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Nuclear conflict not war but suicide 77ws the way the world ends not with a bang but a whimper Com foci Acton the bottom person In this nuclear ban Is speaking out a lot these days on the dangers of nuclear war and campaigning for the November elections referendum For more on this blue tee story beside this photoand also turn By Gord array Free Press nuclear conflict won be a war it will besuicideaccordirtoLldonComfort Acton Comfort is a member of a small group in llalton Kills which will be campaigning for a yes vote in a municipal referendum on nuclear disarmament this November See story on council s approval of the referendum inside todays paper Edith Hilfman is the other Acton area resident involved in the campaign Over the years Eldon has become some thing of an expert on he issue of nuclear war In an interview this week Comfort said his about nuclear proliferation as any sudden burst of light Its been eating away inside me since World War II During the war he saw action in Europe as a signaller and the futility of war stuck in my heart and my mind The war seemed a necessary evil at the time though he realized he had no great quarrel with the German men he v as fighting But this is a different ball game This nuclear bomb business makes It not a war but suicide For decades now people have lived with the threat of the bomb and both sides keeping up with each other in their stock of armaments and types of weapons The arms race made sense to a lot of people to Comfort but while he had mis he thought there was any thing could be done What has spurred himself and thousands and thousands of others around the world to speak out and protest for peace is that the socalled deterrnt of both sides having bombs is a myth today To be declared The present stalemate is like two men standing in gasoline up to their waists and arguing about who has the most matches The nuclear arms race no longer has any relevance to security Every added bomb makes me less secure Polls say people feel less secure today than at any time before This growing fear has sparked the world wide nuke movement which is even alive in Russia and other East Block nations became involved In the movement a few years ago when he realized the dollars spent on war and weapons could solve most of the worlds problems He learned more and more about the threat of nuclear war while researching his pre determined position for a staged debate with another member of United Church for a program there His debate opponent worked in the nuclear Industry and in fact left Acton to work on the Canadian reactor In Argentina Since then Comfort has maintained his interest in the issue and continued his research He has also Joined a number of lions Including Canadian World Federalists Ploughshares Operation Dis mantle over the past 10 years and sat on the International Affairs Committee of the United Church of Canada He a attended seminars conferences etc on nuclear disarmament in Kitchener Toronto Ottawa and New York City adding to his knowledge The picture he paints of what will happen to Acton In the event of a nuclear bomb hitting Toronto is truly frightening He relates the scenario to the devastation at Hiroshima something most people can relate to One Trident submarine MX missel hitting Toronto bail area will re sult in the same kind of death and tica as there was from tbe Hiroshima bomb However tbe difference is tbe Hiroshima bomb ground the area of most destruction covered three square miles Onebombdetonatedoverdowntown Toronto will result In 290 square miles of complete devastation An MX missel Is ZOO times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb So roughly 18 miles out around city hall will be gone Comfort explains Beyond that though not as far out as Acton to 3 degrees This beat will produce a Tire storm Igniting everything in its path and there will be violent windstorms flattening everything In their paths too As mushroom goes up it will suck up everything creating a vacuum and the radiation dust will fill the clouds This poison will be spread over thousands and thousands of miles In Acton the winds won be as strong nor will the heat be as intense But being here t really a blessing People here will die much more slowly and not as mercifully There will be radiation burns and poisoning from fallout If we look at the flash of the bomb we may be blinded even this far away There will certainly be genetic damage far those who do survive We re sitting ducks in Acton And our medical and emergency vices just won be geared to help the vivors If a person by chance happens to be in their basement and has food down there and Its deep they may the pain from the bomb For Instance Comfort basement Is pretty safe if the bomb goes off over Kitchener but he a pickle If it hits Toronto And who spends all their time in their basement anyway He knows of no bomb shelters in area What has alarmed so many now after years of living with threat of the bomb is that there really is no deterrent anymore Comfort notes the weapons are so sophisticated now that the accuracy allows one side to wipe tbe other side weapons out So it Is tempting to launch a first strike Now one side could win a nuclear war However the winner would even tually suffer lo some degree as fallout came back to haunt them And the proliferation of nuclear capability is also frightening Now there are five full fledged nuclear powers How ever capability or are close to it because their reactors will produce fissionable material By the end of the century nation could have nuclear weapons With so many unstable governments and leaders running the world these days It inevitable someone who has the bomb will eventually use It And once It nuclear war starts who canstopit Just think of the costs of nuclear weapons too Comfort suggests Some billion annually is spent on nuclear and conventional arms That enough money to abolish world hunger and solve all the medical education and housing woes around the globe We could remove all the disparities between nations which cause wars He notes half of America s scientists and half of the budget devoted to research is involved in arms The arms industries create Jobs it true but it takes twice as much money to create a job in the arms field as it does service industry A Community Newspaper One Hundred and Eighth YearIssue5 ACTON ONTARIO WEDNESDAY AUGUST 11 1982 PagesThirty Cents Kellar to trial in Oates murder Eric Howard