North Bay Nugget from North Bay, Ontario, Canada • 4

To the Editor Readers speak out North Bay Nugget 4 Soutbam Newspaper Granger PubMwr Win Jessup MI1or-inhief Justice ksiness Manager Colm Vtrina Managing Editor Gordon Grainger Advertising Director Donald A luckloy Newt tditor Sullivan Circulatwi Manager Paul LaOulce 1 olograph Editor Fred Dominica Plant Superintendent Gaiy Ml District Uitor Fellmon Consulting Iditor Soutbam News Services Chariot Lynch Chiof Chriitsphor Young Gonoral Nlanagw Don SoMar liH Fox GaargeOake John Wafer Irian luttari Washington Ion Tiomoy I niiiLyllSnlMJsu Uijio nun Porio-Duort Forguhorson Jomot Published doily except Sunday at 89 Worthington St Wost North lay Ontario by tho proprietor Soutbam Inc P0 loo VO Pll BJ6 Second Class Mai Rogistratien Numbor 03V Grits should Ke: Trap Clark with $75 billion Price on Promises" (Nugget April 3 1972) The role of the opposition In government is to maintain vigilance on the party in power It Is certainly very generous of Mr Chretien to assume the role of financial critic even before the doctUm results are In His sources could be questioned but Mr Giretien Is correct in saying that PC policy to get the economy working again will cost money However Mr Chretien conveniently ignores the Important fact that Mr remedies win also generate great revenue fur the government Mr Chretien also fails to mention that there are several areas of spending by the Trudeau government where substantial savings can be made All lavouts and compositions of advertisements and nows material produced by employees of tho publishers of The North loy Nugget ore protected by copyright vested in the publishers of The North Boy Nugget FRIDAY APRIL 6 1979 Minority groups We receive generous share of Ont highway spending Editor's Bute: The following is a copy of a letter directed to Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau 09 Please be advised that as a Polish-Canadian citizen I object to directive 11-3 as pertaining to the security of this country Tho defence of this directive by your More pay Sometime ago I read a letter stating our doctors are not paid enough by CHIP And lluit hi my opinion is very true Being underpaid tiiey need more patients and this way everyone loses tlie patients most of ail of unforgettable women For country music 1 uni quite pleased with the duingcovcr of Saturday's Country Style Mimic from CFITI to CKAT-FM The stereo Round uliHifj with fewer commercials will niuko good country music even Mound better I mu Maddened that CKAT la nuw off the abut midnight I wan hoping that thin Htatloii would gu country 24 taurs a day PcrlmpH luckey games could be swildied over to llie AM station as quality stereo sound is not needed fur thut type of broadcast lag and AM could carry hockey further disUmccs than KM Country music is very popular here as Hill Hughes' survey proved and Amcricuu tourists will be quite plcused to hear It lure on KM during tliuir visits DAVID AUDETTE North Buy against change I agree wholeheartedly with the Idler recently submitted by Johnson concerning the changeover id CKAT-KM stereo to "Country Music" I was extremely disappointed when 1 licard this decision as I'm sure were many other listeners Although the trend lately lias been leaning toward this type of music there are still those (myself included) who find no pleasure in this type of music but certainly enjoy easy listening which will no longer be available I'm sure that after a short time this decision will be reconsidered so the conipany will regain the appreciative audience they once had before tlie unwise cluingu ABUNANY North Buy A bonanza RESOLUTE BAY NWT To inert one memorable person in a single day is rare enough to meet three is a bonanza On Ibis particular day in the High Arctic all tliree encounters were with women cadi uf them special in her uwn way Tlieir names are Kubin Kidd Robjn Wearnc and Katie Claughly and they deserve as much public attention as Margaret Trudeau is getting ttaugh fur vastly different reasons Rubin Kidd is a soul sister uf Margaret's -or at least a kindred spirit Site is tho same age size and shape as Mrs whose "spirit" site admires A graduate flower diild Robin lias tried to clear her mind by repeated trips In the northern wilderness and has now headed out across the Arctic ice with for male companion Bill Carpenter on an 800-milc trek frum Resolute to Cambridge Bay We saw them off frum Rcsulutc with tlie temperature minus 50 alter a night spent surfing out their 15 dogs which had broken