A8 - Sunday, Jane 19, 1983 - North Shore News North Van Chamber installs new slate INSTALLATION of the 1983-84 president and direc- tors was the highlight of the annual general meeting of the North Vancouver Chamber of Commerce last Thursday at the Canyon Gardens. ‘ Sworn in by North Van Ci- ty Mayor Jack Loucks as new president of the Chamber was Franco Cec- [ZS mailbox TT Everything changed except man’s thinking Open Letter To All Members of Parliament Today, the terrible threat of nuclear annihilation hangs like a ominous cloud over the heads of all human be- ings inhabiting this earth. No danger of this magnitude has ever confronted human-kind in all of recorded history. The arms race has now reached terrifying propor- tions and the foolish game of “Oneupmanship” now being played by world leaders is dangerous in the extreme. For . some unfathomable reason it seems to have escaped the attention of pre- sent world powers that nuclear weapons as a means of defense or offense can never be used. To do so would spell the end of man’s existence upon this planet, and the continued presence of these deadly weapons poses a constant threat to man’s survival. We stand today at the very edge of this awful abyss) One error in judgement, one mo- ment of panic, one accident, can unleash a nuclear mghtmare upon the world Nothing would be left: then but the smoke curhng up from the ashes of our once beauiful planet It as quite possible that The reality of UIC? Dear f fhten Lrecently telephoned the Employment and lin migration cmployment centre to place an order for swite hbboard tclel fon a pend of one week PF was informed by the placement offseer that those on UIC are sccehing toll time em ployment and are not in terested ino working for one week and il was suggested | place an advertisement itn the newspaper Oualifie ations foot the postition wete prov beous capernmencc on n brassy switchboard 6S tines) and accurate typing bo received one ceferral from ClO and the appli ant bad onewer operated a switchboard! Ohas veitohboard girl replaces the Sarees accretarics foot vacation rehef and had we received someone suitable | would have foreseen con siderable cmploymeat in the coni, president and director of a number of jumor resource companies engaged nN oo, gas yds mineral exploration and develop- ment. Mayor Loucks also in- stalled the following 12 directors elected to serve two-year terms on the 27- member board: Tyke Babalos, Joseph there will be no human in- telligence then to make any kind of an assessment, but should there be, what kind of questions would he be asking himself as he surveyed the smoking ruins tn the wake of a nuclear holocaust? Firstly, | think he would have to ask himself why we did not realize that the piling up of nuclear arms as a deterrent to nuclear war was not only wasteful of human and material resources but in the year 1983 had become a totally futile exercise. All humanity, seemingly paralysed, watched with hor- ror as one deadly weapon succeeded another in the mad race for nuclear supremacy; a race in which all would lose; a race toward man’s extinction. Secondly, | think he would have to ask himself why. at this critical time in history, politicians should stull have felt constrained to hew to the party line? With nuclear annihilation staring us in the face why could not our representatives in parha- ment have shown some real leadership’ In the matter of human survival why did they not put their poliuical affiha- tions to one side and more tairly altempt to represent the people who elected them following months which could) possibly have bed to full time employment with our fem Pach week that a person who Vs collec ting U Le benefits as employed iota saving for us Che tana paryers Cantafio, John Croft, Zoltan Kuun, Kieran MacLeod, Ella Parkinson, Ken Quirk, Ernest Sarsfield, Bill Soren- son, Richard Spray, Thomas Ward and Jili Would. David Alsop, retiring president of the 77-year-old Chamber, was _ presented with an engraved plaque featuring a mounted gavel in recognition of his services during his year of office. to office? Instead, being creatures of habit, they clung desperately to their old traditional way of doing things. Had they developed a larger awareness in this one area alone, humanity might have been saved. Thirdly and perhaps most importantly I think, he would have asked himself why we did not realize that we had so little time left? Even back in 1983 had the governments of the world made a concerted effort to turn this thing around our chances of avoiding a nuclear war were not good, but we did have a chance. Instead, world leaders chose to squander this precious time when we might still have saved ourselves and all future generations, in a useless jockeying for posi- tion. Albert Einstein, one of the greatest scientists that ever lived, saw the picture clearly when he uttered these now famous words some years before his death, “The sphit- ting of the atom has changed everything save man’s mode of thinking and thus we drift toward unparalleled catastrophe ~ GH Rutherford Hedley BC Jo othink oat as) time the placement olficens of Linployment and Im migration changed theur thinking of my caperence was ands ative of the mora t brases North Name otuver Cookbook grant for NV seniors Tht STL NER HARBOL Cook book (Committee Nooeth Vane cree Baas been Kisco oa grant ol be ie ee publish an Casy too tread cope Drench The eetercape Pras crcomnaged all Silver Har tooreee epee metre es fee co cote tetova Ce epee s aay ac eede st as uae tently Prec ote beh ter en UL Mae thee ca tee Vestyan thre tithe teoe thre toe oe ok Ne noes will Seon rhve rcoipes market the trwook plan pathy aad make decistons aboul Content and design Crrouwp presideat ss Pdeaveor Cocndhey Pec dg oSe Croorpes Avenue Apt 1201 North N mee ousves Hh « ee en 9 | Now Phere econns ms a prhee readers cof thre Voc pra trane oto National Health anal Weeifare PHARMASAVE LYNN VALLEY CHECK & COMPARE OUR PRESCRIPTION PRICES | LYNN VALLEY WESTLYN PRICES GOOD UNTIL SAT. 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