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Wednesday, July 12, 1989
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Rid of a menace
The Manitoba government's tough new stand against drinking drivers not
only deals immediate punishment but removes a deadly menace from the
roads before it is too late.
Manitoba drivers who fail breathalyzer tests now lose their right to drive a
motor vehicle immediately for 90 days. It is an end to the problem of repeat of-
fenders -too requently the cause of highway fatalities involving alcohol -
menacing the highways while waiting for court dates.
Too frequentlyalso, such cases are dismissed when courts are backlogged,
leaving offenders untried and unpunished, but most tragically, free to again
drive drunk.
Those who argue that immediate licence suspensions are punishment
without due legal process 'must consider the victims and potential victims
under a less -restrictive system.
We welcome Manitoba's lead as a logical next step in ridding society of the
drunk driving menace.. Goderich Signal Star.
Mut solve
mysterious puzzle
A year has stretched slowly by for the family and friends of Lois Hanna.
She disappeared without. a trace on July 3, 1988 after attending a reunion
dance in Lucknow on a Sunday evening.
It is presumed she drove home to her Nelson Street address, prepared for
bed, made a cup of tea for herself and turned on the television.
Family and police assume these were the steps she took after she got home
because that is what family and friends found on Monday morning. ,
A cup of tea sat forgotten on the table, the t.v. was on and a peach nightie
and a housecoat were missing from her closet.
It was as if Lois had just stepped into the other room, as if she would walk
right back in any moment.
Everything of hers is still in her tidy little home on Nelson Street. Her purse,
her clothes, her personal belongings.
Lois' effects are still waiting for her to walk right back into her house.
But since the night of July 3, Lois has not been seen.
Family and friends reported her missing on Monday morning when she
didn't show up for work. They got into her house and discovered the cup of tea
and noticed her purse was still there.
A massive search turned up nothing.
Lois had disappeared.
Now, a year later, little more is known.about her disappearance.
Police and related services have spent about $1 million on the search that
included helicopters, dogs, even the use of infra red photography.
The family printed tens of 1,000s of posters, first in black and white and then
again in color after the turn of -the New Year.
All leads in the case have been followed up by police, as recently, they say as
last month.
Big interest in the case was aroused in Januarywhen composite drawings of
two men seen outside Lois' place of employment the day after the disap-
pearance hit the newspapers,
But the .case remains a mystery.
For the police, it,isia;puzzle.
For the :famiiy, ahorror:show.
With 'the anniversary ,of the idisappearance, the 'family:must ;be suffering
again all the pains thathegan.a,year ago. They suffered -through Lois',birth-
day, through the Christmas celebration, through the anniversary of every
event that touched Lois' life.
Lois' disappearance has hit the newspapers again on this anniversary in the
hopes renewedpublisity:will uncover some lead in the,bizarre mystery.
Someone, somewhere knows ,what happened to Lois on July 3, 1988. ,So-
meone•knows. The puzzle-mustbesolved .-For,L•ois, her -family andher friends.
The Kincardine News.
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You can't getaway with a littlefudging
,anympre.
A tfeiepd tend TAwent to See The latest
lbilliO4VillliaMsitnnVie "The. iDesd'Poets
'Soci'ety"'in+downtown+London'reecerltly. We
bought our+tickets.at about 10 to-nine,but
tince°the movie didn't "start tuntii'9:'30`we
thoughtwe'd wander around a bit and kill
sometime. A real dumb idea.
'We came back twenty minutes later and
there was a :lineup halfway around the
block.
'We 'began terseek.~thetbadkdofthe tine,
passing atottofveofile,edthtte cuilinga
town where people 'cottld congregate so
quickly. The end of the line was quickly ap-
proaching a second corner.
"Maybe these people don't have tickets
yet," I suggested, "maybe we can head to
the front of the line because we already
have ours."
We started to make our way toward the
front of the line.
"I know. You get a place at the back of
the line and I'll see If they'll let me in with
the ticket."
All that got me was a disapproving look.
I'd be in the theatre and she'd be out.
Another real dumb idea.
But as we got closer to the front of the
line -still not close but a lot closer than we
could have been- my friend stepped non -
of ►porn
chalantly into the line and stopped.
"What are you..."
"Just Standing here."
"You little'budger," I accused, stepping
conspiououdly intoline?beside'her.
I;glanced 'behind me to see how many
people I had just stepped" in front of who
wanted to drink my blood. But my -ac-
complice had chosen her position well, and
no one gave a sign of noticing.
Until I turned around.
