippers of
grain, hewers of wood and shoppers of
malls,

In short, we have it all. So let’s keep it.
All. For ourselves.

Let’s separate.

| ET’S cut the constitutional blather

We are already separated from the rest
of the Lower Mainland, B.C. and Canada
by mountains, water and the Squamish
Highway.

We are a culture and a society distinct
from all others. We are the North Shore
true, strong and free.

So banish ye those timorous thoughts,
and fet us march together arm-in-arm to a
brighter, freer, separate future.

Let us take out the bridges, sandbag the
waterfront and raise the good old three-
starred flag of the North Shore high
overhead.

Let’s establish the city state of North
Shore. And let’s all have a good April
Fool’s Day while we are at it.

Westview project should proceed

Dear Editor:
The Dorothy Lynas School in

cle,

David Schreck, MLA for
North Vancouver-Lonsdale,

proceed, as | will for any other

was project that affects West Van-

the Indian River area of North
Vancouver, although only two
years old, already is overcrowded
and has five portables on site.

I attended a public meetirg at
the school on Feb. 20 to deter-
mine the specific concerns of the
parents. «

This meeting was reported in
your Feb. 23 edition. In the arti-

apparently critical of my speabing

out once again for the Westview .

Interchange to proceed ‘‘im-
mediately.’’

I wish to make two points.

First, I did not comment on
Westview at the Dorothy Lynas
meeting.

Secondly, | will continue to
argue for the Westview proiect to

couver-Capilano in particular and
the North Shore in general.

I have written to the Minister of
Education supporting the propos-
ed expansion at Dorothy Lynas,
and therefore Mr. Schreck will be
pleased that ! am also focusing on
educational concerns.

Jeremy Dalton, MLA
West Vancouver-Capilano

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How to survive |
while doc’s on
the picket line

DON’T WORRY about the threatened doctors’ strike.
According to one specialist in a unique field of medicine, it

could be good for your health.

Noel

Being held to ransom is Health
Minister Elizabeth Cull. B.C.
Medical Association president Dr.
Gur Singh has promised her the
province’s 6,000 medics will hit
the bricks unless her colleague,
Finance Minister Glen Clark,
removes the cap in last week’s
budget on the incomes of the bus-
jest 2% of them.

Only about 250 GPs ard
specialists grossing over $300,000
and $360,000 a year respectively
are affected. Out of this, of
course, overhead — typically in
the $65,000-$75,000 range — has
to be paid. Still, the freedom to
earn as much as $230,000 to
$290,000 before. Victoria starts
nibbling hardly seems a life-
threatening condition.

But I digress. We're talking
about YOUR health. So meet Dr.
Robert Mendelsolin of Chicago,
the loneliest man at any medical
convention he dares to attend.
Part of his life’s work has been
debunking his own profession and
he has even won awards for his
heresies -— one of which he backs
up with some thought-provoking
statistics.

Dr. Mendelsohn’s research
found fewer people die during
doctors’ strikes. And the longer
the strike, the more people who,
in theory, should be dead keep
right on living — until doc returns
to work.

During a Los Angetes doctors’
strike in the early 1970s, he noted
the death rate dropped by 17%, It
plummeted by 50% during a
three-month strike in Israel.
When Saskatchewan doctors
struck early in the 1960s to protest
socialized medicine, the story was
similar.

“The withdrawal of all medical
care but emergency care can be
nothing but beneficial to the peo-
ple,’’ he’s quoted as saying.

Of course, if you’re in a car
crash, fall off a mountain or have
a ticker that suddenly takes a cof-
fee break, it’s handy to have a
medical repairman around.
Otherwise, Dr. Mendelsohn’s pro-
gnosis is that doctors may en-
danger your health — like ciga-
rettes and booze.

The real culprit, however, may
be the depressing ritual of modern
high-tech medicine — the endless
unpleasant, often inconclusive
tests to which doc now
automatically sends you. It keeps
the costly labs and electronic giz-
mos ‘“‘productive,”’ as well as

ELIZABETH CULL... held ran-
som.

Wright

HITHER AND YON

safeguarding doc’s own malprac-
tice insurance premiums. :

But compared to the comforting
old ‘‘take-two-aspirin’’ days it
also produces terrified patients,
convinced they’ve already fost a
battle they didn’t now they were
fighting — and possibly are NOT.

So Dr. Mendelsohn may simply
be saying more bluntly what
holistic medicine has now demon-
strated: HAPPY patients tend to
live longer. a

SIGN-OFF: No fooling, there’s a
unique sporting cvent at 7:30 p.m.
tonight, April 1, in St. Thomas
Aquinas High, when B.C. Lions
Football Ciub takes on the crack
school team — at basketball. This

should be one for any Lions fan's ~*~

memory book! ... On the reunion: "'
calendar Kitsilano High’s Class of
"42 celebrates its 50th anniversary’
with a two-day bash June 11-12 °

at the Arbutus Club — if you © ~
qualify, call Mike Downing, —..
985-4752, or Wally Whiteside, -
922-0287, for fullinfo...Help
Doris Orr find homes for deserv-
ing kitties at DONATE’s mini flea .
market and book sale Saturday, —
April 4, from 10 a.m, to 2 p.m. at
Highland United Churchin
Edgemont Village ... And-‘many -
happy returns of today, April 1, . :
to North Van birthday boy Carl".
Busby. vias

WRIGHT OR WRONG: The big |
problem about being a good sport .
is that you have to lose to prove it.» -
TT ee

GLEN CLARK... remove you!
cap. es