Nanaimo Daily News from Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada • 4

Iron Mining May Ruin Charm of Rural Country Published 'by th Thomson Newspapers Limited, 225 Commercial Nanaimo, B.C Page 4 Thursday. MaiS, 1969 By M. McINTYRE HOOD Special to the Daily Free Preta LONDON Under the wooded hills and stone villages of Oxford shire, at a point where the spurs of the Cotswold Hills beautify the landscape, rich deposlta of iron are waiting to be dug out of the Beware of Ely-by-Night Home-ReDair Individuals ground. Because of the plans now being prepared for mining this all-too-familiar battle, be tween those who protest against reputedly ona of Oxford' rich. est colleges, has land which tha mining companies also wan i-exploit.

Some Uma in the 'early summer the matter will be resolved when an inquiry will be held by the Ministry of Housing and Local Government. Government policy at tha moment is to step up production of home iron ore. The new strip mill in South Wales, for Instance, will receive 40 per cent of its raw material from Britisri mines. Tha question the Minister of Housing will have to decide ii just this: Should even a small part of tha finest pastoral scenery in Europa by sacrificed for the sake of improving the balance of payments by aeveral million pounds a yearf STRONG OPPOSITION As was to be expected, tha Oxfordshire County Council Is very the desecration of a lovely coun tryside, and those who claim this iron is needed for Britaia'i in- ousuies, is oemg wagea. The battle is beinff waged at Its fiercest over 2.500 acres of land juot north of Great Tew, a 17ih century village with stocks on its green and a manor house, on the hill above.

There, between the 500 and 600 foot contours, lie over 40 million tons of iron stone in deposits 18 feet thick. It is not particularly good as iron ore goes. But because of it, much opposed to mining being carried on in the county. Prlvata landowners, the for tha Preservation of Rural England and possibly a majority of tha the demands of national and commercial interest are once again being pitted against what the lo farmers line up with the county council. cal government authorities call 'the amenities." I Much of the objection is due to Hundreds of unsuspecting Canadian home-ownerj will be swindled out of their household savings this summer by last-talking door-to-dodaalfrnen selling shoddy home repair jobs.

This warning was made in a story appearing in thelatest issue of "Building Supply Dealer," the Maclean-Hunter business magazine published in Toronto. In one case, for instance, art itinerant repairman told a 73-year-old woman that her roof would collapse if it was i not repaired immediately. She agreed to pay all her savings of $760 to have the roof fixed. The workman appeared for a day and a half and completed his "repairs'' with tar-paper, A charitable estimate of the job's real worth $260. Another operator elsewhere was.

seen to climb the roof of a house and pry a brick loose from the chimney. He took the brick to the homeowner and professed amazement that the roof hadn't caught fire. When the frightened householder agreed to pay $65 for repairs, the chimney was painted a bright red. Probable cost of labor and paint by a reputable firm: $15. An 80-year-old woman contracted with a "freelance" jobber to have some repairs done on her house.

She was billed for $3,000 and had paid $1,000 when an alarmed relative stepped in. Investigation revealed that the repairs shouldn't have' cost more than $600. The magazine, story also offered several tips on what home owners should do when confronted with the offer of a "bargain" home improvement job by a stranger: Never sign a contract on the first call or until you've read all the fine print. Always ask for a calling card and check the place of business. If you are interested in the offer, call the place business and see how long it has been located in that spot.

Remember, the genuine salesman from a reputable local business will always welcome your inquiries about himself and the firm he represents. Most important, get at least two prices, from long-established, local business firms before you sign any contract. If you're in doubt about a firm, check first with the city hall, the Chamber of Commerce or the local police. CRISIS Of CONSCIENCE the fact that it proposed to In the locality, however, this carry on open-cast mining operations. Having seen what open has produced something' of a crisis of conscience, fit email farmers, trudging over their fields, it has, brought an awareness that wealth could be theirs for the The mining com cast mining has done in some Scottish areas in casting a ghastly blight over the lovely countryside, 1 have every sympathy with thosa who object, could mean the obliteration of ml the charm and loveliness which on summer weekends draw people from far, and near to enjoy the beauties of rural England.

panies are only too willing to pay them royalties of from sixpence to one Shilling, a ton for the privilege of digging out the ore. Farther to the north, Trinity, WILL HE BE ABLE TO PULL SOME TEETH? LETTERS TO THE EDITOR OTTAWA REP0RT- AS-OTHERS-SEIMT 1 SOCIALIST PARTY On April 27, tha preayreports the endorsing a boycott of South African goods. On prljl 29, ABSENTEEISM IN HOUSE To The Editor, Nanaimo Daily Free Press, they report B.C. Federation aa bir ln reference to your edit (Arthur Blakely in Montreal Gazette) Ottawa Trying Out Shopping Mall Idea Radar Now 25 Years Old Absenteeism seems to be on requesting tha federal govern ment take emergency Measures, lo help relieve unemployment. To me this is a contradiction.

