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THE HERALD Wednesday August 1989 Page Opinion Page 30 years ago Georgetown resident Mrs J C Stoddart was in charge of this years arrangements for the an nual Canadian Legions Womens Auxiliary picnic held this week at the Georgetown Park All children under the age of five were awarded as well a number of races were held for the children In the girls race for six and seven-year- olds Kay Ashley and Cathy King took first Other winners in a whole range of age categories in cluded Kathy 7 Paula Hube Frank King 7 and Doug McDonald 8 Pop ice cream and balloons were handed out to all participants Although people were winners at the Kinsmen bingo game held at the Georgetown Arena this week the grand prize of went unclaimed The Monster Bingo was one of a series put on by the Kinsmen Club There were a number of specials and 15 regular games during the funfilled even ing The series chairman George said the sticky and hot weather kept the number of par ticipants under 300 But he ex pected more people to attend future games 15 years ago Georgetown resident John Tost joined the Royal Canadian Mounted Police He left for the RCMP Training Centre in Saskatchewan this week where he will begin training to become a police officer Mr Tost is the son of Mrs L Caruso and the late Duncan C Tost He is a graduate of Chapel Street Public School and Georgetown and District High School The Canadian Radio and Televi sion Commission approv ed Georgetown Cable Televisions application to expand its service to Milton land Acton The stations president and general manager Arthur said the necessary construction would start as soon as possible 10 years ago Aclon residents Arlington and White celebrated their golden anniversary this week The reception was held in the basement of St Josephs Roman Catholic Church the same church that they were married in 50 years earlier Father McGreary married the young couple Mr White retired in 1971 after 51 years with Beardmore and Company Ltd The couple has two children Joan Tyres of Acton and Jerome White of Mane both of whom attended the celebration James Bebrou of Georgetown was a finalist in the Pepsi Cola Bluegrass Festival Five String Banjo contest held at the concert shell Blue Mountain Foundations for the Arts Collmgwood Ontano years ago The Amencan Legion Post of Plymouth Massachusettes were scheduled to be the invited guests of the Royal Canadian Legion Branch in Georgetown The visit is to coincide with the War Day Parade at the Canadian National Exhibition Printing and Publishing Company one of Ac tons largest employers announced it was leaving town by the years end The Willow Street press and composing facility and the full time employees are scheduled to be transferred to the companys plant Company presi dent John Baxter assurred that all fulltime employees would be ab sorbed into the company Breathe new life into smoke free rooms Everybody knows somebody who has asthma While you dont think about it much as an adult because playing and running are no longer such a big deal children notice each others quirks My ex roommate in university had fairly severe asthma She was a medical student and had charts up on her bedroom walls She used to show me how the lungs would close up and breathing would become difficult Fine I thought asthma Well it wouldnt kick in too often I assured myself But I underestimated her sensitivity One night I had a few fnends in after a show downtown One school chum of mine lit up a cigarette it was about 3am and Lori would have been fast asleep She came charging out of her room armed with an extinguisher asking where the smoke was com ing from My roommate was a lit tle cautious But my best friend through early high school also had asthma Her condition was not very pronounc ed but she used to tell me about it Asthma I thought well it cant be too serious I had noticed her a little short of breath when we ran to catch buses but I didnt think too much about it The key there is not thinking too much about asthma That can have the effect of being unsympathetic to people with a senous breathing problem Thoughtlessly smoking in elevators bus shelters anywhere else where people are contained in a small area is selfish Thoughtlessly allowing someone to smoke in our downtown Toronto apartment ws also selfish The school environment we find increasingly in needs to be dust free to accommodate the sen sitive Pollution while bad for us all has a more devestating impact on those with asthma They can literally stop breathing for a mo ment Thats pretty alarming They say deaths due to asthma are on the increase either because of the advanced communication methods some call the global village which allows us to hear about everyone everywhere or because the environment is just getting plain worse But either cause or both causes are a more senous situation Many of us have at least minor allergies to common substances such as ragweed Do we know what it feels like to be restricted in our breathing The sad thing is when you see so meone as I saw my university roommate armed with a small suitcase full of medication And on the other hand you have people un sympathetic to asthma patients and unwilling to make small sacrifices -LETTERS- New national sales tax is the last straw Editors Note The following lei lo MP Garth Turner was filed with the Herald or publication Garth Turner MP 27 Main Street South Georgetown Ontario L7G 1 want to let you know that am one of the quiet hard working law abiding tax paying middle class and am fed up with the way this great country is being run into the ground Federal Finance Minister Michael Wilson s propos ed tax grab is the last straw When I came to this country years ago I took the first job I could get at a year and could sup port my wife and myself quite comfortably Today I earn over five times that amount and with my wife working at temporary jobs its a struggle to make ends meet We dont live extravagantly we have two school age children one five year old car and a modest semidetached house with mortgage What has happened over the years though is that the percentage of my pay taken in taxes has gone up and up and up I see this hard earned money wasted on a bloated overpaid underwork ed expanding federal service a dead weight on the whole economy a bloated overpaid underwork ed diplomatic corps bilingual ism lor English speaking Canada but not Quebec which keeps emphasising our differences useless