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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1979-08-23, Page 5• from page 4 and with farm machinery where the vehicles aren't 100 percent safe. The writer points out that we (the public) don't demand commissions and White Papers to investigate these ac- cidents, so why should we be so concerned over the peaceful exploration of the atom. Firstly, I • think the. writer should realize that it is entirely ridiculous to DEAR EDITOR compare the safety in- volved with carsand farm machinery to safety in a nuclear plant. D Anyone who thinks the fissioning of the atom with all its inherent chain reactions and radioactive waste waste materials is comparable to the safe operation of cars or farm machinery, obviously needs a little nuclear disaster in their own community so thiey can understand thl dif- ference. With the fissioning of the atom we are talking about things like potential genetic mutation or -potential infestation of the food chain with carcinogenic radioactivity. Some car accident! The only parallel I can think of between the safety in the auto industry and the Lady celebrates 90th Church News Worship service was held in Holmesville 1.Jnited Church last - Rev. Norman Pick off Ontario Street United Church, Clinton . will preach in Holmesville Church August 26 and Holmesville news Blanche Deeves, correspondent 482-3383 Sunday morning. The men's chorus sang "Sunshine in my soul". The theme of Rev, Oestreichers sermon was "Your God is what you live for". Mr. Carmen Tebbutt and Irvine Tebbutt received the offering. September 2. The Rev. Mr. Douglas Ross, president of the London Conference, will be the speaker October 7 at 2 p.m. for the Anniversary service. Personals Paul and Carol Cud - more of Ottawa and Smile darn ya • The trouble with letting sleeping dogs lie is that they're usually sleeping in the chair you want. .+++ You know you're overeating when you're living beyond your seams. +++ Confuscius say : "If thine enemy wrong thee, buy each of his children a drum." Anybody who thinks TV has destroyed con- versation in the home probably doesn't pay the phone bill. +++ Newspaper ad: "Encyclopedia for sale. Never used. Teenage son knows everything." +++ Opportunist: a person who goes ahead and does what you always wanted to do. children are visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Harry Cudmore at Holmesville. Mr. Clayton Cox has sold his farm. Mrs. Julie Boucher and BeOky and Christopher spent a week's holiday with Mrs. Phyllis Cox and family, with Becky staying on for a few days •vith Gramma. Congratulations to Mrs. Ellison Cox of Bayfield, who on the weekend celebrated her 90th birth- day. Mrs. Cox is a former resident of Goderich Township. SPORTS Holmesville finally beat Art Bell's Gun club on Sunday by a score of 18 to 19. Congratulations Holmesville.!1 The pee wee boys beat Benmiller and have won their best 2 out of three series - now on to the finals against Lon- desboro. nuclear industry is in the area of defects in auto parts with its resultant "call-backs" to the factory after the victims are already dead from the faulty brakes, etc. The similarity . is that parts for the nuclear ,industry come from factories, too. The only difference is that we don't just get the routine "call- back" after a few high- way.. _accidents. If parts for the nuclear industry are faulty, we will need a "call-back" on all the PEOPLE in Huron and Bruce counties because we will all be faulty after ONE accident. safety, anyway. It's one of need. What do we need to have a prosperous, safe, and happy future for this generation and the ones to come. More nuclear power means more growth. More growth means more consumption and, therefore, depletion of our dwindling world resources. Let's get realisticand admit that we are at the outer limits of this kind of massive corporate industry with its inherent disregard for the environment and the people of the world. Surely it is clear by now that the spiral of inflation' is caused by something we are ignoring. What we seem to be unable to accept is that we are continually using ever larger amounts of capital to extract ever shrinking, lower quality materials and energy from the earth. And anyone who thinks nuclear is a "cheap" -4c *************** 41( I C. N. E. * SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1st JOHNNY iKCASH * FOR TRANSPORTATION AND TICKETS CALL 524-7622 or 524-7186 ;c gifts...and BARGAfNS...galore at the friendly store our annual End -of -Season Sale `lie q'illagegatld IN Bayfield, Ontario Tuesday, August 28 to Sunday, September 2 : 10 a.m. - Open Labour Day 10a.me.-6p.m. FALL HOURS Open seven days a week until mid-October. (A little longer weather permitting) alternative should look at Hydro's financial record with its embarrassing over -runs and lost production time because of the inefficiency of• this huge bureaucratic, highly centralized •cor- poration trying to keep itself on some kind of schedule. As nuclear critic Ralph Torrie aptly put it in. a recent comment, Ontarians will find themselves supporting a giant welfare recipient if they don't encourage the Hydro people to develop other alternatives that offer a sensible, decen- tralized approach to energy. I suspect the letter writer of being con- cerned about the jobs that I just ' hope other are threatened in the Ontarians and societies Bruce area if nuclear everywhere will study the production is threatened. information regarding This kind of economic this subject carefully and self-interest is natural, it say no to this option seems. However, it before our commitment allows people to ignore to this form of energy the plight of our overall production is too great to global future. go back on. I have children who will likely have children. As the writer says, accidents are inevitable, no system is 100 percent safe. I don't think we can afford this kind of accident. We don't need nuclear generators and we still have time to say no to this kind of lunatic future. If people study the facts and figures of nuclear energyand its options, they will turn nuclear down. They will, that is, unless the want growth at any cost. I've looked at the facts and figures, and I don't like the monetary or moral costs of a nuclear future. GODERICH SIGNAL -STAR, THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 1979 -.-PAGE 5 Stephen Norton, Citizen of Goderich. 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