While the boycott ihows the the upswing this season. At times By PATRICK NICHOLSON attendance in the House during recent debates in important is orial, that the government does a lot for' the citizen: I would like to add a little to the subject for the benefit of-those who may be ignorant of the fact that governments exist solely for the protection of the employing class. This extends to security from sin sues sagged to 30 members. The The dreary, backward, unim number; of MP's present and vot extent of inuignation against the. South African government, the prospects are, that it will hit the black man first, and the Cana.

aginative commercial community ing recorded divisions when a real attempt is made to have the commercial inroads of the of our capital city has at last set an example of sorts to the country: Ottawa is the first Canadian community to institute a shopping every available member on hand siblel similarity between the frank, enjoyable and temperate drinking habits at Parisian sidewalk bistros, and the coffee-serving luncli counters newly 'Sprawled onto Ottawa's Tourists continue to be discouraged by the choice between sipping bot coffee in the sizzling other capitalist nations provided by the armed forces and property shows the same trend. The best protection from the useful sec attended vote, quite early in the mall. dlan worker second, seeing that South Africa buys over eight times as mueh goods from Canada, than we do from them. The "turmoil of South African politics reflects not "race conflicts'' but economic conflicts. tion of society by means of the session, was held without the Last week, three blocks of benefit 27 members.

But in police force and legal parapher nalia. several other divisions, the num Sparks street, old and rundown main shopping street in the centre! ber of emoty seats has been in The worker needs little protec sunshine, or swilling exciseable refreshments out of a tooth-glass The capitalist complains daily of of Ottawa, were closed to traffic. tion, as the owning class sees to Just over 25 years ago a young Scottish scientist working in the British government's Radio Research Station near London produced a satisfactory instrument for detecting the size and direction of thunderstorms. It was a short step to move to other forms of detection, notably that of aircraft in flight, and so the story of radar really began. Sir Robert Watson-Watt, the scientist in question, who now lives in Canada, spoke in a recent BBC General Overseas Service broadcast about the birth of the system which played an immense part in winning the war and is finding ever-widening applications in time of peace.

Watson-Watt had had-20 years of colleagues had been interested in the idea, but the Chief of the Air Staff, Air Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding, commonly known as had asked for a demonstration before he was convinced of its value. The successful demonstration was given on February 26, 1935, and on February 27 his proposal was recommended for urgent implementation. Within five months aft experimental station had been built near the southeast coast of England and aircraft were being located at distances of up to more than 30 miles. By the summer of 1937 radar could 'see' nearly 100 miles, and the government decided to set up a chain of warning stations along the coast. The radar chain was ready just in time for it that he receives only in a fiotel or motel bedroom.

Ottawa' shopping mall experl to keep him in shape for the next The street area thus denied to vehicles was given over to pedestrians. Restaurants enjoyed an access of free floor area, as they spread tables and chairs across ment jwill last until Labor Day. day's labor, a dark shadow of economic ruin, as continued apartheid -means higher and higher wages to the white workers, while the black man would do the Job Just ai well for one third of the cost The capitalist looks on in be the 120-130 range. AS PHOTOGRAPHER'S WIFE Soaper" In Chicago News) We're warning Princess Margaretmarrying a photographer means she'll have to carry tha Its supporters hope to see it made When the worker cannot find a permanent before 1967, such is buyer for his labor-pofer, lie is sidewalk and street; trees were the civic speed with which lesser able for to adegree, to receive! benefits from the ad decisions are taken in our capital. planted in temporary tubs; a fountain was installed; a tourist information boothTrpefled; and the With the band of the Governor- wildered frustration at iceing such a vast reservoir of black ministration, which, among other things, acts as a eap form of General's Foot Guards playing promenade flanked with, benches.

not insurance in addition to Keeping him in shape for the next light meter, extra plates and flash bulbs. BASE OF DEMOCRACY (Massey Report labor toeing retained as Illiterate farm labor, for the benefit of the African fuedal barons. They wish to clear away the debrli of the The shopping mall Idea was born in U.S.A. Last year Toledo, round of exploitation. All the evils man is supposed to be prodded from in your edit Ohio, installed a temporary mall on an experimental basis, which old society, and turn this mass of cheap labor over for the cap The Importance of voluntary experience in radio research, working the war, and without it the Battle of societies Jn a democracy needs on the mail on opening day; with a CBC orchestra playing jazz in a shop window normally dedicated to the display of feminine scanties on subsequent days; with the benches providing a sunny resting place for footsore pedestrians; it is all very gay for.

the curious-. It remains to be seen ih increased spending makes it equally gayjlor the italist to exploit, so the black man is not being repeated this summer largely because the city's traffic and parking committee dis- little emphasis in this generation, can take on a greater taskmaster with his team on the problem of locating -Britain might never have been won. which knows that their suppres than he had before. They are sion is the first move of a dic one of the hiost backward mem approve of. it.

