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4 NORSHORE SENTINEL â€" THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1960 Mental Retardation Everyone's Problem The problem of mental retardation is steadily increasing. Today's retarded children are becoming tomorrow's retarded adults, and more retarded infants are being born every day. In the average Canadian community about 30 in every 1,000 children are estimated to be retarded in some degreeâ€"an incidence about 10 times that of crippling polio at its height! Mental retardation is not just a problem for the parents involved. It is a problem for everybody, because every family is vulnerable. More than half of the multitude of causes seem to have no connection with heredity, especially in the more serious cases. They are due instead to diseases or injuries that occur before, during, or after birth because of chance circumstances. Any family can be stricken. The condition is so serious in about one-third of retarded children that they cannot benefit from ordinary schooling. They require expert assistance to develop simple skills, and they will need some degree of supervision throughout their entire lifetime. The Thunder Bay Association for retarded children is currently conducting a campaign for $30,000 to meet operating expenses at the Twin Haven School for Retarded Children in Fort William. The school accepts all mentally retarded regardless of class, color or creed. At the present time there are two children attending from Marathon, but it is obvious that there are many more mentally retarded children in the district who are not availing themselves to this service. It is the intention of the Thunder Bay Association for Retarded Children Incorporated to set aside a portion of the money raised in a building fund for a home for out of town people. Pamphlets and return envelopes have been sent to every householder in Nipigon-Red Rock area while Canadian Legion volunteers in Beardmore, Geraldton and Marathon will conduct blitzes. We can count ourselves fortunate and express our thankfulness for children who are not retarded by helping to finance research and services for those who are. Remember that every family is vulnerableâ€"you, your neighbors, your relatives. It is one of the nation's major social problems. WHAT'S YOUR BEEF? My beef, and I'm certain the beef of other property owners in Nipigon is the bylaw which states that a person whose taxes are not PAID IN FULL cannot vote in the municipal elections’. This ridiculous and unfair bylaw should be thrown out for the following reasons: 1. Anyone renting a house can vote whether the owners of that house have paid their taxes in full or not. 2. A property owner, other than business property, can run for council, board of education, etc. if their taxes are unpaid . . . but they cannot vote. Some people pay their taxes each year and in one certain year, for various reasons, cannot pay their taxes in full until some time in the new year. Yet those people cannot vote in that one year. It is my feeling that anyone interested in the wellbeing of the town would pay their taxes if at all possible. It is true there are a certain few who let their taxes go for years but I am sure this type would not care who ran town affairs. They would likely not vote anyway. I do not think this bylaw is an asset to the town in any way and I hope that the reeve and council coming into office in December will put this bylaw in the garbage where it belongs or at least amend it. Unpaid taxes are certainly a problem but is this the right way to go about getting them in? ~"An Interested Citizen." LETTERS TO THE EDITOR The Editor, Norshore Sentinel, Nipigon, Ont. Citizens of Nipigon: We wish it known that there is a Fellowship of men and women who meet each Tuesday night in a fellow member's home for the primary purpose of arresting our problem of alcoholism. We emphasize arrestâ€"not cureâ€"the problem with alcohol. Any man is free to take part in this Fellowship if there is a sincere desire to stop drinking. We would ask you to advise that A.A. is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism. The only requirement for membership is an honest desire to stop drinking. A.A, has no dues or fees. It is not allied with any sect, denomination, politics, organization or institution; does not wish to engage in any controversy, neither endorses nor opposes any causes. Our primary purpose is to stay sober and help other alcoholics to achieve sobriety. In closing we would like to say this one thing. Alcoholism is looked upon as the third killing disease of the human race to-day. The program of A.A. does work â€"we know through experience. Our P. O. Box number is 175, Nipigon. Anyone writing for help in arresting this disease will be contacted immediately. Yours very truly, A.A., Nipigon Group. Editor, Norshore Sentinel, Sirâ€" I would like to comment on a recent letter in your "Beef Column" signed by a "concerned father." I would say in opening that writing a critical letter, then not signing your name does not take nerveâ€"only a pen. Judging from the civic concern shown in the letter I must assume the following: 1: He is one of the 20 per cent, who voted in Nipigon last December. 2: He has been prevented by illness or some other good reason from attending regular Council meetings (75 per cent, of Council meetings are unattended). 3: He is one of the few fathers who support and watch their children in minor league sports. 4: He attends church regularly. The above being true, I wonder why the writer doesn't know we have had a foot patrol by the police since August. The recent robberies and violence he refers to have been solved. What does he want nowâ€" the suspects beaten all the way to court and the guilty all the way to Stoney Mountain? I have noticed that when the law (i.e. the Liquor act) is enforced many Nipigon citizens claim they are being persecuted and call the police names. In closing I suggest the Concerned Father do the following: 1, Vote and urge your friends to do the same; 2, Run for civic office; 3, Do something constructive â€"talk is cheap. Guy G. Rushton. P.S.: Chicago with its high crime rate is still the convention headquarters of the U. S. A. Saskatchewan Seal Regina (CP)â€"Selected Saskatchewan poultry farmers have been given permission to seal egg cartons with a new "Saskatchewan Seal of Quality." To qualify, producers must meet standards of management and health prescribed by the provincial government. No Flat Tires Edmonton (CP)â€"Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Baker of Fairbanks, Alaska, recently completed an 18,200 mile trip in their car from home down the Alaska highway across Canada and the United States and back to Edmonton. They hauled a trailer and claim the fortune of suffering not even one flat tire. NORSHORE SENTINEL The Norshore Sentinel is printed every Wednesday in Port Arthur, Ont. The Sentinel office is located on Front Street in Nipigon, Ontario, box number 279. Charles D. McOuat, editor and publisher.