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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1987-12-16, Page 4Page 4--Lucknow Sentinel, Wednesday, December 16, 1987 P.O. Box 400, Lucknow NOG 2H0 528-2822 Established 1873 !� y( C-iil .Cu CIta C Ul 47.0 TJ Thomas Thompson -Advertising Manager Subscription rates in advance: Rob Bundy -Editor $1700 Outside Canada $6090 Pat Livingston -General Manager $1400 Outside Canada $5800 Senior Citizen Second class mailing reg. no. 0847 Advertising is accepted on the condition that in the event of a typographical error, the portion of the advertising space occupied by the erroneous item together with a reasonable allowande for signature, will not be charged for, but the balance of the advertisment will be paid at the applicable rates. Only first step Peace activists the world over are heralding the recent signing of the arms control treaty by President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev as "historic" and as "a great step toward world peace". This it certainly is, but we must keep in mind it is only the first of many, many steps. The two super -power leaders have agreed to the stringently verified destruction of an entire class of nuclear weapons. Most. of the in- termediate and short-range missiles covered by the treaty are present- ly located in Europe and this certainly makes the world a little safer place to live. But, without belittling this monumental treaty, we must remember that the. advances made in warfare over the past decade have virtually made these types of weapons obsolete anyway. No where in the treaty does it mention that the super -powers can't continue to develop even more horrendous weapons, such as the Star Wars plan. It doesn't deal with long-range nuclear weapons or chemical warfare. This treaty has brought Russia and the United States closer together than they've been since the -Second World War, but it doesn't mean they aren't still enemies. If war broke out tommorrow, total destruc- tion could still happen. A great deal of pomp and circumstance (not to mention publicity) sur- rounds o signing of a treaty such as this. Both the leaders look good in the eyes of their respective nations, but does the treaty really take us further from the threat of nuclear war 4 And, who's to say the nations will adhere to the treaty? It is a great step forward for world peace, but a step that must be followed immediately .by many, many more. R.B. Someone stole the Christmas present I bought for my wife this. year. I know who did it and there's nothing I can do about it except silently complain. Let me explain: being the nice guy I am, I gave my wife her Christmas present ear- ly this year. Her home town is a small community, not unlike Lucknow, in Nor- thern Alberta about a two hour drive north of Edmonton. As Christmas is a time to be with family, I purchased for her a plane ticket to Edmonton for the holidays so she could see her folks. Now a plane ticket at Christmas, as anyone who has ever flown before knows, is quite expensive. Because of this, I decid- ed to buy only one. I would stay here, she would go there. She was very excited when I presented her with the ticket. She's scheduled to fly late on Christmas day and to return the day before New Years so we'd be together for the two big days. All was well. She loved the gift and im- mediately called her Mom to tell her the good news. The next day, Air Canada went on strike and we're stuck with an expensive ticket that probably won't get her anywhere! Oh sure, Air Canada said they'd refund our money in full but that doesn't help my wife spend Christmas with her family. We tried in vain to get another flight out of Toronto with another airline, but unless we were willing to pay much more and have her fly at unreasonable times, she's grounded. Com'on. We put up with the flippin' post office strike this sumnner (because of which our phone was tremendous - will the letter carriers union pay for that?) . Now, in an effort to make more money than us real people, our national airline is picketing the runways! I have to say, I've had it up to here (imagine my hand under my throat) with powerful unions holding the rest of the By Rob Bundy public for ransom. To my knowledge, we don't have any children working 18 hours each day in the coal mines, in which case a union would be justified in halting work, so do they really have to disrupt my life every few weeks to get shorter work weeks or more money? For heavens sake, can't labor unions and management sit down and talk out their problems without causing the rest of us grief, expense and heartache? Mine is a minute problem when com- pared to the thousands and thousands of people who won't be home for Christmas because of this strike. To say nothing of the non-union employees of Air Canada who have been laid -off because the rest of the employees want more money when they retire. Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying these employees don't deserve more money, or indexed pensions or whatever it is they stole my wife's Christmas present for. Maybe they deserve it, maybe not, but can't that be decided over a cup of eggnog between management and union leaders? If I had tried to mail her home for Christmas, no doubt the posties would have gone on strike again. As far as I'm concerned, someone, Air Canada or whoever, owes me. And besides, now I have to figure out something else to get my wife for Christmas. Yep, I'm mad and I'll fly Air Iran before I buy another Air Canada ticket. Have a good week. One of us has to. No SIR, THE FbST OFFIc.E. is NoT 14ONovRtNG INVAtUD AU? CANADA TrcKErs 0 oo. DIFFERENT' STi21KE. C� 70 years ago December 20,1917 Results in doubt -The net result of the voting in South Bruce on Monday was that Traux, Liberal candidate, won over McNab, Unionist, by 819 votes. That is a large majority for South Bruce which is generally considered among the close ridings. South Bruce divided as the country at large did - those of English speech for the Union Government and those of another tongue against. Of course, the division was not clean. The Opposition got a great deal of English speaking support and no doubt a few of French and German speech voted for the Government. To this, we must add that the Union Par- ty in South Bruce is by no means hopeless of the final outcome by the time the soldier vote for the county is counted. South Bruce has 1,400 men overseas. It is not expected that the soldiers votes will be counted and. • reported within the month. 50 years ago December 16, 1937 Digging out after storm -The first of this week found the district digging out after one of the worst December storms in re- cent memory blocked roads and paralysed business. SENTINEL The storm that commenced early in the week abated on Saturday, but was follow- ed by a blast from Jack Frost that sent the meercury down to an official low of six degrees below zero. It has been reported that local thermometers reached 12 below. The storm rapidly plugged both in and concession roads, bringing motor tr fic to a stand still and left many motoris stranded. The highway to Wingham ha not be plowed as of Monday and traff could only reach Whitechurch. Local election likely -Locally, th a is every indication that Lucknow will have a municipal election. In the Kinloss Township there has been no definite an- nouncements, but rumors are heard that this municipality may also go to the polls. Nomination days in both municipalities is set for December 27 with election day set for January 3. Reeve W.B. Anderson has announced his retirement after two years in the chair and it is stated that Councillor MacDairmid also plans to retire. The vacany for the Reeveship is rac- tically assured to be contested by un- cillors N.E. Bushell and Donald Ferguson who have served on the board for four years. 25 years ago December 19,1962 Possible rail c : ilment-Andrew Robin- son of Kincardine, ' . • Member of Parli- ment for Bruce, has ap• ared before the Sessional Committee on Air Lines, Railways and Shipping t i protest the sug- gested curtailment of .v ssenger service by CNR in this area. Mr. Robinson told the committee he understood that some passenger lines were paying their way and asked what the approximate loss on passenger service. was last year. The CNR president, Mr. Gordon, said it would run about 40 to 50 million dollars. December could set record -Just about four more inches of snow this month and December 1962 could set an all-time record for snowfall locally. Seventy-three inches of snow in December, 1958 is the all-time record to date. This month, up until Tuesday, the total amount of snowfall was recorded at 70 inches. In the seven day period Last week, there were a total of 58 inches of snow - short by just two inches of five feet. 10 years ago December 14,1977 Look at Implications -The Huron County Board of Education wants to take a second look at the implications involved in cancelling language programs at two of its secondary schools. The Board looked at two recommendations for cancellations at its Monday meeting, one in eliminating German classes at Seaforth and one to cancel Latin classes in Central Huron Secondary School in Clinton. Goderich Trustee Dorothy Wallace said she felt the board had to examine the whole question of education priorities before making a "snap decision based on five minutes discussion". Wallace added that due to declinging enrollment in the secondary schools in the county, the board may be forced to cut back on programs and cancellation of sub- ject instruction now may have an affect on decisions the board will have to make in the future.