Kalamazoo, Michigan, now boasts the States tatorship: but it is perhaps not bers of the working class in the fully realized to what extent dem orial are offsprings of the price system and I governments have been' powerless to halt the steady increase in mental cases, drug addiction and. The gentleman in your editorial, (undoubtedly a worker), likely knows that no matter which party he votes for he will still get capitalism; as all the major parties are basically the same. world, andrthelr political disad only permanent shopping mall, two blocks long, although the idea ocracy depends on their activities. vantages are enormous, yet they must eventually go through all as been advanced in several ther eities such as Pittsburgh, the stages of maturing into class conscious workere. When they YOUR HEALTH Baltimore.

Dallas, Houston and St. Paul have reached that atage, they will be ready to stand beside other REBIRTH OF CITY Ottawa has-two pofenlial Cana He would do well, if along with the majority of people, he would look into the social system that needs no government; a moneyless system whera each would radio waves given off by thunderstorms and devising new electronic gadgets, before the day in January, 1935, when the director of scientific research at the Air Ministry asked him for his opinion on the possibilities of a beam of damaging radiation as an aid to defence, against air attack. He had not thought much of the idea of a 'death Sir Robert said, and accordingly he had written a short memorandum to that effect; but had added a paragraph saying that he was prepared to submit calculations for using radio to detect and locate (rather than destroy) aircraft. The Director and his scientific The ingenious name of radar, thought up by a United States Navy officer for the U.S. equipment, had not been adopted until early in 1944, Sir Robert said; but he had been foolishly proud that his employer, King George VI, who had built his own broadcast radio receivers with his own hands, had always called Radar just 'Watson-Watt's When the late King had knighted him in mid-1942, and had tapped him on both shoulders with his sword, "he metaphorically tapped me the shoulder again," said Sir Robert, "by holding up the investiture to say 'They tell me your stuff isn't coming in fast proletarians of the world, in that great fight to overthrow ex- ploltation and greed, and inaugurate a new society to produce or the benefit of the whole community.

-C. Luff. dian rivals Victoria and Calgary, where shopping malls are also in the talking stage. Stop Throwing Vitamins By HERMAN N. BTJNDESEN, M.D.

produce according to their abil The purpose of Ottawa's shop ity and receive according to their needs. Such a system is advocat 2518 Empire ping mail is to halt the drift to suburban shops. The trees, the benches and the fountains are the ed by the Socialist Party of Can Victoria, B.C. ada. $30,000 bait in a three-month Andy Corden.

STOP throwing away vitamins 955 Darwin Victoria, B.C. gamble to lure the dollar-spender BIBLE THOUGHT and minerals! If you could see the vitamins and minerals, you would see them tumbling out into the water It is ironic that, in these days, LABOR IN AFRICA to be thrown down the kitchen back to the old centre-town shops. Ottawa's largest and most modern 'suburban shopping centre has the facilities of a mall, when most of you are so vitamin- We must all appear before the judgment seal of Christ II Cor drain. conscious that you regularly take Just in case there are aity 1m supplemental' vitamin and min Dortant nutrients left in tha vege eral capsules, many of you still To the Editor. Sir: One would think the Trades and Labor Council would arrive at their conclusions on a national basis, instead of allowing their emotions to run away with their better judgment.

inthians 5:10. Every bidden thing must revealed, every value must bat bar plus the added convenience of a huge free car park. Without adequate parking facilities, a centre- Paragraphically Speaking tables by this time, faW.oomany homemaker boll them a ay in permit the good, wholesome foods you eat to lose most of the essential nutrients that nature appraised. It Is good to face ev town shopping mall will probably ery day the certainty of an audit. the cooking.

