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PAGE 6, WHITBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, SETENMER 13. 1989 Published every Wednesday, Maurice Pifher' By 677209 Ontario Imc. Editor Phone: 668-6111 Peter Irvine 668-6112 Advertising Manager 668-6369 Doug Anderson Alexandra Simon j à jPublisher Production Manager VOIE 0 TH CONTYTOW 131 Brock Street North, ThA OIe O H O YTW P.O. Box 206, Whitby, Ont. Teonly Whitby newspaper independently owned and operated by LUN 5S1 2nd Class Postal Reglstratlon ;05351 Whitby residents for Whitby residents. As Whitby flaurishes with the hustie and bustle of today, and as we look farward ta our tamorrows, we must flot forget our yesterdays. Whitby is a town with roats and those roats must New museum site, be preserved. This week, as we prepare ta celebrate our heritage an Saturday, Whitby cauncil has given approval ta a permanent museum. The Centennial Building, one of aur town's oldest and most beautiful buildings, will be the site. Haw apprapriate that we house flisxary witrun histary. The $3-million cast f or renavatians seems large, but it will sameday seem a small price ta pay to preserve aur rightful place in history. Mendelson Joe talks to the tax man To the editor-. OPen letter for publication in Ontario community newspapers Dear Mi'. Michael Wilson, Federal Finance NMnister: Your proposed -9 per cent cross-the-board sales tax bas awakened Canadians from their iethargy. Even when you drop the tax to 6 per cent voters wiIl stili fght it. Why? Ites too, broad a grab. I have the answer to our financial woes (the deficit and sundry expenses like renovations at 24 Sussex). My ideas to raise cash wiii also soive your government's environmnentai fenoe-sitting woes. So if you follow my method, everyone wins, and youll look like a genius, if not a hero. The Joe Plan (copyright 1989): We must wean Canadians off the fossil fuel burners (automobiles) sooner than later because the so-caiied "greenhouse effect" has to be addressed now. Please ask your Environment 'Minister to explain "greenhouse" if it's still not clear to you. Raise the price of gasoline for al non-commercial vebicles to $3 per litre. Consumers wiii conserve, pollution wiii lessen and your coffers wiil sweli. Raise home heating oul, too, but not as mucb as gasoline. Our protest is against klling Canadians have to' iearn about energy conservation:' The nuclear power sickness bas to be dismantled eventuaiiy, se- raise the energy costs to ail consurners of eiectricity. A lot! Tobacco. More than baîf of al fires are caused by careless smoking. Smoking also taxes the beaith care system. So hit back, Mr. Wilson. Raise the cost of cigarets to $10 a package. Spiits. I don7t mean tegbost >Of Mackenzie King. Alool. Acohol aiso taxes the health care system, se jack up the price of al aicoholic beverages. A case of beer shouid cost $50 for 24. economy is the nuclear powei boondoggle. Canadians didn't want nuclear-powered subs, and tbey don't want food irradiation. Canadians don't want nuclear power period. Cut our losses before some accident demands the same decision. Dismantie Atomic Energy of Canada limited. RZail transport versus air travel. Airpianes poilute way more than trains. TIhe raiiroad, like the CR0, 18 the essential glue that hoids this country together. Canadians must iearn to re-cliscover rail travel because down the road in 20 years or so this country will have 40 million me. tRail rrnnSrt will blia To the editor-: Ini response to the letter biy B. White regarcling anti- abortionists: I couidn't believe my eyes wben I 'read ber article and she compared taking the life of a baby witb eating beef, chicken, etc. Maybe animais are ber brothers but they're certainly not mine. J enjoy eating meat and I know of nlo one who dislikes eating it. As an anti-abortionist and a ,Christian, I feel very sorry for B. White, and it is my eamnest desire that she should come ta her senses. We anti-abortionists are not protesting death - it is an occurrence in our everyday life. We wili ail one day die as do al living things. We are protesting kiiling of innocent unborn babies. LETTERS The Whitby Free Press weicomes letters to the Editor on any subject of concern to our readers. Letters should be brief and to the point - rarely more than 300 words. *Ail letters must be accompanied by the name, address and phone number of the writer; however, on request, your name may be withheld from publication if we agree that there is a valid reason. The paper reserves the right to reject or edit ail letters. Send to: The' Editor, Whitby Free Press, Box 206, Whitby, Ontario LiN 5S1 or drop through our mailsiot at 131 Brock St. N. Accrdngtoheriete, ur Back to automobiles. Make essntalsounaurir ouc Lord euswa o tg bu apurchasers of heavy vehicies pay.e nila untrlrsocs LordJesu wasnothng bt aAil buyers of sports cars and to the ecanomy of this big land. "deveioping machine' for a so-cailed "recreational" trucks minimum of six' months. I totalY should be taxed to the teeth. A Finaily, I suspect that your disagree with her and point out license sticker for a Mercedes government wants ta balance the that a fetus is a life and bas a should be $1,000 per year. Ail books. But the 9 per cent method seul, and an animai does not. polluting technoigies sbould be wiil just irritate people and get There is nothing immoral proportionally burdened with the you un-elected. Ill send a copy of about eating meat but taking the costs of cleaning up this mess this letter ta Mr. Mulroney. life of an unborn baby is murder! we've created. Tax polutersMendelson Joe Edwin Hele beavily! edlo o Oshawa The biggest single drain on our Toronto, ML],CANER [jINFOMTO SERVICE CAIL 1-m800-263-6750