of Grit rule.

Mr. Nielsen’s findings.

LATEST VICYIMS of Canada
Post may be musicians playing
some sour notes next fall. Finan-
cially sour, that is.

The Vancouver Symphony
Society mailed its 1986-87 seat
renewal applications to regular
subscribers five weeks ago, on
February 10, with the usual
renewal deadline of March 17. At
last Monday's (March 10) concert,
when a number of North Shore
patrons who normally take the
same seats year after year happen-
ed to get chatting during the in-
termission, it emerged that none of
them had yet received the applica-
tions.

Meanwhile, the VSS was getting
similar reports from other parts of

6 - Sunday, March 16, 1986 ~ North Shore News

News Viewpoint

By taking aim at both the bureaucrats and Bay
Street the report itself can hardly fail to have popular
appeal. But the big remaining question, of course, is
what Mr. Mulroney wili eventually DO about smart

Smart Mr. Nielsen

Politically, the Nielsen task force report on federal
spending and programs is one of the Mulroney pov-
ernment’s smartest moves to date.

The report confirms what the rest of us have long
known by instinct, namely that spending by Ottawa’s
overblown bureaucracy is wildly out of control. The
government can take credit for officially exposing the
situation and use it as a stick with which to beat the
Liberals and NDP for their profligacy during 16 years

At the same time, the report recommends no basic
changes in health and welfare payments, and found no
real evidence of weifare ‘‘cheating’’. So social pro-
grams seem likely to survive — taking some of the
steam out of opposition claims that Tories grind the
faces of the poor to benefit the rich.

The most significant revelation is that tax incentives
for business are costing $36 billion a year — more than
enough to wipe out the current deficit.

The business world, which has strongly criticized the
Mulroney government for not doing more to slash the
deficit, is now painted as the real ‘welfare bum’’. By
implication, it is being challenged to put its money
where its mouth is by foregoing vast handouts from
Ottawa — a move, incidentally, that could well im-
prove the climate of free trade negotiations with the

the Lower Mainland. They called
the post office, says VSS marketi-
ng lady Camilla Ross, to ask
whether a bag had gone lost — but
apparently with no satisfaction. So
now, with the original deadline
tomorrow (though the Society will
obviously have to extend it), they
have no means of knowing how
many of their vital bread-and-
butter supporters are failing to
renew simply because they’ve never
received their forms. With its re-
cent financial history, that’s some-
thing the VSS just doesn’t need.

“If you don’t have a_ postal
system, you don’t have a coun-
try,’’ fumed one indignant
subscriber. Maybe not even an or-
chestra, either...

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HAVING A BALL...Miss North Shore Pageant creator Gertie Todd
(r) with Cathy Lee, 1986 Miss Chinatown, and political friend.

LETTER OF THE DAY

Has anyone here seen Jacques Chaput?

Dear Editor:

On Friday the 14th of October
1977, my brother Jacques Chaput,
just over 17 of age, doesn't come
home.

In spite of his persona! pro-
blems, his problems at school and
in spite of the frequent arguments
at home, Jacques had never siept

out.
The foliowing day, my mother

and [called all of his friends, but
nobody knew where he was

We then found a lette: ino his
room, in which Jacques explained
tomy mother that he would try lis
luck on Ontarie, that there wats

nothing meaningful to keep him
home, that we should not worry,
that he woiuld write to us in a
short while.

My mother believing that it was

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FUNDS FOR FAMINE...Recent Centennial Theatre show sponsored by Ismaili Women’s Organization

i. Abe pours A

photo by Riez Shivjt

brought $5,000 plus generous audience donations to Mayor Derrick Humphreys’ Famine Relief Fund. Above
(i to r) Marie Rusnak, Fateh Damji, Zeri Aziz (IWO chairmaa), Mayor Humphreys, John Bannister, Saku

PAYROLL QUEENS of North
Van, Dorothy Hughes joins her
twin sister Gladys Hughes this
month to start enjoying their
retirement together. Born in North
Van in 1921, both attended
Ridgeway Elementary, graduated
from North Van Secondary and
later from Sprott-Shaw Business
College. For 29 years Dorothy has
been in the payroll department of
North Van School District. And
for 41 years, until her own retire-
ment in 1984, Gladys worked in
the payroll department of Lions
Gate Hospital. Between them,
they've processed more Novsth
Shore pay cheques than any other
living beings.

