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Letters to the Editor Till- lit it l80 Facts about Herald Georgetown area found in 1890 newspaper annual EDITORS NOTE tag copy of letter lent to Ttic Herald recent In former Some years ago I found a copy of American Newspaper Annual published In IB90 by and Sons Some of the pages arc cover by war poems from World War I but a lot is intact Regard i Georgetown the information that the popula was not much less than in 1950 when I came to Georgetown for the first lime In 1B90 the Herald out every Thursday lion of and the Editor and Robert War Thtdescriptionof George town was His of paper flour mathinery an good stone quarries shipping lumber grim In the ye r Twoit knit goods lumber Perras thanks To the editor of The I wish this to publicly ink ill of of Hilton who tin the liberal parK 1H It was an honor and I government int new deiadt of the long ind still fori I look forward i to thi ye Plaza offers fun for all reader VIEWPOINT idi of tin inn shoppers dldmm run run iliy hid five weeklies Brampton not much lirgir thin Georgetown iM inhihiiants in but In I three weekly newspjptrs Conservator Peel Banner and Times Unfortunately tins per Annual has been ruined by parting of rid War I poems over of tin pages but Ihi Canadian set lion is complete inliet in Cilgiry inhabitants and two lies and Edmonton only COO people Tunes have chinked i bit Mens FOUR DAYS ONLY PANT ALL NEW STOCK Fluctuating facts on drug use leave too many unprotected By I Writers are a strange breed of cat when 1 began this column years ago I look upon myself as the crusading type rattling Just my style What makes a writer tick Is a strong urge to put it down on paper Vic chose Viewpoint as a title for this column because we kit lhats what writing was really all about you assimilate the materia digest the facts and then pre sent a point of Mew on whatever the sub ver job after ma ny years it it becomes writers Job is words and putting them to gether and most writers read one hell of a lot of words Tills is where the crusading pirt comes in when you rnd hundreds of articles a week dozens of books a and interview people from all walks of life brim abounds with of slanted views that bounce bock and forth over Ihi cranial circuits Sometimes the sheer magnitude of all this activity something clicks the wrl for the most part looks with a different perspective A gen thumb for the press is to have at least three sour of for whatcv facts you think you hive Even then i lot of peopli are misquoted and a lot of acts are nothing short of pure gar bage Writers Journalists inter viewers etc arc not but because people thoughts and words arc their business they have to stay knowledgeable with a nose for news or a feeling for what going down or else re soon out of the Now alt of the be comes a thumbnail back ground sketch for what you arc about to read There arc hundreds of right now on the effect of drugs In general with a lot of focus on marijuana One day you read how harm less It is and the next day another expert telling you how Is leads to general state of confusion In 197 lr Harvey In the Digest that marijuana is completely harmless Now as chief of psychiatry the student health centre at the University of California he writes I was wrong Much more Information has been gathered and scientists arc learning many new things about marijuana and drugs now in use If you have a youngster between II and you can guarantee they ire exposed todrugs on a daily basis and if not a habitual user they have certainly ex penmented Schools arc walk drugstores so is the local restaurant and believe It or not even Sunday school Drugs and drug users ore everywhere Nothing no one and no place Is sacred In the factories drug use is very much on the Increase According to a report in wa This Week drug use at the phnt is i real problem People kids are people too drugs lo escape prob lems as many kinds of problems as are people some it Just plain bore dom for others It social for others it just the high and on the list goes Arc they dangerous One drug In fairly common use is street name angel dust It was first used as an amies on humans but due to severe complications it is now binned Though it is some limes used as an for animals even that is no longer common practice due to the complications of its use It is vir easy to overdose on PCP for which there is no the glands and a person could drown on their own sihva while under its influence Its known for causing violent behavior and aggression and was put out of use for that out of with violent unit ntrollahk behavior But that not you say Well recent research shows that some people do violent on grass too can cause psychotic and paranoic behavior It apathy a don give a damn Depending on the use how much and w here and how it grass much damage as any other artificially induced chemical into the brain and body The old bugaboo of hard drugs versus soft drugs is a lot if garbage use if drugs is highly dangerous and what is passed on the an be nothing short of Thejroblim that kids who use drugs alonRWith adults don have Mental hospitals are lilted with burnouts rub and people whose minds have ni ver come bock from whit wis to be a good high a great trip I get so tired of the crap that losell look at so n so he s a and hi uses griss he a leicher he a professor she in office manager The answer to that Is to tike look at what kind of user they are and if it all hiavy they don I hive the kind of pncliee or office or whatever that heir counterpart runs The need for i high soon tikes over their lives What starts off in modention rarely stas that w ly Man Ins never been a ere iture of modention Recently the Toronto Star ran iheidhnc School heads urge pemlties for drugs it be nice if it was that easy It not the kids but the adults who quire the suffer penalties In the case of it can made in any basement labora lory quick and eheap am for the most part moniy is what mikes the drug world go round I believe iftir the countless articles I have read the people at search Foundation I have in I hove seen thai drug use will break the back of our In China for Instance drug pushing is death Here the big pushers walk out of court and most times they don I even eet thai far in the place Our laws have no teeth Taking kids to court over drug possession is i lugh mil the who deals in the stuff the public as a take the use of your seriously and mind the public given the latest in the schools community lalks films etc know what really happening Don I lei your kids give you a bumhof fast tilk you find and be prepared to talk Inek with not holier think lhau plititudes If you know of teachers smoke to the school and make wives Use your gather information just he i doesn mean he Ins all the facts Contact your branch of the Addiction and ask Drugs ire rminj wont slop user They need lek up a rthibilitit iseobwibs and of steel Unless our soeiely is le bins drug use Willi a new zeal what ahead is a and intellectual hum Thi horror ire alrea Inppenini people die mulihte themselves under the influence of drugs Kids who ire sold Dr no and burn out their ius men who hove out their own eyeballs the young mother who deep fried her child ill horror slorits llleg drugs don I be long in a good just society thev in a perversion and t let anyone tell you differ til you have read ill tin facts for SAVE POLYESTER AND WOOL REGULAR FIT TOP POCKET 3r SIZE 32 44 PROCLAMATION That the Council for the Town of Halton Hills proclaims the month of March I960 as RED CROSS MONTH in the Town of Halton Hills 99 FOUR DAYS ONLY SAVE700 POLYESTER MACHINE WASH TOP POCKET SIZE 32 46 Reg 99 FOUR DAYS ONLY SAVE WOOL LIKE HAND SPUN POLYESTER FULL FIT SIZE 32 46 i NEILS MUSIC 8774919 es Service RentalsInstruction ITS NEVER TOO LATE TO START 99 FOUR DAYS only SAVE POLYESTER MACHINE WASH SOLID SHADES SIZE 32 46 Reg 99 FOUR DAYS ONLY cv SALE ENDS SAT MARCH 1st MAIN SOUTH DOWNTOWN GEORGETOWN