Kellar was committed to inn Thursday on the charge of first degree murder in connection with the stabbing death of Colleen Judge J C bound over for trail after hearing evidence for the third day of the preliminary hearing and then considering presentations from Crown John and defence counsel Toomas Afterward Ayre said Kellar trial will likely begin September at the fall assize in Supreme Court In a County courtroom in Mi I on There will be a number of Supreme Court cases coming up that date but the Kellar case is expected to be tried first since the accused remains In custody at Detention Centre said he is considering an appeal of the preliminary hearing judges decision to commit to trial There Is a ban on publication of any evidence from the hcanngs Preliminary hearings are held to determine if there is sufficient evidence to warrant a trial The first preliminary hearing session was held April 14 with a second on June and the wrap up on Thursday In total 15 witnesses testified The preliminary was heard in Milton Provincial Court Around October 22 Colleen Oates husband Kevin came home to their Bower Ave residence to find his wife dead from multiple wounds Within a few hours police had a warrant out for the arrest of Kellar and a provincewide manhunt culminated with his apprehension on October in a warehouse in Pickering Famed educator and citizen M Z Bennett dies at 102 MZ Bennett IBSwIWI One of Acton best known and most beloved clt izens Miss Minnie Z Bennett died Thursday the day other 102nd birthday M Bennett a former citizen of the year was one of the first women school principals in Hallon and left an Indelible mark on Acton education scene Miss Bennett passed away at Central Park Lodge in Kitchener where she had been in res years When the board of education opened the new public school in 1957 It was named in honor of Miss Bennett as a lasting memorial to the ded cated teacher Acton Chamber of Commerce selected Miss Bennett as citizen of the year In 1964 Miss Bennett retired as principal of Acton public school where Robert Little School now stands in 1939 Miss Bennett s career as an educator started in when Queen Victoria was on the throne at 10 in Township Woodside School She later graduated from the Toronto Normal School Rycrson and went on to teach at Clay Hill School for per ear The reputation as an able teacher and a skilled disciplinarian which was to mark Miss Bennett career soon spread as Tar away as Hornby Trustees of that school invited her to Instruct their pupils in Two years later Miss Bennett gave up forever having to teach alone She was appointed to a graded school in Acton where she was able to en joy the company of other teachers One of her pup ils was William ft Stewart who became a deputy minister of education for the provincial govern men In 1913 the school board engaged Miss Bennett as principal of the public school a post she would hold for years Miss Bennett encouraged students to do their best Hereffortsborefruitindeed est marks in the county Tor Entrance Exam inn ions were earned by one of Miss Bennetts students No other principal or teacher has had such a lasting and uplifting Influence on graduates wrote one school Inspector Continued on page WWI vet Fred Wright dies Fred Wright a War 1 veteran and highly respected died last week at the age of Mr Wright in 1966 and was a charter member of the Acton Legion Branch and the Local Rotary Club He the Fall Fair Board theYMCA the Acton and Pipe Bands and the Cham of Commerce Mr Westmoreland England and came to Canada when he was eight years old with his brothers and sisters after the deaths of his parents He was yearsold when World War I broke out and he joined the Lome Scots Fourth Infantry Battalion He the distinguished service citation for the battle of when only years of age During World War II Mr Wright sold Victory Bonds and sold more than anyone in Hallon amassing per cent of total sales in the county Upon bis arrival in Acton over years ago he found employment as a hired hand on a farm He then apprenticed at carpentry with J Mackenzie and later became an estimator and appraiser la later yean be became a real estate agent and insurance broker Among bis many credits in the town Mr Wright was vicepresident of the Farm Brokers of Ontario and tbe Toronto chanter of the Appraisal Institute of Canada and president of tin Rami Batata Board He wu the justice of the peace in and signed many docuiMiMS for service- Wright As service officer with the Acton Legion Mr Wrights duties ranged from helping pension applicants to voluntary commitments such as meeting homecoming A ton servicemen after World War He greeted men from Toronto Hamilton and London Continued on page inside A mlcrolight made an emergency landing here Seestoryandphotopage2 13 Acton streets want overnight parking De tails on page barber also sends singing tele grams Turn I page Water use restrictions haven been needed so far More on page The mayor says town staff must try and buy locally Sec page There a look at the go track in Limehouse on page There more on the Yugoslav Centre con troversy on page people have won Blue Jay tickets in the BIA draws so far Story and photo on paged Is the economy A region report says it might be More on page Bl proof of a good simian It he bottom Hills Aquatics staff are kept busy working Ambulance Tbe IS hour cowrie on llf esavlng techniques even when they area t at was handled by St John suffer Elizabeth Brad Maybec of Georgetown and Bev barn Baker of Acton here practise Cardlo program at one time working on fall flit models Resuscitation last Friday with St John as Photo by Town hall hearing Sept 1 6 The town hall hearing has been set for Sep tember in the council chambers at tbe Halton Hub municipal building on Trafalgar Rd Shirley of the province Conservation Review Board said one mem of the board per naps more will be at the bearing The hearing begins at a and one day has been the proceedings Any can go to tbe hearing and testify Those who sent letters to the town objecting to the so it can be demolished will be notlfed and Invited to testify It is hoped groups will send spokespersons to the bearing she said She said tins is first Conservation Review Board bearing she is aware of at which the subject will be the of an historical designation Usually it is tbe owner of a property objecting to it being designated who wants a bearing About a month after the hearing the board will make nonbinding recommendations to the municipality