A swarthy mediterranean type glared
back at me, and as I met his gaze I thought
of a story in the papers lately and my life
flashed before my eyes.
It seems two jokers were argueing about
who was first in a popcorn line at the
movie Batman in New York, and one
threatened to get a gun from his car.
The concession was low on popcorn.
The other guy tells him to go ahead. Real
dumb idea.
The gunman did go to his car and return-
edwhen the movie credits were rolling and
spotting the other man yelled "are you the
guy with the popcorn?"
They both stood up and drew guns.
(Naw, they don't needtougher gun laws in
the states). The victim fired one shot from
a Saturday Night Special bfore he was
killed by the guy he beattathe -popcorn.
Must be-somepopeornln'New York.
It's hard to think that to some people a
human life isn't worth a spot in a popcorn
line.
With this thought in mind, having just
weaseled my way into a movie lineup, and
looking into the dark eyes of the guy in
front of me, I fully expected him to pull
something out of his jacket that would turn
me into a member of the Dead Reporters
Society.
I reached under my t -shirt to where a
magnum could rest in a shoulder holster,
and gave my best Eastwood make -my -day
look.
He rolled his eyes and turned away.
Apparently he reads the papers too.
- We got into the theatre unmolested, and
I might add the movie was great. Best
you'll see this summer.
We didn't have popcorn.
Nuclear power is no bargain
Dear Editor:
The desperation of our national atomic
.sales force — which hasn't sold a reactor
for years, and can't even give one away
— is apparent in the Canadian Nuclear
Association's 15 -page advertisement in
Maclean's magazine (June 12th). Nuclear
power is clean and cheap, they say. What
they don't tell us is that the cost of the
Darlington Nuclear Generating Station,
under construction east of Toronto, has
just jumped by almost a .million dollars.
This is the second time in less than a
year that cost overruns and delays have
:plagued Darlington.
And if this isn't bad enough, the atomic
establishment never seems to factor the
environmental and health costs into their
miscalculations. Obviously the nuclear
people don't feel accountable in these fun-
damental areas.
Let us compare the amount of money
the Canadian atomic establishment is
Milltng:itou pend,on,pFotectirig law health,
vtidtbMlleI,figure.the 've,�&0mWWtted;to,pro-
tecting !their'ihealt "The Atomic !Energy
-Caontrol Board ;is it iuctantly forking ,over
-a stleasly'F$108ii1D0 for :studies :an Ethe ef-
fects of 'radiation on ,populations -living
near Ontario's nuclear 'facilities. Ypu
couldn't even buy" Yourself one family
home in Toronto with that figure! Is that
all ppr ,nuclear regulatory body thinks
mere ,,worth? is that,adl ,the fgovermnent
says we're worth?
13ut ;in -order to .pr$teetatheir ,business
interests, ,a colossal 48 7 dilation of .bear
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tax dollars is earmarked so people in the
pay of the nuclear industry can tell us
that the nuclear industry is good for us.
Couple this with $1.2 billion federal sub-
sidies over the past five years to an
enterprise that hasn't sold a reactor for
over a decade — and can't even give one
away. This is clearly -a welfare case mas-
querading as a business.
Nuclear power is poorly understood by
the public, they say in the adver-
tisements. Nuclear physics may be hard
to understand, if not downright boring —
but PR, deception and posturing are not
lost on the public.
The benefit of the doubt must go to the
people who are forced to pay for the
risks -of inuele,arpower with their :health.
i.e. taxpayers, and not to paid "experts"
in the nuclear business. The nuclear ads
also don't mention the first tally from
cancer studies, which show an increase in
leukemia rates among children living
near Ontario reactors. Premier Peterson
is still bound to his election promise to
cancel Darlington. So what is he waiting
for — more flaky cost estimates, more
cheap and nasty health studies courtesy
of Canada's nuclear "protectorate", and
more leukemia in the playground?
Future generations, who will be forced
to wade through our mess of radioactive
waste, will decide whether our nuclear
power program has been a bargain.
Yours truly
Anne Hansen
Crime Stoppers slays thanks
Dear Editor, committee;
'The board of directors of Crime Stop- The Livery Theatre in Goderich for
pers of Huron County would like to ex- the use of their facilities for a
press sincere .appreciation to: preliminary meeting of the celebrities.
Mark Sully, who volunteered to act as All the lawyers and acting judges for
chairman of the ,J.ailathon Coiiunittee the professional and witty manner in
and who devoted many ,hours to the .which they conducted the trials of our
organization of this .auccesllful ,event. celebrities.
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