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Wants to know all about crime

Dear Editor:

I was deeply interested in
Mr. O'Neill's letter on crime.
Fortunately I live in a
relatively peaceful neigh-
bourhood where the only
disturbance of peace is the
odd twit with a noisy stereo
or some wild maniac on a

motorcycle.
However, those of us who
have access to statistics

know that we are in the
midst of an unprecedented
crime wave of arson, thefts
and related offences, such as
vandalism in which those
involved show utter con-
tempt for — shall we say? —
the sane persons in our
society.

Throughout all this, the
police, the courts, and the
law-abiding public emerge in
a bad light for many reasons:
1. The police do not prevent

In praise of nurses

Dear Editor:

Florence Nighungale born
into a wealthy family and
later, having an independent
income of her own, had no
conception of what it meant
to live ona pittance.

She encouraged middle
and upper class girls anxious
to escape the intolerable
boredom of their lives, to
enter the new profesmon of

crime and have lost touch
with people. They decline to
leave their cars and get back
to basics i.e. patrolling
streets, talking to the public,
getting to know people,
correcting problems at an
early stage etc. In general,
returning to the concepts as
envisaged by Sir Robert
Peel, the founder of police
as we know them.

2. The courts will have to
return to a system of
penaities that will act as a
deterrent and warm those
vicious criminals such as
drug pushers, the violent
ones who terrorize, the
mental midgets who commit
senseless acts that their days
are numbered. In_ short
throw away the key. The far
north needs developing and
labour camps in those areas
for those hardened criminals

nursing. They had families to
return to if ill and usually a
legacy for their old age.

Nurses completely
dependent on their scanty
wages were in a different
position. The tradition that
nurses should be underpaid
is utterly unfair now such a
high standard of training is
required.

The nurse looks after the
patient for hours, the doctor

MP congratulates the

Dear Editor

May I extend my
congratulahons to you and
the staff of the North Shore
News the occasion of
being awarded first prize for
your outdoor ‘poster during

on

the recent Newspaper
Promotion Awards Com.
petition.

As we all know on the

North Shore, the News has
served us well and this award
is further proof of the quality

Double Burger
and Fries

who are a menace to us all
would soon solve the
problem,
perform useful
exchange for
lodging.

3. The public will have to
protest more, demand the
right to walk the streets, at
night, even in Ambleside
without being in fear. The
public will have to con-
tinuously contact the police
about crime or suspected
crime without being afraid to
do so. As they say in the
States, “Rat ona rat”.

In conclusion, the time
has arrived to say “enough is
enough”. To say to all that
B.C. is a beautiful place and
it is not going to be
terrorized, and tarnished by
these useless, unfit-to-live
misfits who would, if they
had their way, destroy us all.

work in
board and

sees them for minutes.
People spend huge sums
on liquor, drugs, gambling,
travel and cars and
politically, on nuclear and
conventional armaments.
Sooner or later everyone
becomes dependent on a
nurse for freedom from pain,
for recovery from illness, or
is cased to their final end.
Freda Handford
West Vancouver

NEWS

and success of the paper.
Best wishes for continued
success

Ron Huntington, MP
Otlawa

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so they could.

I, like Terrence O'Neill,
want all the misery of crime
statistics published in detail.
I want to know the truth, I
want to know how many
crimes there are, I want to
know how many are in-
vestigated, I want to know
how many are solved, I want
to know how many are
arrested, I want to know
how many are convicted. It

is our right to have these |

facts, at least weekly. The
mames of the judges and
sentences should also be
disclosed.

However, perhaps unlike
Terrence O'Neill, although
he is speaking with tongue in
cheek, I look forward to the
day when I read, “No crime
on the North Shore this
week, and only a handful in
B.C.”

IT
STARTS.

I will be happy in the
knowledge that finally
reason has prevailed, and
once again we have a society ©
to be proud of, and one
which will be the envy of the
world.

Maurice Coleman
North Vancouver

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