their traces and needed attention they called it a dog problem" They will be a munlh crossing trackless Arctic wastes testing themselves and tlieir dugs aguinst the world's sternest elements the object being to prove the capabilities of the aboriginal Eskimo dug canis fumiliiiris burealis or kingmik Tlie fledgling expedition has been dedirai cd to the retiring commissioner of (lie Northwest TcrrilurloK Stuart Hudgsun but tin real star is Robin Kidd who at this moment constitutes tlie female ludf uf wlial must be tlie likeliest couple in the world Slinking hands with her on their departure was a moving experience we liad flown over port of their route and they were eager for tidings about snow and ice conditions glad to know they would have the wind at tlieir lucks at least in the early going Somcw litre out there wlien you read tills Robin and BiU will be sledging along and The North Bay share of a huge outlay for highway building and maintenance in Ontario was in the neighborhood of $32 million And that's just part of a vast sum announced for Ontario roads by Transportation Minister James Snow Four-Ianing continues to be an important part of the program On Highway 11 in the Huntsville area four-laning has been completed from Bracebridgc to 74 km north of Highway 141 Twinning of the existing Vernon Lake Bridge was awarded late in the 1977 fiscal year and is estimated to be completed this fall A further contract for widening to four lanes from 74 km north of Highway 141 northerly from 43 km should be completed in the summer of 1980 Four-laning of Highway 11 will continue from Highway 17 North Bay southerly for a distance of 72 km this season This project will consist of adding two additional lanes of pavement together with the resurfacing of existing Highway 11 and three overhead structures located at the CNR at Birch's Kd and the CPR and La Vase River In addition a full interchange will be constructed at the intersection of Highway 11B and 11 During 1977 two 27 km grading contracts were awarded for Highwy use same criteria To mention a few examples: The Liberal Government wasted $7 million fur food boon and entertainment In 1978 S0 million for advertising $13 million for taxis $G1 million for air travel expenditures in one year ft minion furnishing offices for cabinet ministers ptufi million to keep Otto tang flying I am a self-employed commercial traveller and my travelling and business expenses are very carefully monitored under the annual supervision of the Department of National Revenue I suggest that Mr liberal government use the same criteria as applied to me as to reasonable allowable expenses STAN ELLIOTT North Bay Solicitor-General Jean Jacques Blais serves only to confirm thut those people who belong to minority grups can never hope to be full Canadian citizens and enjoy the same rights and privileges as those Canadians who have cither an Anglo Saxon or French background AL SZELIGA North Bay for MDs I sure hope they get paid enough in figure so they can look after their patients better by having fewer but more pay MRS CECILE BIGRAS Sturgeon Kalis because uf liie collapse of tlie oil and gas boom in the Central Arctic A mere slip uf a girl Katie gave us an upbeat tour of the half-abandoned site of what was to have been Canada's northern sliuwcase now dropped like cold potato by government faddists whose money goes increasingly into the civil servk-e environment of Yellowknife 1200 miles south Swinging her heavy van around winding mads lined with whiteout guidance markers slic showed us all there was of architect Ralph Erskine's dream of a model Arctic community Intended for 1000 people the village contains 80 Many uf the apartments and houses are vacant including homes that were moved from the old town site at the end uf the airport runway to avoid the noise only lo have the airport go quiet When we were there the airport terminal was locked tight and there was no sign of life at the base that only five years ago was one of tlie busiest in Canada Kalte Clauglily seemed undismayed by the ghostly aspect of in her ten years of northern living she has seen the high and low puints come and go with the whims uf bureaucrats and speculators Her own home bears the inscription "Resolute Bay Yacht Club" but the yacht she owns is in Cork Ireland she and schoolteacher husband having sailed it there from Halifax Nova Scotia a couple uf summers ago This will be their last winter hi the Canadian north she hopes they've saved enough money to be able to head tlieir