Nice to think how many happy
ISths and 30ths of the month
you've given to so many thousands
of your neighbors, Dorothy and
Gladys. May your own years ahead
be just as golden!
te

THE SURNAME -- just in case
you're apt to jump to conclusions
— is NOY Mouskouri. Suzy
Crowder, a 29-year veteran of the
LGH Dogwood Shop, and hus-
band Joe started their marriage 45
years ago in the home at 21st and
Kings, West Van, where they still
live. It must have been a good
marriage and a good home because
out of it have come three sons,
three daughters and #4 (repeat 14!)
grandchildren. That’s why Suzy
splurged on those vanity licence
plates for her car.
They read NANA,

better not to try and stop him,
convinced that trying 10 force him
to come home would only make a
difficult: situation worse, decided
not to alert the police immediately.
My two brothers and my sister had
just about the same opinion.

Six months passed and not a
word from Jacques.

We then alerted the police but in
vain; they fold us that they were

Rashid, Richard Wagner, Dargis Jaffner.

Noel Wright

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WHAT A BALL! — that’s Gertie
Todd's grand ball this August to
mark her 35th Miss North Shoe
Pageant. As guests of honor she
wants all 35 queens PLUS all the
contestants for each year since
1951. If you’re one of them, or
know of any, Gertie would love to
hear from you at 985-0555 or
988-1536, or write her at 124 West
16th, North Van V7M 1T4,

ee

SCRATCHPAD: Not too late for
friends of Harold and Mary
Ramsbottom, North Shore resi-
dents for 34 years prior to 1983, to
raise a glass to the happy couple
who recently celebrated their
“Golden 50th’’ in Richmond,
where they now live. Married in
Edmonton, they moved to the
coast’ shortly afterwards Harold
making his career with B.C. Fer-
ries and Mary working for 19 years
at Lions Gate Hospital — with son
Dennis, daughter Judith and five
grandchildren arriving at due in-
tervals along the way ... Popular
Kim Patrick, veteran dispatcher at
Sunshine Cabs who bends over
backward to help customers, was
literally struck speechless on the
job a short time back when her jaw
suddenly locked and not another
sound would issue forth. But hap-
pily nothing too serious, it seems
— LGH medics in emergency
reportedly unlocked the lady’s jaw
in minutes (ouch!) ... Planned for
the class of °53 at Victoria Normal
School (now Camosun College) is
a three-day reunion party starting

incapable of finding him, but that
they were keeping his file and that
in case of new developments, they
would contact us.

Slowly, resignation settled in
with the passing of months and
years. After cight years, not know-
sng what became of my brother, |
decided to take steps to find him,

1 contacted “Enfants Retour” in
Laval, Que., an organization

August 8. Ken Leighton, 1747
Mortimer, Victoria V8P 3A1
(phone 477-6336) invites all

‘*Normal’’ grads of that year to
contact him ... Still on the reunion
trail, Selkirk College, Castlegar,
celebrates its 20th anniversary this
year with a whole string of events
including a homecoming and open
house (dates not given). Old
Selkirkians can write Joseph Lintz,
Box 1200, Castlegar VIN 3J1 for
info .... Tudith McPhie (987-8141,
tuval 268) needs volunteers to help
run ‘‘cultural immersion’’ pro-
grams for haif a dozen students at
a time, in the Squamish Indian
longhouse they've built at North
Van School District’s Outdoor
School in Paradise Valley. The
two-day programs, continuing
from spring through fall, sound
fun ... And talking of fun, make a
date to see ‘Sweet Charity’, pro-
duced by West Van Senior Sec-
ondary’s theatre Group, which
repeats this Thursday, Friday and
Saturday (March 20, 21, 22) at
7:30 p.m. in the school
auditorium.
eee

WRIGHT OR WRONG: A closed
mouth gathers no feet.

photo submitted
GOLDEN DAY...Mary and
Harold Ramsbottom chalk up
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which specializes in) such cases.
They advised me to write to you,
to tell you Jacques’ story, in the
hope that this might help me to
find him.

I am of course at your dispasi-
tion for more information.
Louise Chaput-Bourget
2369-B, Lajoie
Trois-Rivieres, PQ G8Z 7G4
*(819) 373-0793