crown corporations Canada Post open at hours to suit the employees only and Invest merit Canada rubber stamp operators come to mind mediately overpaid MP s and Senators with fat perks including even moer pay for committee work an unnecessary new embassy in Washington an unnecessary pew of Man an unnecessary move of the space program to Montreal gifts to third world tin pot Marxist dictatorships keeping sadistic mass murderers in idle comfort looking after illegal im migrants and socalled refugees usually the garbage world while thousands of honest Cana dians are homeless and depend on food banks to survive and I could go on and on and on Do you think can keep in creasing taxes Do you think theres a bottomless pit of money out here in the real world We re already paying over per cent in direct and indirect taxation Enough is enough And what does your government cut next to nothing on the above instead it cuts Defence submarines that can be used to protect our sovereignty and create productive jobs for Canadians Compare our military strength now to what it was in another indication of how the country has been mismanaged Unemployment Insurance needed more than ever now thai the effects of Free Trade are beginning to be felt Via Rail ecologically sound which with the proper investment could lead the world and create productive jobs for Canadians all this apart from its historical im portance Again I could go on and on and on Where the hell is your sense of I get the definite impres that you your government think that hard working Canadians are a bunch of sheep just meant to be fleeced Youd do well to remember that when its back is to the wall even the most docile animal will fight back Mr R Kathwaroon Consort Crescent Burlington More letters on page 11 Empty classrooms are partly due to abortion reader says Dear Sir School enrolment has decreased dramatically in the past few years while the total population has re mained steady The headline Decline in enrolment a mystery made front page in a local paper last weekend In the nine schools within Hills in Kindergarten through Grade there are pupils and 1964 empty spaces The shortage of youngsters which is now apparent in the schools will soon have a rip ple effect on other services Fewer children now means fewer people in the work force in the years to come Fewer young people will have to support a growing number of pensioners The cost of labor will increase significantly and its infia tionary effect will be felt in all areas of the economy from higher deficit and higher taxes to higher health care costs The phenomenon is not limited to Hills but it is of national proportions The Canadian popula Hon is decreasing at a rale of 8 per couple a rate of 2 1 is needed to sustain a stead population while the number of adults and seniors continues to Where have all our children gone Various factors which con tribute to the children population decline are related to sexual lifestyle high use of tionals sterilization abortion and homosexuality If we analyze first the abortion figures and if we use for this area the national average of 17 abortions per thousand peo ple per year we obtain that about children per year are aborted in Hills population B multiplying this figure by seven years Kindergarten through Grade 5 wer obtain which ac counts for more half of the 1964 empty spaces in those classes Add the other factors stenhzation etc whose figures are difficult to account for and the picture is complete The children are not here we never let them live The empty spaces in our classrooms are gnm reminders of our selfish lifestyle whose conse quences will come back to haunt us again and again Giuseppe Gon Family Coalition Party Halton North Riding Association Taxed to death and after Ian Weir Weir I View rum Hum Quite frankly Im not sure what my reaction was when I read ihe weeks most remarkable news That Internal Revenue Service down the US has actually drafted a policy stating what for it that it will continue to collect taxes in the aftermath of a nuclear holocaust This is honestly true I read it in the Globe and Mall the national newspaper of Toronto So lets pause for a moment just to let this sink in My first reaction I suppose amazement a bunch of govern ment bureaucrats is actually pledging to stay at work after the world has officially ended This from a group of people who dont even work on Statutory Holidays My second thought was that this might sa something wonderfully reassuring about the ty of the human spirit the splendid determination of mankind to soldier on in the face of misfor tunes that would cause a lesser species to sigh oh heck and go home to bed And my third thought was that the IRS has just chucked out the window the ancient truism about the two inevitabilities of life It s official taxes are now con siderably more inevitable than death Interestingly enough this was just one of two recent pieces of fascinating news about life in the aftermath of nuclear war In New Brunswick apparently there has been a bit of a public uproar over plans to build a 4 million bunker to house political and business leaders in case of nuclear war It seems the common folk of New Brunswick feet its a bit thick to use public money to save the skins of a few politicians and tycoons which seems a sensible enough reaction If youre going to try to save anybody it shoud obviously be peo ple who might be of genuine use to other survivors This is why Ive always favored building bunkers to preserve the operators of a few neighbourhood pubs and perhaps a handful of pizza- deleverymen But I digress We were discuss ing the remarkable pronounce ment from the IRS And obvious ly this raises two provocative questions Number one have similar plans been laid by Revenue Canada As far as I can determine the answer is no Apparently the Tory government cant see the point in trying to keep the nation running after the world has ended either as a result of a nuclear holocaust or the reelection of the Liberals Unconfirmed reports indicate that if the Liberals elect Jean Chretien the Tory gameplan is to don sackcloth and ashes and shout dire warnings from mountaintops If the rumored return of Pierre comes true the Tones will adopt Plan B which is just to lock themselves in the basement and wait for Gabriels born But the second burning question is why the I S decided to make its announcement in the first place Was it In response to employees who foolishly believed a global Continued on