-*Dear Editor: ,
* The Dec. 6 issue of your
paper carried. a
’ Shipbuilding Consortium at-

; ‘tempting to secure Russian

ce contracts to build
. icebreakers to. bring 3,000
- well-paying jobs. to North
Vancouver. Three thousand
jobs .in North Vancouver
would translate into 18,000
jobs. in: ancillary trades
across’ Canada, no small
contribution to rejuvenating

‘ the economy. .

_ The. Soviets are interested

“but need some way of paying

for’ the: ships besides hard

cash but “our federal and
provincial." governments are

not cooperating in putting: a

{+ deal together. Why?

“The: federal. government

“ean quite happily conclude a

wheat -. sale to ‘the: Soviet

“At ‘does, where beer is con-
cerned; apparently. A cou-
ple of weeks ago,. for in-
stance,. there was a- beer
price war in East Van-
couver. The deliciously-
[J named Funky Winkerbean
oy { Was selling suds for 35 cents
a glass. Others were charg-
ing 60 cents instead of the
usual horrendous dollar.
Along comes the Nosey
| Parker Liquor Licensing
‘| Board, hoarsely complain-
ing that it's illegal for pubs
to.sell beer at below ‘cost.
-y ‘We've reported them tc
WVictoria,’’ ‘stated -a
bureaucrat. ; .
ue We ‘all. know that liquor
Prices and-sales are bound
‘pup in. more red: tape than
“anyone can handle, but that
was a new one for me. “
Pretty “soon, they'll ‘be
at outlawing . gasoline. price
sd Wars, Already, a gas station
owner ‘in Ontario has had
{his pumps. locked up “by
‘| Petro-Can: for:: trying . to
is competitors’

- Over in: East’ Van, the’
{beer cwar. iS over. Some
: J owners say that had nothing
‘|to-do -with Nosey Parker.
But ‘I'don’t believe them.
Nosey: Parker could put
therm out ‘of business, you
iknow: :
Get’. rid of the beer
‘fbureaucrats, Bill Bennett.
Free the suds! :

ke ae *
“My recent column on the

story re

away: for promotion purposes?

. And that’s as bad as saying

sonal pronoun ‘he, as in

Union’ but turn a blind eye
to shipbuilding. The/ gov-
ernment can practically give
away our aircraft industry,
at taxpayers’ expense, to a
U.S. company but not lift a

finger to supply 3,000 jobs
to a province with the
highest unemployment rate
in Canada. | ask again,
why? .

This opportunity must be

seized to create jobs for
shipyard workers and to save
our shipbuilding ‘industry!
The Consortium, the Unions
and the politicians must put
pressure on the government

Ungentlemanly behavior

Dear Editor:

On Sat., Jan. 5, the last
weekend of my husband's
vacation, my husband and I
took our dog for a walk.

As we walked along
Sechelt our dog defecated on
a corner of the sidewalk. We
were at fault. We had not
brought.a bag to collect the

media’s abuse of the
English language brought
lots of mail. It included.a
letter from Mr. Allan B.:
Evers of North Van,’ who
enclosed a clipping from the
Evening Wimp in which the
word “amend’’ appeare:
twice as ‘‘ammend’’, show-
ing that neither the editors
nor the reporter who wrote
the item know how t¢ spell.
But wait! Whom do iwe
see here, sinning like crazy?:
None other .than Mr.
Perfect himself. ;
Remember my column on

sharks? The sharp-toothed
and sharp-eyed Mr. Evers
pointed out that I had writ-
ten “‘maul’’ when “‘maw’?*
was meant. A” man ‘had
disappeared into the maul
of a damned great. Great -
White, was how 1, put it.,

that someone had
“flaunted” the‘law, which

was what a. CBC news
reporter’ stated the other
night.

The result of my mawful

‘error is old Daddy Parsons --

keeps appearing in my
dreams. Yes, the. famous
old English teacher shakes
his ghostly head and says he
always knew I would come
to no good.

wk Kw O*

A letter in The Globe &
Mail shows how nutty it is
to try to rid the language of

“male chauvinism’’. (You
know, the all- inclusive per-

get a job interview.

feces. We continued walk-
ing...

Running towards us was a
middle-aged jogger in a
black track suit. 1 com-
mented on his energy and we
continued. Suddenly, | heard
fect: pounding the sidewalk
behind us and as I turned to
look felt something hit me
hard in the small of my
back.

| Doug Collins

© get this straight ©

“An applicant should not
be a fool, he should be
wise.. ").

| The letter read:

“Any = student entering
university to study medicine
could simply be asked
whether fhe or she would
like to study under (this)
program or pay 100 per cent
of all costs incurred in his
or her education...

“If Ae or she opts for the
socialized form of educa-
tion, the Ontario Health In-
surance Plan rules apply.
Otherwise, Ae or she is free
to bill to the extent that’ /e
or she feels is appropriate."

Ugh!

I pointed out some time
ago that that's the kind of
“English’’ they teach in.
trendy Cap College,
whereupon a reader sug-
gested that what is needed is

-“a:new pronoun embracing

feminine, masculine and
neuter inthis order: SHE,
HE, IT. Common usage, he
explained, would soon

. reduce it to a shorter and

more suitable form.
* ke *

There is depressing news
concerning. former col-
league Evelyn Caldwell
who, as Penny Wise, once
wrote a great consumer
column.

Evelyn has endowed a

‘$2,500 journalism scholar-

ship for women.

Don't you know, Evelyn
dear girl, that what is need-
ed now is a journalism
scholarship for men? | see
nothing. but fems around
today’s newsrooms. Pretty
soon, men will have to wear
falsies and ‘lipstick even to

The jogger. was yelling
obscenities at us and had
hurled, the dog feces at me
from a black flower pot in
which he had obviously col-
lected them.

1 was and still am flab-
bergasted. Children learn
from the examples adults
set. [ am sad to think that
we have neighbors so lacking

in self-esteem that they hurl f

dog excrement at strangers
rather than asking these
strangers to pick up their Jit-
ter. ,

Jeanette Froese

North Vancouver.

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