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Letthe schools
start educating —

- Dear Mr. Speck:

Mr. Jim McDowell
suggests we stop compulsory

schooling. This is definitely ~

not the answer. If it were,
50% or more of children
‘would stay, home and. too
many..uncaring parents
would let them grow up in
complete ignorance.

We all know that the
.school. system is in one
unholy mess. First of all we
have school trustees that
squander our tax money.
They have only one idea:
Spend more and more money
each year on stupid and
frivolous programs that will
never in a million years
improve the education of
our youngsters.

Then we have the. ad-
ministrators who have
allowed the mess to develop

because they have lost touch-

with reality.

Next - the teachers. I’m
quite certain that there are
many fine, dedicated
teachers who continue to
“educate but - how can the

~” remainder be assessed as to _

their capability? |

To improve the quality of
education, I suggest
everybody read “What our
schools are doing wrong”
appearing in the April 1979
issue of Readers’ Digest.
This is condensed from
“Barometer,” written by
John Godfrey, President of
the University of King’s
College, Halifax.

You would serve the

community if you obtained

permission to reproduce this
fine article. It is the miost
sensible approach to
revitalization of our
educational system that I

_have read.

It reminds me of my own
school years 1913-1925
during which period I was
educated by a terrific group
of teachers without
calculators or coffee breaks.

Let us insist that our
educational system start
educating - right now.

Ken Hutchison
North Vancouver

Cut the NEWS, _
save the trees

Dear Editor:

In reference to Peter
Speck’s article “Preserving
our ‘CapitaP” of April 15,
1979.

More trees would be saved
. from cutting if a paper like
yours refrained from
doubling the size and volume
for distribution, quite often
unsolicited, to. residents of
the North Shore. Frankly,
Mr. Speck should be in the
recycling business; look at
the golden opportunity he is
missing.

Stop polluting my yard
with unwanted copies of
your papers. B.C. would be

more beautiful and greener
if you did.

O.G. Zappa
West Vancouver

Dear Mr. or Mrs. Zappa:
For us to refrain from
growing would be economic
suicide. As advertisers
discover that the paper

works, we simply cannot -

refuse them access to our
publication. They pay the
writers, photographers,
typesetters, carriers and
taxes. If you or any other
North Shore residents do not
wish to receive the North
Shore News, simply phone
or write our circulation
department and your ad-
dress will be placed on our
Stop Delivery list — ED.

Newsprint
costs in acres

Dear Editor:

Peter Speck is to be ad-
mired for his valiant attempt
to calculate the number of
acres of British Columbia
forest required cach year to
produce 1% tons of
newsprint.

Unfortunately, despite his
diligence, 626,000 acres is
not the answer. Statistics
indicate that in 1978 some
379,000 acres were logged to
produce:

°*1'A million tons of
newsprint plus almost 1!
million tons of other paper

*3.6 million tons of pulp

©12,545,100,000 board feet
of lumber

©524 million square feet of
3/8” plywood, and enough
shakes and shingles to
cover 3.3. million square
fect of roof.

All of which was worth in
excess of 4% billion dollars.

D. Mudlaugsson
West Van

‘Secondary —
processing is a big
_ part of B.C. mining.

Many people believe that mining in B.C. consists mainly of extracting
ores from the ground and producing mineral concentrate for export to
foreign markets. But there's also a good deal of secondary processing
within our province ~—in fact, many thousands of people are now
employed in this “other side” of B.C’s mining industry.

A major centre for secondary mineral processing is located in the City of
Trail. Here, at the giant Cominco operation, minera! concentrate from many
sources is converted into lead, zinc and other finished metals...white a
by-product of metal production is used to produce chemical fertilizers.

An important source of concentrate for Trail is the Sullivan Mine at
Kimberley...but concentrate is also received from over 20 other B.C. mines,
from Pine Point in the Northwest Territories and from other world sources.
This Canadian-owned operation provides direct employment for nearly
4,000 people, and indirectly supports many thousands of others.

B.C. is also an important producer of aluminum The Alcan smelter at
Kitimat has a capacity of 300,000 tons of finished aluminum yearly, for sale
both within Canada and abroad. More than 2,500 people are employed

at this operation...and, as with the Trail plant, thousands more depend
on activity at Alcan for their livelihood.

The plants of Cominco at Trail and Alcan at Kitimat, are major centres

for secondary mineral processing—but there are also other such operations
within British Columbia. At Afton near Kamloops, tor example, B.C’s

first modern copper smelter began operating during 1977

The export of mineral concentrate to foreign nations will continue to be

an important part of B C’s mining activity But secondary processing will

play an increasingly prominent role in years to come It's all part of the

process of development which makes mining a vita! economic force
in British Columbia

MINING

“B.C’s second largest industry”
The Mining Association of British Columbia