USE OF WATER The person who sets out to make a lack -enduring attraction; yet Ottawa's mall has had the effect of seriously reducing the space Use just enough water lo keep the vegetables from sticking to available for parking in its imme Visit Vancouver has put into them, VITAMINS AND MINERALS When vegetables are plucked from the farm fields, most of them contain highly important vitamins and minerals. Bat once they are brought the pot. If there is any water diate vicinity. left in the pot after cooking, use It is too early yet to tell what the long-term pattern of Ottawa's it for soup, in gravy, or drink it Personally, I prefer to drink it I' mall will be. "It may be, ten years Before you can go to the moon," says a rocket expert.

We can wait! The person who says he hates to talk about himself never hates it enough to refrain from doing so. Guaranteeing people free speech aids and abets many of them in making fools of themselves. Don't cook your vegetables too tj blooming fool of himself should be nipped in the bud. "Ugliness is an asset," declares a psychologist. Maybe so, but in most cases it appears to be a frozen asset.

Many a person makes the mistake of developing his opinions in the darkroom of prejudice. a. Some of the first citizens of our national capital to take advantage long. Not only does overcooking into the home, the average homemaker does all she can to lose these essentials; I spoil the taste and color but, of its facilities were the winos more important, it destroys some 1 T-J--': 1 who saw its sun-drenched free So heed these few mwtsand' of the vitamins. put the vitamins and minerals benches as a fine place to sleep It off.

They were promptly hauled HOW. TO COOK where they will do the most good inside your body. off to the cells by the alert finest I suggest that you add the veg etables to water that already is boiling and then cook them only LIKE GAY PAREE The promoters of the mall per USE WHEN FRESH Don't permit vegetables to lie Liihtil thv are tfnripr. haps encouraged this foreseeable Eily -31 Soli" arouna unni mey Decome oia Usually ten to 20 minutes Is From Files of Other. Years development, by their prior pub and wiitea.

mis arams tnem or a ion ennuph fnr most thpm licity that the mall would have arge amount of vitamin C. Keep, And some can be cooked in much "the atmosphere of Gav Paree ail vegetames in tne retngeratoriesg time. This promise immediately at Mrs. F. Dawson was re-elected for fourth time to head the Middle Ward PTA or, a coio.

piace unui you are if you cook vegetables with the for tracted the attention of the On ready to eat them. vour mear slart tne meit cook. tario Temperance Federation. Freezing or canning them, if, ing first. Then add the vege- who intervened before the Liquor properly done, helps them re- tables when the meat is almost Licence Board to oppose any pos most of their minerals and done THE LARGEST AND FASTEST FERRIES FROM DOWNTOWN NANAIMO The only Downtown to Downtown Service bctweta Nanaimo and Vancouver no needlesa The only free automobile reservation aervice.

Panorama of Gulf of Georgia and Vancouver Harbour from enclosed observation loungea and apacioua decka. Appetizing meals in dining room and coffee ahopa. vitamins. ODD FACT DON'T SOAK QUESTION AND ANSWER Anonymous: I get a ery bad case of hay fever starting August 15. Don't soak the vitamins and In Glendale, an injeni- minerals out of the vegetables.

Many persons cut up vegetable I take shots for it start- ous thief was whose and let them soak in a pot ofjiog bow? racket was to. fire an arrow wish water before rooking them. I Answer: Yes. barbed point through the mail DAILY SAILtWCS NANA.IMQ VAWCOUVCW lots of fur shops, thpn to reel in LEAVE NANAIMO the article he had hooked and pull It throujh the slot. the coming year.

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO W. L. Dunn of Nanaimo found a five-leaf clover on his ranch near Parksville. He aid he has found a number of four-leaf clovers. D.

V. McGary won Nanaimo Gun Club competition with a score of out of a possible 100. He received $10 from the club president, V. Harrison. FIFTY YEARS AGO II.

F. Shepherd was elected president of the Nanaimo Cricket Club. W. A. Wood began hie job as the new Nanaimo city assessor.

Leonard Ryan, who broke his leg in Lady-amith, arrived In Nanaimo on the train to receive treatment at the, local hospital. WORDS OF THE WISE Anger is a wind which blows out Beer as Canadians like it naturally brewed in B.C. LEAVE VANCOUVER 6 00 a.m. 5 00 p.m.' 9 00 a m. 7:00 p.m.

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8 00 a m. 10 00 a.m. 12 00 noon BIRTHDAYS FIVE YEARS AGO Mr. and 'Mrs. Sam Campbell of 117 Pine street hive their son at home for a visit.

frank Ney, head of the Nanaimo Empire Day celebrations, stated that the events "broke even" as far as money was concerned. Income showed an Increase, but so did expenses. TEN YEARS AGO The Nanaimo Choral Society presented its first concert in the Eagles' Hall before a capacity, crowd. Mrs. Catherine Alexander was conductor.

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