yacht out (if Ireland bound for Rio de Janeiro Buenos Aires and points south maybe says Katk Patagonia and around Cape Hum She talks ubuut these prospects as matter uf-factly as Robin Kidd talked about her sledging trip and Robyn Wcarne about her polar camp Fur the visitor they contributed to a very stimulating Arctic day OPINIONS Hurt no concrete conclusion looms into view to itofine tlie next government I-ook at this: Tlie liberals got 25 per cent the Conservatives 24 per cent the New Democrats eight per cent and the Credit isles one per cent If you allow one per cent fur Communists and others that toaves 40 per cent undecided Five years of I Jbcral government added to other years of government by the same party tlie presence uf a structured opposition and a system of free communtoation were not sufficient to slu'd light on the next vote Maybe It Is tills weakness of the Canadian electorate that pudied Pierre Trudeau to stretch the election campaign lo eight weeks Ito lias time lo seduce tlie crowds and to tot his principal imponent Joe Clark put his foot in his mouth friutoau already has proven his value in the final sprint and in the art of seduction So the party chiefs traverse the country to suy to tlie locul populalkms what they wanted to do wlien they did nothing They wiU use passion to make up for lack of reason They will count on the emotions of people who do nol need proof ur demonstration They will distribute tlieir promises in a fashion that pleases tlie onlookers and the powerless And 40 per cent of the undccideds will nuike their chutoe according to the measure of tlieir wauls and expectations There are only six weeks toft to use reasun to understand the reasun behind seduction Fonafeoo Frank SthulH Tho Potor Caknnai Jim Trevors Quoboc-Potor Cowan Tho Jamio Partman Economics Don McGWivray C35N a new highway connecting the Timmins area to Highway 11 in the vicinity of Driftwood Since the Ministry embarked on a passing and truck climbing lane construction program in 1UU9 a total of 104 passing lanes have Ix'en constructed throughout the province Continuing with this project 19 passing lanes have been proposed for award in 1979-BO of hich 10 will be in Northern Ontario The Municipal Airport Construction Program providing subsidies through MTC in the range of 30 to 80 per cent has been in effect since 1978 And the Ministry of Northern Affairs is planning the following special projects: completion of the Gcraldton Airport in support of Ministry of Natural Resources forest protection program: construction of a new runway and related facilities at Chapleau in support of the same program the paving of runways at Atikokan and Elliot Lake where norOntair is operating also at Terrace Bay and Homcpayne here service is planned The ministry subsidizes municipal road construction to the tune of another $200 million which generates about $340 million in total expenditures when the share is included Some $61 3G million will be spent on construction of Ontario roads and highways during this fiscal year systems did carry the day cooling the reactor down to an acceptable temperature and dissipating the dangerous hydrogen bubble that had formed at the top of the reactor containment vessel Nevertheless it was an accident that will haunt the nuclear industry fur years giving anti-nuclear power groups an all-loo-real example of what might occur at any of the world's more than 200 operating nuclear power plants That number will likely double within 10 years also doubling the risks of another serious accident While the risk is still very small the consequences of a reactor failure are immense Yes the Three Mile Island crisis was a good lesson But Canada which has made tremendous strides in the nuclear field must continue to seek safe methods by which to implement and continue its nuclear energy program US President Carter laid it on the line Thursday night in a TV broadcast to his nation and his warning should be heeded by Canadians loo Let's not kid ourselves energy reserves are dwindling We would not be surprised to see gasoline and oil rationed Nuclear energy here Jo stay but oil conservation needed BY CHARLES LYNCH Suutham News Services while what they are attempting might have been routine in an earlier era it seems pretty special now especially in (lie coldest April weather ever recorded Robin admires Maggie Trudeau but has chosen a different route to what she hopes will be a safe haven Moments after saying good-bye to Robin and Hill we met Robyn Weame described