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Dear Editor:

To adopt your suggestion
that unemployment become
a “respectable occupation”
would be more defeatist than
enlightening for a country
such as ours.

In “A New Look at the
Jobless” you claim the
900,000 unemployed
Canadians present a
menacing problem to our
industrial society. I would
like to suggest these
unemployed represent a
resource for Canada.

I agree we are all sick of
rampant consumerism which
in itself fuels inflationary
credit fires. However, we
have the necessary energy
and raw materials in this
land of ours to enable the
unemployed to participate in
a healthy and productive
manner. The key is
productivity. I feel your

European proposals of
banning overtime, work
sharing, etc., to be counter
productive in a competitive
world.

If we were each to double
our personal! productivity we
would open up world
markets hitherto closed to
Canada. (Witness the
Japanese since 1974). Hence
the unemployed would be
needed to fill the added
export orders for both raw
materials and manufactured

goods.
To say the “guilt” for
unemployment should be

placed on society implies we
live in a non-determinist
world. In Canada the choice
is still the individual's. Let's
not give up the chalienge
because we've failed in the
past.

David W. Morgan
North Vancouver

Gas cap theft
a ‘dirty deed’

Dear Editor:

This letter is to the person
who was seen stealing the
gas cap off my Toyota car
while it was parked at the
Inglewood, Private Hospital
on Sunday afternoon, March
16.

While I was in the hospital
doing a good deed, you were
outside doing a dirty deed. I
hope you can sleep at night.

It's a shame we can’t even
visit the sick without
someone spoiling it for us.

If you should have a
change of heart, you can
return my gas cap to the
address below. Thanks a lot.

Mrs. E. Gardner
603 East 4th Street .
North Vancouver V7L 1J9

MR. DOUG BENTLEY, Manager of
Dollar Branch has transferred to our Marine
Drive Branch and looks forward to serving
members at his new location. Doug has a
vast experience in banking, having served
with a chartered bank as well as more than
10 years in the credit union community

Dear Editor:

“Cats are good friends”
(M. Rose, Mailbox, March
16) requires — nay, demands
— rebuttal.

I was mildly astonished to
have Rose interpret my
previous letter as cats vs
dogs. I'm certain that mest
readers saw it as cats vs
birds. I don’t even own a
dog! Furthermore, I'm quite
in support of dog controls.

In the matter of
defecation mentioned by
Rose, no one = enjoys

cleaning up after someone
else’s dog — or cat. Snll, I
prefer a dog deposit in plain
sight to sticking my fingers
into a cat contribution when

I’m running my _ hands
through newly-cultivated
soil.

Rose is wrong in deducing

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that I appear to want “the
entire feline population
decimated”. Good Lord. All
I suggested was that cats be
brought under some kind of
licensing control.

In Bulletin No. 1,
Biological Series 10, of the
Victoria Memorial Museum
in Ottawa, internationally-
recognized and highly-
respected researcher Percy
Taverner had this to say
about cats and birds:

“Probably the worst
enemy of the Robin is the
domestic cat, and annually
great numbers fall prey to it.

“In general, we cannot
have béth cats and birds
close about us, for only very
rarely is it possible to teacha
cat not to catch birds. Not
even the best and fattest and
laziest of them can resist the
stealthy stalk and _ rapid

Let Greenpeace
present its case

OPEN LETTER TO NV
DISTRICT COUNCIL

I would lke to object
strongly to your discussion
and treatment of the
Greenpeace Foundation
during your recent meeting.

As a Greenpeace member
who lives in the District of
North Vancouver, I resent
Council not allowing

nnouncement

MR. LEN GATTO, Assistant General Manager of
Operations is pleased to announce the following
management appoin

tments.

conn

MR. BILL COLLINS, of the Lonsdale
Branch Loans
pointed to replace
manager of the Dollar Branch, Bill looks for-
ward to meeting members and welcomes the
opportunity to serve them. Bill's previous
experience was with a chartered bank and
he has been involved in the credit union com-
munity for nearly 3 years.

North Shore Community

Credit Union

5 Branches serving North Vancouver

The

Greenpeace to present its
case to the people who live
in this area. Greenpeace is
fighting to preserve the
priceless natural resources
we have in British Columbia,
and your action only shows
that you oppose such
conservation.

Mrs. Hanna Liang
North Vancouver

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pounce, when the occasion
offers, even though they
afterwards refuse to eat their
prey.

“As a destroyer of vermin,
the cat is a failure. In
campaigns against rodent
carriers of disease, it was
found useless. A few traps
intelligently set are much
more effective than many
cats.”

Rose states that “the
average cat has probably
never managed to catch a
bird at all”. ] can’t see cat
owners in general agreeing
with that; not when they see
evidence to the contrary all
the time. And, even though
this is the nature of the

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balance of nature, by
Allowing an oOver-abundance
of cats in populated areas,
that it's a wonder we have
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R.C. Willett

North Vancouver

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