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FEERUARY I4, I973 TERRACE BAY NEWS PAGE 3 oo TERRACE BAY NEWS Jj} PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY at the News Printing Plant, Post Office Building, Terrace Bay, Ontario. OFFICE HOURS - 9:A.M. to 5 P.M, Monday to Friday DEADLINE = for all advertisements and news material is NOON MONDAY for Publication in that week's issues. SUBSCRIPTION RATE ~ $4.00 per year (local) $5.00 per year (out of town) PUBLISHERS FRANCIS AND DEBORAH HELMINK Second Class Mail Registration Number 0867 WHAT CAUGHT MY EYE By Ray Shank As if it wasn't bad enough that ad- ults are shooting themselves off with all kinds of firearms these days. Now the gun problem has spread to schools. Not just high schools and colleges. Public schools too, my friend: A recent Associated Press story told about public school officials in cities across the U.S. being concerned about a surge in cases of pupils carrying guns in classrooms, corridors and schoolyards. A survey showed that there had been 60 gun episodes in Los Angeles schools since September. Fifteen handguns were confiscated from pupils in Atlanta schools last year. A I2-year-old boy, angered when schoolmates chided him for disobeying a traffic light, got a pistol from home and opened fire in the schoolyard. Fortunately, he didn't hit anyone. School officials in Topeka, Kan. tock a gun from a I4-year-old girl said she needed it for protection. There were I5 school gun cases in Detroit and four in Seattle last year. Some of the kids say they carry the guns as "a status symbol". At some Los Angeles schools, only one entrance is opened and a security officer is stationed there. Guards at some New York schools make occasional "pat down" searches to see if pupils are carrying guns. Cripes, we got bawled out for bring- 'ing water pistols to school when I was a kid. What's this world coming to?22?? That St. Petersburg, Fla. fellow I wrote about last week who was supposed to divorce his dying wife because he who couldn't afford to keep up the expense of keeping her in a nursing home won't have to divorce 'her after all. It * seems a fellow in London, England by the name of Paddy Byrne read about the terrible predicament Howard Thomas was in. Byrne, it seems, was an inmate of a Nazi war camp back around 32 years ago. It was then that he received a Red Cross parcel postmarked St. Peters- burg with cookies and candy. He never forgot the gratitude of St. Petersburg 'people and, upon reading the said ar- ticle about Thomas and his dying wife decided to donate a bank trust fund for Mr. and Mrs. Thomas. Mr, Thomas will now be able to pay his wife's $2,000 nursing home bill and he and his wife may be able to carry on for a while yet. She's on her death bed with multiple sclerosis. Talk about luck! A Windsor hair- dresser had just recently won a trip for two to the Bahamas in a draw. In- stead of quitting there, she decided to press her luck and go to the race track. Since she wasn't much of a betting lady, cont'd page 4 FEBRUARY 1st --26th CLOSED Insurance Office DONALD G. BENQ IF AN EMERGENCY CALL 344-6648 Thunder Bay