Dear Editor:

Your suggestion re use of
the government's short term
deposits to provide low-
interest mortgages is
scandalous. Government
must govern and administer
the province’s affairs for the
benefit of all residents. To
do that it must reduce its
cash float to the smallest

ossible amount and then it
ust negotiate the highest
possible rate of return on it.
There’ is absolutely no

Seniors

Day ‘joy’
Dear Editor:

At the risk of repeating
myself, as I did last year, I
would again like to give a
huge vote of thanks to
Shoppers Drug Mart
Capilano Mall for their
annual Sr. Citizens’ Day. A
good many hours of planning
and personnel must be in-
volved; They deserved a lot
of credit. So for the many Sr.
Citizens like myself, 'm sure
all agree it “made their day”
and added an extra bit of joy
to their lives, to know
they’re remembered that one
day.

In appreciation,

Joyce Cameron
North Vancouver

Put 50% down onh

reason why 2,700 people
should be given low rate
mortgages at public expense
and it would be irresponsible
of government.to do so.

Do you realize that while
rates of interest are now
twice what they were ten
years ago, the Consumer
Price Index-is two and a half
times and the Composite
Index of Industrial Earnings
is more than two and a half
times what they were ten
years ago. That interest rates

are the cause of the
recession in the housing
business is the biggest “big

_lie” that we have had for

years. The high cost of
carrying a mortgage is due to
the size of the mortgage
required to cover the high
cost of the house and the
preposterously small down
payments with which people
are being allowed to “buy”
houses — not the rate of
interest.

No one should be allowed

Why does LGH
hide salaries?

Dear Editor:

Why is it that, as a tax-
payer, | am refused a copy of
the Lions Gate Hospital
budget. (I do not want the
annual general report, I
want the actual budget.)
Why, when I asked for the
budget was I given the third
degree about who I am and
why I want this budget? Why
am I not allowed to know the
salaries of administrators ?
My taxes are paying their
wages.

To take this a step further,
why is it that only the North
Shore News will print letters
giving another point of view

on the restraint program? I
notice NDP candidate David
Shreck has his letters
published regularly in the
Vancouver press, I'm sure
I'm not the only one writing
in trying to present another
point of view and if my
letters are published, 75% is
taken taken out!

Somehow I have _ the
feeling our freedom to know
and our freedom of ex-
pression are being seriously
controlled and manipulated.

Sue Cook
North Vancouver

Thanks to two Samaritians

Dear Editor:

I would appreciate using
your newspaper to express
my thanks to two young
fellows who were
“Samaritans” who cheerfully
and courteously performed a
very good deed.

The other Saturday night,
my duaghter-in-law and her
two young daughters and
myself went out for the

evening as a treat to the girls
to mark the close of their
successful school year. Their
mother had been loaned the
use of a van from a relative
for

the cvening. We

V7M 2114.

986-1146

Keep it short-
and signed

SHORT LETTERS (300 words or less) have a much
better chance of being published while still timely than
fonger ones. Our policy is to publish leauers — within
space limitations — on the widest varicty of topics of
interest to readers everywhere on the North Shore.
Over-lengthy letters crowd oat letters on other topics
that concern many readers.

All letters must be signed and include the writer's
LEGIBLE name, address and phonc number. if you
have a good reason for wishing your name to be
withheld, we will sot print it — but we must know
who you are. The address is: Mailbox, North Shore
News, 1139 Lonsdale Avenue, North Vancouver, B.C.

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travelled from her home in
N.Van. to W.Van. where we
had supper and went to an
enjoyable show. However,
on getting into the van to
travel home it refused to
Start.

My daughter-in-law asked
two young fellows in their
late teens if they could help
when they stopped their car
ncar by. They spent some
time checking out different
things without success.

It was getting late for
buses and neither of us had
cnough moncy left for taxi
fare. The two young fellows

who were driving a Datsun
kindly offered to drive us
home.

They refused to take any
money for their trouble and
said it was “their pleasure”.
We didn't find out their
names but, fellows, I hope
you read this and a great big
“Thank you” to you from the
four of us.

Frances Thompson
Coquitlam, B.C.

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to buy a house without
paying at least 50% of the
cost in cash. The financial
disaster that the country and
many of its citizens are* in
today is due to the credit
binge they have been on for
fifteen years. Now it is time
to get back to a _ cash
economy in which
respectable people simply do
not mortgage their houses.

Gordon McKee
North Vancouver

Pageant job
well done

To all sponsors, donors,

1982 Miss North Shore
Pageant.

I would like to convey my
most heartfelt thanks to each
and every one of you.
Without you this pageant
could not have been the
success that it was, nor could
it even have been possible.

This pageant had
seventeen of the loveliest
young ladies, and the Narth
Shore should be extremely
proud to have young people
like this participating in
community affairs.

The people who played
host for the various
functions deserve a special
thank you and personal wish
for prosperity, as you
certainly deserve it.

God bless you all.

(Mrs.) Gerti Todd
Association Coordinator

Dear Editor:

Getting to the roots of the
business tax problem, sure,
but why don't they do
something in the municipal
halls instead of blaming
everybody else for their own
incompetence. The way
things were going, these big
spenders thought there was a
bottomless supply of money
coming in forever and got a
jolt when the provincial

government put on the
brakes. And since some.
lefties have infiltrated

councils and school boards,
things have gone from bad to
worse.

And while one NV council
member seems to have the
answer to everything, who is
going to pay for this all? We
got already a $20 billion
deficit; another $20 billion
doesn’t seem to make any

‘difference to him.

And as long as wages seem
to go out of control and
productivity is even
declining at a faster rate, we
don't need new manufac-
turing plants. Or does he
want to devaluate the

Canadian dollar down to a

dime to compete in the
* world market?

And for what do we need

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A7 - Sunday, July 11, 1982 - North Shore News

_ another merchant marine?

We are still suffering from
the last one, finally
disbanded in the fifties?
We've got too many crown
corporations and govern-
ment institutions already,
which only cost us money.
We would be better off
selling them. Just look at the
recently created Crown
corporation, “our post of-

fice”; after the outrageous

increase, they still muster a
$600 million deficit.

And I think the federal
government hasn’t gone far
enough with the 6%. They
should have frozen wages for
good. And have you ever
heard big labour com-
plaining about the interest
they rake in for their own
money, or have they ever

offered financial help for low
interest money to their
members?

S. Rellat

A working man

West Vancouver

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