6 - Friday, August 23, 1985'- North Shore News Editorial Page Think again ecent controversy over herbicide use on -the Skeena River floodplain and in the Comox Valley heave serious implica- tions beyond the immediate environmental and health concerns. os The: ‘ministry of forests ‘believes herbicides | * are. essential: if we: hope to realize returns a from the province’s most | productive forests sites. . . They... SRY... ‘herbicides. ‘are the. only way. sconoimically ‘to. control. ‘deciduous: oom ae ce susceptible. to chemical pesticide and ‘herbicide: use in the.50’s- luring ‘the. Vietnam ‘. War. the: cable ‘is - understandably worried: about: these mystify- By their own admission, forest . service ; people don’t’ fully: understand the chemicals - used and can’t ‘allay public: concerns even’ if. they can measure a chemical’s effectiveness. Their’ reaction” has been, to: “conduct her- bicide.. use and ‘experiments with” as littie. ublic input a as: possible, perime Garlon trials, a fier diving into Cyp ress Creek flood. control, West’ Va ancouver’ s ‘mayor ; _ ‘Derrick Humphreys and council came | up ‘all: wet.. Gyercome. by. Fisheries’ offer of. | | $150,000: in assistance;. they overiooked . ithe © organized. oppositioz of four families threaten ed by:the:quick decision. In future’ ‘Humphreys and council are well advised to took before re they ‘Display Advertising “980. ‘0st 1 . - Classified: ‘Advertising ° 988-6222 - Newsroom "7. "985-2134 Circulation , 986-1337 © . Subscriptions — 986-1337 ‘ “Publisher Peter Speck “General Manager Roger McAfee Operations Manager Berni Hilliard Marketing Director. . 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Press Council 56,245 (average, Wednesday Friday & Sunday) se SOA oe "“~ THIS PAPER IS RECYCLABLE “Dear Editor: ~”. Re: Mr. Hunters Column . * ticle; « “entitled “NO |. HOPE. FOR,, P, Oo. +? & th : ‘Mr.’ Hunter’s excellent ar-: “No Hope for . the P.O." clearly points up the inadequacies of the gov- “ernment when.it.gets involv-~ ‘eds in ANY. field of ; endeavor. ' ' In following up Pearson’s appeasement’ to his Tommy - Douglas. coalition gov- ny little things, and, amongst the 13,500 ‘laws’ passed annually by the Trudeau ilk, it was given the total protectionism of a ‘Law' which stated that-no- one could deliver. on their own, any thing that. might normally be carried by the Post Office or they will suf- fer some awful fate. © This ‘Law’ effectively stopped ANY . competition that you would’) normally ernment, pal. by giving civil-/ find in a free society between + servants ‘the right to strike,” the Trudeau gang went those “two old-time socialists one > better by ‘creating ‘‘bigger’ and better Crown Corpora- ‘tions’’. The Post Office was ‘then made one of these. fun- Cat that answered ° Dea Editor: oy In July 1984 we. ‘packed j up * and left our dream house on’ a West Vancoijer Island; we left our. friends, schools, but the greatest tug for’ my daugher was leaving our on- ly surviving family pet, the five year old cat, Briggs. But what else could we do? there and Briggsie would have to endure six months quarantine there, enough to make any cat neurotic, and when she was released, what if (unused to traffic after the ‘Island home) we lived near a main road? Unthinkable that she might perish that way. Turning down offers from friends on the mainland to take her, we were delighted to find the people buying the house would keep her, and, assured that we could see her when the children returned for visits. July, 1985, great excite- We were going to England to see if we could manage- like ‘corporations’ who offer a service!’ While the federal government deregulates .. real monopolies, it. wields a sledoe hammer against anyone who dares to com- corporate ment at the. prospect of a trip to Vancouver to see family, friends, - and pet! We phoned at once. Disaster. It seemed Briggs had become a nuisance to the family in our housé, and - Dear Editor: I agree with the McGrath Commission that individual M.P.’s: should have more say. But increasing their ‘perks’? won’t increase their clout. Cutting their numbers and limiting the size of the Cabinet (or Executive) will. Go for quality not quanti- ty. Limit the membership of the House of Commnons to 200. Keep Prime Ministerial appointments among M.P.'s to 40. Give the House’s 20 happily. the Conservative . pa has done nothing to change thes discriminatory ‘Laws’. anyone noticed’ what ‘thi ‘people’s gas station’ is ‘do- ve ing these days? Those voters who thought that they were replacing so- cialism with democracy. by voting Conservative should really be jumping: all over the backs of the Party hacks’ simply because anyone can ° see that this ‘new’. gov- ernment is ‘doing nothing, more than happily continu- ing the previous Ottawa te- nants’ tax funded socialist programs aided and abetted by their totally incompetant they had turned down offers from another “Island family . to take her on, and had in- stead carted her off to the North Vancouver S.P.C.A. for ‘adoption’. We all knew what that could mean. With all those Limit membership select and standing commit- tees more responsibility. Cutting the size of the Commons by a third and limiting the Executive to one out of every five M.P.’s will save the Canadian taxpayer $100 million annually. Parliament would be more functional, more affordable. It’s too bad the McGrath Commission didn’t see it that way! Hon, Jack Davis, M.L.A. North Vancouver-Seymour prised | with: ‘the: their: efforts, didn’t old Weak-Knees Baloney cave in to the’ de- mands’ of. the aging who are statistically : known:.to “have the’ lowest ‘voter. turnout, in’ every election? -" e Geoff Fenton; * North Vancouver ‘ back _ kittens to choose from, what chance . did.a: five. year old sassy cat have? : , Numerous .. phone “calls ‘have : yielded - nothing. Our. ‘only hope‘ to find out who adopted. her,’ and then perhaps be -reassured that she is being loved again... -- Did you, at any time from April on, take” into. your famity a:lovely silver’ tabby, - with clear golden eyes? ; She had fat front legs which: gave her.a kittenish' tip-toe look, a-nice white “tummy, perfect for tickling, and a. stripey racoon tail. She would stand on her hind ‘legs to ‘reach for her dish of food, miaowing piteously, but her most distinctive trait was to always answer back. Please tell us how. she is, and perhaps, if she gets on your nerves, too, you'll allow us to make arrange- ments to let her. rejoin the family who love her: Ann Hockey c/o 301-217 E. 10th North Vancouver afterall’?