as the on the Twin Otter aircraft taking us frum Resolute to Bollut Strait the northernmost tip uf mainland Canada Robyn isn't your usual flight attendant -Australian she's turned 50 and has Just come off a hitch at the nursing station at Grisc Ejurd She's going to manage tlie most northerly fishing camp at take Iluzen on Ellesmere Island Just this side of our nurthennust outpost Alert take Hazen is tlie final staging point fur the North Iilc and until it opens Rubyn a wonderfully burly creature with a voice Hurt could break toe Is flying with Ken Borek Airways out of Resolute In (lie crowded cabin uf a gear-laden Twin Utter Robyn's ponderous movements were a hazard to herself and her passengers except Hint sumetaw she managed to relay messages frum the pilot serve hors d'oeuvres and pour out great slugs uf rum witluiut misliap On my scule of flight attendants give her 10 nul uf 10 and as head honcho of a lodge atop the world I'd follow for through' Hell On our return to Resolute from the deep freeze Robyn turned us over to Katie Claughly wlio represents the territorial government in Resolute designed as a model community but nuw fallen on bad times the arguments uf the alarmists by repealing assurances about nuctoar installations being unitor supersurveillance and by saying that safety measures are unmatched by those uf any other Industry That is prububiy true But one can no longer liave total confidence in immiotcrs of the nuctoar industry It would seem Hurt the Candu reactor tlie me that is id work at Gentilty offers better security than the American plant One would lmH! so fort such a fact remains to be (tomomstrHtfd One can Imagine that Atomto Energy uf Canada and Hydro-Quebec have uitoquate plans for civil protection Hint could respond to such a sinister misadventure But still such a thing cannut be foreseen It would be well to keep and even lo cultivate a morbid fear uf such a disaster La Presse MONTREAL Tlie next Canadian guvcimncnt will be elected by tlie undecided Hurt Is lu say iwople wliu caul make up tlieir minds ubuut tlie present Parliament but wlsi will suddenly decide our future after totting themselves be influenced at tlie last minute by a speech frum the most flamboyant candidate Sad diniuiTacy If uiio talks closely at tlie last opinion pull conducted by tlie CTV network one realizes FRENCH-CAN AD IAN PRESS The other night we heard reference made to the Canadian nuclear reactor known as Candu Emphasis was placed on the fact that it is considered safer than any being manufactured today This augurs well for future energy programs because face it we are going to have to depend on the atom for energy As one newscaster said is finite the atom is infinite" It may be months before investigators put together the full story of the near disaster at the Metropolitan Edison Co nuclear reactor at Three Mile Island Pa But already clear that the main ingredient in the near tragedy is one that every nuclear reactor in North America is subject to human factor One lesson is: If it can happen at Three Mile Island it can happen anywhere However while it seemed for a time that disaster was imminent no one died at the Pennsylvania site There were no injuries and as of now it seems unlikely there will be any bad environmental side effects in the area Most important the unit's safety Lb Nouvelliste TROLS-RIVIERES Tlie presence at our doors of a nuclear power station (Gcntillv I) dnotlwr umkr construction (G II) and a third in preparation iG III) undoubtedly gives tlie nuclear accident hi Harrisburg a regional dimension The entire world trembles at tlie thought or wlial happened In tlie United Stales We in Hie heurt uf Quebec stare all the mure In such nervousness being within the hot perimeter uf llial wlileh could be the key to future energy needs or (lie terrifying dead end Nothing gives man more confidence ami pride Ilian the quiet possession of a natural force The hursc is a good servant except tf lie bolts Tlie dog Is a fuitlifui friend except if lie lius distemper Tho tiger In a cage is a marvel but don't tot him escape Hie silliouetle of a nuctoar reuctur is very reassuring But when it leaks dangerous vapor we are punic-striken for we do not knew what vutoanu we might have created with our uwn hands During the Harrisburg incident tlie public rupldiy concluded that two issues must be fuced: The safety id nuetour Installations and tlie access by tlie public lo lnlurmutfon on live subject Until now the tendency lias been to counter 1 '1 "a 'U vo-r- S- I.