As ‘the technology. of man becoines terestngly more sophisticated, so does his al + Rage 2, Jamuaty:34,1979-Sumday News . ae bility to peer into secret places. The electron microscope explores the. microcosnt, and the high-flying. plane, the satellite and __ the radio-telescope - explore the macrocosm. Our. picture of the universe becomes . more complete every day, and mysteries become harder and harder to find. ‘Such ‘a mystery is the Sasquatch. Known all over the world by different names, the Sasquatch is the epitome of the unknown. Science has yet to prove its — existence by means of ‘hard . evidence’ (by shooting or capturing one or discovering its skeleton) but its existence has been accepted by many as reality. North Shore Indian people, for instance, have legends of Sasquatches being sighted here, many years ~ - Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas has ‘been beard (604) 980-0511 986-6222 CIRCULATION 986-1337 ied "many times. The United States _Army has_ the existence of the being, and even produced a map with every recorded sighting of the Sasquatch reproduced on it. _I was a skeptic until about three years ago. Then I. interviewed a trucker who had seen a large hairy being cross his field of vision just after he Princeton highway. His : ‘description was so clear, and details of his story partner, sleeping when the «truck over. Their ex- citement was real, and I knew them personally well enough to know that neither was the type to make such a story up. SASQUATCH ’ ON FILM Then I saw a piece of film of the Sasquatch. The film dispelled any idea of fakery. The creature that I saw was alert and suspicious, and had shoulders far too wide to - be a man. He(?) was six and a half to seven feet tall, and weighed about four to five hundred pounds, and walkta”’* like a man, not a gorilla. Yet he looked a bit like a gorilla, im the sense that he had long, black hair that seemed to be ideal for the shedding of A SPACEMAN? Maureen (age cight) thinks that the Sasquatch might be a spaceman. Supposing that his spaceship crashed,” she reasons, “and he was ing around lost, and people were shooting at him, and chasing him, and things.” speckelations | dogs — pulled his rig over to the shoulder on the Hope- . this’ being must view humans, with their rifles and and Speeding automobiles,--and I wonder how. many times he or they have been shot at, and what our mentality is to take such a belligerent position to such a magical creature. NO PROOF “But there’s no real proof,” wail the experts. “Show. us proof, and we'll believe there’s a Sasquatch. We need real ewidence—not ‘a bunch of rumours and hysterical eyewitnesses.” When questioned, they usually say that they want the carcass or the bones of the ‘animal.’ rm ‘afraid that, by satisfying the ‘experts,’ we © will kill the mystery—and that would be tragic indeed. To snuff out something so interesting merely to satisfy the desire of an academic for ‘proof,’ when the existence of a Sasquatch could probably now be accepted in a court of law, based on circumstantial evidence of footprints, twenty or more sightings (by policemen, truck drivers, hunters and others), movie film, still photographs, bent and broken bushes, etc., would PLEASE... So, please, please don't shoot the Sasquatch. As his territory shrinks and humans pry into every secret place it's only a matter of time before we mect the Sasquatch. Let’s wait till then, and extend the hand of friend- ship and trust to this cn- chanted being. Let's not meet him over the sights of a rifle and turn one of the world’s last myueries into so much Basic drink - fo cost less Here’s a switch ... the cost of an essential commodity went down in price this year. The commodity: water. The Greater Vancouver Regional District (GVRD), which supplics water to municipalitics throughout the metropolitan area, has reduced the price from 2.82 cents per cubic metre — the rate ¢stablished last March — to 2.72 cents per cubic metre. The revised 1978 rate is lower than that for 1977 and 1976 and virtually the same as 1975. It is also lower than rates that were charged in the carly 1900s. This is the price at which the GVRD sells water wholesale to its member municipalities. 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