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JANUARY 6, 1972 TERRACE BAY NEWS PAGE 17 Mrs. Shack's grade 8 class showed their ingenuity] Ontario Heart Foundation 386.49 in a follow up activity entitled "Pioneer Days". Rehabilitation Foundation 188.29 Some of the results are shown in the following St. John Ambulance Association 416.22 pictures. Salvation Army 391.44 oo Geraldton District Association for Retarded Children 530.18 $4,950.01 KIMBERLY-CLARK EMPLOYEES' CHARITY FUND ASSOCIATION, LONGLAC, ONTARIO Disbursements of the 1971 Kimberly-Clark Wood- lands Department Employees Charity Fund of Longlac were made recently as noted: Canadian Arthritis & Rheumatism Society $ 262.61 Canadian Cancer Society 569.82 Canadian Mental Health Assoc. 183.33 Canadian National Institute for the Blind 222.97 Canadian Red Cross 297 .30 Care of Canada 143.69 Hospital for Sick Children 1,199.1] Muscular. Dystrophy Association of Bysin a y 158.56 This is the 12th year of the plan. LETTER OF INTEREST "The Hon. Jean Pierre Cote, Postmaster General, House of Commons, Ottawa, Ontario. Dear Mr. Minister, | am continually being bombarded by complaints from an ever increasing number of constituents concerning the inadequacy of our postal services in northern Ontario. We experienced a one cent increase in the cost of mailing a letter on July 1st, 1971 and face a further increase to 8¢ on January Ist, 1972, while the service continues to deteriorate. Citizens in all northern Ontario communities are asked to pay for box rentals while their counterpart: in all large centres of urban population have their mail delivered to their door. Rental is charged even though we do not have access to these boxes when post office per sonnel is not on duty. We in | effect pay more and get less service than those in other areas in Canada. We are actually subsidizing other users of our postal services. This service is heavily subsidized by all Canadiar taxpayers and we should not be treated as second class citizens. If it makes sense to have a door to door delivery in any area of Canada (and | think it does) why should we not enjoy these benefits in Canada's heartland. Today | spoke to at least a dozen old age pensioners who were standing around the Post Office anxiously awaiting the arrival of th mail truck and their newspaper which arrived six hours late. Some of these hardy old gentlemen had made three trips in cold weather across town to collect their mail. | respectfully urge you to take the necessary action to implement a door to door mail delivery ir continued page 18 ......